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US08423949B2	Apparatus for displaying a portion to which design modification is made in designing a product The present disclosure is directed to a technique that can be applied to a situation in which a single product is designed by multiple designers using a CAD. During a modification operation of feature data, portions that are referenced to are accumulated in a referenced portion accumulation unit. A portion that has been modified is obtained from new and old feature data, and a determination is made as to whether a reference to the modified portion has been made, based on the information accumulated in the referenced portion accumulation unit. Information about the modified portion that is determined as having been referenced to is displayed on a display.
US08423945B2	Methods and systems to meet technology pattern density requirements of semiconductor fabrication processes Techniques, systems, and methods are provided for optimizing pattern density fill patterns for integrated circuits. The method includes adjusting an area of a scribe line and a density of dummy fill shapes in the adjusted scribe line, while maintaining an area of the die, to achieve a pattern density associated with technology ground rules for a particular design of the die.
US08423943B2	Self-propelling decoupling capacitor design for flexible area decoupling capacitor fill design flow A method of filling dcaps in an integrated circuit includes identifying a set of dcap-eligible areas of the integrated circuit for areas large enough to accommodate at least one dcap cell having a selected size smaller than a default size. The dcap cell includes at least one built-in power track. A set of dcap cells are filled in the identified set of dcap-eligible areas. Each of the built-in power tracks included in the set of dcap cells is connected to a corresponding power grid. An integrated circuit including a power grid channel formed between at least two power grids and a plurality of dcaps including a first dcap included in a dcap cell, the dcap cell including built-in power tracks, each one of the built-in power tracks being connected to a corresponding one of the at least two power grids is also described.
US08423941B2	Structural migration of integrated circuit layout Methods and systems for migrating circuit layouts. A floorplan layout is built for a target circuit using a subset of constraints that characterize a layout structure of an original circuit. Shape-constraint-based scaling is used on the floorplan layout by scaling parts of the floorplan layout in accordance with a plurality of different scaling ratios such that portions of the floorplan layout are concurrently scaled with the plurality of different scaling ratios. Cells are placed at locations defined by the floorplan layout. The floorplan layout is checked with shape-constraint-based legalization using all of the constraints to produce a migrated layout.
US08423938B2	Wire spacing verification method, wire spacing verification apparatus, and computer-readable medium A wire-spacing verification method for a computer includes calculating a characteristic impedance of each wire model disposed in a substrate model on a basis of a propagation rate of a signal in the wire model and rise time or fall time of an element model for transmitting the signal, calculating a reference impedance for predetermined sections, creating a distribution map in a direction of a section length with respect to the characteristic impedance of each of the sections for which the reference impedance is calculated, calculating an index indicating a degree of mismatch with the reference impedance, on a basis of the created distribution map, and making an approval/denial determination on the wire model on a basis of the index.
US08423935B1	Method and apparatus for verifying output-based clock gating One embodiment of a method for verifying functional equivalency between a design of an integrated circuit and a corresponding clock-gated design utilizing output-based clock gating includes selecting a first one of a first plurality of internal state elements in the design and a corresponding first one of a second plurality of internal state elements in the clock-gated design, wherein an input to the first one of the first plurality of internal state elements serves as a first comparison point and an input to the corresponding first one of the second plurality of internal state elements serves as a second comparison point, and the design is to be compared against the clock-gated design at the first comparison point and the second comparison point and generating a test bench that identifies the first comparison point and the second comparison point as a set of comparison points.
US08423934B1	Model validation cockpit An electronic design automation (EDA) tool to validate representations of a design is disclosed. Reference and compared representations of the design are intended to respond to stimulus in the same way, but at different levels of abstraction. The reference and compared representations are simulated, at some point, to each generate waveform signals and measured results. Simulation can be with the same tool or different tools. The same or different testbench can be used on the reference and compared representations in the simulation. A design representation validation function compares the two sets of generated waveform signals and compares the two sets of measured results to identify any violations. The measured results and/or waveform signals could be loaded from previous simulations and just validated within the validation tool. Loaded simulations could be for the reference representation with just simulation of the compared representation by the validation tool, or for both with no simulations run by the validation tool. Through an optional design representation validation interface, the violations are identified and are linked to interfaces that detail the violations in greater detail, for example, to aid in debugging why the reference and compared representations are not equivalent.
US08423929B2	Intelligent architecture creator Systems and methods are disclosed to automatically generate a processor architecture for a custom integrated circuit (IC) described by a computer readable code. The IC has one or more timing and hardware constraints. The system extracts parameters defining the processor architecture from a static profile and a dynamic profile of the computer readable code; iteratively optimizes the processor architecture by changing one or more parameters until all timing and hardware constraints expressed as a cost function are met; and synthesizes the generated processor architecture into a computer readable description of the custom integrated circuit for semiconductor fabrication.
US08423926B2	Acceptance determining method of blank for EUV mask and manufacturing method of EUV mask According to one embodiment, an acceptance determining method of a blank for an EUV mask includes evaluating whether or not an integrated circuit device becomes defective, on the basis of information of a defect contained in a blank for an EUV mask and design information of a mask pattern to be formed on the blank. The integrated circuit device is to be manufactured by using the EUV mask. The EUV mask is manufactured by forming the mask pattern on the blank. And the blank is determined to be non-defective in a case that the integrated circuit device is not to be defective.
US08423922B2	Photomask designing method and photomask designing program In one embodiment, a photomask designing method for creating a pattern layout having an assist pattern placed around a design pattern is disclosed. The method can place a plurality of evaluation points around the design pattern and set an evaluation index for imaging properties of the design pattern on an imaging surface. The method can combine a light intensity distribution of the design pattern with light intensity distributions of the evaluation points to obtain a light intensity distribution on the imaging surface and evaluate the light intensity distribution on the imaging surface using the evaluation index to determine a region having an effective evaluation point placed. In addition, the method can determine a placement condition for the assist pattern based on the region where the effective evaluation point is placed and place the assist pattern around the design pattern based on the placement condition to create the pattern layout.
US08423921B2	Data verification method and charged particle beam writing apparatus Data including information related to each area with a graphic disposed therein is inputted to the writing apparatus. The area is delimited with meshes each having a predetermined size. Next, an area value of a graphic lying within each of the meshes and its center-of-gravity position are determined. For every mesh, a check is made whether the area value is less than or equal to a predetermined value. When the area value is less than or equal to the predetermined value, a range allowable for an x coordinate of the center-of-gravity position is determined and a check is made whether an actual x coordinate falls within this range. Next, a range allowable for a y coordinate of the center-of-gravity position is determined and a check is made whether an actual y coordinate falls within this range.
US08423918B2	Structure and methodology for fabrication and inspection of photomasks by a single design system A method and system for designing a photomask. The method provides a single machine methodology for inspecting photomasks having regions that repeat and regions that do not repeat. The method includes generating a chip dataset representing an integrated circuit chip design to be included in a cell region of a photomask, generating a kerf dataset to be included in the cell region, generating a kerf copy dataset, and merging the chip dataset, the kerf dataset and the kerf copy dataset into a photomask dataset representing a pattern of clear and opaque regions of the photomask.
US08423913B1	Methods and apparatus to display style-related information A system detects an association of at least one style to at least one file, the file containing a reference to the style, and displays a representation of the style. The system also displays a representation of the file, and a representation of the association of the style to the file. The system displays a number of times the style is defined within the one file, and the number of times the style is used within the at least one file.
US08423911B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for managing folders A multifunction device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device moves a first object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects across the display to a location on the display that is proximate to a second object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects. In response to detecting that the first input meets predefined folder-creation criteria while the first object is proximate to the second object, the device creates a folder that contains the first object and the second object.
US08423908B2	Method for identifying language of text in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device incorporating the same Incoming e-mails, instant messages, SMS, and MMS, are analyzed by a handheld electronic device to identify the language of text.
US08423890B2	Layout editing apparatus and control method thereof and computer-readable storage medium This invention provides a user interface that aligns an object corresponding to an image or a text on an object corresponding to a page of an electronic album and displays the object in a list so that the user can easily, visually, and correctly recognize change of alignment of the objects when editing a layout of the objects. In an information processing apparatus of the present invention, a plurality of pages and reduced images corresponding thereto are orderly displayed in a list in a window. When first one of the reduced images is dragged and overlaps with second one of the reduced images, the second reduced image is shifted from an original alignment position and displayed in the window. When the first reduced image is dropped at an original alignment position of the second reduced image, an order of each page is changed.
US08423873B2	Decoding techniques for correcting errors using soft information Two levels of error correction decoding are performed using first and second level decoders. A composite code formed by combining an inner component code and an outer component code can be used to decode the data and correct any errors. Performing two level decoding using a composite code allows the size of the inner parity block to be reduced to a single Reed-Solomon symbol while keeping a good code rate. The first level decoder generates soft information. The soft information can indicate a most likely error event for each possible syndrome value of the inner component code. The soft information can also include error metric values for each of the most likely error events. The second level decoder generates corrected syndrome values based on the soft information using the outer component code. The most likely trellis path that corresponds to the corrected syndrome values is then selected.
US08423870B1	Method and apparatus for determining the start of a data field in a data frame A method for generating a data frame for data transmission includes using a processor to generate a first padding field. The method also includes using the processor to generate one or more parity bits by encoding an input comprising the first padding field, a syncmark and data to be transmitted. The method also includes using the processor to add the one or more parity bits to the data frame. The method also includes using the processor to add a second padding field after the one or more parity bits.
US08423869B2	Decoding apparatus, decoding method, and program A decoding apparatus includes maximum decoding iteration count controller 52 which determines maximum decoding iteration counts of respective received code words based on modulation schemes and error-correcting coding ratios which are applied to the received code words and average error ratios of the received code words before the code words are decoded, and turbo decoding engine 53 which decodes each of the received code words according to a maximum decoding iteration count determined by maximum decoding iteration count controller 52.
US08423867B2	Advanced data encoding with reduced erasure count for solid state drives Technologies are generally described herein for encoding a message. Technologies are also generally described herein for decoding an encoded message. The message may be encoded and/or decoded according to a mapping rule. The mapping rule may enable multiple messages to be successively written to the same block in a solid state drive without an erasure operation.
US08423864B2	Receiving apparatus, receiving method, program, and receiving system A receiving apparatus includes: a deinterleaving device configured to perform a deinterleaving process on an LDPC-coded data signal having undergone an interleaving process, the LDPC representing Low Density Parity Check, by use of a memory which has columns capable of storing as many as “a” data, the “a” being an integer of at least 1; and a control device configured such that if the data signal is supplied in units of N data, the N being an integer smaller than the “a,” the control device controls the deinterleaving device to write the data signal to a predetermined address of the memory while reading previously written data from the predetermined address in a write period, the control device further controlling the deinterleaving device to stop writing the data signal to the predetermined address of the memory while reading the previously written data from the predetermined address in a write inhibit period.
US08423859B2	Terminal device, terminal device control method, and storage medium It is possible to provide a terminal device, a terminal device control method, and a recording medium which enables an error correction without modifying hardware. The terminal device receives a data stream formed in the NAL Unit by a hard decoder based on the H.264 standard. The terminal device includes error correction means which analyzes data encoded in the data stream by software and performs an error correction before inputting the data to the hard decoder.
US08423858B2	Method for effectively transmitting control signal in wireless communication system A method of performing HARQ performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes receiving a bundling indicator which indicates the number of bundled downlink subframes, determining whether at least one bundled downlink subframe is missed by comparing the bundling indicator with the number of detected bundled downlink subframes, generating a representative ACK/NACK signal when no bundled downlink subframe is missed, and transmitting the representative ACK/NACK signal on an uplink channel. Recovery capability is maximized and the packet loss is reduced in such a situation that less number of ACK/NACK signals are fed back than that of downlink packets.
US08423853B2	Error correction for a persistent resource allocation Methods and apparatus for communicating and utilizing persistent allocation of resources are described herein. A base station can allocate persistent resources to a client station, and can associate the client station or persistent resource allocation with a particular shared NACK channel. The base station can monitor the NACK channel for a NACK indicating a map error. The base station can also monitor the resource allocation to implicitly determine a map error. The base station can resend one or more persistent resource allocation information elements in response to the NACK or implicit error determination. A client station having a persistent resource allocation can monitor persistent resource allocation information elements in map messages and can indicate failure to receive a persistent resource allocation information element in a NACK message on a preassigned share NACK channel.
US08423849B2	Device test data reuse for device simulation A method and system reuse data logs generated from testing of programmable devices in order to provide an input file of parameter values and settings for use in automatically configuring a device simulator. The programmable device testing process generates a data log output with data formatted so that parameter data are associated with unique variable labels. The data log output file is processed in a parser operation that filters out private and unnecessary information, organizes the data and generates a simulation input file in a format compatible with the simulator. The process can be fully automated.
US08423848B2	Server and method for testing inter-integrated circuit devices A server includes a baseboard management controller (BMC). More than one inter-integrated circuit (I2C) device may be connected to the BMC via a multiplexing switch. The server sets a first identifier for indicating which channels of I2C device are open, and a second identifier for indicating which channels of the I2C devices are closed, and sends the set information to the BMC. To test a selected I2C device, the server opens a channel to the selected I2C device and assigns the first identifier to the channel of the selected I2C device. During testing of the selected I2C device, if the BMC intends to access a different I2C device, the BMC waits for the identifier of the selected I2C device to change from the first identifier to the second identifier, and then opens a channel to the different I2C device.
US08423840B2	Pattern generator An address signal generating circuit generates an address signal which designates the address in memory to be accessed. An inversion inhibition signal generating unit generates multiple patterns of inversion inhibition signals each having the same bit width as that of the address signal, and each having a function of preventing particular bits of the address signal from being inverted. A selector selects one of the multiple patterns of inversion inhibition signals generated by the inversion inhibition signal generating unit, and outputs the inversion inhibition signal thus selected. When an inversion control signal is asserted, an address signal inverting circuit inverts only the bits of the address signal which are not prevented from being inverted according to the inversion inhibition signal selected by the selector, and outputs the resulting address signal.
US08423833B2	System and method for multivariate quality-of-service aware dynamic software rejuvenation A method for monitoring the quality-of-service (QoS) of high priority transactions in a software system includes receiving a specific QoS metric of a high priority transaction, where the QoS metric associated with a plurality of buckets and comparing the sampled specific QoS metric to an expected value for the specific QoS metric. If the sampled specific QoS metric exceeds the corresponding expected value, a bucket for the specific QoS metric is incremented, otherwise the bucket is decremented. If the bucket for the specific QoS metric overflows, the current bucket is reinitialized to zero, a depth of a next bucket for the specific QoS metric is computed, and a number of standard deviations from a mean value for the specific QoS metric is incremented. When the bucket for the specific QoS metric exceeds a threshold, a software rejuvenation routine is executed.
US08423828B2	Predictive diagnostics and fault management The present application discloses a preventative, diagnostic maintenance system designed for gaming systems. Sensor and software monitor, accumulate, store and share information for efficient maintenance of the gaming systems. Diagnostic and prognostic tests are run and results prioritized wherein minor and intermittent problems that indicate potential future problems are stored. When a technician visit is prescribed, the system will present via a GUI a visualization of the status of gamed devices, and, forearm the technician with the high and low priority information regarding the high priority problems along with the low priority problems for all the game devices at the same site. The technician will be able to bring the specific tools, programs and parts to service the high and the low priority problems of all the game devices.
US08423819B2	Data storage device, controller, and data access method for a downgrade memory The invention provides a data storage device. In one embodiment, the data storage device is coupled to a host, and comprises a downgrade memory and a controller. The downgrade memory comprises a plurality of blocks, wherein each of the blocks comprises a plurality of pages, each of the pages comprises a plurality of sectors, and some of the sectors are defect sectors. The controller generates a defect table for recording a plurality of defect addresses of the defect sectors in the blocks, receives a plurality of data sectors to be written to the downgrade memory from the host, determines a plurality of first physical sector addresses for storing the data sectors according to the defect table, and sends write commands to the downgrade memory to direct the downgrade memory to write the data sectors to the downgrade memory according to the first physical sector addresses.
US08423817B2	Method, system, and device for resetting network elements A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include detecting a fault associated with a network element that is communicatively coupled to a network. After detecting the fault, the network element may receive a reset signal in response to the fault detection. After receiving the reset signal, the network element may store a new image of an operating system of the network element into memory associated with the network element. After storing the new image, the network element may reboot. During reboot, the method may load the stored new image of the operating system from memory associated with the network element.
US08423806B2	Power management system capable of saving power and optimizing operating efficiency of power supplies for providing power with back-up or redundancy to plural loads The present invention relates to a power management system comprising at least one power management subsystem. Each power management subsystem comprises a first power module coupled to a first load and comprising at least one first power supply for supplying power to the first load; a second power module coupled to a second load and comprising at least one second power supply, wherein at least one second power supply is retractably installed in the second power module and selectively coupled to the second load; and a pass-through module comprising at least one pass-through unit retractably installed in the second power module to replace with the at least one second power supply and selectively connecting the first power module to the second load for allowing the first power module to supply power to the second load.
US08423803B2	Method and system for forcing one or more power states on a display A management controller, method and program product for forcing one or more power states on a display, the management controller comprising: a computer (110) configured to receive a power management electronic signal; the computer (110) comprising control logic that operates without use of an operating system to determine a desired level of the power management electronic signal and to set the power management electronic signal to the desired level; and the computer (110) configured to send the power management electronic signal at the desired level to a monitor (120).
US08423801B2	Electronic device, and method of controlling the electronic device An electronic device including an external-memory-medium installing portion in which an external memory medium storing contents data, a display portion for displaying the contents data, a sound generating portion for generating a sound, a power-shut-down-requirement receiving portion for receiving a requirement for shutting-down a power supply to the electronic device, a monitoring portion for determining whether the external memory medium is installed in the external-memory-medium installing portion, a sound-generation commanding portion for commanding command the sound generating portion to generate an alarming sound when the monitoring portion has determined that the external memory medium is not installed in the external-memory-medium installing portion while the contents data are displayed, and a power supply control portion for inhibiting an operation to shut down the power supply to the electronic device when the power-shut-down-requirement receiving portion has received the requirement for shutting down the power supply while the contents data are displayed.
US08423791B1	Location data quarantine system A computer-implemented method and system of quarantining user location information receives from a user device user location information that includes personally identifiable user data and user position data associated with one or more geographic positions of the user. The user location information is temporarily stored in a quarantine data storage database for a predetermined quarantine time, during such time it can be used for various analyses. After the quarantine time, personally identifiable user data of the user location information is filtered out before the user position data is sent for long-term storage to a filtered data storage system.
US08423783B2	Secure PIN management of a user trusted device A mechanism is provided for secure PIN management of a user trusted device. A user trusted device detects a memory card coupled to the user trusted device. The user trusted device receives user input of an external PIN (ext_PIN). The user trusted device identifies a key (K) associated with the external PIN, wherein the key is stored in the persistent memory. The user trusted device computes a card PIN (card_PIN) using a function (f) and the key as stored on the persistent memory, wherein the card PIN is computed using the following equation: card_PIN=f(K, ext_PIN). The user trusted device unlocks the memory card using the card PIN, thereby forming an unlocked memory card.
US08423780B2	Encryption based security system for network storage The presently preferred embodiment of the invention provides an encryption based security system for network storage that separates the ability to access storage from the ability to access the stored data. This is achieved by keeping all the data encrypted on the storage devices. Logically, the invention comprises a device that has two network interfaces: one is a clear text network interface that connects to one or more clients, and the other is a secure network interface that is connected to one or more persistent storage servers. Functionally, each network interface supports multiple network nodes. That is, the clear text network interface supports multiple client machines, and the secure network interface supports one or more storage servers.
US08423773B2	Method for receiving/sending multimedia messages A multimedia messaging system for receiving/sending multimedia messages, includes: a wireless LAN; and a MMS gateway. The MMS gateway performs: receiving/sending the multimedia message to/from a MMS user device via the wireless LAN; and encrypting the multimedia message. The encryption is performed by: issuing a certificate to the MMS user device; sending a session ID and a master key encrypted by the MMS gateway's private key to the MMS user device in response to a request of the MMS user device having the certificate; generated a shared secret key using an algorithm combining the master key with the MMS user device's phone number and the session ID; and encrypting the multimedia message using the shared secret key.
US08423768B2	Method for controlling the location information for authentication of a mobile station The method is for authentication in a communication network. A mobile station and an authentication server give access to services in the network. A user of a mobile station first sends a request for a service or a password in a message from the mobile station. The authentication server controls the location information for the mobile station, and sends a password to the mobile station or grants access to the user as a reply to the request if the location information is accepted by the server.
US08423765B2	System and method for remote device registration A system and method for remote device registration, to monitor and meter the injection of keying or other confidential information onto a device, is provided. A producer who utilizes one or more separate manufacturers, operates a remote module that communicates over forward and backward channels with a local module at the manufacturer. Encrypted data transmissions are sent by producer to the manufacturer and are decrypted to obtain sensitive data used in the devices. As data transmissions are decrypted, credits from a credit pool are depleted and can be replenished by the producer through credit instructions. As distribution images are decrypted, usage records are created and eventually concatenated, and sent as usage reports back to the producer, to enable the producer to monitor and meter production at the manufacturer.
US08423762B2	Common access card heterogeneous (CACHET) system and method What is disclosed is a system and method that allows a secondary certificate authority to rely on one or more existing primary certificate authorities to establish identity of a user and provide identity certificates. The secondary certificate authority applies business rules to those identity certificates to establish a community of privilege, and then issues and maintains new privilege certificates without issuing new private keys or smart cards. The new privilege certificates bind the original identity, the sponsor, i.e., the primary certificate authority, and the privilege. The new privilege certificates can be used on a Public Key Infrastructures (PKI) transaction basis, for example, to grant access to unclassified and Multi-Level Secure (MLS) resources without further reference to the existing primary certificate authorities.
US08423740B2	System and method for fast boot from non-volatile memory Described herein are systems and methods for fast boot from non-volatile (“NV”) memory. The exemplary embodiments relate to systems and methods for significant improvements in performance speed with simple implementations. One embodiment relates to a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including a set of instructions executable by a processor, the set of instructions operable to identify a page fault, determine whether the page fault occurred due to a read from a NV memory, copy a page from the NV memory to a random-access memory (“RAM”) storage, and create an identity mapping for the page in the RAM storage. A further embodiment relates to a system comprising a NV memory, a random access memory, and a processor executing a set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions being operable to identify a page fault, determine whether a page fault occurred due to a read from the NV memory, copy a page from the NV memory to the RAM storage, and create an identity mapping for the page in the RAM storage.
US08423736B2	Maintaining cache coherence in a multi-node, symmetric multiprocessing computer Maintaining cache coherence in a multi-node, symmetric multiprocessing computer, the computer composed of a plurality of compute nodes, including, broadcasting upon a cache miss by a first compute node a request for a cache line; transmitting from each of the other compute nodes to all other nodes the state of the cache line on that node, including transmitting from any compute node having a correct copy to the first node the correct copy of the cache line; and updating by each node the state of the cache line in each node, in dependence upon one or more of the states of the cache line in all the nodes.
US08423732B1	Writable virtual disks of read-only snapshot file objects A technique enables creation and use of a writable, read-only snapshot of an active file system operating on a storage system, such as a multi-protocol storage appliance. The writable, read-only snapshot comprises a read-only “image” (file) residing in a snapshot and a writable virtual disk (vdisk) residing in the active file system. The writable vdisk is a “shadow” image of the snapshot file image and, as such, includes an attribute that specifies the snapshot file as a backing store.
US08423726B2	Global de-duplication in shared architectures Redundant data is globally de-duplicated across a shared architecture that includes a plurality of storage systems. The storage systems implement copy-on-write or WAFL to generate snapshots of original data. Each storage system includes a de-duplication client to identify and reduce redundant original and/or snapshot data on the storage system. Each de-duplication client can de-duplicate a digital sequence by breaking the sequence into blocks and identifying redundant blocks already stored in the shared architecture. Identifying redundant blocks may include hashing each block and comparing the hash to a local and/or master hash table containing hashes of existing data. Once identified, redundant data previously stored is deleted (e.g., post-process de-duplication), or redundant data is not stored to begin with (e.g., inline de-duplication). In both cases, pointers to shared data blocks can be used to reassemble the digital sequence where one or more blocks were deleted or not stored on the storage system.
US08423707B2	Data access method for flash memory and storage system and controller using the same A data access method for accessing a flash memory storage system, a storage system and a controller using the same are provided. A flash memory has a plurality of physical blocks, which are grouped into a system area, a data area, and a spare area. One or more variable tables are established to record transient information of each set of mother-child blocks of the data area and the spare area. The number of the variable table could be adjusted adaptively according to time required for writing the variable table into the system area, such that an overall data access efficiency of the flash memory storage system is enhanced.
US08423705B2	Semiconductor device and method for controlling thereof A semiconductor device includes a first nonvolatile storage area including a plurality of sectors, a second nonvolatile storage area, a third nonvolatile storage area located in the first nonvolatile storage area, a fourth nonvolatile storage area located in the second nonvolatile storage area, and a control portion selecting one of a first mode and a second mode. In first mode, sectors where the third nonvolatile storage area is not located in the first nonvolatile storage area are used as a main storage area, and the second nonvolatile storage area is used to store a program or data that is read before the first nonvolatile storage area is accessed, the third nonvolatile storage area being used to store control information that controls writing, reading, and erasing of data involved in the first nonvolatile storage area or the second nonvolatile storage area. In the second mode, the first nonvolatile storage area is used as the main storage area, and the fourth nonvolatile storage area is used to store the control information.
US08423704B2	Dynamic optimization of memory use in a digital recording device A method for dynamically optimizing the memory use in a digital recording device. The disclosed method includes recording a plurality of digital files collected by said digital recording device on a recording medium and assigning each file of said plurality of recorded digital files a priority ranking of high, medium or low based on at least one predetermined criteria. The method also includes recording additional digital files on the recording medium and compressing the files assigned a low priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a first predetermined threshold of the recording medium's total storage capacity. The method further includes compressing the files assigned a medium priority ranking when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity and deleting files designated as low priority files when the recording medium reaches a predetermined threshold in the recording medium's total storage capacity.
US08423698B2	Conversion of resets sent to a shared device Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for converting resets in a shared I/O system. One embodiment includes a method that propagates a first type of reset from a host computer to a multi-function device that shares I/O operations with other hosts. The first type of reset is converted to a second type of reset to prevent the host from resetting functions bound to the other hosts at the multi-function device.
US08423695B2	Dual PCI-X/PCI-E card A dual bus interface PCB includes a main chipset component, a first type bus interface connector, and a second type bus interface connector. The PCB can be configured at fabrication time to enable a variety of configurations for operation. Optionally, the PCB can also be provided at least one memory chip and a NIC (Network Interface Card) chip. By virtue of having a dual interface, the PCB can be used with either the first type or the second type bus. Furthermore, the dual interface PCB eliminates the need by chipset manufacturers to carry multiple PCB variations of the same product in order to support various bus interfaces. In one embodiment, the PCB is a dual PCI-X/PCI-E interface PCB.
US08423691B2	Computer device and method for recognizing a removable storage device A system and a method for recognizing removable devices of a computer device, and displaying a dialog box to prompt whether a removable storage device needs to be renamed and if so to receive input data accordingly from a user, if a USB port has been newly connected to the removable storage device. The recognition method further includes acquiring a unique port number of the USB port actually connected to the removable storage device, and acquiring a device name of a system disk name of the removable storage device originally allocated by the computer device, if the removable storage device needs to be renamed. The recognition method further may utilize the unique port number of the USB port as the new device name of the removable storage device in renaming it.
US08423684B2	Display apparatus operated in multiple modes and mode changing method thereof A display apparatus operable in plural modes and a mode changing method thereof are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a storage unit which stores information about a final mode, and a controller which changes a mode of the display apparatus to the final mode and displays a corresponding screen if the display apparatus is connected to a host device.
US08423680B2	System, method, and computer program product for inserting a gap in information sent from a drive to a host device A system, method, and computer program product are provided for inserting a gap in information sent from a drive to a host device. In operation, one or more commands are received at a drive from a host device. Additionally, information is queued to send to the host device. Furthermore, a gap is inserted in the information to send to the host device such that the host device is capable of sending additional commands to the drive.
US08423678B2	Resilient network database This invention relates to methods and apparatus for providing a resilient network database. The invention relates particularly, but not exclusively, to the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). The invention is directed to an interface for a database node comprising: a port for receiving a request for information from a network node; a processor for determining if the database node can respond to said request; and a transmitter for forwarding the request to another database node if the particular database node cannot respond. The invention is also directed to a distributed database comprising a number of database nodes, wherein a request received by one node is forwarded to other nodes in the distributed database if the particular node cannot handle the request.
US08423668B2	Link state protocol routing message containment In one example embodiment, a system and method are shown that includes calculating a first SPF tree for a first device, the first SPF tree including a root node and a first child node, the first device being the root node of the first SPF tree. Additionally, the system and method may include calculating a second SPF tree for a second device that is a neighbor of the first device, the second SPF tree including a root node and a first child node, the second device being the root node of the second SPF tree. Further, the system and method may include building a set of interested nodes including the second device, if the first child node if the first SPF tree and the first child node of the second SPF tree are distinct.
US08423665B2	Multi-host management server in storage system, program for the same and path information management method Management arrangements receiving plural failure information from plural host computers for a predetermined period; storing the failure information; extracting one or more of the plural failure information, received from a first host computer among the plural host computers; retrieving the failure information about one path from the extracted failure information, about multiple paths; registering the first host computer via refresh information in the memory, refresh information indicating a host computer of which path information is to be updated; sending a request to the first host computer to acquire a status of a first path of the first host computer; updating a first path information in the plurality of path information of the first host computer, based on the status; and deleting the one or more of the plurality of failure information of the extracting from the failure reception information.
US08423653B2	Inter-layer parameter liaison systems and methods An exemplary method includes generating an access record associated with a data session provided by at least one access layer element over an access network, generating an application record associated with an application provided by at least one application layer element over the access network, transmitting data representative of a correlation parameter associated with application from the at least one application layer element to the at least one access layer element via an inter-layer liaison subsystem, and inserting the correlation parameter associated with application and received from the at least one application layer element via the inter-layer liaison subsystem in the access record. In some examples, the method further includes correlating the access record and the application record based on the correlation parameter associated with the application. Other exemplary inter-layer parameter liaison methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08423649B2	System and method for maintaining presence and communicating over a computer network using the HTTP protocol A computer-implemented process facilitates communication with an entity over a network. A static HTTP URL is associated with the entity. Communications information reflecting the entity's current online presence including the entity's dynamic session information as determined using the HTTP protocol is linked with the URL. Communication with the entity is facilitated using the URL and the communications information. The forms of communication facilitated include type chat/instant messaging, voice communication over a computer network, video communication over a computer network, voice communication from a computer network to a telephone network and two-way text messaging to Internet enabled wireless devices.
US08423645B2	Detection of grid participation in a DDoS attack A method of, system for, and product for managing a denial of service attack in a multiprocessor environment comprising. The first step is establishing normal traffic usage baselines in the multiprocessor environment. Once the baseline is established the next step is monitoring outgoing traffic to detect a high proportion of packets being sent to a specific destination address, and a high number of outbound packets compared to said baseline. Next is monitoring ports and protocols to detect a high proportion of packets sent to a specific port, and a consistent use of a protocol for all packets for that port. If there is such consistent use of a protocol for all packets for that port as to evidence a denial of service attack, blocking measures are started to mitigate the apparent denial of service attack.
US08423644B2	Method and computer program product for resource planning According to a tendency of a resource allocation request from a customer, a resource configuration that a resource provider provides is changed. The resource allocation request from customer's client machine with respect to a resource that a local domain including a server, a network, and a storage provides is accumulated together with an allocation result, and, on the basis of the accumulated resource allocation information and resource configuration information that the local domain provides, a resource planning algorithm determining the resource configuration to be provided next is executed, and, on the premise that approval of a system manager is obtained via a manager's client machine, the resource configuration change that is a result of the resource planning is applied to a group of resources, and disclosure is made so as to cope with the next resource allocation request by a customer's client machine.
US08423642B2	System and method for controlled access to up-to-date contact information A method and system for controlling a recipient's access to a user's information. The method includes receiving a plurality of contact information, registration information and access information from the user. Only person's knowing the user's registration information can update the contact and access information of the user. The contact information entered by a user is about that user. The access information defines accessible sets of contact information to be made accessible to recipients. A telephone exchange is associated with each recipient; and a local server is associated with each telephone exchange. The accessible set of information is stored in the local server for access by the recipient. The system handles updates to information on the local servers when a user updates their contact information. The system can automatically place calls for a recipient to a user that has granted the recipient access to a number for communicating with the user.
US08423635B2	System and method for automatic call flow detection A method and exploration engine for automatically detecting a call flow path of a voice application having a plurality of dialog states, the method comprising the steps of: identifying, in an automated manner, the plurality of dialog states of the voice application through execution of the voice application; and identifying at least one relationship between the plurality of dialog states. The method may further comprise some of the following steps: creating a unique identifier (ID) for one of the plurality of dialog states, wherein the unique ID is based on information received when executing the voice application, wherein the information comprises attributes associated with one of the plurality of dialog states; storing the unique ID and other information associated with the dialog state; and graphically illustrating a call flow path of the voice application based on the unique ID and other information stored in the database.
US08423631B1	Intelligent sorting for N-way secure split tunnel A method of intelligently sorting packets/datagrams for sending through appropriate branches of a N-way split VPN tunnel according to embodiments of the present invention allow for efficient movement of network traffic to and from a remote network location. Intelligent sorting may be based on a wide range of criteria in order to implement different policies. For example, datagrams may be sorted for sending through the branches of a 3-way split tunnel so that all traffic from a remote network location ultimately destined to servers at a central location may be sent via a secure VPN tunnel, all traffic that matches a “white-list” of trusted external sites may be sent directly to and from these sites to the remote network location, and all other traffic may be redirected through a Web service that scrubs and filters the traffic to/from questionable sites. Furthermore, the VPN tunnel may be chosen to minimize latency, to detour around network failures, or to conserve energy by minimizing the number of routers a datagram passes through.
US08423626B2	Enhanced delivery of audio data for portable playback A system for selection by a user and delivery to the user over an internetwork transmission channel of selected audio data files at a delivery rate of at least twice the delivery rate for normal, audibly perceptible playback of an audio data file. The user registers the user's selection of audio material with a central library of audio and/or text data files, and a digitized and optionally compressed omnibus file containing the user's selections is prepared and transmitted to the user at a high data transfer rate. The user receives downloads the selected data files to a personal computer or to a portable storage and playback unit (SPU) that may store and play back digitized text or audio data, using a docking station. The user carries this SPU until the user has an opportunity to audio process and play back the text or audio data files in audibly perceptible form.
US08423609B2	Method and network apparatus for requesting data based on content name Provided are a network apparatus and system that may request or receive the same contents stored in a plurality of network apparatuses. In a network system sharing data, specific segments from a plurality of segments constituting the data may be received from mutually different terminals. For this, a transmission region may be determined by calculating a transmission offset corresponding to the plurality of terminals, and at least one segment included in the determined transmission region may be received from a corresponding terminal.
US08423608B2	Method and device for communicating according to the standard protocol OPC UA in a client/server system A method and a corresponding device for communicating between clients and servers of a client/server system using an OPC UA protocol, OPC UA service calls can be used for the interaction of an OPC UA client with an OPC UA server. The OPC UA client requests additional services within an OPC UA session. The additional services are requested by a client part for using additional services and are handled by a server part for providing additional services.
US08423607B2	Fallback procedures for domain name server update in a mobile IP registration A method and/or apparatus for intelligent domain name server selection are provided. A mobile device may wirelessly receive one or more domain name server Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from a network serving agent during a call setup or a network registration. The mobile device then determines whether one or more of the received domain name server IP addresses is valid prior to attempting to contact a domain name server associated with one of the received domain name server IP addresses. A fallback sequence of valid domain name server IP addresses may be generated and provided (either individually or as a group) from a link layer to an application layer for domain name resolution. Received domain name server IP addresses that are geographically closer to a current location of the mobile device or its visited network may be given priority.
US08423606B1	Data framing Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for fragmenting a media stream (e.g., for HTTP streaming) by generating fragments that can have variable relative durations. The disclosed technologies enable fragmenting the media stream by two or more media streaming server systems to obtain respective sets of fragments having a framing structure that is consistent across the two or more media streaming server systems. Consequently, a client computer system can place HTTP requests for fragments of the media stream, e.g. for switching mid-stream, to any of the two or more media streaming server systems that generated the respective sets of fragments.
US08423602B2	Web service broadcast engine A system, computer architecture, and method of enabling asynchronous callback and broadcast notification between a server and a client software application in a network, wherein the method comprises processing computer logic instructions in the network; requesting a notification of a completion of the processing of the computer logic instructions; storing the notification request in a registry; queuing the notification request according to a response to the notification request and a list of user endpoints requesting the notification of a completion of the processing of the computer logic instructions; and notifying a recipient system of the completion of the processing of the computer logic instructions upon execution of the queued notification request.
US08423601B2	Communication device, information processing device, program, and reader/writer providing system A communication device includes an IC chip storing information in a predetermined area and functioning as a reader/writer that reads out or writes information stored in another IC chip. Also, the communication device downloads an agent from an information processing device connected to the network. Here, the agent is provided as application software operating the IC chip as a reader/writer. Furthermore, the communication device downloads a role from the information device connected to the network using the agent downloaded therefrom, where the role is provided as script data in which part of the contents of processing of the reader/writer performed by the agent.
US08423597B1	Method and system for adaptive matrix trimming in an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) operation A method and system for adaptive matrix trimming in an inverse discrete cosine transform (IDCT) operation. At least one row of an input matrix is accessed. At least one matrix element of the row having a value of zero is detected. During execution of an IDCT multiplication operation on the row for generating an output row, IDCT multiplication operation for a matrix element having a value of zero is skipped.
US08423594B2	Real-time hash map A method for implementing a hash map to improve performance consistency is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, such a method includes providing a hash map comprising a set of tables, the set of tables initially containing a first table. When the first table is full, the method augments the hash map by adding a second table to the set of tables. Similarly, when the second table is full, the method augments the hash map by adding a third table to the set of tables. A similar technique may be used to add additional tables to the hash map. When searching for a value in any of the tables in the hash map, the method uses the same hash code. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also disclosed herein.
US08423590B2	File generation for testing single-instance storage algorithm For each section of a buffer, a string of characters is retrieved and reordered to generate a reordered string of characters for the section. Thereafter, for each section of the buffer, the string of characters within the section is copied over with the reordered string of characters for a different section of the buffer. The buffer is then output to a file. If a desired length of the file has not yet been reached, then this process is repeated, or the buffer is again output to the file, based on a desired amount of duplicate data to be included within the file. The resulting file can be used to test a single-instance storage algorithm. The file is thus adapted to mimic a non-artificially generated file in relation to testing a single-instance storage algorithm.
US08423587B2	System and method for real-time content aggregation and syndication A system and methodology for real-time content aggregation and syndication is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method is described for assisting a user with extracting items relevant to search queries from documents including items of various types, the method comprises steps of: receiving a search query specifying a search phrase and a particular item type; identifying documents matching the search phrase; for each matching document, determining whether the document includes an item having the particular item type; and extracting items having the particular item type from the matching documents for display to the user. The solution enables a user to aggregate and syndicate content without a professional content manager or complicated content management software tools.
US08423584B2	Conditional inclusion of resources in a computer system configuration Creating a device tree is provided. It is determined whether more than one version of a resource for a data processing system exists in a resource location code array table. In response to determining that more than one version of the resource for the data processing system does exist in the resource location code array table, it is determined which version of the resource was installed in the data processing system. A presence detection procedure is performed for the resource in the data processing system. It is determined whether the resource is present in the data processing system. In response to determining that the resource is present in the data processing system, an entry is created in a device tree for the resource based on the determined version of the resource. The device tree is cached in firmware.
US08423576B2	System and method for querying data streams A method includes parsing input from a requestor, where the input includes at least one of a query and a command that is parsed into a structured query having an indication of at least one data stream or set of data streams and at least one action to be performed on the at least one data stream or set of data streams. The method further includes mapping the structured query into a graph of processing elements that are selected and interconnected so as to execute the structured query; instantiating the graph of processing elements and connecting and initializing the instantiated graph of processing elements with an identified at least one data stream or set of data streams to receive data there from; and outputting a result of the structured query to the requestor.
US08423572B2	Fast identification of complex strings in a data stream An apparatus for detecting presence of a selected complex string in a data stream has a primary processor, detecting coherent strings of the selected complex string; and a secondary processor, pipelined to the primary processor, and detecting ambiguous strings interleaving said coherent strings. The primary processor is configured to determine a number of coherent strings in the selected complex string, each coherent string preceded by a prefix of indefinite characters, with a last coherent string succeeded by a suffix of indefinite characters; and to locate sequential portions of the data stream that are identical to successive coherent strings of the selected complex string. The secondary processor is configured to ascertain congruence of portions of the data stream preceding and interleaving the sequential portions to prefixes of the coherent strings; and to ascertain congruence of the suffix to a corresponding portion of said data stream following the sequential portions.
US08423567B1	Dynamic query data visualizer Fields in a query result of a query may be classified as numerical, date, or text according to their field type. Depending on the classification of the fields, different fields or functions applied to the fields may added to first dimension, second dimension, and/or filter menus in an interface. A user may make a selection of fields and/or functions from the menus, and additional query terms may be generated and appended to the query. The appended query may then be executed and the results may be displayed in a first and a second dimension of the interface depending on the selections made by the user.
US08423564B1	Methods and apparatus for managing and updating stored information A method and systems are provided for managing database data. A data repository stores existing immediate mode data in the form of immediate mode database records. Transaction mode database records for modifying and adding to the immediate mode records are created and stored, with the transaction mode records being organized into transactions. Each transaction includes a definition, such as a transaction definition record, and transaction mode records are associated with a transaction using a field in each transaction mode record including a reference to a transaction. A transaction can be posted, causing values stored in the transaction mode records associated with the transaction to be used to create added or modified immediate mode records. Transactions can also be used in operations providing views to show the effects of the transaction mode records, or to create data structures for export.
US08423550B2	Storage medium for electronic information processing program, electronic information processing system, and electronic information processing method A computer-readable medium includes a program including processes of correlating electronic information which is correlated to a first correlation location in a first correlation structure also to a second correlation location in a second correlation structure according to a correlation condition based on the first correlation location or the electronic information, and executing an operation on the electronic information or the first correlation location in the first correlation structure, wherein there can be switched permission and forbiddance of execution of at least a part of the operations, among the operations, which changes a correlation result in the correlating.
US08423540B2	Related information presentation system, related information presentation method, and information storage medium In order to give a presentation of related information that unexpected a user, while maintaining some relevance to certain information, a method includes: a link information application step of applying any one of a plurality of link information items stored in a link information storage section for storing the plurality of link information items each associating one or more information items with one or more information items to select an information item related to a given information item; an information acquisition step of acquiring an information item which serves as a base point; a related information selection step of selecting, by repeatedly executing the link information application step a plurality of times, an information item which is indirectly related to the information item acquired in the information acquisition step; and an information presentation step of presenting the information item selected in the related information selection step to a user.
US08423539B2	Advertising medium determination device method therefor It is also an object of the present invention to provide objective advertisement plan(s). The target specifying information storage part 202 stores information for specifying target attribution including information for specifying information delivery medium of an object to contact with correspondently with searchers' id. The search term storage part 203 correspondently stores a searcher's id, the timing of search, and the term used for the search. The extraction part 204 extracts the timing of search for such search term for each searcher's id, segments the extracted search timing for each searcher's id into a predetermined number in chronological order and then extracts searcher's id belonging to each segment. The advertising medium data determination part 205 extracts information on candidate of information delivery medium for the each segment from the extracted each searcher's id using information for specifying a target and determines candidate(s) of information delivery medium from the extracted candidate of information delivery medium.
US08423538B1	Clustering query refinements by inferred user intent Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for clustering query refinements. One method includes building a representation of a graph for a first query, wherein the graph has a node for the first query, a node for each of a plurality of refinements for the first query, and a node for each document in the document sets of the refinements, and wherein the graph has edges from the first query node to each of the refinement nodes, edges from the first query to each document in the respective document set of the first query, edges from each refinement to each document in the respective document set of the refinement, and edges from each refinement to each co-occurring query of the refinement. The method further includes clustering the refinements into refinement clusters by partitioning the refinement nodes in the graph into proper subsets.
US08423535B2	Query optimization in a multi-tenant database system The present invention provides techniques for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency that includes a method that stores the information on the database among a plurality of tables arranged in columns and rows. For each of a subset of the plurality of tables, sets of the rows are distributed amongst different storage nodes on the database, with the set of rows stored at a common node having a common index value. Data storage and retrieval capabilities to the database are provided to allow access to the information, in response to requests from one of a plurality of remotely disposed computer systems. The retrieval capability includes a query condition that includes a query index value, with the query condition and the query index value being established to control retrieval latency. Also disclosed is a machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency when executed by one or more processors and cause the one or more processors to carry out steps of the method. A data center for storing information on a multi-tenant database system to control query latency is also disclosed that carries-out the functions of the method.
US08423534B2	Actively managing resource bottlenecks in a database system A computer-implemented method, apparatus and article of manufacture for optimizing a database query. Resource usage of one or more resources of the computer system are monitored. A condition code representative of the monitored resource usage is stored. A cost model is modified using the stored condition code. A query execution plan is generated for the database query using the modified cost model. The query execution plan is then executed in order to retrieve data from a database stored on the computer system, wherein the retrieved data is presented to a user for subsequent use and analysis.
US08423533B2	Multiple rule bank access scheme for use in a pattern matching accelerator A pattern matching accelerator (PMA) for assisting software threads to find the presence and location of strings in an input data stream that match a given pattern. The patterns are defined using regular expressions that are compiled into a data structure comprised of rules subsequently processed by the PMA. The patterns to be searched in the input stream are defined by the user as a set of regular expressions. The patterns to be searched are grouped in pattern context sets. The sets of regular expressions which define the pattern context sets are compiled to generate a rules structure used by the PMA hardware. The rules are compiled before search run time and stored in main memory, in rule cache memory within the PMA or a combination thereof. For each input character, the PMA executes the search and returns the search results.
US08423525B2	Life arcs as an entity resolution feature Techniques are disclosed for performing identity resolution using life arcs as a feature. Space and time data may be received for an entity. A life arc template may be provided that specifies data that a life arc for each entity should include. A life arc may be generated for the entity based on the space and time data and the life arc template. An assertion for identity resolution may be made for the entity, based on the generated life arc.
US08423521B2	Method and apparatus for storing document data in docbase management system A method and an apparatus for storing document data in a docbase management system are provided. In the method, document data is described by using a tree structure, the document data is split into multiple data fragments based on the tree structure when the document data is being stored, and the data fragments are stored, and the relation of the data fragments is recorded, wherein, each data fragment corresponds to a subtree or a node in the tree structure.
US08423518B2	Representation of multiple markup language files in one file for the production of new markup language files A method and apparatus for representing three or more related markup language source files in a single delta file is provided. The markup language source files are represented in such a way that the delta file is easily processed to produce one or more merged combinations of the source files. The method and apparatus ensure that any one of the original files can be extracted from the delta file. Moreover, when one or more documents are deleted from the delta file, leaving two or more documents within the modified delta file, the remaining file is a valid delta file for any remaining documents. The method and apparatus are suited for use, but not exclusively, with XML documents/files.
US08423516B2	Speculative execution in a real-time data environment Techniques are described for speculatively executing operations on data in a data stream in parallel in a manner that increases the efficiency of the stream-based application. In addition to executing operations in parallel, embodiments of the invention may determine whether certain results produced by the parallel operations are valid results and discard any results determined to be invalid.
US08423512B2	Leveraging XML capabilities of a database to enhance handling of document data When an XML-annotated document is saved, a process automatically stores the document's data in the tables of a database. The database server validates the document's data against a user-specified XML schema. Queries can be executed against a set of documents in order to find documents in which a specified XML element contains specified content. Query results can be customized to return only the contents of specified XML elements. The document data can be linked with other data in the database such that the document data is updated based on the other data every time that the document is opened, thereby producing a “live” and dynamic document. Different file formats can be generated based on the document data, thus separating the presentation of the document data from the data itself. Contents of different elements may be obscured based on users' privileges, thereby maintaining the privacy of the document's information.
US08423505B2	Catalog reorganization apparatus and method A method for reorganizing a catalog to improve I/O performance includes initially placing a shared lock on a source catalog. The method then makes a point-in-time copy of the source catalog to generate a target catalog. Once the target catalog is generated, the method reorganizes the contents of the target catalog. Optionally, while reorganizing the contents of the target catalog, the method temporarily releases the shared lock on the source catalog and mirrors I/O intended for the source catalog to a buffer. The buffered I/O may then be used to update the target catalog to bring it current with the source catalog. When the target catalog is reorganized and up-to-date, the method upgrades the shared lock on the source catalog to an exclusive lock, overwrites the source catalog with the target catalog, and releases the exclusive lock. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also disclosed and claimed herein.
US08423503B2	Knowledge annotation result checking method and system The present invention discloses a knowledge annotation result checking system and method. The knowledge annotation result checking system comprises: a receiving unit for receiving a knowledge annotation result; and a checking unit, for comparing the received knowledge annotation result with information within a tag registration database to obtain comparison information. According to the present invention, inconsistent tag information can be detected.
US08423496B1	Dynamic determination of needed agent rules A method for updating rule statistics in an execution environment by an agent that utilizes a rule engine, comprising collecting an activation statistic when a rule is activated, collecting a firing statistic when a rule is fired; and storing the activation statistic and the firing statistic in a rule history once processing by the rule engine is complete.
US08423493B2	Condition monitoring with automatically generated error templates from log messages and sensor trends based on time semi-intervals An approach is provided for condition monitoring from log messages and sensor trends based on time semi-intervals. The approach may be applied to machine condition monitoring. Patterns are mined from symbolic interval data that extends previous approaches by allowing semi-intervals and partially ordered patterns. The semi-interval patterns and semi-interval partial order patterns are less restrictive than patterns using Allen's relations. Combinations and adaptations of efficient algorithms from sequential pattern and itemset mining for discovery of semi-interval patterns are described.
US08423492B2	Predictive prompting and decision outcome A system and method that provide for decision support and/or training support in crisis decision-making situations are provided. In one implementation, for example, a method identifies patterns from known cases based on information from a crisis event. Each of the known cases includes attributes and at least one outcome. The method also identifies a first subset of the known cases that relate to the identified patterns from the known cases. The method also analyzes the identified patterns to determine a cue that, if answered, will provide a second subset of the known cases including a more converged range of decision outcomes than the first subset.
US08423487B1	Machine learning approach to wave height prediction Sea characteristics are determined by using a buoy with multiple tilt switches configured to sense at plural tilt angles of the buoy. The tilt switches provide binary outputs of tilt data corresponding to the tilt angles. The binary outputs are received by a processor and are compared with sample patterns of tilt data. The comparison is used to provide an output corresponding to sea conditions.
US08423484B2	Prognostics and health management method for aging systems The present invention provides a novel prognostic and health management method for natural aging systems. This prognostic and health management method can detect anomalies in a system in advance, and can determine whether the detected anomalies are due to natural aging or other aging processes. In this prognostic method, a moving window method for improving the performance of the conventional data-driven prognostic methods is described. This prognostic and health management method combines with the detections by the data-driven prognostic method based on the conventional training and moving window methods to determine whether the detected anomalies are due to natural aging or other aging processes and in so doing can reduce the number of false alarms; reduce cost of a system by decreasing the unnecessary maintenance, downtime, and inventory; can extend the life of systems; and can assist in the design and qualification of future systems to improve their reliability.
US08423481B2	Self-learning method for keyword based human machine interaction and portable navigation device A self-learning method for keyword based human machine interaction is disclosed. At least one of a plurality of keywords predetermined in a database is selected and a priority score of the selected keyword is updated and a weighted factor is generated for the selected keyword. A weighted score and the weighted factor of the selected keyword are transmitted to the keywords related to the selected keyword. The selected keyword is pushed to a keyword buffer and linkage strengths between the keywords in the keyword buffer are strengthened. When a keyword has been stored in the keyword buffer for over a predetermined reset time period, a reset operation is performed to remove the keyword from the keyword buffer.
US08423480B2	Image forming apparatus, billing amount determination method and billing system An image forming apparatus that executes a job and determines a billing amount for the job depending on a parameter value given to a parameter that relates to the execution of the job, the image forming apparatus comprising: a storage that stores therein a first table and a second table, the first table defining billing amounts for a plurality of non-overlapping value ranges in one-to-one correspondence, the second table defining billing amounts for a plurality of specific values in one-to-one correspondence; and a determiner operable to refer to the second table before referring to the first table and judge whether the parameter value is identical to any one of the plurality of specific values in the second table (step S402), and if identical (Yes in step S402), determine the billing amount for the job according to the second table (step S403).
US08423476B2	Methods and apparatus for conducting electronic transactions A system and method for facilitating electronic transactions using an intelligent instrument is disclosed. An authorization server enables users to obtain authorization credentials through the use of the intelligent instrument by issuing a challenge to an intelligent token of the intelligent instrument. The intelligent token generates a challenge response and transmits the challenge response to the authorization server, which assembles credentials including a key for the electronic transaction upon validating the response. The authorization server sends the assembled credentials to the intelligent instrument and the intelligent instrument transmits the assembled credentials to the authorization server during a subsequent transaction. The authorization server validates the assembled credentials and provides authorization for the transaction in response to the validating the assembled credentials.
US08423474B2	Method and apparatus for data recipient storage and retrieval of data using a network communication device A system and method for data recipient invoked electronic commerce allowing data subjects to provide and data recipients to receive information over a network relating to the needs of a data subject such as purchases, distribution of application information and the like. The system includes a server having software which gathers the information from a data subject to complete a transaction. The system has a data subject data structure that stores information for registered data subjects. The software can access the data subject data structure and enter the data subject's information during subsequent transactions. Having the software obtain and enter the data subject's purchasing information, the data subject does not have to enter the same information every time the data subject desires to effect a transaction over the network. In alternate embodiments, the same technology can be applied to other arenas where a user enters the same repetitive information.
US08423473B2	Systems and methods for game activation Techniques are provided for controlling the activation of computer games. In one embodiment, the technique may involve receiving a combination of a game identifier for the game and a device identifier for the device. The technique may further involve accessing a database of known game identifiers, each known game identifier being associated with a device count corresponding to a total number of known devices on which a known game was previously played or activated, and obtaining a usage policy for the game.
US08423471B1	Protected document elements In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise displaying an electronic document, detecting a request to traverse a link, such as a hyperlink or a form submission, wherein the link is associated with an element of the document, evaluating an attribute, wherein the attribute is associated with the element of the document, and determining whether to perform the action based on the evaluation. Applications of these techniques include mitigating the effect of an attempt to modify web pages for fraudulent purposes, such as by a “phishing” attack incorporating malicious scripting.
US08423469B2	System and method for enhancing the efficiency of real estate transactions A computer system and method, for real estate transactions concerning the purchase or sale of real property, comprises engaging a realtor and a mortgage originator for providing unified communication among a client, the realtor and the mortgage originator, providing a simplified loan process for the client and upon a sale and purchase of the property, distributing to the client a predetermined portion of money from the real estate commission received by the realtor and a portion of the mortgage origination proceeds to the realtor, such that upon any combination of a sale and purchase of the property, the client receives a predetermined portion of money from the purchase price of the property, the loan amount and the listing fee, the realtor receives the full amount of the predetermined real estate commission for the sale consummated, and the mortgage originator receives a proportionately smaller portion of the mortgage origination proceeds.
US08423463B1	Personal financial manager with gift cards aggregation A method for managing the use of a gift card with a personal financial management application (PFMA), including storing a balance of the gift card in the PFMA, obtaining, using a central processor (CPU) of a computer and within the PFMA, a transaction of a user, identifying, using the CPU, the gift card as a payment source of the transaction, and adjusting, using the CPU and in response to identifying the gift card as the payment source, the balance in the PFMA based on the transaction.
US08423458B2	Secure, closed-loop electronic transfer of money A method of providing for a money transfer over a network includes the steps of: providing a stamp having a face value and a lifespan both indicated on the stamp, the stamp being a string that is a concatenation of two or more fields including the face value and the lifespan, with at least one of the fields calculated according to a prescription involving a hashing or encryption of a concatenation of others of the fields or of some other field not part of the stamp; affixing the stamp to an e-mail; and allowing the recipient of the e-mail to obtain value for the stamp if the stamp is presented to a predetermined entity (such as a stamp issuer) for the stamp value within the lifespan indicated on the stamp. The stamp may comprise a concatenation of a set of fields, including a lifespan, a stamp value; and hash/encryption.
US08423457B1	Anonymous mobile payments Anonymous mobile payments enable a user to make and/or receive payments without disclosing personal or private information to another party. In some aspects, a provider of a payment may request an anonymous payment for a specified value from a host. In response, the host may transmit to the provider a code that is available for redemption. The provider may then relay the code to a recipient, who may redeem the code from the host. In other aspects, a recipient may request a temporary identifier (special code) from a host. The recipient may relay the temporary identifier to a provider, who may in turn transmit a payment, via the host, using the temporary identifier. The recipient may then claim the payment from the host. In additional aspects, the codes of the anonymous payments may include expiration times and/or restrictions on a number of uses of the code.
US08423449B2	Consolidated sales, marketing, and customer support system for financial products A method includes accepting financial product information through a provider computer; accepting advisor information and client information; allowing access to a portion of the financial product information, based on the client information, through a client computer; allowing access to another portion of the financial product information not accessible through the client computer, based on the advisor information, through an advisor computer; and tracking and reporting the advisor information and the client information through metrics.
US08423444B1	Investor personality tool Various embodiments are directed to a computer system comprising at least one computer programmed to provide a user interface to a user via a first computer device. The user interface may comprise a first axis describing a desired level of involvement of the user in investment decisions and a second axis describing a risk tolerance of the user. The user interface may also comprise a first icon representing a first position on the first and second axes and a second icon representing a second position on the first and second axes. When the first or second icons are activated, the interface may display a description of respective example investors having investment characteristics corresponding to the respective first and second positions on the axes. The user interface may also comprise first and second slider bars corresponding to the respective axes. The slider bars may be movable in response to a signal from a first input device in communication with the computer system. The computer system may be further programmed to receive from the user, via the user interface, an indication of a user position on the first and second axes; and store first data describing the user position on the first and second axis in association with an identifier of the user.
US08423441B2	Multiple balance state account processing A computer based system and method for processing financial accounts. Each account is defined by multiple daily account balance records. Each daily account balance record is defined by a daily account balance record posting state that defines the types of transactions that may be posted to the daily account record balance at any one time. The various daily account balance records defining a single account may have different daily account balance record posting states, thereby allowing different types of transactions for different account days to be posted to the same account simultaneously. The resulting account processing system and method provides customers greater flexibility in transferring money between accounts and provides banking entities greater flexibility in account processing timing and reducing operational costs.
US08423427B2	Media delivery platform Provided is a method of delivering an audio and/or visual media file comprising, without limitation, for example, one or more of full or partial master recordings of songs, musical compositions, ringtones, videos, films, television shows, personal recordings, animation and combinations thereof, over the air wirelessly, from one or more servers to an electronic device with or without an Internet connection, said method comprising transmitting and audio and/or visual media file in compressed format to said electronic device, and wherein the electronic device is effective to receive said audio and/or visual file and playback said audio and/or visual content on demand by a user.
US08423424B2	Web page fact checking system and method A web page fact checking system verifies the correctness of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with one or more sources. The web page fact checking system automatically analyzes the information, fact checks the information, and indicates a status of the information.
US08423422B2	Multiparty computer-assisted haggling The claimed subject matter relates to a computer-implemented architecture that can facilitate computer-assisted haggling and/or negotiation between multiple parties simultaneously. For example, various proxies associated with both buyers and sellers can be configured to negotiate with other proxies to buy or sell an item. The negotiations can be required to be progressive and during the negotiations a buyer or seller is, typically, allowed to withdraw his or her proposals. The architecture can include a registration component that can resolve concurrency and facilitate a registration of an agreement between two of the parties. The registration of an agreement can create a binding obligation between the parties after which other outstanding proposals can be terminated.
US08423421B2	Method and system for improved E-commerce shopping An e-commerce system and method combining different product presentation formats, where each format has a video presentation component. One such format is the presentation of a live, pre-existing “shop at home” video production feed, consisting of continuously scheduled 5 segments, each segment presenting a product or set of products. A Video on Demand (VOD) format, where users may request different video streams. The VOD streams being similar to the live feed, but stored on a server and organized in one or more different segment orders, as compared to the original order of the live feed. Third, a traditional e-commerce product catalog may be provided. However, as an enhancement, the product catalog may be connected to the VOD server, and stream the presentation segment associated with each product, when a user is viewing the product detail page for that product.
US08423419B2	Related parts identification and sales tool A method of identifying related parts is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of a product, receiving a selection of at least one part of a product, and identifying at least one related part structurally associated with the selected at least one part. The method further includes generating a parts list containing the selected at least one part and the identified at least one related part, and presenting the parts list.
US08423414B2	Method and system for pausing, migrating, and restarting retail point-of-sale transactions A computer implemented method, data processing system, and computer program product for managing transactions on point-of-sale terminals comprising a peer-to-peer network in a retail data processing system. A purchase transaction for a customer is initiated on a point-of-sale terminal in the system. Responsive to receiving a first input from a user of the point-of-sale terminal, the purchase transaction is suspended to form a suspended purchase transaction. Information about the customer is added to the suspended purchase transaction. The suspended purchase transaction is stored as a file on the point-of-sale terminal. Responsive to receiving a second input from the user of the point-of-sale terminal, a locally-stored list of suspended purchase transactions on the point-of-sale terminal is searched using the information about the customer. Responsive to locating the suspended transaction matching the information about the customer, the suspended transaction is selected to restart the suspended purchase transaction on the point-of-sale terminal.
US08423409B2	System and method for monetizing user-generated web content A system and method for monetizing user-generated web content are provided. The system includes a tracking engine operable to track user activity taking place a plurality of social networks. The tracking engine is in communication with an branding engine, which is notified when a user publishes content on a social network. The ad branding engine is configured to analyze user-published content and select at least one advertisement contextually related thereto. The ad branding engine incorporates the advertisement with the user-published content, and in turn, the user is compensated.
US08423407B2	System and method for an adaptive scheduling system architecture The disclosed embodiments describe an automatic, adaptive system and method for efficiently and effectively scheduling advertising spots in commercial break locations across various networks, zones, channels, dates, times, and specific products, for example. The disclosed embodiments make use of fixed and relative factors, that may be user-defined, which assign a “cost” to one or more particular breaks which thereby allow for quick and accurate scheduling of spots. The “costs” may represent a value, or desirability, of a break for the advertiser and may be a function of both the fixed and relative factors. The fixed and relative factors may be configurable and may change for different advertising clients, different contract lines, different networks, different spot placement, etc.The placement of spots may be accomplished through the use of an ordered list which may be generated based on a number of inputs that may be user-selected. A non-limiting example of user inputs may include: spot length, spot cost, contract line priority, beginning date/time of contract line, ending date/time of contract line, a predefined value index for the client, and contract line number, among others.
US08423400B2	System and method for managing customized reward offers In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a method is provided for managing reward offers. A first performance target that is associated with a financial account is determined. Transaction data that is associated with the financial account is received, and a second performance target for the financial account is determined based on the transaction data.
US08423388B1	GUI for risk profiles A memory device stores machine-readable instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to graphically depict on a display device a first category of risk analysis data related to a plurality of insurance claims. The processor also causes the display to graphically depict a relationship between a first analysis result and a first benchmark value corresponding to the first analysis result, and graphically depict one or more user controls for selecting a second category of risk analysis data.
US08423386B2	Blood sugar measured level management system and blood sugar level measurement apparatus The present invention is made to prevent accident of mistaking blood glucose meter among a plurality of blood glucose meters used in a hospital ward.The blood glucose meter is provided with a nickname area in a nonvolatile storage thereof, and the nickname area can be written from outside. Further, when the blood glucose meter is powered on, a nickname is displayed on a display thereof. A measurement data managing device is provided with a blood glucose meter individual setting table in which the serial number and the nickname of the blood glucose meter are is register in association with each other. When the measurement data managing device is connected with the blood glucose meter and communication is started, the serial number of the blood glucose meter is automatically read out, and the nickname obtained from the blood glucose meter individual setting table is displayed on the display.
US08423378B1	Facilitating health care management of subjects A peer system of subjects with health-related issues is formed based on an association of subjects and a particular type of electronic device or devices which provides information related to a specific health-related issue or issues obtained from particular subjects. By means of such associations, subjects can transmit to and receive messages from other subjects associated with the same type of electronic device. One way to associate subjects with health-related issues is through an association of a subject with a type or types of sensors. For example, each monitoring device may be associated with a subject, and the type or types of sensor or sensors may be associated with the subject and/or monitoring device. Devices, systems, methods and computer program products may be provided leveraging this association for various applications, e.g., management of the health care of subjects, peering among subjects with a common heath-related issue or issues, advertising, research and other applications involving such subjects.
US08423373B2	System and method for coalescing market data at a client device A client device coalesces data received from an exchange, and provides a client application such as a graphical user interface with the opportunity to process fewer, but up-to-date, data updates from an exchange when a large volume of prices becomes available. Accordingly, the trader can be assured of receiving updated information that are fed to the client applications at a rate that is cohesive with that client device's processing speed.
US08423368B2	Biofeedback system for correction of nasality A system is described for providing biofeedback to hearing-impaired persons as to the degree of nasalization of vowel-like sounds in their speech, in order to monitor their own nasality and thus correct inappropriate nasalization. In a preferred embodiment, this feedback uses tactile vibration, with the vibration frequency or amplitude reflecting the nasalance of the speech.
US08423367B2	Apparatus and method for creating singing synthesizing database, and pitch curve generation apparatus and method Variation over time in fundamental frequency in singing voices is separated into a melody-dependent component and a phoneme-dependent component, modeled for each of the components and stored into a singing synthesizing database. In execution of singing synthesis, a pitch curve indicative of variation over time in fundamental frequency of the melody is synthesized in accordance with an arrangement of notes represented by a singing synthesizing score and the melody-dependent component, and the pitch curve is corrected, for each of pitch curve sections corresponding to phonemes constituting lyrics, using a phoneme-dependent component model corresponding to the phoneme. Such arrangements can accurately model a singing expression, unique to a singing person and appearing in a melody singing style of the person, while taking into account phoneme-dependent pitch variation, and thereby permits synthesis of singing voices that sound more natural.
US08423365B2	Contextual conversion platform A contextual conversion platform, and method for converting text-to-speech, are described that can convert content of a target to spoken content. Embodiments of the contextual conversion platform can identify certain contextual characteristics of the content, from which can be generated a spoken content input. This spoken content input can include tokens, e.g., words and abbreviations, to be converted to the spoken content, as well as substitution tokens that are selected from contextual repositories based on the context identified by the contextual conversion platform.
US08423364B2	Generic framework for large-margin MCE training in speech recognition A method and apparatus for training an acoustic model are disclosed. A training corpus is accessed and converted into an initial acoustic model. Scores are calculated for a correct class and competitive classes, respectively, for each token given the initial acoustic model. Also, a sample-adaptive window bandwidth is calculated for each training token. From the calculated scores and the sample-adaptive window bandwidth values, loss values are calculated based on a loss function. The loss function, which may be derived from a Bayesian risk minimization viewpoint, can include a margin value that moves a decision boundary such that token-to-boundary distances for correct tokens that are near the decision boundary are maximized. The margin can either be a fixed margin or can vary monotonically as a function of algorithm iterations. The acoustic model is updated based on the calculated loss values. This process can be repeated until an empirical convergence is met.
US08423362B2	In-vehicle circumstantial speech recognition A method of circumstantial speech recognition in a vehicle. A plurality of parameters associated with a plurality of vehicle functions are monitored as an indication of current vehicle circumstances. At least one vehicle function is identified as a candidate for user-intended ASR control based on user interaction with the vehicle. The identified vehicle function is then used to disambiguate between potential commands contained in speech received from the user.
US08423350B1	Segmenting text for searching Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for segmenting text for searching are disclosed. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving text; segmenting the text into one or more unigrams; filtering the one or more unigrams to identify one or more core unigrams; and generating a searchable resource, including: for each of the one or more core unigrams: identifying a stem, indexing the stem, and associating one or more second n-grams with the indexed stem. Each of the one or more second n-grams is derived from the text and includes a core unigram that is related to the indexed stem.
US08423342B2	Simulation parameter extracting method of MOS transistor A simulation parameter extracting method of a MOS transistor according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes evaluating a measured value that includes a true gate-overlap capacitance by measuring a capacitance between the gate and the drain in each of a plurality of layout patterns at a predetermined bias voltage, only the number of contact plugs being different for each layout pattern, evaluating a gate-overlap capacitance calculation value of each layout pattern by subtracting a contact parasitic capacitance between the contact plug and the gate from the measured value, the contact parasitic capacitance being obtained by a simulation with varying a model parameter for evaluating a parasitic capacitance between the contact plug and the gate, and extracting the gate-overlap capacitance calculation value as the true gate-overlap capacitance at the model parameter when the gate-overlap capacitance calculation value is about constant regardless of the number of the contact plugs.
US08423330B2	Method for recording data which varies with time in space constituted by dimensional axes The data acquisition unit acquires data in correspondence with each dimensional axis and the time axis. The mode setting unit makes setting and clearing of a dimensionality investigation mode. In the dimensionality investigation mode, the axis-determinative variation-rate calculation unit calculates axial data variation rates. The axis determination unit determines whether or not the axial data variation rate corresponding to each axis is low. The objective-axis setting unit sets each axis as an objective axis when the axial data variation rate corresponding to the axis is determined to be high. While the dimensionality investigation mode is cleared, the recording-determinative variation-rate calculation unit calculates axial data variation rates. The recording determination unit determines, on the basis of the axial data variation rate, whether to record the acquired data. The recording unit does not record the data when the data is determined not to be recorded.
US08423317B2	Temperature detection method of semiconductor device and power conversion apparatus A temperature detection method for a semiconductor device and a power conversion apparatus are disclosed. A temperature detection device is used to detect the temperature for thermal protection of a power semiconductor device. The temperature detection device is placed in the proximity of a component having the power semiconductor device packaged therein, and either an emitter terminal or a collector terminal of the power semiconductor device. Since the temperature detection device is mounted on a circuit board, it does not require insulation from a cooling fin on which the power semiconductor device is mounted and lead wires can be eliminated.
US08423313B2	Method and apparatus for testing valve control system A method and apparatus are disclosed for testing a valve control system in an aircraft fuel supply system having a plurality of control valves, wherein the control system includes relay means for outputting control signals to each of the plurality of control valves. The method includes providing connection means for electrically connecting a test device to the control system relay means, connecting a test device to the relay means such that the test device is adapted to receive control signals output by the control system to any one of the plurality of control valves, detecting an electrical control signal output from the relay means to any one of the plurality of control valves, and identifying the particular one of the plurality of control valves to which a detected control signal is output by the relay means and identifying the nature of the control signal output to that particular control valve.
US08423307B2	Apparatus for analysis and evaluation of characteristics of series-connected solar battery cells An apparatus for estimating and evaluating characteristics of large-area series-connected solar battery cells from a measured current-voltage characteristic of a small-area single cell, includes an analysis model construction unit, an analysis operation unit and an evaluation unit. The construction unit reads shape parameters and material physical properties of the cells and automatically constructs a finite element method model. The operation unit obtains a current at a voltage based on the measured characteristic, sets the current as a current load, calculates potential distributions of transparent electrode and rear electrode of the cells, corrects the current load based on a difference between the distributions and the measured characteristic, recalculates the distributions based on the corrected current load, and repeats the recalculation until the distributions converge. The evaluation unit evaluates whether a converged calculation result is a pattern exhibiting a desired current-voltage characteristic of the cells.
US08423305B2	Wire system assessment The advantageous embodiments provide a method, a computer program product, and an apparatus for monitoring a wiring system. A number of responses to signals transmitted in a portion of the wiring system are measured to form a measured signature. Design data for the portion of the wiring system is retrieved. A number of expected responses for the signals in the portion of the wiring system are identified using the design data to form a computed signature. The measured signature is compared with the computed signature.
US08423295B2	Method of outputting body information and apparatus therefor A method and an apparatus for outputting body information of a user. The method of outputting the body information of a user comprises: designating coordinate points of the body information according to first, second, and third body information on a three-dimensional coordinate having the first, second, and third coordinates as coordinate axes; and outputting comparison information between the user body figure and the average body figure from the distance between the coordinate point of the body information of the average body figure designated on a three-dimensional coordinate in advance and the coordinate point of the body information of the user.
US08423293B2	Display control device, display control method and control program A user can visually and instinctively understand an operation to be executed, and a corresponding operation screen or input screen is easily displayed and operated. Plural flat display objects each having a predetermined displace face having each kind of information displayed in a virtual three-dimensional space are arranged in a predetermined area every category and classified into one main display object 51A and sub display objects 51B other than the display object 51A, the main display object 51A is rotated so that a display face thereof is perpendicular to or intersects to the overhead-view direction, and moved in the virtual three-dimensional space so as to be located in the overhead-view direction or in the neighborhood of the overhead-view direction while following variation of the overhead-view direction, and displayed on the display device, and the sub display objects 51B are controlled to be rotated in the virtual three-dimensional space so that display faces thereof are perpendicular to or intersect to the overhead view direction and displayed on the display screen of the display device 16.
US08423288B2	Dynamic alerts for calendar events A computing device can access a calendar entry having an associated time and an associated location, in a calendar application. The computing device can dynamically determine an estimated travel time to the location associated with the calendar entry. The computing device can provide an alarm indication for the calendar entry at a time based on the estimated travel time.
US08423287B2	Determining speed parameters in a geographic area Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products are provided for assigning parameters to a geographic area, wherein the parameters may be used to associate a speed limit with the geographic area. For example, in one embodiment, a geofenced area that comprises one or more street segments is identified. Additionally, speed data associated with one of more of the street segments is received. After receiving the speed data, a speed limit is determined for one or more of the street segments and associated with one or more of the street segments.
US08423285B2	Enhanced adaptive optimization and presentation of on-line map data Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for presenting map data on a computing device. The map may be dynamically adapted based on a physical characteristic, such as display resolution, of the computing device. The map may be further adapted based on a user activity, such as shopping, that is taking place. Input from a user in response to a rendered map may be used to create a manual override or a learned override to further adapt the map for the computing device. The input may be from the user of the computing device or from users of other computing devices.
US08423284B2	Monitoring, recording and testing of navigation systems A testing system is described. The testing system is adapted to evaluate navigation systems. The testing system includes: a recording system adapted to collect and record signals received and interpreted by a navigation system during field operation; a time-synchronized database adapted to receive and store data representing the signals collected and recorded by the recording system: wherein the stored data is able to be used to test operation of one or more navigation systems under test. A method of testing navigation systems includes: gathering data that would be received and interpreted by a navigation system during field operation, wherein the gathered data includes data associated with received radio signals; storing gathered data in a time-synchronized database; and using the stored data to test the operation of one or more navigation systems. A system adapted to test navigation systems includes: a recording system; a playback system; and a simulation system.
US08423282B2	Road guidance service method and navigation system for implementing the method A method of providing a route guidance service and a navigation system for performing the method are provided. The method of providing a route guidance service includes: extracting outdoor advertisement information and advertisement production and installation information, which correspond to destination information entered by a user, from an outdoor advertisement database; generating virtual building image information using the extracted advertisement production and installation information; generating first navigation information by combining the generated building image information with the extracted outdoor advertisement information and advertisement production and installation information; and providing a route guidance service to the destination information using the first navigation information.
US08423280B2	Vehicle collision avoidance system A method for collision avoidance for a machine is disclosed. The method includes detecting an obstacle with an obstacle detection system and generating a corresponding signal. The obstacle detection system includes an operator input device. The method also includes providing an obstacle detection warning in response to the signal. The method further includes determining with a controller whether the operator input device has been activated in response to the obstacle detection warning.
US08423276B2	Systems and methods for determining entry of a navigation system into a structure Systems and methods are operable to determine that a navigation system has entered a structure. An exemplary embodiment monitors a magnetic field at an outdoor position, monitors a magnetic field at a current position, compares a characteristic of the monitored magnetic field at the current position with a corresponding characteristic of the outdoor magnetic field, and determines entry into the structure at least as a function of a change in the determined characteristic of the monitored magnetic field from the corresponding characteristic of the outdoor magnetic field.
US08423269B2	Exhaust gas recirculation valve contaminant removal An exhaust gas recirculation system including an exhaust gas passageway which routes a flow of exhaust gas from an exhaust gas source to an intake manifold; an exhaust gas passageway valve which controls flow to the intake manifold; a cooling system coupled with the exhaust gas passageway positioned at a location upstream of the exhaust gas source and downstream of the intake manifold and operable to transfer heat from the flow of exhaust gas to a coolant in flow communication with the cooling system; a bypass passageway coupled with the exhaust gas passageway and bypassing the cooling system; a bypass valve operable to control flow through the bypass passageway; at least one valve operation sensor; and a controller operable to control the bypass valve to direct the flow of exhaust gas to the bypass passageway during exhaust gas recirculation based on a signal from the valve operation sensor.
US08423246B2	In-lane running support system, automobile and in-lane running support method The in-lane running support system includes a steering input device and a steering input detector. The in-lane running support system further comprises a reaction force device that changes a condition of the steering input device between a normal operation mode that provides a normal reaction force to the driver, and a hapthic operation mode that performs a notification operation to the driver, a turning output device that is in a state mechanically disconnected from the steering input device and that turns steerable wheels, and a turning output controller. A running state detecting device acquires information of a running state of the vehicle with respect to a lane. An in-lane running support device controls the turning output device and the haptic device based on the information of the running state such that the vehicle runs in the lane, and has a first control mode that controls the turning output control device and causes the reaction force device to operate in the normal operation mode, and a second control mode that controls the turning output control device and causes the reaction force device to operate in the haptic operation mode.
US08423244B2	Device and method for controlled damping of a vehicle A method and device for controlled damping of a vehicle stores a set of controller parameters R1 to Rn for controlling the damping of the unloaded vehicle as a function of the dynamic driving situation thereof 1 to n, detect a loading condition b of the vehicle, adapt the set of controller parameters R1 to Rn as a function of the detected loading condition b to a set of controlled parameters R1b to Rnb, and dams the vehicle as a function of the set of controller parameters R1b to Rnb as a function of the dynamic driving situation thereon 1 to n.
US08423238B2	Monitoring battery health in an HVAC system Systems and methods of monitoring battery health in an HVAC system. The charge state of a rechargeable battery and the number of amp-hours provided to or from the rechargeable battery are monitored. The number of amp-hours provided is recorded and an end-of-life condition is detected based on the number of amp-hours provided during the charge or discharge cycle. In some constructions, the end-of-life condition is detected by comparing the number of amp-hours provided during the charge or discharge cycle to a threshold. In some constructions, the end-of-life condition is detected by calculating a rate of change of the number of amp-hours provided during a charge or discharge cycle and comparing the rate of change to a threshold.
US08423236B2	System for detecting a wheel motion In a method for detecting a rolling motion of a wheel in a motor vehicle, a wheel acceleration variable characterizing a wheel acceleration is recorded using at least one sensor element, the wheel acceleration variable is scanned at various scanning points in time, and the presence of a rolling motion is detected with the aid of the scanned values. The wheel acceleration variable is scanned in a cycle, including at least three scanning points in time, of nonequidistant points in time.
US08423234B2	Device for measuring the movement of a self-guided vehicle The invention relates to a device for measuring the movement of a self-guided vehicle, that comprises onboard thereof: at least one accelerometer provided with a measurement axis arranged in the longitudinal direction of a potential main rectilinear movement of the vehicle, a first tachometer provided on an axle upstream from the vehicle in the longitudinal direction, a second tachometer provided on a second axle downstream from the vehicle in the longitudinal direction, wherein measure signals from the accelerometer and from the first and second tachometers are supplied to a computing unit. Accordingly, it is advantageously possible to determine the speed and the position of the vehicle on a vehicle route while taking into account an adhesion loss of at least one of the axles as well as an exact slope and turn effect on a vehicle route that does not remain rectilinear and changes horizontally and/or vertically.
US08423232B2	Vehicle control device A vehicle control device includes: an abnormality detecting portion that detects an abnormality in at least part of a shift position detection portion detecting a shift position; a shift-operatoin determining portion that determines, based on a detection signal from the shift position detection portion, whether a shift operating device is shift-operated or not by a driver, and a vehicle movement prevention control portion that, in a case where a movement of a vehicle is prevented by an actuator and in a case where the abnormality in part of the shift position detection portion is detected by the abnormality detecting portion, permits the actuator to release the prevention of the movement of the vehicle if it is determined by the shift-operation determining portion that the shift operating device is shift-operated by the driver.
US08423209B2	Vehicle having power storage devices and charging line for supplying electric power provided from outside vehicle A vehicle (1) includes a plurality of chargeable and dischargeable batteries (B1, B2), a load device, a bus for supplying electric power to the load device, a plurality of voltage step-up converters (12-1, 12-2) provided in association with a plurality of batteries (B1, B2) respectively, a charging line (PCL) for supplying electric power provided from outside the vehicle to a connection point of the first battery (B1) and the first voltage step-up converter (12-1), and a control device (30). When charging from an external source is started, the control device (30) causes the first voltage step-up converter (12-1) to perform a rectifying operation for supplying electric current from the charging line to the bus in a case where a voltage of the bus is lower than a voltage of the charging line, and causes the first voltage step-up converter (12-2) to connect the bus and the second battery (B2).
US08423200B2	System and method for cooling an electronic device with multiple fans An electronic device and a method for controlling heat reflux of the electronic device include setting a speed decrease value and standard temperatures for each of the first device and the second device. The control method further includes detecting a working temperature of the second device using a temperature sensor of the electronic device, if a speed of the second fan is at a full speed. The control method further includes reducing a speed of the first fan according to the speed decrease value, if the speed of the second fan is at the full speed and the detected working temperature exceeds the standard temperature of the second device.
US08423197B2	Apparatus for controlling the energizing of a heater A heater energization control apparatus. When an engine is stopped, a microcomputer of a GCU enters a power save mode. When the microcomputer returns to a normal mode in response to an interruption signal periodically generated from an interruption timer, the microcomputer supplies electricity to a heating resistor for a short time and obtains its resistance (S19). When the resistance is greater than a first reference value, the microcomputer determines that a glow plug is removed from the engine; that is, the glow plug is being exchanged (S29). The microcomputer sets an exchange flag to “1” (S30), and performs calibration for the heating resistor of a new glow plug after the engine is operated next time (S35). When the current resistance becomes smaller than the past resistance, the microcomputer determines that the glow plug has been exchanged.
US08423196B2	Augmented distribution transformer and method of making same A method, system, and apparatus including a distribution transformer having a communication module. The distribution transformer is configured to convert a first high voltage electricity from a high voltage distribution line to a first low voltage electricity and convert a second low voltage electricity from a low voltage power line to a second high voltage electricity. The communication module is programmed to provide time data representing time of day information along the low voltage power line to an electrical device and provide location data representing location information along the low voltage power line to the electrical device. The location information includes a geographic location of the distribution transformer.
US08423195B2	Power consumption projection The present invention provides a way to more effectively estimate energy usage by devices such as servers, including traditional mainframes as well as other enterprise systems. One core idea surrounds the fact that when detailed power consumption information is unavailable for a specific configuration, power consumption is computed/projected/estimated by de-rating the maximum power rating by a power adjustment factor that would more closely project the true power consumption. Under this approach, the power consumption is then provided as a range specifying probable expected lower and upper limits for a given device. This range is more meaningful for planning and decision-making and shows the client a more likely best and worst case energy consumption scenario for their specific device(s), and hence is helpful for planning or server comparison decisions. Cooling, energy costs, energy efficiency, and energy expanded per MIPS are also projected and given as a range instead of a single number. This gives the IT decision maker more accurate information upon which to base IT decision-making.
US08423172B2	Automated determination of jet orientation parameters in three-dimensional fluid jet cutting Methods, systems, and techniques for automatically determining jet orientation parameters to correct for potential deviations in three dimensional part cutting are provided. Example embodiments provide an Adaptive Vector Control System (AVCS), which automatically determines speeds and orientation parameters of a cutting jet to attempt to insure that a part will be cut within prescribed tolerances where possible. In one embodiment, the AVCS determines the tilt and swivel of a cutting head by mathematical predictive models that examine the cutting front for each of “m” hypothetical layers in a desired part, to better predict whether the part will be within tolerances, and to determine what corrective angles are needed to correct for deviations due to drag, radial deflection, and/or taper.
US08423168B2	Bottleneck device extracting method and bottleneck device extracting assistance device A method and system of specifying a device that is the root cause of impeding productivity of a production line in consideration of even mutual influence among processes of production fluctuation with respect to the subject of specifying a device in which productive capacity is reduced due to a problem that the productive capacity of the device is changed due to production that one machine works for multiple process and a problem that the productive capacity of device is changed due to high product mix and low product volume production. A measure for changing productive capacity of devices intentionally and simulating influence to the whole production system, a measure for measuring mutual influence among processes of production fluctuation produced by the simulation and a measure for specifying a device that is the root cause of impeding the productivity on the basis of the measured result are provided.
US08423165B2	Digital/analogue conversion apparatus A digital/analog conversion apparatus for converting a digital signal into an analog signal. The digital/analog conversion apparatus can generate a high-quality analog signal, even when elements configuring the digital/analog conversion apparatus have variance, with high resolution and a small circuit size. The data conversion apparatus is provided with a first data converter for reducing the number of bits of an input signal, a second data converter for converting the format of the first output signal, and a third data converter for conversion into a code which corresponds to the history of the output from the second data converter.
US08423162B2	Control method for information processing system, information processing system, and program An information processing system including a plurality of server apparatuses coupled to one another, wherein failover is executed. A management server is coupled to the server apparatuses, and is configured to, when detecting occurrence of a failure in an active server apparatus, execute failover from the active server apparatus to a standby server apparatus after turning on a power supply of the standby server apparatus. The management server is enabled to acquire information on the standby server apparatus after turning on the power supply of the standby server apparatus, turn off the power supply of the standby server apparatus after acquiring the information, and, based on the acquired information, judge whether failover to the standby server apparatus can be executed.
US08423158B2	Multichannel cylindrical electrode for nerve stimulation and recording An implantable multi-channel electrode is described. An ear implant electrode with a cylinder shaped electrode body has opposing top and bottom end surfaces. Electrode contacts are dispersed across the bottom end surface to provide electrical interaction with nearby auditory nerve tissue.
US08423136B2	Methods and implantable devices for inducing fibrillation by alternating constant current Devices configured for and methods for inducing fibrillation in a patient using a controlled current AC signal applied via electrodes of an implanted ICD. In some embodiments, the AC signal is applied as a series of alternating constant current pulses. Some embodiments make use of a specialized H-bridge circuit for applying the AC signal. A low-side current controlling portion of an ICD's circuitry may make up part of the specialized H-bridge circuit. Further embodiments include devices embodying these methods.
US08423134B2	Therapy using perturbation and effect of physiological systems Methods for treating a patient and further to devices for performing such treatment, e.g., methods and devices to perturb at least one physiological system and deliver therapy to the patient based on the effects of such perturbation. For example, a method for using an implantable medical device is disclosed that involves delivering electrical stimuli to an efferent nerve associated with the selected organ. Afferent electrical activity is monitored during delivery of electrical stimuli to the efferent nerve, the monitored afferent electrical activity includes an indirect component of a compound action potential (CAP). A status of the selected organ is assessed based upon the indirect component. A determination is made as to whether to deliver therapy to the selected organ in response to assessing the status of the selected organ.
US08423126B2	Monitoring thermal conditions to vary operation of an ultrasonic needle tip of a surgical instrument A method and apparatus to operate a surgical instrument in response to a thermal condition being detected that warrants curtailment of further operation. When the thermal condition is reached, command signals are generated that cause a needle of the surgical instrument to either have its vibrational speed slowed, have its vibrational movement stopped, or have it withdrawn from its relative position. The detection is of infrared radiation wavelengths and is carried out with either a thermal imaging device of a thermal recognition device. A corresponding temperature of the detected infrared radiation wavelengths is compared to a critical temperature to determine whether the thermal condition has been reached.
US08423122B2	Localization of capsule with a synthetic source of quadrupoles and dipoles This invention relates to methods and apparatus for localizing an in vivo imaging device by means of a single magnetic source coil assembly and a single magnetic detector coil assembly. This invention also relates to methods and apparatus to enable the use of a single magnetic source coil assembly to also transmit and receive information, images, and controls signals, as well as for the coil assembly to be used in DC-DC voltage conversion. A user interface with a display provides the user with the option of viewing selected images captured by the in vivo imaging device.
US08423117B2	System and method to process an acquired image of a subject anatomy to differentiate a portion of subject anatomy to protect relative to a portion to receive treatment A system and method to process an acquired image to differentiate a portion of subject anatomy to protect relative to a portion of anatomy to receive treatment is provided. The system includes a controller with program instructions to perform the steps of receiving an instruction to indicate a zone interest of the imaged anatomy to protect associated with treatment of the subject anatomy; calculating a first set of image elements associated with a first circulatory network in communication to supply a first zone of interest to treat and not in communication to supply a second zone of interest to protect; calculating a second set of image elements of the acquired image associated with a second circulatory network in communication to supply the second zone of interest to protect; and creating a display that differentiates the second set of image elements from a remainder of the acquired image.
US08423114B2	Dual electrode system for a continuous analyte sensor Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a continuous analyte sensor, such as a continuous glucose sensor. One such system utilizes first and second working electrodes to measure additional analyte or non-analyte related signal. Such measurements may provide a background and/or sensitivity measurement(s) for use in processing sensor data and may be used to trigger events such as digital filtering of data or suspending display of data.
US08423110B2	Imaging device and related methods In one embodiment, the invention provides an imaging device having a light source, a photo-sensor and a scanning assembly. In some embodiments, the light source is fixedly mounted in the first end of an elongated sheath and is adapted for illuminating a target, and the photo-sensor is mounted on the scanning assembly, also in the first end of the elongated sheath, and is adapted to detect light energy from the target. In other embodiments, the light source is movably mounted and the detector is held stationary. In other embodiments, both the light source and the photo-sensor are movably mounted. The scanning devices synchronously capture light energy from each of a plurality locations on the target, the light energy resulting from illumination by the light source, and synchronously digitizes the output from the photo-sensor from each of the plurality of locations on the target to generate an image of the target.
US08423103B2	Energy efficient data center An energy efficient data center incorporating superconducting power transmission cables coupled with cryogenically cooled semiconductor inverters and converters, used to supply power to cryogenically operated or room-temperature computers and servers. Other options and features include a lighting system whose performance is enhanced by the cold temperatures, fiber optic connections operated at cryogenic temperatures, integrated renewable energy power sources, advanced energy storage technologies, cryogenically operated computers, and a number of other cryogenic hardware. The operating temperature of the cryogenic components can be anywhere in the range between 0 K and 200 K, with other components operating above 200 K.
US08423098B2	Sliding mechanism A sliding mechanism (20) used in a portable electronic device is described. The magnetic forces created between facing similar poles of a first magnetic component (24) and a second magnetic component (25) drives the cover section (22) to the open or closed position. Two third magnetic components (26) are received and secured in the sliding slot (214) and stably secure the cover section (22) in the open or closed position.
US08423093B2	Discontinuous reception in a mobile radio communications network The invention provides for a method of controlling discontinuous reception between a mobile radio communications network device and a mobile radio communications device within a mobile radio communications network and including the step of controlling magnitude of the discontinuous reception period in a manner responsive to the velocity of movement of the mobile radio communications device within the network such that a decrease in velocity can lead to an increase in the discontinuous reception period employed by the devices.
US08423091B2	Mobile telephone A portable telephone is characterized in that it includes a ringing mechanism (1) including at least one sound element (10) and at least one actuator member (8) able to come into mechanical contact with the sound element (10) so as to make it produce a sound, and electronic elements of control of the ringing mechanism.
US08423086B1	Service summary indicator A method, system, and computer-readable storage media is provided for consolidating an operating status of a mobile device. APIs and applications operate in the mobile device to collect various data associated with the operation of the mobile device. The mobile device can be configured by a user or a service provider system to determine which data to collect. The collected data is consolidated through calculations resulting in a single value or variable that indicates the operating health of the mobile device. A visual representation of the single value or variable is provided in a display at the mobile device to illustrate the health of the mobile device to the user.
US08423085B2	Electronic apparatus, control method thereof, control program thereof, and recording medium The present invention relates to an electronic apparatus having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that is rotatable or can be opened/closed, and facilitates effective use of the displaying capacity in the lateral direction that the horizontally oriented screen elongated in the horizontal direction has. An electronic apparatus (a portable terminal apparatus 2) having a displaying function in a housing unit thereof that can be opened/closed or is rotatable, including a displaying unit 18 that displays a vertically oriented screen or a horizontally oriented screen 176, and a controlling unit (a CPU 90) that, when text information or information including a text is displayed in the displaying unit, sets a displaying column (a text displaying column 178) in the full lateral width that the horizontally oriented screen has and can be displayed, in the horizontally oriented screen 176 set on the displaying unit, and causes the information to be displayed in the displaying column.
US08423083B1	Handheld scanning device Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a scanning device for use with a mobile device are described herein. The scanning device may include an image capture module to capture surface images of a medium to be scanned and a positioning module to determine positioning information based at least in part on navigational images and the captured surface images. A mobile device may include one or more features of the scanning device including the image capture module and the positioning module. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08423074B2	Transmission power control method of uplink packet data transmission A mobile station (MS) transmits a first data flow to a first group of base stations with a first power offset, transmits a second data flow to a second group of base stations, and further transmits a pilot signal. A radio network controller (RNC) controls the power of the pilot signal power based on reception errors of the second data flow, calculates the first power offset based on signaled required level of the first power offset from base stations (BTS) of the first group which calculate the required level of the first power offset based on an occurrence of retransmission, and signals the calculated first power offset to the mobile station.
US08423069B2	Cell access control method and user equipment A cell access control method and a user terminal are provided, the method includes: obtaining, by a user equipment (UE), cell access information through a pilot channel and/or a synchronization channel; determining a current cell is a macro base station cell or an HNB cell according to the cell access information; determining, when the current cell is an HNB cell, whether the UE is allowed to access the HNB cell according to HNB information of the cell access information, if the UE is allowed to access the HNB cell, performing the access processing, if the UE is not allowed to access the HNB, abandoning the access. A UE is provided accordingly.
US08423064B2	Distributed blind source separation Systems and methods for using distributed processing in conjunction with blind source separation techniques for signal processing and acquisition in sensor network environments are provided. In the distributed blind source separation framework, sensors each perform some processing of sensor signals rather than transmitting such signals over long distances, and/or outside of the sensor network, to be processed at a central location. Sensors attempt to own a source signal, and a source signal can only be owned by one active sensor. Sensors that own a source signal broadcast the source signal directly or indirectly so that it is perceived by users. Sensors receive information from other sensors in their sensor neighborhood, including the observed signals of the other sensors and the estimated source signals of the sources owned by the other sensors. This allows all owning sensors to extract the respective source signals associated with the sources they own and all redundant sensors to check if there are any non-owned source signals present.
US08423058B2	Registering client computing devices for online communication sessions Registering a client computing device for online communication sessions. A registration server receives a message that has a push token that is unique to the client computing device and a phone number of the client computing device from an SMS (Short Message Service) transit device, which received an SMS message having the push token from the client computing device and determined the phone number of the client computing device from that SMS message. The registration server associates the push token and the phone number and stores it in a registration data store, which is used for inviting users for online communication sessions.
US08423055B2	Cordless telephone active-call enabled intercom A method of using an intercom on a cordless telephone during an active call. The active call is put on hold while the intercom is in use. Once the call is re-activated, the intercom is shut off. This system may be designed for a cordless telephone with one handset or a plurality of handsets.
US08423053B2	Mobile terminal network and method for mobile terminals to receive text messages The present invention relates to a mobile terminal network and a method for mobile terminals to receive text messages, the method comprising a network server pages a mobile terminal and determines whether text messages can be sent; if the mobile terminal is in the Packet Transfer state, it does not respond to the paging by the network server; if the network server does not receive a response from the mobile terminal, it terminates the paging until receiving position update information from the mobile terminal. After updating the position, the mobile terminal sends position update information to the network server; the network server continues to page the mobile terminal so as to take an action to send text messages. When a mobile terminal is switching in the Packet Transfer state, it can receive and send text messages promptly and rapidly, which ensures that users can receive text messages promptly.
US08423051B2	Method and system for improving performance of a positioning system during a continuous positioning process A method and system for improving performance of a positioning system during a continuous positioning process. The method is applied in a mobile communication positioning system, and mainly comprises the following steps: during the continuous positioning process, a mobile positioning center sends a mobile station state inquiring request to a home location register, the home location register receives the request and returns a mobile station current state response, the mobile positioning center performs positioning process or terminates positioning process to the mobile station based on the current state of the station. The present method can avoid circumstances where the continuous positioning has terminated while the positioning center and the positioning entity fails to release resources in time. Also, it can continuously track a subscriber in special industrial application, which avoids the circumstance of inability to continue previous continuous positioning after restart of a subscriber terminal.
US08423046B2	Network performance server Techniques are described for collecting and providing information regarding mobile network performance. In one example, a device includes a mobile device interface configured to receive data sets from mobile devices, each of the data sets comprising a geographic position value identifying a geographic position of a corresponding mobile device and a signal quality value representative of signal quality for the corresponding mobile device at the geographic position, a computer-readable storage medium configured to store the data sets, a request interface configured to receive a request for signal quality data at a requested geographic position, and means for providing an aggregate location value representative of an average signal quality at a location including the requested geographic position, wherein the aggregate signal quality value comprises an aggregation of signal quality values of the data sets that also have geographic position values contained within the location.
US08423045B2	Location-based presence automation The present invention provides for an improved presence system, which can automatically and unobtrusively factor in the location of a person being monitored when creating presence information for dissemination to subscribers. Presence tags can be distributed at different locations, which may bear on the relative availability of the monitored person for communications. A mobile terminal associated with the monitored person is configured to automatically obtain tag information from the presence tags and deliver location-based state information to the presence server without human interaction. The presence server will process the location-based state information and any other applicable state information to create presence information for the person being monitored, and then deliver the presence information to subscribers.
US08423040B2	Apparatus and method for managing radio resources based on traffic pattern of user equipment Provided are an apparatus and method for managing radio resources according to a traffic pattern of user equipment. The apparatus may include a memory, a QoS level setup unit, a transition condition setup unit, and a radio resource manager. The memory may be configured to collect and store quality of service (QoS) information of the user equipment. The QoS level setup unit may be configured to determine a QoS level of the user equipment based on the QoS information in the memory. The transition condition setup unit may be configured to set transition conditions associated with the user equipment based on the determined QoS level of the user equipment. The radio resource manager may be configured to manage radio resources associated with the user equipment by initiating transition between a first radio resource control (RRC) state and a second RRC state according to the setup transition conditions of the user equipment.
US08423039B2	Dynamic reconfiguration of communication resources in a multi-transceiver configuration A system and method that provide dynamic reconfiguration of communication resources in a multi-transceiver configuration. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise communicating a first portion of a first communication using a plurality of transceivers. A determination may be made to reallocate at least one of the plurality of transceivers for a second communication. A second portion of the first communication may be communicated using the plurality of transceivers less the reallocated transceiver(s), and the second communication may be communicated using at least the reallocated transceiver(s). Various aspects of the present invention may also comprise communicating a first communication utilizing a first transceiver and a second communication utilizing a second transceiver. A determination may be made to utilize the first and second transceivers in a MIMO configuration to communicate next information. The next information may then be communicated utilizing the first and second transceivers in a MIMO configuration.
US08423035B1	Dynamic uplink/downlink capacity allocation in a communication network A method is provided for dynamically allocating capacity to uplinks and downlinks in a communication network. In the method, base stations of the communication network are apportioned into groups. Each of the base stations communicates over an uplink and a downlink with communication devices. For each of the groups, a first indication of utilization of the uplink for each of the base stations of the group is received. Also received is a second indication of utilization of the downlink for each of the base stations of the group. A capacity allocation between the uplinks and the downlinks of the base stations of the group is determined based upon the first and second indications. The capacity allocation is then employed for each of the base stations of the group.
US08423033B1	Method and system for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system having a tree structure A method and system for allocating bandwidth in a wireless communication system arranged as a tree structure having a plurality of nodes that are each either a subscriber node or a base station node. A given one of the base station nodes within the tree structure directly serves a plurality of child nodes including at least one child base station node that itself directly serves at least one child subscriber node. The method of bandwidth allocation includes (i) determining a total number of descendant subscriber nodes of the given base station node and (ii) using the total number descendant subscriber nodes of the given base station node as a basis to proportionally allocate a quantity of data bandwidth at the given base station node among the total number of descendant subscriber nodes of the given base station node.
US08423022B2	Method for operating a closed subscriber group (CSG) cell for open network access Method for operating one or more cells (10) of a cellular mobile network, each cell (10) being identifiable by an emitted cell identifier (CSG_ID) use being limited/limitable to closed subscriber groups by the cell (10) having a corresponding identifier (CSG_ID) and the cell terminals (UE1, UE2, UE3) being registered in the respective cell (10) for use of the cellular mobile network services only after a positive matching with a positive list of authorized cell identifiers (CSG_ID1, CSG_ID2, CSG_ID3) which are stored in the cell terminal (UE1, UE2, UE3), the cell (10) emitting one or more further cell identifiers (CSG_ID2, CSG ID3) in parallel in addition to a first cell identifier (CSG_ID1), and that registration in the cell (10) and use of network services can take place by a first closed subscriber group to which a first group of cell terminals (UE1) belongs, whose respective positive lists contain the first cell identifier (CSG_ID1), and that registration in the cell (10) and use of network services can take place by one or more further open or closed subscriber groups to which one or more other groups of cell terminals (UE2, UE3) belong whose positive lists contain one or more of said one or more further cell identifiers (CSG ID2, CSG ID3).
US08423018B2	Method and system for managing roaming of a mobile equipment The present invention relates to a method for managing roaming of a mobile equipment of a subscriber, when the mobile equipment is roaming. The method comprises the steps: to store a first list customized for each subscriber, the first list comprises information regarding the visited countries, number of times a certain country have been visited, and for how long time the country have been visited; to store a second list customized for each subscriber, the second list comprises information about preferred operators for a part of the countries on the first list; to receive a roaming signal from the Home Location Register when the mobile equipment is roaming into another network or monitor a roaming signal intended for the Home Location Register; in response to the roaming signal, to update the first list; if the first list has changed above a predetermined threshold value, to update the second list; and to send the updated second list to the mobile equipment.
US08423016B2	System and method for providing operator-differentiated messaging to a wireless user equipment (UE) device In one embodiment, a scheme is disclosed for providing operator-differentiated messaging to a user equipment (UE) device that is operable in wide area cellular network (WACN) bands as well as in wireless access network bands (e.g., GAN bands and/or UMA bands). A network node (e.g., a GAN controller (GANC) or UMA network controller (UNC)) is equipped with logic for resolving service requirements as well as network information gathered by the UE device. Based thereon, a response message is transmitted to the UE device, the response message including supplementary fields for carrying operator-differentiated information in free-form text.
US08423015B2	Relay system and method for cellular communication A relay method is disclosed in a cellular communication system including an access node for providing an access service using resources of a licensed band to a particular terminal among a plurality of terminals with a partial licensed band of the full frequency spectrum, and a relay station for relaying communication between the terminal and an access node. The relay method includes performing base station-led resource allocation on a licensed band for a terminal and a relay station located in a service area of the base station, and performing relay station-led resource allocation on the licensed band and an unlicensed band for a terminal located in a service area of the relay station.
US08423014B2	Method and system for quality of service (QoS) monitoring for wireless devices Method and apparatus to monitor MQoS of wireless mobile devices is described. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method to monitor the health of 3G mobile devices and provide a status check of such health to network technicians, supervisors, and management. In one aspect, mobile devices on the network perform measurement of MQoS factors that are reported to a quality of service backend. The MQoS data is combined to show current and historical network status. In another aspect, alarms may be set to notify specific managers when manager programmable conditions occur, such as low system performance, or specific error conditions occur. Reports may be generated summarizing and illustrating performance in tabular and graphical form. Parameters used for testing and monitoring mobile devices may be input to specific mobile devices or groups of mobile devices in a system. In one aspect, customer care or call centers may be enabled to request specific tests from specific mobile devices and utilize the overall network status to diagnose and/or resolve customer issues.
US08423013B2	Minimizing measurements during carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system A method in a mobile station including configuring the mobile station for carrier aggregation on at least a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, configuring the mobile station to perform measurements of cells operating on at least the primary carrier frequency and the secondary carrier frequency, refraining from triggering a measurement report when a neighbor cell operating on the primary carrier frequency is better than the primary serving cell only if a signal level of the primary serving cell is better than a first threshold, and triggering a measurement report when a neighbor cell operating on the secondary carrier frequency is better than the secondary serving cell only if the signal level of the primary serving cell is worse than a second threshold.
US08423008B2	Signaling UE measurement restrictions for inter-cell interference A network access node eNB sends to a user equipment UE a pattern of subframe measurement restrictions and an indication of how to utilize the pattern for measuring subframes. The indication may select from among: the UE's own-cell measurements; the UE's neighbor-cell measurements; both same and neighbor-cell measurements, and no measurement restrictions. The eNB may generate the pattern from an almost-blank subframe ABS pattern for the UE's own-cell and of its neighbor-cell. The pattern and indication may be sent in separate RRC messages, or if sent in one message there is a second indication sent in a second RRC message instructing the UE to terminate utilizing the pattern and indication for restricting its subframe measurements. Embodiments are particularly useful for inter-cell interference mitigation eICIC for the LTE-Advanced system.
US08423004B2	System and method for delivering geographically restricted content, such as over-air broadcast programming, to a recipient over a network, namely the internet A system and method for delivering geographically restricted content, including but not limited to over-air broadcast programming, to a recipient over a computer network, namely the Internet. The content is only delivered over the computer network if the recipient's computer or network device requesting the content over the network is verified to be located in the geographically restricted area. A conventional tuner is employed by the recipient's computer to receive one or more over-air signals having a broadcast range deemed to be synonymous with the geographically restricted area for the requested content. If the tuner is able to receive such over-air signal(s), the requested content is delivered over the network to the recipient's computer. This is because the recipient is known to be physically located in the geographically restricted area by the ability of the tuner to receive the over-air signal(s).
US08422992B2	Mobile terminal capable of being tracked and located and method for tracking and locating A mobile terminal capable of being tracked and located is disclosed, comprising a built-in card and a security system module which are connected with each other. The security system module generates a short message used for tracking and locating when receiving an incoming call request or a short message sent by the built-in card, wherein the short message at least carries an identification of a cellular tower interacting with the built-in card and information of current signal intensity, and the short message is sent into the built-in card; the built-in card sends the received incoming call request or the short message to the security system module and periodically sends the short message used for tracking and locating generated by the security system module to the set security number. A corresponding method is also provided. The security system is good at cover-up to bring the advantages of security and saving electricity.
US08422989B1	Method and system for encoding telecommunications user information A computer system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The user interface is configured to receive a plurality of communications requesting location information for a plurality of mobile devices engaged in communication sessions with a communication network. The processing system is configured to generate a plurality of records associated with the plurality of communications wherein the plurality of records comprises user information expressed in an initial format, process the plurality of records with a plurality of keys to encode the user information to generate encoded user information, and process the encoded user information to verify that the encoded user information satisfies the initial format. Upon determining that the encoded user information satisfies the initial format, the communication interface is configured to transfer the encoded user information for analysis.
US08422987B2	Prompting and directing users to safety during emergency situations A method and wireless device augment and manage, respectively, emergency alert messages with additional emergency information. An emergency alert message is determined to have been sent (404) to one or more wireless devices (102) in a given area. The emergency alert message is analyzed (406) to determine a type of emergency associated with the emergency alert message. Optionally, a current location of at least one wireless device (102) within the given area is determined. A message is generated (412), based at least in part on the type of emergency and logistics of the given area, including additional emergency information for augmenting the emergency alert message. The message that has been generated is transmitted to the at least one wireless device (102). This message is, optionally, adjusted based on the location of the device and the logistics of the given area.
US08422974B2	Noise cancellation for antenna module An antenna module with a detector and an associated canceller is disclosed. The detector may also detect interference and spurs. In one embodiment, an antenna module can include: an antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic signal in a signal path; an amplifier configured to amplify the received electromagnetic signal, and to provide the amplified signal at a first node; a filter configured to receive the amplified signal from the first node, and to provide a filtered signal output therefrom; and a noise canceller and a detector integrated in the signal path at the first node.
US08422973B2	Bidirectional transmission coil and bidirectional transmission system using the same There is provided a bidirectional transmission coil capable of miniaturizing a structure and carrying out reliable transmission of a data signal. A transmitting coil L1 generates a magnetic flux of a transmission signal by a high frequency signal applied thereto. A receiving coil L2 is arranged to be positioned concentrically with the transmitting coil L1, for inducing a reception signal by the magnetic flux from outside. A first cancel coil Lac is connected to the transmitting coil L1 in series so as to be led-out from a middle of the transmitting coil L and is led-in to the lead-out part. The first cancel coil Lac is arranged so as to sandwich the receiving coil L2 between the first cancel coil Lac and the transmitting coil L1, wherein the magnetic flux in a direction opposite to the magnetic flux from the transmitting coil L1 is generated in the receiving coil L2.
US08422966B2	Transmission power calibrating method and system applied to wireless apparatus A transmission power calibrating method and a system are provided for a wireless apparatus. The wireless apparatus are controlled by a computer host to be tested at several channels and gains, and a simplified transmission power calibration table is established accordingly. The simplified transmission power calibration table is compared with each of complete transmission power calibration tables in a database. A match is detected between a first complete transmission power calibration table and the simplified transmission power calibration table. When the match is detected, a mapping table is obtained from the first complete transmission power calibration table and stored in a memory of the wireless apparatus. When the match is not detected, the wireless apparatus is controlled by the computer host to establish a second complete transmission power calibration table from which the mapping table is obtained and the mapping table is stored in the memory of the wireless apparatus.
US08422959B2	Compensating method for capacity of radio frequency module and a radio frequency module A compensation method for radio frequency module performance, it is adding a module monitoring circuit and a radio frequency power detection circuit to an existing radio frequency module, meanwhile replacing an existing hardware compensation circuit with a radio frequency digital controlled attenuator. The method replaces hardware method by a method of combining software of the module monitoring circuit and hardware such as module monitoring circuit, radio frequency digital controlled attenuator and radio frequency power detection circuit, as well as intelligently compensates the radio frequency module by using data obtained by predefined table or formula/algorithm, so as to adjust each characteristic index of the device accurately and easily, thus to improve performance of the radio frequency module and further meet the requirement of working stability of the radio frequency module. The present invention further provides a radio frequency module improved by such method. As such radio frequency module can be automatically debugged and tested by tools such as computer, so production efficiency will be improved.
US08422956B2	Mitigation of uplink interference from wireless communication device connected to micro cell A wireless communication device and method wherein the device determines pathloss between the wireless communication device and the neighboring non-serving cell in response to an order from a serving cell, determines a maximum acceptable transmit power of the wireless communication device based on the pathloss, and limits a transmit power of the wireless communication device, based on a maximum acceptable transmit power, while the wireless communication device is connected to the serving cell.
US08422951B2	Wireless communication system and method for wireless signal communication in flight vehicles Systems and methods for wireless signal communication in flight vehicles are disclosed. In an embodiment, a system includes a first portion that generates a first wireless zone. A second portion is decoupleable from the first portion and generates a second wireless zone. The first wireless zone and the second wireless zone communicate flight-related information while the first portion and the second portion are coupled, and discontinue the communication subsequent to the separation of the first portion from the second structural portion. In another embodiment, a method includes establishing a first wireless zone in a first portion of a flight vehicle, and establishing a second wireless zone in a second decoupleable portion of the flight vehicle. Flight-related information is communicated between the first wireless zone and the second wireless zone while the first portion and the second portion are coupled, and communication is discontinued after decoupling.
US08422950B1	Mobile wifi arrangement A system for enabling wireless near-field hot-spot communication between a wide variety of wireless ground-position-indicating personal communication devices being utilized within a zone and a further communication network outside of the zone.
US08422949B1	Public kiosk providing near field communication services Systems and methods are disclosed for making content elements available for use at a public computing kiosk operated by a first-party operator. The public computing kiosk can receive a wireless communication from a hand-held device utilized by a second-party end user located in close physical proximity to the public computing kiosk. The wireless communication can include information identifying a third-party provider of the hand-held device with the third-party provider and the first-party operator being different entities. The public computing kiosk can transmit a request to a computing system including information identifying the third-party provider of the hand-held device, receive a transmission including a set of content descriptors, and display the set of content descriptors to the second-party end user. The public computing kiosk can also accept selection of content descriptors and execute at least one content element corresponding to at least one content descriptor.
US08422944B2	Personal function pad A personal function pad includes a surface that receives and supports a wireless terminal without making a direct electrical contact with the wireless terminal, and a near field communications (NFC) module that receives a first NFC signal from the wireless terminal and responsively transmits a second NFC signal to the wireless terminal. The second NFC signal modifies a setting and/or initiates a function of the wireless terminal. A wireless terminal according to some embodiments includes a controller and an NFC communications module. The NFC module transmits a first NFC signal and receives a second NFC signal in response to the first NFC signal. The controller modifies a device setting and/or to initiates a device function of the wireless terminal in response to the second NFC signal.
US08422929B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus with a lubricant agent having a same component as that of the fixing liquid A disclosed fixing device includes a fixing material application unit applying a fixing material to a fixing material carrier, a transfer unit transferring the fixing material onto a recording medium, a cleaning blade cleaning the fixing material carrier after the fixing material is transferred onto the recording medium, and a lubricant agent application unit disposed on a downstream side of the cleaning blade on the fixing material carrier and applying a lubricant agent to the fixing material carrier. Further, before a fixing operation is started, the lubricant agent application unit applies the lubricant agent to the fixing material carrier, and the fixing material carrier moves in a direction opposite to a direction when the fixing operation is performed and to a position where the applied lubricant agent is adhered to the cleaning blade.
US08422925B2	Transfer-fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same In a transfer-fixing device for transferring and fixing a toner image on a transfer-fixing side of a recording medium, a transfer-fixing member carries the toner image. A pressing member presses against the transfer-fixing member to form a nip between the transfer-fixing member and the pressing member through which the recording medium passes. A heat transmission member is provided upstream from the nip in a recording medium conveyance direction to heat the transfer-fixing side of the recording medium while guiding the recording medium to the nip. A heating member is connected to the heat transmission member to heat the heat transmission member. A biasing member biases the recording medium guided by the heat transmission member against the heat transmission member.
US08422921B2	Image forming apparatus and developer container therefor An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of developing units respectively including developer inlets, the developing units are arranged side by side in a first direction, a plurality of developer containers to contain developers to be supplied to the plurality of developing units and respectively including developer outlets, the developer units are arranged side by side in the first direction to face the plurality of developing units, and a plurality of developer supplying paths respectively to connect the developer inlets to the developer outlets, wherein the plurality of developer containers include first and second developer containers, and a position of the developer outlet of the second developer container is different from position of the developer outlet of the first developer container.
US08422915B2	Developer cartridge, developing device, and image forming apparatus having the same A developing cartridge and a developing device capable of preventing developer leak which may occur during replacement of a developer containing unit, and an image forming apparatus having the same are provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming apparatus body where a transfer path for a printing medium is formed, and a developing device for developing a visible image. The developing device may include, for example, developing cartridge, a developer containing unit, which contains a supply of developer therein, and which is detachably disposed in the developing cartridge to form a developer transfer path fluidly communicating with the developing cartridge, and a shutter unit which closes the developer transfer path when the developer containing unit is removed from the developing cartridge.
US08422910B2	Sealing member for use with a toner or developer supply container A sealing member for unsealably sealing a toner opening of a toner or developer container mountable to an image forming apparatus. In one embodiment, a sealing member has a base member, a first coupling engagement portion and a second coupling engagement portion protruding away from the base member axially, a central member protruding away from the base member axially, wherein the central member has a cylindrical portion defining an opening therein, and at least one supporting member projected radially outwardly from the peripheral surface of the cylindrical portion, wherein the central member is formed to be concentric with the base member axially and positioned between the first coupling engagement portion and the second coupling engagement portion.
US08422908B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus including the same A developing device includes a toner storage area containing toner, a developing portion in which a developing roller is installed, and a housing including a toner supply window to connect the toner storage area and the developing portion. A pair of rails is disposed on the toner supply window to extend in a lengthwise direction of the developing roller, and a blocking member including a blocking portion is provided to open and close the toner supply window when the blocking member is removed from and inserted into the pair of rails from outside of the housing, respectively.
US08422901B2	Image fixing apparatus stably controlling a fixing temperature, and image forming apparatus using the same An image forming apparatus includes an image forming mechanism and an image fixing unit. The image forming mechanism forms a toner image on a recording sheet. The image fixing unit fixes the toner image onto the recording sheet. The image fixing unit includes a magnetic flux generator, a heat member, a magnetic flux adjuster, and a controlling member. The magnetic flux generator generates a magnetic flux. The heat member is heated inductively by the magnetic flux generated by the magnetic flux generator. The magnetic flux adjuster reduces the magnetic flux active on the heat member to form a heat reduction area in an outer circumferential surface of the heat member in a width direction thereof. The controlling member moves the magnetic flux adjuster to change the heat reduction area.
US08422897B2	Image forming apparatus By using a black-image forming device, an abrasive pattern is formed on a sheet conveying belt so that toner is input to a contact section where a cleaning blade is in contact with the sheet conveying belt. After the toner is input to the contact section where the cleaning blade is in contact with the sheet conveying belt and then the sheet conveying belt makes one or more revolutions, a process control is performed in which Y, M, and C toner patterns and B toner pattern are transferred onto the sheet conveying belt.
US08422894B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program for controlling calibration The problem of the present invention is to appropriately control execution of calibration corresponding to an occurrence situation of a partial toner-low state. In order to solve the above problem, an image processing apparatus according to the present invention includes output unit for outputting an image for detecting a partial toner-low state to a print region, determining unit for determining the partial toner-low state based upon a read result of the image outputted by the output unit, and control unit for controlling execution of calibration adjusting a reproduction characteristic in outputting the image using the toner, based upon a result of the determination by the determining unit.
US08422893B2	Developer and image forming apparatus including the same A developer of an image-forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a housing comprising a waste toner container in which waste toner removed from the photoconductor is contained, and a recessed portion depressed downwardly in a center portion of an upper wall of the waste toner container, the center portion corresponding to a center portion of the photoconductor in a lengthwise direction to move toner away from the center portion.
US08422887B2	System for redundancy in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) A system for redundancy in Ethernet passive optical networks (EPONs) facilitates fast recovery from failure (less than 50 msec), path redundancy of the fiber optic network, and location redundancy of the OLTs. An optical networking unit (ONU) in a normal state monitors input communications, and when the input communications are quiet for a predetermined minimum length of time, the ONU transitions to a lenient state in which: the ONU accepts old and new security keys; upon receiving a packet: the ONU updates an ONU timestamp based on the packet's timestamp; and the ONU transitions to the normal state of operation. While the ONU is in the lenient state if a packet is not received for a predetermined given length of time the ONU transitions to a deregistered state. In this system, main and standby OLTs do not require synchronization of security parameters or synchronization for differences in fiber lengths.
US08422874B2	Position controller for optical element A position controller for an optical element of an optical system includes a first movable member supported by a support member to be movable relative thereto in a first direction orthogonal to an optical axis, a second movable member holding the optical element and supported by the first movable member to be movable relative thereto in a second direction nonparallel to the first direction, an electromagnetic actuator that produces a driving force for moving at least the second movable member in the second direction, and an insertion/removal drive mechanism for moving the second movable member between an anti-shake driving position, where a position control for the second movable member can be performed using the electromagnetic actuator, and a removed position where the second movable member is positioned outside a range of the position control that uses the electromagnetic actuator.
US08422873B2	Imaging apparatus An imaging apparatus whose posture is easily adjustable is provided. The imaging apparatus is configured to include an inclination detector detecting a degree of inclination of one of the imaging apparatus and an image captured by the imaging apparatus relative to a horizontal direction orthogonal to a direction of gravity; a display unit; a first inclination indicator unit allowing the display unit to display an indicator to indicate the degree of inclination according to a detection result from the inclination detector; a second inclination indicator unit notifying via sound according to a detection result from the inclination detector that the degree of inclination is over a predetermined value; and a selector unit allowing at least one of the first and second inclination indicator units to operate.
US08422868B2	Imaging device An imaging device includes a storage unit that sequentially stores a plurality of frame images based on an imaging signal from an imaging sensor that images light from a subject, a moving image data generation unit that generates slow motion moving image data that is to be played at a second frame rate lower than a first frame rate that represents the number of frame images stored per unit time in the storage unit, based on the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during a predetermined time period, a still image data generation unit that generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the storage unit during the predetermined time period, and a record control unit that associates the slow motion moving image data generated by the moving image data generation unit and the still image data generated by the still image data generation unit and records the slow motion moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium.
US08422867B2	Recording apparatus A digital broadcast media recording apparatus has means for determining if a program which is scheduled to be broadcast has already been recorded, and, if it has been, for deciding if the program which is scheduled to be broadcast should be recorded based on a comparison of the attributes of the digital signal representing the scheduled program and corresponding attributes of the digital signal representing the recorded program. If it is determined that the scheduled program should be recorded, a control means gives an instruction which causes a recording unit to record the broadcast digital system representing the scheduled program when it is broadcast. Optionally, the digital signal representing the recorded program can be deleted once the digital signal representing the scheduled program is recorded. An identifier is used to determine whether the scheduled program is the same as a recorded program. This means that if the attributes of the digital signal representing the scheduled program are considered to be more desirable than the attributes of the digital signal representing the recorded program, the scheduled program can be stored on a storage media instead of, or as well as, the recorded version of the program.
US08422857B2	Display control apparatus, display control method, and program A display control apparatus: in a virtual three-dimensional space in which is disposed a three-dimensional model of an object contained in a moving image picked up by performing successive imaging operations once by using an imaging device, draws a plurality of thumbnail images extracted from the moving image to the respective positions of the imaging device at the time when the thumbnail images were picked up and draws information that relates the thumbnail images in order in which they were picked up, thereby generating a bird's eye-display image which provides a bird's-eye-view drawing of the virtual three-dimensional space containing the three-dimensional model and the thumbnail images; and causes a display unit to display the bird's eye-display image.
US08422856B2	Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US08422854B2	Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US08422853B2	Information signal processing method and apparatus, and computer program product An information signal processing method is provided which is destined for processing feature data and making summary (digest) playback and various chapter data-based operations efficiently to attain a high effectiveness of the summary (digest) playback or chapter processing with the feature data. The method includes an information signal processing method, comprising the steps of making first predetermined recording of first predetermined information recorded in a predetermined recording medium into the recording medium or another recording medium so that the first predetermined information becomes second predetermined information corresponding to a predetermined setting of processing when in a predetermined mode of operation; and making, along with the first predetermined recording, second predetermined recording of third predetermined information so that the third predetermined information becomes fourth information when it is possible to detect that the third predetermined information associated with the first predetermined information has been recorded when in the predetermined mode of operation.
US08422850B2	Information recording apparatus, information recording method, information record medium, information reproducing apparatus, information reproducing method, information transmitting apparatus, and information transmitting method An apparatus and a method, which make it possible to collect a plurality of the contents authored for DVD to record easily them on a large-capacity information record medium and to increase a data rate in reproducing the recorded contents, perform the processes of: creating source packets from a disk image file; collecting them to form arrangement units 320; collecting them to form ECC clusters; collecting sectors of the DVD to form a sector group, thereby storing it while bringing it into correspondence with a predetermined number of source packets; adding a control packet to this to form units of conversion; collecting them to bring them into correspondence with an integral number of the arrangement units 320; and storing a cluster-number, at which a leading sector of the sector group of the DVD is stored in the control packet; wherein the source packets are brought into correspondence so that a leading portion of the file system area coincides with both a leading portion of the arrangement unit and a leading portion of the error correction cluster and the disk image file is recorded using units of the length so that the length causes a boundary of the units of conversion to coincide with a boundary of the ECC clusters.
US08422838B2	Cover for covering a reflection-surface-formation recess of an optical path changing member An optical path changing member is assembled at ends of optical fibers and placed to face a substrate including an optical input/output terminal having optical axes inclined with respect to optical axes of the ends. The optical path changing member is made of a transparent material and includes a member body having a reflection surface for optically connecting the ends to the optical input/output terminal. The member body has optical fiber insertion holes and an end placement portion to which the insertion holes are open and in which the end faces of the optical fibers are placed. The reflection surface is formed so that light entering from the end faces of the optical fibers into the member body will be internally reflected toward the optical input/output terminal in the member body. The end placement portion is filled with an adhesive by which the ends are fixed to the member body.
US08422832B2	Annotating images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating data for annotating images automatically. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an input image, identifying one or more nearest neighbor images of the input image from among a collection of images, in which each of the one or more nearest neighbor images is associated with a respective one or more image labels, assigning a plurality of image labels to the input image, in which the plurality of image labels are selected from the image labels associated with the one or more nearest neighbor images, and storing in a data repository the input image having the assigned plurality of image labels. In another aspect, a method includes assigning a single image label to the input image, in which the single image label is selected from labels associated with multiple ranked nearest neighbor images.
US08422831B2	Information management apparatus, information management method, and computer readable medium which determine similarities An information management apparatus includes a characteristic-amount management unit managing a characteristic amount; a characteristic-amount association unit maintaining an association with a similar characteristic amount for each of the characteristic amounts; a space index management unit managing a space index for the characteristic amounts managed by the characteristic-amount management unit; a partial space determination unit determining a partial space in the space index to which a first characteristic amount belongs in accordance with a request for retrieving a characteristic amount similar to the first characteristic amount; and a similarity determination unit calculating similarity between the first characteristic amount and a second characteristic amount and between the first characteristic amount and a third characteristic amount associated with the second characteristic amount by the characteristic-amount association unit, and determines which characteristic amounts are similar to the first characteristic amount by comparing the calculated similarity and a predetermined threshold.
US08422828B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method Image processing apparatus and image processing method including an image separation processing section for separating an inputted image signal into a transparent image portion having transparency and a background image by detecting a pixel data common among a plurality of frames within the inputted image signal; a frame interpolator that performs frame interpolation using the separated background image; and a composition processing section for combining the frame-interpolated background image with the separated transparent image portion, wherein the frame interpolation is performed only to the background image so that the influence on the frame interpolation of the transparent image portion is reduced.
US08422824B2	Image transformation method device for obtaining a three dimensional image An image transformation method for use in a computer program product and an image display device is provided. In the image transformation method, a two dimensional image and a corresponding depth image are acquired first. A motion process is performed on the two dimensional image to obtain a plurality of motion images according to the depth image and a plurality of gain values. Then, a plurality of view images are provided and an interpolation process is performed on each motion image to obtain the corresponding view image. Finally, a synthesis process is performed on the view images to obtain a three dimensional image.
US08422821B2	Selectively transforming a multi-dimensional array A method for selectively transforming a multi-dimensional input array comprising D dimensions includes segmenting the input array into a number of sub-arrays with a computing system; determining a D-dimensional convolution of the input array at only selected points in each the sub-array, the convolution being a function of a product of D one-dimensional kernels; determining partial convolutions at each dimension iteratively, an iterative determination of one of the partial convolutions being determined, in part, from a previous iterative determination; collecting transformed sub-array values to form a transformed input array; and storing the transformed input array.
US08422820B2	Methods using recurrence quantification analysis to analyze and generate images Methods for identifying and quantifying recurrent and deterministic patterns in digital images are provided. The methods, which are based on Recurrence Quantification Analysis (RQA), generate similarity or dissimilarity distance matrices for digital images that may be used to calculate a variety of quantitative characteristics for the images. Also provided are methods for identifying and imaging spatial distributions of time variable signals generated from dynamic systems. In these methods a time variable signal is recorded for a plurality of area or volume elements into which a dynamic system has been sectioned and RQA is used to calculate one or more RQA variables for each of the area or volume elements, which may then be used to generate a two or three dimensional image displaying the spatial distribution of the RQA variables across the system.
US08422809B2	Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding apparatus, image decoding apparatus, image encoding program, and image decoding program Image encoding apparatus 10 according to the present invention is an image encoding apparatus 10 for dividing image signals into blocks, performing an orthogonal transform of each block, reading resultant orthogonal transform coefficients to obtain a coefficient string, and performing entropy coding, which has block selector 14 for selecting a size of a block for the orthogonal transform, out of a plurality of blocks of different sizes; coefficient string divider 12 for, when a block of a size larger than a minimum size is selected by block selector 14, dividing a coefficient string in the block into a plurality of coefficient strings of a length equal to that of a coefficient string in a block of the minimum size; and encoder 13 for performing entropy coding adapted to the coefficient string in the block of the minimum size. This substantializes the image encoding apparatus capable of achieving efficient entropy coding in the orthogonal transform of variable sizes.
US08422796B2	Image processing device Eliminating the need for a user to provide settings of a thumbnail image every time a document is scanned by detecting a format of a document by analyzing fields of the document, determining which of the fields are to be included in a thumbnail image of the document and positions of the fields to be included in the thumbnail image based on the format, and generating the thumbnail image accordingly.
US08422794B2	System for matching artistic attributes of secondary image and template to a primary image A system for automatically selecting a template and a number of secondary images for display with a primary preselected image based on analyzing the primary image's attribute information and comparing the template's required image attributes and secondary image's attribute information. The attribute information is used to evaluate and arithmetically score a compatibility of the images and template so that a best compatibility fit can be obtained when displaying the image.
US08422781B2	Methods and systems for creating a hierarchical appearance model A method for creating an appearance model of an object includes receiving an image of the object and creating a hierarchical appearance model of the object from the image of the object. The hierarchical appearance model has a plurality of layers, each layer including one or more nodes. Nodes in each layer contain information of the object with a corresponding level of detail. Nodes in different layers of the hierarchical appearance model correspond to different levels of detail.
US08422764B2	Method and apparatus of reconstructing 3D image from 2D images An apparatus and method of reconstructing a three-dimensional (3D) image from two-dimensional (2D) images are disclosed. Three dimensional (3D) data may be reconstructed in an x-ray generation tube at a limited angle, and repeatedly updated for each pixel. A median from among each pixel of reconstruction data may be selected. Backprojecting may be performed using a search direction weight calculated using a reprojection image and residual image. A 3D image satisfying a Level 1 (L1) norm fidelity and sparsity constraint of the reconstruction data may be reconstructed.
US08422759B2	Image processing method and image processing device An edge code histogram of a model generated in a model image is registered. A target region with respect to the input image is set. An edge code histogram for the target region is generated. A relative positional relationship between the edge code histogram of the model and the edge code histogram for the target region is sequentially changed, and a degree of coincidence between the edge code histograms at each relative position is calculated. A possibility that the region that matches the model is contained in the set target region from the sequentially calculated degree of coincidence between the edge code histograms is evaluated. Then a candidate point having a possibility of matching the model in the input image is specified while sequentially changing the position of the target region with respect to the input image and repeating steps above for each target region.
US08422754B2	Medical imaging system A medical imaging system for processing an original medical image is provided. The system includes a seed generator for receiving the original medical image representing an original blood vessel and to generate coarse seeds on a basis of vesselness feature in respect to every pixel of the original blood vessel represented by the medical image, and a seed processor for receiving the coarse seeds and for processing the coarse seeds to select a set of refined seeds on a basis of the regression profile for each of the coarse seed by using random forest classification, such that the set of refined seeds are selected from the coarse seeds such that the set of refined seeds adapted to lie on a corrected blood vessel.
US08422753B2	Method and system for automatic extraction of personalized left atrium models A method and system for automatic extraction of personalized left atrium models is disclosed. A left atrium chamber body is segmented from a 3D image volume. At least one pulmonary venous ostium is detected on the segmented left atrium chamber body. At least one pulmonary vein trunk connected to the left atrium chamber body is segmented based on the detected pulmonary venous ostia.
US08422745B2	Method of modelling an underground heterogeneous medium from multipoint statistics A method of constructing an image representing the distribution of a categorical physical property representative of an underground zone having applications for petroleum reservoir development. A first training image representative of a geometrical structure of the categorical property is constructed. Training images representative of the distributions of several auxiliary properties are then constructed from the first training image. A probability law of the categorical property and a probability law of each auxiliary property are determined, from each training image, for a given pixel according to the values of the neighboring pixels. A probability law of the categorical property is calculated from these laws and from the images representative of the distribution of the auxiliary physical properties in the zone, and for each pixel of the image to be constructed. Finally, the value of the categorical property is determined by carrying out a random selection for the calculated probability law.
US08422740B2	Methods for determining a liquid front position on a test strip The present disclosure relates to methods for determining a liquid front position of a liquid on a surface of an assay test strip placing a liquid on the surface of the test strip; and acquiring one or more signals from the surface of the test strip at one or more times, comparing the one or more acquired signals to a threshold, wherein the liquid front position is a position on the surface of the test strip where a signal is greater than or less than a threshold (e.g., fixed or dynamic threshold). Such methods may be used to determine the liquid front velocity of a liquid on a surface of an assay test strip and the transit time of a liquid sample to traverse the one or more positions on the surface of the assay test strip.
US08422738B1	Adaptive automated synthetic aperture radar vessel detection method with false alarm mitigation A method involves adapting a vessel detection algorithm based upon received synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image data and associated metadata, detecting one or more vessels within an image tile of the SAR image data by iteratively applying the adapted vessel detection algorithm to successive portions of the image tile, discarding a detected vessel if a false alarm is determined, extracting one or more features from the detected vessels that are not discarded, and generating one or more output products based upon the extracted features.
US08422733B2	Method and apparatus for progressively deleting media objects from storage A system for managing storage space on an electronic storage medium is provided in which a file format for stored data allows for progressive deletion of low-significance data, for example in a video or audio file, while allowing the remaining portions of the file to be subsequently retrieved. The file format allows for the ready deletion of low-significance data without having to open, edit and subsequently rewrite the data. Furthermore, rules-based algorithms for the deletion of low-significance data allow a user to store and progressively delete such low-significance data in accordance with time parameters, available storage space and the like, without having to delete the full file.
US08422727B2	Electro-acoustical transducer An electro-acoustical transducer of the present invention includes: a diaphragm of an elongated shape; a first magnet of a parallelepiped shape which is situated at a side of one principal surface of the diaphragm such that long sides thereof are in parallel with long sides of the diaphragm, and which is polarized in a short side direction to form a magnetic gap; a second magnet of a parallelepiped shape which is situated next to the first magnet in the short side direction of the diaphragm, such that long sides thereof are in parallel with the long sides of the diaphragm, and which is polarized toward a direction in a manner opposite to the first magnet so as to form a magnetic gap; and a coil of an elongated ring shape which is situated on the diaphragm such that long sides thereof are situated in the magnetic gaps.
US08422720B2	Speaker arrangement A loudspeaker assembly arranged in a surrounding surface of a multimedia apparatus, wherein the loudspeaker assembly including a transducer unit, the transducer unit being located at the back side of the multimedia apparatus. The transducer may be configured so to radiate sound away from the apparatus in directions from primarily upward to primarily backward relative to the apparatus. Each of the one or more transducer units are driven as active speakers with means for amplification per each transducer unit.
US08422711B2	Speaker box assembly A speaker box assembly includes two speaker boxes, two line-winding means, a switch, and a power supply unit. Each of the two speaker boxes is provided on its surface with an outlet hole. One of the two speaker boxes is provided on its surface with a connector jack. The two line-winding means are provided in the two speaker boxes respectively. Each of the line-winding means has a line-winding box and an electrical line. The line-winding box is located inside the speaker box. The inner end of the electrical line is connected to the line-winding box, and the outer end of the electrical line is connected to a connector member. The connector member and the electrical line pass through the outlet hole selectively. The connector member in one of the speaker boxes is inserted into the connector jack on the other of the speaker boxes.
US08422709B2	Method and system of noise reduction in a hearing aid A hearing aid (200) comprises at least one microphone (210), a signal processing means (220) and an output transducer (230). The signal processing means is adapted to receive an input signal from the microphone. The signal processing means is adapted to apply a hearing aid gain to the input signal to produce an output signal to be output by the output transducer, and the signal processing means comprises means for adjusting the hearing aid gain by a direct transmission gain calculated for the hearing aid. The invention further provides a method and a system for reducing noise, as well as a computer program product.
US08422705B2	Apparatus and method for operating a hearing aid A programmable hearing aid including means for receiving and transmitting data wirelessly from and to a portable module being in proximity to said hearing aid. Said portable module has means for transmitting audio signals, fitting data or special instructions to the hearing aid processor and including means for receiving data transmitted from said hearing aid, including data representing a monitoring of real-time signal processing parameters in the hearing aid. A preferred embodiment of the hearing aid/portable module combination utilizes Miller-coded direct sequence spread-spectrum radio signal transmitters and receivers for transmitting and receiving data between the heading aid and the portable module. This enables remote controlling or monitoring of, transmitting audio to, or programming of a hearing aid without the need for external connectors.
US08422703B2	Support apparatus for microphone diaphragm A microphone includes a diaphragm assembly supported by a substrate. The diaphragm assembly includes at least one carrier, a diaphragm, and at least one spring coupling the diaphragm to the at least one carrier such that the diaphragm is spaced from the at least one carrier. An insulator (or separate insulators) between the substrate and the at least one carrier electrically isolates the diaphragm and the substrate.
US08422702B2	Condenser microphone having flexure hinge diaphragm and method of manufacturing the same A micromini condenser microphone having a flexure hinge-shaped upper diaphragm and a back plate, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided.The method includes the steps of: forming a lower silicon layer and a first insulating layer; forming an upper silicon layer to be used as a back plate on the first insulating layer; forming a plurality of sound holes by patterning the upper silicon layer; forming a second insulating layer on the upper silicon layer; forming a conductive layer on the upper silicon layer having the sound holes, and forming a passivation layer on the conductive layer; forming a sacrificial layer on the passivation layer; depositing a diaphragm on the sacrificial layer, and forming a plurality of air holes passing through the diaphragm; forming electrode pads on the passivation layer and a region of the diaphragm; and etching the sacrificial layer, the passivation layer, the conductive layer, the upper silicon layer, the first insulating layer and the lower silicon layer to form an air gap between the diaphragm and the upper silicon layer.Consequently, due to the flexible diaphragm, a manufacturing process using semiconductor MEMS technology may improve the sensitivity of the condenser microphone and reduce the size of the condenser microphone, thereby enabling integration into a portable terminal.
US08422701B2	Distributed audio signal processing system A distributed audio signal processing system having a plurality of linked audio signal processing units is disclosed. Each audio signal processing unit has physical channels for receiving and sending local audio signals and a high bandwidth interface for exchanging audio signals with other linked audio signal processing units. Each of the physical channels of each of the audio signal processing units are mapped to a corresponding global channel. The audio signal processing system provides a tightly integrated, distributed signal processing matrix where any input signal or physical channel on any one of the signal processing units can be exchanged with any other of the linked audio signal processing units, thereby providing maximum flexibility for selecting signals to mix and determining how to process the signals.
US08422689B2	System, apparatus, and method of speaker A system, and an apparatus of speaker, and a method for forming a virtual audio is provided. An audio source is processed by a second audio source processing program according to parameters which are entered by the user, and filtered to be a high frequency audio signal. The audio source with orientation is outputted by the orientation speaker.
US08422687B2	Key management for communication networks One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for key management in a communications network. In this method, a public key authentication scheme is carried out between a security controller and a plurality of nodes to establish a plurality of node-to-security-controller (NSC) keys. The NSC keys are respectively associated with the plurality of nodes and are used for secure communication between the security controller and the respective nodes. Other methods and devices are also disclosed.
US08422683B2	Appraising systems with zero knowledge proofs A system, method, and computer program product are provided for requesting a proof of a security policy in a client system. Additionally, a system, method, and computer program product are provided for proving a security policy to an interrogator system.
US08422677B2	Storage virtualization apparatus comprising encryption functions A storage virtualization apparatus comprises a judgment portion. The judgment portion judges whether encryption functions are present in an external storage subsystem having an external logical volume identified based on a write request received from a higher-level device. When the result of the judgment is negative, the storage virtualization apparatus uses its own encryption functions to encrypt the data of the write request before transmission to the external storage subsystem, but when the result of the judgment is positive, the storage virtualization apparatus transmits the data of the write request as-is to the external storage subsystem, without using its own encryption functions to perform encryption.
US08422669B2	Method and apparatus for elliptic curve cryptographic processing An apparatus includes a data storage to store a window table storing a table value with an index value mapped to the table value, the index value having same number of bits as a window width, the table value being a sum of a basic table value and a non-zero table correction value, the basic table value being obtained by multiplying a point G on an elliptic curve. An arithmetic processor generates the index value by reading from a scalar value at a bit position assigned to each bit of the window with the window being shifted, reads the table value from the window table according to the index value, and performs a doubling operation and an addition operation using the read table value. A corrector performs a correction on arithmetic results with a specific correction value responsive to the table correction value.
US08422663B1	Structure and method for echo reduction without loss of information An echo reduction method stores a received audio information stream. A sound detection flag is activated following detection of locally generated sound. Output based on the received audio information stream is muted in response to the activating the sound detection flag. Rendering status of the received audio information stream is saved, in response to the activating the sound detection flag, to reduce loss of audio information. At least a portion of the stored received audio information stream is rendered following inactivation of the sound detection flag.
US08422662B2	Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same Splitter wall plates for digital subscriber line (DSL) communication systems and methods to use the same are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a splitter to separate a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal from a plain old telephone signal (POTS) signal, and a switch to selectively couple a VoIP signal received via a first jack or the POTS signal to a second jack.
US08422654B1	Increasing the likelihood that a conference call will occur Methods and products are provided for facilitating a conference call. One embodiment includes receiving an incoming call from a participant who is to participate in the conference call but who does not have authority to start the call, identifying a chairperson who does have authority to start the conference call, and automatically notifying the chairperson that the participant is waiting for the conference call to begin.
US08422649B2	Digital telephone data and control signal transmission system Techniques are disclosed for using Ethernet Layer 1 as a means for transporting audio, control, and status signals between telephones and an aggregator device in a telephone system. Techniques are also disclosed for using the aggregator to determine whether a telephone supports only Ethernet Layer 1, and for using the aggregator to communicate with the telephone using an appropriate protocol based on the results of the determination.
US08422648B2	Provision of text messaging services A method for providing text messaging services to subscribers in a telecommunications network is presented. Each of the subscribers has subscriber equipment that includes a telephone and television equipment. The method includes receiving first key stroke data corresponding to at least one text character associated with a text message, the first key stroke data having been input by the subscriber on a telephone, and providing first text prediction data, obtained from a lookup of the first key stroke data in a text prediction database, for display via the television equipment, the first text prediction data including predicted text for the text character in the text message being created.
US08422641B2	Distributed record server architecture for recording call sessions over a VoIP network Devices, systems, and methods for recording call sessions over a VoIP network using a distributed record server architecture are disclosed. An example recording device for recording segments of a call session includes a record server configured to receive an agent voice data stream and an external caller voice data stream from an agent telephone station, and a file repository configured to store voice data and call data associated with each recorded segment of the call session. The recording device is configured to tag recorded segments of each call session, which can be later used by a third-party application or database to check the status and/or integrity of the recorded call session.
US08422640B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting emergency messages A method and apparatus for transmitting emergency messages is disclosed. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a communication device, of a communication system, having a controller element to send a selection of types of emergency alert messages to be transmitted to one or more associates of a subscriber corresponding to the communication device; and receive an emergency alert message of a public emergency alert system for a zone of coverage, wherein the subscriber is in the zone of coverage and wherein the emergency alert message is transmitted to one or more associate communication devices of each of the one or more associates according to the selection of types of emergency alert messages to be transmitted. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08422637B2	Multi X-ray generating apparatus and X-ray imaging apparatus A multi X-ray generating apparatus which has a plurality of electron sources arranged two-dimensionally and targets arranged at positions opposite to the electron sources includes a multi electron source which includes a plurality of electron sources and outputs electrons from driven electron sources by selectively driving a plurality of electron sources in accordance with supplied driving signals, and a target unit which includes a plurality of targets which generate X-rays in accordance with irradiation of electrons output from the multi electron source and outputs X-rays with different radiation qualities in accordance with the generation locations of X-rays. The generation locations and radiation qualities of X-rays from the target unit are controlled by selectively driving the electron sources of the multi electron source.
US08422633B2	X-ray beam device The invention refers to an X-ray beam device for X-ray analytical applications, comprising an X-ray source designed such as to emit a divergent beam of X-rays; and an optical assembly designed such as to focus said beam onto a focal spot, wherein said optical assembly comprises a first reflecting optical element, a monochromator device and a second reflecting optical element sequentially arranged between said source and said focal spot, wherein said first optical element is designed such as to collimate said beam in two dimensions towards said monochromator device, and wherein said second optical element is designed such as to focus the beam coming from said monochromator device in two dimensions onto said focal spot.
US08422629B2	Seedling counter A method and apparatus for counting seedlings. A seedling moves through a seedling counter, which comprises a spectral energy emitter and a spectral energy detector. When the spectral energy detector detects a sufficient attenuation of the spectral energy for a sufficient amount of time, the spectral energy detector indicates the presence of a seedling. The spectral energy detector detects irregularities in the received spectral energy to indicate faults in the apparatus. In one embodiment, the seedling counter is adapted to use X-ray energy.
US08422628B2	Medical X-ray CT imaging apparatus Provided is a medical X-ray CT imaging apparatus including: a base (22); a support part (30) including a support arm part (30) that supports an X-ray source (36) and an X-ray detector (37) so as to be opposed to each other, and a rotation support part that supports the support arm part (32) in a rotatable manner with respect to the base (22); and a rotary drive part that rotatively drives the support part (30). At least one of the base (22) and the rotary support part (40) includes a cavity (48) forming a space around a rotation axis (A). The cavity (48) is provided with a cylindrical body (60) disposed in a rotatable state with respect to the support part (30).
US08422626B2	Computed tomography apparatus for geological resource core analysis A computed tomography apparatus for geological resource core analysis, more particularly to a computed tomography apparatus for geological resource core analysis in that it can conveniently utilize a computed tomography apparatus for industrial use, the movement between the CT beam transmitter and the detector is decreased, thereby performing an accurate measurement and breaking down infrequently, and especially, it can easily perform a CT scan on a cylinder type (or rod shape) sample having a very long major axis such as a geological resource core sample.
US08422625B2	Motion control method and motion control module, image processing actuation method and image processing actuation module A motion control method is disclosed for controlling a relative scan feed motion of an object bearing device toward a scanner unit of a computed tomography system. Here, scan motion control signals are generated parallel to the scan feed motion for controlling the scan feed motion, which scan motion control signals are derived from variable input data obtained in parallel during a scan procedure. In at least one embodiment, the variable input data includes motion signals which represent the object motion cycle determined with the aid of an electrocardiogram, and the speed of the scan feed motion is reduced if an extrasystole is detected. Furthermore, at least one embodiment of the invention relates to a motion control module suited to this and/or an image processing actuation method and/or an image processing actuation module for actuating an image processing system.
US08422619B2	Clock frequency divider circuit, clock distribution circuit, clock frequency division method, and clock distribution method To provide a clock frequency divider circuit that generates a clock signal enabling an expected proper communication in communication with a circuit operating by a clock having a different frequency. A clock frequency division circuit according to the present invention generates an output clock signal obtained by dividing a frequency of an input clock signal into N/S by subtracting (S−N) clock pulses from S clock pulses of the input clock signal based on a frequency division ratio defined as N/S. The clock frequency division circuit generates a control signal used to preferentially subtract a clock pulse at a timing other than a communication timing of data communication performed by a target circuit using the output clock signal among S clock pulses of the input clock signal. Further, it generates the output clock signal by subtracting a clock pulse of the input clock signal according to the generated control signal.
US08422618B2	Apparatus and system for restricting the movement of a component An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and system for repairing and/or maintaining a position of a first component in relation to a second component. The first and second components may be located within a reactor pressure vessel of a nuclear powerplant. The apparatus and system may attach at least one bearing plate to a horizontal surface of the first component. The apparatus and system includes structure to apply a pre-load to the first component. This may assist in maintaining the position of the first component relative to the second component.
US08422612B2	Communication terminal apparatus, communication apparatus, and signal receiving method A communication terminal apparatus receives a management signal at a bit rate A and a data signal at a bit rate B (B=A×M) through the same line. The communication terminal apparatus includes a signal regenerating unit, a management signal converting unit, a timing control unit, and a data signal obtaining unit. The signal regenerating unit regenerates a signal transmitted through the line as a signal of a bit rate C (C=A×N). The management signal converting unit converts N bits of the regenerated signal into the management signal of one bit. The timing control unit controls timing for obtaining a data signal based on the management signal. The data signal obtaining unit obtains the data signal according to timing control of the timing control unit.
US08422609B2	Automatic filter-reset mechanism In one embodiment, a (hard-drive) read channel has a (DFIR equalization) filter, whose tap coefficients are adaptively updated. A reset controller monitors an (LLR) signal generated downstream of the filter to automatically determine when to reset the filter, e.g., by reloading an initial set of user-specified tap coefficients. For LLR values, the reset controller determines to reset the filter when the reset controller detects that too many recent LLR values have confidence values that are too low. When implemented in a hard-drive read channel, the reset controller can reset the filter one or more times during read operations within a sector of the hard drive.
US08422603B2	Signal receiving apparatus, signal receiving method and signal receiving program A signal receiving apparatus for receiving signals is provided. The signal receiving apparatus includes a correlation-value computation section configured to sequentially compute a correlation value representing a correlation between the received signal and a series of known symbols while sliding the series of known symbols for every symbol included in the received signal, a maximum-value detection section configured to detect a largest correlation value among the correlation values computed by the correlation-value computation section for one frame of the received signal, and a correlation-value storage section configured to store each of the correlation values at one of a predetermined number of storage locations, before and after the largest correlation value is detected by the maximum-value detection section.
US08422590B2	Apparatus and methods for differential signal receiving A differential signal receiver 106 implements intra-pair skew compensation for improving data transfer on a differential channel. In an embodiment, the receiver implements sampling by—multiple clocks with different phases such that the signals of the differential channel may be separately or individually time adjusted to account for skew between them so that they may be differentially compared for data resolution. In one embodiment, a positive sampler and negative sampler are controlled by distinct clock signals to permit, at different times, sampling and holding of the positive and negative signals representing a data bit on the differential channel. A differential decision circuit may then differentially resolve the data using a latter one of the distinct clock signals. Timing generation circuitry for producing the offset clocks may include a skew detector that permits dynamic adjustment of the different clock signals according to skew associated with the signals of the differential channel.
US08422589B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a digital communication system, and computer-readable storage medium relating thereto The present invention is directed to a transmitter and method for transmitting data in a digital communication system, the method comprising generating an original symbol by mapping the bits of the original bit sequence using a modulation constellation, generating at least one counter part symbol from the original symbol or from at least one counter part bit sequence generated from the original bit sequence where a combination of the original symbol and the at least one counter part symbol forms a quasi pilot symbol.
US08422586B2	Extended non-return-to-zero serial channel signaling Methods and apparatus for serial channel operation are disclosed. An N+1-level signaling scheme is used to transmit N staggered but overlapping NRZ sub-sequences concurrently on a serial channel. Each sequence has a bit rate R and an essential bandwidth of R Hz. The combined bit rate of the channel is N×R, but due to a lack of correlation between the sub-sequences, the essential bandwidth remains approximately R Hz. The signaling scheme also contains redundancy that allows some errors to be detected and/or corrected. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08422585B2	Space-time block coding systems and methods Although orthonormal space-time coding matrices provide for optimal communication system performance in that associated correlation matrices include no non-zero off-diagonal elements, unity code rate orthonormal coding matrices are difficult to identify for arbitrary communication network equipment. According to embodiments of the present invention, non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices, for which associated correlation matrices include non-zero off-diagonal elements, are used to encode data symbols. The non-orthonormal space-time coding matrices are more easily determined, and undesirable effects of the non-zero off-diagonal components are reduced by selecting a coding matrix from among a number of such matrices. For example, a particular space-time coding matrix may be selected from a number of generated space-time coding matrices based on a number of non-zero off-diagonal elements or a power of a trace of the associated correlation matrices.
US08422579B1	Quadrature amplitude modulation via modified-square signal point constellation A square array of signal points forming a 22n-QAM signal constellation, where n=3, 4, is modified by relocating the inner most 22n/16 and outer 22n/16 constellation points to specific positions, resulting a modified-square constellation with a reduced peak to average power ratio (PAPR) at the modulator output relative to that of the square constellation while resulting in a receiver sensitivity that is degraded by less than the decrease in the modulator's PAPR and hence less than the possible improvement at the transmitter in average transmitted power.
US08422576B2	Apparatus and method for receiving signals in multi-carrier multiple access systems A method for receiving signals in a multi-carrier multiple access system is provided. The method includes receiving signals from at least one base station wherein each signal has a base station identifier, processing the signals to identify each base station by using the base station identifier, performing a channel estimation using the processed signals, combining the processed signals using information obtained from the channel estimation and decoding the combined signals. Also, an apparatus for receiving signals in a multi-carrier multiple access system includes a serial-to-parallel converter for converting a serial signal including a base station identifier from at least one base station to parallel signals, a Fast Fourier transformer for transforming the parallel signals, a parallel-to-serial converter for converting the parallel signals to a serial signal, a despreading processor for despreading frequency domain signals using the base station identifier from at least one base station, a channel estimator for compensating a channel variation between the at least one base station and a mobile station, a signal combiner for combining signals from base stations and a decoder for decoding the combined signal.
US08422569B2	Encoding device, decoding device, and method thereof Provided is an encoding device which divides an input signal into a low-range component and a high-range component and encodes the components in separate encoding units. The encoding device can improve quality of a decoded signal. The encoding device (101) includes: a band division process unit (201) which subjects an input signal to a band division process so as to obtain a lower intermediate-range component lower than a first frequency and a high-range component higher than the first frequency; a low-range encoding unit (202) which suppresses a portion of the lower intermediate-range component higher than a second frequency so as to obtain a low-range component and encodes the low-range component so as to obtain low-range encoded information; an intermediate-range correction unit (203) corrects the intermediate-range component higher than the second frequency among the suppressed lower intermediate-range component so as to obtain a corrected intermediate-range component; an intermediate high-range encoding unit (204) which encodes the corrected intermediate-range component and the high-range component so as to obtain intermediate high-range encoded information; and a multiplexing unit (205) which multiplexes the low-range encoded information and the intermediate high-range encoded information so as to obtain encoded information.
US08422568B2	Communication channel calibration for drift conditions A method and system provides for execution of calibration cycles from time to time during normal operation of the communication channel. A calibration cycle includes de-coupling the normal data source from the transmitter and supplying a calibration pattern in its place. The calibration pattern is received from the communication link using the receiver on the second component. A calibrated value of a parameter of the communication channel is determined in response to the received calibration pattern. The steps involved in calibration cycles can be reordered to account for utilization patterns of the communication channel. For bidirectional links, calibration cycles are executed which include the step of storing received calibration patterns on the second component, and retransmitting such calibration patterns back to the first component for use in adjusting parameters of the channel at first component.
US08422567B2	Signal transmission apparatus and method According to an aspect of the embodiment, a signal transmission apparatus includes a sine wave output unit that outputs a sine wave to a transmission path, network analyzers and that analyze signals on the transmission path, an S parameter measurement unit that measures S parameters based on the analysis, a selection unit that selects a plurality of combinations of an amplitude, an emphasis characteristic, and an equalization characteristic based on the S parameters, measurement units that measure a BER or an eye opening of the transmission path for the plurality of combinations, and a setting unit that extracts single combination based on the measurement and that sets the amplitude, the emphasis characteristic, and the equalization characteristic to a transmission unit and a reception unit.
US08422563B2	System for generating closed captioning compatible with legacy and newer set-top boxes A caption formatting method and computing system that receives an input video stream that includes a sequence of input transport stream packets. The method locates user data in the sequence of input transport stream packets, where the user data includes input caption data compliant with an input caption data format. The method extracts EIA-608 captions and EIA-708 captions from the input caption data, and formats the EIA-608 captions as caption data compliant with SCTE-20 format. The method creates a sequence of output transport stream packets based on the sequence of input transport stream packets, where the sequence of output transport stream packets include the caption data compliant with SCTE-20 format and the input caption data. The method sends an output video stream from the computing device, where the output video stream includes the sequence of output transport stream packets.
US08422558B2	Motion estimation technique for digital video encoding applications The present invention provides an improved motion estimation encoder for digital video encoding applications. In one example embodiment, the improved encoder receives a raw image in the form of a current frame and estimates the macroblock motion vector with respect to a reference frame. The encoder then performs an initial local search around an initial motion vector candidate derived from spatio-temporal neighboring macroblock parameters. The encoder then compares the user-defined complexity scalable sum of absolute difference between the original and the associated reference macroblock against an adaptive threshold value for motion estimation convergence. The encoder introduces a global full search around a candidate from a coarser level, in case an initial local search fails. The encoder then selects an inter encoding mode for coding the current macroblock, when the first local search is successful, otherwise the encoder selects the inter or intra encoding mode for encoding the current macroblock by comparing variances of the original and difference macroblocks.
US08422554B2	Mobile communication system using adaptive transmission A method for decoding a wireless transmission in a communication system, particularly for mobile communications, comprising a plurality of receiver stations communicatively coupled to a common decoder station, wherein the receiver stations transmit digital representations of received user signals to the common decoding entity. These digital representations are initially transmitted to the common decoder station in coarse granularity, and in case the decoder station cannot decode the transmitted digital representations of one or multiple user signals, the decoder requests a refined digital representation of the received signals from at least one receiver station.
US08422552B2	Entropy coding for video processing applications An entropy coding apparatus. In a specific embodiment, the entropy coding apparatus includes a renormalization process and an encode-decision process that communicates with the renormalization process. The encode-decision process is adapted to run in parallel with the renormalization process without the renormalization process being nested therein. In a more specific embodiment, the entropy coding apparatus includes an entropy encoder that is H.264 compliant. The encode-decision process includes a first mechanism for pre-computing certain parameters to eliminate the need to nest the renormalization process within the encode-decision process. The renormalization process and the encode-decision process are components of a Context Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) module.
US08422543B2	Apparatus, systems and methods of signal compensation for different signals communicated over a coaxial cable system Communication signal compensation systems and methods are operable to compensate communication signals communicated to media devices using an agile equalizer over a coaxial cable communication system. An exemplary embodiment receives a first compensation control signal from a first media device, compensates a received first communication signal based upon the first compensation control signal, communicates the first compensated communication signal to the first media device over the first coaxial cable; receives a second compensation control signal from a second media device, compensates a received second communication signal based upon the second compensation control signal, and communicates the second compensated communication signal to the second media device over the second coaxial cable. The first compensation control signal defines compensation for communication signals communicated over a first coaxial cable. The second compensation control signal defines compensation for communication signals communicated to the second media device over a second coaxial cable.
US08422529B2	Tunable laser light source based on variable optical pulse excitation and method for operating same A tunable laser light source having emission wavelengths in a visible or an adjoining spectral region includes a rotationally disposed laser substrate having more than one emission wavelength, a drive unit coupled to the laser substrate, a pulsed light source having a pulse transmitter, a trigger device, and a signal-delay unit. The trigger device, the signal-delay unit and the pulse transmitter are sequentially connected downstream of the drive unit.
US08422521B2	Laser device of equal-energy pulse synchronous with motion A laser device of an equal-energy pulse synchronous with motion includes: a resonant cavity, outputting a plurality of pulses with stable pulse-width and energy; a beam switch modulator, selectively enabling one of the pulses to pass; a beam energy modulator, adjusting the energy of the pulse according to a power feedback signal; an optical power sensor, sensing the energy and the pulse-width of the pulse; a motion controller, providing processing motion information; an optical feedback controller, outputting the power feedback signal to the beam energy modulator according to the energy of the pulse and the processing motion information; a trigger controller, measuring a time difference between time when the pulse is triggered and time when the optical power sensor detects the pulse, and correcting a turn-on time point of the beam switch modulator. The processing quality is therefore stabilized, and the device is applicable to various laser industrial processes.
US08422500B2	VLAN support of differentiated services The two types of virtual local area networks (VLANs) may be defined: p-bits-Inferred-scheduling class VLAN (p-VLAN); and VLAN-ID-Only-Inferred-scheduling class VLANs (v-VLAN). As such, upon receipt of an Ethernet frame, the type of VLAN associated with the Ethernet frame may be determined. The type of VLAN provides the receiving node with an indication of a method of determining a scheduling class. A p-VLAN supports multiple scheduling classes. For a p-VLAN, the scheduling class and drop precedence for the received Ethernet frame may be determined based on a “service map” that describes the relationship between the p-bits and forwarding treatment. A v-VLAN supports a single scheduling class. As such, the scheduling class for a received Ethernet frame may be determined based on the VLAN-ID of the received Ethernet frame. The described VLAN QoS information may be configured or signaled across the network. Advantageously, the methods may be applied in connectionless, connection-oriented and path-oriented Ethernet networks.
US08422499B2	Methods and apparatus for managing multicast traffic A device, system and method for controlling the flow of multicast data packets from sources sending data to hosts requesting the data. In one implementation, a router is situated in a data network between sources that send multicast data packets directed to a multicast group and hosts requesting to receive the multicast data packets. The router has one or more network interfaces in the direction of the hosts and stores for each network interface, each multicast group address and each host at least one data record arising from one or more data requests made by the hosts which includes multicast group and source information. The router stores executable instructions to receive messages originating from a host, update the status of the data sources for that host and implement the actions according to one or a combination of Tables 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 disclosed herein.
US08422488B2	Registration of private user identities and contact addresses in an IMS network A method and a HSS server allow the implicit registration of more than one IMS Private User Identity (IMPI), or the implicit registration of more than one contact address, or both, upon explicit registration of a subscriber with a given IMPI/IMPU (IMS Public User identity) pair and a given contact address. In particular, the method includes configuring subscriber data for the subscriber at the HSS with at least one implicit registration set selected from: a set of IMPIs associated with a given IMPI or with a given IMPU, and a set of contact addresses per IMPI basis; downloading from the HSS towards the S-CSCF the implicit registration set; and building up a corresponding data model therein.
US08422482B2	Space-diversity wireless image communication system A wireless communication system has transmission apparatus transmitting a wireless signal based on a transmission unit and reception apparatus. The reception apparatus includes plural reception devices receiving the wireless signal to obtain the informational signals and output-controlling device selecting any informational signal from the informational signals. The reception device has communication-quality-detecting device that detects communication quality of the wireless signal, a memory storing the informational signal, and synchronization-detection-storage-controlling device that detects the synchronization signal and controls the memory to store the informational signal based on a detected result of the synchronization signal. The output-controlling device reads the informational signals out of the memories with the signals being synchronized after the reception devices have detected the synchronization signals, selects the reception device having satisfactory communication quality based on a detected result of the communication quality, and outputs the informational signal read out of the selected reception device.
US08422478B2	Radio transmission device To obtain maximum throughput in accordance with characteristics of a propagation path, a radio transmission device having a plurality of transmitting antennas (18a, 18b) for transmitting a transmission signal in units of sub-carriers by performing spatial multiplexing or without performing spatial multiplexing is provided that includes a sub-carrier modulation part 11 modulating the input transmission signal for each sub-carrier, a transmission signal allocation part 13 allocating the transmission signal modulated for each of the sub-carriers to each of the transmitting antennas, and a transmission control part 12 that determines a multiplexing number for performing spatial multiplexing for each sub-carrier based on information received from another radio communication device as an opposite party, and outputs the determined multiplexing number to the sub-carrier modulation part and the transmission signal allocation part.
US08422476B2	Information carrying synchronization code and method for frame timing synchronization An improved method for conveying data and synchronization information in a telecommunication system is disclosed. The method uses a cyclically permutable code, to which a repetitive structure has been imposed, for carrying the data and synchronization information. The decoding procedure at the receiver then uses this repetitive structure of the code to reduce complexity by first evaluating, by use of hypotheses Hx, the repetitive codeword structure of received codewords and choosing a hypothesis corresponding to the repetitive codeword structure. Then the decoding procedure performs diversity combining of codeword elements of the codewords in accordance with the chosen hypothesis. The received codewords are further detected by comparing the diversity combined codeword elements to all possible codewords fulfilling the hypothesis.
US08422472B2	Method and system for operating cells in an overlay network including macro cells and home cells A method and system for operating cells in a network where macro cells and home cells coexist are provided. The method includes determining a first set of neighbor macro Base Stations (BSs) located within a predefined reference distance from a new macro BS to be newly installed, determining a second set of neighbor macro BSs having a cell region overlapping a region of a serving cell served by the new macro BS, detecting at least one sector including a contact with the cell region of the new macro BS within a cell region of each of the neighbor macro BSs in the second set, determining a neighbor cell set including the detected at least one sector, generating an initial Neighbor Relation Table (NRT) by mapping information about each of neighbor cells included in the neighbor cell set, IDentifiers (IDs) of neighbor macro BSs serving the neighbor cells, and a Physical Resource Cell IDentifier (PCID) allocated to each of the neighbor macro BSs, and providing the initial NRT to the new macro BS as neighbor BS information.
US08422470B2	Communication system and main communication device and auxiliary communication device of communication system A communication system comprises a main communication device including a first communication unit executing wireless communication by a first method (mainly for voice data communication) and a second communication unit executing wireless communication by a second method (for communication of data other than voice data at a higher transfer rate) and an auxiliary communication device (operating on a secondary battery) including first and second auxiliary communication units executing wireless communication with the first and second communication units by the first and second methods, respectively. Whether communication of data (except voice data) should be executed by the first method or by the second method is determined based on the amount of the data. When the first method is selected, the data is segmented in prescribed data units and the communication of the segmented data is executed by the first communication unit and the first auxiliary communication unit by the first method.
US08422468B2	Common-mode partitioning of wideband channels Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for allocating a plurality of logical channels within each wideband channel specified by the IEEE 802.15.3c standard. Each logical channel can utilize the same wideband channel, but the logical channel can also utilize a narrowband channel (i.e., a low data rate (LDR) channel) for control and signaling. The logical channel may function as a common mode channel for multi-mode operations. A piconet controller (PNC) within a piconet can utilize the LDR for beaconing, association, and for assigning Channel Time Allocations (CTAs). Inside a CTA period, multiple devices in the piconet can communicate using a single-carrier mode, an OFDM mode, or some other mode.
US08422466B2	Multiple network connections The invention provides a method, an apparatus, and a computer program for supporting multiple connections to a network or a plurality of networks. Support for multiple connections is enabled by establishing a connection of a first type to a network, receiving a request for a connection of the first type, registering a virtual connection as a response to receiving said request, receiving a request for establishing a connection of a second type through the virtual connection, associating the virtual connection with the connection of the first type, and establishing the connection of the second type through the connection of the first type.
US08422463B2	System and method for dynamic data management in a wireless network A node is configured for transmitting a data packet over a wireless network. The node includes a controller configured to provide individualized control of a payload in the data packet. The controller is further configured to receive data to be transmitted over the wireless network, to determine a signal quality indicator for the wireless network, and to adjust the amount of the data included in the payload based on the signal quality indicator.
US08422447B2	Cellular network Systems (200) and methods for providing voice communications over a cellular network (204, 212). A call setup message is communicated from a first communication device (FCD) to a second communication device (SCD) on a first communications channel (FCC) in a cellular network (CN) at a first data transfer rate (FDTR). In response to the call setup message, a stimulator packet is communicated to the CN on FCC at FDTR. The stimulator packet includes data of an amount that equals or exceeds a threshold value. In response to the stimulator packet, FCD (202, 214) and CN transition from a first channel mode to a second different channel mode. In the second channel mode, data is transmitted on a second communications channel (SCC) in CN at a second data transfer rate (SDTR) different than FDTR.
US08422446B2	Controlling power for contention based uplink transmissions A wireless communication device configured for controlling power for contention based uplink transmissions is described. The wireless communication device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory. The wireless communication device receives one or more power control parameters and performs contention based power control for uplink transmissions. The contention based power control is different from dynamic scheduled grant power control. The wireless communication device sends a contention based uplink transmission.
US08422442B2	Radio communication apparatus There is provided a radio communication apparatus that performs communication in a plurality of different radio communication systems independently of one another and is capable of normally performing data communication with interference in the data communication avoided. The radio communication apparatus includes modems respectively corresponding to DECT communication and GSM communication respectively utilizing close frequency bands for transmitting/receiving data, and is configured so that communication time slots not used for time division multiplex domestic radio communication or for time division multiplex subscriber channel radio communication may be adjusted between the modems by a modern controller 208 for avoiding simultaneous communication timing.
US08422438B2	Designing power sequences The invention relates to the design of power sequences for use in a group of sub-areas of a wireless communication system. Each power sequence defines for one of the sub-areas transmission power values for transmissions using a respective one of a plurality of medium access units. For each of the sub-areas of the group, reception quality values are determined for transmissions between an access station serving the sub-area and mobile stations located at an edge of the sub-area. The reception quality values allow meeting system. The reception quality values are then converted for each of the sub-areas into transmission power values of a power sequence.
US08422433B2	Base station apparatus, communication control system, communication control method, and inter-station control method A base station apparatus includes a determining unit that determines whether a direct link has been established between the base station apparatus and another base station apparatus, when a mobile device makes a request to switch a communication recipient from the base station apparatus to the other base station apparatus; a link information acquiring unit that acquires, indirectly from the other base station apparatus, link information necessary for establishing the direct link to the other base station apparatus, when the determining unit determines that no direct link to the other base station apparatus has been established; and a link requesting unit that requests the other base station apparatus to establish the direct link to the base station apparatus, based on the link information of the other base station apparatus acquired by the link information acquiring unit.
US08422432B2	System and method for facilitating co-channel and co-existence via enhanced frame preambles Enhanced frame preambles facilitate co-channel co-existence in a wireless communication environment by having at least one preamble characteristic that connotes channel-sharing information regarding the wireless communication environment. In an exemplary embodiment, a downlink subframe is received in one or more wireless communication signals in a wireless communication environment. A preamble is detected in the downlink subframe, and at least one characteristic of the preamble is ascertained. Channel-sharing information for the wireless communication environment is determined based upon the at least one characteristic of the preamble. In another exemplary embodiment, a channel is scanned to detect secondary preambles being transmitted on the channel. A current preamble configuration, including a permutation of preamble location and preamble content corresponding to the secondary preambles, is determined, which connote channel-sharing information. A next available preamble location may be adopted based on the current preamble configuration.
US08422429B2	Method and system for indicating the transmission mode for uplink control information A base station includes a transmit path circuitry to select one of a first UCI multiplexing method that allows a subscriber station to simultaneously transmit PUSCH and PUCCH and a second UCI multiplexing method that does not allow the subscriber station to simultaneously transmit PUSCH and PUCCH. The transmit path circuitry also transmits a higher layer signal indicating the one selected UCI multiplexing method, and transmits one or more uplink grants. Each of the uplink grants schedules a PUSCH in an UL CC for a subframe n, and each of the uplink grants carries a CQI request. The base station also includes a receive path circuitry to receive an aperiodic CSI report on the PUSCH in the uplink component carrier i when only one of the uplink grants scheduling a PUSCH in an uplink component carrier i carries a CQI request having a value from a set of values.
US08422420B1	Transmit power adaptation for wireless communication systems When wireless systems are in communication with each other, transmit power levels can vary based on a distance between the communicating wireless systems. The transmit power levels may be varied by taking into consideration optimal values of performance indicators such as SNR. However, because a transmitting wireless system typically does not receive information that describes a communication channel as seen by a receiving wireless system, the transmitting wireless system may not be able to accurately determine when, whether, and by how much to reduce the transmit power without impairing signal reception ability at the receiving wireless system. Functionality can be implemented on the transmitting wireless system to vary the transmit power level based on comparing a percentage of packets transmitted at a maximum packet transmit rate with one or more thresholds. Such a variation of the transmit power levels can help reduce power consumption and ensure performance is not compromised.
US08422419B2	Apparatus and method for providing WLAN service using multiple channel Provided are an apparatus and method for providing a WLAN service using multiple channels. The wireless local area network (WLAN) service apparatus includes a service request receiver configured to receive service request information from a first wireless terminal accessed through a first channel, a data receiver configured to receive data from a first access point accessed through a second channel according to the service request information, a data transmitter configured to transmit the data to the first wireless terminal in a predetermined service area, and an access controller configured to control the first wireless terminal and the first access point to be accessed through different channels.
US08422417B2	Method of broadcasting and multicasting using satellite medium A method for communicating with multiple network nodes is provided in which each node of a network has a wireless link that allows data to travel to and from the nodes in parallel, thereby taking advantage of the inherent broadcast capabilities of wireless media. The wireless link may be used in parallel with a point-to-point, land-based network linking the nodes. The method may be used for multicasting or broadcasting data on a network. Specifically, the method may be used to maintain a network cache, a routing database and quality of service in a manner that is more efficient and reliable than previous methods that use serial protocols over point to point network links.
US08422414B2	System and method for wireless communication in a backplane fabric architecture A wireless millimeter wave backplane network and method comprises a first circuit board that has a first module thereon, wherein the first circuit board is coupled to a high speed backplane. The network includes a first communication node that is coupled to the first module and which is disposed on the first circuit board. The network includes a second circuit board that has a second module thereon, wherein the second circuit board is coupled to the high speed backplane. The network includes a second communication node that is coupled to the second module and disposed on the second circuit board, wherein the first and second modules wirelessly communicate using millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation with one another via the first and second communication nodes.
US08422411B2	Flexible frame structure in wireless communication system A wireless communication system frame structure configurable to serve to half-duplex user terminals or a mixture of half-duplex and full-duplex user terminals based on a grouping of the user terminals according to one or more criteria. In one embodiment, user terminals are switched from one group to another. A user terminal signaling mechanism is also provided.
US08422406B2	Identifying callers in telecommunications networks A system and method that allows different participants in a conference call to be identified at a receiving terminal includes watermarking speech data when the uplink information from the terminals of the participants is received at the telecommunications network. The speech data is then combined at a conference bridge in the network and is transmitted in the downlink to the receiving terminal. The receiving terminal uses the watermarks to identify from which of the participants the received speech data originated and is operable to reproduce the speech data from the respective participants at different positions in a 2D or 3D space to help the user of the receiver terminal to identify contributions made by the respective participants.
US08422405B2	Mobile switching center platform having interfaces with functionalities defined by an architecture that provides packet-switched multimedia subscriber services A mobile switching center platform includes a circuit-switched switch to establish circuit-switched communications sessions on behalf of at least one wireless terminal. The mobile switching platform further includes interfaces having functionalities defined by an architecture that provides packet-switched multimedia subscriber services, wherein at least one of the interfaces is to enable the mobile switching center platform to communicate with a packet-switched subscriber access network through which the mobile switching center platform establishes packet-switched communications sessions with at least one terminal device.
US08422404B2	Method and device for transmitting packets A method for transmitting a packet including a packet data fragment and packet information with a transmission device, the method includes determining a concatenated quantity of packets based on size of the packet data fragment, generating a concatenated packet including packet data fragments corresponding to a plurality of first packets, wherein a number of the packet data fragments is determined based on the concatenated quantity, and packet information corresponding to the first packets, and transmitting the concatenated packet in any one of a plurality of communication cycles.
US08422397B2	Method and apparatus for rapid session routing A gateway device at a user premises edge of a wide area network implements a method for rapidly routing a media session. for an application layer service. The gateway device receivers a request from a first endpoint device to create the media session with a second device. The request includes an application layer identifier for the second device. The method involves accessing a routing table within the gateway device using the application layer identifier and obtaining, from the internal routing table a network layer address for communication with the second device. The gateway device then creates a route for the media session for the application layer service via bi-directional network layer communications through at least one of its interfaces using the network layer address.
US08422392B2	System and method for microeconomic multiplexing of data over communication channels A system and method for optimal allocation of bandwidth in a multichannel transmission channel. In an embodiment, a system may allocate a specific amount of bandwidth in the transmission channel in order to maximize the value of the data that is transmitted on a per-channel basis. Typically, a transmission channel has enough bandwidth to accommodate the minimum bandwidth for all data across all channels. The excess bandwidth may be allocated in an optimal manner so as to provide additional bandwidth for the most valuable channels. The maximum allocation of bandwidth is a point in which allocating additional bandwidth to a channel does not yield any additional value. Such an allocation may be accomplished using an iterative analysis of the available bandwidth and a microeconomic-based analysis of the subjective value of each channel.
US08422388B2	Graceful degradation for communication services over wired and wireless networks A method for gracefully extending the range and/or capacity of voice communication systems is disclosed. The method involves the persistent storage of voice media on a communication device. When the usable bit rate on the network is poor and below that necessary for conducting a live conversation, voice media is transmitted and received by the communication device at the available usable bit rate on the network. Although latency may be introduced, the persistent storage of both transmitted and received media of a conversation provides the ability to extend the useful range of wireless networks beyond what is required for live conversations. In addition, the capacity and robustness in not being affected by external interferences for both wired and wireless communications is improved.
US08422386B2	Abnormal traffic detection apparatus, abnormal traffic detection method and abnormal traffic detection program An abnormal traffic detection apparatus for detecting an abnormal traffic toward a communication apparatus by using information on traffics passing through a switch, comprising destination IP address counting units (C1 to C4) configured to store amount information on amount of traffics as an amount information table corresponding to each communication apparatus, a traffic separating unit (21) for registering amount information on a new destination IP address in the amount information table corresponding to the destination IP address, each time a traffics having the new destination IP address passes through the switch, and storing the amount information in the amount information table corresponding to each communication apparatus, and abnormal traffic judging units (J1 to J4) for detecting an abnormality of the traffic amount flowing through the switch on the basis of the amount information stored in the amount information table.
US08422379B2	Method of simple and efficient failure resilient load balancing A resilient load balancing method uses fixed paths and a fixed path-splitting strategy to enable ingress routers to efficiently reroute traffic after a failure. An off-line management system computes a set of fixed paths and a set of splitting ratios for routing demand from ingress routers to egress routers, with sufficient capacity to meet demands under each failure scenario. That data is then used by the ingress router to reroute demand after observing a failure.
US08422376B2	Routing under heavy loading According to the invention, a delivery network for assisting delivery of content objects over an Internet is disclosed. The delivery network includes a network outlet, an interface and a routing function. The network outlet is coupled to a plurality of full-route networks, where each of the plurality of full-route networks is capable of delivering content objects to a plurality of terminal networks. The plurality of terminal networks include a terminal network, where the plurality of terminal networks are coupled to a plurality of end user computers. The interface receives content objects for delivery to the plurality of end user computers. The routing function routes content objects in at least two modes, where a first mode routes content objects based upon a first route path from the network outlet to the terminal network, and a second mode routes at least some content objects using a second route path from the network outlet to the terminal network. The first route path is chosen based upon delivery efficiency. Switching from the first mode to the second mode is triggered when at least of a portion of the first route path reaches a predetermined level of use. The first and second route paths are different, and the second route path is less efficient than the first route path.
US08422373B2	Adaptive multi-rate codec bit rate control in a wireless system In an exemplary embodiment a method includes monitoring traffic in one or more cells; determining that the traffic in one of the cells is congested; and responsive to the determining, initiating a rate change for at least one ongoing connection within the cell. Apparatus and computer programs are also determined for both a user equipment and a network node.
US08422363B2	Method and apparatus for service protection A method and apparatus for realizing service protection are provided. The method includes the following steps: determining paths corresponding to automatic protection switching (APS)/protection communication channel (PCC) overhead bytes that are available to all nodes in a service protection trail; selecting a path for service protection from the determined paths corresponding to the APS/PCC; and using the selected path for implementing the service protection. Therefore, it is ensured that several service protections using APS/PCC may coexist in an optical transport network (OTN) and different kinds of service protection can be easily distinguished from one another.
US08422356B2	Base station, user apparatus, and method A base station used in a mobile communications system which uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) for downlink is disclosed. The base station includes: a unit which provides a reference signal; a unit which multiplexes a control signal and the reference signal, and generates a transmit symbol; and a unit which inverse Fourier transforms the transmit symbol and wirelessly transmits the transformed transmit symbol, wherein a first sequence including a random code sequence and a second sequence belonging to an orthogonal-code sequence group are multiplied with the reference signal, mutually different ones of the orthogonal code sequences are used in the respective multiple sectors belonging to the same cell, and different ones of the random code sequences are used in the respective two or more cells.
US08422347B2	Method for determining phase difference of tracking error signal in optical disc drive A method for determining a phase difference of a tracking error signal is provided. The method includes: predetermining a plurality of phase differences, measuring MPP and SPP signals, establishing a phase difference curve by use of an amplitude ratio between (MPP+SPP) and (MPP−SPP), measuring MPP and SPP signals for a tracking error signal under test, calculating the amplitude ratio (MPP+SPP)/(MPP−SPP), and comparing with the phase difference curve to promptly determine the phase difference.
US08422342B1	Energy assisted magnetic recording disk drive using a distributed feedback laser A method and system for providing an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) disk drive are described. The EAMR disk drive includes a media, a slider having a trailing face and an air-bearing surface (ABS), at least one distributed feedback (DFB) layer and at least one EAMR transducer on the slider. The DFB laser(s) each includes a plurality of quantum wells, a laser coupling grating, at least one reflector, and a cavity in the at least one DFB laser. The DFB laser(s) for providing energy to the media. The EAMR transducer(s) includes at least one waveguide, a write pole, at least one coil for energizing the write pole, at least one grating, and may include a near-field transducer. The grating(s) include a coupling grating for coupling the energy from the at least one DFB laser to the waveguide(s). The waveguide(s) direct the energy from the at least one grating toward the ABS.
US08422341B2	Device and method for recording and/or reproducing data onto/from information recording medium by using near-field light and information recording medium An apparatus 100 according to the present invention is designed to read and/or write data from/on an information recording medium 1 using near-field light. The apparatus 100 includes: a light source 3 for emitting laser light; a condensing section 7 for producing the near-field light based on the laser light; a detecting section 22, 23 for detecting the relative positions of the condensing section 7 and the information recording medium 1; and a control section 14 for controlling the position of the condensing section 7. In starting a gap servo operation, the control section 14 controls the position of the condensing section 7 so that the gap servo operation is started at a different location on the information recording medium 1 from any other location where the gap servo operation has ever been started.
US08422336B2	Operating method for an ultra-sound sensor An operating method adapted in an ultra-sound sensor is provided. The method includes the steps of emitting an ultra-sound wave, receiving a crosstalk signal within a crosstalk measuring window, determining whether the crosstalk signal is larger than a crosstalk threshold and triggering a crosstalk application if the crosstalk signal is smaller than the crosstalk threshold.
US08422335B2	Apparatus and method for imaging subsurface structure of target area by using waveform inversion Provided are an apparatus and method for imaging the subsurface structure of a target area by using waveform inversion. In the apparatus and method, the subsurface structure of a target area is estimated using waveform inversion of a seismic signal in the frequency domain, the Laplace domain, or the Laplace-Fourier domain, and an objective function is defined by applying a weighting function such that the objective function makes a different contribution for each frequency, each Laplace damping constant, or each Laplace-Fourier damping constant. The objective function is not limited to a particular type of objective function and a weighting function can be automatically determined when a gradient vector for each frequency, each Laplace damping constant, or each Laplace-Fourier damping constant is normalized. In addition, a gradient direction for all frequencies can be defined by applying another weighting function to the sum of respective gradient vectors for all frequencies, all Laplace damping constants, or all Laplace-Fourier damping constants, wherein the weighting function can also be automatically determined by normalization.
US08422324B2	Method and apparatus for sending test mode signals A test mode signal system includes: a test mode block for generating a plurality, N, of test mode signals; a test mode send block, for generating and outputting a pulsed signal according to a command signal, and for multiplexing the N test mode signals in sets according to the pulsed signal and outputting the multiplexed pairs of test mode signals over M signal wires wherein M is less than N, such that each signal wire carries a multiplexed set of the N test mode signals; and a test mode receive block, for receiving the multiplexed sets of N test mode signals and the pulsed signal and demultiplexing each multiplexed set of N test mode signals according to the pulsed signal.
US08422322B2	Self-repair integrated circuit and repair method A method for repairing degraded field effect transistors includes forward biasing PN junctions of one of a source and a drain of a field effect transistor (FET), and a body of the FET. Charge is injected from a substrate to a gate region to neutralize charge in the gate region. The method is applicable to CMOS devices. Repair circuits are disclosed for implementing the repairs.
US08422321B2	Semiconductor memory device having regular area and spare area Memory arrays ARY0 and ARY1 each include a regular area 108 and spare area 110. Fuse circuits FS0 and FS1 each store a relief address. Relief determination circuits RJ0 and RJ1 are provided so as to correspond to the fuse circuits FS0 and FS1, respectively. The relief determination circuits RJ0 and RJ1 each determine whether a designation address is the relief address or not. An access control circuit AC specifies an access destination from the memory array ARY0 or ARY1 according to the determination results. When it is determined by the relief determination circuit RJ0 that the designation address corresponds to the relief address, the access control circuit AC selects one of the memory arrays ARY0 and ARY1 according to CX13T<1:0> and selects the spare area 110 included in the selected memory array ARY as an access target.
US08422318B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device, including a plurality of control signal generation units each generating a control signal that is enabled when a column enable signal and a row enable signal are enabled, and a plurality of local sense amplifiers each sensing and amplifying data transmitted via a pair of local input/output (I/O) lines and then outputting the amplified data via a pair of global I/O lines, in response to a read or write signal and a corresponding control signal.
US08422311B1	EPROM erasing apparatus and method for erasing an EPROM(s) A EPROM erasing apparatus and method for erasing an EPROM(s). The EPROM(s) is erased using light emitted from an ultraviolet light emitting diode.
US08422284B2	High density spin torque three dimensional (3D) memory arrays addressed with microwave current One embodiment of the present invention includes a three dimensional memory array having a plurality of memory elements coupled to form the array through a single top lead and a single bottom lead, each memory element including a magnetic free layer in which non-volatile data can be stored, wherein each memory element possesses unique resonant frequencies associated with each digital memory state, thereby enabling frequency addressing during parallel write and read operations, each memory element further including a fixed layer and a spacer formed between the free layer and the fixed layer.
US08422276B2	Spacer structure in MRAM cell and method of its fabrication Methods are presented for fabricating an MTJ element having a uniform vertical distance between its free layer and a bit line and, in addition, having a protective spacer layer formed abutting the lateral sides of the MTJ element to eliminate leakage currents between MTJ layers and the bit line. Each method forms a dielectric spacer layer on the lateral sides of the MTJ element and, depending on the method, includes an additional layer that protects the spacer layer during etching processes used to form a Cu damascene bit line. At various stages in the process, a dielectric layer is also formed to act as a CMP stop layer so that the capping layer on the MTJ element is not thinned by the CMP process that planarizes the surrounding insulation. Subsequent to planarization, the stop layer is removed by an anisotropic etch of such precision that the MTJ element capping layer is not reduced in thickness and serves to maintain uniform vertical distance between the bit line and the MTJ free layer.
US08422269B2	Semiconductor memory device A control circuit applies a first voltage to selected one of first lines and applies a second voltage having a voltage value smaller than that of the first voltage to selected one of second lines, such that a certain potential difference is applied across a memory cell disposed at an intersection of the selected one of the first lines and the selected one of the second lines. A current limiting circuit sets a compliance current defining an upper limit of a cell current flowing in the memory cell, and controls such that the cell current flowing in the memory cell does not exceed the compliance current. The current limiting circuit comprises a current generating circuit and a first current mirror circuit. The current generating circuit generates a first current having a current value equal to a current value of the cell current at a certain timing multiplied by a certain constant. The first current mirror circuit mirrors the first current to a current path supplying the first voltage to the first lines.
US08422268B2	Current control element, memory element, and fabrication method thereof A memory element (3) arranged in matrix in a memory device and including a resistance variable element (1) which switches its electrical resistance value in response to a positive or negative electrical pulse applied thereto and retains the switched electrical resistance value; and a current control element (2) for controlling a current flowing when the electrical pulse is applied to the resistance variable element (1); wherein the current control element (2) includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a current control layer sandwiched between the first electrode and the second electrode; and wherein the current control layer comprises SiNx, and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises α-tungsten.
US08422266B2	Quantum dot optical devices with enhanced gain and sensitivity and methods of making same Various embodiment include optical and optoelectronic devices and methods of making same. Under one aspect, an optical device includes an integrated circuit having an array of conductive regions, and an optically sensitive material over at least a portion of the integrated circuit and in electrical communication with at least one conductive region of the array of conductive regions. Under another aspect, a film includes a network of fused nanocrystals, the nanocrystals having a core and an outer surface, wherein the core of at least a portion of the fused nanocrystals is in direct physical contact and electrical communication with the core of at least one adjacent fused nanocrystal, and wherein the film has substantially no defect states in the regions where the cores of the nanocrystals are fused. Additional devices and methods are described.
US08422256B2	Control system for high-efficiency operation in parallel inverter installations A control system for parallel connected inverter legs energized by a power source and configured for servicing a load is disclosed. The invention facilitates the number of running inverter legs to adaptively react to changes in the load by dynamically switching various inverter legs “on” or “off” in response to variations in load demand, while continuing magnetization of an output transformer connected with an “off” inverter leg via a back-feed from another output transformer of an “on” inverter leg, greatly improving the dynamic response to load changes. This design enables a fast reaction to load changes with “off” inverter legs transitioning to on-line operation instantaneously.
US08422254B2	Voltage source converter A Voltage Source Converter having at least one phase leg connected to opposite poles of a direct voltage side of the converter and comprising a series connection of switching cells has inductance means comprising a plurality of inductors built in in said series connection of switching cells and connected in series with these cells by being connected to terminals thereof.
US08422253B2	Circuit regulator and synchronous timing pulse generation circuit thereof A circuit regulator is used to generate a pulse-width-modulation signal, so as to control a power to be selectively input or not input to a primary side of a switching power supply. The circuit regulator includes a synchronous timing pulse generation circuit, outputs a starting pulse after performing signal process of time delay, timing pulse regulation, and synchronization control on a pulse-width-modulation signal and a discharging time signal of a secondary side, and accordingly effectively controls a pulse starting time of the pulse-width-modulation signal. Therefore, the synchronous timing pulse generation circuit can be applied to the circuit regulator, so as to further effectively prevent an inductor current of the switching power supply from entering a Continuous Conduction Mode (CCM).
US08422251B2	Circuit arrangements for operating a household appliance A circuit for operating a household appliance, wherein the circuit includes a switched-mode power supply for converting the power supply of a public power supply network into direct supply voltage. The circuit also includes a controller that is connected to the switched-mode power supply for being supplied with the direct supply voltage and for controlling processes of the household appliance. An EMC filter is provided to protect the public supply network from interference signals from the household appliance. The EMC filter includes a condenser that is connected between a phase conductor pole and a neutral conductor pole of the public power supply network; a bleeder resistor that is connected in parallel with the condenser; and a switch that can be activated by the controller to connect the condenser and the bleeder resistor to the neutral conductor pole.
US08422236B2	Pin module and chip on board type use device Provided are a pin module and a universal serial bus (USB) device. The USB device includes: a substrate including a first side and a second side, the second side opposite to the first side; at least one memory chip mounted on the first side of the substrate; at least one controller chip mounted on the first side of the substrate; a plurality of first planar electrodes formed on the second side of the substrate; a plurality of second planar electrodes formed on the second side of the substrate; and a sealing material housing the memory chip, the controller chip, the first planar electrodes, and the second planar electrodes, wherein the sealing material exposes one sides of the first planar electrodes and the second planar electrodes.
US08422229B2	Molded heat sink and method of making same A heat sink for use with a heat generating component includes a molded cooling block including a molded cooling passage for receiving a cooling medium. The cooling block is configured to be positioned in sufficient heat transfer relationship with respect to the heat generating component so that the cooling medium receives heat from the heat generating component.
US08422215B2	Handheld electronic device A handheld electronic device includes first, second and third bodies, first and second pivot members pivot to the first body and a gear set. The second body having a pillar is slidably disposed on the first pivot member. The third body having a rack is slidably disposed on the second pivot member, the second body stacked between the first and third bodies. The gear set is disposed on the first body and coupled with the pillar and the rack. When the third body moves relatively to the first body along a first operation direction for driving the second body to move relatively to the first body along a second operation direction opposite to the first operation direction to be exposed by the third body, the first and second pivot members rotate relatively to the first body to drive the second and third bodies to tilt relatively to the first body.
US08422213B2	Slider electronic device An electronic device includes a main body, a display body, two adjustment assemblies, and a support assembly. The display body is movably positioned on the main body. Each adjustment assembly includes a guide shaft fixed on the main body, a slide member slidable relative to and along the guide shaft, and a rotary member. One end of the rotary member rotatably connects with the slide member, and the other end of the rotary member is rotatably connected to the display body. The support assembly is disposed on the main body to support and maintain the display at predetermined angles relative to the main body.
US08422212B2	Electronic device with separable module An electronic device includes a display unit and a main unit having a separable module and a base. The separable module is provided along two opposite shorter edges with a plurality of hooking elements, and has at least one carrier member located on one side of the separable module. The base includes a plurality of retaining slots corresponding to the hooking elements, and at least one magnetic element located on one side of the base facing toward the carrier member. To cover the separable module onto the base, first cause the carrier member to be magnetically attracted to the at least one magnetic element and align the hooking elements with the retaining slots, and, then, move the separable module for the hooking elements to engage with the retaining slots, so that the separable module is held to the base.
US08422208B2	Stand fixing mechanism and electronic device using the same An electronic device with a stand fixing mechanism is provided. The electronic device includes a main body, a stand, and a stand fixing mechanism. The stand is fixed in the main body to support the main body. The stand fixing mechanism includes a first connection member within the main body and a second connection member at one end of the stand. The first connection member defines a first cutout and a third cutout. A first and a second protruding member protrude from the second connection member. The first cutout receives and the second cutout correspondingly receive the first and second protruding member when the stand is fixed to the main body, a securing force applied to the first protruding member by the first cutout is greater than that applied to the second protruding member by the second cutout. An electronic device applying the stand fixing mechanism is also provided.
US08422205B2	Housing for electronic devices and method for making the same An electronic device includes a housing and an electronic module. The housing includes a transparent main body, a masking layer partially adhered to the transparent main body, and a cover. A bare area is exposed forming the masking layer to define a transparent window. The housing defines a receiving chamber and an open end communicating with the receiving chamber. The electronic module includes a touch display screen. The electronic module is received in the receiving chamber, the touch display screen aligns to the transparent window, and the cover seals the open end. The present disclosure further discloses a housing for the electronic device and a method for making the housing.
US08422202B2	Capacitor and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a capacitor that enables a capacitor having a high degree of conductivity and minimal leakage current to be obtained with a high level of productivity. A method for manufacturing a capacitor (10) according to the present invention includes an electrolytic oxidation step of forming a dielectric layer (12) by electrolytically oxidizing the surface of an anode (11) composed of a valve metal, a cathode positioning step of positioning a cathode (13) composed of a conductor in an opposing arrangement on the surface of the dielectric layer (12), a solid electrolyte formation step of forming a solid electrolyte layer (14) between the dielectric layer (12) and the cathode (13) using a conductive polymer solution containing a π-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion, and an application step of performing a treatment in which a direct current voltage is applied between the anode (11) and the cathode (13).
US08422197B2	Applying optical energy to nanoparticles to produce a specified nanostructure The instant article of manufacture is made by applying optical energy to one or more layers of nanoparticulate materials under predetermined conditions to produce a nanostructure. The nanostructure has layers of optically fused nanoparticles including a predetermined pore density, a predetermined pore size, or both. The predetermined conditions for applying the optical energy may include a predetermined voltage, a predetermined duration, a predetermined power density, or combinations thereof.
US08422188B2	ESD protection device An ESD protection device that has low capacitance, excellent discharge characteristics, and improved heat resistance and weather resistance is provided. A functional layer 31, which is a composite having a conductive inorganic material 33 discretely dispersed in a matrix of an insulating inorganic material 32, is disposed between electrodes 21 and 22 disposed on an insulating substrate 11 and facing but spaced apart from each other.
US08422178B2	Hybrid power relay using communications link A control circuit for controlling an arc suppression circuit includes a serial communication link communicating a serial signal therethrough. The control circuit includes a microprocessor having a serial input communicating with the serial communication link. The microprocessor generates a control output signal in response to the serial signal. The control circuit further includes the arc suppression circuit having an electrical contact and operating in response to the control output signal to reduce an arc at the electrical contact.
US08422173B2	Dual pole magnet linear actuator A dual pole linear actuator includes a dual pole magnet assembly that is moved by providing a bi-directional analog DC control signal to a dual wound coil. The dual pole magnet assembly includes a permanent magnet that is flanked by top and bottom pole pieces. The dual wound coil is assembled to an actuator housing with a top part of the coil being wound in one rotary direction, while the bottom part of the coil is wound in the opposite rotary direction.
US08422162B2	Determining a reference waveform used by a correlator in a servo channel Provided are a method, servo channel, and tape drive for determining a reference waveform used by a correlator in a servo channel. Sequences of servo signal samples are provided from read servo signals read from a servo pattern on a recording medium. A determination is made of a reference waveform based on the sequences of servo signal samples and the reference waveform is forwarded. Interpolated servo signals are generated. The interpolated servo signal samples and the forwarded reference waveform are received to generate correlation output samples. Position and velocity information are calculated from the correlation output samples.
US08422151B2	Wide-angle imaging lens module The wide-angle imaging lens module includes four lenses arranged from an object side to an image side in a sequence of: the first lens, having a positive refractive power, a convex surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface; a diaphragm; the second lens, having a positive refractive power, a concave surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface; the third lens, having a positive refractive power, a concave surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface; the fourth lens, having a negative refractive power, a convex surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface. The first and the second lenses perform a symmetry concave, providing the wider field of view angle and the larger aperture. A structural design that allows lenses to restrain better aberrations performances of aspheric surfaces further provides high-definition and high imaging qualities.
US08422139B2	Imaging lens and imaging module In order to attain an imaging lens whose resolution performance is totally excellent, the imaging lens is in a shape of rotation symmetry in an optical effective aperture, and an image height-MTF property of the imaging lens is designed such that a maximum MTF value of a peripheral region where the image height is greater than zero is greater than an MTF value of a center region where the image height is zero in at least one of a sagittal direction and a tangential direction. This makes it possible to totally maintain an excellent resolution performance of a product even in a case where the performance of the product becomes unstable due to a tolerance that occurs at the time of manufacturing the product.
US08422136B2	Electronic element wafer module; electronic element module; sensor wafer module; sensor module; lens array plate; manufacturing method for the sensor module; and electronic information device An electronic element wafer module is provided, comprising: an electronic element wafer arranged with a plurality of electronic elements having a through hole electrode; a resin adhesion layer formed in a predetermined area on the electronic element wafer; a transparent cover member covering the electronic element wafer and fixed on the resin adhesion layer; and a plurality of resin optical elements adhered and fixed on the transparent cover member to be integrated in such a manner to correspond to the respective plurality of electronic elements.
US08422130B2	Portable magnifying instrument useful for colposcopy A portable magnifying instrument useful for colposcopy is provided which may include in combination an optical system capable of providing a distortion free clear continuously varying 10× to 15× magnification of a three-dimensional wide object; an integrated energy efficient, low powered and intensity controlled illumination system; a power pack and mounting. The optical system may have an eyepiece lens system and an objective lens system. The illumination system may have a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) connected to the power pack; mounted in such a manner that the angle between the LEDs is maintained with respect to the optical axis of the lens system and that the light beam from the said LEDs impinges on the wide object to be observed at the focus of the said lens system.
US08422126B2	Crystalline infrared reflective films Provided are infrared reflective films comprising a substrate and at least one infrared reflective layer comprising an aminium radical cation compound in a crystalline state and an organic polymer, wherein the infrared reflective layer has a reflectance peak in the infrared region from 1250 nm to 1700 nm. Such infrared films are stable in their optical properties against degradation by light and moisture. Also provided are solar control window films, security markings, and other optical articles comprising such infrared reflective films. Further provided are methods for making such infrared reflective films.
US08422124B2	Seed light module for passive optical network A spectrum-sliced seed light module for a wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM PON) is provided. The seed light module includes an optical amplifier to amplify seed light, an optical wavelength filter to transmit broadband light, which is output in opposite direction to an output direction of the seed light, at periodic frequency intervals, and a reflective mirror to reflect light which is spectrum-sliced through the optical wavelength filter to the optical wavelength filter.
US08422118B2	PLC-type delay demodulation circuit A PLC-type delay demodulation circuit includes a planar lightwave circuit that is provided on one PLC chip and demodulates a DQPSK signal. The planar lightwave circuit includes a Y-branch waveguide that branches a DQPSK-modulated optical signal into two optical signals and first and second MZIs that delay the branched optical signals by one bit. The length of a short arm waveguide of the first MZI is different from the length of a short arm waveguide of the second MZI, and the length of an optical path from the Y-branch waveguide to output ports of the first MZI through the short arm waveguide of the first MZI is equal to that of an optical path from the Y-branch waveguide to output ports of the second MZI through the short arm waveguide of the second MZI.
US08422108B2	Method and device for modulating light with optical compensation An interferometric modulator (Imod) cavity has a reflector and an induced absorber. A direct view reflective flat panel display may include an array of the modulators. Adjacent spacers of different thicknesses are fabricated on a substrate by a lift-off technique used to pattern the spacers which are deposited separately, each deposition providing a different thickness of spacer. Or a patterned photoresist may be used to allow for an etching process to selectively etch back the thickness of a spacer which was deposited in a single deposition. A full-color static graphical image may be formed of combined patterns of interferometric modulator cavities. Each cavity includes a reflector, and an induced absorber, the induced absorber including a spacer having a thickness that defines a color associated with the cavity.
US08422107B2	Optical scanning device, image display device and retinal scanning display An optical scanning device includes an optical scanning element which has a reflection mirror and is configured to perform reciprocating scanning of an optical flux radiated from a light source by resonance oscillations of the reflection mirror; a photo detector which is arranged at a position which a portion of the optical flux scanned by the optical scanning element in a reciprocating manner passes in both outgoing-path scanning and incoming-path scanning, and is configured to output a pulse signal having a predetermined width at a point of time that the scanned optical flux is detected; and the reference signal generator which is configured to detect timing between rising edge timing of one pulse signal and falling edge timing of the other pulse signal out of two pulse signals continuously outputted from the photo detector, and to generate the reference signal based on intermediate timing between the edge timings.
US08422105B2	Image forming apparatus including a display apparatus having a memory configured to retain settings concerning components forming a display component, a display control method, and a computer-readable recording medium thereof A display apparatus for displaying an information screen and an operation screen concerning an apparatus to which the display apparatus is connected, is disclosed, including: a screen display request receiving part, a display component creating part, and a display component drawing part. The screen display request receiving part receives a screen display request from the apparatus. The display component creating part creates a display component to display at a screen, in response to the screen display request received by the screen display request receiving part. The display component drawing part draws the display component created by the display component creating part.
US08422098B2	Document data capturing device A document data capturing device includes a sheet supply tray for carrying documents, a sheet discharge tray located below the sheet supply tray, and a document conveying mechanism including a conveying path along which documents are guided from the sheet supply tray to the sheet discharge tray. The document data capturing device includes a first data-capturing unit and a second data-capturing unit which scan respective sides of a document conveyed by the document conveying mechanism. The first data-capturing unit and the second data-capturing unit are each configured with a reduction-optics scanning mechanism. The conveying path along which a document to be scanned by the first and second scanning mechanisms is conveyed is formed to surround the second reduction-optics data-capturing unit. Thus, the device can be made compact.
US08422085B2	Image reader and image forming apparatus There are provided an image reader with high resolution capability for images in a high density range and an image forming apparatus. An image reader 2 comprises a reflected light reading unit (11, 12, 13, 14, 10) for irradiating a surface to be read of an original sheet with a light and reading the amount of the reflected light and a transmitted light reading unit (15, 12, 13, 14, 10) for irradiating the original sheet with a light and reading the amount of the transmitted light, and calculates the density of an image of the original sheet based on the amount of the reflected light read by the reflected light reading unit and the amount of the transmitted light read by the transmitted light reading unit.
US08422083B2	Calibration mechanism and scanner has the calibration mechanism A calibration mechanism is positioned in a scanning device having a scanning module for scanning a document. The scanning module defines a scanning line perpendicular to a scanned area of the document. The calibration mechanism includes a calibration unit, a supporting unit supporting the calibration unit, and a driving unit. The calibration unit is positioned to face the scanning module and aligned with the scanning line. The driving unit drives the calibration unit to move close to the scanning module and away from the scanning module along the scanning line. The scanning module obtains great brightness value by scanning the calibration unit, if the calibration unit is close to the scanning module. The scanning module obtains small brightness value by scanning the calibration unit, if the calibration unit is far from the scanning module.
US08422082B2	Reducing ink bleed artifacts for RGB images A method for modifying an input digital image having three color channels, to form a modified digital image suitable for use by an inkjet printer having reduced ink bleed artifacts comprising computing a transformed digital image containing at least a black color channel and a color dependent scale factor channel, computing a filtered black color channel using a convolution operation, and forming the modified digital image in response to the corresponding pixel values of the color dependent scale factor channel and the filtered black color channel, so that when the modified digital image is used to produce a printed image on an inkjet printer there are reduced ink bleed artifacts.
US08422079B2	Image forming apparatus and image correction method for correcting scan-line position error with error diffusion It is determined whether the pixel of interest in image data to be processed belongs to area 1 not close to a scan line changing point where a scan line changing process is done (S101). If the pixel of interest belongs to area 1, an error diffusion process is performed using an error diffusion matrix for area 1 (S102). If the pixel of interest belongs to area 2 close to the scan line changing point, the error diffusion process is performing using an error diffusion matrix for downward scan line changing for area 2 when the scan line changing process is changing to a lower line, or an error diffusion matrix for upward scan line changing for area 2 when the scan line changing process is changing to an upper line.
US08422078B2	Method of processing neutral gray color print jobs as monochrome black during billing detection and printing as a neutral gray composite black A method of converting a RIPped K-only page or pixels to composite black in a digital print engine is included which executes the conversion process during current job workflow, while detecting the K-only page or pixels for billing purposes as K-only, and printed out as composite black.
US08422071B2	Information conversion method, information conversion apparatus, and information conversion program Reproduction can be adjusted according to the degree of achromatopsia and the color distribution of an image, and color reproduction approximate to the vision of normal persons is provided to achromates. Different textures are added to respective regions (similar and hardly indistinguishable regions) which have different colors but conduce to similar result of light-reception by a light receiving device according to the differences of the original colors. The textures include a pattern of angle, hatching, or contrast each different according to the difference of the original color.
US08422070B2	Image processing apparatus, method, and computer readable storage medium for toner reduction based on image data type and area size The image processing apparatus is provided with: a reception unit that receives image information; an acquisition unit that acquires target information on a targeted level of an image forming material used at image formation based on the image information received by the reception unit; and a determination unit that determines a content of processing for reducing the image forming material for each portion of the image information received by the reception unit in accordance with the target information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US08422069B2	Image forming device creating a preview image An image forming device may be provided with a setting data storage device, a preview image creation device, and an output device. The setting data storage device may be capable of storing a plurality of patterns of setting data. The preview image creation device may create, for each pattern of setting data stored in the setting data storage device, a preview image to which the pattern of setting data is reflected. The output device may output the plurality of preview images created by the preview image creation device.
US08422068B2	Image processor for automatically fitting extracted frame images on a page An image processor is connectable with a storing medium storing still image data corresponding to a still image and moving image data corresponding to a moving image, the moving image data including a plurality of sets of frame image data corresponding to a plurality of frame images respectively. The image processor includes an outputting unit, an extracting unit, and index image producing unit, and a layout unit. The outputting unit outputs an image list having a first layout area having a first layout size and a second layout area having a second layout size. The extracting unit extracts at least two sets of frame image data from the plurality of sets of frame image data. The index image producing unit produces a first index image from the still image data and a plurality of second index images from the extracted frame image data. The layout unit lays out the first index image in the first layout area and the plurality of second index images in the second layout area.
US08422067B2	Image forming apparatus and method utilizing see-through prevention patterns to increase transillumination document security An image forming apparatus has an image data reading section that reads image data formed on a document, an image processing section that separates regions where effective information is present from the read image data so as to determine, for every separated region, a shape of a see-through preventing pattern and a position at which the see-through preventing pattern is formed, and an image printing section that prints the determined see-through preventing pattern at a part on a back surface of a recording sheet on which the document is printed, on the basis of the information of the determined position at which the see-through preventing pattern is formed, the part corresponding to any of the regions where the effective information of the document is present.
US08422063B2	Image forming apparatus, printing job carrying out method and computer readable information recording medium An image forming apparatus associating user identification information with printing jobs and carrying out the printing jobs previously stored, obtains specifying information that specifies the user identification information when a portable recording medium that stores the specifying information is set; requests an authentication part to authenticate the user by using the specifying information; permits logging in of the user when the user has been authenticated; obtains a job list of the printing jobs associated with the user identification information when the user has been authenticated; displays the job list on a display part; receives a selection of one or more printing jobs from the job list; causes printing data of the one or more printing jobs to be printed; and requests stopping of the printing when it is detected that the portable recording medium is unset.
US08422059B2	Information processing apparatus and control method therefor An information processing apparatus capable of freely and dynamically defining a releasing procedure of a using limitation of an apparatus and an deleting procedure for information held in an apparatus by a manager. An acquisition unit acquires information about an expiration date of the apparatus. A first determination unit determines whether the expiration date expires based on the acquired information. A limitation unit limits use of the apparatus when the expiration date expires. A registration unit registers a specific processing procedure executed by the apparatus as work flow information. A second determination unit determines whether the work flow information has been registered. A third determination unit determines whether a user instructs an execution of the processing procedure when the work flow information has been registered. An execution unit executes the processing procedure under the use limited condition, when the user instructs the execution of the processing procedure.
US08422048B2	Image forming apparatus and method An image forming apparatus associates a plurality of pieces of user information with a single user identifier, and furthermore, stores keys corresponding to keys that are used for signing in association with the respective pieces of user information. Furthermore, when a user uses the image forming apparatus, jobs for which user information attached to the jobs matches user information that is identified when the user uses the image forming apparatus are extracted, signature verification is performed on respective pieces of signature data attached to the extracted jobs, using the keys held in a user information table, and jobs that are successfully verified are further extracted and listed.
US08422045B2	Image forming apparatus specifying a file to be printed from files stored in a storage medium One aspect of the present invention can include an image forming apparatus having an access portion configured to access an external storage medium, a file specification portion configured to specify a file to be a printing object, from files stored in the storage medium, a printing portion configured to execute, in accordance with printing conditions, data development processing of the file specified by the file specification portion and execute processing of printing to a printing medium on the basis of the developed data obtained by the data development processing, a printing history storage portion configured to store printing conditions used in the printing processing executed by the printing portion as printing history information. This aspect of the present invention can further include an acceptance portion configured to accept a printing history use instruction, and a printing control portion configured to, when the printing history use instruction is received and a file is specified by the file specification portion, cause printing processing of the specified file to be executed by the printing portion in accordance with the printing conditions stored as the printing history information.
US08422043B2	Watermarked document reading apparatus with improved error processing In a watermarked document printing apparatus, secret information is divided, error correction encoding is performed to each divided pieces of information, and the secret information is converted into a pattern image and embedded in paper. In a watermarked document reading apparatus, after extracting signals from the pattern image on the paper, a reading error is detected by decoding the error correction code for each divided pieces of information, and the portion where the reading error exists is read again. The scanning process is performed again only to the portion where the decoding cannot be performed due to the temporal malfunction of the scanner or the like. Therefore, the pattern image can efficiently be obtained.
US08422038B2	Information processing apparatus and storage medium readable by computer therefor for handling multiple page images An information processing apparatus includes: a display unit which displays images; an input unit through which an instruction is input from outside; a page image display processing unit which causes the display unit to display at least two page images each representing a print page; a page image moving unit which moves the at least two page images displayed on the display unit by the page image display processing unit, on the basis of the instruction input through the input unit from the outside; and a condition setting unit which sets a printing condition, on the basis of a positional relationship between at least two page images that are moved by the page image moving unit.
US08422030B2	Fringe projection system with intensity modulating by columns of a plurality of grating elements An intensity modulating element for a probe having a plurality of light emitters for phase-shift analysis and measurement is disclosed. The intensity modulating element comprises a plurality of columns of a plurality of grating elements formed by two opposing patterns.
US08422020B2	Variable spectral element The variable spectroscopic element includes a pair of optical substrates 21-22, four sensors 31-34, four piezoelectric elements 41-44, and a control section. The sensors 31, 33 are arranged to form symmetry with respect to the center axis, which links gravity centers of mutually facing surfaces of the optical substrates 21-22, and so are the sensors 32, 34. The control section calculates, from signals of the sensors 31-34, a distance x between the gravity centers of the mutually facing surfaces, and angles θ, φ each of which is formed by a plane perpendicular to the center axis and the facing surface of the movable substrate 22, to drive the piezoelectric elements 41-44 on the basis of the distance x, the angles θ, φ, and to carry out feedback control and feed forward control with respect to at least one of the distance x, the angle θ, and the angle φ.
US08422016B2	Non-contact and contact color sensor device An apparatus for color sensing is disclosed. The apparatus includes a set of color sensor tolerances for a Non-Contact color sensor device; and a Contact color sensor device, conforming to the set of color sensor tolerances.
US08422009B2	Foreign matter inspection method and foreign matter inspection apparatus In a foreign matter inspection apparatus comprising: irradiating unit for irradiating inspection light to an inspection area of an article to be inspected; intensity detecting unit for detecting intensity of either reflected light or scattered light, which is generated from the inspection area by irradiating thereto the inspection light; position detecting unit for detecting a position of either the reflected light or the scattered light within the inspection area; and deciding unit for deciding whether or not a foreign matter is present within the inspection area; the foreign matter inspection apparatus is comprised of: display unit capable of displaying thereon both a threshold image in which the threshold value is indicated over an entire area of the inspection area, and a detection sensitivity image indicated by being converted from the threshold image.
US08422008B2	Electrical machine component monitoring system and method An electrical machine component monitoring system includes a light source that provides an optical signal through a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic sensing component positioned on the electrical machine component or at a standoff distance from the electrical machine component to obtain a responsive optical signal representative of a condition of the electrical machine component. The system further includes a photodetector to receive the responsive optical signal from the fiber optic sensing component and to convert the responsive optical signal to an electrical signal. A processing circuitry is also provided in the system for determining information regarding dirt on the electrical machine component by analyzing the electrical signal.
US08422003B2	Device and method for the classification of transparent component in a material flow A device is disclosed for the classification of a transparent component of a material flow using an optical detector unit, with allocatable optical axis which is directed toward the material flow, at least one illumination unit for illuminating the material flow from a space over the material flow, in which the optical detector unit is also contained, and a classifier, which classifies the component based on information which is recorded from the component using the optical detector unit, and a decision criterion. A retroreflector is provided at least longitudinally relative to the optical axis of the detector unit, downstream from the material flow in the viewing direction of the detector, the illumination unit provides at least two light sources, with first light source emitting light of a first type and a second light source emitting light of a second type.
US08422001B2	Method of measuring the velocity of an aircraft by laser doppler anemometry Method of measuring the velocity of an aircraft at a given instant, by laser Doppler anemometry, by performing the steps of acquiring a backscattered signal on at least three oriented line-of-sight axes, and calculating the spectrum of the backscattered signal on each of the line-of-sight axes. Further, acquiring an additional backscattered signal on at least one additional line-of-sight axis (X4) not coincident with one of the three first line-of-sight axes (X1, X2, X3), and calculating the spectrum of the backscattered signal on the additional line-of-sight axis (X4). Several candidate velocity vectors ({right arrow over (V)}c) and of the projections of the candidate vectors on at least one line-of-sight axis (X1, X2, X3, X4) are calculated. The consistency of the candidate vectors ({right arrow over (V)}c) is calculated as a function of their projections and as a function of each spectrum of the corresponding backscattered signal on the respective calculation axis (X1, X2, X3, X4). The measured velocity vector ({right arrow over (V)}c) is chosen from among the candidate velocity vectors ({right arrow over (V)}c).
US08421998B2	Optical system, exposure apparatus, and method of manufacturing electronic device An aperture diaphragm plate is provided to define a light flux on a pupil plane of an optical system or a plane or surface disposed in the vicinity of the pupil plane. An aperture, which is formed in the aperture diaphragm plate, has a three-dimensional shape corresponding to an optimum pupil shape of the optical system. It is possible to improve the imaging characteristic brought about by the optical system by providing the optimum pupil shape of the optical system.
US08421984B2	Liquid crystal display device The electrode structure layer includes a transparent insulating film formed of a semiconductor oxide or a semiconductor nitride, the transparent insulating film being formed so as to separate a surface of the liquid crystal and a surface of a color filter layer facing each other; and a first transparent conductive film and a second transparent conductive film both formed of an oxide semiconductor, the first transparent conductive film and the second transparent conductive film being formed on both sides of the transparent insulating film. The color filter layer includes a first region formed of one colored layer; and a second region formed of at least two laminated colored layers. The second region has a convex portion, the convex portion being formed of the at least two laminated colored layers, and the convex portion retains a gap formed between the first substrate and a second substrate.
US08421978B2	Liquid crystal display panel comprising first connecting electrodes disposed on a padding device and electrically connected to active devices and to second connecting electrodes A liquid crystal display panel including an active device matrix substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal layer is provided. The active device matrix substrate includes a first substrate, an active device array, a padding device, first connecting electrodes, and shielding electrodes. The padding device is disposed on active devices and data lines of the active device array. The first connecting electrodes are located above the active devices and electrically connected to the active devices. The shielding electrodes are located above the data lines and electrically connected to a common voltage. The opposite substrate includes a second substrate, first electrodes, an insulating layer, second electrodes having slits and opposite to the first electrodes, spacers corresponding to the active devices, and second connecting electrodes covering the spacers to directly contact with the first connecting electrodes and electrically connected to the first electrodes or the second electrodes.
US08421977B2	Liquid crystal display device with pixel electrode having trapezoidal shape A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate including a pixel electrode which is disposed in each of pixels, a counter-substrate which is disposed to be opposed to the array substrate and includes a counter-electrode which is common to a plurality of the pixels, and a liquid crystal layer which is held between the array substrate and the counter-substrate. The pixel electrode includes a first major electrode portion having a strip shape, and the counter-electrode includes second major electrode portions each having a strip shape, the second major electrode portions being disposed in parallel to the first major electrode portion in a manner that the first major electrode portion is interposed between the second major electrode portions and that the first major electrode portion and the second major electrode portions are alternately arranged.
US08421969B2	Electrooptic device and electronic apparatus An electrooptic device includes a first substrate, a second substrate which is arranged so as to be opposed to the first substrate, a plurality of pixel electrodes which are provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, a dielectric multilayer film which is formed so as to cover the plurality of pixel electrodes and in which a plurality of dielectric layers are laminated, and a sealing member which is arranged around a pixel region on which the plurality of pixel electrodes are provided and bonds the first substrate and the second substrate to each other. In the electrooptic device, at least one dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers is formed so as not to overlap with a sealing region on the first substrate, on which the sealing member is arranged.
US08421966B2	Liquid crystal display comprising red, green, blue, and yellow sub-pixels having chromaticity on a CIE1931 chromaticity diagram wherein the sub-pixels have different areas A liquid crystal display including a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display panel is provided. A spectrum of the backlight unit has relative maximum brightness peaks at wavelength between 460 nm to 480 nm, between 505 nm to 525 nm, and between 610 nm to 630 nm. The liquid crystal display panel is disposed above the backlight unit. The liquid crystal display panel has a red color filter layer (Rx, Ry, RY), a green color filter layer (Gx, Gy, GY), a blue color filter layer (Bx, By, BY) and a yellow color filter layer (Yx, Yy, YY), wherein under the backlight source, the red color filter layer, the green color filter layer, the blue color filter layer and the yellow color filter layer satisfy following conditions: Rx≧0.654; Ry≦0.330; Gx≦0.253; Gy≧0.605; Bx≦0.136; By≦0.146; Yx≦0.408; Yy≦0.534; 0.83≦RY/GY≦0.87; 0.86≦GY/BY≦0.92; 0.83≦BY/YY≦0.87 and 1.5≦YY/RY≦1.55.
US08421965B2	Liquid crystal panel having a multi-gap structure and liquid crystal display apparatus The present invention provides a color liquid crystal panel in an e-mode of an IPS mode, which has a multi-gap structure, and in which a contrast in an oblique direction is enhanced.
US08421950B2	Liquid crystal display device The present disclosure relates to the present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device adapting a guide panel having a reinforced structure. A liquid crystal display panel according to the present disclosure comprises: a liquid crystal display panel; a light guide plate disposed under the liquid crystal display panel; an LED light source disposed one side of the light guide plate; a cover bottom housing the LED light source and the light guide plate; and a guide panel supporting the liquid crystal display panel, and wraping the LED light source and the light guide plate at outside, wherein the guide panel has an outer vertical surface and a support rib apart from the outer vertical surface inward to form a space for holding a vertical surface of the cover bottom. With simple structure on the guide panel, the reliability of the liquid crystal display panel is enhanced remarkably.
US08421938B2	Pixel array A pixel array is located on a substrate and includes a plurality of pixel sets. Each of the pixel sets includes a first scan line, a second scan line, a data line, a data signal transmission line, a first pixel unit, and a second pixel unit. The data line is not parallel to the first and the second scan lines. The data signal transmission line is disposed parallel to the first and the second scan lines and electrically connected to the data line. Distance between the first and the second scan lines is smaller than distance between the data signal transmission line and one of the first and the second scan lines. The first pixel unit is electrically connected to the first scan line and the data line. The second pixel unit is electrically connected to the second scan line and the data line.
US08421933B2	Shutter glasses capable of viewing a plurality of types of monitors whose image light outputs have different polarization directions A three-dimensional liquid crystal shutter glasses includes a frame and two lenses, where the frame includes two sub-frames, the two lenses can be deposed on the two sub-frames in any one of a plurality of specific angles, respectively, and the plurality of specific angles are for a user to watch a plurality of types of monitors whose images have different polarization directions.
US08421928B2	System and method for detecting scene change The present invention relates to a system for scene change detection including a decoder decoding input digital video data into video data compressed by a single codec or uncompressed video data in a codec-independent format, a normalizer normalizing the video data decoded by the decoder in a temporally and spatially uniform format, and a scene change detector computing a mode ratio for each frame of the normalized video data through a mode determination, and determining, when a frame has a mode ratio higher than a preset threshold value, that a scene change has occurred at the frame. The decoder decodes video data compression-coded by various video codecs into uncompressed video frames.
US08421927B2	Display device and color adjustment method for display device A display device includes a display panel, a light source module and a skin-color detector. The display panel has a plurality of sub pixel units, and the sub pixel units include red sub pixel units, green sub pixel units, blue sub pixel units and white sub pixel units. The light source module is disposed at a side of the display panel and the light source module includes a white light source and a yellow light source distributed in the white light source. The skin-color detector is electrically connected to the display panel, wherein the skin-color detector detects the skin-color area proportion of an image signal of the display panel.
US08421925B2	Display device and color adjustment method for adjusting hue, saturation, or intensity factors of sub-image within an image A display device and a color adjustment method thereof and a method for displaying video signals are provided. The display device includes a video signal receiver, a scaling engine, a color engine, an output stage, and a panel. The video signal receiver receives the video signals. The scaling engine is coupled to the video signal receiver to modulate the resolution of the video signal. The color engine is coupled to the scaling engine, which includes a local adjusting unit. The local adjusting unit adjusts hue, saturation, or intensity of a group of pixels, and thereby increase the quality of images. The output stage is coupled to the color engine, which outputs the adjusted video signals. The panel is coupled to the output stage, which displays the adjusted video signal.
US08421910B2	Electronic flash, electronic camera and light emitting head R, G and B LEDs are used as a light source of an electronic flash. Electric energy is supplied to a capacitor to the LEDs. A system controller controls light emitting amounts of the LEDs so that a color temperature of the electronic flash light becomes a color temperature that has been manually set with a color temperature setting switch or a color temperature of a light source determined by color temperature sensors.
US08421909B2	Exposure control apparatus and exposure control program for vehicle-mounted electronic camera In an exposure control apparatus for exposure control of a vehicle-mounted camera which captures successive images of a scene ahead of the vehicle, two different regions (sets of picture elements) in each image are selected for use in measuring the brightness of an object such as a preceding vehicle and the brightness of the road surface, respectively. The camera exposure is controlled based upon both of these brightness measurement results.
US08421908B2	Actuator, drive device, and imaging device An object of the present invention is to provide an actuator allowing a control of displacement and configured to offer a high degree of freedom in designing, and a drive device and an imaging device including the actuator. To achieve the object, an actuator is adopted including a movable part deformable in accordance with heat generation and a control section controlling the amount of deformation of the movable part. In the actuator, the movable part is structured with a plurality of portions including a base portion, a force generating portion, and a heat generating portion being stacked, the force generating portion generating force in accordance with heating, the heat generating portion generating heat in accordance with a current supply. The control section controls the amount of deformation of the movable part by controlling the current supply to the heat generating portion based on an electrical resistance in the heat generating portion.
US08421902B2	Display processing apparatus and method, and recording medium A display processing apparatus which makes it possible to set auto bracketing values while confirming a whole range of shooting conditions configurable for correction in which possible shooting condition corrections are taken into account. An exposure correction value is set based on an instruction from a user for correcting a preset value of exposure. Auto bracketing value auto bracketing shooting are set based on an instruction from the user. A process is carried out for displaying a scale for indicating values of the exposure correction value and the auto bracketing values, indicators indicative of a range of exposure correction values that can be set and are arranged in a manner associated with the scale, and indicators indicative of a range of auto bracketing values that can be set and are arranged in a manner associated with the scale and the first indicators.
US08421898B2	Method for detecting and showing quality of a preview or stored picture in an electronic imaging device The present invention relates to a method for detecting and showing quality of a preview or stored picture in an electronic imaging device, which comprises the steps of determining whether the electronic imaging device is operated in a preview mode or a file mode; detecting at least four features of the preview or stored picture; determining whether each of the features of the preview or stored picture is normal or not; and displaying the preview or stored picture and at least one of four graphical indicators on a LCD screen of the electronic imaging device when it is determined that the feature corresponding to the graphical indicator is not in a normal status. Thus, a user is able to easily identify the features of the preview or stored picture in a graphical way on the LCD screen in a real time while reviewing the preview or stored picture.
US08421886B2	Digital camera A digital camera includes: an imaging unit that obtains image data by capturing an image of a subject; a recording control unit that records the image data obtained by capturing the image of the subject into a plurality of recording media; a speed detection unit that detects access speeds at each of the plurality of recording media; and a selection unit that selects the recording media, into which image data are to be recorded by the recording control unit, based upon each of the access speeds having been detected, wherein: at least one of the plurality of recording media is an exchangeable recording medium.
US08421884B2	GPS device with a display function and method for using the same A GPS device with a display function includes a GPS recorder and a display screen. The GPS recorder has a GPS casing that encloses one part of the display screen and only a display area of the display screen is exposed. The display screen is electrically disposed on the GPS recorder, and the display screen displays pattern in order to show time information and the position information that have been captured by the GPS recorder. In addition, the GPS recorder has a memory disposed therein for storing the time information and the position information.
US08421880B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image capturing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes: a difference calculation unit that calculates a difference value of a feature amount of image data of a predetermined region between a present frame and a past frame; a first counting unit that counts number of times when an absolute value of the difference value exceeds a threshold during a predetermined period of time; a second counting unit that counts number of times when the difference value of the image data have different plus-minus signs between a present frame and a past frame during a predetermined period of time; and an identification unit that identifies a light source frequency by comparing the output of the second counting unit with a predetermined value when the output of the first counting unit exceeds a predetermined value.
US08421876B2	Electronic apparatus and image capturing device An electronic apparatus and an image capturing apparatus are provided. The image capturing apparatus comprises an image capturing module and a processing module. The image capturing module captures an image having a plurality of pixels. The processing module looks up a table to process a rotation calibration or a tilt calibration toward the pixels to output a calibrated image.
US08421869B2	Camera system for with velocity sensor and de-blurring processor A camera system for outputting deblurred still images includes a portable handheld camera device comprising an image sensor for recording an image; a two-dimensional accelerometer for detecting an angular velocity of the camera system relative to an external environment and to produce an angular velocity output indicative thereof; a linear image sensor for sensing data provided on an encoded card inserted into the camera system, the encoded card containing instructions for the manipulation of the image; and a processor for receiving the image from the image sensor, receiving the angular velocity output from the two-dimensional accelerometer, and processing the image in accordance with the instructions sensed from the encoded to deblur any blurred pixels present in the image in consideration of the angular velocity output.
US08421867B2	Projection device and electronic device A projection device includes: a light source; a modulation element that modulates light from the light source; a projection optical system that projects light modulated by the modulation element; a drive unit that drives the projection optical system; and a control unit that drives the light source and the drive unit in a complementary manner when driving the drive unit while turning on the light source.
US08421858B2	Inspection machine, inspecting method and inspecting system An inspection machine capable of inspecting optical property and electrical property of a light emitting device is provided. The inspection machine includes a substrate table, a probe mechanism, a heating apparatus, a cooling apparatus, an image-sensing apparatus, a temperature-sensing apparatus and a moving mechanism. The probe mechanism is capable of moving toward the light emitting device to contact therewith. The heating apparatus is capable of heating the light emitting device within a first temperature range. The cooling apparatus is capable of cooling the light emitting device within a second temperature range. The image-sensing apparatus senses a light emitting image provided from the light emitting device. The temperature-sensing apparatus senses the present temperature of the light emitting device. The image-sensing apparatus is disposed on the moving mechanism. The moving mechanism is capable of moving the image-sensing apparatus. An inspecting method and an inspecting system for the inspection machine are also provided.
US08421849B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting control device includes: an irradiation light generation unit that receives an irradiation light signal; coating correcting means for correcting the irradiation light signal so that an irradiation target object can be coated with irradiation light; and an irradiation light projection unit that projects the irradiation light by using the corrected irradiation light signal. The irradiation light includes coating light that coats the irradiation target object, and background light that becomes a background of the irradiation target object. The lighting control device includes: a first coating correction unit that corrects the irradiation light signal so as to cut an outline of the coating light in conformity with a shape of the irradiation target object; and a second coating correction unit that corrects the outline of the coating light in response to a positional relationship between an origin position of the irradiation target object and the irradiation light projection unit.
US08421848B2	Stereoscopic video viewing limiter and limitation method, stereoscopic video viewing limitation notifying device and method, video viewing apparatus and method, and video viewing system A stereoscopic video viewing limiter extracts factor information related to different factors affecting a viewer of a stereoscopic video display from a video signal, generates corresponding effect coefficients representing the degree of effect on the viewer, integrates the effect coefficients as the viewer watches the stereoscopic video image, compares the integrated values with respective thresholds determined according to the viewer's tolerances for each of the factors, and generates a viewing limitation signal when the tolerances are exceeded. The viewing limitation signal is used to limit viewing to a two-dimensional video image instead of the stereoscopic video image. When several viewers watch the same stereoscopic video display, separate viewing limitation signals are generated, tailored to the viewers' individual stereoscopic viewing tolerances, permitting each viewer to enjoy the stereoscopic video display as long as possible without adverse effects.
US08421843B2	System and method for processing images by visual echo cancellation This image processing system comprises: a device (PRJ, SI1) for projecting a first light beam (FL1) to form a first image (I1) on a screen (ECR) on which a second light beam (FL2) coming from an observation area (ZO) forms a second image (I2) and a device (CAM, SI1) for acquiring a third image (I3) formed on the screen (ECR) and corresponding to the superimposition of the second image (I2) and at least a portion (I1′) of the first image (I1). This system further comprises control means (CTR) for: obtaining a first signal (S1) representing the portion (I1′) of the first image (I1), obtaining a second signal (S2) representing the third image (I3), and calculating a third signal (S3) by subtracting at least part of the first signal (S1) from the second signal (S2) to form an image (I2′) representing the observation area (ZO).
US08421839B2	Peripheral device for communication over a communications system A method and corresponding system for communicating over a network using a first device and a peripheral device, wherein the first device comprises a user interface and a network interface for connecting to the network, and the peripheral device has a local connection to the first device, the local connection being independent of the network. The method comprises receiving data packets from the network at the network interface of the first device and forwarding the received data packets from the first device to the peripheral device via the local connection. A client engine of a communication client is executed on a processor of the peripheral device to process the received data packets. Processed data packets are sent from the peripheral device to the first device via the local connection such that data contained in the received data packets is conveyed to a user of the first device using the user interface of the first device.
US08421835B2	Exposure device capable of stabilizing density of image formed by multiple exposure and image forming apparatus equipped with the exposure device An exposure device configured to perform exposure using a plurality of light beams and capable of stabilizing image density without increasing circuit size. The exposure device has a first light source for emitting a first light beam and a second light source for emitting a second light beam. The exposure device exposes a photosensitive drum such that areas exposed to the respective first and second light beams at least partially overlap each other. A first drive current having a predetermined value and a second drive current are supplied to the respective first and second light sources. A photodiode detects the intensities of the respective first and second light beams or the sum of the intensities. The second drive current is controlled based on a detection result from the photodiode such that the sum of the intensities becomes equal to a target intensity.
US08421832B2	Surface property modifying sheet cartridge and image forming cartridge A surface property modifying sheet cartridge includes two reels that are disposed in parallel with a predetermined interval, a surface property modifying sheet that is provided in a tensioned state between the two reels in a manner such that end parts thereof are respectively fixed to the two reels and are wound respectively around the two reels, and a case part configured to store the two reels and the surface property modifying sheet. In the surface property modifying sheet cartridge, the case part includes a penetrating part that exposes a part of the surface property modifying sheet positioned between the two reels.
US08421828B2	Modulation scheme for driving digital display systems A display device and modulation scheme for applying image data to an imager. The display may use a modulation scheme wherein spacing of row write actions on the rows creates gray scale modulation, wherein one row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a first distance while another row spacing between sequential row write actions is at a distance greater than said first distance. The modulation scheme may create a series of write pointers that create a corresponding series of write planes. In some embodiments, modulation efficiency is increased allowing the use of lower frequency imaging circuits to achieve the same display image.
US08421827B2	Method for maintaining the white colour point in a field-sequential LCD over time A field sequential liquid crystal display maintains its white color point through compensation values to at least one color light emitting diode that illuminates the display. The compensation values may be impedances to control the current or pulsing of the current source according to a pulse width modulation technique. A degradation curve may be used to calculate extrapolate the theoretical forward voltage of the light emitting diode. Additional complexity arises from the need for calculating uptime for multiple light emitting diodes of different colors. Brightness levels may also be factored in. Additional processing of a display element may be provided when a grey scale image is being generated.
US08421825B2	Electronic device, controlling method thereof, controlling program thereof, and recording medium A plurality of screen aspects is acquired; each screen layout is optimized; switching of the screen aspects is supported; and visibility and functionality of the display screen are improved. An electronic device (portable terminal apparatus) including a display function in a rotatable and/or openable/closable case includes a displaying unit that displays a vertically elongated vertical screen or a horizontally elongated horizontal screen and a controlling unit (CPU) that changes screen layouts correspondingly to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen displayed on the displaying unit. The change in the screen layout corresponding to the vertical screen or the horizontal screen includes a change in arrangement of icons.
US08421819B2	Pillarboxing correction A display control device used to govern non-content regions in a display space, and selectively determine data for display in the non-content regions is described. The display control device can identify the non-content regions, and determine types of data that can be filled in the non-content regions. Once determined, the fill data can be presented in the non-content regions concurrently with an image frame.
US08421811B2	Customized vehicle body This invention relates to a system and method for customizing the appearance of a vehicle. Users can display customized designs, colors or promotional information on the vehicle for free or on a fee basis. The system also allows users to use a detection device to detect the colors or patterns of other objects and then display substantially the same color or pattern on the vehicle.
US08421810B2	Look-up table on film A color look-up table includes a plurality of images recorded on a film. Each of the images being recorded on a separate picture of the film and containing at least a first level and a second level. The first and second levels having different pixel color values and are arranged to form a detectable geometric pattern on each of the pictures. The first field and a second field having detectable boundaries assigned to characterize distortions on the film.
US08421803B2	Information display system and information display method for quality control of component-mounted substrate This invention facilitates monitoring operation for checking whether or not quality of a substrate deteriorates as well as operation for identifying a cause of deterioration in quality. Identification information of constituent elements related to measurement target sections (pads) on a component-mounted substrate is arranged into hierarchal structure data. A first axis is arranged with the measurement target sections associated with this arrangement. A second axis is arranged with information (identification information of lots and squeegees) representing production conditions of the substrates according to an order of the substrates being processed. A two-dimensional area defined by the first axis and the second axis is set. A color map is generated, in which measured data of the measurement target sections on the substrates are arranged in colors at corresponding positions within the two-dimensional area. Specifically, in the respective measured data, values in a preferable range is displayed in white, values larger than the preferable range is displayed in red-like color, and values smaller than the preferable range is displayed in blue-like color.
US08421801B2	Ray tracing using ray-specific clipping Systems, methods, and computer readable media embodying such methods provide for allowing specification of per-ray clipping information that defines a sub-portion of a 3-D scene in which the ray should be traced. The clipping information can be specified as a clip distance from a ray origin, as an end value of a parametric ray definition, or alternatively the clipping information can be built into a definition of the ray to be traced. The clipping information can be used to check whether portions of an acceleration structure need to be traversed, as well as whether primitives should be tested for intersection. Other aspects include specifying a default object that can be returned as intersected when no primitive was intersected within the sub-portion defined for testing. Further aspects include allowing provision of flags interpretable by an intersection testing resource that control what the intersection testing resource does, and/or what information it reports after conclusion of testing of a ray.
US08421800B2	System and method for selectable display in object models A method for displaying objects in a CAD system, and corresponding CAD system and computer program product. The method includes loading a graphic model with a plurality of model elements including edges and faces in a CAD system and receiving a selection of a display technique to be used on the graphic model. The method also includes classifying each model element as important or unimportant. The method also includes hiding a first subset of the unimportant model elements according to the selected display technique and adjusting the transparency of a second subset of the unimportant model elements according to the selected display technique, so that the important model elements are clearly visible with relation to the unimportant model elements. The method can produce a simplified graphic model that is displayed by the CAD system.
US08421799B2	Illustrating a three-dimensional nature of a data set on a two-dimensional display A volume of a patient can be mapped with a system operable to identify a plurality of locations and save a plurality of locations of a mapping instrument. The mapping instrument can include one or more electrodes that can sense a voltage that can be correlated to a three dimensional location of the electrode at the time of the sensing or measurement. Therefore, a map of a volume can be determined based upon the sensing of the plurality of points without the use of other imaging devices. An implantable medical device can then be navigated relative to the mapping data.
US08421797B2	Remote control system and remote control apparatus A remote control system and a remote control apparatus allow a human operator to remotely control a mobile body easily even if the system uses a low-speed communications link. The remote control system includes a remote control apparatus, in which a CPU selects old information based on both old information and the latest mobile body information from a mobile body, and determines a virtual view point V. The CPU generates a three-dimensional environmental image K and the virtual view point V based on the selected old information, and also generates a mobile body model M, a reference point B and a clipping center point based on the latest mobile body information and data regarding a mobile body model M, in a global coordinate system GC. The CPU calculates an angle of view based on a distance d between the virtual viewpoint V and the reference point B, makes a perspective projection of the three-dimensional environmental image K and the mobile body model M from the virtual view point V toward the clipping center point to obtain a projected image, makes a clip from the projected image based on the angle of view thereby making a composite image, and converts the composite image into a display image of a predetermined size. The resulting display image is displayed on a monitor.
US08421795B2	Storage medium having image processing program stored thereon and image processing apparatus The game apparatus generates an image of a virtual space viewed from a virtual camera as a reference image. The game apparatus then calculates a blurring value indicative of a blurring degree of the image. The blurring value is calculated so as to become greater than a reference value in the case where a movement amount of the virtual camera is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount, and to become smaller than the reference value in the case where the movement amount of the virtual camera is smaller than the predetermine amount. The game apparatus blurs an image outside a predetermined area of the reference image such that the blurring degree increases in accordance with an increase of the blurring value. The predetermined area is determined, from among an image area of the reference image, so as to include a position of a focus point of the virtual camera. Accordingly, a blurred image is displayed on a display apparatus.
US08421794B2	Processor with adaptive multi-shader The disclosure describes an adaptive multi-shader within a processor that uses one or more high-precision arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and low-precision ALUs to process data based on the type of the data. Upon receiving a stream of data, the adaptive multi-shader first determines the type of the data. For example, the adaptive multi-shader may determine whether the data is suitable for high-precision processing or low-precision processing. The adaptive multi-shader then processes the data using the high-precision ALUs when the data is suitable for high-precision processing, and processes the data using the high-precision ALUs and the low-precision ALUs when the data is suitable for low-precision processing. The adaptive multi-shader may substantially reduce power consumption and silicon size of the processor by implementing the low-precision ALUs while maintaining the ability to process data using high-precision processing by implementing the high-precision ALUs.
US08421791B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate in a matrix, a source driver circuit to supply source signals to source lines connected to each pixel arranged in a column direction and a gate driver circuit to supply gate signals to respective gate lines connected to pixels arranged in a row direction. A control circuit outputs an array control signal for a partial display to a receiver circuit that receives a partial display start address to specify a gate line for starting a partial display and a partial display end address to specify a gate line for ending the partial display. A decoder circuit outputs a control signal to control a range of the gate lines driven by the gate driver circuit.
US08421784B2	Display In one embodiment of the present invention, a display for receiving m-bit display data includes a display driver including a switched capacitor digital/analogue converter including an n-bit input, where m is not greater than n. The upper plates of the capacitors of the switched capacitor digital/analogue converter may be connected, in the zeroing phase, to one of a plurality of reference voltages. The choice of which reference voltage is connected to the upper plates of the capacitors of the switched capacitor digital/analogue converter in the zeroing phase is independent of the input n-bit digital code, and is determined by a signal internal to the display. The output voltage range from the converter in a decoding phase may be a first range in which output voltages are above and below one reference voltage or it may be a second range in which output voltages are above and below another reference voltage, depending on which reference voltage was selected in the preceding zeroing phase.
US08421783B2	Driving method of an electric circuit A variation in threshold may be suppressed by structuring an analog switch by a MOS transistor and forming a signal synchronized to a clock by making the clock which is a common signal in continuity or discontinuity. An object of the present invention is to reduce the variation in the signal synchronized to the clock by the variation in threshold of the MOS transistor in a circuit which is synchronized to the clock.
US08421781B2	Shift register capable of reducing coupling effect A shift register has a plurality of shift register units coupled in series. Each shift register includes a pull-up circuit, an input circuit, a pull-down circuit, a compensation circuit, an input end, an output end and a node. Each shift register unit receives an input voltage at the input end and provides an output voltage at the output end. The input circuit transmits the input voltage to the node based on a first clock signal. The pull-up circuit provides the output voltage based on a second clock signal and the voltage level of the node. The pull-down circuit selectively connects the node with the output end according to a third clock signal. The compensation circuit is coupled to the input circuit, the pull-down circuit and the node for maintaining the voltage level of the node based on the second and third clock signals.
US08421777B2	Stylus A stylus comprises a housing, a stylus body and a retaining structure. The housing has a receptacle defined therethrough. The retaining structure is configured to provide a mechanism for the stylus body to latch in the receptacle of the housing. The retaining structure includes a set of retaining members and a set of retaining slots that engage the retaining members.
US08421771B2	Input system including position-detecting device A position-detecting device detects a position pointed to by a position-pointing instrument and includes an operation panel detecting the position pointed to by the position-pointing instrument; and a manipulation-detecting unit located at at least one of the interior and the exterior of the operation panel, and detecting a manipulation by a second instrument other than the position-pointing instrument, or detecting a manipulation by both the position-pointing instrument and the second instrument.
US08421747B2	Object detection and user settings Object detection and user setting techniques are described. In an implementation, an object placed on a surface of the client is detected by the client. A determination is made as to which of a plurality of users correspond to the detected object. One or more user settings are located that correspond to the determined user.
US08421743B2	Flat panel display and mobile device using the same A flat panel display for reducing damage to a panel assembly from a falling impact is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes: 1) a liquid crystal panel assembly configured to display an image and 2) a backlight assembly including i) a light source configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel assembly, ii) a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) configured to provide power for the light source to generate the light, and iii) a light guide panel configured to guide the light received from the light source. The display may further include 1) a mold frame surrounding the flexible printed circuit board, 2) a chassis accommodating the mold frame and 3) a weight unit formed in at least one of the chassis and mold frame, wherein the weight unit is formed at a place that is eccentric with respect to the center of the liquid crystal panel assembly.
US08421740B2	Liquid crystal display device and image display method thereof A liquid crystal panel displays an image from image signals. A backlight device is disposed on the back side of the liquid crystal panel, and is divided into a plurality of regions. The backlight device comprises light sources in each of the regions. The light sources are positioned to emit light onto the liquid crystal panel. A histogram detector detects an image signal gradation distribution for each region and to produce a histogram therefrom. An image gain calculator calculates a gain from the detected gradation distribution of the histogram detector, and controls light emission from each light source in each region of the backlight device. A light emission luminance calculator controls the light emission luminance of each light source based on a maximum luminance of the light sources and based on an inverse number of the gain calculated in the image gain calculator.
US08421735B2	Liquid crystal display device Disclosed herein is a liquid crystal display device in which an image can be correctly seen even though a screen is rotated. The liquid crystal display device includes a storage unit for storing a plurality of screen change signals, and a timing controller for dividing image data of one horizontal line externally supplied thereto into k odd sub-image data and k even sub-image data, and sequentially outputting the k odd sub-image data and sequentially outputting the k even sub-image data.
US08421727B2	Transmitter circuit, transmission circuit and driver unit A transmitter circuit includes a driver circuit including a non-inverting output terminal and an inverting output terminal for outputting a signal current, which has a loop direction that changes based upon an input signal, to the non-inverting output terminal and the inverting output terminal and an output-waveform control circuit for detecting a waveform edge of the input signal and responding by increasing the signal current temporarily. The output-waveform control circuit includes a first inverter circuit receiving a non-inverted input signal, a first capacitor including one end connected to an output terminal of the first inverter circuit and another end connected to the inverting output terminal, a second inverter circuit receiving an inverted input signal, and a second capacitor including one end connected to an output terminal of the second inverter circuit and another end connected to the non-inverting output terminal.
US08421725B2	Display device and manufacture method thereof The present invention discloses a flat display device and a manufacture method thereof. The flat display device includes a flat display module, a front cover, an auxiliary support, a back cover set, and a circuit board. The back cover set includes a sub-cover and a main back cover, wherein the circuit board is disposed on the inner surface of the sub-cover. The front cover has a display opening for an active area of the flat display module to be exposed outside the display opening and present images through the display opening. The main back cover includes a opening for part of the sub-cover to pass through and be exposed outside the opening.
US08421723B2	Stereoscopic display apparatus In a stereoscopic display apparatus having optical directory elements (21) such as lenticular elements an overdrive voltage, e.g. obtained by introducing a resonant impedance (22) in one of the switching states, enhances switching speed between the 2D and the 3D state.
US08421722B2	Method of transmitting data from timing controller to source driving device in LCD A method of transmitting data from a timing controller to a source driving device in a liquid crystal display is disclosed. The method of the present invention comprises the steps of: (a) providing a setup/hold time; (b) transmitting a test pattern from the timing controller to the source driving device using the setup/hold time; (c) returning an acknowledge signal from the source driving device to the timing controller when the test pattern is successfully received by the source driving device; (d) providing a new setup/hold time and repeating Steps (b) and (c) using the new setup/hold time when the test pattern is not successfully received by the source driving device; and (e) transmitting the image data from the timing controller to the source driving device using the new setup/hold time upon receipt of the acknowledge signal. Therefore, the use of the setup/hold time adjustment pins is eliminated.
US08421721B2	Light emitting diode driving apparatus A light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus is provided, which includes a power conversion circuit for receiving and converting an input power so as to generate a DC voltage to simultaneously drive a plurality of LED strings arranged in parallel; and a plurality of current regulation chips each having a single regulation channel and respectively corresponding to the LED strings, wherein an ith current regulation chip is only used for regulating a current flowing through an ith LED string, where i is a positive integer.
US08421720B2	LCD and circuit architecture thereof A liquid crystal display (LCD) and circuit architecture thereof are proposed. Power signal lines, data signal lines, and control signal lines are mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB) and a thin film substrate. The thin film substrate is connected to a LCD panel by using a COF bonding. These circuits can be transferred onto a conductive glass of the panel and subsequently onto source driver chips of the thin film substrate of the COF. Therefore, a position which needs the least time for power signal lines, data signal lines, and control signal lines to transmit to all of the circuits of the panel on the PCB can be calculated in order to achieve the best design.
US08421717B2	Active matrix type display apparatus An active matrix type display apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of pixels (50) disposed in a matrix arrangement. Each of the pixels (50) includes a light-emitting element (9) which emits light in response to a supplied current, a signal line (13) connected to a signal line drive circuit (23) which supplies a luminance signal corresponding to a luminance of light emission of the light-emitting element (9), the luminance signal being a current signal, a driver element (6) which controls a current value of the luminance signal supplied to the light-emitting element (9), a luminance signal retention capacitor (8) which retains, as a luminance signal voltage, a potential difference generated between a drain electrode and a source electrode of the driver element (6) when the luminance signal is supplied to the driver element (6) via the signal line (13), and a threshold voltage detection and addition unit (20) which detects a threshold voltage of the driver element (6) and causes a voltage obtained by adding the luminance signal voltage being retained in the luminance signal retention capacitor (8) to the detected threshold voltage to be applied at a gate electrode of the driver element (6).
US08421715B2	Display device, driving method thereof and electronic appliance A light emitting element has a property that a resistance value (internal resistance value) thereof changes according to the ambient temperature. Specifically, assuming that the room temperature is a normal temperature, when the ambient temperature becomes higher than the normal temperature, a resistance value is decreased, and when the ambient temperature becomes lower than the normal temperature, a resistance value is increased. Therefore, when the ambient temperature changes or degradation is caused with time due to the aforementioned property of the light emitting element, luminance varies. The invention provides a display device where an effect of current fluctuation of a light emitting element, which is caused by the change in ambient temperature and degradation with time, is suppressed. The display device comprises a monitoring element, to which a current is supplied from a current source. A voltage applied to the monitoring element is applied to a light emitting element.
US08421712B2	Display apparatus A liquid crystal display part includes a seven segment display group and first and second switches. If the first switch “on”, a display provided by the seven segment display group is switched to a normal direction display having an upward orientation. In addition, if the second switch is “on,” then the display provided by the seven segment display group is switched to an inverse direction display having a downward direction. In addition, a first character pattern that indicates the unit of the measurement value is displayed for the normal direction display, and a second character pattern that indicates the unit of the measurement value is displayed for the inverse direction display. A cover is openably, closably, and rotatably provided to the liquid crystal display part, and the display direction of the measurement value is switched according to the position of the cover.
US08421708B2	Image display and organic light-emitting display including image shift unit An image display is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display includes a first display panel comprising i) a first image display portion configured to display a first image and ii) a light transmissive portion formed outside the first image display portion and configured to display a second image. The display further includes i) a second display panel spaced apart from the first display panel and configured to generate the second image and ii) an image shift unit configured to shift the generated second image toward the light transmissive portion of the first display panel so that the shifted second image is projected through the light transmissive portion.
US08421700B2	Antenna system and method A device comprising a metallic conical portion, said conical portion substantially hollow having a vertex end and a base end, a first cylindrical portion disposed annularly about the base end of the conical portion, a metallic second cylindrical portion coupled to the vertex of the conical portion, said cylindrical portion having a threaded aperture, and an antenna feed coupled to the threaded aperture. The device may have a patch disposed on an insulator portion connected to the second cylindrical portion, said patch and insulator portion each having an aperture, and a metallic ground portion connected to the insulator portion, said ground portion having an ground aperture, and a threaded screw disposed through the ground aperture, the patch, the insulator aperture and into the threaded aperture. An RF feed may be created by coupling the threaded aperture to a conductive material disposed on the insulator portion.
US08421697B2	Antenna device and radar apparatus This disclosure provides an antenna device, which includes a waveguide having a rectangular cross-section and formed with a plurality of slots in at least one side face thereof. The plurality of slots are arranged in a tube axis direction. At least one of the plurality of slots is formed with a predetermined inclination angle from a plane perpendicular to a tube axis direction of the waveguide.
US08421691B2	Vehicular glass antenna A vehicular glass antenna is provided. The antenna includes an AM broadcast wave receiving antenna having a plurality of horizontal strips and at least two vertical strips with an AM feed point between the vertical strips on the uppermost horizontal strip or through a line extending from the uppermost horizontal strip, and two FM broadcast wave receiving antennas extending from two FM feed points provided above uppermost horizontal strip of the AM antenna along a part of an outermost portion of the AM broadcast wave receiving antenna. The FM antennas extend in opposite clockwise and counterclockwise directions. The FM antennas have a substantially U-shape surrounding the ends of the AM antenna horizontal strips on their respective sides, and include a second horizontal strip adjacent to the horizontal strips of the AM antenna to achieve capacitive coupling.
US08421686B2	Radio-frequency system in package including antenna A system comprising at least one antenna and a circuit, wherein the circuit is at least in part not a semiconductor chip or a die. The at least one antenna and the circuit are arranged on a package. Alternatively described is a system comprising at least one antenna and at least one circuit, wherein the at least one antenna and the at least one circuit are arranged on a package, wherein the at least one circuit performs a radio-frequency and optionally a base-band and/or a digital functionality.
US08421684B2	Methods and apparatus for beam steering using steerable beam antennas with switched parasitic elements An antenna is described. The antenna includes a planar circular structure. The antenna also includes a radiating element located at the center of the planar circular structure. The antenna further includes one or more parasitic elements located on a contour around the radiating element. The parasitic elements are aligned in parallel direction with the radiating element. The parasitic elements protrude from the planar circular structure. The antenna includes switches separating each of the one or more parasitic elements from ground. A switch in a first position creates a short between a parasitic element and ground. A switch in a second position creates an open circuit between the parasitic element and ground.
US08421682B2	Apparatus, methods and computer programs for wireless communication An apparatus including a cover defining an exterior surface of the apparatus and including a first conductive cover portion; an antenna, connected to a feed point and configured to operate in at least a first resonant frequency band; a first conductive member; a second conductive member; and wherein the first and second conductive members are configured to couple with the first conductive cover portion, the combination of the first and second conductive members and the first conductive cover portion are operable in a second resonant frequency band, different to the first resonant frequency band and are configured to be contactlessly fed by the antenna.
US08421674B2	Localization system for determining a position of a device that can be moved on the floor The invention relates to a localization system for determining a state of a device that can move on a floor, comprising a floor transceiver system having a plurality of floor transceivers which each have floor antennas for marking position points within the plane of the floor, and a transceiver tablet which is connected to the movable device and has a transmitting/receiving surface which is located opposite the floor and is suitable for continuously determining the position of at least two floor antennas within the transmitting/receiving surface simultaneously.
US08421670B2	Position estimation apparatus and computer readable medium storing position estimation program The present invention provides a position estimation apparatus, mounted at mobile object, including: an acquisition section that acquires transmission source information transmitted from each plural information transmission sources including, information relating to a position of information transmission source, information relating to a distance between information transmission source and mobile object, and information relating to a relative velocity of mobile object with respect to information transmission sources; a trajectory calculation section that calculates, over predetermined duration, a trajectory of mobile object by integrating velocity vectors of mobile object obtained based on transmission source information; and an estimation section that estimates, as a position of mobile object, a position for which trajectory is translated such that a difference between, distances between a plurality of points at different times on trajectory and respective information transmission sources, and acquired distances between respective information transmission sources and mobile object, is minimum.
US08421663B1	Analog-to-digital converter comprising dual oscillators for linearity compensation An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed operable to convert a sensor signal to a digital value. A differential amplifier responsive to the sensor signal and a reference signal generates a first analog signal representing a first offset above the reference signal and a second analog signal representing a second offset below the reference signal. A first oscillator generates a first output frequency dependent on the first analog signal, and a second oscillator generates a second output frequency dependent on the second analog signal. A difference between the first output frequency and the second output frequency is generated, and the digital value representing the sensor signal is generated in response to the difference.
US08421661B1	Noise-shaping time to digital converter (TDC) using delta-sigma modulation method The present invention relates to a time digital converter, and more particularly, to a noise-shaping time to digital converter (TDC) that has a 1-bit output and uses a delta-sigma modulation method. The noise-shaping time to digital converter (TDC) that has the 1-bit output and uses the delta-sigma modulation method in accordance with the present invention eliminates the need for a large number of D flip-flops or counters and a plurality of delay units connected in series to one another because the time to digital converter is fabricated such that a delay element has a resolution of the effective delay time in a semiconductor process, unlike the conventional time to digital converter. Therefore, the time to digital converter of the present invention has an advantage in that an extremely high resolution and high linearity can be achieved with an efficient circuit configuration and low power consumption.
US08421659B2	Minimum differential non-linearity trim DAC A trim DAC wherein the digital input bits to the trim DAC are controlled by a state machine to produce an analog output that is within a least significant bit of the digital input bits. An undersize factor between digital input bits is used to assist in finding a trim solution for major transitions of the digital input bits. Trim solutions are stored in a nonvolatile memory associated with the state machine to be used in creating an accurate analog output.
US08421658B1	Parallel pipelined calculation of two calibration values during the prior conversion cycle in a successive-approximation-register analog-to-digital converter (SAR-ADC) A Successive-Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter (SAR-ADC) predicts compensation values for use in a future cycle. A compensation value is applied to capacitors in a calibration Y-side capacitor array to compensate for capacitance errors in a binary-weighted X-side capacitor array. Two compute engines pre-calculate predicted-0 and predicted-1 compensation values for a next bit to be converted. At the end of the current cycle when the comparator determines the current bit, the comparator also controls a mux to select one of the two predicted compensation values. Thus the compensation value is available at the beginning of the next bit's cycle, eliminating a long calculation delay. The compensation value for the first bit to be converted, such as the MSB, is calculated during calibration. Compensation values for other bits are data-dependent. Calibration values are accumulated during calibration to generate the first conversion compensation value for the first bit to be converted.
US08421655B2	Apparatus for parallel entropy encoding and decoding An entropy encoder block for use in a context adaptive encoder and an entropy decoder block for use in a context adaptive decoder are provided.
US08421654B2	Method of decoding a signal implementing a progressive construction of a decoding tree, corresponding computer program and decoding device A method of decoding a data signal includes progressively constructing a decoding tree, implementing at least two iterations of the following steps: selecting at least one child node of a current node belonging to a selection interval; storing the child nodes in a first stack; deleting the current node from the first stack; selecting a new current node from the first stack; and if the new current node is a leaf node, storing the path between the root node and the leaf node, in the second stack, and deleting the leaf node from the first stack; otherwise, return to the step of selecting a child node for the new current node. Moreover, the method assigns a probability of likelihood to the bits of at least one symbol of the data signal, taking account of the paths stored in the second stack, and determines a probabilistic estimation of the signal.
US08421649B2	Aircraft attitude systems Aircraft attitude systems are provided, in which a representative system includes: an instrument face having a bank angle scale, a bank status indicator, a pitch angle scale and a pitch status indicator; the bank angle scale being fixed in position relative to the instrument face and being operative to present increments of bank angle of an aircraft; the bank status indicator being operative to move relative to the bank angle scale such that a current aircraft bank angle is indicated; the pitch angle scale being fixed in a vertical orientation relative to the instrument face and being operative to present increments of pitch angle of an aircraft; the pitch status indicator being operative to move relative to the pitch angle scale such that a current aircraft pitch angle is indicated.
US08421641B2	Object detection system and method using sub-sampling An object detection system, controller, and method using sub-sampling for detecting a presence of an object at the location. An electrode arranged near the location radiates an electric field that corresponds to an electrode signal that arises in response to an excitation signal. When the excitation signal is coupled to the electrode and the electric field is radiated, the electrode exhibits an electrode impedance indicative of the presence of an object. The presence of an object is detected by analyzing the electrode signal using sub-sampling. Traditionally, such electrode signals have frequencies, high enough to warrant the use of expensive high-frequency signal processing devices. Sub-sampling is a way of sampling and processing the electrode signal such that the signal processing to detect the object can be performed by a lower cost general purpose microprocessor.
US08421640B1	Tractor lift detection system for gantry cranes An automatic signaling system to prevent a tractor from being accidently lifted with the cargo by a ship to shore gantry crane. The embodiment includes multiple sensors to detect a lifted condition and radio output upon a lifted condition. The radio output channel is determined by an automatic identification system that identifies the crane the tractor is under. Upon receiving a lifted signal the cranes hoist will be stopped and disabled but will still allow lowering until the lifted signal stops.
US08421635B2	Patient bed A patient bed with a multimedia system is disclosed. A patient can access a net work through the multimedia system, and to join a net meeting to chat with other patients. The multimedia system can also provide a consolidated platform of medical information for a doctor or a nurse. An input device of the patient bed may have a touch pad, which allows the patient to control the position of patient support through finger gesture.
US08421628B2	Asset protection system An asset protection system maintains a radio frequency field or signal in a monitored area. Assets have tags attached to them and are placed in the monitored area. The tags have a mechanism to attach them to the objects and have electronic components on board including a microprocessor, motion detector, radio frequency circuitry, audible alarm generator and in some cases, a passive EAS element. The tags are normally idle in the monitored area, but when the motion detector indicates that a tag is being moved, the RF circuitry checks for a signal or field at an expected frequency. If the tag does not detect a signal, the tag electronics determine that the tag has left the monitored area and generate an audible alarm. If a signal is detected, the tag returns to an idle state once it stops moving. The tags may also alarm if tampered with.
US08421625B2	System and method for article authentication using thumbnail signatures A method and apparatus for determining a digital signature from an article. A coherent light source directs a beam to illuminate the article and a detector arrangement collects data points from light scattered from many different parts of the article to collect a large number of independent data points, typically 500 or more. By collecting a large number of independent signal contributions specific to many different parts of the article, a digital signature can be computed that is unique to the area of the article that has been scanned. This measurement can be repeated whenever required to test authenticity of the article. Using this method, it has been discovered that it is essentially pointless to go to the effort and expense of making specially prepared tokens, since unique characteristics are measurable a in a straightforward manner from a wide variety of every day articles.
US08421624B2	Home security system A home security system includes a plurality of monitoring assemblies each comprising a data communication device, a light, a video camera, a transmitter, a sensor, a loudspeaker, a warning device, an identification device, a projector, an adjustment device for adjusting angles of the light, the video camera, and the projector, and a power supply; a fixed controller comprising a data communicating device and a data storage device; and a hand-held portable controller comprising a wireless communication module and an equipment set module. The fixed controller is adapted to activate the monitoring assemblies. The hand-held, portable controller is adapted to remotely activate the monitoring assemblies.
US08421614B2	Reliable redundant data communication through alternating current power distribution system A mechanism is provided for providing reliable redundant data communications. The mechanism issues a request for data to a set of powered elements using a set of secondary communication channels in response to a reduction in a level of communications being detected. The set of secondary communication channels comprises one or more alternating current power lines and the request is sent as data injected onto the alternating current power lines to the set of powered elements. The mechanism receives the data using the set of secondary communication channels from the set of powered elements, analyzes the data to determine a set of recovery actions to restore the level of communications, and issues the set of recovery actions to the set of powered elements using the set of secondary communication channels.
US08421610B2	Touch screen and method of operating the same Provided are a touch screen and a method of operating the same. The touch screen includes a detecting part, a control part, and a tactile feedback part. The detecting part detects object's approach or contact. The control part receives a signal of the detecting part to output a feedback signal. The tactile feedback part receives the feedback signal of the control part to provide a tactile feedback to a contact position using a magnetic force. The tactile feedback uses the magnetic force of a magnetic dipole.
US08421607B2	Personal alert device A personal alert device for use with a wireless communications device is provided. In at least one embodiment, the personal includes: a housing configured for discreet, inconspicuous use by a wearer; a vibrator mechanism disposed within the housing; a processor disposed within the housing, the processor configured to pair uniquely and wirelessly communicate with a mobile communications device within a defined distance to the mobile communications device, operative to receive a mobile communications signal from the mobile communications device, and further configured to activate the vibrator mechanism to alert the wearer discreetly to the presence of the mobile communications signal; and a power source disposed within the housing. In at least one embodiment, the personal alert device is a fashion accessory article that is worn under an item of apparel and directly adjacent to the body of the wearer to remain unseen.
US08421603B2	Electronic apparatus and method and program of controlling electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus is designed so that a change in state of the operation key leads to a predetermined processing operation. In the electronic apparatus, a first detector detects operation keys being touched among a plurality of operation keys. A second detector detects an operation key being subjected to an operation of changing the state thereof among the operation keys. A device of notification signal generation generates a notification signal for providing the user with an explanation about processing corresponding to the operation key currently touched based on a detection result of the first detector. A first control device brings a hardware module and/or a software module, which corresponds to the operation key subjected to the change of the state thereof to an operation of changing a state is performed, into an execution state. The operation keys may be formed on a remote control transmitter.
US08421584B2	Over-current protection device and method for manufacturing the same An over-current protection device includes a conductive composite having a first crystalline fluorinated polymer, a plurality of particulates, a conductive filler, and a non-conductive filler, wherein the plurality of particulates include a second crystalline fluorinated polymer. The first crystalline fluorinated polymer has a crystalline melting temperature of between 150 and 190 degrees Celsius. The plurality of particulates including the second crystalline fluorinated polymer are disposed in the conductive composite, having a crystalline melting temperature of between 320 and 390 degrees Celsius and having a particulate diameter of from 1 to 50 micrometers. The conductive filler and the non-conductive filler are dispersed in the conductive composite.
US08421581B2	Push-button testing system A system for testing a push-button switch is provided. The system for testing a push-button switch includes a switch test device. The switch test device has a flexible tab attached to a pushing member at an end of the flexible tab. A sensor is attached to the flexible tab. The sensor generates a signal that changes relative to a deformation of the flexible tab. A data collection system is connected to the switch test device and receives signals from the sensor.
US08421574B2	Contactless power transmission apparatus and a method of manufacturing a secondary side thereof According to a first aspect, a secondary side of contactless power transmission apparatus includes: a holding member which is physically separated from a primary side; a magnetic layer; a shield layer for shielding electromagnetic noise; and a heat insulation layer. The secondary coil is a planar coil and supported by the holding member, and at least the magnetic layer is laminated on one side of the planar coil and unified with the planar coil. According to a second aspect, the secondary side of the apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic layers. Each permeability of the magnetic layers is different from each other, and each of the magnetic layers forms a magnetic path with the primary side.
US08421568B2	Solenoid arrangement with segmented armature member for reducing radial force A solenoid arrangement having an armature member that is segmented to help minimize the radial force due to eccentricity of the armature member. The solenoid arrangement has a magnetic coil that when energized will create magnetic flux in the flux path. A pole piece is partly circumscribed by the armature member. Inner and outer air gaps are located about the armature member. Eccentricity of the armature member results in a decrease in one of the air gaps and a corresponding increase in the other. Radial gaps segment the armature member to interrupt the circumferential flux path about the armature member to inhibit magnetic flux from swirling to the side nearest the pole piece and to distribute magnetic flux substantially evenly. The radial force acting on the armature member is reduced resulting in reduced friction between solenoid components while substantially preserving the desirable level of axial force.
US08421563B2	Arrangement of stringed solenoid drives The invention relates to an arrangement of stringed solenoid drives (1, 2, 3), particularly for solenoid valves, wherein each solenoid drive comprises a magnetic circuit with a yoke (4), moveable armature (5), and an excitation coil (6) arranged on the yoke. The magnetic circuits of neighboring solenoid drives have pre-magnetization with the same polarity and at least approximately the same strength. Due to the pre-magnetization, the magnetic potential difference between neighboring magnetic circuits is reduced. The pre-magnetization is thus carried out with the same polarity as the excitation by current flow in the excitation coil.
US08421560B2	Boundary acoustic wave resonator and ladder filter In a boundary acoustic wave resonator, apodization weighting is performed on an IDT electrode so that an intersecting width decreases as a location moves outward in a boundary acoustic wave propagation direction. An inner side of a first busbar includes inclined portions that are disposed a predetermined distance from an envelope portion B1 on the side of the first busbar. An inner side of a second busbar includes inclined portions that are disposed a predetermined distance from an envelope portion on the side of second busbar. The sum of the numbers of electrode fingers and dummy electrodes that a straight line extending from the end of at least one of electrode fingers in the boundary acoustic wave propagation direction crosses before reaching the side of the first busbar or the side of the second busbar is equal to or greater than 5.
US08421559B2	Interface acoustic wave device The present invention relates to the field of acoustic wave devices, and particularly to that of transducers capable of operating at very high frequencies, from a few hundred MHz to several gigahertz, and its subject is more particularly an interface acoustic wave device including at least two substrates and a layer of ferroelectric material, the latter being contained between a first electrode and a second electrode and having first positive-polarization domains and second negative-polarization domains, the first and second domains being alternated, wherein the assembly constituted by the first electrode, the layer of ferroelectric material, and the second electrode is contained between a first substrate and a second substrate.
US08421557B2	Chip-type solid electrolytic capacitor and chip-type filter A solid electrolytic capacitor is formed by stacking flat solid electrolytic capacitor elements. Negative electrode sections of a part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements and negative electrode sections of the remaining part of the solid electrolytic capacitor elements are led out so as to be faced to each other, and are connected to the first and second negative electrode lead frames which are independent to each other, respectively. Two of negative electrode sections are insulated from each other in the solid electrolytic capacitor.
US08421550B2	Impedance matching component and hybrid wave-absorbing material Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an impedance matching component and a hybrid wave-absorbing material. The impedance matching component is disposed between a first medium and a second medium, and comprises a plurality of functional sheet layers. Impedances of the functional sheet layers vary continuously in a stacking direction of the functional sheet layers, with the impedance of a first one of the functional sheet layers being identical to that of the first medium and the impedance of a last one of the functional sheet layers being identical to that of the second medium.
US08421549B2	Impedance matching component The present disclosure discloses an impedance matching component disposed between a first medium and a second medium, which is formed by stacking a plurality of homogeneous metamaterial sheet layers in a direction perpendicular to surfaces thereof. Each of the metamaterial sheet layers comprises a substrate and a plurality of man-made microstructures attached thereon. A first and last metamaterial sheet layers have impedances identical to those of the first and second media respectively. The man-made microstructures attached on the first metamaterial sheet layer have a first pattern, the man-made microstructures attached on the last metamaterial sheet layer have a second pattern, and the man-made microstructures attached on intermediate ones of the metamaterial sheet layers have patterns that are combinations of the first and second patterns, with the first pattern becoming smaller continuously and the second pattern becoming larger continuously in the stacking direction of the metamaterial sheet layers.
US08421543B2	Crystal oscillator and method for manufacturing the same A crystal oscillator includes a cover, a crystal blank and an Integrated Circuit (IC) chip. The cover has a surface, a cavity formed in the surface, a plurality of conductive contacts and a conductive sealing ring. The conductive contacts are disposed on the surface, and the conductive sealing ring is disposed on the surface and surrounds the conductive contacts. The IC chip is connected to the conductive contacts and the conductive sealing ring, and forms a hermetic chamber with the cover and the conductive sealing ring. The crystal blank is located in the hermetic chamber, and is electrically connected to the IC chip. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing a crystal oscillator is also provided.
US08421540B1	Method and apparatus for run-time short circuit protection for amplifiers The system contains a first input receiving a signal from the amplifier input. A second input receives a signal from the amplifier output. A gain modification device is connected to the second input thereby reducing an amplitude of the signal from the amplifier output. A difference element connected to the gain modification device and the first input subtracts one of the first input and the second input from the other of the first input and the second input and outputting a difference voltage. A comparator, connected to the difference element and a threshold voltage source, compares the difference voltage to a threshold voltage. A disabling device is connected to the comparator and an output stage of the amplifier, wherein an output stage of the amplifier is disabled when the threshold voltage exceeds the difference voltage.
US08421539B2	Multi-mode high efficiency linear power amplifier A power amplifier includes a plurality of amplification paths in which at least one amplification path is selectively enabled and disabled, wherein each amplification path includes an output impedance modification element and an output phase shift element that is operable independently from the output impedance modification element, and wherein the output impedance modification element in each amplification path provides selective impedance for each amplification path.
US08421537B2	Electronic circuit An electronic circuit includes: a first transistor having a control terminal, a first terminal, and a second terminal; a second transistor having a control terminal connected to the second terminal of the first transistor, a first terminal, and a second terminal connected to a DC power supply; a plurality of DC paths that are mutually independent of each other and supply DC currents from the first terminal of the second transistor to the second terminal of the first transistor; and distributed constant lines connected in series with the plurality of DC paths.
US08421536B2	Apparatus and methods for electronic amplification Apparatus and methods for electronic amplification are provided. In one embodiment, a method amplifying a differential input voltage signal using a first NMOS transistor and a second NMOS transistor is provided. The method includes controlling a drain-source voltage of the first NMOS transistor using a first high voltage NMOS transistor and a first high voltage PMOS transistor. The first high voltage NMOS and PMOS transistors are electrically connected in parallel and to a drain of the first NMOS transistor. The method further includes controlling a drain-source voltage of the second NMOS transistor using a second high voltage NMOS transistor and a second high voltage PMOS transistor. The second high voltage NMOS and PMOS transistors are electrically connected in parallel and to a drain of the second NMOS transistor.

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