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US08527562B2	File storage system and storage control method Three or more file storage apparatuses and a management computer coupled thereto construct a file storage system. The management computer stores therein migration path management information, which indicates a configuration of a migration path capable of including three or more file storage units arranged in a cascade form, and path history information, which indicates a change history of the configuration of the migration path. Each time when the configuration of the migration path is changed, the management computer updates the migration path management information to information that indicates the changed configuration of the migration path, and adds the information that indicates the changed configuration of the migration path, to the path history information.
US08527553B2	Data management apparatus and data distribution system Ghost data used for reproducing a game process executed by user operations are transmitted from game apparatuses to a data management apparatus. The data management apparatus stores the received ghost data, according to a definition of a database in which score sections are defined based on a value represented by score data, and a maximum registration allowable number of users for which the ghost data are registered is defined for each of the score sections, or is defined so as to be the same among the score sections. The data management apparatus transmits, when a ghost data distribution request is received, the ghost data for at least one user for which the ghost data is registered so as to be associated with one of the score sections, the scores section being associated with the score data included in the ghost data distribution request, to the one of the game apparatuses.
US08527550B1	Bridge inspection diagnostic system A Bridge Inspection Diagnostic System (“BIDS”) for improving the efficiency and efficacy of the operations of a bridge inspection and management department. BIDS is able to store, automatically index and cross references, and provide access to over the Internet all bridge related data, such as inspection related data, repair related data, and historical background related data that is necessary for the operations of a bridge inspection and maintenance department. This information, which can be uploaded from different locations, including on site at a bridge, and at different times, is automatically sorted by the BIDS engine such that all of such information relating to any bridge is easily accessible when other information for that bridge is accessed.
US08527549B2	Cloud based operating and virtual file system A method for managing a virtual distributed file system includes maintaining by a master device located in a cloud computing environment, a metadata data structure that stores metadata about locations of most updated versions of multiple file portions and security levels of the file portions, at least one file portion being stored at a user device coupled to the cloud computing environment, and maintaining by the master device, transaction of file portions to user entities, at least one user entity being hosted by the user device, based on at least metadata stored in the metadata data structure about the file portions.
US08527531B2	Stream data generating method, stream data generating device and a recording medium storing stream data generating program A stream data generating method for a computer system for generating stream data having time information applied thereto in a time series order and processing the generated stream data on the basis of a registered query. The computer system includes a storage for storing therein query information indicative of a plurality of sorts of constituent elements forming stream data corresponding to the query on the basis of the query and a stream definition indicative of the plurality of constituent elements, a data generator for generating and transmitting stream data; and a stream data processor for processing the stream data transmitted from the data generator. The data generator a less quantity of stream data to be transmitted to the stream data processor on the basis of the query information.
US08527529B2	Methods and apparatus for presenting search results with indication of relative position of search terms Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting search results with indication of relative position of search terms. According to one aspect of the invention, search results are displayed for a search query comprising a plurality of search terms. A search query is received, for example, from a user and at least one document satisfying the search query is obtained. The disclosed method determines a relative position of at least two of the search terms in the document and at least a portion of the document is presented with an indication of the relative position of the at least two search terms in the document. The relative position is indicated using a predefined character to indicate one or more intervening elements between the at least two search terms. A relevance ranking can optionally be presented that is based on the relative position of the at least two search terms.
US08527523B1	System for enhancing expert-based computerized analysis of a set of digital documents and methods useful in conjunction therewith An electronic document analysis method receiving N electronic documents pertaining to a case encompassing a set of issues including at least one issue and establishing relevance of at least the N documents to at least one individual issue in the set of issues, the method comprising, for at least one individual issue from among the set of issues, receiving an output of a categorization process applied to each document in training and control subsets of the at least N documents, the output including, for each document in the subsets, one of a relevant-to-the-individual issue indication and a non-relevant-to-the-individual issue indication; building a text classifier simulating the categorization process using the output for all documents in the training subset of documents; and running the text classifier on the at least N documents thereby to obtain a ranking of the extent of relevance of each of the at least N documents to the individual issue. The method may also comprise evaluating the text classifier's quality using the output for all documents in the control subset.
US08527519B2	Query system for a hybrid voxel and feature database A hybrid database can receive a hybrid query for an object having a real world analog. A feature of a set of feature records can be determined that corresponds to the object. Feature-level attribute values of the feature can be extracted from the feature records. A set of uniquely indexed voxels can be determined. Each voxel can be a volumetric unit of the volumetric storage space that represents the volume of real-world geography. Voxel-level semantic values can be extracted from the set of uniquely indexed voxels from voxel records. Extracted voxel-level semantic values and extracted feature-level attribute values can be combined to generate a hybrid result. The hybrid result can be conveyed to a requestor from which the hybrid query was received.
US08527517B1	Efficient knowledge base system A knowledge base system is provided which includes a relations table which includes slots for a predicate identifier and first and second arguments of a respective relation. Each predicate identifier encodes a key for a respective entry in a predicate table. The predicate identifier also encodes argument types for the two arguments in the respective row of the relations table. Some of the argument types are associated with respective linked tables. This allows one of the arguments in a row of the relations table to serve as a key to an entry in the respective linked table on the condition that the predicate identifier for that row encodes the associated argument type.
US08527514B2	Apparatus for connecting getting-in record and getting-off record of vehicle, and method of the same An apparatus for connecting getting-in and off records of a vehicle includes: a driving information memory unit for storing getting-in and off records having a pair of getting-in and getting-off records, each of which represents a getting-in or off time and place; a grouping unit for grouping the getting-in or off records representing a same getting-in or off time zone and place, so that segmentalized getting-in or off groups are generated; a connecting unit for searching a segmentalized getting-in group connected to one segmentalized getting-off group, and for storing connection information between a searched segmentalized getting-in group and the one segmentalized getting-off group; and an estimating unit for specifying a getting-off time and a getting-off point when the getting-off action of the driver is detected, and estimating a getting-in time for a next driving according to the connection information.
US08527509B2	Search method, system and device A search method is provided, which includes: receiving a search request; extracting a user interest model from user personalized data according to the search request; obtaining a meta index of each member engine; selecting a member engine according to the meta index of each member engine, the search request, and the user interest model; and sending the search request to the selected member engine, so as to enable the selected member engine to complete searching. Correspondingly, a search system and related device, such as a search server and a scheduling server, are also provided, thereby improving the system efficiency and search precision.
US08527508B2	Input assistance device, method thereof, and non-transitory storage medium storing input assistance program An input assistance device includes: an operation unit configured to accept information selected by a user from a plurality of input candidates; a storage unit configured to store a priority for displaying the plurality of input candidates according to a display order, the priority determined based on an input history of information accepted by the operation unit in association with each of the plurality of input candidates; and a control unit configured to refer to the storage unit, to change the display order of the input candidates determined based on the priority into other display order by replacing a first input candidate among the plurality of input candidates in a first range from a top percentile priority with a second input candidate in a second range that is outside of the first range, and to output the plurality of input candidates according to the other display order.
US08527504B1	Data network content filtering using categorized filtering parameters Disclosed is a method and apparatus for filtering data network content using categorized filtering parameters. Filtering parameters (e.g., regular expressions) are categorized and stored in a database accessible by a plurality of users. A user may receive one or more categories of filtering parameters from the database, and then use the categorized filtering parameters to filter content received from a data network. A user may also contribute developed categorized filtering parameters to the database. In one advantageous embodiment, the filtering parameters are designed to filter out advertising content. In such an embodiment, the received content comprises advertising and is filtered using the categorized filtering parameters. A webpage is then rendered using the filtered content such that at least a portion of the advertising is not displayed in the webpage. The categorized filtering parameters stored in the database may be further divided into sub-categories such that the filtering parameters are stored in a hierarchical manner such that a category includes one or more sub-categories.
US08527497B2	Composite term index for graph data An indexing system for graph data. In particular implementations, the indexing system provides for denormalization and replica index functionality to improve query performance.
US08527492B1	Associating external content with a digital image A method and system is provided for associating external content with a digital image. Aspects of the method and system include extracting metadata from the digital image; using the extracted metadata to query an online content server to retrieve content related to the digital image through at least one attribute of the extracted metadata; in response to receiving the content returned by the content server, associating the content with the digital image; and using the content when an operation is performed on the digital image.
US08527486B2	Mobile application discovery through mobile search A social mobile network enables discovery of application programs running on the mobile devices. A search for partial or full matches to a group of alphanumeric characters is performed on the data stored on the first mobile communication device on which the search is initiated. The search is also performed on data made available to the user of the first mobile communication device by other users, where each user is associated with a different one of a multitude of mobile communication devices. The sharing of the data and the search for shared data is made via a server with which the mobile communication devices are in communication. The discovery of applications whose names or descriptions are partially or fully matched to the alphanumeric characters is made despite the fact that user was not looking for or aware of the existence of such application programs.
US08527477B2	Display system, display method, display program, display control method and display apparatus A display system includes a display apparatus including a file identifier storing section, a viewing and editing information storing section storing thereon viewing and editing information permitted to file data, a first display section, and a first communicating section transmitting the file identifier and viewing and editing information, and an information processing apparatus including a second communicating section receiving the file identifier and viewing and editing information, a file data obtaining section, a viewing and editing instruction obtaining section obtaining editing instructions, a viewing and changing permitting section that refers to the viewing and editing information, and, when editing is permitted, gives permission to change contents of the file data based on the editing instructions, and a viewing and changing prohibiting section that refers to the viewing and editing information, and, when editing is not permitted, prohibits changing the contents of the file data.
US08527476B2	Supporting multiple different applications having different data needs using a voxel database At least one computing device can store and combine data for a geographic region in a voxel database from a plurality of different source products. The voxel database can be a volumetric storage space of different volumetric storage units referred to as voxels. The voxel database can receive requests from different applications. For each of the requests, one of a set of filters can be determined. For each of the requests, the determined one of the filters can be applied to conditionally exclude data of the voxel database. For each of the requests, voxel database data resulting from applying the determined filter can be provided to one of the applications from which the corresponding one of the requests was issued.
US08527471B2	Shadow system mirroring of an original system during uptime of an upgrade process A computer system can include a program database module configured to define, at a shadow system, a shadow program database having a structure defining an upgrade to a structure of an original program database on an original system, and having data defining an upgrade to data of the original program database on the original system. The computer system can include a customization upgrade module configured to select the data of the shadow program database based on a data customization implemented in the original program database of the original system, and configured to define an upgraded program state of the shadow program database based on a combination of the structure of the shadow program database and the data of the shadow program database.
US08527469B2	System and method for automatic detection of duplicate digital photos Hashes of metadata of digital photographs on, e.g., a removable camera memory are compared against values in a hash table representing previously stored photographs on an archive computer to ensure that only previously unstored photos are copied onto the archive computer.
US08527468B1	System and method for management of retention periods for content in a computing system Disclosed are embodiments of a system and method for establishing and managing document retention policy in a distributed computing environment. One embodiment comprises the steps of loading documents into a database as individual components or items; establishing a custodian for each document instance; categorizing its content into a plurality of categories; assigning retention periods to the content by category; and continuously monitoring retention policies according to the assigned retention periods. Any database capable of storing de-duplicated data can be adapted to implement embodiments of the invention. One embodiment utilizes codified algorithms to cross-match one or more retention policies with each document instance in the system based on the role of the custodian held at the time the instance was created and retained and/or the content or category of the content to which the document refers. If multiple policies apply, the retention period is set to the furthest in the future.
US08527467B2	Compression-aware data storage tiering A method, including assigning, to each tier in a storage system comprising multiple tiers, a respective range of priority scores, and calculating a compression ratio for a file stored on one of the multiple tiers. Using the compression ratio, a priority score is calculated for the file, and the file is migrated to the tier whose assigned range of priority scores includes the calculated priority score.
US08527464B2	Self-contained partial database backups Methods and computer readable media for restoring a database. In a method, a backup of a subset of a database is created, where the subset includes a filegroup and database metadata describing the filegroup. The database is then restored using the database subset. In a computer-readable medium, a first data field contains data representing a database subset having at least one of a plurality of filegroups. A second data field contains data representing database metadata that describes the filegroup. In another method, archived database metadata and an archived filegroup that is one of a plurality of filegroups is accessed, and the filegroup is brought online using the database metadata.
US08527458B2	Logging framework for a data stream processing server Techniques for logging data pertaining to the operation of a data stream processing server. In one set of embodiments, logging configuration information can be received specifying a functional area of a data stream processing server to be logged. Based on the logging configuration information, logging can be dynamically enabled for objects associated with the functional area that are instantiated by the data stream processing server, and logging can be dynamically disabled for objects associated with the functional area that are discarded (or no longer used) by the data stream processing server. In another set of embodiments, a tool can be provided for visualizing the data logged by the data stream processing server.
US08527456B2	Interprocess communication using a single semaphore A method to enable communication between software processes includes initiating a plurality of processes, the processes including both attachment processes and target processes. A single semaphore is created and initialized for use by the plurality of processes such that each of the target processes wait on the semaphore. An attachment process writes a message file, identifying a specific target process, to a location accessible by the target processes. The attachment process then increments the semaphore by the number of target processes, thereby unblocking the target processes and allowing them to check the message file. When the specific target process determines that the message file is intended for that target, a connection is established between the attachment process and the specific target process. The attachment process then decrements the semaphore to zero to block the target processes. A corresponding computer program product and apparatus are also disclosed herein.
US08527452B2	Construction of rules for use in a complex event processing system A system and computer program product for specifying complex event processing (CEP) system rules. A rule construction interface is provided for constructing rules for a rule set of the complex event processing system, where the rules include definitions of one or more detected events and corresponding actions. In response to an identification of a new event or action during the rule construction process via the rule construction interface, a corresponding event or action logical construct is generated for representing the event or action in the complex event processing system. An intermediate logical construct is generated to provide a data connection for the event or action logical construct. The event or action logical construct is linked to a corresponding action or event logical construct via the intermediate logical construct so as to enable data flow between the objects.
US08527445B2	Apparatus, system, and method for object detection and identification An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for identifying a target object. An object detection module detects objects by matching data from one or more sensors to known data of a target object and determining one or more correlation metrics for each object. An object tracking module tracks geographic locations for detected objects over time using subsequent data from the one or more sensors. A contextual data module determines one or more contextual indicators for detected objects based on the data from the one or more sensors. An artificial intelligence module estimates probabilities that detected objects comprise the target object based on the correlation metrics, the geographic locations, the contextual indicators, and one or more target contextual indicators associated with the target object. The artificial intelligence module estimates the probabilities using an artificial intelligence model, such as a Bayesian network.
US08527432B1	Semi-supervised learning based on semiparametric regularization Semi-supervised learning plays an important role in machine learning and data mining. The semi-supervised learning problem is approached by developing semiparametric regularization, which attempts to discover the marginal distribution of the data to learn the parametric function through exploiting the geometric distribution of the data. This learned parametric function can then be incorporated into the supervised learning on the available labeled data as the prior knowledge. A semi-supervised learning approach is provided which incorporates the unlabeled data into the supervised learning by a parametric function learned from the whole data including the labeled and unlabeled data. The parametric function reflects the geometric structure of the marginal distribution of the data. Furthermore, the proposed approach which naturally extends to the out-of-sample data is an inductive learning method in nature.
US08527427B2	Method and system for performing a transaction using a dynamic authorization code A method and apparatus for conducting a transaction involving transmission of a dynamic authentication code in place of a static PIN block using currently existing messaging standards or PIN acceptance devices. Minimal changes to existing processes an equipment are made while greatly improving security and fraud minimization.
US08527423B2	Method for transmitting an information stream upon request from a receiving site A method for transmitting information streams from a transmitting site of a provider to a receiving site of a user, the method including: providing a plurality of information streams stored at the transmitting site; providing a variety of different communication channels for transmitting an information stream; generating and allocating authorizations to the information streams at the transmitting site; generating an overview of the information streams available; transmitting the overview to the receiving site; acquiring, by the user, an authorization from a source other than the transmitting site in preparation for selecting an information stream; selecting an information stream and requesting transmission of it from the transmitting site by submitting the acquired authorization allocated to the selected information stream from the receiving site to the transmitting site; and selecting a communication channel and transmitting the selected information stream over it from the transmitting site to the receiving site.
US08527421B2	Virtual customer database The present invention includes a virtual customer database system for delivering personalized services to a consumer operating a communication device. The virtual customer database system includes an administrator and a distributed database. The distributed database may be selectively loaded by the administrator with customer related information extracted from participating businesses. The distributed database includes secure databases associated with each participating business and a public participant database. The administrator may process push and pull service requests by selectively querying the distributed database. Sensitive customer specific information may remain with each corresponding participating business while responses to the requests may include personalized customer specific information provided via a common interface standard.
US08527419B1	End to end (E2E) processing A method and apparatus for monitoring through completion the automated processes performed by a bank in validating Image Cash Letters for purposes of check clearing under the provisions of the Check21 Act.
US08527416B2	Business-to-business commerce using financial transaction numbers Controlled Payment Numbers (CPNs) which issue as a unique payment number for each transaction uniquely identify the transaction for matching the purchase and payment information. The issuance of the CPN is controlled by business rules which are designed to and effectively restrict the use of the CPN, such that if a user exceeds his authorization, a CPN is not issued. The business rules are set up according to a hierarchy of users. Further, a declining balance CPN is also provided.
US08527407B1	Process and device for conducting electronic transactions using wireless and cellular devices A process and a device for conducting electronic transactions provides a more effective and efficient way to make a payment over the Internet. This process and device could be used to pay, for example, a Police Administration Ticket or Police Administration Citation via the Internet.
US08527406B2	Systems for financial and electronic commerce A system for electronic commerce including electronic banking tools, products and services. The system includes customizable banking products and cards, and methods and systems for conducting financial transactions and maintaining records over the Internet.
US08527402B2	Mortgage loan data processing system and method for a loan broker An exemplary embodiment includes a data processing system and method for managing the origination of a mortgage loan by a loan originator in coordination with a loan broker for a loan customer. The loan originator is not the loan broker. The loan originator provides services necessary for the origination of the mortgage loan and not duplicative of services provided by the loan broker.
US08527393B2	Listing and expiring cash settled on-the-run treasury futures contracts The disclosed embodiments relate to determining a listing date, an expiration date and the cash settlement price of a futures contract, i.e. a Treasury Futures, for the delivery of the most recently issued, referred to as an on-the-run, US treasury Note of a particular maturity by reference to the U.S. Treasury Auction cycle and the difference between a resultant industry surveyed swap rate and a resultant industry surveyed swap spread of the respective tenors (time remaining until maturity) of the on-the-run treasury futures.
US08527388B1	Machine, article, and method for servicing a hedged specified event bond Article, method, and machine transforming input data into output data. A computer: accesses data relating to a bond indenture, receives market data corresponding to terms of the indenture, a specified event, and terms of an agreement hedging a risk; and transforms some of the data into output data in determining a payment amount to the entity, a value of assets of the entity, the assets including the investment and the agreement hedging the risk, a scheduled investor payment amount by the entity, whether there has been an occurrence of the specified event, and, if an occurrence is determined, an adjustment of the scheduled investor payment amount; and outputs the output data including at least one of the payment amount to the entity, the value of the assets of the entity, the scheduled investor payment amount, and, if the occurrence is determined, the adjustment in the scheduled investor payment amount.
US08527384B2	Currency equivalency application Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods for a currency equivalency application for a business activity monitoring (BAM) applications. The currency equivalency application monitors business activities across international processes and systems that deal with multiple types of currencies. The user enters into the currency equivalency application user defined preferences, such as, but not limited to, the BAM application to which to apply the preferences, the type of currencies, value amounts, dates for the actual currency exchange rate, dates for future currency exchange rates, confidence scores, etc. The currency equivalency application identifies the proper exchange rates and in some cases estimates future exchanges rates, and converts the output for currency values in BAM applications into the user defined currency values, which allows the users across the world to quantify and view the currency value outputs in a form that the user understands.
US08527381B2	System and method for authorizing third-party transactions for an account at a financial institution on behalf of the account holder System and method for authorizing third-party transactions for an account at a financial institution on behalf of the account holder. A financial institution can collect process, transmit and confirm authorizations to third parties for electronic payments and direct deposits on behalf of its account-holder customer. In at least some embodiments, a method of processing account-holder requests to authorize third-party transactions for an account includes the establishment of a pre-existing list of prospective third-party participants such as employers and billers. The financial institution receives account-holder requests to authorize third-party transactions. Specific requests from among the account-holder requests are matched to third-party participants and forwarded and can be confirmed. The system of the invention can include various engines and data repositories that work together to provide the means for implementing embodiments of the invention.
US08527379B2	Method and apparatus pertaining to metrics-based prioritization of billing exceptions Insurance billing includes receiving a plurality of exceptions arising out of one or more billing events and associated with one or more billed parties; categorizing the plurality of exceptions into a plurality of exception groups based at least in part on one or more types of exceptions; determining, for an exception group corresponding to a particular type of exception, a plurality of exception metrics for each of one or more corresponding billed parties; presenting, to the user, a selectable plurality of exception groups; and in response to a user selection of a particular exception group, presenting to the user one or more billed party identifiers of the one or more corresponding billed parties in the particular exception group and the plurality of exception metrics determined for each of the one or more corresponding billed parties.
US08527376B1	Income itemization Information provided with a direct deposit, a deposited check, or other negotiable instrument may be used to determine state, city, county, and/or other local income tax liability. Based on information associated with the deposit, the financial institution may determine where a user performed the work that triggered the income payment, where the income payment took place, what type of work is associated with the income payment, etc. This information may be used by the financial institution to provide income itemization and income tax liability information to the user via a user computing device.
US08527371B2	System and method for distribution chain management A system for supply chain management is provided. The system includes two or more manufacturer systems receiving order data, such as data identifying goods that have been ordered for each of two or more warehouses, and generating first and second shipment data, such as data identifying the actual amount of goods that were shipped. A warehouse system receives the order data, such as to allow a warehouse operator to make plans for accommodating the order, and the shipment data, such as to notify the warehouse operator of actual amounts of goods that have been shipped. An order controller system generates the order data and receives the shipment data, such as data identifying goods that are being shipped to the order controller system.
US08527369B1	Metadata-driven processing of supplemental data feeds A metadata-driven merchant feed processing system is described herein. A merchant providing an online marketplace for the sale of items by a variety of sellers implements a feed processing mechanism driven by feed metadata. The feed metadata consists of declarative metadata statements that model the semantics for transforming seller-facing feed data describing the seller's items to customer-facing listings data to be loaded to an item catalog. The feed metadata captures differences between different versions of the item catalog by maintaining the semantics of the product categories and attributes of the item catalog as of a certain version. Similarly, semantics in the feed metadata modeling new product categories and/or attributes are utilized to support supplemental feeds from sellers to support new features and improvements in the item catalog. The metadata driven feed processing system also provides support for multiple types of seller-facing data entities and feed formats through metadata mapping.
US08527358B2	Method and system for supporting purchase of game item Provided is a method of supporting a purchase of a game item that may support a portion of a price of the game item so that a user may easily obtain the game item. The game item purchase supporting method may include questioning a user about whether to transmit a purchase support request for the game item, generating purchase support information associated with the user to provide the user with the game item when the purchase support request of the game item is received from the user, and storing the purchase support information to match identification information of the user.
US08527357B1	Client and server system for coordinating messaging between motivated buyers and listed sellers An on-line venue in which buyers can anonymously communicate precisely what product or service they want to purchase by posting an interactive request that a number of sellers/service providers can then directly respond to according to one embodiment of the invention. Such embodiments may promote the buyers interests in directly matching their needs with qualified vendors. In contrast to what others provide, where the buyer has to search within each seller/service providers and then send their request. Embodiments of the present invention broadcast a buyer's needs to relevant/selected sellers/service providers. Such embodiments may take the burden from a buyer in finding the right products and services by self-qualifying the lead to proactive prospective sellers/service providers.
US08527356B2	Systems and methods for transferring items with restricted transferability The invention is systems and methods for transferring items with restricted transferability. Initially, the systems and methods wait for a first consumer to make a request to transfer an item after having purchased the item from a provider. The systems and methods then send a request to transfer the item to the provider. This request may indicate inducements to the provider to authorize the transfer. If the transfer is authorized, the systems and methods then present information regarding the item to other consumers. This information may be presented as part of a bidding interface or as part of an advertising interface. Once the second consumer submits a winning bid for the item when the information is presented in a bidding interface, or an acceptable offer when the information is presented in an advertising interface, the transfer of the item can then be completed with or without the assistance of an intermediary. When the transfer is completed without the assistance of an intermediary, the first and second consumer may directly transfer the item and payment to each other. When the transfer is completed with the assistance of an intermediary, the first consumer may send the item to the intermediary and the second consumer may send payment to the intermediary. Once both the item and the payment have been received at the intermediary, the intermediary may send the item to the second consumer and all or part of the payment to the first consumer.
US08527355B2	Method and system for requesting prior art from the public in exchange for a reward The present invention is a method and system for requesting from at least one member of the public, information that teaches or describes a technology, or a technology covered by one or more claims of a patent, in exchange for a reward where the information received can be combined with an investment strategy and/or auctioned.
US08527349B2	Methods, apparatus and computer program products for targeted and customized marketing of vehicle customers Methods, systems and computer program products for targeted and customized marketing to customers and, specifically in some embodiments, customers having a previous relationship with the entity implementing the marketing tool. The embodiments of the invention herein disclosed provide for efficient identification of previous customers based on their current product, service or property and/or their previous, and in some instances, ongoing financial obligation related to the current product, service or property. A replacement product, service or property is identified and a financial transaction proposal, such as a sales or lease proposal, is generated for one or more of the identified previous customers based on customers meeting criteria associated with variable parameters of the proposed transaction.
US08527348B2	Short-range communication enabled location service In some examples, aspects of the present disclosure may include techniques to identify a physical location of an item with potentially enhanced precision. In one example, a method includes, receiving an item descriptor that describes one or more physical items. The method also includes receiving a data payload from a peripheral device using short-range wireless communication that includes information usable to locate at least one of the one or more physical items. The further includes selecting physical location data based on the item descriptor and the data payload, wherein the physical location data includes a representation of a physical location of the at least one of the one or more physical items; and outputting the physical location data that is usable to locate the at least one of the one or more physical items.
US08527344B2	Crowdsourced advertisements sponsored by advertisers in a social networking environment Users of a social networking system are provided with advertisements when accessing content associated with the social networking system. The content of such advertisement may be generated by other users of the social networking system. An advertiser may provide an advertising template containing an advertised message and fields wherein a user can input an endorsement. The social networking system generates a user interface responsive to the template and provides the user interface to an endorsing user to receive the user's endorsement for the advertised product or event. The social networking system generates an advertisement responsive to the advertisement content provided by the advertiser and the endorsement content provided by the endorsing user. The social networking user can provide the generated advertisements to viewing users who meet the advertisement's targeting criteria and display criteria provided by the endorsing user.
US08527341B2	Method and system for electronic advertising A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining an intent of a user interacting with an e-commerce website, and determining a hurdle rate that is based at least on the user intent and which identifies a threshold amount to be bid by an advertiser in order to display an advertisement to the user. The method further includes selecting, from a plurality of advertisements, an optimal advertisement having an advertiser bid that exceeds the hurdle rate, and displaying the optimal advertisement to the user in an interface of a client computer system.
US08527339B2	Quality based pricing and ranking for online ads A “Quality-Based Ad Pricer” prices ads as a function of how users respond to a particular page and/or domain to which they are sent by an online advertisement. User experience is improved by ensuring that advertisements that are more relevant to a user are priced less than an ads which are less relevant to the user. In particular, a quality factor for each ad is determined as a property of the advertiser's site based on measured user behaviors with respect to that site. This quality factor is then used in ranking, selecting, and pricing ads in an automated online auction. Further, while ad aggregators are not excluded from the ad market by the pricing rules of the Quality-Based Ad Pricer, these rules ensure that there is a “level playing field” such that ads of merchants are not excluded by the ads of ad aggregators.
US08527330B2	System and method for calculating savings A system and method for calculating savings using a savings calculator for calculating savings realized over a period of time for several travel-related categories of expenses using respective pre-defined formulas and for producing a savings summary report and worksheets.
US08527327B1	Method and apparatus to manage project control The present invention is a method and apparatus to determine which aspects of a project are under control and whether the trend is toward increasing or decreasing control. The degree of control is measured within and across projects for different drivers of project performance. This gives the project organization a holistic view of whether specific project enablers are driving projects out of control or contributing to bringing projects under control. This also enables organizations to use project control trends to implement corrective actions proactively. Effective project control also increases the probability that each project activity and the overall project will be completed as planned. In addition, effective project control leads to more predictable project timelines and a greater willingness for suppliers to provide fixed priced project services.
US08527324B2	Predictive and profile learning salesperson performance system and method A sales automation system and method, namely a system and method for scoring sales representative performance and forecasting future sales representative performance. These scoring and forecasting techniques can apply to a sales representative monitoring his own performance, comparing himself to others within the organization (or even between organizations using methods described in application), contemplating which job duties are falling behind and which are ahead of schedule, and numerous other related activities. Similarly, with the sales representative providing a full set of performance data, the system is in a position to aid a sales manager identify which sales representatives are behind others and why, as well as help with resource planning should requirements, such as quotas or staffing, change.
US08527323B2	Method and system for load balancing a forecast system by selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a sales forecast In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting a synchronous or asynchronous process to determine a forecast. These mechanisms and methods for such synchronous/asynchronous process selection can enable embodiments to determine forecasts for multiple users (e.g. with hierarchical relationships, etc.) over an arbitrary time interval. The ability of embodiments to provide forecasts that involve such a large amount of data in an effective way can enable forecasting that was otherwise infeasible due to resource limitations.
US08527321B2	Product assortment planning system The system includes a comparison unit that identifies products in an initial assortment of products, a desired assortment of products and the performance metric for each product. The comparison unit compares the initial assortment of products and the desired assortment of products to determine kept products, added product and deleted products. The system includes an interaction unit simulating the interaction of the kept products, the added products and the deleted products based on the performance metric. The system generates simulation results identifying the interactions between the kept products, the added products and the deleted products.
US08527320B2	Methods and systems for initiating a research panel of persons operating under a group agreement Methods and systems for initiating participation of a user of a portable device (PUA) in a research operation using a respective one of a plurality of PUA's providing communication services pursuant to a single agreement with a communication service provider. Data identifying the PUA user is associated with data identifying a group of persons receiving communication services pursuant to the single agreement; and demographic data of the PUA user is associated with the data identifying the PUA user.
US08527316B2	System and method for risk adjusted strategic planning and phased decision management The present invention relates to a system and method for reducing risk to a firm and firm program and, more particularly, to reducing risk and improving yield or performance by considering firm strategic intent, phase, and integrated visuals. The current invention identifies, quantifies, and integrates strategic intent into the risk mitigation procedure by modifying the consequence chart, by dividing the program into phases, and by depicting risk related metrics, including strategic intent, that are associated with the risk element, the program, and/or the firm in a three dimensional graph.
US08527313B2	Document instantiation triggering a business action Methods and apparatuses enable triggering a work action from instantiation of a document. A system identifies instantiation of a document that has an associated business scenario. Based on the business scenario, a work action or activity as part of an stand-alone workflow is generated to accomplish the work of the business scenario. In one embodiment, a workflow is generated that includes multiple actions, including actions that may be performed by users other than a user that instantiated the document. In one embodiment, the workflow generated is a distributed workflow generated from reusable workflow building block components.
US08527306B1	Automation and security application store suggestions based on claims data A method, system, and computer-readable medium that facilitate the reception of usage data about the utilization of an intelligent home system and insurance claims data and recommend intelligent home system products based on the claims data. The method, system, and computer-readable medium facilitate the analysis of the claims data to determine whether to recommend intelligent home system products and which, if any, intelligent home system products to recommend. Recommendations may be generated by comparing a user's usage data to the claims data. Recommendations may be generated by comparing the usage data to products related to the claims submitted by one or more similar claimants in the claims data. Recommendations may be presented to a user if the intelligent home system.
US08527304B2	Method for linking insurance policies An insurance program that provides improved health care and longevity by emphasizing health improvement and maintenance. After a predetermined waiting period from the time insurance is purchased, during which the health status of the insured is maintained or improved, the insured may link the insurance policy with one or more other types of insurance policies, such as; health life, disability, nursing home, etc. Throughout the life of the policy, portions of the premiums may be credited to the insured, provided that the health of the insured is maintained or improved, which may be utilized to pay or help pay for the linked insurance coverage and may also be utilized for retirement benefits.
US08527300B2	Systems and methods for managing and/or administering prescription benefits Systems and methods for allowing a user (e.g., a benefits administrator) to maintain and modify a contract or a group for a prescription drug plan may be provided. In response to receiving a request to modify a contract or a group, a prescription benefits management application may retrieve data relating to the contract or group and allow the user to input information relating to the contract or group, input broker information, input billing information, select a pharmacy network, select pricing options for the prescription plan, create a customized prescription plan, input brand/generic difference overrides, etc. In some embodiments, the modifications and/or additions made to a contract or group may be transmitted to a pharmacist, thereby allowing the pharmacist to fill one or more prescriptions in real-time or upon updating the system (e.g., within 48 to 72 hours).
US08527297B2	Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for facilitating co-morbid care management Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for facilitating co-morbid care management. A method may include determining a plurality of medical conditions affecting a member enrolled in a care management plan. The method may further include activating, based at least in part upon the determined medical conditions, a plurality of member assessment modules. Each activated member assessment module may be associated with a respective determined medical condition and may comprise a set of assessment questions targeted to the medical condition with which the member assessment module is associated. The method may additionally include generating a blended co-morbid assessment question set based at least in part on the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules by blending the assessment question sets of the activated member assessment modules into a blended co-morbid assessment question set. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US08527288B2	Systems and methods for assignment of sales leads The invention provides systems and methods for processing sales leads. Illustratively, the invention provides a method of assigning sales leads in a network environment, the sales leads relating to persons interested in effecting a purchase, the method comprising: obtaining a lead, the lead including lead information relating to a person interested in effecting a purchase; loading the lead into a lead processing portion; determining if the lead is auto-assignable; assigning the lead to a sales agent; and outputting the lead information over the network environment to a lead distribution portion, so as to be accessible to the sales agent.
US08527286B2	System for handling scheduled lending and self-returning of articles to which RFID tags are attached Disclosed herein is a system for handling scheduled lending and self-returning of articles to which RFID tags are attached. The system includes a body. The body includes, on a front surface thereof, a display for displaying a method of using the system, handling processes, and processing results, a speaker, a receipt issuing unit, a manipulational information input unit, an external antenna for transmitting/receiving information to/from the RFID tags, and a plurality of article depositories having respective internal antennas for transmitting/receiving information to/from the RFID tags. The body includes, on the inside thereof, a reader for reading the information recorded in the RFID tags through the external antenna and the internal antennas, and a controller for comparing information, transmitted/received to/from the reader, with stored article management information, checking validity of deposit, lending, and returning of the articles, and operating locking units of the article depositories, the display, the speaker, and the receipt issuing unit.
US08527285B2	Postage printing system for printing both postal and non-postal documents A method for printing secure source images of the type that contain specific critical elements and non-secure images on a single printer includes determining the origin of an image (secure source or non-secure source). If the image to be printed is from the non-secure source, a determination is made if the image contains the specific critical elements of the type contained in secure source images. Printing of the image from the non-secure source is disabled if the image contains specific critical elements of the type contained in secure source images. Printing of the image from a non-secure source is enabled if the image does not contain specific critical elements of the type contained in the secure image. The determination if the non-secure source image contains the specific critical elements of the type contained in secure source images can be made after printing has commenced of the non-secure image.
US08527281B2	Method and apparatus for sculpting synthesized speech Methods and systems for sculpting synthesized speech using a graphic user interface are disclosed. An operator enters a stream of text that is used to produce a stream of target phonetic-units. The stream of target phonetic-units is then submitted to a unit-selection process to produce a stream of selected phonetic-units, each selected phonetic-unit derived from a database of sample phonetic-units. After the stream of sample phonetic-units is selected, an operator can remove various selected phonetic-units from the stream of selected phonetic-units, prune the sample phonetic-database and edit various cost functions using the graphic user interface. The edited speech information can then be submitted to the unit-selection process to produce a second stream of selected phonetic-units.
US08527274B2	System and method for delivering targeted advertisements and tracking advertisement interactions in voice recognition contexts The system and method described herein may use various natural language models to deliver targeted advertisements and track advertisement interactions in voice recognition contexts. In particular, in response to an input device receiving an utterance, a conversational language processor may select and deliver one or more advertisements targeted to a user that spoke the utterance based on cognitive models associated with the user, various users having similar characteristics to the user, an environment in which the user spoke the utterance, or other criteria. Further, subsequent interaction with the targeted advertisements may be tracked to build and refine the cognitive models and thereby enhance the information used to deliver targeted advertisements in response to subsequent utterances.
US08527271B2	Method for speech recognition A method for the voice recognition of a spoken expression to be recognized, comprising a plurality of expression parts that are to be recognized. Partial voice recognition takes place on a first selected expression part, and depending on a selection of hits for the first expression part detected by the partial voice recognition, voice recognition on the first and further expression parts is executed.
US08527264B2	Method and system for encoding audio data with adaptive low frequency compensation A method for determining mantissa bit allocation of frequency domain audio data to be encoded, including by performing adaptive low frequency compensation on each frequency band of a set of low frequency bands of the data. The low frequency compensation includes steps of: performing tonality detection on the audio data to generate compensation control data indicative of whether each frequency band in the set has prominent tonal content; and performing low frequency compensation on each frequency band in the set having prominent tonal content, including by correcting a preliminary masking value for each frequency band having prominent tonal content, but not performing low frequency compensation on the audio data in any other frequency band in the set; wherein the frequency domain audio data comprises an exponent value for said each low frequency band of the set, and the tonality detection includes determining, for said each low frequency band of the set, a measure of difference between exponents and corresponding tented exponents of the audio data. Other aspects are audio encoding methods including such tonality detection and low frequency compensation steps, and a system configured to perform any embodiment of the inventive method.
US08527263B2	Method and system for automatically generating reminders in response to detecting key terms within a communication A computer-implemented method of automatically generating an electronic reminder is provided. The method includes identifying, using term-recognition circuitry, at least one key term within an electronic message received with an electronic communications device. The method further includes generating at least one reminder based upon the at least one key term. One or more reminders are, according to the method, electronically conveyed to a user at a time later than when the message was received.
US08527255B2	Methods and systems for lithography process window simulation A method of efficient simulating imaging performance of a lithographic process utilized to image a target design having a plurality of features. The method includes the steps of determining a function for generating a simulated image, where the function accounts for process variations associated with the lithographic process; and generating the simulated image utilizing the function, where the simulated image represents the imaging result of the target design for the lithographic process.
US08527249B2	System and method for optimizing drilling speed This invention presents various embodiments, including a system and a method, in which pressure-while-drilling data is gathered at a drilling rig and compared to modeled ECD pressure data related to the bore hole. The actual and modeled data are statistically analyzed to generate standard deviation data, which is used to infer information about how rapid a rate of penetration may safely be employed to optimize drilling results.
US08527246B1	Method for modeling conductor surface roughness A method provides modeling of surface roughness effect of an electrical conductor. The method includes identifying first protrusions of a first level using an original flat surface of the conductor as a first base surface and determining a first correction factor of the first level using parameters of the first protrusions. The method further includes identifying second protrusions of a second level using the first protrusions and the first base surface as a second base surface, and determining a second correction factor of the second level using parameters of the second protrusions and regarding the second base surface as being a smooth surface, the smooth surface being a surface of the conductor without surface roughness effect. A final correction factor of the conductor is determined by combining the first correction factor and the second correction factor.
US08527244B2	Generating model data representing a biological body section A method of generating model data representing a body section of a biological organism, like e.g., a head or part thereof, a joint, or soft tissue, includes the steps of providing object data representing a first portion of the body section, providing standard data representing a complete standard body section, and subjecting the standard data to a registration process, wherein the model data to be generated are created by adapting the standard data to the object data, said model data representing the first portion of the body section and a second portion of the body section.
US08527230B2	Sensor control apparatus An oxygen sensor control apparatus (10) obtains a correction coefficient for calibrating the relation between oxygen concentration and an output value of an oxygen sensor (20), when a fuel cut operation of an internal combustion engine (100) is performed. The apparatus includes average output value calculation means; inter-fuel-cut average output value calculation means; and correction coefficient calculation means.
US08527220B2	Vortex extraction apparatus, method, program storage medium, and display system A vortex extraction apparatus includes: a first numerical data calculation section calculating, for each vertex of each of voxels into which the inside of a fluid space is split, first numerical data indicating whether the vertex is located inside or outside a vortex region in a fluid; and a text data creation section determining the size of the vortex region around a center line of the vortex based on the first numerical data, and creating text data indicating the center line and the size. The apparatus further includes a polygon count reduction processing section counting the number of polygons defining a surface of the vortex region and each including an isosurface of the first numerical data, and integrating the voxels with new voxels into which the fluid space is roughly split until the number of polygons is not more than a set value, to decimate the first numerical data.
US08527219B2	System, method, and computer readable medium for calculating well flow rates produced with electrical submersible pumps A system, method, and computer readable medium for calculating well flow rates produced with electrical submersible pumps using measured voltage, current, frequency and pressure data. An efficiency to flow rate ratio is calculated from the voltage, current, and pressure data. The efficiency to flow rate ratio is used to obtain a non-dimensional flow rate. The flow rate through the electrical submersible pump is calculated from the non-dimensional flow rate.
US08527210B2	Computer method and system for predicting physical properties using a conceptual segment model Methods of conducting industrial manufacture, research or development. The method comprise computer-implemented steps of modeling at least one physical property of a mixture of at least two chemical species by determining at least one conceptual segment for each of the chemical species. The steps of determining at least one conceptual segment for each of the chemical species include defining an identity and an equivalent number of each conceptual segment.
US08527205B2	Gravity interpretation workflow in injection wells A method comprising: estimating a change in a characteristic of a subterranean formation into which a fluid has been injected via a well extending into the subterranean formation; building a multi-dimensional model balancing mass of the injected fluid, wherein the model is based on the estimated characteristic change; utilizing the model to determine the sensitivity of a borehole gravity tool in the well; measuring gravity with the borehole gravity tool at a plurality of stations along the well; and utilizing the model and the gravity measurements to locate the injected fluid in the subterranean formation.
US08527204B2	Volume of investigation based density image processing Systems and methods which provide accurate formation information regardless of formation and borehole geometry, including those associated with high angle and horizontal wells, are shown. In providing processing of logging or image data, such as may be provided by a density tool or other tool, according to embodiments, formation attributes or features (e.g., density and dip angle) are estimated using raw data provided by a the tool. The foregoing estimations may thereafter be iteratively refined using effective volume of interest (EVOI) information. According to embodiments, depth boundaries of formation information provided by the tool are shifted as a function of azimuth for correct spatial positioning of formation features using EVOI information. Processing of formation attribute or feature data provided by embodiments may be used with respect to various tool configurations, including configurations with and without borehole standoff.
US08527197B2	Control device for one or more self-propelled mobile apparatus A device for controlling self-propelled mobile apparatus(es) (300), includes:—a stationary base station (200), provided with a receiver for a satellite location system, referred to as a stationary GNSS receiver, and a radiofrequency transmitter/receiver to enable communication with at least one mobile apparatus, and including: a positioning module, a command module, and a control module for controlling the movement of each mobile apparatus on the ground;—at least one mobile apparatus (200), including a moving element, a mobile GNSS receiver, and a radiofrequency transmitter/receiver for transmitting, to the base station (200), information received by the mobile GNSS receiver and receiving a movement command.
US08527191B2	Unmanned vehicle for displacing manure An apparatus and method for an unmanned vehicle for displacing manure includes navigating an unmanned vehicle, further including detecting an animal, determining whether a current course of the unmanned vehicle will lead to a collision with the animal. If this is the case, the method continues by: determining at least a first priority parameter from a set of priority parameters, wherein the first priority parameter is a standing condition of the detected animal, deciding, on the basis of the set of priority parameters, whether the course of the unmanned vehicle will be adjusted to avoid the animal, wherein the course will be maintained if the set of priority parameters meets a predetermined collision criterion, and the course will be adjusted to avoid the animal if the set of priority parameters does not meet the predetermined collision criterion, wherein the set of priority parameters only meets the collision criterion if at least the standing condition is that the animal is standing.
US08527188B2	Ignition timing controller for internal combustion engine An ignition timing controller for an engine includes basic knock-limit ignition timing calculation means that calculates a basic knock-limit ignition timing on the basis of an operating state of the engine; learning-region variation calculation means that learns the knock-limit ignition timing of the engine in two operating regions and thereby calculates a learning-region variation due to octane number and a learning-region variation due to humidity in one of the operating regions; estimated variation calculation means that estimates a variation due to octane number and a variation due to humidity in a present operating state on the basis of the learning-region variation due to octane number and the learning-region variation due to humidity; and knock-limit ignition timing calculation means that calculates the knock-limit ignition timing in the present operating state on the basis of the basic knock-limit ignition timing, the variation due to octane number, and the variation due to humidity.
US08527185B2	Energy-based closed-loop control of turbine outlet temperature in a vehicle A vehicle includes an engine and an exhaust system which ignites fuel from fuel injectors to purify exhaust gas. An air compressor delivers compressed intake air to the engine, and a turbine energizes the compressor. A controller calculates an engine thermal efficiency value using temperature and mass flow rate values from various sensors. The controller maintains a temperature of the exhaust gas downstream of the turbine using the thermal efficiency value. A control system includes the sensors and a host machine operable for maintaining the temperature of the exhaust gas above the threshold using the thermal efficiency value. A method for maintaining the temperature of the exhaust gas includes measuring the inlet and outlet temperatures of an air intake system, measuring the mass flow rate of compressed intake air, and using the host machine to maintain the temperature of the gas using the thermal efficiency value.
US08527181B2	Method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine A a method for automatically controlling an internal combustion engine, in which an individual accumulator pressure (pE) of a common rail system is detected in a measurement interval and stored; in which an evaluation window is determined for the stored individual accumulation pressure (pE), within which window an injection was brought about; in which, in a first step, both a representative injection start and a trial injection end are determined in this evaluation window as a function of the detected pressure values, and, in a second step, both a trial injection start and a representative injection end are determined in this evaluation window as a function of the detected pressure values; in which the representative injection start is checked for plausibility against the trial injection start; and in which the representative injection end is checked for plausibility against the trial injection end.
US08527179B2	Method and device for measuring the emissions of engines The invention relates to a method and a device for determining specific emissions as an exhaust gas characteristic of an internal combustion engine. Said method is characterized in that the exhaust gas mass flow (3) is determined as the first operating parameter and the engine power output (2) as the second operating parameter, the nitrous oxide mass flow (3) and the engine power output (2) are derived from a respective measured value that deviates from the operating parameter and the exhaust gas characteristic is calculated as a quotient from the corrected exhaust gas mass flow (3) and the engine power output (2).
US08527163B2	Gearbox control device A transmission control device (6) for an automatic or automated transmission (2). A shifting strategy of the transmission control device (6) controls and/or regulates the operation of the transmission (2) based on driving condition data such as vehicle mass, driving resistance, vehicle inclination, vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, engine rotational speed and/or engine torque, and based on data about the driver's wishes. The transmission control device (6) continuously calculates the driving condition data of the vehicle mass, driving resistance and/or vehicle inclination based on topographic data of a current position of the motor vehicle, and/or the shifting strategy determines a gear change from an actual gear into a target gear based on topographic data of a defined distance ahead of a motor vehicle. The defined distance ahead of the motor vehicle depends on the currently velocity of the vehicle.
US08527160B2	Control system and method for automatic selection of a low range gear ratio for a vehicle drivetrain An apparatus and method for automatically controlling a drivetrain coupled to at least one drive wheel of a vehicle can include providing a first assembly including a low range drive ratio and a high range drive ratio. An electronic control unit can be configured to receive information from at least one sensor located on the vehicle and to provide an output signal based on the information. An actuator mechanism can be provided and configured to cause the first assembly to operate at a selected one of the low range drive ratio and the high range drive ratio based on instructions from the control unit. Separate algorithms can be provided to determine when to actuate from the high range drive ratio to the low range drive ratio and vice versa.
US08527156B2	Tractor-implement control system method A tractor comprises a tractor frame, driven ground engaging means, and an electronic tractor controller. A baler comprises a baler frame coupled or connected to the tractor frame, a crop receiving means, a baling chamber, a bale size sensor associated with the baling chamber, and an electronic baler controller. The baler controller is operable to submit a halt signal to the tractor controller when a bale size signal provided by the bale size sensor indicates that a bale has reached a size equal to or exceeding a first predetermined size. A control method includes the baler controller generating a tractor halt signal in response to certain conditions of the baler system and the tractor controller preventing tractor motion in response to the halt signal. The method also includes, when the baler controller is generating the halt signal, enabling motion of the tractor if the operator issues a command for the tractor to move by manipulating the command device, and within a certain time period of said command being issued, the baler controller generates a tractor motion enabling signal in response a status of the baler system. The method further includes, when the baler controller is generating the halt signal, enabling motion of the tractor if the operator moves the tractor command device in a special manner.
US08527153B2	Automated guided vehicle (AGV) system An automated guided vehicle is equipped with a stabilization system for precisely locating, leveling, or otherwise positioning the AGV and its payload with respect to a work piece. The stabilization system includes one or more extension members that extend away from the AGV to engage the ground or a locating assembly installed in the ground. Each extension member may be part of a locating assembly or a leveling assembly. The locating assembly extension member may extend at least partially into an opening of another locating assembly to align the two locating assemblies. The locating assembly may also be configured to provide a leveling function.
US08527148B2	Control system for controlling a motor arrangement for differentially driving left and right wheels of a motorized vehicle A control system for controlling a motor arrangement for differentially driving left and right wheels of a motorized vehicle, the control system comprising: a comparator for receiving yaw rate sensor signals from a yaw rate sensor attached to the vehicle, the yaw rate sensor signals being indicative of actual yaw rates of the vehicle and for receiving yaw rate reference signals generated by a user input device, the yaw rate reference signals being indicative of user demanded yaw rates for the vehicle, the comparator arranged to output yaw rate error signals based on the difference between the yaw rate sensor signals and the yaw rate reference signals; a control loop for processing the yaw rate error signals to generate yaw rate correction signals for controlling the motor arrangement to reduce the yaw rate error signals, wherein the control loop comprises a variable limiter for limiting the yaw rate correction signals to values within a variable limit, the variable limit varying in dependence upon the yaw rate error signals.
US08527146B1	Systems and methods for updating vehicle behavior and settings based on the locations of vehicle passengers A system and method for controlling one or more settings of a vehicle using a device comprising an electronic circuit is disclosed. The electronic circuit is configured to obtain a position of a passenger within the vehicle, identify said passenger, obtain information comprising one or more setting preferences for said passenger use the position and at least one of the information to determine whether one or more settings need to be changed, and change the one or more settings based on the position and identity of the passenger. The electronic circuit is also configured to identifying a driver, compare the identity of the driver with a predetermined list of drivers of the vehicle, and change a plurality of operational parameters based on the identity of the driver.
US08527145B2	ISG display apparatus and method of ISG automobile An ISG (Idle Stop and Go) display device of an ISG vehicle may include a driving information detecting unit that detects driving information of the vehicle, a memory unit that stores notification about ISG of the vehicle, a control unit that executes the ISG and detects situations of an operation and an abnormality of the ISG by using the driving information of the vehicle which may be input from the driving information detecting unit, and receives the notifications about the ISG which correspond to the situations from the memory unit, and a display unit that may be controlled by the control unit to display the notifications about the ISG in accordance with the situations.
US08527138B2	Apparatus for recording vehicular data, controller for recording vehicular data, and vehicular data recording system An apparatus includes a first memory device, a second memory device and a controller. The first memory device stores vehicular data in accident. The second memory device has control data area for storing control data in nonvolatile manner. The controller records the vehicular data stored in the first memory device into the control data area of the second memory device by overwriting the control data in response to vehicular accident. It is possible to increase a recordable amount of vehicular data in vehicular accident without increasing recording capacity exclusively preserved to vehicular data.
US08527136B2	Vehicular action data record apparatus When anomalous vehicle actions occur in a vehicle multiple times, it is determined whether each action data is included in a series of action data sets that are closely related mutually or an irrelevant independent action data set. When it is included in the series of action data sets, the ECUs record the series of action data sets in respective own memories according to a predetermined recording order. In contrast, when it is included in the independent action data set, an earliest ECU that is earliest in the recording order records the action data by overwriting its own memory. In this case, the earliest ECU transmits an instruction to other ECUs to delete all past action data that are recorded in own memories of the other ECUs.
US08527135B2	Peripheral access devices and sensors for use with vehicle telematics devices and systems A telematics method and system includes, and uses, a telematics device with a controller in communication with a diagnostic system configured to receive diagnostic information from a host vehicle; a position-locating system configured to determine location information of the host vehicle; a wireless transceiver configured to transmit and receive information through a wireless network to and from at least one Internet-accessible website; and, a communication interface including at least a short range wireless interface link. The telematics device may be embodied in an access device, which may include the position-locating system. The access device may be a smartphone, or similar device, that retrieves/transmits diagnostic data/information, and other data/information to/from the vehicle via the short range wireless link. The access device performs various telematics device functions; it uses a long range wireless interface to communicate diagnostic and related information to a central host computer, and to receive related information from same.
US08527128B2	Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method A vehicle control apparatus is provided with a power generator driven by a torque transmitted between an internal combustion engine and a drive wheel. The vehicle control apparatus executes a torque control that smoothly changes a torque at the drive wheel by changing a torque of the power generator during deceleration of the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus determines whether a factor restricting the torque of the power generator is in effect during the deceleration of the vehicle, and controls a manner of the torque control to be different between when the restricting factor is in effect and when the restricting factor is not in effect.
US08527116B2	Process and device for optimising the performance of an aircraft in the presence of a lateral dissymmetry A process and device for optimising the performance of an aircraft in the presence of a lateral dissymmetry is disclosed. The device (1) includes means (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9) for controlling, during a lateral dissymmetry, at least one rudder such as to generate an optimum sideslip for reducing the drag of the aircraft.
US08527109B2	Method and apparatus for managing an energy consuming load A method for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads and a method for managing the group of energy consuming loads. The method includes generating sets of load state data from the loads, making enablement state decisions for one or more loads using the sets of load state data, and implementing the enablement state decisions. An apparatus for managing an energy consuming load in a group of energy consuming loads, including a transmitter, a receiver, a processor for processing sets of load state data to make an enablement state decision for the load, and a controller for implementing the enablement state decision. A method for managing an enablement state of an energy consuming load, including assigning an assigned duty cycle to the load, determining a load enabled utilization value for the load, and adjusting the assigned duty cycle using the load enabled utilization value.
US08527106B2	System stabilization device A control unit of a system stabilization device uses a fluctuation detection block (60) to determine fluctuation components included in the active component and reactive component currents of a system current and fluctuation components included in the frequency signal and the amplitude signal of a system voltage. The high frequency cut-off of the fluctuation detection block (60) is set to be f1; the low frequency cut-off is set to be f2. The fluctuation detection block (60) is composed of a low-pass filter (61) with a time constant of T1, a low-pass filter (62) with a time constant of T2, a subtracter (63) which outputs the difference, between the output signals of the filter (61) and the filter (62), and a feedback circuit (64) which provides feedback on the output of the subtracter (63) to the filters (61, 62). Thus, stability is ensured without using a current detector.
US08527104B2	Wind turbine generator system and operation control method therefor An object is to improve the accuracy of reactive power adjustment. Reactive-power command values corresponding to individual wind turbines are determined by correcting a predetermined reactive-power command value for an interconnection node A using reactive power correction levels set for the individual wind turbines.
US08527102B2	Controlling the cooling of fermenters of a biofuel production plant According to various embodiments, a biofuel production system includes a plurality of parallel-operated fermenters, a cooling tower water system configured to supply cooling water to the plurality of parallel-operated fermenters, a chiller water system configured to supply chiller water to the plurality of parallel-operated fermenters, and a cooling system coupled to the plurality of parallel-operated fermenters, the cooling tower water system, and the chiller water system. The cooling system controls the flow rates of the cooling water and the chiller water to the plurality of parallel-operated fermenters based upon temperatures of fermentation products of the fermenters.
US08527101B2	Door closer assembly A door closer comprises a piston cooperating with a rotating pinion. Upon rotation of the pinion in the door opening direction, the piston moves toward the second end of the housing forcing fluid from a second variable volume chamber through a passage to a first variable volume chamber and compressing a spring assembly for storing energy. The spring assembly urges the piston toward the first end of the housing for forcing fluid from the first variable volume chamber to the second variable volume chamber and rotating the pinion in the door closing direction. A controller controls the position of a valve in the passage based on the sensed angular position of a door and the position of the valve for determining the amount of hydraulic fluid flowing through the valve.
US08527098B2	Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning management system and method Systems and methods of controlling a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning system are provided that operate according to signals returned from return air temperature sensors as well as the supply air temperature sensors. Using predetermined temperature setpoints, return temperature information, and supply temperature information, the HVAC system is configured to maintain the temperature of a room first, by the use of its cooling valve, and second and only when the capacity of the cooling valve has peaked, by use of the fan. The presently disclosed improved HVAC system operates more efficiently by avoiding unit loading hopping and minimizing power consumption.
US08527094B2	Multi-user medical robotic system for collaboration or training in minimally invasive surgical procedures A multi-user medical robotic system for collaboration or training in minimally invasive surgical procedures includes first and second master input devices, a first slave robotic mechanism, and at least one processor configured to generate a first slave command for the first slave robotic mechanism by switchably using one or both of a first command indicative of manipulation of the first master input device by a first user and a second command indicative of manipulation of the second master input device by a second user. To facilitate the collaboration or training, both first and second users communicate with each other through an audio system and see the minimally invasive surgery site on first and second displays respectively viewable by the first and second users.
US08527091B2	Robotic apparatus implementing collision avoidance scheme and associated methods A robotic system implements a collision avoidance scheme and includes a first robotic manipulator and a first controller configured to control the first robotic manipulator for movement along a first pre-planned actual path. A second controller is configured to control movement of a second robotic manipulator for movement along a second pre-planned intended path and deviating therefrom to move in a dodging path away from the first pre-planned actual path based upon determining a potential collision with the first robotic manipulator without prior knowledge of the first pre-planned actual path.
US08527086B2	Return address destination discrimination technology Methods, software and apparatus (FIG. 5) disclosed to maintain and update an association database (650) that enables relating updated address information to affected mailpieces (FIG. 7), and providing the benefits of that information to mailers, especially business or corporate mailers (600, 630, 632), and in the case of co-mingled mail, enabling a pre-sort house (610) to provide the updated information to their customers, or to update mailing lists maintained by or for their customers.
US08527085B2	Method for operating a gear grinding machine The present invention relates to a method for operating a gear grinding machine, with the following operating phases of the gear grinding machine: machining a workpiece on the gear grinding machine by means of a grinding disk and/or grinding worm and dressing a profiling tool for profiling a grinding disk and/or grinding worm on the gear grinding machine.
US08527083B2	Sewing machine and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing sewing machine control program A sewing machine includes a moving portion that moves a sewing object having a pattern to a first position and to a second position, an image capture portion that creates an image by image capture of the sewing object, a first acquiring portion that acquires a first image created by image capture of a first area by the image capture portion, a second acquiring portion that acquires a second image created by image capture of a second area by the image capture portion, and a computing portion that computes, as position information, at least one of a thickness of the sewing object at a portion where the pattern is located and a position of the pattern on a surface of the sewing object, based on the first position, the second position, a position of the pattern in the first image, and a position of the pattern in the second image.
US08527074B2	Sensor arrangement, particularly for a passenger protection system of a motor vehicle A sensor arrangement, particularly for a passenger protection system of a motor vehicle, comprising a first group of sensors (10, 12) by means of which a first group of state parameters jointly usable by a first decision making unit connected downstream for detecting a first event can be detected, a first digital unit (20) coupled on the input side to at least one sensor (12) of the first sensor group. The arrangement processes the sensor output signals fed thereto and providing the same for forwarding to the first decision making unit as digital values. A second group of sensors (14, 16, 18), by means of which a second group of state parameters jointly useable by a second decision making unit is connected downstream for detecting a second event can be detected with a second digital unit coupled on the input side to at least one sensor (16, 18) of the second sensor group. The arrangement processes the sensor output signals fed thereto and providing the same for forwarding to the second decision making unit as digital values wherein at least one sensor (10) of the first sensor group is coupled to the second digital unit (22) and at least one sensor (14) of the second sensor group is coupled to the second digital unit (22) and at least one sensor (14) of the second sensor group is coupled to the first digital unit (20). The digital units (20, 22) are coupled on their output sides to a first and a second node (28, 30) combining the digital values.
US08527069B2	Sternal closure wire for sensing and therapeutic energy delivery An embodiment includes a sensor coupled to a sternal closure wire. The sternal closure wire holds two sternum portions of a patient adjacent to one another and the first sensor senses a biological signal of the patient. An embodiment includes a current source coupled to a sternal closure wire. The sternal closure wire holds two sternum portions of a patient adjacent to one another, and the current source delivers an electrical current to the patient via the sternal closure wire. Other embodiments are described herein.
US08527056B2	Encoding of size and brightness of percepts in a visual prosthesis Methods of electrically stimulating percepts in a patient with a visual prosthesis are discussed. Changes in amplitude of stimulation increase both the perceived brightness and the perceived size of the precept. Changes in frequency of stimulation change the perceived brightness without altering the perceived size of the percept. Hence, a source image may be mapped to a combination of amplitude and frequency that best induces the desired image.
US08527050B2	Method for discriminating anodal and cathodal capture An implantable device and associated method discriminate between cathodal and anodal capture during electrical stimulation. A control response to a pacing pulse delivered using a candidate cathode electrode and a universal anode and responses to bipolar pacing pulses delivered using candidate bipoles including the candidate cathode are measured. Responsive to the control response meeting a threshold response, the control response is classified as normal and each of the responses for the candidate bipoles are compared to the control response. The responses for the candidate bipoles are each classified based on the comparison.
US08527048B2	Local and non-local sensing for cardiac pacing Systems and methods for determining pacing timing intervals based on the temporal relationship between the timing of local and non-local cardiac signal features are described. A device includes a plurality of implantable electrodes electrically coupled to the heart and configured to sense local and non-local cardiac signals. Sense circuitry coupled to first and second electrode pairs senses a local cardiac signal via a first electrode pair and a non-local cardiac signal via a second electrode pair. Detection circuitry is used to detect a feature of the local signal associated with activation of a heart chamber and to detect a feature of the non-local signal associated with activation of the heart chamber. A control processor times delivery of one or more pacing pulses based on a temporal relationship between timing of the local signal feature and timing of the non-local signal feature.
US08527042B2	System for abating neural stimulation side effects Various system embodiments comprise a neural stimulation delivery system adapted to deliver a neural stimulation signal for use in delivering a neural stimulation therapy, a side effect detector, and a controller. The controller is adapted to control the neural stimulation delivery system, receive a signal indicative of detected side effect, determine whether the detected side enact is attributable to delivered neural stimulation therapy, and automatically titrate the neural stimulation therapy to abate the side effect. In various embodiments, the side effect detector includes a cough detector. In various embodiments, the controller is adapted to independently adjusting at least one stimulation parameter for at least one phase in the biphasic waveform as part of a process to titrate the neural stimulation therapy. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US08527041B2	System, method and computer program product for indicating stimulation signals to a user Stimulation system for indicating stimulation signals to a user, provided with at least one heart beat sensor for converting measured heart beats into a signal, a processing circuit configured to process the measured heart beat signals, a user interface configured to indicate stimulation signals to a user, wherein the processing circuit is configured to calculate intervals between the detected heart beats and register a predetermined number of successive intervals, predict a time interval between a detected heart beat and a predicted future heart beat based on the registered intervals, and instruct the user interface to indicate a stimulation signal to a user non-simultaneously with the predicted heart beat at the end of the predicted time interval so as to change the heart rate and/or heart coherence of the user.
US08527037B2	Reconstruction of a surface electrocardiogram from an endocardial electrogram using non-linear filtering The present invention relates to an active medical device that uses non-linear filtering for reconstructing a surface electrocardiogram from an endocardial electrogram. At least one endocardial EGM electrogram signal is collected from of samples collected from at least one endocardial or epicardial derivation (71′, 72′, 73′), and at least one of a reconstructed surface electrocardiogram (ECG) signal through the processing of collected EGM samples by a transfer function (TF) of a neural network (60′). The neural network (60′) is a time-delay-type network that simultaneously processes said at least one endocardial EGM electrogram signal, formed by a first sequence of collected samples, and at least one delayed version of this EGM signal, formed by a second sequence of collected samples distinct from the first sequence collected samples. The neural network (60′) provides said reconstructed ECG signal from the EGM signal and its delayed version.
US08527035B2	System, optode and cap for near-infrared diffuse-optical function neuroimaging An optode for a functional infrared diffuse optical neuroimaging system uses a GRIN lens and prism for coupling to an optical fiber at a right-angle to the lens. The lens is inserted into a grommet for attachment to an elastomeric cap worn by a subject. In an embodiment, the cap also has an array of electroencephalographic electrodes, with optodes arranged such that an optical path exists between a transmitter and a receiver optode beneath each electroencephalographic electrode. In an embodiment, quadfurcated optical cabling is used to permit illumination of each of multiple optodes with wavelengths provided from each of multiple lasers, and permitting each laser to illuminated multiple optodes.
US08527034B2	Image derived input function for PET lung assessment An input function indicative of a time-activity curve in pulmonary arterial plasma is produced from a series of PET image frames in lieu of manual blood sampling. Two manually acquired blood samples are input along with pixel values of a blood pool region of interest (ROI) in the PET image frames into a two-parameter model of the ROI's time-activity curve. In an iterative process the model converges to accurately indicate the amount of 18F-FDG tracer in the arterial blood. Pulmonary uptake of the tracer is assessed with the PET image frames and the calculated input function.
US08527032B2	Imaging system and method of delivery of an instrument to an imaged subject An embodiment of an imaging system of an imaged subject is provided. The imaging system comprises a controller, and an imaging system and a display in communication with the controller. The imaging system can include an imaging probe having a marker representative of a unique identifier. The display can be illustrative of the imaged data acquired with the imaging probe in combination with a graphic representation of an imaging plane vector representative of a general direction of a field of view (FOV) of image acquisition of the imaging probe traveling through the imaged subject.
US08527008B2	Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method A wireless communication apparatus 100 according to the present invention is provided with reception channel coefficient calculation units 120-1 to 120-n for calculating reception channel coefficients of respective antennas, transmission channel coefficient calculation units 130-1 to 130-n for calculating transmission channel coefficients of respective antennas by extrapolation based on variations of the reception channel coefficients, absolute value calculation units 140-1 to 140-n for calculating absolute values of the transmission channel coefficients, a threshold calculation unit 150 for calculating a threshold based on the reception channel coefficients, comparison units 160-1 to 160-n for comparing the absolute values and the threshold, and transmission channel coefficient correction units 170-11 to 170-1n, when the absolute values are greater than the threshold, for correcting the transmission channel coefficients so as to match the absolute values to the threshold.
US08527007B2	Multimedia message system and method for sending multimedia message The present invention discloses a multimedia message system, which includes: a terminal; a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC), which serves to receive, store and send multimedia messages; and a Multimedia Message Service Gateway (MMSG) connecting with at least one MMSC and the terminal belonging to the MMSG respectively, which serves to authenticate the terminal and a user in the multimedia message and a provided service, and to send the multimedia messages from the terminal or the MMSC. And the present invention provides three methods for sending multimedia messages. The system and methods provided by the present invention can lower the load of the MMSC and enhance the security of the MMSC.
US08526997B2	Frequency control device, frequency control method, and base transceiver station A frequency control device receiving a signal transmitted from each of a plurality of mobile stations, the frequency control device includes a first detecting unit to detect a frequency deviation generated from the signal, a second detecting unit to acquire information about at least a current position or movement of each of the mobile stations as classification information, and a classifying unit to classify mobile stations estimated to be moving in a same moving direction with a same moving speed as a first mobile station based on the classification information. The frequency control device includes a first calculating unit to calculate a first frequency deviations of a signal received from the first mobile station, and a compensation unit to compensate the frequency deviation of the signal received from the first mobile station based on the first frequency deviation.
US08526995B2	Data conversion using a serial interface clock in a power amplifier module In a mobile wireless telecommunication device, a bidirectional serial interface is used to transfer a digital representation of an analog value from a first chip associated with a power amplifier module to a second chip. In an exemplary embodiment, circuitry on the first chip receives this clock signal from the second chip during the address portion of a read operation and uses this clock signal to generate a conversion clock signal. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) on the first chip operates in response to the conversion clock signal to convert an analog value to a digital output. Circuitry on the first chip then transfers the digital output of the ADC from the first chip to the second chip via the serial interface.
US08526993B2	Power control for home base station with GNSS receiver Embodiments herein include a method and a network node in a wireless communications network for controlling a maximum output power of the network node. The network node comprises a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The GNSS receiver receives signals from the GNSS. The method comprises determining whether a GNSS signal transmitted from the GNSS is considered detectable. If the GNSS signal is considered detectable, the method includes determining whether the GNSS signal is received directly from the GNSS or via a GNSS repeater. The method further includes selecting a power control method for controlling the maximum output power of the network node, based on at least one of the determination of whether the GNSS signal is considered detectable, and the determination of whether the GNSS signal is received directly from the GNSS or via the GNSS repeater.
US08526985B2	System and method of geo-concentrated video detection An application server in a communication network receives a plurality of data streams from a plurality of mobile stations that include a client for the application server. The data streams may be video, audio or a combination thereof and include an indicator of originating location of the data stream. A subset of the plurality of data streams that originates from an area are determined. The first set may also be determined based on a tag that is included in each of the data streams of the first set, the tag indicating a sharing status for a respective data stream and/or a subject of the respective data stream. A first data stream of the first subset transmitted to a service subscriber having an interest preference corresponding to the tag of first set data streams. The transmitted first data stream may include overlay content associated with the service provider.
US08526977B2	Location based call routing for call answering services In one particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a method of processing a call. The method includes receiving location data, storing the location data in a data record, receiving a first call, playing an announcement, prompting for a caller's name, receiving the caller's name, and retrieving the data record. The location data is received via an interconnected network. The location data is derived from a proximity sensor that is configured to provide a proximity determination with respect to a mobile device of a subscriber and the proximity sensor. The first call is received at a primary destination address associated with the subscriber. The data record is retrieved to identify a selected address that identifies a communication device of the subscriber. The communication device is located within a proximity zone proximate to the proximity sensor.
US08526973B2	Safety system to disable and activate functions in smartphone's, mobile phones and portable communication devices while driving The present invention is a safety system that prevents the use of certain Smartphone functions and replace the blocked functions with alternative ways to communicate while in a car. These functions include text, voice (manually dialing to make calls) and internet. Smartphone includes any mobile phone or portable communication device that allows software applications to be downloaded and run on its operating system. The system uses a local RF transmitter located and mounted in the car to send a signal that can be detected by one or all of the Smartphone's in the car. The Smartphone's, which have downloaded the application, will decode the RF signal and disable and/or activate certain functions of the Smartphone. Which functions to disable and/or activate are previously chosen by a user of the downloaded application. By use of this system, young drivers, but not limited to, will not be distracted while driving, and thus forced to pay attention to their surroundings. Therefore automobile accidents will be reduced.
US08526967B2	Estimation of speed and direction of travel in a WLAN positioning system A method for estimating the speed and bearing of a Wi-Fi enabled device using WLAN radio signals in a WLAN based location service is provided. A method used to estimate a speed of travel of a Wi-Fi enabled device comprises the Wi-Fi enabled device receiving signals transmitted by Wi-Fi access points in range of the Wi-Fi enabled device, and using the signals to estimate the speed of and/or direction of travel of the Wi-Fi enabled device.
US08526959B2	Method, system, base station, and user equipment for macro diversity combining A method and a system for implementing MDC, a base station, and a UE are provided herein. The method includes: a non-serving cell base station determines whether current services of a UE include a service whose feature meets the preset condition according to the features of the current services of the UE, and processes the service whose feature meets the preset condition as a service that needs MDC if such a service exists. Through the technical solution under the present invention, the MDC is implemented more flexibly according to the features of the current services of the UE to optimize the system performance.
US08526956B2	Method, medium, and apparatus controlling handover between different networks A method, medium, and apparatus controlling a handover between different network types, including the operations of transmitting a message requesting a transmission bandwidth change, so as to have a transmission bandwidth supported by a new network after movement of the mobile terminal, from the mobile terminal to the server after performing the handover, changing the transmission bandwidth of the server to be supported by the new network based on the transmitted message of requesting the bandwidth change, transmitting a message acknowledging the changed transmission bandwidth from the server to the router, and transceiving data through a new data transmission tunnel between the router and a new access point within the new based on the message acknowledging the changed transmission bandwidth. Accordingly, loss of data packets occurring when a handover is performed may be effectively prevented.
US08526954B2	Method for assigning a unique identifier to a mobility management entity and for implementing a mobility management entity in a core network of an SAE/LTE communication system as well as a mobility management entity The present invention relates to a method for assigning unique identifiers to a mobility management entity in a core network of an SAE/LTE communication system as well as a method for implementing a mobility management entity in a core network of an SAE/LTE communication system. Further, the invention relates to a mobility management entity of a core network of an SAE/LTE communication system.
US08526951B2	Handover system A base station of a mobile device's movement destination receives a diversity handover (DHO) start notification from a mobile station at the beginning of a DHO. This notifies a radio network control apparatus and an instruction is issued to the base station to add a radio link. The time for transmitting data to a mobile device is determined, the transmission timing is rounded up, and the data is transmitted from the base station to a mobile device. In this event, a search window's timing for receiving data from the mobile device is shifted with the round up of the transmission timing; and therefore the width of the search window is enlarged. The movement destination's base station also receives a DHO complete notification from a mobile device at the completion of the DHO. The movement destination's base station changes the width of the width-enlarged window back to the original width.
US08526949B2	System and method for communicating radio access technology information to mobile stations A mobile station incapable of communicating via a first radio access technology (RAT) and capable of communicating via a second radio access technology (RAT). The mobile station comprising a component configured to receive a list of neighbor cells of the second RAT. The list containing at least one identifying characteristic associated with at least one cell of the first RAT. A component configured to determine that the at least one identifying characteristic is associated with at least one cell of the first RAT.
US08526945B2	Tracking and paging at boundries in LTE networks A method, in one example, comprising the steps of receiving a tracking area identifier indicating a tracking area where a user equipment (UE) is located, and updating a current tracking area of the UE based on whether the tracking area identifier indicates that the UE is currently in a previously visited tracking area.
US08526932B2	Performance zones Performance of a mobile device can be regulated base on the performance zone in which the mobile device is located. Applications can be executed via the mobile device in accordance with locally imposed rules and policies associated with the performance zone. The rules and policies can be stored on the mobile device. The rules and policies can be associated with a color codes that are associated with respective performance zones.
US08526926B2	Communication management features A method for answering a communication includes the steps of receiving an incoming communication sent by a sender and intended for a communication device of a recipient and answering the communication with an injected audio, video, text, and/or graphic message. The injected message indicates to the sender, in effect, that the recipient is presently unable to respond to the communication but is or will be made aware of the communication. The method further includes the step of providing a promise fulfillment feature that alerts the recipient to the communication and any promise to follow-up with the sender made in the injected message.
US08526924B1	Off-device service platform discovery Many mobile devices can access websites on the Internet. A mobile device running a web server application can host websites and provide services. For a first mobile device to access services on a second mobile device, the first mobile device needs the IP address of the second mobile device. The first mobile device sends a connection request to the second mobile device. The first mobile device receives, from the second mobile device, the network address of the second mobile device, identification of services that are available on the second mobile device, and a security token. The first mobile device selects a service and sends an HTTP or HTTPS request for the service to the network address of the second mobile device, and also sends the security token. The second mobile device authenticates the request based on the token and allows the first mobile device to access the selected service.
US08526922B1	Integrating two-dimensional barcodes and embedded links with call center operation In various embodiments, advertising campaigns can be defined that incorporate technologies such as two-dimensional bar codes or embedded links in electronic material, for directing a user to communicate with a call center. For instance, in particular embodiments, the reading of a two-dimensional bar code may cause a communication to be sent to, and received at, the call center, where a calling campaign associated with an advertising campaign is identified using information associated with the communication. Likewise, in particular embodiments, the activation of an embedded link may cause a communication to be sent to publisher, who then sends a communication to the call center. Upon determining the calling campaign, an appropriate agent is selected and a communication, such as a voice call, is initiated to the user. In particular instances, if a no-answer condition is reached as a result of the communication, another communication may be scheduled for a later time.
US08526921B2	Group communication device and method A method for voice based communication between a number of mobile terminals of a telecommunication network, the method comprising the steps of creating a group of said number of terminals and storing group information in each of the number of terminals, recording a voice message in one of the terminals of the group, dispatching the voice message to the terminals of the group from the one of the terminals, and receiving the voice message at least all other terminals of the group. The step of creating a group of terminals further comprises the steps of coupling together a number of mobile terminals, initiating a group creation command from at least one of the terminals, sending predetermined information from terminal to terminal to each terminal of the number of terminals for forming a group information, and transmitting the group information to all of the terminals thus forming a group of the terminals.
US08526916B2	Method and system for multimedia tags A multimedia data construct called a tag (FIG. 5) may be stored and transferred. A user can use multimedia content, to create content portion of a tag (502). The multimedia file is then incorporated into the tag or it can be referenced by a pointer in the tag (530). The multimedia file is artistic expression of the user and the tag uniquely associates the user's identity with the multimedia file by prohibiting alteration of the content after the user completes its creation. The tag includes at least one dynamic indicator that may be changed based on one or more predefined rules upon transmission. The tag may include an ID, that may be based on subscriber information. Encryption techniques may be employed to protect privacy concerns so that such subscriber information is not freely available.
US08526907B2	Power consumption reduction technique for integrated wireless radio receiver front-ends The method and apparatus disclosed herein reduces the power consumption of a wireless transceiver by reducing the power consumption associated with the corresponding wireless receiver. Generally, a power mode selection unit enables or disables a low power mode based on a dynamic range requirement for the receiver. More particularly, when the dynamic range requirement is less than or equal to a threshold, the power mode selection unit lowers the transconductance of an RF front-end amplifier in the receiver and enables a negative resistance at an output of the RF front-end amplifier. When enabled, the negative resistance compensates for the gain lost by lowering the transconductance of the RF front-end amplifier, which enables the front-end gain associated with the low-power mode to be maintained relative front-end gain associated with the normal mode.
US08526903B2	High-linearity receiver with transmit leakage cancellation Techniques for performing transmit (TX) leakage cancellation are described. A receiver includes a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a TX leakage canceller. The LNA amplifies a receiver input signal and provides an amplified signal. The TX leakage canceller includes a downconverter, a notch filter, and an upconverter. The downconverter downconverts a canceller input signal (e.g., obtained from the LNA output) with a first LO signal at a transmit frequency and provides a downconverted signal. The notch filter filters the downconverted signal to pass an undesired signal (e.g., a TX leakage signal) and attenuate a jammer and a desired signal in the canceller input signal. The upconverter upconverts the filtered signal with a second LO signal at the transmit frequency and provides a feedback signal. The feedback signal is subtracted at the input or output of the LNA to cancel the undesired signal.
US08526899B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus and method of determining presence of noise performed by broadcast receiving apparatus To provide a broadcast receiving apparatus including an AM detector, an AM noise detector, an FM detector, an FM noise detector and a noise determining unit. The AM detector performs AM detection on an IF signal in airwaves received by a receiving antenna that receives incoming airwaves to acquire an AM detection signal. The AM noise detector detects noise components in the AM detection signal. The FM detector performs FM detection on the IF signal to acquire an FM detection signal. The FM noise detector detects noise components in the FM detection signal. The noise determining unit determines a noise status of a broadcast signal based on detection results acquired by the AM noise detector and the FM noise detector.
US08526884B1	Utilizing wakeup receivers for device communication Computing devices can utilize various low power wakeup transceivers in order to control functional states of various components of those devices. Each transceiver can broadcast a beacon including appropriate information, which can be received by any other device with a transceiver that is within a propagation range of the beacon. A transceiver receiving the beacon can cause the received beacon to be analyzed by appropriate decision logic, which can determine any appropriate functionality to be activated or otherwise contacted in response to the beacon. In at least some embodiments, the beacon can cause another type of communication channel to be activated to establish communications with a device from which the beacon was received. In this way, the communications channel can be established without having to leave the channel active or manually activate that channel.
US08526882B2	Data transmission device, system and method using the same A data transmission device connected to a monitor includes a wireless transmission module, a multimedia processing unit and an output interface. The wireless transmission module wirelessly receives a multimedia data transmitted by an electronic apparatus. The multimedia processing unit receives and decompresses and decodes the multimedia data, and the output interface transmits the multimedia data to the monitor for displaying the multimedia data. The display area of the monitor is larger than the display area of the display unit of the electronic apparatus. A user is allowed to watch the multimedia data generated from the electronic apparatus executing a multimedia file on the monitor with a large display area.
US08526878B2	Control method of wireless communication system, wireless communication system, transmitting apparatus, and receiving apparatus A channel response matrix is obtained by performing a training process between a transmitter 401 and a receiver 402 to obtain optimal signal phases of the antenna array. Next, a singular-value decomposition (SVD) process is performed to decompose the channel response matrix into a correlation matrix and eigenvalues. Next, a diagonal matrix having square roots of the eigenvalues as its components is obtained. Next, all but one of diagonal components included in the diagonal matrix are replaced with zeros, and optimal setting of the amplitudes and phases of signals to be applied to the antenna array (antenna weight vector) for use in wireless communication between the transmitter and the receiver is obtained based on a channel response matrix that is reconstructed by using the component-replaced diagonal matrix. In this way, when wireless communication is implemented by performing beam forming, the time necessary to find and set a beam direction can be reduced.
US08526873B2	Image forming apparatus and threshold setting method A moving unit causes a relative movement of a web and a mark detecting unit for detecting a ground color of the web and a mark color in a predetermined direction. A measuring unit measures a measurement value corresponding to a moving amount of the mark detecting unit with respect to the web in a time from when a detected color is switched from the ground color to the mark color till when a detected color is back to the ground color. A setting unit sets a threshold used for determining whether the color detected is the ground color or the mark color on the basis of the mark color detected by the mark detecting unit at the time when the mark detecting unit is moved in a reverse direction for a distance of half the measurement value since the color detected is back to the ground color.
US08526868B2	Image alignment adjusting apparatus According to one embodiment, an image alignment adjusting apparatus includes: an endless traveling belt; a pattern sensor configured to detect an adjustment pattern including plural colors imaged on the traveling belt; and a correcting unit configured to use, in initial adjustment, for image alignment adjustment, an initial adjustment value obtained by detecting a plurality of sets of the adjustment pattern imaged over the entire circumference of the traveling belt and use, in intermediate adjustment, for the image alignment adjustment an intermediate adjustment value obtained by correcting the initial adjustment value using an intermediate detection value obtained by detecting one set of the adjustment pattern imaged on the traveling belt.
US08526865B2	Developer supply apparatus and image forming apparatus An image forming device is provided which includes a developer carrying body and a developer supply device to supply a developer to the developer carrying body. The developer supply device includes a plurality of transfer electrodes, and a transfer voltage applying unit to apply traveling-wave shaped transfer voltages to the plurality of transfer electrodes. The developer includes a fine particle charged in a predetermined polarity and a fine particle charged in a polarity opposite to the predetermined polarity. The transfer voltage applying unit is configured to apply the transfer voltages having waveforms, which make a fly height of the fine particle charged in the predetermined polarity higher than a fly height of the fine particle charged in the opposite polarity, to the plurality of transfer electrodes.
US08526864B2	Image developer, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus An image developer, including a developer container containing a developer developing a latent image on a latent image bearer; a developer bearer bearing the developer, located close to or contacting the latent image bearer; and a developer feeding and collection roller feeding the developer onto the developer bearer and scraping the developer therefrom, rotating while contacting thereto with pressure, wherein the developer feeding and collection roller includes an inner layer formed of an electroconductive foamed rubber; and an outer layer formed of an insulative foamed rubber, and wherein the following relationship is satisfied: α≧T wherein α represents a compression amount of the pressure of the developer feeding and collection roller to the developer bearer; and T represents a thickness of the outer layer, and wherein an offset voltage having a polarity opposite to that of the charged developer is applied to the developer feeding and collection roller.
US08526853B2	Image forming apparatus having toner passage blocking mechanism An image forming apparatus includes a handle member that is held by an operator when an orientation of the image forming apparatus is changed from a predetermined use orientation to a different orientation; and a blocking unit that is caused to block a path between the inside and an opening of a toner container, without being powered, in association with an operator operation performed to the handle member upon changing the orientation of the image forming apparatus from the use orientation to the different orientation.
US08526852B2	Electrostatic charging apparatus, image forming apparatus, electrostatic charging method and image forming method An electrostatic charging apparatus includes: an electrostatic charging member that has a discharge face causing discharge between the electrostatic charging member and a to-be-charged member having a charge retention part to hold a charge, and comes in contact with the to-be-charged member so as to charge upon the application of voltage; and an adjusting unit that adjusts an angle between the to-be-charged member and the discharge face.
US08526846B2	Process cartridge and image forming apparatus A process cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a developing roller, a cleaning blade, a developer container including an opening, a developer conveyance member, a driving force transmission member having a driving force transmitted from the developer conveyance member, a seal member configured to seal the opening, and a winding member configured to wind the seal member such that the opening is opened, and the driving force transmission member is configured to take a first position at which the driving force is not transmitted to the winding member and a second position at which the driving force is transmitted to the winding member, and wherein the driving force transmission member is further configured to move from the first position to the second position after rotation of the developer conveyance member.
US08526840B2	Operating device and image forming apparatus When a manual feed tray detector detects that a manual feed tray has been set to a feeding position before any one of workflow images displayed on a workflow screen is pressed by a user, a display controller causes a sheet storage location reception screen to be displayed in an interrupting manner between respective reception screens.
US08526834B2	Image forming apparatus, replacement toner cartridge management apparatus, replacement toner cartridge management system, replacement toner cartridge management method, and recording medium An image forming apparatus is provided with: an obtainer which obtains first information indicating a new toner cartridge having just been loaded thereon or a toner cartridge to be replaced with a new one and second information indicating the current condition under which a fusing process is performed for image forming; a determiner which determines the right type of a replacement toner cartridge to be loaded in place of the toner cartridge causing the first information obtained by the obtainer, based on the second information also obtained by the obtainer; an output portion which outputs an instruction to deliver a replacement toner cartridge of the type determined by the determiner; a detector which detects a new toner cartridge having just been loaded thereon; and a fusing processor which performs a fusing process under the optimal condition based on the amount of the toner supplied from the detector's detected new toner cartridge which is a replacement toner cartridge delivered according to the delivery instruction outputted by the output portion.
US08526828B2	Optical transmitter and optical transmitter unit The optical transmitter includes a light source; a signal processor; an optical modulator that modulates output light from the light source in accordance with a transmitting signal subjected to digital signal processing in the signal processor and outputs the modulated light as a light signal to a transmission path; and a control circuit that controls a carrier-wave frequency of the light signal output from the optical modulator, the signal processor including a mapping circuit that maps the transmitting signal to electric-field information according to a modulating scheme, and a phase rotating circuit that provides a phase rotation having a constant cycle to an electric-field phase of the electric-field information to which the mapping circuit maps the transmitting signal, the control circuit controlling the cycle of the phase rotation that the phase rotating circuit provides and thereby controlling the carrier-wave frequency of the light signal output from the optical modulator.
US08526825B2	Visible light communication transmitter and visible light communication system Visible light data communication with a sufficient transmission speed is performed using a general-purpose and cost-advantageous blue-light-excitation-type white LED without using a blue color filter while preventing the element from being damaged. When transmission data is inputted to a driving waveform generation unit (110) in a transmitter (100), the driving waveform generation unit (110) and a multi-gray scale driving unit (120) generate a multi-gray scale driving signal, which is supplied to the blue-light-excitation-type white LED (140) and allows the blue-light-excitation-type white LED (140) to emit light. A light signal outputted from the blue-light-excitation-type white LED (140) is collected by a lens or the like, is made incident into a PD (210) in a receiver (200), and is converted to a current signal. The current signal is converted into a voltage signal in a trans-impedance amplifier (212). Further, the light signal is subjected to equalization processing in an equalizer (214) and then is digitized by a limiting amplifier (216), thereby obtaining output data.
US08526821B2	Transceivers for testing networks and adapting to device changes Test transceivers are disclosed for testing optical networks. The test transceivers generate one or more errors on a network in a specific, reproducible way, thereby enabling a tester to easily and readily identify whether network devices are operating properly, or prone to failure. A corrective transceiver is also disclosed. The corrective transceiver is configured to continually detect operating parameters of one or more network devices in a network. The corrective transceiver can identify the operating parameters through out-of-band communication with the one or more network devices. The corrective transceiver is further configured with one or more instructions to adjust its own operating parameters to re-sync with another network device as necessary to continue network communications during a failure of the network device.
US08526814B2	Multiple input/output wavelength selective switch device A multiple input/output wavelength selective switch device 1 is configured of an N×M optical cross connect switch 10, wavelength selector 20 and controller 40. The N×M optical cross connect switch 10 turns WDM signals of N channels inputted to input routes Rin1 to RinN into M WDM signals. The wavelength selector 20 can perform a selection operation with respect to each of the M WDM signals according to their wavelengths and output the signals from output routes Rout1 to RoutM.
US08526813B2	Optical switch with power equalization An optical intensity control system for use with an optical switch providing individual signal paths between input and output ports. The system has a optical splitters connectable to output multiplexers of the switch and also has variable optical intensity controllers (VOICs) for insertion into the individual signal paths. The VOICs individually control the intensity of optical signals present in the signal paths in accordance with intensity control signals. An equalizer is connected to the splitters and to the VOICs, for producing an estimate of the optical power of each individual switched optical signal and generating the intensity control signals. The equalizer is adapted to controllably isolate individual switched optical signals. In this way, individual and independent control of the power on each optical channel is provided, wavelength-dependent losses introduced by all the devices in the switch including the WDM devices at the output of the switch are accounted for and one optical coupler is required for each output optical fiber. Coarse equalization may be provided for each multiplexed optical signal either at the switch input or output, permitting a reduction in the dynamic range over which the VOICs inside the switch are required to operate.
US08526810B2	Eye safety and interoperability of active cable devices An integrated cable configured to communicate over much of its length using one or more optical fibers includes an electrical connector at least one end. The electrical connector at a first end of the integrated cable and an optoelectronic device coupled to or included in the other end of the integrated cable may utilize a bidirectional status link to transmit status data to each other. If the status data indicates that optical signals transmitted over the optical channels between the two devices are not potentially exposed to view, the two devices may operate above nominal eye safety limits. Otherwise, the two devices may operate at or below nominal eye safety limits. If the second optoelectronic device is not status-link enabled, the first optoelectronic device may operate at or below nominal eye safety limits.
US08526803B2	Lens control device and image sensing device using same There is provided a lens control device that feeds a motor current to a lens drive motor which drives lens according to the motor current, the lens control device including: a servo computation portion that calculates a motor current setting value such that a deviation of the position of the lens from a target position to which a correction offset has been added is reduced; a motor driver that generates the motor current according to the motor current setting value; and a calibration computation portion that adjusts the correction offset such that an average value of the motor current approaches zero.
US08526795B2	Information-processing apparatus, content reproduction apparatus, information-processing method, event-log creation method and computer programs Disclosed herein is an information-processing apparatus including an event-log acquisition section acquiring an event log provided by a content reproduction apparatus capable of reproducing a content as an event log including at least information identifying the content and information indicating a reproduction start date/time and reproduction end date/time of the content, an event-log analysis section deriving a reproduction start date/time and reproduction end date/time of a content reproduced by the content reproduction apparatus from the event log, a playlist generation section generating a playlist, which is to serve as a set of pieces of information each used for identifying a content reproduced during a specific period of time, on the basis of the reproduction start date/time and reproduction end date/time of the content, and a playlist transfer section transmitting the playlist to the content reproduction apparatus.
US08526794B2	Method and apparatus for synthesizing a copy protection or content control signal with improved playability of a TV set Playability of a copy protected video signal is improved by reducing the darkening and or venetian blind effects which tend to cause artifacts in a video signal display. To this end, the copy protection signal includes automatic gain control (AGC) signals or pulses in video lines in a portion of the active or viewable video field or frame, wherein the AGC pulses comprise non similar AGC signals from one video line to another video line. The dis-similar AGC pulses may include pulses which are deleted, blanked, attenuated, pulse width modified, modulated, etc. In addition, selected sync pulses may be pulse width, amplitude and or position modified.
US08526791B2	Playback apparatus An area not displayed by a first stream recorded in a disk is complemented by a second stream which is transmitted from a server through a network to a playback apparatus. A picture represented by the second stream is superimposed on a picture represented by the first stream to display a complete picture. A sound included in the second stream is also mixed with a sound included in the first stream to output a complete sound.
US08526783B2	Digital video recording system and its recording medium In a DVD recording/playback system, a set top box STB receives an MPEG transport stream constituted by a plurality of transport packets, and a formatter extracts support information indicating if management information included in the transport packets includes predetermined items. A disc drive that records data on a recording medium having a management area and data area records the support information in the management area.
US08526777B2	Moving image recording method and information processing device A video information item obtained by photographing and an audio information item obtained by recording are digitized to obtain a digitized video data item and a digitized audio data item each accompanied by a time information item, respectively. The digitized video data item is stored in such a manner as to be separated into the time information item and the digitized video data item. The digitized audio data item is stored in such a manner as to be separated into the time information item and the digitized audio data item. The separately-stored time information item and the digitized video data item and the separately-stored time information item and the digitized audio data item are combined in synchronization with each other. The combined time information items, the digitized video data item, and the digitized audio data item are stored in a predetermined format.
US08526770B2	Systems, materials, and methods for a mechanical stress activated interface using piezo-optical components A mechanical stress activated interface and system comprising piezo-optical elements is described. The piezo-optical elements are fabricated from waveguides each having a core surrounded by a cladding material. The waveguides are supported on a substrate, thereby forming a thin sheet. The interface may take advantage of ambient light for illumination. Activation of the cores, such as by a user pressing the interface, may result in changes to their indices of refraction. More ambient light will be conducted along the lengths of the cores under stressed conditions than under non-stressed conditions. The output at the ends of the piezo-optical elements may be detected by light receiving elements. The output of the light receiving elements may be used by electronics coupled to a computer to determine which waveguides have been stressed, thereby determining the location of the touch on the interface. Methods for fabricating and using the interface are also described.
US08526765B2	Super-resolution processor and super-resolution processing method A super-resolution processor includes an N enlargement unit that generates an N-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor N; an M enlargement unit that generates an M-enlarged image by enlarging the input image by a factor M; and a high-pass filter unit that extracts a high-frequency component of the M-enlarged image, as an M-enlarged high-frequency image. Additionally, a patch extraction unit extracts an estimated patch of a predetermined size from the M-enlarged high-frequency image, the estimated patch being a part of the M-enlarged high-frequency image; and an addition unit adds the estimated patch to a processing target block of the predetermined size in the N-enlarged image, to generate the output image, where M is smaller than N.
US08526753B2	Method of enhancing the contrast of an image A method of generating a multiscale contrast enhanced image is described wherein the shape of edge transitions is preserved. Detail images are subjected to a conversion, the conversion function of at least one scale being adjusted for each detail pixel value according to the ratio between the combination of the enhanced center differences and the combination of the unenhanced center differences. Several adaptive enhancement measures are described.
US08526750B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image by using adaptive binarization A method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image, wherein the method includes selecting a predetermined binarization table from a plurality of binarization tables based on prediction values of a current pixel and binarizing or inversely binarizing residual values by using the selected binarization table.
US08526741B2	Apparatus and method for processing image For automatically laying out a plurality of images, the present invention includes an image input unit which inputs an image; an analysis unit which analyzes the orientation of a principal object and the position of the principal object in the image from the image input by the image input unit; and a layout unit which places the image in accordance with the information analyzed by the analysis unit.
US08526738B2	Information processing apparatus including a plurality of multi-stage connected information processing units An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of information processing units that are connected in stages. Each of the information processing units comprises a plurality of processing units configured to process information and output a processing result and an integration unit configured to input the processing result of one or a plurality of the processing units and output the processing result after integrating the processing result, and changes a connection relation between the output of the processing result from the processing units and the input to the integration unit.
US08526727B2	Hierarchical multidimensional lookup table generation A system and method for generating a hierarchical LUT for implementing a color transformation within a color imaging system. In one embodiment, a coarse LUT is received which comprises a plurality of sub-cubes arrayed on a plurality of coarse levels on a structured coarse grid. Each of the sub-cubes encompasses at least one coarse LUT node. Sub-cubes in the coarse grid are identified that are bisected by a boundary surface of the gamut. Then, each of the identified coarse LUT sub-cubes are associated with fine LUT which comprises a plurality of fine LUT nodes arrayed on a plurality of fine levels on a structured fine grid. A hierarchical LUT is generated from the coarse LUT and the associated fine LUTs. Thereafter, the hierarchical LUT can be used for color transformation within a color imaging system.
US08526723B2	System and method for the detection of anomalies in an image Preferred aspects of the present invention can include receiving a digital image at a processor; segmenting the digital image into a hierarchy of feature layers comprising one or more fine-scale features defining a foreground object embedded in one or more coarser-scale features defining a background to the one or more fine-scale features in the segmentation hierarchy; detecting a first fine-scale foreground feature as an anomaly with respect to a first background feature within which it is embedded; and constructing an anomalous feature layer by synthesizing spatially contiguous anomalous fine-scale features. Additional preferred aspects of the present invention can include detecting non-pervasive changes between sets of images in response at least in part to one or more difference images between the sets of images.
US08526721B2	Processing image data A method of processing image data, to obtain image data for printing a junction area connecting a circular pad having a radius R with a linear line pattern by forming ink blots having a radius r in an overlapping manner, includes: setting a base pitch P as a base distance between adjacent ink blots; arranging image data of the pad, line pattern, and junction area, which is defined by an extension of the line pattern, in an x-y coordinate system; selecting a first determination point, which corresponds to one side of the junction area; comparing a distance from a center of the pad to the first determination point with a value of (R−r+P); and storing coordinates of the first determination point as print data if the distance from the center of the pad to the first determination point is greater than or equal to the value of (R−r+P).
US08526719B2	Method of converting color image into grayscale image and recording medium storing program for performing the same Provided are a color to grayscale image conversion method of converting a color image into a grayscale image while maintaining original features of the color image, and a recording medium storing a program for performing the same. When an original color image is input, a target gradient with the features of the input original color image is acquired, and a global mapping function for converting the original color image into a grayscale image is determined based on the acquired target gradient. Thereafter, the original color image is converted into a grayscale image using the determined global mapping function. Therefore, it is possible to quickly convert a color image into a grayscale image, and to acquire a high-quality grayscale image with features of color difference included in the original color image.
US08526711B2	Apparatus and method for ray tracing using path preprocess Disclosed is an apparatus and method for ray-tracing using a path preprocess. The method for ray-tracing including launching a ray from a transmitting point at angles with regular intervals, setting a first side of an object where the launched ray is projected as a reference patch, and searching predetermined preprocessed path data for a counterpart patch corresponding to a second side of another object, the second side being exposed to the projected ray reflected or diffracted from the set reference patch, and tracing a transmission path of the reflected or diffracted ray.
US08526709B2	Methods and apparatus for detecting multiple objects A method for determining physical placement data for a plurality of wafers is disclosed. The method includes obtaining raw CCD array data from a linear CCD array by clocking data from pixels of the linear CCD array into memory cells of the memory device and ascertaining pixel transition data to determine whether at least one of an upper edge error, a lower edge error, a wafer thickness error, and transition-per-slot error exists. If an error is found, the method includes generating an error signal.
US08526704B2	Measurement of functional microcirculatory geometry and velocity distributions using automated image analysis The invention provides analysis algorithms for quantitative assessment of microvasculatory video sequences that provide vessel thickness, vessel length and blood velocity per vessel segment. It further provides a method of for calculating the functional microvasculatory density and blood velocity as distributed over vessels with different thickness, in the field of view.
US08526702B2	4D anatomically based image selection procedure for medical imaging Improved 4D imaging reconstruction is provided for a freely breathing patient. 3D patient images from an imaging dataset are binned according to respiratory displacement or phase. The bins are defined by ranges, so every image in the raw 3D data set is included in a bin. Since binning in this manner often results in two or more images per bin, the 4D reconstruction is determined by selecting one 3D image from each bin at each patient position. This selection is performed so as to maximize the anatomical similarity of 3D images at adjacent patient positions. In cases where the 3D images include multiple slices, a 2D comparison of the closest slices can be used to determine anatomical similarity of the 3D images.
US08526698B2	Method and apparatus for ductal tube tracking imaging for breast cancer detection and diagnosis, and product A method apparatus and computer product for imaging a human breast to map the breast ductal tree is disclosed. First, a breast is diffusion tensor imaged with high spatial resolution. Then the breast ductal tree is tracked using a protocol for breast based on echo-planar imaging (EPI) diffusion designed for optimizing diffusion weightings (b values), number of non-collinear directions for tensor calculations, diffusion, echo and repetition times, spatial resolution, signal to noise, scanning time and a sequence for fat suppression. The diffusion tensor is calculated by a non-linear best fit algorithm and then diagonalized with principal component analysis to three eigen vectors and their corresponding eigen values. A vector field map is obtained for tracking of breast ducts of the ductal trees along the direction of the 1st eigenvector v1 and the ductal tree is displayed on a voxel by voxel basis in parametric images using color coding and vector pointing.
US08526697B2	Apparatus for segmenting an object comprising sub-objects The present invention relates to an apparatus (1) for segmenting an object comprising sub-objects shown in an object image. The apparatus comprises a feature image generation unit (2) for generating a feature image showing features related to intermediate regions between the sub-objects and a segmentation unit (3) for segmenting the sub-objects by using the object image and the feature image. Preferentially, the feature image generation unit (2) is adapted for generating a feature image from the object image. In a further embodiment, the feature image generation unit (2) comprises a feature enhancing unit for enhancing features related to intermediate regions between the sub-objects in the object image.
US08526694B2	Medical image processing and registration system An image data subtraction system enhances visualization of vessels subject to movement using an imaging system. The imaging system acquires data representing first and second anatomical image sets comprising multiple temporally sequential individual mask (without contrast agent) and fill images (with contrast agent) of vessels respectively, during multiple heart cycles. An image data processor automatically identifies temporally corresponding pairs of images comprising a mask image and a contrast enhanced image and for the corresponding pairs, automatically determines a shift of a contrast enhanced image relative to a mask image to compensate for motion induced image mis-alignment. The image data processor automatically shifts a contrast enhanced image relative to a mask image in response to the determined shift. The image data processor subtracts data representing a mask image of a corresponding pair from a shifted contrast enhanced image of the corresponding pair, to provide multiple subtracted images showing enhanced visualization of vessels.
US08526684B2	Flexible image comparison and face matching application Two faces may be compared by calculating distances between different regions of the windows, and choosing one of the distances as the difference between the images. Two images are examined to detect the location of the face in the images. The faces may then be geometrically and photometrically rectified. A sliding window that is smaller than the whole face may be positioned at various locations over the images, and a descriptor is calculated for each window position. The descriptor for a window at one location in one image is compared with descriptors for windows in the neighborhood of that location in the other image. The lowest distance between window descriptors is chosen. The process is repeated for all window positions, resulting in a set of distances. The distances are sorted, and one of the distances is chosen to represent the difference between the two faces.
US08526681B2	On-vehicle image processing device for vehicular control An image processing device includes a first camera that captures the periphery of a vehicle, specific region extracting units that extract regions, each of which is closer to the edge of an image than to the center of the image, as specific regions, and a movement amount calculating unit that calculates the amount of movement of the vehicle on the basis of image information in a plurality of specific regions. Therefore, it is possible to process only the first specific region and the second specific region of the captured image and thus effectively perform image processing.
US08526675B2	Gesture recognition apparatus, method for controlling gesture recognition apparatus, and control program A gesture recognition apparatus is caused to correctly recognize start and end of a gesture without use of special unit by a natural manipulation of a user and low-load processing for the gesture recognition apparatus. The gesture recognition apparatus that recognizes the gesture from action of a recognition object taken in a moving image includes: a gravity center tracking unit that detects a specific subject having a specific feature from the moving image; a moving speed determining unit that computes a moving speed per unit time of the specific subject; a moving pattern extracting unit that extracts a moving pattern of the specific subject; and a start/end judgment unit that discriminates movement of the specific subject as an instruction (such as an instruction to start or end gesture recognition processing) input to the gesture recognition apparatus when the moving speed and the moving pattern satisfy predetermined conditions.
US08526670B2	Two-dimensional code with a logo A two-dimensional code with a logo, wherein a two-dimensional code that represents information by means of a cell dot distribution pattern formed by having a plurality of cells colored and a logo mark visually representing characters are superimposed. In a preferred embodiment, at least a part of the cell dot color area is smaller than the cell area while the two-dimensional code that represents the information by means of the cell dot distribution pattern that color codes the cells and the logo mark that visually represents the character are superimposed.
US08526662B2	Articulating speaker assembly providing for pivotal adjustment of connected first and second members An articulating speaker assembly includes a first member including a first driver and a second member including second driver. The first member and the second member are pivotally connected for selectively changing the profile of the speaker assembly. A central housing member is pivotally connected to each of the first member and the second member, wherein the central housing member supports a third driver.
US08526657B2	Headphone set A headphone set is equipped with left- and right-ear headphone units. Each unit includes a housing body having a first plane section and a second plane section that faces the first section, the sections being almost perpendicular to a cross section of a cavum conchae of a user's ear when the housing body is fit in the cavum conchae, a speaker and a microphone aligned between the sections, the speaker being located at the first section side, the microphone being located at the second section side. A sound output section is provided at the first section, to give off sounds output by the speaker to an outer space of the housing body. A sound pick-up hole is provided at the second section, through which the outer space communicates with an inner space of the housing body created between a sound pick-up section of the microphone and the second section.
US08526656B2	Microphone unit A microphone unit includes: a housing; a diaphragm which is disposed in the inside of the housing; and an electric circuit portion which processes an electric signal that is generated based on a vibration of the diaphragm. In the housing, a first sound guide space which guides a sound outside the housing to a first surface of the diaphragm via a first sound hole and a second sound guide space which guides a sound outside the housing to a second surface, that is, an opposite surface of the diaphragm via a second sound hole are formed. The electric circuit portion is disposed in either one of the first sound guide space and the second sound guide space; and an acoustic resistance portion which adjusts at least one of a frequency characteristic of the first sound guide space and a frequency characteristic of the second sound guide space is formed.
US08526654B2	Acoustic wave generation device and equipment including a plurality of such devices Device for generating acoustic waves comprising an assembly of substantially parallel deformable walls, made of a conductive elastomer material, the series of walls delimiting contiguous spaces therebetween alternately leading over two opposite surfaces of said assembly into two cavities, that are sealed relative to one another; and a rigid revolving chamber containing the assembly and having two sealed cavities opposite two surfaces. Two circular screened slots formed in the chamber define two vents that ensure communication between the cavities and the external acoustic medium. Means are also provided for applying, in a controlled and variable manner, a set of electric potentials to the walls in order to induce an electric field between the walls, consecutively active, and inactive for a control polarity, and inactive and active for the opposite polarity, so as to decrease the space covered by the field, i.e. and in series, and to thus equally increase the contiguous space.
US08526653B2	Behind-the-ear hearing aid whose microphone is set in an entrance of ear canal There is provided a behind-the-ear hearing aid that makes it easy for a hearing aid wearer to estimate a position of a sound source with respect to a front-back direction and that enables an increase in aesthetic property when the hearing aid is worn. A behind-the-ear hearing aid of the present invention is used while fitted to an ear of a human body, and includes at least a microphone 101 which collects ambient sound, thereby generating an input signal and signal processing unit 102 that generates an output signal from the input signal. The hearing aid also has a behind-the-ear portion 110 that can be fitted to the ear and a receiver 103 that reproduces output sound from the output signal. When the behind-the-ear portion 110 is fitted to the ear, the microphone 101 is arranged in an entrance of an ear canal that lies in the extension of an ear canal 220 and that is disposed closer to an eardrum than to a plane that is defined by a helix 901, a tragus 902, and an earlobe 903.
US08526652B2	Receiver assembly for an inflatable ear device A diaphonic valve utilizing the principle of the Synthetic Jet is disclosed herein. A diaphonic valve pump is provided for the inflation of an in-ear balloon. More complex embodiments of the present invention include stacks of multiple synthetic jets generating orifices as well as an oscillating, thin polymer membrane. In one or more embodiments of the present invention, a novel application is provided for the creation of static pressure to inflate or to deflate an inflatable member (balloon). In addition, sound can be utilized to inflate or deflate an inflatable member in a person's ear for the purpose of listening to sound.
US08526647B2	Listening device providing enhanced localization cues, its use and a method A listening device includes an ear-part for being worn in or at an ear of a user, a microphone system including at least two microphones each converting an input sound to an electrical microphone signal, and a TF-conversion unit for providing a time-frequency representation of the at least two microphone signals. Each signal representation includes complex or real values of the signal in a particular time-frequency unit. The listening device also includes a DIR-unit with a directionality system providing a weighted sum of the at least two electrical microphone signals thereby providing at least two directional microphone signals having maximum sensitivity in spatially different directions and a combined microphone signal. Each time-frequency unit of the combined signal is attributable to a particular direction. A frequency shaping-unit modifies one or more selected time-frequency units to indicate directional cues of input sounds providing an improved directional output signal.
US08526644B2	Beamforming system comprising a transducer assembly A beamforming system (ASY) comprises a modular transducer assembly (MTA) composed of a plurality of transducer modules (TM1, TM2, TM3). A transducer module comprises a plurality of interfaces having different geometrical orientations. An interface allows the transducer module to be physically coupled to another transducer module. In a reconnaissance phase, the beamforming system identifies transducer modules that are present in the modular transducer assembly (MTA). The beamforming system further identifies a structure in accordance with which the transducer modules have been physically coupled to each other. In a configuration phase, the beamforming system defines a signal relationship between the transducer modules on the basis of identification data that has been obtained in the reconnaissance phase and a desired directional response pattern.
US08526642B2	Piezoelectric micro speaker including weight attached to vibrating membrane and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a piezoelectric micro speaker and a method of manufacturing the same. The piezoelectric micro speaker includes: a substrate having a cavity therein; a diaphragm that is disposed on the substrate, the diaphragm including a vibrating membrane that overlaps the cavity; a piezoelectric actuator that is disposed on the vibrating membrane; and a weight that is disposed in the cavity and attached to a center portion of the vibrating membrane.
US08526639B2	Digital mixer On a digital mixer, each channel is given a channel definition defining whether the channel is to be used individually or to be used as a group along with a certain channel. When a channel strip to which a user desires to assign and a channel which the user desires to assign are selected, it is determined whether the selected channel is a channel to be used individually or to be used as a group. When it is determined that the selected channel is to be used as a group, channels belonging to the group are assigned to the selected channel strip so that the user can concurrently control respective channels' values of a parameter by use of an operating element provided on the selected channel strip.
US08526637B2	Volume control apparatus and program of volume control apparatus A volume control apparatus that is connectable to a controller and controls a volume value of a sound signal based on an instruction from the controller includes a receiving section for, when a controller-side volume setting value settable in the controller is changed by a user's operation, receiving the changed controller-side volume setting value from the controller. The apparatus also includes a first difference value calculating section for calculating a first difference value between the changed controller-side volume setting value and the controller-side volume setting value before change, a second difference value calculating section for calculating a second difference value between a maximum volume value controllable by the controller and a current volume value, and an increase value calculating section for multiplying the second difference value by a ratio of the first difference value so as to calculate an increase value of the volume value.
US08526635B2	Grounding switch method and apparatus A grounding switch is described which operates properly even in the presence of negative voltages on a signal line. The grounding switch uses isolated field effect transistors that have their substrates tied to different voltages. The isolated field effect transistor has a gate voltage and substrate voltage which can be pulled down to a negative voltage when the signal line has a negative voltage allowing the switch to remain open even with a negative voltage.
US08526633B2	Acoustic apparatus An acoustic apparatus without increasing noise etc. even when plural directional microphones collect sounds from a place of the same distances is provided. Sound signals output from the microphone arrays are subjected to phase shift by phase shift circuits 211A to 211H, and the sound signals are combined by an adder 212. The phase shift circuits 211A to 211H performs phase shifts according to installation positions of the microphone arrays. The phase shift circuit 211A makes the shift 0 degree, the phase shift circuit 211B makes the shift 45 degrees, the phase shift circuit 211C makes the shift 90 degrees, and sequentially to the phase shift circuit 211H, the shifts are made according to rotational angles.
US08526621B2	Method and apparatus for time-lapse cryptography In one embodiment, a Time-Lapse Cryptography Service is provided based on a network of parties. Senders encrypt their messages with this public key whose secret key is not known to anyone—not even a trusted third party—until a predefined and specific future time T+.delta., at which point the secret key is constructed and published. In one example, the secret key can only be known after it is constructed. At or after that time, anyone can decrypt the cipher text using this secret key. In one embodiment, a method for cryptographic encoding is provided, including generation of cryptographic key components by a plurality of parties, where participation of the parties is verified. A public key is constructed from a plurality of key components.
US08526618B2	Multiple-stage system and method for processing encoded messages System and methods for processing encoded messages at a message receiver are described. Encoded message processing is performed in multiple stages. In a first stage, a new received message is at least partially decoded by performing any decoding operations that require no user input and a resulting context object is stored in memory, before a user is notified that the new message has been received. When the user accesses the new message, any further required decoding operations are performed on the stored context object in a second stage of processing. The message can subsequently be displayed or otherwise processed relatively quickly, without repeating the first stage decoding operations. Decoding operations may include signature verification, decryption, other types of decoding, or some combination thereof.
US08526617B2	Method of handling security configuration in wireless communications system and related communication device A method of handling security configuration for a mobile device using a mapped security context in a wireless communication system includes utilizing the mapped security context to derive ciphering and integrity keys when security configuration, indicating a key update based on a cached security context, is received.
US08526613B2	Subscriber network receiving digital packets and transmitting digital packets below a predetermined maximum bit rate Methods of providing a transport streams are disclosed. In one embodiment, among others, a method comprises receiving an input transport stream having a plurality of packet identifier (PID) streams included therein, the plurality of PID streams comprising first, second, third, and fourth PID streams, decrypting the first PID stream, statistically multiplexing the second PID stream, encrypting the third PID stream, and transmitting the fourth PID stream, wherein the receiving, decrypting, statistically multiplexing, encrypting, and transmitting are implemented at a transport stream apparatus.
US08526612B2	Selective and persistent application level encryption for video provided to a client A system, apparatus, and method are directed towards allowing ingestion of encrypted content into such as a VOD server, or PVR, or the like by selectively encrypting portions of a content stream based on various selection rules. In one embodiment, the selection rules include leaving selected portions of the content stream unencrypted, including packets that include a PES header; or video packets that include various trick play data such as picture start, GOP start, sequence start, sequence end data; PIDs associated with a PAT, PMT, or the like; while other portions of the content stream may be encrypted, including video and/or audio PIDs, or other video and/or audio portions. In still another embodiment, Entitlement Control Messages (ECMs) may be inserted that employ an encryption/decryption key rotation scheme, such as odd and/or even scrambling control bit structures, which may also be rotated based on a variety of conditions.
US08526601B2	Method of improving operational speed of encryption engine In the present method of implementing functioning of an encryption engine, a plurality of logic blocks are provided, each for running a function. Each function is run based on three variables, each of which may have a first or second value. The function is run with the first variable value selected as having its first value, and with the second and third variables having their actual values. The function is again run with the first variable value selected as having its second value, and again with the second and third variables having their actual values. An actual value of the first variable is determined, and the output of the logic block is determined by the actual value of the first variable.
US08526599B2	Input/output apparatus and communication terminal An input/output apparatus includes a speaker, a microphone, an adaptive filter circuit and a control circuit. The speaker is configured to output audio based on a voice-receiving signal. The microphone is configured to produce a voice-transmitting signal based on gathered audio. The adaptive filter circuit is configured to produce a residual signal based on a pseudo echo signal and a amplified voice-transmitting signal. The pseudo echo signal is produced from the voice-receiving signal and a transfer coefficient which expresses audio transfer properties between the speaker and the microphone. The amplified voice-transmitting signal is produced by causing a microphone amplification circuit to amplify the voice-transmitting signal. The control circuit is configured to stop output of the residual signal from the adaptive filter circuit during at least one of the speaker and the microphone is muted.
US08526596B2	Cross-protocol universal call identifier A method is provided for operating a directory assistance system having a plurality of different network elements operating on different protocols. The method includes receiving, at a first network element, operating on a first operating protocol, an incoming directory assistance call from a caller. A universal call identifier data is then assigned to the call. The call is then transmitted to a second network element, operating on a second operating protocol, wherein the same universal call identifier is accepted by the second network element. A record is generated of the exchange of the call between the first and second network elements based on the assigned universal call identifier data.
US08526595B2	Auto-dialer blocking on network A method and platform for reducing call blocking in a telecommunications network addresses problems caused by the use of auto-dialers and by mass calling events in the network. When a capacity excess is detected, information associated with excess calls, such as the Initial Address Message (IAM), is stored in an incoming call cache memory. A message may be played to the caller informing the caller of the status of the message. Once additional call capacity is open, the call is connected using the call information stored in the cache. The calls may be removed from the cache and connected on a first-in, first-out basis.
US08526576B1	Systems and methods for exchanging call routing policies for voice over IP calls An emergency call handling system can provide emergency call routing and processing that compliments or modifies the routing and processing provided by conventional enhanced 911 (E-911) and next generation 911 (NG-911) systems. Both the routing and processing can be based on rule sets detailed in emergency call handling profiles (ECHPs). Any entity (e.g., SIP servers, switches, terminals, etc.) within the system can process and route the emergency call by executing the rule sets within the ECHPs associated with the call. The ECHPs are delivered to the entities within the system by value or by reference. A SIP server, e.g., may execute all or a subset of the rule set, and may communicate with an application server to execute other subsets of the rule set.
US08526575B1	Compound X-ray lens having multiple aligned zone plates A compound zone plate comprising a first zone plate frame including a first zone plate, a second zone plate frame including a second zone plate, and a base frame to which the first zone plate frame and the second zone plate frame are bonded. In examples, two more zone plates are added to make a four element optic. In the assembly process, the microbeads are used to ensure the parallelism, dial in the distance precisely between the zone plates by selecting the microbead size, possibly in response to the width of the frames, and ensure low friction lateral movement enabling nanometer precision alignment of the zone plates with respect to each other prior to being fixed by the adhesive. That is, when the frames are pressed together to ensure parallelism, it is still possible to align them to each other since the microbead layer facilitates the inplane movement of the alignment process.
US08526573B2	Systems and methods for remote diagnostic imaging Systems and methods for remote diagnostic imaging. The systems include a diagnostic imaging kiosk. The kiosk includes, for example, a first housing module and a second housing module. The first housing module is configured to house, among other things, a diagnostic imaging system (e.g., an X-ray system). The second housing module is configured to house electronics associated with the operation, control, and networking of the kiosk. The electronics include, for example, a primary controller, an X-ray controller, an X-ray generator, an internal display controller, an external display controller, one or more routers, and a digital radiology module. The kiosk is configured to communicatively connect to a remote technician's workstation, and a remote technician at the workstation is able to remotely control the kiosk through a packet-switched network. The control of the kiosk includes controlling access to the kiosk, the position of a diagnostic imaging unit, the capture of diagnostic images, the display of information to a patient, etc.
US08526569B2	Shift register Discussed herein is a shift register which is capable of stabilizing an output thereof. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequentially outputting scan pulses in such a manner that high durations of the scan pulses partially overlap with each other. Each of the stages includes a node controller for controlling a charging duration of a set node, and an output unit for outputting a corresponding one of the scan pulses through an output terminal for the charging duration of the set node.
US08526568B2	Shift register and driving method thereof A low power consumption shift register which inputs a CK signal with a low voltage with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors. In the invention, an input portion of an inverter is set at a threshold voltage thereof and a CK signal is inputted to the input portion, of the inverter through a capacitor means. In this manner, the CK signal is amplified, which is sent to the shift register. That is, by obtaining the threshold potential of the inverter, the shift register which operates with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors can be provided. A level shifter of the CK signal is generated from an output pulse of the shift register, therefore, the low power consumption shift register having the level shifter which flows a shoot-through current for a short period can be provided.
US08526561B2	Methods for making and processing metal targets for producing Cu-67 radioisotope for medical applications The present invention provides a method for producing Cu67 radioisotope suitable for use in medical applications. The method comprises irradiating a metallic zinc-68 (Zn68) target with a high energy gamma ray beam. After irradiation, the Cu67 is isolated from the Zn68 by any suitable method (e.g., chemical and/or physical separation). In a preferred embodiment, the Cu67 is isolated by sublimation of the zinc (e.g., at about 500-700° C. under reduced pressure) to afford a copper residue containing Cu67. The Cu67 can be further purified by chemical means (i.e., dissolution in acid, followed by ion exchange).
US08526559B2	Communication systems and clock generation circuits thereof with reference source switching A clock generation circuit for a transmitter which transmits data according to an output clock signal is provided. The clock generation circuit include a clock generator and a phase locked loop (PLL). The clock generator generates a first clock signal. The PLL initially generates the output clock signal according to the first clock signal. When a frequency of the output clock signal generated according to the first clock signal is not within a range required for specification of the transmitter, the PLL generates the output clock signal according to a second clock signal.
US08526558B1	Recursive range controller A method and apparatus for detecting out-of-specification data streams and voltage controller oscillator operation. Data may be received over evaluation periods. Each evaluation period is segmented into n sub-periods. Each n sub-period has the same length. Each n sub-period spans a portion of the data. The corresponding data period starting at each of the n sub-period is evaluated. The sub-period interval counts may be stored in a first-in-first-out register.
US08526555B2	User apparatus and cell search method A user apparatus for performing cell search includes: a timing information detection unit configured to detect timing information of a synchronization signal transmitted from a connected base station; a secondary synchronization channel correlation detection unit configured to detect a correlation of a secondary synchronization channel included in a synchronization signal transmitted by other base station other than the connected base station by using the timing information detected by the timing information detection unit; and a secondary synchronization channel detection unit configured to detect the secondary synchronization channel based on a result of the correlation detection by the secondary synchronization channel correlation detection unit.
US08526553B2	Wireless communication node connections The present invention relates to a wireless communication node (20A) adapted to via feeder ports be connected to antenna ports. It comprises signal handling and estimating means (21A) adapted to collect signals from a mobile station and to generate a plurality of channel estimates, connection combination information holding means (22A) adapted to hold information about all possible feeder port-antenna port connections, processing means (24A) comprising channel modelling means (23A) adapted to provide a channel model for the received signals. If further comprises channel model fitting means (25A) adapted to compare the channel model with the channel estimates for a plurality of permutations obtained by the connection combination information and order identifying means (26A) adapted to identify the feeder port connection order corresponding to the permutation order giving the best fit between channel model and channel estimates, hence allowing identification of the order in which the feeder ports actually are connected to the antenna ports.
US08526551B2	Multiple-input, on-chip oscilloscope An integrated circuit that includes a receive data path is described. The receive data path: equalizes a received analog signal, converts the resulting equalized analog signal to digital data values based on a clock signal, and recovers the clock signal in the digital data values. The integrated circuit also includes an on-chip oscilloscope. The oscilloscope includes: two comparators, a phase rotator that outputs an oscilloscope clock signal whose phase can be varied relative to that of the recovered clock signal, and an offset circuit that outputs a voltage offset. Based on the voltage offset and the oscilloscope clock signal, the comparators output digital values which can be used to determine eye patterns that correspond to the analog signal before and after equalization. The eye patterns can then be correlated with an error rate associated with the received data.
US08526540B2	Method and receiving unit for the detection of data symbols A method and device is provided for detecting data symbols in a received radio signal. Each data symbol is allocated transmit-side a symbol value-specific PN sequence of successive PN chips in the chip clock, and the allocated PN sequences are offset QPSK modulated. The method for incoherent detection includes converting the received radio signal into a complex baseband signal sampled in the chip clock, generating a demodulated signal by differential demodulation of the complex baseband signal, calculating correlation results by correlating the demodulated signal with the derived sequences, and deriving the values of the data symbols by evaluating the correlation results. Each derived sequence is assigned to a PN sequence allocable transmit-side and includes derived chips, whose values correspond to a logic linking of particular PN chips of the PN sequence allocable transmit-side that is assigned the derived sequence. The invention relates furthermore to a corresponding receiving unit.
US08526538B2	Uplink precoding method in 4-Tx system A method for a user equipment to precode and transmit an uplink signal efficiently in a 4-antenna system and a method for a base station to receive the transmitted signal efficiently are disclosed. Four antennas of a user equipment can be grouped by a 2-antenna unit. In consideration of this antenna group, it is able to perform precoding using antenna selection/DFT matrix of the antenna group unit. Moreover, a rank-3 codebook can be configured to include a precoding matrix of a type in consideration of power balance per antenna and a precoding matrix including one non-zero component only in one row for maintaining a good CM property.
US08526534B2	Method for transmitting information according to target encoding rate, base station and mobile station A method for transmitting information according to a target encoding rate is provided according to the embodiments of the present invention, which includes: obtaining basic information bits and at least one incremental information bit from information encoded by a base station (BS) according to a target encoding rate; and sequentially transmitting the basic information bits and the at least one incremental information bit to a mobile station (MS) within a determined time interval, in which the target encoding rate is an encoding rate used by the BS when the MS is capable of correctly decoding the information transmitted by the BS. A BS and an MS are further provided according to the embodiments of the present invention, thereby reducing power consumption by the MS.
US08526532B2	Transmitter with dynamic equalizer A method for filtering a signal having a series of symbols to be transmitted using the default coefficients, detecting occurrence of a series of consecutive common symbols followed by a different symbol in the series of symbols and based on detecting the occurrence, changing from the default coefficients to a second set of coefficients.
US08526531B2	Apparatus and method for selection of precoding matrix The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for selection of a precoding matrix. In the present invention, a precoding matrix to enable an effective signal-to-noise ratio (ESNR) to have a maximum value with respect to a signal vector that requires retransmission is selected in a codebook and fed back to a transmitter. Accordingly, since the effective signal-to-noise ratio has the maximum value after the signal vector is retransmitted, it is possible to minimize a reception error probability of retransmission.
US08526523B1	Highly-spectrally-efficient receiver A receiver may be operable to receive a QAM-based, inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal at a signal-to-noise ratio of between 29 dB and 31 dB and process the QAM-based, ISC signal to output estimated symbols at a symbol error rate of between 2×10−1 and 1×10−3. The QAM-based, ISC signal may be a partial response signal generated by passing a first signal through a partial response pulse shaping filter. The partial response pulse shaping filter may provide greater capacity than a capacity achieved by passing the first signal through a root-raised-cosine-based pulse shaping filter. The receiver may comprises an input filter, and the processing of the QAM-based, ISC signal may comprises filtering the QAM-based, ISC signal via a filter configured to achieve a desired total partial response in combination with the partial response pulse shaping filter.
US08526522B2	Single carrier high rate wireless system A signal generator and signal processor for single carrier wireless communication systems with frequency domain equalizer operable to use pseudorandom-noise sequences for cyclic prefix, the pseudorandom-noise sequences for coarse timing synchronization, channel estimation, carrier synchronization, signal-noise-ration estimation and channel equalization.
US08526520B2	Cyclostationary signal detection in the angular domain for communication systems Apparatuses and methods for providing efficient spectrum sensing and signal detection using cyclostationary based spectrum sensing algorithms. A method embodiment is provided, comprising: receiving input samples of a signal having expected predetermined properties; transforming the input samples to angular form and obtaining data samples corresponding to at least one angle vector; performing a cyclostationarity test on the at least one angle vector, the cyclostationarity test being done entirely in an angular domain; wherein the cyclostationarity test comprises testing the at least one angle vector for a non-uniform distribution, the non-uniform distribution of the at least one angle vector indicating cyclostationarity in the input samples; and where cyclostationarity in the input samples is determined, refraining from transmitting radio frequency signals over an air interface at a frequency corresponding to the received signal. Apparatuses for implementing the methods are also disclosed.
US08526519B2	Multi-rank precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback in a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system In at least some embodiments, a system includes a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) base station and a plurality of MIMO user equipment (UE) devices in communication with the MIMO base station. The MIMO base station is configured to switch between a single-user (SU)-MIMO mode and a multiple-user (MU)-MIMO mode during communications with the plurality of MIMO UE devices based on multi-rank precoding matrix indicator (PMI) feedback received from at least one of the MIMO UE devices.
US08526517B2	Blind SLM and PTS method with low decoding complexity of OFDM signals Disclosed is a BSLM method of generating U independent alternative symbol sequences by changing a phase of symbol sequences by phase sequences and transmitting the alternative symbol sequences with a PAPR to lower the PARR of a transmission signal of a transmitter in an OFDM system. The transmitter uses m-sequences as the phase sequence and a receiver uses an ML decoder to distinguish the phase sequence. The BSLM method includes rotating phases in blocks according to the m-sequences used in the respective symbol sequences, selecting a signal sequence with a minimum PAPR among U alternative signal sequences generated by the m-sequences in the transmitter, and partitioning U alternative symbol sequences into U/2 blocks in the transmitter. Block partitioning and predetermined phase rotation are used to embed side information in an alternative signal sequence, and the BSLM scheme may be extended to a BPTS. Since low decoding complexity is given while detecting side information, the same BER performance is obtained as that of the conventional BSLM scheme in the AWGN channel.
US08526501B2	Decoder and decoding method based on video and audio time information A decoder is disclosed. A video decoder extracts, when receiving a video stream, video output time information attached to each video frame. Thereafter, a difference value calculator calculates a difference value between an occurrence time of a synchronizing signal and the video output time information. Further, an audio output time corrector corrects, using the difference value, audio output time information attached to each audio frame. Then, a video source outputs video represented by a video frame in synchronization with a synchronizing signal. An audio source outputs, when a value of reference time information and a corrected value of the audio output time information are synchronized, audio represented by an audio frame with the synchronized audio output time information.
US08526500B2	System and method for global inter-frame motion detection in video sequences Methods and systems for detecting and compensating for motion depicted in a sequence of frames are disclosed. One example method includes converting video frames to monochrome. Conversion of an image to monochrome includes sampling luminance data of a portion of pixels in the image to identify the image as being of a particular image type, selecting a bit plane of the image based on the identified image type, and converting the image to a monochrome image using the selected bit plane. After conversion of video frames to monochrome, a pixel subset in a monochrome image corresponding to a first frame is compared to candidate matching pixel subsets within a search area of a monochrome image corresponding to a second, consecutive frame. The frames are processed to compensate for perceived motion blur based on the detected inter-frame motion.
US08526496B2	Region sizing for macroblocks Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
US08526485B2	Using equalization coefficients of end devices in a cable television network to determine and diagnose impairments in upstream channels A system estimates impairment contributions for upstream communications in a cable television system. The system receives equalization coefficients used by end devices in the cable television system. The equalization coefficients are used by equalizers to mitigate distortion in upstream channels for the end devices. The system analyzes the coefficients based on impairment thresholds to determine whether impairment problems exist and to identify the types of impairment problems that exist.
US08526474B2	Multi-beam laser power control circuit and image forming apparatus using the same A disclosed multi-beam laser power control circuit includes a light receiving element receiving power output from semiconductor lasers to control output power of a semiconductor laser array having plural semiconductor lasers, automatic power control circuits (APC circuits) controlling emission power output from semiconductor lasers based on received corresponding automatic power control execution signals so as to be set to predetermined emission power based on output from the light receiving element, and APC execution signal input terminals inputting the corresponding automatic power control execution signals, wherein, when plural APC execution signals input to the corresponding APC execution signal input terminals are overlapped, the automatic power control circuits (APC circuits) to be preferentially operated is determined based on input timings of the APC execution signals and operated.
US08526473B2	Methods and systems for dynamically generating tailored laser pulses Processing workpieces such as semiconductor wafers or other materials with a laser includes selecting a target to process that corresponds to a target class associated with a predefined temporal pulse profile. The temporal pulse profile includes a first portion that defines a first time duration, and a second portion that defines a second time duration. A method includes generating a laser pulse based on laser system input parameters configured to shape the laser pulse according to the temporal pulse profile, detecting the generated laser pulse, comparing the generated laser pulse to the temporal pulse profile, and adjusting the laser system input parameters based on the comparison.
US08526466B2	Apparatus and method for prioritizing communications between devices An apparatus and method for prioritizing communications between devices are provided. According to one aspect, an interface device for providing communications between at least one source device and at least one destination device comprises an input, logic, and an output. The input of the interface device receives data in a first format from the source device. The logic identifies the destination device for receiving the data. The logic then identifies a second format compatible with the destination device and translates the data from the first format to the second format. Transmission of the translated data is then prioritized by the logic based on characteristics of the translated data, which may include the format of the translated data or a service plan associated with the destination device or source device. The translated data is then transmitted to the identified destination device via the output.
US08526465B1	Media transmission using aggregated bandwidth of disparate communication channels A method and/or system of transmitting media items using aggregating bandwidths of disparate communication channels between a media source and a media player. By using the combined bandwidth of more than one communication channel, a media item that requires a bandwidth larger than a single communication channel can be transmitted. The media source also converts the media item depending on the available bandwidth of the communication channels. By dynamically changing the formats of the media item, more robust and reliable communication between the media source and the media player can be achieved.
US08526458B1	Framer and deframer for self-describing superframe A framer comprises a channel state block configured to store channel state information (CSI) of a data stream. The CSI includes one or more format indicators and one or more sample size indicators. The framer also comprises a frame timer configured to provide frame state information and a frame builder communicatively coupled to the channel state block and the frame timer. The frame builder is configured to receive the one or more format indicators and the one or more sample size indicators. The frame builder is also configured to receive the frame state information and to receive at least some of data units of the data stream. The frame builder is also configured to build a self-describing superframe based on the one or more format indicators, the one or more sample size indicators, the frame state information, and the at least some of data units. A deframer is also disclosed.
US08526456B2	Telecommunication and multimedia management method and apparatus A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.
US08526450B2	Host device interface with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing broadcast data A host device interfacing with a point of deployment (POD) and a method of processing broadcast data are disclosed. Herein, an Internet Protocol (IP) physical interface unit receives an Ethernet frame including broadcast data; and a routing engine transforms the Ethernet frame to an IP packet when a destination address included in the Ethernet frame matches with an address of a pod and routs the transformed IP packet to an extended channel connected to the POD. Accordingly, it is possible to protect contents using a conditional access provided by the existing cable card and process broadcast data received on all types of transmission protocols including an IP protocol over a wired/wireless network using a channel provided for connection between the existing cable card and the host device.
US08526448B2	Call localization and processing offloading In one embodiment, a gateway implements: receiving an indication that a first and a second end point of a communication session are both associated with a first gateway, the first gateway in communication with a second gateway to access services; receiving from the first end point at the first gateway a compressed packet; and communicating within the first gateway, the compressed packet from the first end point to the second end point, where the communicating is initiated in response to the indication that the first and second end points of the communication session are both associated with the first gateway, and where the communicated compressed packet is communicated through the first gateway without passing through the second gateway.
US08526437B2	Communication system and communication control device Provided is a communication system which connects a unified C/U router to a network having C/U separation, wherein the stopping of U-plane communication of the unified C/U router is prevented even when the messages transmitted from a C-plane controller of the network having C/U separation do not arrive because of faults in the network having C/U separation. The routing information of a C-plane message (routing protocol) received by a U-plane controller is sent to an adjacent peer without being reflected in a routing table of the U-plane controller. The routing table of the U-plane controller is generated on the basis of the routing information (FIB information) received directly from the C-plane controller. In addition, a keep-alive packet from the unified C/U router is not sent to the C-plane controller and keeps alive the connection with the user router at the transmission destination.
US08526434B2	Routing manager hierarchy There are provided a scalable method for mobility management applied to an IP-based network system including a plurality of routers and a plurality of servers, a part of which serve as a home routing manager (HRM), a part of which serve as local routing managers (LRM) for individual mobile nodes. The method at least comprises the steps of sending a first query about a routing address of a destination mobile node toward the HRM, based on an activation notification (AN) from an ingress access router (AR) of the plurality of routers, triggered by a source mobile mode, from an LRM receiving the activation notification; relaying the first query via one or more intermediate routing managers (IRM) closer to the HRM until the first query reaches the HRM; and in response to the first query, sending the routing address of the destination mobile node back to the ingress access router through the relay path from the HRM.
US08526423B2	Method and device for managing personal communications of at least one user A device for managing calls sent by a local terminal (T1-T5) includes: an interface (11-15) for communication with each of said local terminals (T1-T5) communications client modules (CL2-CL5) each able to set up a communications link of a communications service with a distant terminal (T6-T10) via a communications network; and routing means (18) for selecting, should one of the communications client modules receive an incoming call from a distant sending terminal, a local terminal able to receive said call and to redirect said call to the communications interface with the selected local terminal in order to set up a communications link between said distant sending terminal and the selected local terminal via the communications client module receiving the call.
US08526420B2	Method and apparatus for autonomous uplink timing advance maintenance According to some embodiments, a mobile device may calculate adjustments of a timing advance based on a determined relative downlink timing change. Adjustments of the timing advance may be made toward a target timing advance in accordance with an adjustment parameter. The adjustment parameter may be adapted based on a received timing advance command and at least one of: a calculated adjustment of the timing advance; and a difference between the target timing advance and the timing advance. In another aspect, self-adjustment of a timing advance performed by a mobile device may be configured based on a property of a communication channel between the mobile device and a base station. In another aspect, self-adjustment of a timing advance performed by a mobile device may be configured based on timing advance commands received from a base station.
US08526417B1	Adaptive initialization for wireless schedulers A method, medium, and wireless system are provided for scheduling access terminals to prevent starvation of access terminals connected to a communication network when one or more recently-connected access terminals having limited historical information about their channel conditions request time slots to initiate network communications. The wireless system includes access terminals and base stations that communicate over the communication network. The access terminals measure channel conditions associated with communications to the base station and transmit requests that specify a desired communication rate to the base station. The base stations receive the requests from each access terminal and select an access terminal to communicate during a subsequent time slot based on, among other things, the channel conditions and weighted average functions of the communication rate corresponding to the access terminal.
US08526416B2	Method of performing polling procedure in a wireless communication system A method of performing a polling procedure in a wireless communication system is disclosed. In a method of performing polling procedure in a protocol layer in a wireless communication system, wherein the protocol layer performs a data retransmission function, the method comprises triggering a polling procedure to request a receiving side to transmit a status report, and terminating the triggered polling procedure if a predetermined event occurs.
US08526415B2	Method and system for providing acknowledged broadcast and multicast communication A method and system to acknowledge a multicast message includes informing each node in a network about each multicast group to which it belongs, a relative position in each multicast group to which it belongs, and a group size of each multicast group to which it belongs, transmitting the multicast message, and transmitting, by each node in the multicast group, an acknowledgment in an assigned slot, which is determined by the relative position.
US08526410B2	Methods and apparatus related to interference management when sharing downlink bandwidth between wide area network usage and peer to peer signaling Methods and apparatus related to the sharing of wide area network (WAN) downlink bandwidth with peer to peer communication signaling usage are described. A WAN, e.g., cellular, wireless communications device using a base station attachment point, transmits a signal to be used by a peer to peer wireless communications device for controlling its peer to peer transmit power level. The peer to peer wireless communications device receives and measures the strength of the power control signal from the WAN wireless communications device. The measurement information is used by the peer to peer wireless communications device in determining whether or not peer to peer signal transmission is permitted and/or in determining a peer to peer transmission power level. Thus the WAN device is able to manage interference from the peer to peer devices in its vicinity which impacts its recovery of WAN base station downlink signals.
US08526407B2	Extended coordinated multipoint cells to mitigate inter-comp-cell downlink interference Inter-CoMP cell interference is reduced by “extending” at least one CoMP cell to include UEs served by a neighboring CoMP cell in the extended CoMP cell's transmission calculations, so as to minimize interference to the UEs served by other CoMP cells. Each UE in a border sub-cell identifies neighboring CoMP cells from which it receives interference in excess of a threshold value, and includes the interfering CoMP cells in a close-neighbor set. The close-neighbor set is transmitted to the UE's serving CoMP cell controller. When downlink transmissions are scheduled to the target UE, the controller notifies the neighboring CoMP cells in the close-neighbor set, identifying the target UE. Those CoMP cells then use information about the channel conditions from their transmit antennas to the target UE receive antennas to compute transmissions to UEs they serve, with the constraint that interference to the target UE is below a predetermined level.
US08526399B2	Communications device used in CDMA A transmitting device of the present invention is used in a CDMA communications system, and comprises: a plurality of spreading units for spreading user data; a managing unit for managing spread codes; a determining unit for determining a number of codes to be multiplexed based on use statuses of the spread codes managed by said managing unit; and a multiplexing unit for multiplexing the user data spread by spreading units a number of which corresponds to the number of codes to be multiplexed.
US08526397B2	TTI bundling indication to non-serving base station The technology applies to a cellular radio communication system in which a mobile radio terminal transmits information in transmission time intervals (TTIs) that is received by a serving base station and by one or more non-serving base stations. A number N of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmissions transmitted together by the mobile terminal is determined. An HARQ transmission includes a first transmission, one or more retransmissions of the first transmission, or both. An indication of the number N of HARQ transmissions is provided either directly or indirectly to the one or more non-serving base stations so that the one or more non-serving base stations can take the number N into account when combining HARQ transmissions received from the mobile terminal.
US08526389B2	Power scaling in multicarrier wireless device A wireless device receives a control command for transmission of a random access preamble on a first cell. The wireless device transmits the random access preamble in parallel with a first control packet, a second packet and/or a third packet. The wireless device determines a transmission power for the random access preamble. If a total calculated transmission power exceeds a predefined value, the wireless device reducing or scaling linear transmission power of one or more of the at least one parallel uplink transmission considering a higher priority for the transmission power of the random access preamble.
US08526385B2	Method for generating reference signals The present disclosure relates to a method for generating reference signals in a cellular wireless communication system having a set of resource blocks. Each resource block includes a plurality of resource elements. Each reference signal is associated with an antenna port in a cell. At least one reference signal in a cell is transmitted on at least one resource element only in resource blocks belonging to a subset of said set of resource blocks. The method includes shifting frequency in the resource blocks in the subset of resource blocks. The frequency shifting of the resource blocks belonging to said subset of resource blocks is cell-specific and is determined from an integer sequence having a length less than or equal to a total number of cell identities in said cellular wireless communication system. The disclosure also relates to methods and devices for transmitting and receiving such reference signals; and to a device for generating reference signals.
US08526381B2	Apparatus and method for managing multi-carrier An apparatus for managing a multi-carrier in a communication system supporting the multi-carrier receives channel quality information of multi-carriers from a terminal and directs the terminal to change a primary carrier from a current primary carrier to one carrier of the multi-carriers on the basis of reference information including channel quality information.
US08526378B2	Uplink scheduling method and apparatus based on semi-persistent resource allocation scheme in mobile communication system An uplink scheduling method by a terminal which performs a communication service according to a semi-persistent resource allocation scheme in a Base Station (BS) of a mobile communication system. The uplink scheduling method includes generating resource allocation control information including a particular field set to a value predetermined according to the semi-persistent resource allocation scheme, code-masking the particular field of the resource allocation control information by using a Cyclic Shift (CS) value for a Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) operation of the terminal, configuring a transport block including the code-masked resource allocation control information; and transmitting the transport block to the terminal. Therefore, the MU-MIMO can be implemented even in a Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) scheme. When the BS provides a VoIP service, service delay, which may occur due to lack of resources, does not occur, and resources can be immediately allocated.
US08526367B2	Front-end module network for femtocell applications A wireless communication device includes a front-end module (FEM) network, an RF connection, and a system on a chip (SOC). A first set of FEMs is operable to output, via an antenna, a first outbound RF signal to a first wireless communication device and receive a first inbound RF signal via an antenna. A second set of FEMs is operable to output, via an antenna, a second outbound RF signal to a second wireless communication device, wherein the second outbound RF signal is representative of the first inbound RF signal, and receive a second inbound RF signal via an antenna, wherein the first outbound RF signal is representative of the second inbound RF signal. The SOC is operable to activate the first and second sets of FEMs, facilitate the first outbound RF signal representing the second inbound RF signal, and facilitate the second outbound RF signal representing the first inbound RF signal.
US08526364B2	Delivering system information in wireless communications network A method of controlling user equipment in a wireless communications network, the method comprising: producing different system information for different groups of user equipment based on characteristics of the user equipment, sending the system information to said user equipment, and indicating to which group of the user equipment the system information is addressed.
US08526354B2	Mobile communication relay device The present invention provides a user-carriable mobile communication relay device that relays communication between an internal network and an external network, in which even when the device is moved, the device dynamically selects and connects the external network depending on a surrounding radio wave environment or a communication content. The device is provided with an internal network communication adapter 13 compatible with the internal network connecting to a specific terminal device 4; external network communication adapters 11, 12 compatible with external networks with a mobile telephone network and with a wireless LAN at an installation site; a network selection processing portion 102 automatically selecting one or more networks to be connected, out of the external networks, according to stored profile information 141; an internal network connection processing portion 104 establishing or reconfiguring the connection to an internal network selected for a predetermined opportunity; an external network connection processing portion 105 establishing or reconfiguring the connection to an external network selected for a predetermined opportunity; and a communication relay processing portion 101 relay-processing communication between the internal network and the external network.
US08526330B2	Automatic-switchable network extension apparatus and a switching method Disclosed herein are an automatically-switchable network extension apparatus and a switching method thereof. An automatic connection mechanism is particularly introduced into the apparatus. Exemplarily, a random number scheme is used to generate a value to be a basis for configuring the apparatus functioned as a CO or CPE operational mode. Based on the value, the method is to perform a connection with the other network extension apparatus. According to the embodiment, a set of connection parameters and the randomly-generated value are generated after the apparatus is initialized. The apparatus may be configured as CO or CPE operational mode according to the value, and simultaneously detect the operational mode of the apparatus to be linked. The apparatus accomplishes the connection if the two apparatuses have different modes, or the value is generated again to perform the connection.
US08526324B2	Method of controlling radio resources, and radio system There is provided a radio system, comprising: a receiver for receiving uplink channel traffic; a measuring unit for measuring periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic; and a control unit for controlling discontinuous uplink operation on the basis of the measured periodicity of the received uplink channel traffic.
US08526322B2	Apparatus and method for reporting measurement result in wireless communication system A method and apparatus of reporting a measurement result in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment receives, from a base station, measurement configuration information comprising a reporting condition for triggering reporting of a measurement result on M component carriers among N component carriers, where M≦N. The user equipment determines whether the reporting condition is satisfied by measuring the N component carriers. If the reporting condition is satisfied, the user equipment reports a measurement result on the M component carriers to the base station.
US08526313B1	System and method for extending connectivity tests through a packet network A communication system extending Ethernet Operation and Management (OAM) Loopback Message (LBM) and Loopback Replay (LBR) functionality into a time division multiplexing (TDM) domain has a first interworking function (IWF) of an Ethernet network that transmits an Ethernet Operation and Management (OAM) Loopback Message (LBM) having a first type length value (TLV) field. The first IWF controls the first TLV field to indicate that a connectivity test is to extend beyond the Ethernet network. The communication system further has a second IWF of the Ethernet network that receives the Ethernet OAM LBM and interprets the first TLV field. In addition, the second IWF performs a TDM connectivity test across a TDM connection in response to the Ethernet OAM LBM and based on the first TLV field and transmits a reply for the Ethernet OAM LBM to the first IWF, the reply prompted by the LBM and comprising data based on the TDM connectivity test.
US08526310B2	Secondary cell sounding transmission A wireless device receives message(s) configuring transmissions of sounding reference signals on a secondary cell in a secondary cell group. The wireless device receives an activation command to activate the secondary cell. The wireless device transmits the sounding reference signals if the secondary cell is activated, a timing advance command is applied to the secondary cell group, and a time alignment timer for the secondary cell group is running. The wireless device is configured to not transmit the sounding reference signals on the secondary cell during the period between receiving the activation command and applying the timing advance command.
US08526305B2	System and methods for reducing power consumed by a base station The present invention provides systems and methods that enable a base station to consume less power. According to an embodiment of the invention, the base station reduces its power consumption by not continuously broadcasting control information. In such an embodiment, a mobile station that seeks access to a network to which the base station provides access does not search for broadcast control information prior to transmitting an access message to the base station, but rather simply transmits on a predetermined access channel an access request message. A base station that receives the access request message may unicast control information to the mobile station.
US08526301B2	Communication apparatus and method of controlling communication thereof for detecting that predetermined communication apparatus has left a first network and controlling such that another communication apparatus of the first network returns to a second network Disclosed is a communication apparatus in a network system constituted by a plurality of communication apparatuses, wherein the fact that a specific communication apparatus connected to a temporary network constructed temporarily has left the temporary network is detected. In response to the specific communication apparatus leaving the temporary network, another communication apparatus connected to the temporary network is allowed to return to the original network.
US08526297B2	OFDM transmission/reception apparatus An OFDM signal transmission apparatus is provided, which includes a mapping unit configured to map first signals into N subcarriers and second signals into M subcarrier(s) to form an OFDM signal, wherein N is larger than M. The first signals are each indicating a same bit of retransmission information and the second signals are each indicating a same bit of information other than retransmission information. The OFDM signal transmission apparatus further includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit the formed OFDM signal.
US08526294B2	Data exchange device using orthogonal vectors An integrated circuit and a method for transmitting messages from initiator units of an integrated circuit to at least one target unit of the integrated circuit. The initiator units transform first digital messages into second digital messages, the second messages being added, then transmitted to the target unit. The transformation of the first messages into second messages comprises the application of an orthogonal transformation by means of vectors obtained from rows or columns of an identity matrix.
US08526293B2	Information recording medium and recording/reproducing method for the same The information recording medium (100) of the present invention includes: an information layer (110) including a recording layer (115) capable of changing its phase containing at least one selected from Ge—Te, Sb—Te and Ge—Sb, and two or more dielectric layers (117, 118) disposed on the optical beam incident side with respect to the recording layer (115); and a transparent layer (102) disposed on the optical beam incident side with respect to the information layer (110) adjacent to the information layer, made of a transparent material with respect to the optical beam, and having a refractive index n of 1.75 or more. When two dielectric layers (117, 118) from the near side to the transparent layer (102) each are referred to as a dielectric layer b (118) and a dielectric layer a (117) from the optical beam incident side among the two or more dielectric layers (117, 118), a relationship of the refractive index n of the transparent layer 102, a refractive index nb of the dielectric layer b (118) and a refractive index na of the dielectric layer a satisfies nb1 by irradiation with optical beam.
US08526291B2	Optical information recording medium Optical information recording medium comprises: a plurality of recording layers 14, each of which undergoes a change in refractive index by irradiation with recording beam; and an intermediate layer 15 provided between recording layers 14. The recording layer 14 contains polymer binder and dye dispersed in the polymer binder, and at least in proximity to an interface (far-side interface 18) between the intermediate layer 15 and a recording layer 14 disposed adjacent to incident side of the intermediate layer 15 from which the recording beam enters the intermediate layer, the intermediate layer 15 has refractive index different from that of the recording layer 14. Glass transition temperature of the polymer binder is lower than melting point and decomposition point of the dye, and refractive index of the polymer binder changes by receiving heat generated when the dye absorbs the recording beam, whereby information is recordable in the recording layer.
US08526289B2	Optical information reproducing apparatus and optical information reproducing method An optical information reproducing apparatus includes: an irradiation section irradiating a light beam onto an optical information recording medium, in which holes are formed along a virtual track on a recording medium, along the virtual track; a light receiving section receiving a reflected light beam when the light beam is reflected by the optical information recording medium and sequentially generating a light receiving signal corresponding to the light intensity; a detection section detecting a variation pattern appearing when a signal level of the light receiving signal changes according to the hole; and a code string generating section, when generating a code string corresponding to the signal level, generating a code corresponding to the one hole from the variation pattern if the variation pattern falls within a range and generating a code string, which includes a plurality of codes, from the variation pattern if the variation pattern exceeds the range.
US08526282B1	Method for replicating media using unique identifiers Methods and apparatuses are provided to manage the replication of contest recording media by assigning unique identifiers for content and media, and manage a database of records corresponding to the unique identifiers which include information related to the use of the unique identifiers. In addition, methods and apparatuses are provided for responding to content copy authorization requests, and are synergistically integrated with media replication management methods and apparatuses by using the same database of records corresponding to unique identifiers as a basis for such responses.
US08526280B2	Method and apparatus for mounting a disc Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for mounting a storage disc. The method includes receiving data stored at a location on the storage disc. The location on the storage disc used for providing a structure of the storage disc as a result of a previous recording on the storage disc. Then, the method includes determining a medium type based on a parameter in the structure that is indicative of the medium type.
US08526275B1	Systems and methods for dissipating heat from a near-field transducer in an energy assisted magnetic recording assembly Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a recording head for energy assisted magnetic recording. The recording head includes a near-field transducer (NFT) having a preselected shape and a surface, a writing pole on the NFT, and a non-metal heat dissipator positioned between the NFT surface and the writing pole. The non-metal heat dissipator includes a first portion in contact with the NFT surface, the first portion extending beyond an edge of the NFT surface in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an air bearing surface (ABS) and parallel to the NFT surface.
US08526253B2	Method of screening static random access memories for pass transistor defects A method of screening static random access memory (SRAM) arrays to identify memory cells with bit line side pass transistor defects. After writing a known data state to the memory cells under test, a forward back-bias is applied to the load transistors of those cells. A write of the opposite data state is then performed, followed by a read of the memory cells. The process is repeated for the opposite data state.
US08526242B2	Flash memory and fabrication method and operation method for the same The present invention discloses a flash memory and the fabrication method and the operation method for the same. The flash memory comprises two memory cells of vertical channels, wherein a lightly-doped N type (or P type) silicon is used as a substrate; a P+ region (or an N+ region) is provided on each of the both ends of the silicon surface, and two channel regions perpendicular to the surface are provided therebetween; an N+ region (or a P+ region) shared by two channels is provided over the channels; a tunneling oxide layer, a polysilicon floating gate, a block oxide layer and a polysilicon control gate are provided sequentially on the outer sides of each channel from inside to outside; and the polysilicon floating gate and the polysilicon control gate are isolated from the P+ region by a sidewall oxide layer. The whole device is a two-bit TFET type flash memory with vertical channels which has better compatibility with prior-art standard CMOS process. As compared with a conventional MOSFET-based flash memory, the flash memory according to the present invention possesses various advantages such as high programming efficiency, low power consumption, effective inhibition of punch-through effect, and high density, etc.
US08526241B2	Non-volatile semiconductor memory device capable of improving failure-relief efficiency According to one embodiment, a non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and a row decoder. The memory cell array has NAND strings as a physical block, and word lines respectively connected to memory cells included in the NAND strings. The row decoder includes latch circuits and a drive circuit. When a failure exists within a corresponding first logical block, the latch circuits store a flag indicating the failure. The drive circuit inhibits driving of the word lines belonging to the first logical block when the flag is stored in the latch circuit corresponding to the first logical block to which the selected word lines belong, and allows the driving of the word lines belonging to the physical block including the first logical block when the flag is not stored in the latch circuit corresponding to the first logical block to which the selected word lines belong.
US08526229B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a power supply circuit configured to supply an intermediate voltage between a power supply voltage and a ground voltage to each of a plurality of memory cells. The power supply circuit firsts generates a first intermediate voltage between the power supply voltage and the ground voltage and a second intermediate voltage between the power supply voltage and the ground voltage. In response to a first control signal, the first intermediate voltage is supplied to an output node and the second intermediate voltage stops. A connection control circuit connects the first output node and a second output node when the second intermediate voltage generating circuit stops its operation.
US08526222B2	Magnetic random access memory A magnetic random access memory according to the present invention is provided with: a magnetic recording layer including a magnetization free region having a reversible magnetization, wherein a write current is flown through the magnetic recording layer in an in-plane direction; a magnetization fixed layer having a fixed magnetization; a non-magnetic layer provided between the magnetization free region and the magnetization fixed layer; and a heat sink structure provided to be opposed to the magnetic recording layer and having a function of receiving and radiating heat generated in the magnetic recording layer. The magnetic random access memory thus-structured radiates heat generated in the magnetic recording layer by using the heat sink structure, suppressing the temperature increase caused by the write current flown in the in-plane direction.
US08526221B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit for low and high voltage operations A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising a first circuit area for a low voltage operation and a second circuit area for a high voltage operation. The circuit areas comprise two vertically stacked backend patterned metal layers that are separated by an inter-metallic dielectric (IMD). The two metal layers and the IMD form a combination that is operable at the low voltage. The first circuit area uses a first portion of the combination for operating at the low voltage and the second circuit area uses a second portion of the combination for routing at the high voltage, the two metal layers in the second portion being interconnected through the IMD by via hole, for withstanding the high voltage. The first portion may comprise an array of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices and the second circuit area may comprise a display drive circuit.
US08526216B2	Memory device and manufacturing method the same A semiconductor device that can transmit and receive data without contact is popular partly as some railway passes, electronic money cards, and the like; however, it has been a prime task to provide an inexpensive semiconductor device for further popularization. In view of the above current conditions, a semiconductor device of the present invention includes a memory with a simple structure for providing an inexpensive semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. A memory element included in the memory includes a layer containing an organic compound, and a source electrode or a drain electrode of a TFT provided in the memory element portion is used as a conductive layer which forms a bit line of the memory element.
US08526214B2	Resistor thin film MTP memory An integrated circuit is formed having an array of memory cells located in the dielectric stack above a semiconductor substrate. Each memory cell has two adjustable resistors and two heating elements. A dielectric material separates the heating elements from the adjustable resistors. One heating element alters the resistance of one of the resistors by applying heat thereto to write data to the memory cell. The other heating element alters the resistance of the other resistor by applying heat thereto to erase data from the memory cell.
US08526212B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device comprising: a memory cell array in which memory cells each containing a variable resistive element and a rectifier element connected in series are arranged at intersections of a plurality of first wirings and a plurality of second wirings; and a control circuit for selectively driving said first wirings and said second wirings; wherein said control circuit applies a first voltage to said selected first wiring, and changes said first voltage based on the position of said selected memory cell within said memory cell array to apply a second voltage to said selected second wiring, so that a predetermined potential difference is applied to a selected memory cell arranged at the intersection between said selected first wiring and said selected second wiring.
US08526205B2	Photovoltaic power conditioning units We describe a photovoltaic (PV) panel power conditioning circuits, in particular for a PV panel with multiple sub-strings of connected solar cells. The power conditioning unit comprises a set of input power converters, one connected to each sub-string, a shared dc link to provide a common dc bus for the set of input power converters, and a common output power conversion stage coupled to the shared dc link to convert power from the shared dc link to ac power for a mains power supply output from the power conditioning unit. Local conversion of the sub-strings facilitates control of the power available from the panel and optimum energy harvesting, as well as local maximum power point tracking (MPPT) adjustment.
US08526203B2	Systems and methods for constant voltage mode and constant current mode in flyback power converter with primary-side sensing and regulation System and method for regulating a power converter. The system includes a first signal generator configured to receive at least an input signal and generate at least a first output signal associated with demagnetization and a second output signal associated with sampling. Additionally, the system includes a sampling component configured to receive at least the input signal and the second output signal, sample the input signal based on at least information associated with the second output signal, and generate at least a third output signal associated with one or more sampled magnitudes. Moreover, the system includes an error amplifier configured to receive at least the third output signal and a first threshold voltage and generate at least a fourth output signal with a capacitor, the capacitor being coupled to the error amplifier.
US08526193B2	Display apparatus and method of fabricating the same A display apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a light shielding layer including a first opening which transmits a light. The second substrate includes a shutter including a second opening which corresponds to the first opening, and a first flexible electrode part which is connected to one end of the shutter and transmits or blocks the light by moving the shutter. The first flexible electrode part includes a first flexible electrode, a second flexible electrode, and an insulation pattern. The insulation pattern insulates the first flexible electrode and the second flexible electrode from each other, and exposes upper and lower surfaces of the first flexible electrode and the second flexible electrode which are parallel to the second substrate, by covering portions of the first flexible electrode and the second flexible electrode.
US08526189B2	Power module A power module includes a semiconductor device having a first and second arms, and gate driving circuit board. The first arm includes a first extending electrode, a first gate electrode of a first power device extending in a direction different from the first extending electrode, and a first output electrode extending in the different direction from the first gate electrode. The second arm stacked on the first arm includes a second extending electrode extending in the first extending electrode extending direction in an insulating state, a second gate electrode of a second power device, extending in the first gate electrode extending direction, and a second output electrode extending in the first output electrode extending direction with electrical connection thereto. The gate driving circuit board is disposed at the first and second gate electrodes extending side so as to face the semiconductor device.
US08526184B2	Devices having a thermal interface and methods of forming the same A conduction-cooled enclosure comprises a card guide having a card guide channel, at least one controlled-volume cavity in the card guide channel, and a thermal interface material (TIM) in the at least one controlled-volume cavity.
US08526181B2	Cable management system including airflow functionality A cable management system is provided that includes a cable management rack for accommodating a heat generating device, a first baffle mounted with respect to a first upright of the rack and for redirecting a rearward flow of cool air sideways from a space adjacent a front side of the rack, and/or a second baffle mounted with respect to a second upright of the rack and for redirecting a sideways flow of exhaust air from the rack and through the second upright into a space adjacent a rear side of the rack. A method of cooling a heat-generating device mounted in or on a cable management rack includes providing a sideways flow of cooling air into the rack and into the device.
US08526180B2	Housing for encasing an object having an electrical connection This disclosure relates generally to an apparatus and/or system for housing a device. The apparatus includes a housing that is configured such that a device may be fitted within the housing and thereby be protected, such as from shocks and/or liquid. The housing may include top and bottom members that may be removably coupled together so as to form the housing. Each top and bottom member optionally includes front and back surfaces surrounded by a perimeter. The perimeter is defined by proximal and distal ends as well as opposing sides. The top and bottom members may include respective clasping mechanisms that extend along the perimeter of the top and bottom members. The clasping mechanisms are configured for coupling the top and bottom members with one another thereby sealing the housing, for instance, in a shockproof and/or water tight seal.
US08526173B2	On-vehicle display device An on-vehicle display device includes: an image display unit 6; wiring boards 8, 9 mounting a control circuit for controlling the image display unit 6; a magnesium alloy case 7 of which front recess receives the image display unit 6, and of which rear recess receives the wiring boards 8, 9; and a shield member 10 attached to the magnesium alloy case 7 for covering the rear recess. The magnesium alloy case 7 is thermally coupled to the image display unit 6 and works as a heat radiating device. The magnesium alloy case 7 is electrically coupled to the shield member 10 and works as an electromagnetic shield device together with the shield member 10.
US08526171B2	Supporting structure module and electronic device using the same This disclosure provides a supporting structure module and an electronic device using the same. The supporting structure module in the invention is used in the electronic device. The electronic device includes a first casing, a hinge, and a second casing rotatable relative to the first casing via the hinge. The supporting structure module includes a first supporting structure, and the first supporting structure includes a first bracket and a first hinge cover. The first bracket is fixed to and exposed from the first casing. The first hinge cover is connected with the first bracket by integral forming, and the first hinge cover is exposed from the first casing and covers a part of the hinge.
US08526157B2	Surge arrester and arrangement of a plurality of surge arresters to form an array A surge arrester includes a gas-filled closed arrester body that is formed by a first annular ceramic body and two electrodes at a distance from one another. A second annular ceramic body is arranged in the interior of the arrester body and is at a distance from the first ceramic body and has a physical height that is less than the physical height of the first ceramic body.
US08526149B2	Limiting current circuit that has output short circuit protection A limiting current circuit that has output short circuit protection is connected to an external voltage source and comprises an output terminal, an input current unit, a driving transistor, a voltage control resistor, a voltage control transistor and a delay unit. The output terminal is connected to a load and has an output current. The driving transistor has an internal resistance, a drain current and a gate voltage. The voltage control resistor has a resistor voltage. The voltage control transistor has an internal resistance and a parasitic capacitance. The delay unit makes the resistor voltage charging the parasitic capacitance to extend the period of lower internal resistance of the voltage control transistor and the period of higher internal resistance of the driving transistor, makes the internal resistance of the voltage control transistor is less than the internal resistance of the driving transistor when the load is shorted.
US08526132B2	Servo patterning compatible with planarization of patterned magnetic disks Embodiments herein illustrate patterned servo data that allows the patterned disk to be planarized with a relatively simple planarization process. A magnetic disk, in this regard, includes a data region having a plurality of tracks. The magnetic disk also includes a plurality of servo bursts patterned in the magnetic disk at a plurality of locations in each track. The servo bursts are operable to direct a controller to center a write head over a track in the data region and write a track identification. The servo bursts include magnetic lands and nonmagnetic grooves. The magnetic lands of the servo burst are generally configured with a uniform polarity of magnetization and a first uniform width. The nonmagnetic grooves are configured with a second uniform width.
US08526129B2	Lens unit, camera module and manufacturing method of lens unit To implement the alignment of lenses with a simple configuration or by a simple method. A lens unit includes a plurality of lenses each including a lens portion and a flange portion surrounding the lens portion, and a tube portion that holds the plurality of lenses successively arranged along an optical axis. The holder body includes first and second receive portions successively formed along the optical axis. The first receive portion holds the lenses by pressing the side of the flange portion that extends along the optical axis. The second receive portion receives the lens such that the lens can be moved in a direction crossing the optical axis.
US08526126B2	Objective An objective is described consisting of a monolithic body of a material at least partly transparent for a part of an electromagnetic spectrum, and whose surfaces include a first optical refractive functional area serving as entrance area through which electromagnetic radiation can enter the objective, a second optical reflective functional area serving as a first mirror, a third optical reflective functional area serving as a second mirror, a fourth optical reflective functional area serving as a third mirror, a fifth optical reflective functional area serving as a fourth mirror, and a sixth optical refractive functional area serving as an exit area through which electromagnetic radiation can exit the objective, wherein the first to sixth optical functional areas are implemented such that a center shading-free, folded optical path extends from the entrance area through the monolithic body via first to fourth mirrors to the exit area, wherein no intermediate image level is located in the same between the entrance area and the exit area.
US08526118B2	Zoom lens and image capturing apparatus An inner focus type zoom lens includes a first lens group that has positive refracting power and is normally located at a fixed position, a second lens group that has negative refracting power and is movable in an optical axis direction for zooming, a third lens group that has positive refracting power, a fourth lens group that is movable for correction of a focal position due to the zooming and for focusing, and a fifth lens group that has positive refracting power, in order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a negative lens, a first positive lens, and a second positive lens arranged in order from the object side, wherein a first face of the negative lens has a shape of a concave surface turned on the object side, and wherein the zoom lens satisfies the following conditional equation (1) −10.0
US08526109B1	Portable projection screen device A portable projection screen has a carrying frame, a movable frame, an elastically-rotating reel, a projection screen and two linkages. The carrying frame has a chamber communicating with an opening; the reel is coupled between two ends of the carrying frame in an elastically rotatable manner and is located in the chamber of the carrying frame; the projection screen is arranged via the opening between the movable frame and the carrying frame; the projection screen upper side connects to the movable frame and the lower side connects to the reel; the linkages arranged between the movable frame and the carrying frame, each linkage end respectively pivots to the movable frame and the carrying frame to form a first and a second pivoting part respectively; a third pivoting part is arranged between the two ends of each linkage; the pivoting parts of each linkage is provided an antislip structure.
US08526108B2	Image system with diffused imaging screen and method of manufacture Provided are diffused but transmissive optical image projection screens and methods of their manufacture, including screens comprising acetal polymers such as polyoxymethylene. Such screens may be used in various applications, including but not limited electronic image display and control system comprising in various embodiments a microdisplay video projector that projects a high quality color image from a non-CRT image source onto a diffused but transmissive optical projection screen that is optically coupled with and viewable through a biocular adapted to this purpose. Systems are disclosed that are adapted to be mechanically coupled with a user to prevent relative movement between the biocular and the user, for instance in tactical applications. Closed-loop control electronics are provided for automatically controlling the brightness and chromaticity of the image.
US08526107B2	Method for manufacturing array substrate and array substrate, and method for manufacturing screen and screen A method for manufacturing an array substrate includes forming a plurality of holes in a film shape substrate having thermal plasticity, in which the holes have a diameter of 0.25 times to 2 times a thickness of the substrate, and a pitch of 5 times to 40 times the diameter of the holes; and heating a molding member provided with a plurality of convex portions or concave portions in an array pattern, pressing the substrate provided with the plurality of holes, and transferring the plurality of convex portions or concave portions to the substrate.
US08526105B2	Structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interfermetric microscopy In accordance with the invention, there are imaging interferometric microscopes and methods for imaging interferometric microscopy using structural illumination and evanescent coupling for the extension of imaging interferometric microscopy. Furthermore, there are coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopes and methods for coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) microscopy, wherein imaging interferometric microscopy techniques are applied to get material dependent spectroscopic information.
US08526103B2	Laser system with highly linear output A laser device having a semiconductor gain element optically coupled to an optical fiber by using an angled anamorphic fiber lens and including a wavelength-selective front reflector. The laser device possesses improved output characteristics such as a highly linear laser emission output, even when the amplification section produces a high amount of gain. Such a laser source can also be used in various applications such as pump lasers for fiber amplifiers or frequency doubling systems.
US08526102B2	PLC-type demodulator and optical transmission system The invention provides a PLC-type DP-QPSK demodulator that reduces connection loss between a polarization beam splitter and a 90-degree hybrid circuit and aims at reducing the manufacturing cost and an optical transmission system using the same. In an embodiment of the invention, a PLC-type DP-QPSK demodulator that receives a DP-QPSK signal includes one PLC chip having a planar lightwave circuit. Input ports and output ports of signal light are provided at an input end and at an output end of the PLC chip, respectively. Within the planar lightwave circuit, there are integrated a polarization beam splitter that splits the DP-QPSK signal into an X-polarization QPSK signal and a Y-polarization QPSK signal, and two 90-degree hybrid circuits that mix the X-polarization QPSK signal and local oscillation light and the Y-polarization QPSK signal and local oscillation light, respectively, split each QPSK signal into orthogonal components I, Q and output them.
US08526095B2	Electrochromic display device Disclosed is an electrochromic display device comprising: a first and a second substrates; a first and a second electrodes; and an electrochromic composition layer, wherein the device is of a passive matrix drive where the a display and an erasion are performed by an energization in reverse directions between the electrodes, the first and the second electrodes respectively comprise a plurality of electrodes, a pixel is formed where the electrodes are in a grade separated crossing, and the display is performed by voltage application processing where: (i) the first electrode is set as negative, and the second electrode is set as positive, to apply a voltage of a first potential difference, immediately followed by (ii) the first electrode being set as positive, and the second electrode being set as negative, to apply a voltage of a second potential difference equal to or more than the first potential difference.
US08526091B2	Aberration-correcting method, laser processing method using said aberration-correcting method, laser irradiation method using said aberration-correcting method, aberration-correcting device and aberration-correcting program In an aberration-correcting method according to an embodiment of the present invention, in an aberration-correcting method for a laser irradiation device 1 which focuses a laser beam on the inside of a transparent medium 60, aberration of a laser beam is corrected so that a focal point of the laser beam is positioned within a range of aberration occurring inside the medium. This aberration range is not less than n×d and not more than n×d+Δs from an incidence plane of the medium 60, provided that the refractive index of the medium 60 is defined as n, a depth from an incidence plane of the medium 60 to the focus of the lens 50 is defined as d, and aberration caused by the medium 60 is defined as Δs.
US08526085B2	Grid image The present invention relates to a grating image (30) for depicting a motif (24) that moves upon tilting the grating image (30) about a tilt axis (20), having two or more grating fields (32, 34, 36) having a viewing-angle-dependent visual appearance, that each include an electromagnetic-radiation-influencing grating pattern composed of a plurality of grating lines, and exhibit a preferred direction that establishes a viewing angle from which the appropriate grating field (32, 34, 36) is visually distinguishable, wherein, according to the present invention, the grating fields (32, 34, 36) are formed from a plurality of sub-regions nested within each other (32-i, 34-i, 36-i), and each grating field (32, 34, 36) displays a motif (24) view (24-A, 24-B, 24-C) that is shifted substantially along the tilt axis (20), wherein the viewing angles for the visual distinguishability and the shifts of the motif views (24-A, 24-B, 24-C) of the grating fields (32, 34, 36) are coordinated with each other such that, upon tilting the grating image (30), a motif (24) depiction that moves substantially along the tilt axis (20) is created for the viewer.
US08526073B2	Optical reading document board, image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus including the image reading apparatus An optical reading document board, an image reading apparatus, and an image forming apparatus, the optical reading document board including a platen formed of transparent glass and having a top surface on which a document is placed, and a reflectance reduction layer coated on a bottom surface of the platen and having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the platen.
US08526072B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information Methods, systems, and computer program products for protecting information on a user interface based on a viewability of the information are disclosed. According to one method, a viewing position of a person other than a user with respect to information on a user interface is identified. An information viewability threshold is determined based on the information on the user interface. Further, an action associated with the user interface is performed based on the identified viewing position and the determined information viewability threshold.
US08526071B2	Image scanning device and image scanning method An image scanning device and an image scanning method are provided. The invention is related to a miniaturized image scanning device and an image scanning method. The miniaturized image scanning device includes a housing, a first driving roller set, an entrance sensor, an image sensor, a reflective light source, a transmissive light source, and a control module. The housing has an entrance and an exit. The first driving roller set is disposed in the housing. The entrance sensor is disposed between the entrance and the first driving roller set. The image sensor, the reflective light source and the transmissive light source are disposed between the first driving roller set and the exit. The control module receives and processes signals outputted from the image sensor and the entrance sensor to control the operation of the image sensor, the first driving roller set, the reflective light source and the transmissive light source.
US08526068B2	Rotatable scanner and image forming apparatus A rotatable scanner includes a scanner body and a document holder. The scanner body includes an exposure surface on which a document is placed. The document holder is provided above the scanner body to cover a document placed on the exposure surface of the scanner body, and includes a hinged side and a free side opposite the hinged side. A front upper edge of the scanner body is chamfered.
US08526065B2	Contact-type image reading apparatus A contact-type image reading apparatus includes two image reading units each of which has light-receiving elements arranged two-dimensionally for reading an image on an original in two-dimensional directions, a first body unit which includes one of the two image reading units as a first image reading unit, and a second body unit which includes the other image reading unit as a second image reading unit disposed so as to be openable and closable with respect to the first body unit for sandwiching the original therebetween when the second body unit is closed.When the second body unit is closed, the second body unit is closed with respect to a surface where the first image reading unit is provided in the first body unit, and the second image reading unit is disposed to face the first image reading unit.
US08526056B2	Device and method for printing with curable ink A method for printing with curable ink is presented. The method comprises the steps of: generating an image wise pattern of spaced apart ink droplet locations for representing the image; and separating the pattern into at least first and second different interleaved portions, each portion comprising a plurality of droplet locations and the droplet locations of each interleaved portion being spaced apart from each other and spaced apart from the droplet locations of the remaining interleaved portions. In a first printing pass, ink droplets are deposited on the substrate at the drop locations of the first interleaved portion. Then, in a final printing pass, ink droplets are deposited on the substrate at the droplet locations of the second interleaved portion. The deposited ink droplets are then cured by exposing the deposited ink droplets to curing radiation in a first partial curing step between first and final printing passes and in a final curing step.
US08526044B2	Template-based installation of workflow systems in a print shop environment Systems and methods are provided for installing workflow servers for a print shop. One embodiment is a system that installs a workflow server for a print shop. The system accesses installation templates, configured for different categories of print shop, that describe a set of print shop resources expected to exist at the category of print shop. The system also installs workflow server software on a computer system of a print shop. During the installation, the system determines a category for the print shop, selects an installation template that matches the category of the print shop, and performs a dialogue of queries with a user to determine which resources of the set of print shop resources identified by the installation template are available to the print shop, wherein the dialogue excludes queries for print shop resources that are not in the set of print shop resources described by the installation template.
US08526043B2	Printing system, printing method, and printing control apparatus for splitting document The printing system according to the present invention has a number-of-pages accepting part for accepting user-specified number of pages, which is referred to as splitting unit for splitting a document consisting of a plurality of pages; and a control part for controlling a printer output operation of the document in such a way that each of the split documents obtained by splitting the document from the first page sequentially in the splitting unit will undergo printer output process configured via a printing setting screen.
US08526042B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing apparatus control method to provide recovery processes An information processing apparatus includes an execution determination unit and a control unit. The execution determination unit determines whether a series of processes including multiple processes is executable at an execution time of the series of processes. The control unit selectively provides at least one recovery device for substituting for the series of processes when it is determined that the series of processes is not executable.
US08526040B2	Image forming apparatus comprising an information processing apparatus, a combination storage unit, a selecting unit, and a display unit A CPU of an MFP executes a program including: a step of receiving information collecting combinations of functions set by a user using an MFP connected to a network from a server computer and storing the information in a function combination management table; a step of reading the function combination management table when a function selected in an MFP is established; a step of displaying three functions of higher priority that are combined with high frequency with the established function, as recommendations; and a step of transmitting, when a job is completed, the combination of selected functions to the server computer, as a job ending process.
US08526037B2	Printing service providing method and printing service providing system A client terminal transmits a call request for using a MFP to a call control server. The call control server carries out authentication processing about a user and the MFP in response to the call request. If the authentication processing result is correct, the call control server transfers the call request to the printing service management server. The call request is transferred from the printing service management server to a printing service providing server and then transferred to the MFP via the call control server. Thus, a session of the client terminal and the MFP is established. The printing service providing server carries out processing for providing a predetermined printing service based on the call request from the client terminal.
US08526025B2	Image forming apparatus with time measuring section for stopping operation In the image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet, an operation time measuring section that measures elapsed time that elapses from the point of time when the image forming apparatus arrives at its operable state and a controller that stops operations of the image forming apparatus when the elapsed time measured by the operation time measuring section arrives at a prescribed time are provided, whereby, a life span of the image forming apparatus influenced by temporal changes can be judged precisely, independently of the hours of operation of the image forming apparatus, and operations can be stopped.
US08526020B2	Paper size support for a print system Techniques are provided for allowing a print driver to recognize a paper size that is not supported by the print driver. A printing device informs the print driver (executing on a client device) that an input tray of the printing device supports a particular paper size. Alternatively, the printing device informs the print driver that a feature and/or option supported by the printing device has changed. The print driver requests the new paper size (or the set of features and options) from the printing device. The print driver receives the new paper size data from the printing device and updates its user interface to allow a user to select the new paper size as a supportable option.
US08526019B2	Information processing apparatus, method for information processing, and storage medium An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store shared printer drivers classified into a plurality of product categories each including one or more printing apparatuses, and correspondence information between the shared printer drivers and the printing apparatuses, an acquisition unit configured to acquire product specifying information for specifying a printing apparatus from among the printing apparatuses, a determination unit configured to determine a shared printer driver corresponding to a product category corresponding to the product specifying information acquired by the acquisition unit based on the correspondence information stored in the storage unit, even if the shared printer driver is not included in the correspondence information, a setup unit configured to perform setup using the shared printer driver determined by the determination unit.
US08526006B2	System and method for optical coherence tomography and method for calibrating said type of system The invention relates to a system and to a corresponding method for optical coherence tomography having an interferometer (10) for emitting light with which a specimen (1) is irradiated, the interferometer (1) comprising a beam splitter (13) and at least one reflector (12) the optical distance (I) of which from the beam splitter (13) is changeable, a specimen objective by means of which light emitted by the interferometer (10) is focussed in a focus lying within the specimen (1), and a detector (30) for collecting light which is reflected by the specimen (1).For simpler and quicker recording of the sharpest possible images of the specimen (1) provision is made such that during a change of the optical distance (I) between the reflector (12) and the beam splitter (13) the light respectively reflected at a number of different depths of the specimen (1) is collected by the detector (30), and during the collection of the light respectively reflected at the different depths of the specimen (1) the imaging properties of the specimen objective are changed such that the focus comes within the range of the respective depth of the specimen (1).
US08526002B2	Two-dimensional fourier transform spectrometer The present invention relates to a system and methods for acquiring two-dimensional Fourier transform (2D FT) spectra. Overlap of a collinear pulse pair and probe induce a molecular response which is collected by spectral dispersion of the signal modulated probe beam. Simultaneous collection of the molecular response, pulse timing and characteristics permit real time phasing and rapid acquisition of spectra. Full spectra are acquired as a function of pulse pair timings and numerically transformed to achieve the full frequency-frequency spectrum. This method demonstrates the ability to acquire information on molecular dynamics, couplings and structure in a simple apparatus. Multi-dimensional methods can be used for diagnostic and analytical measurements in the biological, biomedical, and chemical fields.
US08525992B2	Method and apparatus of measuring relative phase of bio-cells A method of measuring a relative phase of a bio-cell using a digital image sensor, comprising the steps of firstly filtering a light emitted from a light source, using a first polarizer and a first wave plate, which are arranged in order in a optical path, exposing a bio-cell to the firstly filtered light, secondly filtering the light passing through the bio-cell, using a second wave plate and a second polarizer, which are arranged in order in the optical path, and sensing an intensity of the secondly filtered light, by each of pixels of the image sensor, wherein, as conditions of the second filtering are varied, optical properties of the bio-cell are calculated using the intensity of the light in a pixel-wise manner.
US08525990B2	Fiber optic probe scatterometers for spectroscopy measurements Fiber optic probe scatterometers for spectroscopy measurements are disclosed. An example device includes an optically transparent illumination tube, an opaque tube, an inner surface of the opaque tube being adjacent an outer surface of the illumination tube and the illumination tube being disposed within the opaque tube, and an optical fiber disposed within and spaced a first distance from the illumination tube, wherein the opaque tube is to be coupled to a spectrometer and an illumination source to provide a light signal along the illumination tube and to collect a scattered light signal via the optical fiber for the spectrometer.
US08525988B2	Miniaturized confocal spectrometer The invention relates to a miniaturized spectrometer for investigating the spectrum of emission radiation excited in an object by incident radiation. For the miniaturized spectrometer according to the invention, a diode laser is preferably used as an edge emitter (without a perforated shutter). The window of the edge emitter is arranged at the focal point of the converging lens at the input of the illuminating beam path (without an optical fiber), preferably without a perforated shutter. The edge emitter produces a divergent beam pencil with an elliptical cross-section. The length ratio of the main axes of the ellipse is more than 2:1. The large main axis of the ellipse runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the entry slit of the microspectrometer.
US08525976B2	Method for positioning a surface in relation to a light source using sensors The invention relates to a method for positioning a surface in relation to a light source using sensors. The method can be used to control the position of a reflective surface (2) such that the reflected light (7) originating from a light source (1) falls on an objective point (8), through the use of a first sensor (4) which determines the position of the light source (1) in relation to a reference direction (9) and a second sensor (4) which is solidly connected to the reflective surface (2) and which determines the relative position of the reflective surface (2) in relation to the light source (1). Having ascertained these positions and the relative position of the reflective surface (2) in relation to the objective point (8), the method is used to determine the necessary movement to be applied to the reflective surface (2) so that the reflected light (7) falls on the objective point (8). The invention is intended to be used to reflect sunlight on a remote collector in order to illuminate buildings and, in general, for any use requiring reflected light to be directed to an objective point (8).
US08525958B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, and a first optical conversion layer disposed on the first substrate. The first optical conversion layer includes a reflecting unit reflecting incident light, and a polarizing unit. The polarizing unit transmits light which oscillates in a first direction among the incident light, and reflects light which oscillates in a second direction different from the first direction among the incident light. The reflecting unit and the polarizing unit of the first optical conversion layer may be disposed in at least one pixel area.
US08525951B2	Multi-view liquid crystal display and the driving method thereof A multi-view liquid crystal display for different users to watch different images from different viewing angles is provided. The multi-view liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel, a first backlight module and a second backlight module. The first backlight module is disposed below the liquid crystal display panel. The second backlight module is disposed between the first backlight module and the liquid crystal display panel. Furthermore, the first backlight module provides a first plane light source and the second backlight module provides a second plane light source. An included angle α formed between transmitting directions of the first and the second plane light sources ranges from 6 degrees to 176 degrees. Therefore, when different users watch the multi-view liquid crystal display which displays different images from different viewing angles, the resolutions of the images are the same as the resolution of the multi-view liquid crystal display panel.
US08525947B2	Assembly structure for liquid crystal module The present invention provides an assembly structure for a liquid crystal module, which is extended to form installation margins by increasing the size of a liquid crystal panel. The installation margins are directly formed with a plurality of installation holes for connecting with a plurality of corresponding positioning holes of a backlight module by positioning elements. Thus, the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module can directly construct a liquid crystal module, without any front frame. As a result, the size of the entire liquid crystal module in relation to X, Y and Z axes can be reduced, the assembly structure for the entire liquid crystal module can be simplified, and the installation cost of the entire liquid crystal module can be saved, while the compactness and the lightweight design of a liquid crystal display can be carried out.
US08525945B2	Display panel including static electricity dissipation mechanisms A display panel includes; a lower substrate including a display area which includes a pixel and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the peripheral area including a first peripheral area, a second peripheral area, a third peripheral area and a fourth peripheral area, the lower substrate including; a signal line electrically connected to the pixel, an electrostatic control pattern disposed in the first peripheral area and which provides an electrostatic dissipation path, and a repair line disposed between the display area and the electrostatic control pattern and which is vertically aligned with the signal line, an upper substrate facing the lower substrate and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower substrate and the upper substrate.
US08525939B2	Video display device A video display device comprising a casing having a front wall and a rear wall. The front wall defines an opening for display screen. The rear wall has formed therein a plurality of clip-receiving portions. The plurality of clip-receiving portions face outwardly of the casing and have a predetermined spacing relative to one another. Each of the plurality of clip receiving portions is configured to receive from outside the casing a respective clip for receiving a fastener for mounting the video display device.
US08525936B2	Communication apparatus, television receiver, video signal processing apparatus, communication method, program, and integrated circuit A communication apparatus (100) includes: a communication unit (10) connectable to one end of a cable (50); a first detection unit (111) which detects a maximum transmission capability of an external device based on a communication standard with which the external device complies, the external device being connected to an other end of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); a second detection unit (112) which detects a maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) connected to the communication unit (10); and an alert output unit (114) which outputs an alert when the maximum transmission capability of the cable (50) is smaller than the maximum transmission capability of the external device, the maximum transmission capability of the cable having been detected by the second detection unit (112), and the maximum transmission capability of the external device having been detected by the first detection unit (111).
US08525935B2	Moving image processing apparatus and method, and computer readable memory A frame extraction unit detects a luminance change point frame in which the brightness change amount between frames is equal to or higher than a threshold value from a moving image formed by a plurality of frames. A flash check unit checks the presence/absence of a flash portion in the moving image on the basis of the detected luminance change point frame.
US08525933B2	System and method of creating or approving multiple video streams In an embodiment, a system generates multiple video streams. The system includes a color grading device and an appearance mapping device. The appearance mapping device operates on the data generated by the color grading device, and both the output of the color grading device and the output of the appearance mapping device may be displayed (and edited) simultaneously. In this manner, the efficiency of the editing process is improved.
US08525930B2	Electronic billboard An electronic billboard includes a display unit, a storage unit, a distance detection unit, and a processing unit. The storage unit stores a relationship table recording a relation between viewer distances and zoom proportions of displayed content by the display unit. The distance detection unit detects viewer distances of viewers. The processing unit controls a display mode of the display unit according to a comparison result of a viewer distance with a predetermined distance.
US08525925B2	Modular digital camera Modular digital camera systems, such as modular digital still and motion cameras are disclosed. Individual modules may be removed from the system and replaced, such as to benefit from upgraded technology, while preserving the remaining modules in the system. The modules may be disassembled and reconstructed to convert the physical form of the camera, such as between still configurations, motion configurations, ENG configurations, DSLR configurations and studio configurations. Universal lens mount modules are provided, to enable use of lens systems from a variety of commercial manufacturers.
US08525921B2	Image capturing apparatus and control method therefor An image capturing apparatus capable of switching between an optical viewfinder and live view which involves periodically reading out an image signal out of an image sensor and sequentially displaying the image signal on a display unit, comprises a phase difference focus control unit that performs auto focus control using a phase difference detection method; a selection unit that selects one of a plurality of focus detection areas used for the auto focus control; an electronic zoom unit that changes an angle of view; and a control unit that causes the phase difference focus control unit to perform auto focus control by the phase difference detection method using the selected focus detection area if the selected focus detection area is located within the changed angle of view, otherwise not to perform auto focus control by the phase difference detection method using the selected focus detection area.
US08525917B2	Image sensing apparatus with plural focus detection pixel groups An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensor having a pair of focus detection pixel groups and a plurality of image sensing pixels, and a control unit that, in a thinning readout mode that reads out signal charges from a portion of pixels disposed within a part of pixels of the image sensor, controls so that at least the pair of focus detection pixel groups are included in the part of the pixels from which signal charges are read out.
US08525914B2	Imaging system with multi-state zoom and associated methods An image capturing device may include a detector including a plurality of sensing pixels, and an optical system adapted to project a distorted image of an object within a field of view onto the sensing pixels, wherein the optical system expands the image in a center of the field of view and compresses the image in a periphery of the field of view, wherein a first number of sensing pixels required to realize a maximal zoom magnification {circumflex over (Z)} at a minimum resolution of the image capturing device is less than a square of the maximal zoom magnification times a second number of sensing pixels required for the minimum resolution.
US08525913B2	Digital photographing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and computer-readable storage medium A method of controlling a digital photographing apparatus including a plurality of display units includes displaying a replay image file on a first display unit, determining whether additional information exists in the replay image file, searching for the additional information when the additional information exists in the replay image file, and displaying the additional information on a second display unit.
US08525902B2	Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, system, and program An image capturing apparatus which is connectable to and able to communicate with an external control apparatus, comprises an image capturing unit configured to capture an object image and generates image data; a recording unit configured to divide image data generated by the image capturing unit into a plurality of files and records the files; and a notifying unit configured to notify the external control apparatus of individual files divided into the plurality of files and recorded as information of a single file.
US08525897B2	Device and method for predicting photographing timing A device and a method for predicting photograph timing. First, a detection step is performed. Then, a face determination step is performed to determine whether or not a face is shown. A face-classifying step is then performed. If a detected image is a non-front face, a difference generation step is then performed. A difference determination step is performed when a plurality of differences are obtained to determine whether or not the sequentially adjoined differences are reduced, wherein if the sequentially adjoined differences are reduced, a photographing timing is predicted according to a reduction degree of the differences. As a result, the probability of successfully photographing the front face can be enhanced. In addition, a training database that has both front face information and non-front face information can be utilized. As a result, it is not easy to determine the non-front face as the front face incorrectly.
US08525896B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging apparatus according to the present invention is characterized in that a reset gate voltage VresH to be applied to a gate of a reset MOS transistor is lower than a power supply voltage SVDD of a power supply to which drains of an amplifying MOS transistor and the reset MOS transistor are connected.
US08525893B2	Image capturing apparatus with different shooting modes and image capturing apparatus control method thereof The system control unit executes the following control when switching the mode from the first mode to the second one. When the first accumulation period is shorter than the first readout period, the system control unit controls the image sensor driving circuit and readout circuit so that the sum of the first and second readout periods fits into a 2-frame period. When the first accumulation period is longer than the first readout period, the system control unit controls the image sensor driving circuit and readout circuit so that the sum of the first accumulation period and second readout period fits into a 2-frame period.
US08525883B2	Methods, systems and apparatus for automatic video quality assessment Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for automatic quality assessment of a video sequence. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a quality index may be generated by combining a spatial quality index and a temporal quality index. According to a second aspect of the present invention, a spatial quality index may be calculated using a modified exponential moving average model to pool multi-scale structural similarity indices computed from test frame—reference frame pairs. According to a third aspect of the present invention, a temporal quality index may be generated by averaging multi-scale structural similarity indices computed from difference image pairs, wherein one difference image is formed between reference frames and another difference image is formed between a reference frame and a test frame.
US08525874B2	Assistance system for visually handicapped persons An assistance system for visually handicapped persons with visual impair in a part of their visual field aims at providing a technical solution for these persons, informing them actively about objects or movements in the visually impaired side, by way of body-worn sensors.
US08525864B2	Semiconductor laser driver and image forming apparatus incorporating same A semiconductor laser driver to drive a semiconductor laser, the semiconductor laser includes a drive circuit to generate a drive current to cause the semiconductor laser to emit, and a current control circuit to cause the driving current to repeatedly increase and decrease in a predetermined cycle.
US08525859B2	Thermal head and thermal printer A thermal head enables printing even after printing for a long time to a print medium with low paper quality. A thermal head 20 to which a print medium P is pressed by a platen roller 10 has a heat unit 21 with a plurality of heat elements 21a arrayed on an axis, and an electrode connection unit 26 that is formed on an extension of the axis. A receptive space A to which the end 11a of the platen roller 10 contact surface 11 that is pressed to the thermal head 20 is positioned is formed on this axis between the heat unit 21 and the electrode connection unit 26.
US08525854B2	Display device and screen display method It is intended to enable enlarging or reducing a screen with a simple operation. A mobile phone 1 includes a touch panel 11 that displays a screen and receives a predetermined input, a detection unit 12 that detects a start point and an end point of a physical touch on the touch panel 11, and a display control unit 13 that calculates a moving direction of the touch on the basis of the detection result, enlarges the screen displayed on the touch panel 11 when the moving direction is in a predetermined first range, and reduces the screen when the moving direction is in a predetermined second range different from the first range.
US08525850B2	Automatic targeting of browser content to optimal rendering engine Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for content driven selection of a rendering engine. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for or content driven selection of a rendering engine can include retrieving content for display in a content browser executing in memory by a processor of a host computer, mapping at least one directive embedded in the retrieved content to a target rendering engine, selecting the target rendering engine for rendering the content, and passing the content to the selected target rendering engine. In this regard, in an aspect of the embodiment, multiple directives embedded in the retrieved content can be mapped, each to one of a selection of different target rendering engines, and a most often mapped one of the target rendering engines can be selected for rendering the content.
US08525840B2	Thermal management of graphics processing units Some embodiments include a graphics processing with thermal management capabilities. The graphics processing unit may include a display controller, a microprocessing engine coupled to the display controller, and a clock circuit coupled to the display controller and the microprocessing engine. The clock circuit may further include a raw clock signal coupled to the display controller, a divider coupled to the raw clock signal, and a multiplexer coupled to the divider. The divider may generate a divided version of the raw clock signal, which may be coupled to the multiplexer along with the raw clock signal. The multiplexer may selectively provide the raw clock signal and/or the divided version of the clock signal to the microprocessing engine such that the microprocessing engine may receive a timing signal that is independent of operations of the graphics processing unit and result in fewer glitches.
US08525837B2	Method and apparatus for data preview A method and apparatus for displaying information on a device acquiring data is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving an input data, generating a version of the received input data to be displayed in accordance with one or more display parameters and displaying the generated version of the received input data. A requested change in one or more display parameters is received and the requested change of the one or more display parameters is implemented on the displayed data. Processing continues on the further received input data in accordance with the requested change in the one or more display parameters and the display is ultimately updated with the processed further received input data.
US08525828B1	Visualization of fit, flow, and texture of clothing items by online consumers Technologies are described herein for providing visualization of fit, flow, and texture of clothing to an online consumer. A merchant maintains detailed measurements and a number of 3-D models for a clothing item offered for sale. The 3-D models may represent a representative size of the clothing item as worn by similarly sized mannequins or body models of varying body shapes. Each of the 3-D models captures the fit, flow, and texture of the clothing item as worn by the corresponding mannequin. When a consumer selects the clothing item, a 3-D virtualization representing the clothing item worn by the consumer may be generated by scaling the appropriate 3-D model based on dimensional data regarding the consumer, and then combining the scaled 3-D model with a 3-D avatar for the consumer. The dimensional data and 3-D avatar for the consumer may be supplied from a user profile associated with the consumer.
US08525825B2	Using image content to facilitate navigation in panoramic image data The present invention relates to using image content to facilitate navigation in panoramic image data. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for navigating in panoramic image data includes: (1) determining an intersection of a ray and a virtual model, wherein the ray extends from a camera viewport of an image and the virtual model comprises a plurality of facade planes; (2) retrieving a panoramic image; (3) orienting the panoramic image to the intersection; and (4) displaying the oriented panoramic image.
US08525817B2	Pixel array module and flat display apparatus A pixel array module includes a substrate, a pixel electrode array, a patterned conductive layer and a semiconductor circuit unit. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The pixel electrode array is disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The patterned conductive layer is disposed on the second surface of the substrate, and the patterned conductive layer is electrically connected to the pixel electrode array. The semiconductor circuit unit has at least one input terminal and at least one output terminal, which is electrically connected to the patterned conductive layer. A flat display apparatus is also disclosed.
US08525810B2	Signal processing device of touch panel There is offered a signal processing device of touch panel using an electrostatic capacity, which realizes improvement in noise tolerance and linear detection. An excitation pad, a first touch pad and a second touch pad are disposed on a substrate in a way that the excitation pad is interposed between the first and second touch pads. On the other hand, an alternating current power supply that provides the excitation pad with an alternating voltage through a wiring is provided on a sensor IC side of the signal processing device of touch panel. Also, there is provided an electric charge amplifier. The first touch pad is connected to a non-inverting input terminal (+) of the electric charge amplifier through an wiring, while the second touch pad is connected to an inverting input terminal (−) of the electric charge amplifier through a wiring.
US08525780B2	Method and apparatus for inputting three-dimensional location Provided are a method and apparatus for inputting a three-dimensional (3D) location. The method determines whether a control signal for moving a pointer existing at a point in a two-dimensional (2D) coordinate plane is a 3D movement signal for moving the pointer into a 3D space; and based on a result of the determination, the method selectively moves the pointer to a point in the 3D space existing in a direction perpendicular to the 2D coordinate plane, according to the control signal.
US08525778B2	Haptic device with controlled traction forces A haptic device includes a substrate that is subjected to lateral motion such as lateral oscillation with one or more degrees of freedom together with modulation of a friction reducing oscillation in a manner that can create a shear force on the user's finger or on an object on the device.
US08525768B2	Gate line circuit for generating driving signal having slower rising and falling edge slopes A display panel includes a gate line circuit. The gate line circuit includes a gate driver, a control circuit and a gate line. The gate driver generates a first driving signal with alternate high and low levels. The first driving signal has a first rising edge and a first falling edge. The control circuit receives the first driving signal and generates a second driving signal. The second driving signal has a second rising edge and a second falling edge. The second rising edge and the second falling edge are respectively smoother than the first rising edge and the first falling edge. The control circuit includes at least one capacitor. The capacitor is charged in a first direction in response to the first rising edge of the first driving signal. The capacitor is charged in a second direction in response to the first falling edge of the first driving signal.
US08525760B2	Active matrix substrate, electro-optical device, and electronic device An active matrix substrate is provided which does not cause reductions in the brightness of electroluminescence elements, and which comprises appropriate peripheral circuitry occupying a small area. The active matrix substrate comprises peripheral circuits to supply current to EL elements provided for each pixel, and corresponding to EL elements, and further comprises a holding element (C) which holds a control voltage, a first active element (T1) connected to the holding element (C) and which supplies current to a light-emitting portion (OLED) based on a control voltage, and a second active element (T2) connected to the holding element (C) and which controls the charging and discharging of the holding element. In particular, the second active element (T2) is configured as a multiple-control-terminal type active element. As a result, there are no fluctuations in the programmed current.
US08525757B2	Display device that repairs defective light emitting elements and method of driving the same A display device includes: horizontal scan lines; vertical scan lines; an electro-optical element disposed at each of positions where the horizontal scan lines and the vertical scan lines intersect and selectively turned on based on a video signal and a vertical scan signal; a defect information storing section that stores defect information indicating whether each of the electro-optical elements has a defect; and a video signal generating section that generates a video signal to be supplied to the electro-optical element in each position based on a video signal supplied from outside and the defect information, wherein the video signal generating section supplies a video signal to the electro-optical elements such that the supply of a level required for turning on an element is stopped for an electro-optical element having a defect and the video signal supplied from the outside is supplied to an electro-optical element having no defect.
US08525742B2	Compact multi-element antenna with phase shift A phased array antenna system includes a first radiation element that is made of a material and has a length selected to resonate at a desired frequency. A phase-shift element is coupled to one end of the first radiation element. A second radiation element is coupled to the end of the phase-shift element opposite the first radiation element, so that a radio signal passes through the first radiation element through the phase-shift element and through the second radiation element, the second radiation element is made of a material and has a length selected to resonate such that the first and second radiation elements cooperate to form a desired beam pattern from the antenna system.
US08525732B2	Antenna device A radiation electrode 132 is printed on the upper surface of the dielectric body, side surface thereof, and bottom surface thereof in a folded configuration. A feeding electrode 130 and ground electrode 134 are printed on the bottom surface of the antenna elements 124. The feeding electrode 130 and radiation electrode 132 on the upper surface are opposed to each other as parallel planes. The ground electrode 134 and radiation electrode 132 are also opposite to each other as parallel planes. No electrode is formed on one of the side surfaces of the antenna element 124 that is opposed to the side surface at the side of which the radiation electrode 132 is folded.
US08525725B2	Method and system for position and track determination The present disclosure describes a method and system for detecting and determining the position of a target or intruder using a plurality of sensors positioned throughout a secured perimeter and a single antenna. The system of the present disclosure detects and determines the position of a target by first analyzing the return signal strength values of each of the sensors. Next, Zvalues for each of the sensors are calculated. Based on the Zvalues, certain sensors are selected to compute a signal strength center-of-mass location, which is then used to determine the position of the target.
US08525720B2	Non-binary successive approximation analog to digital converter A successive approximation analog to digital converter (SA-ADC) employs a binary-weighted digital to analog converter (DAC) to perform a non-binary search in determining a digital representation of a sample of an analog signal. In an embodiment, a subset of iterations needed to convert an analog sample to a digital value is performed using non-binary search with a radix of conversion less than two. As a result, search windows in iterations corresponding to the non-binary search overlap, and correction of errors due to a comparator used in the SA-ADC is rendered possible. Error correction being possible due to the non-binary search, the comparator is operated in a low-bandwidth, and hence low-power, mode during the non-binary search. The non-binary search in combination with the binary-weighted architecture of the DAC offer several benefits such as for example, less-complex implementation, shorter conversion time, easier and compact layout and lower power consumption.
US08525702B2	Method and device for detecting absences of manual and automatic piloting of an aircraft According to the invention, as a function of the altitude, the vertical speed and the heading of the aircraft, as well as of the deviation of the actual trajectory of the aircraft with respect to the automatic trajectory, a time interval (T) is determined, during which it is tolerable for said aircraft to be able to fly without any control command, both on the part of the stick (1) and on that of said automatic pilot (2) and an alert is emitted for the attention of the crew in the case where it is noted that the absences of manual piloting and of automatic piloting extend simultaneously over a duration at least equal to said tune interval (T).
US08525689B2	Speaker enclosure design for efficiently generating an audible alert signal Various inventive features are disclosed for efficiently generating regulation-compliant audible alerts, including but not limited to 520 Hz square wave alert/alarm signals, using an audio speaker. One such feature involves the use of a non-linear amplifier in combination with a voltage boost regulator to efficiently drive the audio speaker. Another feature involves speaker enclosure designs that effectively boost the output of the audio speaker, particularly at relatively low frequencies. These and other features may be used individually or combination in a given alarm-generation device or system to enable regulation-compliant audible alerts to be generated using conventional batteries, such as AA alkaline batteries. Various examples of efficiently generated regulation-compliant audible alerts and further enhancing such audible alerts by utilizing speaker enclosure designs are provided.
US08525676B2	Container for including at least a RFID tag, apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, management server for managing production information of a RFID tag, and management system for managing production information of a RFID tag The RFID circuit element cartridge stores multiple RFID circuit elements for producing RFID labels. Each of the elements includes an IC circuit part configured to store information and an antenna connected to the IC circuit part. The RFID circuit element cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag. The apparatus includes an antenna configured to carry out wireless communication with each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label. The RFID circuit element cartridge includes a RFID circuit element Tc for cartridge identifying configured to store identification information for identifying the cartridge. The identification information serves as a communication factor that determines a performance of communication between the antenna and each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label.
US08525675B2	Security device An anti-theft security device is particularly useful with bottles and is typically secured to a bottle neck. The device may carry an onboard alarm. The device typically includes a catch member which engages the bottle neck to secure the device to the bottle and a blocking structure to help block access to the catch member.
US08525671B2	Method and apparatus for making status reporting devices for container handlers A mechanism and method for making status reporting devices for container handlers, including: providing a micro-controller module, and installing a program system into memory accessed by a computer directing the micro-controller module. The micro-controller module communicatively couples with means for wirelessly communicating and for sensing a state of the container handler. Means for wirelessly communicating may include means for wirelessly determining container handler location. The micro-controller module may be communicatively coupled to a separate means for determining location. An apparatus making the devices may include a second program system directing the invention's method through a second computer, which may control an assembly device in creating the micro-controller, coupled with the means for sensing and for wirelessly communicating.
US08525663B2	Wind power plant and method for operating obstacle or hazard lighting of a wind power plant A method for operating obstacle or hazard lighting of a wind power plant with a red beacon unit and a white beacon unit is provided. The red beacon unit is operated 24 hours a day and the white beacon unit is switched on and off, depending on the ambient brightness.
US08525656B2	Driving condition evaluation device and evaluation method A driving condition evaluation device is provided. The device includes a vehicle speed detection portion configured to detect a vehicle speed. A driving force estimation portion is configured to estimate driving force for driving a vehicle generated in accordance with a driving operation performed by a driver. A threshold value setting portion is configured to set a threshold value of the driving force based on the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detection portion. A driving force information informing portion is configured to inform the driver of a relationship between the driving force estimated by the driving force estimation portion and the threshold value set by the threshold value setting portion.
US08525651B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for pairing a controlled device with an RF remote control using an RFID tag Systems and methods are operable to initiate a pairing process and a de-pairing process between a controlled device and a radio frequency (RF) remote control. An exemplary embodiment detects presence of a radio frequency identifier (RFID) tag in an interrogation zone established by an RFID tag reader, automatically initiates a pairing process in response to detecting the presence of the RFID tag in the interrogation zone, and completes the pairing process between the RF remote control and the controlled device, wherein the pairing process identifies a unique identifier associated with the RF remote control. A subsequently received RF signal emitted by the RF remote control includes at least one command configured to control operation of the controlled device and includes the unique identifier.
US08525649B2	Intelligent bail An identification device is configured to be coupled externally to an optoelectronic device to provide connectivity and/or identification information in an optical network in which the optoelectronic device is implemented. The identification device may include an integrated circuit with unique identification information and a plurality of contacts coupled to the integrated circuit and configured to be coupled to an outside identification system. The outside identification system communicates with the identification device via the plurality of contacts to collect unique identification information, the ability to retrieve the unique identification information additionally implicating connectivity in some embodiments. The identification device may include a plurality of clips configured to engage corresponding posts on a latch of the optoelectronic device.
US08525641B2	Vehicular electronic key system A vehicular electronic key system includes a vehicle having a key cylinder and a portable device. The portable devise includes a key body and a mechanical key. The key body is communicatable with the vehicle. The mechanical key is attachable to and detachable from the key body and mechanically rotates the key cylinder whereby the communication between the vehicle and the portable device allows the vehicle to execute predetermined functions. The key body includes a key detector configured to detect an attachment state and a detachment state of the mechanical key to and from the key body so that the key body transitions to a valet mode to limit some of the predetermined functions executable by the vehicle in accordance with the communication between the vehicle and the portable device while the key detector detects the detachment state of the mechanical key from the key body.
US08525637B2	Resistor with temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) compensation A current sense resistor and a method of manufacturing a current sensing resistor with temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) compensation are disclosed. The resistor has a resistive strip disposed between two conductive strips. A pair of main terminals and a pair of voltage sense terminals are formed in the conductive strips. A pair of rough TCR calibration slots is located between the main terminals and the voltage sense terminals, each of the rough TCR calibration slots have a depth selected to obtain a negative starting TCR value observed at the voltage sense terminals. A fine TCR calibration slot is formed between the pair of voltage sense terminals.
US08525634B2	Chip varistor A chip varistor is provided with a varistor section, a plurality of electroconductive sections, and a plurality of terminal electrodes. The varistor section is comprised of a sintered body containing ZnO as a major component and is configured to exhibit the nonlinear voltage-current characteristics. The plurality of electroconductive sections are comprised of sintered bodies containing ZnO as a major component and arranged with the varistor section in between, and each electroconductive section has a first principal surface connected to the varistor section and a second principal surface opposed to the first principal surface. The plurality of terminal electrodes are connected respectively to the corresponding electroconductive sections. Each terminal electrode has a first electrode portion connected to the second principal surface and a second electrode portion connected to the first electrode portion.
US08525630B2	Laminated inductor A laminated inductor having a laminate structure constituted by magnetic layers and internal conductive wire-forming layers, wherein the magnetic layer is formed by soft magnetic alloy grains, the internal conductive wire-forming layer has an internal conductive wire and a reverse pattern portion around it, and the reverse pattern portion is formed by soft magnetic alloy grains whose constituent elements are of the same types as those of, and whose average grain size is greater than that of, the soft magnetic alloy grains constituting the magnetic layer.
US08525625B2	Starter solenoid with spool for retaining coils A solenoid for a vehicle starter comprises a spool including a first coil bay, a second coil bay, and an interior passage defining an axial direction. A first coil is positioned in the first coil bay of the spool, and a second coil positioned in the second coil bay of the spool. A plunger is positioned within the interior passage of the spool and configured to move in the axial direction when the first coil is energized. The first coil bay is positioned adjacent to the second coil bay in the axial direction. The spool further includes two end flanges and a middle flange. The middle flange separates the first coil bay from the second coil bay.
US08525624B2	Short-circuit release having an optimized magnetic circuit A short-circuit release is disclosed, in particular for a power circuit-breaker. In at least one embodiment, the short circuit release includes an armature and pole that are located inside a coil former and further includes a yoke plate and terminal connection that are positioned around the coil former. Arranged opposite the yoke plate is a magnetic plate resting against the terminal connection.
US08525618B2	Metamaterial having a negative dielectric constant and a negative magnetic permeability A unit of a metamaterial includes an uppermost part electrode, a lowermost part electrode, a first internal electrode, a second internal electrode, a third internal electrode, a fourth internal electrode, and a transmission line. The transmission line connects a section of the uppermost part electrode which extends in the −z direction to a section of the lowermost part electrode which extends in the +z direction. The length of the transmission line is set to substantially ½ of a resonant wavelength. The first internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are respectively placed so as to be opposed to the uppermost part electrode and the lowermost part electrode. The first internal electrode and the fourth internal electrode are not electrically connected directly to each other.
US08525617B2	Common-mode filter with coupled inductances A common-mode filter including, in series between a first input terminal and a first output terminal, a first and a second positively coupled inductive elements; in series between a second input terminal and a second output terminal, a third and a fourth positively coupled inductive elements; and in series between each midpoint of said series connections of inductive elements and the ground, a capacitive element and a fifth inductive element.
US08525616B1	Antenna feed network to produce both linear and circular polarizations An antenna feed network includes a septum polarizer including a waveguide defining a cavity, wherein a septum is disposed in the cavity to divide the cavity to form a first port and as second port, a diplexer in signal communication with at least one of the first port and the second port of the septum polarizer to route a signal based upon a frequency, and a wave coupler/splitter in signal communication with the diplexer to send and receive signals therebetween, the wave coupler/splitter including a first signal path and a second signal path, wherein the wave coupler/splitter controls a phase shift of a signal transmitted through at least one of the first signal path and the second signal path.
US08525604B2	Oscillator arrangement The present invention relates to an oscillator arrangement, arranged for providing an oscillator output and phase noise detection and/or control of said oscillator output, the arrangement comprising a mixer (1) connected to a low-pass filter (2). The oscillator arrangement comprises a first oscillator (7) and a second oscillator (8), where the oscillators (7, 8) are inter-injection locked to each other by means of at least one coupling element (Q) in such a way that the oscillator output is acquired in quadrature automatically. The present invention also relates to a corresponding method.
US08525599B2	Method and system for frequency tuning based on characterization of an oscillator Aspects of a method and system for frequency tuning based on characterization of an oscillator are provided. A value of a first control word which controls a variable impedance of an oscillator may be determined. The determined value may be mapped to a corresponding value of a second control word which controls a variable impedance of a tuned circuit. The mapping may be based on a relationship between the variable impedance of the oscillator and the variable impedance of the tuned circuit, such as logical and/or mathematical relationship. The value of the first control word may be determined based on desired frequency of the tuned circuit and/or based on a desired impedance of the variable impedance of the tuned circuit. The tuned circuit may comprise, for example, an oscillator or a filter.
US08525598B2	Digital to analog converter for phase locked loop A digital to analog converter (DAC) that reduces sub-threshold leakage current in PLLs includes three series connected transistors, a unity gain buffer, and a switch. The system is connected between the voltage-to-current converter and a current-controlled oscillator. The DAC receives and accurately mirrors a current signal generated by a voltage-to-current converter.
US08525595B2	Vramp limiting using resistors Power amplification devices are described, which are configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) transmission signal. The power amplification device includes a voltage regulation circuit and a power amplification circuit. The voltage regulation circuit includes a voltage regulator that is operable to generate a regulated voltage from the supply voltage and a feedback circuit that sets a voltage adjustment gain of the voltage regulation circuit. To help prevent the voltage regulation circuit from saturating, the feedback circuit reduces the voltage adjustment gain in response to a voltage difference reaching a threshold voltage level. The voltage difference is between a voltage regulator control signal level of a voltage regulator control signal and the regulated voltage level of the regulated voltage. This configuration can be utilized to reduce a drop-out voltage level of the voltage regulator and get better performance despite supply voltage degradation and variations in operational conditions, such as temperature.
US08525594B2	Radio frequency amplifier circuit A radio frequency amplifier circuit according to the present invention is for providing a radio frequency amplifier circuit with high output and high efficiency, and includes (i) a first harmonic processing circuit (102) and (ii) a second harmonic processing circuit (103) which are connected to an output terminal of transistors (101), and a (iii) fundamental matching circuit (104) connected to a downstream of the first harmonic processing circuit (102) and the second harmonic processing circuit (103). The radio frequency amplifier circuit includes plural first harmonic processing circuits (102) and plural second harmonic processing circuits (103).
US08525592B2	Power amplification device, transmitter, and power amplification control method A power amplifier amplifies a signal. An error signal calculating unit calculates an error signal in accordance with an input signal and an output from the power amplifier. A distortion compensation unit performs predistortion on the input signal by using distortion compensation coefficients that are generated in accordance with a plurality of delay signals obtained by giving different amounts of delay to the input signal and by using an error signal and outputs the input signal subjected to the predistortion to the signal amplifying unit. A tap interval control unit controls the delay intervals of the delay signals that are used for the predistortion performed by the distortion compensation unit in accordance with signal correlation information calculated from the input signal.
US08525587B2	Switching amplifier with inductance means for transmitting energy A switching amplifying method or a switching amplifier for obtaining one or more linearly amplified replicas of an input signal, is highly efficient, and does not have the disadvantage of “dead time” problem related to the class D amplifiers. Said switching amplifier comprises: an inductance means; a switching unit for switching a current from a DC voltage to the inductance means; a switching power transmitting unit for blocking a current when the switching unit switches on, and conducting the current from the inductance means to a filter unit positively or negatively according to the polarity of the input signal when the current from the DC voltage to the inductance means is switched off; an amplifier control unit to control the switching unit and the switching power transmitting unit according to the input signal; said filter unit filtering the current from the switching power transmitting unit to get an output signal.
US08525585B2	Demodulation circuit and RFID tag including the demodulation circuit An object is to provide a demodulation circuit having a sufficient demodulation ability. Another object is to provide an RFID tag which uses a demodulation circuit having a sufficient demodulation ability. A material which enables a reverse current to be small enough, for example, an oxide semiconductor material, which is a wide bandgap semiconductor, is used in part of a transistor included in a demodulation circuit. By using the semiconductor material which enables a reverse current of a transistor to be small enough, a sufficient demodulation ability can be secured even when an electromagnetic wave having a high amplitude is received.
US08525574B1	Bootstrap switch circuit with over-voltage prevention In one embodiment, a bootstrap switch circuit has (i) a switch device that selectively provides a input signal as an output signal and bootstrap circuitry that provides a relatively high-voltage control signal to the gate of the switch device to turn on the switch device while preventing any over-voltage conditions from being applied to the switch device. The bootstrap circuitry includes a capacitor and a number of transistors configured as either switches or inverters. The circuit has two operating phases: one in which the capacitor gets charged while the switch device is turned off and the other in which the charged capacitor is isolated and used to generate the high-voltage control signal to be a fixed voltage difference above the current voltage level of the input signal applied to the switch device, thereby preventing an over-voltage condition.
US08525573B2	Quadrature radio frequency mixer with low noise and low conversion loss In one embodiment of the invention, a method for convolution of signals is disclosed including generating four phased half duty cycle clocks each being out of phase by a multiple of ninety degrees from the others; coupling the four phased half duty cycle clocks into a four phase half duty cycle mixer; and switching switches in the four phase half duty cycle mixer in response to the four phased half duty cycle clocks to convolve a differential input signal with the four phased half duty cycle clocks to concurrently generate a differential in-phase output signal and a differential quadrature-phase output signal on a dual differential output port.
US08525567B2	Pipeline circuit, semiconductor device, and pipeline control method Provided is a pipeline circuit capable of flexibly controlling clock frequencies regardless of whether a pipeline operation by a flow control is stopped or not, without significantly increasing a processing latency even if a clock frequency is decreased, and in response to performance requests for a processing throughput. Among P clocks (P is a positive integer), the phases of which are delayed in the order from a first clock to a P-th clock, for example, among six clocks of P0 to P5, two successive clocks, the phases of which are delayed from each other by a predetermined phase, are allocated to a plurality of stages, for example, five-stage pipeline buffers 32a to 32e, in the order from a previous stage to a subsequent stage, and also are allocated so that one clock signal having an identical phase is shared between two adjacent pipeline buffers.
US08525563B2	Semiconductor device including DLL circuit having coarse adjustment unit and fine adjustment unit Disclosed herein is a device that includes a coarse adjusting circuit generating first and second clock signals having different phases from each other, and a fine adjusting circuit generating a third clock signal having a phase between a phase of the first clock signal and a phase of the second clock signal. The fine adjusting circuit includes a plurality of first transistors receiving the first clock signal and a plurality of second transistors receiving the second clock signal. The fine adjusting circuit controls the phase of the third clock signal by synthesizing the first clock signal output from selected zero or more of the first transistors based on adjustment codes and the second clock signal output from selected zero or more of the second transistors based on the adjustment codes. The adjustment codes are not a binary system.
US08525556B2	Time-interleaved sample-and-hold A time-interleaved sample-and-hold system includes a first sample-and-hold circuit and a second sample-and-hold circuit. The first sample-and-hold circuit and the second sample-and-hold circuit share a common sampling switch. A method of remediating a timing offset between a first sample-and-hold circuit and a second sample-and-hold circuit in a time-interleaved sample-and-hold system includes switching at least one shunt capacitor disposed between two logic gates in a timing circuit to adjust a delay between a timing signal for a common sampling switch electrically coupled to the first and second sample-and-hold circuits and a timing signal for at least one of the sample-and-hold circuits.
US08525553B1	Negative differential resistance comparator circuits In one example, an oxide-based negative differential resistance comparator circuit includes a composite NDR device that includes a first electrode, a first thin film oxide-based negative differential resistance (NDR) layer in contact with the first electrode and a central conductive portion. The composite NDR device also includes a second thin film oxide-based NDR layer disposed adjacent to the first NDR layer and a second electrode. A resistor may be placed in series with the composite NDR device and an electrical energy source can apply applying a voltage across the first electrode and second electrode. The composite NDR device produces a threshold based comparator functionality in the comparator circuit.
US08525547B2	USB isolator with advanced control features A USB-based isolator system conveys USB signals between a pair of galvanically isolated circuit systems and supports controlled enumeration by a downstream device on upstream USB signal lines. The isolator system provides a multi-mode voltage regulator to support multiple voltage supply configurations. The isolator system further provides control systems for each of the isolated circuit systems and provides robust control in a variety of start up conditions. Additionally, the isolator system includes refresh timers and watchdog mechanisms to support persistent operation but manage possible communication errors that can arise between the isolated circuit systems.
US08525543B2	Method and electric circuit for testing a power producer or a power consumer that can be connected to an electric power grid Described is an electric circuit which is intended, in particular, for the testing of a power producer in a wind power plant. The power producer is connected to a terminal point and is provided with a converter circuit which can be used to influence a voltage that is present at the terminal point. Also provided is a series connection configured with a choke coil and a first switch and connected to the terminal point. In at least one embodiment, a control and/or regulating system is provided for influencing, in a time-synchronized manner, on the one hand the converter circuit, such that the voltage at the terminal point transitions to a desired value and, on the other hand, the closing of the first switch.
US08525541B2	Test method of liquid crystal display panel A test method of a liquid crystal display panel is provided. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of pixels and a testing pad. The pixels are disposed at intersections between a first, a second, and a third data lines and a plurality of scan lines. In the test method, each of the scan lines is driven to connect liquid crystal capacitors of the pixels to the first, the second, and the third data lines. A first and a second test voltages are respectively supplied to the first and the second data lines, wherein the first test voltage is not equal to the second test voltage. The first data line is floated. The floated first data line is measured through the testing pad to determine whether the liquid crystal capacitors of the pixels electrically connected to the first and the second data lines are electrically connected with each other.
US08525535B2	Test body, test arrangement, method for manufacturing of a test body, and method for determining a moisture content of the insulation of a power transformer during drying thereof A test body for use in determining moisture content in a laminated insulation of a power transformer by measuring a dielectric frequency response of the test body. The test body has a laminated structure of the same material as the laminated insulation, and has a shape and a size to obtain moisture content characteristics that resembles the moisture content characteristics of the laminated power transformer insulation. The test body further includes electrodes, which are embedded in the laminated structure.
US08525523B2	Partial discharge analysis coupling device that generates a pulse signal and a reference signal A partial discharge analysis (PDA) coupling device is provided. In one embodiment, a device includes: a connector electrically connecting a first coupling capacitor and a second coupling capacitor; a first conductive rod for electrically connecting the first coupling capacitor to a high voltage input; a second conductive rod for electrically connecting the second coupling capacitor to ground; a current transformer substantially surrounding a portion of the second conductive rod, the current transformer configured to generate a pulse signal; and a reference signal generator adjacent to the current transformer configured to generate a reference signal in phase with the pulse signal.
US08525518B1	Impedance matching in NMR probe with an adjustable segmented transmission line Impedance matching between the RF probe and the spectrometer is a standard requirement for NMR probes. Both lumped element and branched transmission line methods are in wide use. Here we propose to use a segmented transmission line structure. It relies upon reflections between transmission lines of different impedances that are serially connected to match the impedance of a coil or resonator to the characteristic impedance of the NMR spectrometer. In an embodiment, two quarter-wave length dielectric slugs are placed within a coaxial transmission line. Adjustment of the positions of the slugs allows the variable tuning and matching needed for NMR probes, eliminating the need for variable capacitors and inductors.
US08525513B2	Angular position measuring device The invention relates to an angular position measuring device (20) including a magnetic sensor (10) cooperating with a moving magnetic element (12), the sensor including at least one first (R1-R4) and one second (R5-R8) group of magnetoresistive elements each configured as a Wheatstone bridge, suitable for supplying a first and a second measurement signal (Sin, Cos) respectively proportional to the sine and the cosine of twice the angular position (α) of the moving magnetic element, and a processing unit supplying a response corresponding to the angular position from the first and second measurement signals, characterized in that the sensor is deliberately offset relative to an axis (14) of the moving magnetic element and in that the latter is deliberately offset relative to its rotation axis (30), by offset values that are deliberately selected so that the angular measurement range extends beyond 180°.
US08525512B2	Faraday optical current sensor arrangement A Faraday optical current sensor arrangement for measuring the current through a power line comprises a Faraday optical current sensor (38) having an elongated and substantially cylindrical shape defining a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The Faraday optical current sensor has a first optical conduit (48) extending from the first end and a second optical conduit (48) extending from the second end. Furthermore, the Faraday optical current sensor arrangement comprises a hollow housing (12,14) enveloping the Faraday optical current sensor and fixating the Faraday optical current sensor in a specific measurement position relative to the hollow housing. The hollow housing defines a channel for accommodating the Faraday optical current sensor and the first and second optical conduits and an opening (15) for communicating with the channel. The hollow housing includes a holder (16) for fixating the power line and the hollow housing relative to one another in a juxtaposed position and positioning the Faraday optical current sensor in a specific measuring position relative to the power line.
US08525486B2	Power converter A power conversion controller includes: a correction-value calculating unit that calculates a correction value DE2 to correct a voltage value BEFC from a voltage signal BEFC that is obtained by converting the voltage value BEFC detected by a first voltage detector into a digital signal by an A/D converter and from a series-total voltage value EBAT detected by a second voltage detector; a corrected-voltage calculating unit that calculates a voltage signal BEFC1 as a corrected voltage value that is obtained by correcting the voltage value BEFC by the correction value DE2; and a gate controller that controls a power converting unit based on the voltage signal BEFC1.
US08525476B2	Connecting device for supplying electric power from an outside power supply to a vehicle A connecting device includes: a shaft; a drum that has a container defined therein and is rotatably disposed on the shaft; a stator that is fixed to the shaft and is contained inside of the container; a rotator that is fixed to the drum, is rotatably disposed on the shaft, and is contained inside of the container with an interval with respect to the stator; first terminals that are disposed in the stator; second terminals that are disposed in the rotator and are brought into contact with the first terminals, respectively; a connecting cord that is wound around the drum, and has a connecting plug to be connected to a vehicle at one end thereof whereas is electrically connected to the second terminals at the other end thereof; a power supply cord having a power source plug electrically connected to the first terminals at one end thereof whereas connected to an outside power supply at the other end thereof; and a leakage detector contained inside of the container.
US08525471B2	Moveable magnet and panel assembly useful in a vehicle A magnet and panel assembly including at least a first panel having a first surface and a second wherein the panel has a configuration such that a magnetic field can extend past the first surface; a first magnetic source located on or near the second surface of the first panel; one or more magnetic source securing features adapted to hold the magnetic source on or near the second surface of the first panel wherein the source securing features are adapted to allow the first magnetic source to articulate in the x and y directions along a plane substantially parallel to the plane of the first panel.
US08525468B2	Motor drive system with bus voltage control A method for controlling a motor drive system, the system comprising an AC-DC converter coupled to a DC-AC inverter by a DC bus, a motor coupled to and driven by the inverter, and a load coupled to and driven by the motor is provided. The method includes accessing a motion profile for the motor and load and determining power losses of the converter, the inverter, the motor and the load. The method also includes controlling the voltage of the DC bus based upon the motion profile and the power losses to enhance the motor drive system efficiency, reliability and motor shaft performance.
US08525465B2	Feedback switching device and method for driving of servo motor A feedback switching device and a method allow a drive control loop for a servo motor to actively switch the feedback mode in accordance with the rotating speed of the servo motor. When the servo motor is under a high speed operation, a sensorless position estimation feedback technology is used as the feedback mode; on the other hand, when the servo motor is under a low speed operation, the switching mode is automatically switched to a position sensing feedback technology. Therefore, the development needs for multi-function, high performance and low cost in the field of the servo motor control are met, and the conventional problem is solved that, when being applied to a servo driving system having a wide speed range, the single use of the position sensing feedback technology or the sensorless position estimation feedback technology fails to satisfy the application for a wide speed range.
US08525452B2	Counter electro-motoric force based functional status detection of an electro-motor The present invention relates to a circuit for detecting a functional status of an electro-motor. Typical electro-motors need additional components to identify the functional status of the motor. This means additional weight for such motors determining the functional status. According to the present invention, a circuit is provided using a part of a motor as a sensor for detecting the functional status of the electro-motor.
US08525451B2	Motor control device, electric power steering system, and vehicle steering system In a motor control device that is used for, for example, an electric power steering system or another vehicle steering system equipped with a motor, a relay circuit (40) that serves as a power supply breaker is provided in a power feed line (Lp2) of a pre-driver (22) of a circuit that is a component of the motor control device. The operation of the relay circuit (40) is controlled by a relay signal (S_rly) output from a microcomputer (21).
US08525445B2	Vehicle light controller A first light on/off check portion 3 checks the on/off of a light depending on the brightness, and a second light on/off check portion 9 checks the on/off of the light depending on the rain. A light control portion 10, when the rain-dependent on/off check shows the turn-on of the light, turns on a head lamp to avoid the visibility difficulty caused by the rain and, when the rain-dependent on/off check shows the turn-off of the light, according to the result of the check of the brightness-dependent on/off of the light, controls the head lamp and small lamp. A running scene check portion 8 checks the states of the inside and outside of a tunnel, and the second light on/off check portion 9, when the rain-dependent on/off check shows the turn-on of the light, continues the turn-on of the light on/off check for a given time.
US08525444B2	Lighting device with multiple primary colors The invention relates to a lighting device (10) with at least four light emitters (1 IR, 1 IG, 1 IB, 1 IW) of different primary colors that shall be controlled according to given primary target values, for example target values for the color point (x, y) and flux (Φ). This object is achieved by determining secondary target values, for example for the total power consumption (P) of the light emitters, that are in accordance with primary target values and with the possible control commands (r, g, b, w) (e.g. duty cycles between 0% and 100%). By fixing the secondary target values, the control commands for the light emitters can uniquely be determined, in preferred embodiments by a simple matrix multiplication.
US08525440B1	LED lighting fixture An LED lighting system includes a power supply module, a data input line routed through the power supply module, an AC power input, and an LED fixture. The power supply module includes a power supply unit and an AC power cable. The AC power input is electrically connected to the power supply unit and the AC power cable. The LED fixture is electrically connected to an output of the power supply unit and the data input cable, and includes one or more LED assemblies disposed on a circuit board, a data signal output, and a power output. The AC power cable may be routed through the LED fixture.
US08525437B2	Device for controlling current of LED Disclosed herein is a device for controlling current of an LED including a constant current generator, a current mirror, and a current amplifier, the device controlling current of an LED, comprising: a selector outputting an L signal or an H signal according to an input control signal; and a current changing unit formed by connecting at least one switching unit in parallel, the switching unit including a transistor and a switch connected to the transistor in series. The device for controlling current of an LED adjusts current supplied to the current amplifier using a SEL input without an effect of a noise, thereby making it possible to change the current of the LED without separately changing a resistor.
US08525431B2	Modulated power lighting mode for lighting apparatus of high-pressure discharge lamp and projector A lighting apparatus for a high-pressure discharge lamp that has an electric discharge container made of quartz glass, and containing a pair of counter electrodes and a power supply unit that supplies AC current to the high-pressure discharge lamp. The power supply unit has a stationary power lighting mode and a modulated power lighting mode that supplies current having power less than power in the stationary power lighting mode. The modulated power lighting mode supplies a rectangular AC current having a first term and a second term. A mean high-frequency current value supplied to a first electrode is greater than a mean current value supplied to a second electrode in the first term. A current is supplied to the second electrode for a term longer than the half-cycle period in the second term, the current being lower than the mean high-frequency current value supplied to the first electrode.
US08525428B2	Power supply apparatus and method for a backlight system A power supply system includes a transformer having a primary winding on its primary side for coupling to a power source and one or more secondary windings on its secondary side. A first control circuit is disposed on the primary side of the transformer for controlling a current flow in the primary winding. A second control circuit disposed on the secondary side of the transformer, and the second control circuit is configured to provide a regulated output voltage. In the power supply system, the first control circuit is configured to generate a control signal for controlling the current flow in the primary winding without using a feedback control signal from the secondary side of the transformer.
US08525422B2	Backlight apparatus A backlight apparatus includes light emitting diode (LED) modules. Each LED module includes a first connection pin set, a second connection pin set, a driving circuit, a first LED string, and a second LED string. Each of the connection pin sets has a first and second power connection pins and a first and second ground connection pins. The first and second power connection pins are coupled to each other, and the first and second ground connection pins are coupled to each other. The first ground connection pin of the first connection pin set is coupled to the first power connection pin of the second connection pin set. The driving circuit is used to provide a driving signal. Each of the LED strings is serially connected between the second power connection pin and the second ground connection pin of each of the connection pin sets and receives the driving signal.
US08525421B2	Lighting apparatus and method A lighting element is disposed in an array of lighting elements. At the lighting element, a lighting status of at least one neighboring lighting element is sensed. Independent of any other lighting element, a lighting adjustment for the lighting element by applying the sensed lighting status to a predetermined rule is determined. The lighting adjustment is applied to the lighting element to adjust an illumination of the lighting element.
US08525420B2	Luminaire having a HID light source and a LED light source A luminaire includes a primary HID light source housing having at least one selectively powerable HID lamp and an LED arm assembly having a secondary LED light source. In some embodiments the LED arm assembly may extend between a support structure and the HID light source housing and in other embodiments the LED arm assembly may be a stand alone assembly and extend from a support structure remote from the HID light source housing. The HID lamp may be powered during user selected peak hours and the LED light source may be powered during user selected non-peak hours.
US08525412B2	Method and system for selectively tuning the frequency of a resonator assembly for a plasma lamp A plasma lamp system is described with the capability to tune the resonant frequency of the resonator of the plasma lamp system after the manufacturing process has been completed. The tuning method developed allows a simple low-cost approach to continuously tune the resonant frequency and set the desired frequency to an ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical) band or set the resonant frequency to optimize the performance of the system. The tuning ability of the resonator relaxes the tolerance required for the dimensions of the resonator reducing the manufacturing cost and improving the manufacturing yield of the plasma lamp.
US08525410B2	Short arc type discharge lamp A short arc type discharge lamp wherein a cathode and an anode are arranged opposite to each other in an interior of a light emitting tube and said cathode comprises a main part made from tungsten and a tip end part made from thoriated tungsten, wherein thorium oxide particles having been peripherally coated with thorium are contained in the tip end part of said cathode.
US08525408B2	Short arc type discharge lamp To stabilize the illumination fluctuation rate of a short arc type discharge lamp of the type having a pair of electrodes disposed inside an arc tube in a manner of facing each other and a hydrogen getter, by absorbing hydrogen gas in an arc tube without causing a decline in the performance of the short arc type discharge lamp arising out of a hydrogen getter, the hydrogen getter is formed of a hollow container made of a material that allows the transmission of hydrogen with a getter material sealed tightly inside the hollow container, and a holder for the hydrogen getter is held on the electrode with the hydrogen getter fixed in the holder.
US08525406B2	Organic light emitting diode display An OLED display includes a first substrate including a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting element and a second substrate facing the first substrate and having a gully pattern recessed on a surface facing the first substrate. By having the gully pattern on the second substrate, a mechanical strength of the OLED may be improved, and thus, the OLED may minimize the thickness without reducing the mechanical strength.
US08525395B2	Multi-component LED lamp A multi-component LED lamp is disclosed herein. The multi-component LED lamp comprises an outer case housing with at least one heat sink and an array of LEDs disposed therein. The outer case comprises a plurality of vent openings and a light projecting end. The array of LEDs is disposed proximate the light projecting end in the outer case. Each heat sink disposed in the outer case is a separate component part of the LED lamp. The vent openings and heat sink(s) are disposed and configured to provide convective air flow pathways through the multi-component LED lamp and remove heat therefrom.
US08525392B2	Generators for very-high-G energy harvesting A method for harvesting energy from a high-G acceleration of a munition. The method including: proving a vibrating mass-spring unit in a housing of an energy harvesting device; and reducing an effective acceleration on the mass-spring unit by one or more of: offsetting the vibration of the mass-spring unit with respect to a direction of the high-G acceleration; biasing a mass of the mass-spring unit in a direction having at least a component in the direction of the high-G acceleration; limiting a vibration deflection of at least a portion of the mass-spring unit in the direction of the high-G acceleration; or limiting an amount of vibration of the mass-spring unit in a direction offset from the direction of the high-G acceleration and removing such limit after the acceleration.
US08525387B2	Piezoelectric actuator, motor, robot hand, and robot A motor includes a vibrating plate having a projection part to be pressed against a driven member and a piezoelectric material provided on the vibrating plate, wherein a Young's modulus EL in the pressing direction of the vibrating plate and a Young's modulus ES in a direction crossing the pressing direction are different.
US08525386B2	Dynamically adjustable orthotic device An orthotic device comprises a flexible support structure comprising at least one surface for contacting a body part of a user, a plurality of pressure sensors configured for coupling to a microcontroller, and a plurality of displacement regions. Each region defines a portion of said flexible support structure, wherein each portion includes at least one sensor disposed on or below the at least one surface and at least one electrically deformable unit. Each unit comprises at least one electroactive material and is configured for coupling to the microcontroller and to a power source. The device is dynamically adjustable to change its shape and support properties, when an electrical voltage is applied to the electroactive material under the control of a microcontroller.
US08525376B2	Dynamoelectric machine coil spaceblock having flow deflecting structure in coil facing surface thereof A dynamoelectric machine includes a rotor having a plurality of adjacent coils; a spaceblock disposed between adjacent coils to define at least one cavity adjacent the spaceblock and between mutually adjacent coils; and the spaceblock including a body having one of: a substantially T-shaped cross-section, a substantially hexagonal cross-section and a substantially truncated arrow cross-section, the cross-section providing at least one flow deflector structure on at least one cavity facing surface of the spaceblock for intercepting and redirecting circulating coolant flow in the cavity towards a central region of the at least one cavity.
US08525374B2	Electric motor, and electric device having the motor Provided is an electric motor that has a stator including a stator iron core having a stator winding, a rotor including a rotary member and a shaft, a bearing for supporting the shaft, and a bracket for fixing the bearing. Further included is an impedance adjusting member for adjusting at least one impedance of the impedance between the stator winding and the inner ring of the bearing, and the impedance between the stator winding and the outer ring of the bearing. The impedance adjusting member is a matching member for matching the individual impedances. The matching member is a capacitor interposed between the stator iron core and the bracket.
US08525373B2	Oscillatory system for a motorized drive unit An oscillatory system for a motorized drive unit for the generation of a rotary oscillatory movement is provided. The system includes a first oscillatory component and a second oscillatory component, the components capable of oscillating relative to one another around an axis of oscillation; and at least two elongate spring elements, each spring element having a first fastening point and a second fastening point spaced apart from one another. The spring elements are elastic in the direction of the rotary oscillatory movement. For each spring element the first fastening point is connected to the first oscillatory component and the second fastening point is connected to the second oscillatory component such that the spring elements intersect at the axis of oscillation, the axis of oscillation having an angle of intersection different from 0 degrees.
US08525370B2	Wireless power circuit board and assembly A circuit board assembly includes a multiple layer substrate, a wireless power transmitter control module, a wireless power coil assembly, and a plurality of ICs. The wireless power transmitter control module is supported by a layer of the multiple layer substrate and the wireless power coil assembly is fabricated on an inner layer of the multiple layer substrate. The ICs are mounted on an outer layer of the multiple layer substrate, wherein an IC of the plurality of IC is aligned to substantially overlap a coil of the wireless power coil assembly and is wirelessly powered by the wireless power transmitter control module via the coil.
US08525365B2	Device for generating electric energy from a renewable source A device for generating electric energy (1) from a renewable source, in particular from wave energy, comprising an oscillating device (2) that can transform the thrust of a natural agent on the first extremity of oscillating device (2) into kinetic energy; a motor unit, operatively connected to a second extremity of the oscillating device in such a way as to receive the kinetic energy transmitted by the oscillating device (2); and an electrical rotating machine operatively connected to the motor unit and suitable for producing electricity when it is set to rotating by the said motor unit.
US08525364B1	Apparatus for converting wave energy The invention is an apparatus and method for harnessing wave energy by transforming it in a continuous flow of water to be converted in mechanical energy through a water turbine. The energy wave device maximizes the throughput by discharging the water crest in a continuous flow through turbines into the trough, absorbing the water of the neighboring wave's crest and sharing the facilities.
US08525363B2	Horizontal-axis hydrokinetic water turbine system A hydrokinetic water turbine system includes a frame structure, first and second shafts rotatably supported by the frame structure, and first and second rotors secured to the first and second shafts respectively and each having a plurality of spaced-apart blades so that the flowing stream of water revolves the first and second rotors about a central axis of the first and second shafts respectively. The first and second shafts are horizontally-disposed and coaxial and the first and second rotors are adapted to rotate in opposite directions. The blades are hollow and filled with a foam material to reduce weight and increase buoyancy. The frame structure is a substantially rectangular and open frame structure and includes frame members adapted to reduce a coefficient of drag of the frame structure. The frame members can be hollow and filled with a foam material to reduce weight and increase buoyancy.
US08525357B2	Pedal power generating device A pedal power generating device includes a base having two supporting arms upwardly extending therefrom. The base has a gearbox mounted thereon. A pedal assembly is mounted between the two supporting arms. The pedal assembly has a pedal, a supporter extending from the pedal, a connecting rod assembled with the supporter and connected to the gearbox, and a twist spring mounted between the pedal and the two supporting arms. A transmitting assembly is mounted in the gearbox. The transmitting assembly includes a driver, a first gear train engaged with the driver, a second gear train engaged with the first gear train, and a steering gear set simultaneously engaging with the first gear train and the second gear train. A generator is mounted adjacent to the gearbox, and the generator has a rotor engaged with the second gear train.
US08525352B2	Short and low loop wire bonding A multi-die package includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die each having an upper surface with a plurality of bond pads disposed thereon. The upper surface of the second semiconductor die may be substantially coextensive with the upper surface of the first semiconductor die and extend substantially along a plane. The multi-die package also includes a plurality of bonding wires each coupling one of the bond pads on the upper surface of the first semiconductor die to a corresponding one of the bond pads on the upper surface of the second semiconductor die. A bonding wire of the plurality of bonding wires has a kink disposed at a height above the plane, a first hump disposed between the first semiconductor die and the kink, and a second hump disposed between the second semiconductor die and the kink.
US08525349B2	Semiconductor device packages stacked together having a redistribution layer A semiconductor package includes a first package including a first substrate and at least one first semiconductor chip mounted on the first substrate, a redistribution wiring layer provided on the first package and including a connection pad, a bonding pad electrically connected to the connection pad and a dummy bonding pad electrically connected to the bonding pad, a second package stacked on the first package via the redistribution wiring layer and electrically connected to the connection pad of the redistribution wiring layer by a first connection member, a bonding wire electrically connecting the bonding pad to the first substrate, and a dummy bonding wire electrically connecting the dummy bonding pad to the first substrate.
US08525337B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming stud bumps over embedded die A semiconductor package having an embedded die and solid vertical interconnections, such as stud bump interconnections, for increased integration in the direction of the z-axis (i.e., in a direction normal to the circuit side of the die). The semiconductor package can include a die mounted in a face-up configuration (similar to a wire bond package) or in a face-down or flip chip configuration.
US08525333B2	Electronic device and manufacturing method therefor An electronic device includes the electronic element, the interposer substrate, on one surface of which the electronic element is mounted, and the interconnection substrate, on one surface of which the interposer substrate is mounted. One portion of the connection parts is an electrical connection part that electrically interconnects the interposer substrate and the interconnection substrate. The remaining portion is a dummy connection part that produces no functional deficiency even when the dummy connection part does not electrically interconnect the interposer substrate with the interconnection substrate. The dummy connection part includes at least one of the connection parts that at least partially overlap with the electronic element in a plan projection and are preferably arranged along an outer rim of the plan projection of the electronic element.
US08525330B2	Connecting member for connecting a semiconductor element and a frame, formed of an Al-based layer and first and second Zn-based layers provided on surfaces of the Al-based layer Provided is a connecting part for a semiconductor device including a semiconductor element, a frame, and a connecting part which connects the semiconductor element and the frame to each other, in which an interface between the connecting part and the semiconductor element and an interface between the connecting part and the frame respectively have the area of Al oxide film which is more than 0% and less than 5% of entire area of the respective interfaces. The connecting part has an Al-based layer and first and second Zn-based layers on main surfaces of the Al-based layer, a thickness ratio of the Al-based layer relative to the Zn-based layers being less than 0.59.
US08525324B2	Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor package is provided, which includes: a micro electro mechanical system (MEMS) chip; a cap provided on the MEMS chip; an electronic element provided on the cap including a plurality of first conductive pads and second conductive pads; a plurality of first conductive elements electrically connected to the first conductive pads and the MEMS chip; a plurality of second conductive elements formed on the second conductive pads, respectively; and an encapsulant formed on the MEMS chip covering the cap, the electronic element, the first conductive elements and the second conductive elements, with the second conductive elements being exposed from the encapsulant. Thus, the size of the semiconductor package is reduced. A method of fabricating the semiconductor package is also disclosed.
US08525323B2	Encapsulating package, printed circuit board, electronic device and method for manufacturing encapsulating package The present invention is: a package main body section having a hollow section; and an electronic device provided in the hollow section in the package main body section, in the package main body section, there being formed a through hole, through which the hollow section communicates with outside of the package main body section, and in the through hole, there being provided a sealing section in which a vicinity of the through hole is partly heated and a constituent material of the package main body section is melted to thereby block the through hole.
US08525321B2	Conductive chip disposed on lead semiconductor package In one implementation, an apparatus includes a semiconductor die, a lead, a non-conductive epoxy, and a conductive epoxy. The semiconductor die includes an upper surface and a lower surface opposite the upper surface. The lead is electrically coupled to the upper surface of the semiconductor die. The non-conductive epoxy is disposed on a first portion of the lower surface of the semiconductor die. The conductive epoxy is disposed on a second portion of the lower surface of the semiconductor die. In some implementations, a conductive wire extends from the lead to the upper surface of the semiconductor die to electrically couple the lead to the upper surface of the semiconductor die.
US08525319B2	Selecting chips within a stacked semiconductor package using through-electrodes A stacked semiconductor package includes first and second semiconductor chips including semiconductor chip bodies which have circuit units, first through-electrodes which pass through the semiconductor chip bodies at first positions, and second through-electrodes which pass through the semiconductor chip bodies at second positions and provide a chip enable signal to the circuit units. A spacer including a spacer body may be interposed between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, with an inverter chip embedded in the spacer body. Wiring patterns formed on the spacer body may connect the first through-electrodes of the first semiconductor chip with the second through-electrodes of the second semiconductor chip, the first through-electrodes of the first semiconductor chip with input terminals of the inverter chip, and output terminals of the inverter chip with the second through-electrodes of the first semiconductor chip.
US08525301B1	Method and apparatus for fabricating heterojunction bipolar transistors with simultaneous low base resistance and short base transit time A method for fabricating heterojunction bipolar transistors that exhibit simultaneous low base resistance and short base transit times, which translate into semiconductor devices with low power consumption and fast switching times, is presented. The method comprises acts for fabricating a set of extrinsic layers by depositing a highly-doped p+ layer on a substrate, depositing a masking layer on highly-doped p+ layer, patterning the masking layer with a masking opening, removing a portion of the highly-doped p+ layer and the substrate through the masking opening in the masking layer to form a well, and growing an intrinsic layered device in the well by a combination of insitu etching and epitaxial regrowth, where an intrinsic layer has a thickness selected independently from a thickness of its corresponding extrinsic layer, thus allowing the resulting device to have thick extrinsic base layer (low base resistance) and thin intrinsic base layer (short base transit times) simultaneously.
US08525295B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a transistor formed over the substrate, insulating layers formed over the substrate, a multilayer wiring formed in the insulating layers, a first inductor formed in the insulating layers, and a second inductor formed over the first inductor and overlapping the first inductor. The insulating layers contain a silicon, wherein at least the two insulating layers are formed between the first inductor and the second inductor, and the first inductor and the second inductor are a spiral wiring pattern.
US08525293B2	Bipolar transistor with raised extrinsic self-aligned base using selective epitaxial growth for BiCMOS integration High performance bipolar transistors with raised extrinsic self-aligned base are integrated into a BiCMOS structure containing CMOS devices. By forming pad layers and raising the height of an intrinsic base layer relative to the source and drain of preexisting CMOS devices and by forming an extrinsic base through selective epitaxy, the effect of topographical variations is minimized during a lithographic patterning of the extrinsic base. Also, by not employing any chemical mechanical planarization process during the fabrication of the bipolar structures, complexity of process integration is reduced. Internal spacers or external spacers may be formed to isolate the base from the emitter. The pad layers, the intrinsic base layer, and the extrinsic base layer form a mesa structure with coincident outer sidewall surfaces.
US08525285B2	Semiconductor device with groove structure to prevent molding resin overflow over a light receiving region of a photodiode during manufacture A semiconductor device having a substrate including a photodiode; a resin layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate, the resin layer not covering a light receiving region of the photodiode, the resin layer including at least one groove surrounding the light receiving region; and a molding resin portion formed by mold-sealing the photodiode with the resin layer thereon so as not to cover the light receiving region.
US08525279B2	Single element three terminal piezoresistive pressure sensor Embodiments of the invention provide for three-terminal pressure sensors (“3-TPS”), a method of measuring a pressure with a 3-TPS, and a method of manufacturing a 3-TPS. In some embodiments, the 3-TPS includes a semiconducting layer with cavity and a 3-TPS element having at least one piezoresistive layer overlapping at least a portion of the cavity and oriented at an angle selected to provide a desired sensitivity for the 3-TPS. The method of measuring a pressure with a 3-TPS is performed with a 3-TPS that includes an input terminal, first and second output terminals, and a 3-TPS element, the 3-TPS element overlapping at least a portion of a cavity at a predetermined angle. The method comprises providing an input signal to the input terminal of the 3-TPS, determining a difference between two output signals from the respective output terminals of the 3-TPS, and correlating the determined difference to a pressure.
US08525277B2	MEMS device A MEMS device includes a substrate, an insulating layer section formed above the substrate and having a cavity, a functional element contained in the cavity, and a fuse element contained in the cavity and electrically connected with the functional element. It is preferable that the fuse element is spaced apart from the substrate.
US08525272B2	High-frequency switching transistor and high-frequency circuit A switching transistor includes a substrate having a substrate dopant concentration and a barrier region bordering on the substrate, having a first conductivity type and having a barrier region dopant concentration that is higher than the substrate dopant concentration. A source region is embedded in the barrier region, and has a second conductivity type and has a dopant concentration that is higher than the barrier region dopant concentration. A drain region is embedded in the barrier region and is offset from the source region. The draining region has the second conductivity type and a dopant concentration that is higher than the barrier region dopant concentration. A channel region extends between the source region and the drain region, wherein the channel region comprises a subregion of the barrier region. An insulation region covers the channel region and is disposed between the channel region and a gate electrode. The barrier region dopant concentration and the substrate dopant concentration are chosen for generating a space-charge region around the source region and the drain region and for depleting the barrier region.
US08525262B2	Transistor with buried fins The present invention disclosed a recessed gate transistor with buried fins. The recessed gate transistor with buried fins is disposed in an active region on a semiconductor substrate. Two isolation regions disposed in the semiconductor substrate, and sandwich the active region. A gate structure is disposed in the semiconductor substrate, wherein the gate structure includes: an upper part and a lower part. The upper part is disposed in the active region and a lower part having a front fin disposed in one of the two isolation regions, at least one middle fin disposed in the active region, and a last fin disposed in the other one of the two isolation regions, wherein the front fin are both elliptic cylindrical.
US08525256B2	Power semiconductor structure with schottky diode A power semiconductor structure with schottky diode is provided. In the step of forming the gate structure, a separated first polysilicon structure is also formed on the silicon substrate. Then, the silicon substrate is implanted with dopants by using the first polysilicon structure as a mask to form a body and a source region. Afterward, a dielectric layer is deposited on the silicon substrate and an open penetrating the dielectric layer and the first polysilicon structure is formed so as to expose the source region and the drain region below the body. The depth of the open is smaller than the greatest depth of the body. Then, a metal layer is filled into the open to electrically connect to the source region and the drain region.
US08525254B2	Silicone carbide trench semiconductor device A semiconductor device as described herein includes a silicon carbide semiconductor body. A trench extends into the silicon carbide semiconductor body at a first surface. A gate dielectric and a gate electrode are formed within the trench. A body zone of a first conductivity type adjoins to a sidewall of the trench, the body zone being electrically coupled to a contact via a body contact zone including a higher maximum concentration of dopants than the body zone. An extension zone of the first conductivity type is electrically coupled to the contact via the body zone, wherein a maximum concentration of dopants of the extension zone along a vertical direction perpendicular to the first surface is higher than the maximum concentration of dopants of the body zone along the vertical direction. A distance between the first surface and a bottom side of the extension zone is larger than the distance between the first surface and the bottom side of the trench.
US08525237B1	Electrically conductive polymer nanowires with incorporated viruses Grafting M13 bacteriophage into an array of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nanowires generated hybrids of conducting polymers and replicable genetic packages (rgps) such as viruses. The incorporation of rgps into the polymeric backbone of PEDOT occurs during electropolymerization via lithographically patterned nanowire electrodeposition (LPNE). The resultant arrays of rgps-PEDOT nanowires enable real-time, reagent-free electrochemical biosensing of analytes in physiologically relevant buffers.
US08525236B2	Semiconductor substrate, method of fabricating the same, method of fabricating semiconductor device, and method of fabricating image sensor In an example embodiment, an image sensor includes a semiconductor layer and isolation regions disposed in the semiconductor layer. The isolation regions define active regions of the semiconductor layer. The image sensor further includes photoelectric converters disposed in the semiconductor layer and at least one wiring layer disposed over a top surface of the semiconductor layer. The image sensor also includes color filters disposed below a bottom surface of the semiconductor layer and lenses disposed below the color filters. Each lens is arranged to concentrate incoming light into an area spanned by a corresponding photoelectric converter.
US08525232B2	Semiconductor structure having a wetting layer A semiconductor structure which includes a semiconductor substrate and a metal gate structure formed in a trench or via on the semiconductor substrate. The metal gate structure includes a gate dielectric; a wetting layer selected from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel on the gate dielectric lining the trench or via and having an oxygen content of no more than about 200 ppm (parts per million) oxygen; and an aluminum layer to fill the remainder of the trench or via. There is also disclosed a method of forming a semiconductor structure in which a wetting layer is formed from cobalt amidinate or nickel amidinate deposited by a chemical vapor deposition process.
US08525229B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a channel layer, an electron-supplying layer provided on the channel layer, a cap layer provided on the electron-supplying layer and creating lattice match with the channel layer, and ohmic electrodes provided on the cap layer. The cap layer has a composition of (InyAl1-y)zGa1-zN (0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦1). The z for such cap layer monotonically decreases as being farther away from the electron-supplying layer.
US08525228B2	Semiconductor on insulator (XOI) for high performance field effect transistors Semiconductor-on-insulator (XOI) structures and methods of fabricating XOI structures are provided. Single-crystalline semiconductor is grown on a source substrate, patterned, and transferred onto a target substrate, such as a Si/SiO2 substrate, thereby assembling an XOI substrate. The transfer process can be conducted through a stamping method or a bonding method. Multiple transfers can be carried out to form heterogenous compound semiconductor devices. The single-crystalline semiconductor can be II-IV or III-V compound semiconductor, such as InAs. A thermal oxide layer can be grown on the patterned single crystalline semiconductor, providing improved electrical characteristics and interface properties. In addition, strain tuning is accomplished via a capping layer formed on the single-crystalline semiconductor before transferring the single-crystalline semiconductor to the target substrate.
US08525218B2	Light emitting device The light emitting device has a light emitting element 101, and translucent material 102 that passes incident light from the light emitting element 101 and emits that light to the outside. The sides of the translucent material 102 perimeter are inclined surfaces 107 that become wider from the upper surface to the lower surface. The area of the lower surface of the translucent material 102 is formed larger than the area of the upper surface of the light emitting element 101. The lower surface of the translucent material 102 and the upper surface of the light emitting element 101 are joined together, and the part of the lower surface of the translucent material 102 that is not joined with the light emitting element 101 and the inclined surfaces 101 are covered by light reflecting resin 103.
US08525211B2	Light emitting device package and a lighting unit with base having via hole Provided are a light emitting device package and a lighting device. The light emitting device package includes a base having a via hole passing through a top surface thereof and a bottom surface thereof, a plurality of electrodes formed on the top surface of the base, the plurality of electrodes being electrically connected to a lower portion of the base through the via hole of the base, a frame disposed on the base, the frame having an opening and a light emitting device electrically connected to at least one of the plurality of electrodes in the opening of the frame. A width of the base is wider than a width of the frame, and material having light reflectivity is disposed on the frame.
US08525209B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device including a second electrode layer; a light emitting unit including a plurality of compound semiconductor layers under one portion of the second electrode layer; a first insulating layer under the other portion of the second electrode; an electrostatic protection unit including a plurality of compound semiconductor layer under the first insulating layer; a first electrode layer electrically connecting the light emitting unit to the electrostatic protection unit; and a wiring layer electrically connecting the electrostatic protection unit to the second electrode layer.
US08525207B2	LED package using phosphor containing elements and light source containing same A light-emitting diode package is described comprising a body including a hollow having a rim that extends outwardly from an open end of the hollow. A light emitting diode is positioned in the hollow and opposite the open end. A nongaseous transparent optical medium fills the hollow and a phosphor-containing element (PCE) is disposed over the hollow sealing the open end. The PCE has a solid body and a lateral portion including a periphery and dividing a top and a bottom. The bottom of the PCE is convex and in contact with the nongaseous transparent optical medium and the periphery of the PCE is in contact with the rim.
US08525206B2	Illumination device An illumination device is specified which comprises an optoelectronic component having a housing body and at least one semiconductor chip provided for generating radiation, and a separate optical element, which is provided for fixing at the optoelectronic component and has an optical axis, the optical element having a radiation exit area and the radiation exit area having a concavely curved partial region and a convexly curved partial region, which at least partly surrounds the concavely curved partial region at a distance from the optical axis, the optical axis running through the concavely curved partial region.
US08525202B2	LED package, method for manufacturing LED package, and packing member for LED package According to one embodiment, an LED package includes first and second lead frames, an LED chip and a resin body. The first and second lead frames are apart from each other. The LED chip is provided above the first and second lead frames, and the LED chip has one terminal connected to the first lead frame and another terminal connected to the second lead frame. In addition, the resin body covers the first and second lead frames and the LED chip, and has an upper surface with a surface roughness of 0.15 μm or higher and a side surface with a surface roughness higher than the surface roughness of the upper surface.
US08525198B2	Ultraviolet light emitting diode devices and methods for fabricating the same A UV LED device and the method for fabricating the same are provided. The device has aluminum nitride nucleating layers, an intrinsic aluminum gallium nitride epitaxial layer, an n-type aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer, an active region, a first p-type aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer, a second p-type aluminum gallium nitride barrier layer, and a p-type gallium nitride cap layer arranged from bottom to top on a substrate. A window region is etched in the p-type gallium nitride cap layer for emitting the light generated.
US08525196B2	Nitride-based semiconductor light emitting diode A nitride-based semiconductor LED includes a substrate; an n-type nitride semiconductor layer formed on the substrate; an active layer and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer that are sequentially formed on a predetermined region of the n-type nitride semiconductor layer; a transparent electrode formed on the p-type nitride semiconductor layer; a p-electrode pad formed on the transparent electrode, the p-electrode pad being spaced from the outer edge line of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer by 50 to 200 μm; and an n-electrode pad formed on the n-type nitride semiconductor layer.
US08525195B2	Semiconductor light emitting device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes n-type and p-type semiconductor layers, a light emitting portion, a multilayered structural body, and an n-side intermediate layer. The light emitting portion is provided between the semiconductor layers. The light emitting portion includes barrier layers containing GaN, and a well layer provided between the barrier layers. The well layer contains Inx1Ga1-x1N. The body is provided between the n-type semiconductor layer and the light emitting portion. The body includes: first layers containing GaN, and a second layer provided between the first layers. The second layer contains Inx2Ga1-x2N. Second In composition ratio x2 is not less than 0.6 times of first In composition ratio x1 and is lower than the first In composition x1. The intermediate layer is provided between the body and the light emitting portion and includes a third layer containing Aly1Ga1-y1N (0
US08525194B2	Nitride semiconductor device, nitride semiconductor wafer and method for manufacturing nitride semiconductor layer According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor device includes a foundation layer and a functional layer. The foundation layer is formed on an Al-containing nitride semiconductor layer formed on a silicon substrate. The foundation layer has a thickness not less than 1 micrometer and including GaN. The functional layer is provided on the foundation layer. The functional layer includes a first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has an impurity concentration higher than an impurity concentration in the foundation layer and includes GaN of a first conductivity type.
US08525191B2	Optoelectronic devices and coatings therefore An optoelectronic device assembly can include: a coated element and an optoelectronic device on the coated element. The coated element can include a thermoplastic substrate and a protective weathering layer. The thermoplastic substrate can include a bisphenol-A polycarbonate homopolymer and a polycarbonate copolymer, and wherein the polycarbonate copolymer is selected from a copolymer of tetrabromobisphenol A carbonate and BPA carbonate; a copolymer of 2-phenyl-3,3-bis(4-hydroxyphenyl)phthalimidine carbonate and BPA carbonate; a copolymer of 4,4′-(1-phenylethylidene) biphenol carbonate and BPA carbonate; a copolymer of 4,4′-(1-methylethylidene) bis[2,6-dimethyl-phenol]carbonate and BPA carbonate; and combinations comprising at least one of the foregoing. The protective weathering layer can include resorcinol polyarylate and polycarbonate.
US08525188B2	Shallow trench isolation structure and method for forming the same The invention provides a STI structure and method for forming the same. The STI structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a first trench embedded in the semiconductor substrate and filled up with a first dielectric layer; and a second trench formed on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate and interconnected with the first trench, wherein the second trench is filled up with a second dielectric layer, a top surface of the second dielectric layer is flushed with that of the semiconductor substrate, and the second trench has a width smaller than that of the first trench. The invention reduces dimension of divots and improves performance of the semiconductor device.
US08525179B2	Thin film transistor and fabricating method thereof A thin film transistor including a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a patterned doped semiconductor layer, a source and a drain, a gate insulation layer, and a gate is provided. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The patterned doped semiconductor layer is disposed on opposite sides of the semiconductor layer. The source and the drain are disposed on the patterned doped semiconductor layer and the opposite sides of the semiconductor layer, wherein a part of the semiconductor layer covered by the source and the drain has a first thickness, a part of the semiconductor layer disposed between the source and the drain and not covered by the source and the drain has a second thickness ranging from 200 Å to 800 Å. The gate insulation layer is disposed on the source, the drain and the semiconductor layer. The gate is disposed on the gate insulation layer.
US08525153B2	Structure including voltage controlled negative resistance Aspects of the invention provide a semiconductor tunneling device including voltage controlled negative resistance. In one embodiment, the semiconductor tunneling device includes: at least one pair of spaced apart terminals; an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer between the at least one pair of spaced apart terminals; and a dielectric capping layer extending continuously over the at least one pair of spaced apart terminals and the ILD layer.
US08525149B2	Photon source for producing entangled photons A photon source comprising: a quantum dot; electrical contacts configured to apply an electric field across said quantum dot: and an electrical source coupled to said contacts, said electrical source being configured to apply a potential such that carriers are supplied to said quantum dot to form a bi-exciton or higher order exciton, wherein said photon source further comprises a barrier configured to increase the time which a carrier takes to tunnel to and from said quantum dot to be greater than the radiative lifetime of an exciton in the quantum dot, the quantum dot being suitable for emission of entangled photons during decay of a bi-exciton or higher order exciton.
US08525147B2	Semiconductor devices including a transistor with elastic channel A semiconductor device that may control a formation of a channel is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a gate region including a first area, an insulating layer disposed on portions of a top surface of the gate region corresponding to both ends portions of the first area, first and second electrodes formed on the insulating layer to be spaced apart from each other, an elastic conductive layer disposed between the first and second electrodes and the insulating layer and having a shape that varies according to an electrostatic force based on voltages applied to the first electrode, the second electrode, and the gate region, and a gate insulating region disposed between the elastic conductive layer and the first area of the gate region.
US08525140B2	Chamber apparatus, extreme ultraviolet light generation system, and method for controlling the extreme ultraviolet light generation system A chamber apparatus for operating with a laser apparatus includes a chamber, a target supply unit, a first optical system and a second optical system. The chamber has an inlet for introducing a laser beam thereinto. The target supply unit supplies a target material to a region inside the chamber. The first optical system focuses the laser beam in the region. The guide beam output device outputs a guide beam. The second optical system directs the guide beam such that an axis of a beam path of the guide beam substantially coincides with an axis of a beam path of the laser beam and such that the guide beam enters the focusing optical system through the region.
US08525135B2	System and method of electron beam writing A system and method for improved electron beam writing that is capable of taking design intent, equipment capability and design requirements into consideration. The system and method determines an optimal writing pattern based, at least in part, on the received information.
US08525132B2	Flat panel detector Provided is a flat panel detector which prevents aging deterioration of characteristics of a phosphor layer, protects the phosphor layer from chemical alteration or physical impact, and maintains a stable contact state between a scintillator panel and a flat light receiving element. Disclosed is a flat panel detector comprising a scintillator panel comprising a scintillator provided with a phosphor layer on a substrate and a protective layer covering the phosphor surface of the scintillator, and the scintillator panel being placed on the surface of a flat light receiving element comprising plural picture elements which are two-dimensionally arranged, wherein a releasable adhesive layer is provided on the protective layer surface.
US08525126B2	UV fluid sterilizer suitable to sterilize fluid having poor UV transmission The present invention relates to a UV fluid sterilizer, which is suitably formed to sterilize fluid having poor UV transmission. According to the present invention, the UV fluid sterilizer includes a plurality of UV sterilization units. The UV sterilization units include: small quartz tubes; inside UV lamps mounted in the small quartz tubes for radiating UV rays at the inside of fluid; large quartz tubes concentrically mounted outside the small quartz tubes for forming the flow spaces of the fluid; spring type coils spirally fixed to the outer diameter surfaces of the small quartz tubes for applying rotation force to the fluid; and UV transmission shrinks films for fixing the spring type coils to the outer diameter surfaces of the small quartz tubes in close contact and preventing foreign substances from being trapped in the flow spaces of the fluid, and are characterized in that a plurality of outside UV lamps are provided outside the large quartz tubes for radiating UV rays to the fluid, which flows through the UV sterilization units, from the outside.
US08525125B1	Liquid metal ion source and secondary ion mass spectrometric method and use thereof A liquid metal ion source for use in an ion mass spectrometric analysis method contains, on the one hand, a first metal with an atomic weight ≧190 U and, on the other hand, another metal with an atomic weight ≦90 U. One of the two types of ions are filtered out alternately from the primary ion beam and directed onto the target as a mass-pure primary ion beam.
US08525121B2	Radiological image detection apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A radiological image detection apparatus, includes: two scintillators that convert irradiated radiation into lights; and a photodetector arranged between two scintillators, that detects the lights converted by two scintillators as an electric signal; in which: an activator density in the scintillator arranged at least on a radiation incident side out of two scintillators in vicinity of the photodetector is relatively higher than an activator density in the scintillator on an opposite side to a photodetector side.
US08525111B1	High pressure mass spectrometry systems and methods Mass spectrometers and methods for measuring information about samples using mass spectrometry are disclosed.
US08525110B2	Wind ion neutral composition apparatus Embodiments of the present invention pertain to an apparatus that provides four simultaneous ion and neutral measurements as a function of altitude with variable sensitivity for neutral atmospheric species. The variable sensitivity makes it possible to extend the measurements over the altitude range of 100 to more than 700 kilometers. The four instruments included in the apparatus are a neutral wind-temperature spectrometer, an ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer, a neutral mass spectrometer, and an ion mass spectrometer. The neutral wind-temperature spectrometer and ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer are configured to separate O and N2 and O+ from H+ while the neutral mass spectrometer and the ion mass spectrometer are configured to separate mass with a resolution of one in sixty-four to enable metallic ion identification in the lower thermosphere. The energy analyzer features of the wind-temperature spectrometer and ion-drift ion-temperature spectrometer also enable the measurement of the thermosphere-to-exosphere transition in the Earth's upper atmosphere.
US08525104B2	Methods for direct biomolecule identification by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry The present invention relates to the use of post source decay (PSD) or collision induced dissociation (CID) direct tissue (DT) MALDI-TOF or DT-MALDI-TOF-TOF mass spectrographic identification of biological molecules in a tissue or cellular sample without the need for further protein extraction. This method provides for studying cells or tissues by direct tissue MALDI (DT-MALDI), thereby substituting in situ protein release for further protein extraction. Mass/intensity data was processed with Mascot© software interrogation of the NCBI database. These results are proof of principle that DT-MALDI, combined with bioinformatics, can directly identify proteins in cells and tissues from their mass spectra.
US08525101B2	Position transmitter having a normal mode and a power saving mode operation for the acquisition of the position of a rotatable shaft This invention relates to a position transmitter for the acquisition of the position of a shaft, rotatable about an axis of rotation, with a first optical sensor arrangement for the acquisition of the single-turn position of the shaft, and a second optical sensor arrangement for the acquisition of the multi-turn position of the shaft.
US08525095B2	Nanothermocouple detector based on thermoelectric nanowires A nanothermocouple detector includes a nanowire coupled across two electrodes. The two electrodes are electrically connected to an amplifier. The two electrodes generally have a separation of about five micrometers to about thirty micrometers across which the nanowire is coupled. A focusing element is disposed to admit photons that fall on the focusing element onto the nanowire to heat it. A voltage change across the nanowire caused by the heating of the nanowire by the light is detected by the amplifier. The voltage change corresponds to the energy absorbed from the light by the nanowire. The color of a single photon can be detected using such device. An array of such devices can be used for sensing light on a two-dimensional scale, thereby providing an image showing small variances in the energies of the light impinging upon the detector array.
US08525094B2	Photoelectric conversion circuit There are provided a photodiode 11, an inverting amplifier 12 which includes an operational amplifier 12a and a first resistor 12b, a second resistor 21 which has a smaller resistance value than the first resistor 12b and which is inserted between the positive side of a power supply and the photodiode 11, a differential amplifier 22 which outputs a voltage across both ends of the second resistor 21, and a diode 23 which is connected between a ground and a connection point between the photodiode 11 and an inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier 12a and which changes to a non-conductive state when the inverting amplifier 12 is not saturated and changes to a conductive state when the inverting amplifier 12 is saturated so that the output current of the photodiode 11 is bypassed.
US08525092B2	Data processing method and solid-state image pickup device A data processing method may include counting one of a plurality of clock signals with a first mode, counting clock signals based on a predetermined number of the plurality of clock signals with the first mode, to output a first clock signal every time a counter value becomes a first predetermined value, counting the first clock signal with the first mode, counting one of the clock signals with a second mode while the counted value is considered as a first initial value, counting clock signals based on the predetermined number of the plurality of clock signals with the second mode, to output a second clock signal every time the counter value becomes a second predetermined value while the counted value is considered as a second initial value, counting the second clock signal with the second mode, and outputting the counter values with the second mode as difference data between a first data signal and a second data signal.
US08525087B2	Multi-purpose food preparation kit Multi-purpose food preparation kits for foods which include dough, at least a portion of which is exposed for cooking, browning, and crisping, and optionally rising. The kits include a support base of susceptor material elevated above a support surface by an elevator member either incorporated with a base or separate therefrom. Kits further include a ring component of susceptor material which surrounds the food product, and which is dimensioned larger than the initial dimensions of the food product, so as to be spaced therefrom, at least initially, prior to cooking The space inside the ring component allows the dough to rise during cooking without obstruction by the susceptor ring and without imparting thermal energy from the susceptor ring to the dough surface. In one embodiment the susceptor base it provided in the form of a shipping carton.
US08525086B2	Microwave heating appliance A microwave heating appliance, capable of achieving a locally concentrated heating in answer to the purpose while achieving a uniform heating in the overall heating chamber in a normal mode, is provided. The microwave heating appliance includes a microwave generating unit, a waveguide for transmitting a microwave from the microwave generating unit, a heating chamber for housing a heated subject heated by the microwave, a rotating antenna for radiating the microwave to the heating chamber, a driving unit for rotating and driving the rotating antenna, a temperature distribution detecting unit for detecting a temperature distribution in the heating chamber, and a controlling unit for controlling a direction of the rotating antenna based on a detected result of the temperature distribution detecting unit so that a sharp part of radiation directivity of the rotating antenna in a direction decided based on the detected result.
US08525075B2	Laser irradiation apparatus The present invention is to provide a laser irradiation apparatus for forming a laser beam which has a shape required for the annealing and which has homogeneous energy distribution, by providing a slit at an image-formation position of a diffractive optical element, wherein the slit has a slit opening whose length is changeable.The laser irradiation apparatus comprises a laser oscillator, a diffractive optical element, and a slit, wherein the slit has a slit opening whose length in a major-axis direction thereof is changeable, wherein a laser beam is delivered obliquely to a substrate, and wherein the laser beam is a continuous wave solid-state, gas, or metal laser, or a pulsed laser with a repetition frequency of 10 MHz or more.

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