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US08626253B2	Electrically conductive shield for superconducting electromagnet system In a superconducting electromagnet system or method, cryogenically cooled magnet coils are arranged to provide a static magnetic field in an imaging region. A gradient coil assembly is arranged to provide oscillating magnetic fields within the imaging region. An electrically conductive shield is positioned between the cryogenically cooled magnet coils and the gradient coil assembly. The cryogenically cooled magnet coils are located within an outer vacuum chamber, and the electrically conductive shield is positioned outside the outer vacuum chamber between a surface of the outer vacuum chamber and the gradient coil assembly and inside a bore tube of the outer vacuum chamber. The conductive shield is supported on resilient damping mounts between the conductive shield and the gradient coil assembly and between the conductive shield and the bore tube of the outer vacuum chamber.
US08626251B2	Audio-visual system energy savings using a mesh network In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for powering, controlling, and operating a home audio visual system using a mesh network that includes an energy savings mode based at least in part on intermittently powered mesh network nodes that are associated with the home audio-visual system. In embodiments, the intermittently powered mesh network nodes may periodically wake up, listen for wake up calls and/or initiate a full power mode in the home audio visual system when a intermittently power mesh network node is awakened and receives a subsequent full power instruction. Intermittently powered mesh network nodes may be further associated with instruction routing that utilizes silent acknowledgement.
US08626245B2	Systems and methods for distributed antenna system reverse path summation using signal-to-noise ratio optimization Systems and methods for distributed antenna system reverse path summation using signal-to-noise ratio optimization are provided. In one embodiment, a method for reverse path summation for a distributed antenna system comprises: normalizing an uplink noise floor for a plurality of remote antenna units of a distributed antenna system, wherein the uplink noise floor is normalized based on a first remote antenna unit having a lowest noise floor of the plurality of remote antenna units; and scaling an uplink output gain of each of the plurality of remote antenna units by a scaling factor, wherein the scaling factor attenuates the uplink output gain based on a composite maximum host peak power for a host unit coupled to the plurality of remote antenna units.
US08626238B2	Method and apparatus for switching in a TDD system A method of switching a communication device between an uplink communication path and a downlink communication path is provided. The method measures a power level of signals on at least one radio frequency for one of the uplink communication path and the downlink communication path. The measured power level is compared with a threshold power level. Switching between an uplink circuit and a downlink circuit is based on the comparison between the measured power level and the threshold power level.
US08626235B2	3G/GSM and WLAN integration of telephony Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for operating a dual mode terminal that includes a wireless local area network interface and a cellular radio interface. According to an embodiment, the dual mode terminal camps on the cellular radio interface when idle. When a Page Request message is received over the cellular radio interface, the terminal determines whether wireless local area network coverage is possible from an access point providing wireless local area network cellular communication. If so, the terminal processes the incoming communication request over the wireless local area network towards another party, wherein then the communication is ended, the terminal goes back to camp on the cellular channel.
US08626234B2	Method and apparatus for providing layered wireless networks A capability is provided for supporting a layered wireless network. A method for supporting a service session for a wireless user device includes receiving a service request associated with the wireless user device, determining at least one characteristic of the service request, and selecting, using the at least one characteristic of the service request, one of a plurality of network layers available for supporting a service session for the service request. A network layer has a wireless access technology associated therewith and, optionally, also may have a core network technology associated therewith. The selection of the network layer for a service request may be performed within the network or performed at the wireless user device under the control of the network.
US08626232B1	Method for controlling the launch of high-power broadband radio frequency waves An apparatus for digitally controlling the launch of high-power broad-band RF waves with high linearity for use with a software defined air-interface system. A wave launcher contains an Eplane array containing a plurality of Epixel partition elements is configured with a master digital controller. The master digital controller processes all signals to be launched as RF waves and develops the digital images necessary for digital synthesizers to format the signals to be converted to analog. A plurality of digital-analog converters coupled with power amplifiers convert the digital signal to analog, and the analog signal is then sent to the partition elements to be transmitted as RF waves.
US08626220B2	Dynamic spectrum allocation method and device A dynamic spectrum allocation method and device are provided. The method includes: finding non-idle frequency bands in the coverage of a communication device according to information in a database; selecting a frequency band from the non-idle frequency bands as a negotiation frequency band, and sending a spectrum assignment request to an interfering device using the negotiation frequency band; and acquiring usage assignment of the interfering device, in which the usage assignment is a response to the spectrum assignment request. The technical solutions can effectively allocate dynamic spectrum resources to a communication device, and are simple to implement.
US08626214B2	Method of cancelling interference in sounding reference signals The present invention provides a method of interference cancellation. Embodiments of the method may include removing one or more first reference signals from a signal received by a first base station to form a modified signal. The signal includes a superposition first reference signal(s) transmitted by first user equipment served by the first base station and one or more second reference signals transmitted by second user equipment served by a second base station. The method may also include extracting the second reference signal(s) from the modified signal and determining a timing delay between the second user equipment and the first base station using the extracted second reference signal(s).
US08626203B1	Method and system for differentiated paging channel selection Disclosed is a method and system to manage paging channels in a wireless communication network. When the network encounters a situation where the network is to transmit an access response message in a coverage area to a mobile station, the network will determine whether the mobile station is in an access handoff state. If not, the network will transmit the message to the mobile station on a paging channel selected based on the mobile station's identifier. Otherwise, the network will transmit the message to the mobile station on both that paging channel and a default paging channel (e.g., primary channel) selected without consideration of the mobile station's identifier. This process can help avoid an access handoff failure. Further, a radio access network may opt to use the default paging channel in response to the wireless coverage area having a different number of paging channels than an adjacent coverage area.
US08626202B2	Information processing apparatus, correction method, and recording medium An information processing apparatus that conducts positioning on the basis of received signal strength indications obtained from access points, includes, a contact information detector that detects contact information between the information processing apparatus and a dielectric body, a recording module that stores a gain table including gain data corresponding to obtained contact information, a gain data correcting unit that extracts the gain data corresponding to the contact information obtained by the contact information detector from the gain table of the recording module and corrects gain by using the extracted gain data, and a positioning module that conducts the positioning by using the gain obtained by the correcting unit and the received signal strength indications.
US08626201B1	Disseminating targeted location-based content to mobile device users A trusted third party information arbiter for facilitating third party information sources, such as advertisers or data processing services, to accurately target communications to mobile device users. Illustratively, the mobile device users can control target communications through the utilization of discretion requests/permissions processed by the third party information arbiter. Furthermore, the mobile device users may further interact with the trusted third party information arbiter to provide/release additional personal information. For example, a mobile device user may be provided an increasingly rich rewards or payments that may be provisioned by discount, coupons or offers associated with existing or new product advertisements or promotional information messages.
US08626200B2	Network systems and methods utilizing mobile devices to enhance consumer experience A mobile device requests map information to locate an item in a store. If the item is available, map information is sent to the mobile device. The map information includes directions to the item. If the item is not available, alternative item information is sent to the mobile device.
US08626192B1	System and method for controlling mobile device operation Implementations herein include receiving a first signal from a first mobile computing device, the first signal indicative of a first state change and receiving a second signal from a second mobile computing device, the second signal indicative of a second state change. The method may also include determining that the first state change and the second state change are related, and that the first mobile computing device and the second mobile computing device are currently located at a common geographic location. The method may further include determining that a third mobile computing device is currently located at the common geographic location. The method may also include transmitting to the third mobile computing device, a third signal indicative of a recommended state change, the recommended state change being based on the first state change at the first mobile computing device and the second state change at the second mobile computing device.
US08626190B2	Method for location determination of wireless device A method for location determination of a wireless device is disclosed, the method is performed by the wireless device mounted with a gyroscope sensor and receiving position information from artificial satellites, and a positioning period is adaptively adjusted based on degree of mobility of the wireless device using the position information received from GPS and a gyroscope sensor embedded in the wireless device.
US08626182B2	Communication system and method for controlling interference caused by different kinds of base stations A communication system is provided which includes different kinds of base stations such as a macro base station and a femto base station. This system may execute a method for controlling unfavorably occurring interference due to such different kinds of base stations. In the method, the femto base station sends a femtocell interference indication (FII) report to the resource allocation control unit when user equipment is connected to the femto base station. The FII report contains a request for the allocation of resources to avoid interference. Then the resource allocation control unit establishes a femto interference coordination (FIC) zone according to the received FII report. The FIC zone indicates a particular region used to define resources allocated to the femto base station. The resource allocation control unit may be the macro base station or a self-organizing network (SON) server.
US08626163B2	Mobile communication system A mobile communication system including a mobile terminal, a base station carrying out radio communications with the mobile terminal, and an access management device managing access from the mobile terminal to the base station, which, when an access group including one or more mobile terminals and one or more base stations is registered with the access management device, grants a mobile terminal included in the access group permission to access a base station included in the access group. When a predetermined condition is satisfied after a mobile terminal subscribes to the access group and is granted permission to temporarily access the access group during an access permit period, and the access permit period expires, the mobile communication system excludes the mobile terminal for which the access permit period has expired from destinations to which a calling message is transmitted through a base station included in the access group.
US08626159B2	Mobile device and location registration method Provided are a mobile device and location registration method that, even when packet communications are being restricted and the location cannot be registered, the location can be registered rapidly when the access restriction is released. The mobile device comprises a packet timing unit that times a predetermined time; a location registration unit that registers the location to the control server for packet communications; a timing control unit that, if control server for packet communications is under access restriction, controls the timing operations to be temporarily stopped; and a location registration control unit that controls the location registration unit to register the location to the control server for packet communications, and also controls the location registration unit to register the location to the control server for packet communications if the control server for packet communications has released the access restriction and if the timing control unit has stopped the timing operations of the packet timing unit.
US08626157B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamic subscriber profile adaptation The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for dynamic subscriber profile adaptation. According to one aspect of the subject matter described herein, a method for subscriber profile adaptation is provided. The method includes receiving, from a database that stores subscriber profile information, a message generated by the database node in response to a message received by the database node. The message generated by the database node may include subscriber profile information. The method further includes determining whether to modify the subscriber profile information based on predetermined criteria. The method further includes, in response to determining to modify the subscriber profile information, modifying the subscriber profile information and forwarding the modified information to an originator of the message generated by the database node.
US08626154B1	Active set management based on the likelihood of a mobile station roaming In one aspect, an exemplary method involves a WCD: (i) determining a likelihood of roaming, wherein the likelihood of roaming indicates a likelihood that the WCD will be handed off from a preferred coverage area to a non-preferred coverage area; and (ii) using the likelihood of roaming as a basis for managing an active set of the WCD. In particular, the WCD may manage its active set by setting at least one active-set parameter affecting the number of active sectors in an active set of the WCD, and then maintaining its active set according to the setting of the at least one active-set parameter. According to an exemplary embodiment, a WCD will make an effort to increase the number of sectors in its active set when the likelihood of roaming is greater, and vice versa.
US08626153B2	Method, apparatus and computer program for terminating mobile station receipt of multimedia broadcast/multimedia service (MBMS) service bearer In one non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method, a computer program product and a mobile station operable in accordance therewith to originate a request at the mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer; and to transmit the request to a wireless network that is the source of the Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer. In another non-limiting aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method, a computer program product and a wireless network node operable in accordance therewith to receive a request from a mobile station to terminate reception of a Multimedia Broadcast/Multimedia Service radio bearer and, in response, to send the mobile station a PACKET TBF RELEASE message that includes an identification of the mobile station and a TBF_RELEASE_CAUSE value defined as Stop Receiving MBMS Radio Bearer.
US08626152B2	Flexible telematics system and method for providing telematics to a vehicle A method for providing telematics to a vehicle includes the steps of communicatively connecting a user-removable telematics component to an integrated communication device of the vehicle, the integrated communication device having a memory holding a list uniquely identifying at least one mobile communication device selected from a currently paired mobile communication device, a previously paired mobile communication device, and a pre-defined mobile communication device, transmitting a request for information out from the telematics component utilizing a communications path between the data pump and the integrated communication device, receiving the request for information at an off-site telematics information provider, and channeling a response to the request for information from the off-site telematics information provider automatically through the mobile communication device.
US08626150B2	Method and arrangement for detecting a radio coverage A method and arrangement for detecting a radio coverage in a synchronous multicellular mobile radio system having a multitude of synchronous base stations that are connected to an evaluating unit are provided. All base stations are operated in succession in a measuring operating mod. A respective field intensity of base stations that are locally adjacent and in a normal operating mode is measured, and the respectively measured field intensity data are evaluated by the evaluating unit. This enables a sufficient radio coverage to be determined in a highly cost-effective manner and, optionally, to be corrected.
US08626143B2	Mobile device management through an offloading network System(s) and method(s) are provided for management of content in a mobile device. Content can be firmware associated with mobile functionalities, or data a mobile can process. To effect a content update, a first network platform that serves a multimode mobile device through a first radio access network (RAN) can facilitate establishment of an end-to-end tunnel to the multimode through a second RAN associated with a second network platform; the first network platform can then push the content update to the multimode mobile through the second RAN. Typically the second RAN employs a distinct radiofrequency band than the first RAN; thus the content update is offloaded from traffic in the first wireless network. Content updates can be signaled through the first RAN and implemented upon end-to-end tunnel establishment to the first network platform through the second RAN. Moreover, said updates can be scheduled according to a network-configured subscriber update profile.
US08626138B2	Providing advanced communications features Advanced communications features are provided in a mobile communications network having at least one mobile switching center and at least one mobile station subsystem. The mobile switching center and mobile station subsystem each communicate signaling messages according to a mobile signaling protocol.
US08626137B1	Providing caller identification to mobile devices A caller information server provides caller identification (ID) information to a mobile device. The server receives caller ID information from local address books stored on multiple mobile devices. The caller information server aggregates the received caller ID information to generate a pooled address book. The caller information server may determine whether names within the caller ID information are legitimate and store or filter the information accordingly. When a mobile device receives a call from a telephone number for which it lacks caller ID information in its local address book, the mobile device sends a request for the caller ID information for the telephone number, to the caller information server. The server identifies caller ID information associated with the telephone number in the pooled address book, and sends this information to the mobile device.
US08626126B2	Selective generation of conversations from individually recorded communications In one embodiment, a method includes recording a communication at a mobile device, wherein the recorded communication is a user's portion of a conversation between the user and at least one other participant, transmitting the recorded communication to a network device, transmitting a request for the conversation to the network device, and receiving the conversation generated from the recorded communication and at least one other recorded communication from the other participant. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US08626125B2	Apparatus and method for securing mobile terminal A mobile terminal and a method for securing information are provided. The mobile terminal includes an application part to receive information related to an application; a determining unit to receive a command issued by the application and to determine whether the command or the application is authorized to access a system resource of the mobile terminal; and a blocking unit to block an execution of the command in response to a determination that the execution of the command is unauthorized or issued by the unauthorized application. The method includes receiving information related to an application; receiving a request for executing a command issued by the application; determining whether the requested command or the application is authorized to access a system resource of a mobile terminal; and blocking execution of the command in response to a determination that the execution of the command is unauthorized or issued by an unauthorized application.
US08626116B2	Reducing computational complexity during user data analysis A method and apparatus for handling data related to users in a telecommunication network to support analysis of said users. Plural sets of parameter values relating to the users are read once, and a first level quantization cell is determined for each set of parameter values according to a default first level quantization scheme. Then, clusters of first level quantization cells populated by users are identified and an adaptive second level quantization scheme is formed by translating the identified clusters into second level quantization cells. Representative parameter values are also assigned to each second level quantization cell, wherein the representative parameter values are used for analyzing the users.
US08626093B2	RF power transmission, modulation, and amplification embodiments Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency, and/or amplitude characteristics of the desired time-varying complex envelope signal. In another embodiment, a time-varying complex envelope signal is decomposed into a plurality of constant envelope constituent signals. The constituent signals are amplified equally or substantially equally, and then summed to construct an amplified version of the original time-varying envelope signal. Embodiments also perform frequency up-conversion.
US08626086B2	Radio transceiver on a chip An entire radio transceiver can be completely integrated into one IC chip. In order to integrate the IF filters on the chip, a heterodyne architecture with a low IF is used. A single, directly modulated VCO is used for both up-conversion during transmission, and down-conversion during reception. Bond-wires are used as resonators in the oscillator tank for the VCO. A TDD scheme is used in the air interface to eliminate cross-talk or leakage. A Gaussian-shaped binary FSK modulation scheme is used to provide a number of other implementation advantages.
US08626075B2	Changing parameters in a telecommunications system A network includes a network core and a node that operates in accordance with a parameter value and is operable to record performance data during a repeating measurement period. The network includes OSS for instructing the node to change the parameter value. The node includes a processor which implements the change in parameter value always at the same predetermined point in the repeating measurement period, preferably at the beginning of the period. In this way, changes to the parameter value are synchronized with the repeating measurement period. It is therefore straightforward to determine how a change in the parameter value affects the performance data as the performance data gathered during a particular measurement period will have been collected while the parameter had a particular value. The processor may automatically change the parameter repeatedly between a first value and a second value during successive measurement periods.
US08626073B2	Use of measurement pilot for radio measurement in a wireless network Various embodiments are disclosed relating to use of a measurement pilot for radio measurement in a wireless network, such as, for example, for use in the measurement and generation of beacon reports. In an example embodiment, a radio measurement request may be received from a requesting wireless node and a measurement pilot frame may be received from one or more wireless nodes. A radio measurement report may be generated based, at least in part, on the measurement pilot frame from one or more wireless nodes. The radio measurement report may be transmitted to the requesting wireless node.
US08626066B2	Near field communication device A near field communication device being operable in a first operating state and a second operating state, the near field communication device comprising a communication unit adapted for communicating with an external device; and a control unit coupled to the communication unit; wherein the control unit is adapted for controlling the communication unit to be presented to the external device to be in the first operating state and supporting the second operating state, and wherein the control unit is adapted for switching the communication unit from the first operating state to the second operating state upon receipt of a configuration signal received from the external device.
US08626062B2	Method and an arrangement for determining an admission control threshold A method and an arrangement (400) for determining an admission control threshold for use in an admission control procedure are provided. The admission control procedure manages a first spectrum resource (R1). The first spectrum resource (R1) has a first spectrum resource capacity and a first available spectrum resource capacity, wherein the first available spectrum resource capacity has a time dependence. In a step (220), the admission control threshold is determined based on the first spectrum resource capacity and a measure of the time dependence of the first available spectrum resource capacity.
US08626060B2	Beacon signals for repeaters within a wireless communications system In an embodiment, a first repeater configures a beacon signal that identifies the first repeater to one or more other repeaters. The first repeater transmits the configured beacon signal at a given transmission power level to the one or more other repeaters. The transmitted beacon signal is received at least by a second repeater. The second repeater reduces interference associated with other transmissions from the first repeater, such as retransmissions of donor signals, based on the received beacon signal.
US08626051B2	Image forming apparatus with conveying portions having a loop detector with contact portion for contacting the sheet The present invention provides an image forming apparatus including an upstream conveying portion, a downstream conveying portion, and a loop detector, wherein the image forming apparatus further includes a driving portion which moves the contact portion to a projecting position where the sheet conveying path is in contact with a conveyed sheet and to a retracted position where the sheet conveying path is not in contact with the conveyed sheet, and a controlling portion which controls the driving portion such that the contact portion is moved from the projecting position to the retracted position before a tip end of a sheet which enters the sheet conveying path from the upstream conveying portion reaches the contact portion.
US08626050B2	Image forming apparatus and control method for controlling sheets fed from a detachable sheet feeding unit using detected sheet intervals Detachable sheet feeding units are connected to an image forming apparatus. A transmitting unit transmits a feeding instruction via a signal line to a sheet feeding unit that is to perform sheet feeding. A first sheet detector, which is placed in the sheet feeding unit, detects a sheet that has been fed from the sheet feeding unit. A second sheet detector is provided downstream of the first sheet detector in terms of the sheet conveyance direction. If the feeding instruction is transmitted and a plurality of sheets are fed from the sheet feeding unit, an image formation controller determines whether to cause the image forming operation to continue or stop based upon whether a sheet-to-sheet interval of a plurality of sheets has been detected by the second sheet detector in a state in which the result of detection by the first sheet detector indicates presence of a sheet.
US08626045B2	Fixing device for fixing toner image on recording medium and image forming apparatus including the same A fixing device fixes a toner image on a recording medium. In the fixing device, a heating unit heats a recording medium. A pressing unit presses a recording medium in pressure contact with the heating unit. The heating unit and the pressing unit are accommodated in a casing. A heat reflecting unit is provided between the heating unit and the casing. An intermediate member is provided between the heating unit and the heat reflecting unit.
US08626044B2	Image formation apparatus An image formation apparatus has an image carrier for carrying a toner image, a transfer element for electrostatically transferring the toner image on the image carrier to a sheet, and a guide element for guiding the sheet. The image carrier and the transfer element form a nip portion for nipping the sheet, the guide element includes a main guide configured to guide the sheet toward the nip portion and a sub-guide protruding from the main guide toward the nip portion, and the sub-guide is conductive.
US08626040B2	Image forming apparatus After at least one toner image is transferred to a medium to which an image is transferred from at least one of a plurality of image forming stations used, at least one toner image is transferred from at least one of the rest of the image forming stations, and this transfer operation is repeated a plurality of times to transfer toner images to the medium to which an image is transferred. In this manner, the toner images on the medium to which an image is transferred are formed using a desired number of color toner including a transparent toner. In addition, the order in which the transparent toner is transferred from the image forming station that is used for the transparent toner and toner other than the transparent toner is transferred from image forming stations in which the transparent toner is not used can be freely or automatically selected.
US08626038B2	Developer unit and method thereof A developer unit usable with a liquid electrophotographic printing apparatus having a photosensitive drum includes a developer roller configured to receive ink, and to selectively engage and rotatably transfer the ink to the photosensitive drum, the developer roller configured to switch between a contact mode when the developer roller is rotating and a non-contact mode when the developer roller is not rotating, a squeegee roller selectively in contact with the developer roller, the squeegee roller configured to at least condense the received ink on the developer roller in the contact mode, and configured to be apart from the developer roller in the non-contact mode, and a cleaner roller selectively in contact with the developer roller, the cleaner roller configured to remove remaining ink from the developer roller not transferred to the photosensitive drum in the contact mode, and to be apart from the developer roller in the non-contact mode, wherein at least one of the squeegee roller, the cleaner roller and the developer roller are configured to move between the contact mode and the non-contact mode in response to a rotational state of the developer roller.
US08626028B2	Image forming apparatus and power transmission unit having a plurality of intermediate gears usable with the same An image forming apparatus including a power transmission unit having a driving source, at least one image receptor which is rotatably driven by the driving source and on which a latent image is formed by exposure, and a power transmission unit which transmits power from the driving source to the image receptor. The power transmission unit includes an image receptor axial gear formed on the same axis as the image receptor, and a plurality of intermediate gears which transmits the power from the driving source to the image receptor axial gear. The number Tn of teeth of an n-th one of the plurality of intermediate gears with respect to the image receptor axial gear satisfies the following Inequality: (I/Rn)−0.2≦Tn≦(I/n)+0.2, where, Rn is a reduction ratio from the n-th intermediate gear to the image receptor axial gear and I and n are a natural number.
US08626020B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning member for cleaning a grid electrode of a corona charger and includes a sheet-like member for opening and closing an opening of the corona charger. The cleaning member is located above the sheet-like member with respect to a direction of gravitation, and wherein the sheet-like member is present right below the cleaning member when the cleaning member is present in an image formation range with respect to a longitudinal direction of the grid electrode.
US08626018B2	Fixing unit and image forming apparatus A fixing unit includes a fixing member to fuse a toner image on a recording medium on the recording medium; a pressure member to press against the fixing member to define a first nip between the fixing member and the pressure member through which the recording medium is transported; a shifting unit to move the pressure member relative to the fixing member to increase or decrease a pressure of the first nip; a curling correction unit disposed downstream from the first nip in a transport direction of the recording medium that imparts a second curling direction to the recording medium; and a variable setting unit operatively connected to the curling correction unit to variably set an amount of the second curling direction to the recording medium by the curling correction unit depending on the first nip pressure increased or decreased by the shifting unit.
US08626015B2	Large particle toner printer Printers are provided for printing using large particle toner. One printer has a printer controller causing a first imaging module to form first toner image using a first toner particle having a first charge-to-mass ratio and a median volume weighted diameter between 3 um and 9 um and having a first charge-to-mass ratio and, a second imaging module to form a second toner image using second toner particles having a median volume weighted diameter that is greater than 20 um and a charge-to-mass ratio that is between ⅓ to ½ of the first charge to mass ratio of the first toner times the ratio of the median volume weighted diameter of the first toner to the median volume weighted diameter of the second toner. The first toner image is transferred to a receiver using a first electrostatic field and the second toner image is transferred using a second electrostatic field.
US08626011B2	Image forming apparatus that changes AC voltage duty ratio An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member for bearing a toner image; a transfer member constituting a transfer portion for transferring the toner image formed on the image bearing member onto a recording material; a voltage source for applying, to the transfer member, a voltage in the form of superimposed DC voltage and AC voltage; a controller for controlling the voltage source such that a duty ratio of the AC voltage is changed in accordance with a kind of the recording material; and an executing portion for executing an operation in an image forming mode in which the toner image is transferred from the image bearing member onto the recording material with the duty ratio controlled by the controller.
US08626008B2	Electrophotographic image forming apparatus with removed developer accommodating container for receiving developer cleaned from an image bearing member An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material includes an image bearing member for bearing a developer image and a cartridge that contains a developer that has a developing roller. A cleaning member is provided for removing developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member, and a removed-developer accommodating container is provided for accommodating the developer removed by the cleaning member.
US08626006B2	Heat-responsive switch, fixing device, and image forming apparatus A heat-responsive switch includes a case member, a deformation member deformed from a shape concave to an inside of the case member to a convex shape in response to a temperature variation, a first electrode having a first contact, a second electrode having a second contact and bringing the second contact into contact with the first contact with the first contact impelled to the deformation member, a first pressing member pressing the first electrode to separate the first contact from the second contact by having an end pressed by the deformation of the deformation member into the convex shape, and a second pressing member pressing the deformation member to restore the deformation member to the concave shape and pressing the second electrode to keep the first contact and the second contact separated by having the end pressed to the deformation member from an outside of the case member.
US08626005B2	Printing apparatus, and control method and storage medium therefor A printing apparatus capable of reducing the frequency of detection of a recording agent remaining amount and obtaining accurate information of the recording agent remaining amount. When a printed sheet is discharged, a CPU of a printer updates information representing the number of discharged sheets and stores the information into a memory of a print engine. The CPU refers to toner remaining amount information stored in a memory of a cartridge and determines whether there is a sufficient toner remaining amount in the cartridge. If there is no sufficient toner remaining amount, toner remaining amount detection is executed each time printing of one page has been performed. If there is a sufficient toner remaining amount, the toner remaining amount detection is executed when the number of discharged sheets coincides with a predetermined value.
US08625998B2	Traffic driven variable bandwidth optical transmission Link bandwidth is varied based on the subscriber traffic load. Varying the link bandwidth has the effect of varying the actual noise margin of the link (in an inverse elation), so that the noise margin will vary inversely with the traffic load. A beneficial result is that, because the noise margin is increased during “off-peak” traffic periods, rapidly varying and burst impairments can be absorbed without causing data loss. In effect, the respective probability distributions of error bursts and traffic load are separated. Data loss only becomes a significant risk when peaks in both distributions coincide. However, the probability of that event occurring is comparatively low. This enables a lower noise margin allocation during design of the link, which dramatically reduces the link cost.
US08625980B2	Lens barrel that changes focal length and image pickup apparatus equipped with lens barrel A lens barrel that is capable of decreasing a barrel length under a retracted condition by simplifying a configuration. The lens barrel changes a focal length by moving first and second lens groups in an optical axis direction. A light-amount adjusting member is located between the first and second lens groups. First, second, third holding frames hold the first lens group, the second lens group, and the light-amount adjusting member, respectively. A cam mechanism moves the first, second, and third holding frames in the optical axis direction so that a part of the second lens group is inserted into the aperture of the light-amount adjusting member and concave and convex surfaces of the first and second lens groups are overlapped in the optical axis direction under a retracted condition. The aperture diameter of the light-amount adjusting member is enlarged when shifting to the retracted condition from a shooting condition.
US08625967B2	Information processing device, information recording medium manufacturing device, information recording medium, methods thereof, and computer program An information processing device for executing reproduction processing of content recorded in an information recording medium that includes: a data processing unit for acquiring content codes including a program or application information to be applied to the recording content of the information recording medium, and executing data processing in accordance with the acquired content codes. The data processing unit executes the verification processing of a digital signature which allows tampering verification of the entire content codes included in a content code file storing the content codes, and as the verification result, executes data processing in accordance with the content codes on the condition that validity of the content code file has been confirmed.
US08625955B2	Information recording apparatus, information distribution server, information recording system and information recording method An information recording apparatus includes a stream receiver configured to receive a stream including therein video and audio data regarding a program, a program information transmitter configured to transmit program information regarding the program to a server connected thereto via a communication network, a writing information receiver configured to receive writing information from the server, which is used for processing for writing the video and audio data into a recording medium, and a recording section configured to, under the condition in which absolute time information included in the stream and absolute time information included in the writing information having been received from the server are synchronized with each other, write the video and audio data included in the stream into the recording medium, as well as the writing information.
US08625954B2	Transmission system, recording apparatus, transmission method, recording method and program A transmission system including a first recording apparatus and a second recording apparatus connected to each other through a network is disclosed. The first recording apparatus includes a recording means for recording an AV stream, a generating means for analyzing picture types of respective pictures and generating trick play information, and a transmission means for transmitting the AV stream to the second recording apparatus with the time information. The second recording apparatus includes a receiving means for receiving the AV stream and the time information, and a recording control means for recording the AV stream on a predetermined recording medium as well as recording trick play information including recording positions of I-pictures included in the AV stream on the predetermined recording medium and time information indicating the time of respective I-pictures on the AV stream, which is generated based on the time information, on the predetermined recording medium.
US08625952B2	Fiber optic cable mounting adapters, and related fiber optic cable assemblies and methods Fiber optic cable mounting adapters and related fiber optic cable assemblies and methods for attaching an external mounting device to the fiber optic cable are disclosed. The fiber optic mounting adapters can be configured to be secured to a portion of a fiber optic cable. The fiber optic mounting adapters can also be configured to be secured to external mounting devices compatible to be secured to fiber optic equipment, to secure the fiber optic mounting adapter, and in turn the fiber optic cable, to the fiber optic equipment. Securing a portion of a fiber optic cable can reduce or prevent bending strain from being propagated along the fiber optic cable. Undesired bending strain of a fiber optic cable can cause undesired optical attenuation. Bending strain can also risk damaging optical fibers, such as furcated legs, exposed from the end portion of the fiber optic cable.
US08625946B2	Optical fiber assembly An optical fiber assembly includes a core. The core includes a central portion and a plurality of fins that extends radially outward from the central portion. The central portion defines a central passage. The central portion and the plurality of fins cooperatively define a plurality of grooves that is helically oriented along a length of the core. A plurality of optical fibers is disposed in the plurality of grooves. A strength member is disposed in the central passage of the core. An outer covering surrounds the core. The outer covering is air permeable.
US08625945B1	Low-shrink reduced-diameter dry buffer tubes Disclosed is a low-shrink buffer tube having a reduced diameter. The buffer tube provides adequate crush resistance and is suitable for deployments requiring mid-span access.
US08625943B2	Waveguide device and module Excess optical power in a waveguide device is appropriately terminated. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the waveguide device comprises a termination structure filled with a light blocking material for terminating light from the end section of a waveguide. This termination structure can be formed by forming a groove on an optical waveguide by removing the clad and core, and filling the inside of that groove with a material attenuating the intensity of the light (light blocking material). In this manner, light that enters into the termination structure is attenuated by the light blocking material, and influence on other optical devices as a crosstalk component can be suppressed. With such termination structure, not only the influence on optical devices integrated on the same substrate, but also the influence on other optical devices directly connected to that substrate can be suppressed.
US08625942B2	Efficient silicon-on-insulator grating coupler An efficient grating coupler for a semiconductor optical mode includes a tapered edge to couple light between waveguide modes constrained by differing waveguide thicknesses. An optical circuit or laser has a waveguide in a rib or strip waveguide section that is of different height (e.g., having different vertical constraints) than a waveguide section that has a grating coupler through which light passes off-circuit. The tapered edge can couple light between the two waveguide sections with very low loss and back-reflection. The low loss and minimal back-reflection enables testing of the photonics circuit on a wafer level, and improved performance through the grating coupler.
US08625939B1	Ultralow loss cavities and waveguides scattering loss cancellation A waveguide system includes a first waveguide having surface roughness along at least one surface and a second waveguide substantially identical to the first waveguide and having substantially identical surface roughness along a corresponding side. The first and second waveguides are separated from each other by a predetermined distance and are configured to receive respective first and second light signals having antisymmetric modes. The predetermined distance between the first and second waveguide tends to cause cancellation of at least far-field polarization radiation emanating from the first and second waveguides and resulting from the surface roughness.
US08625935B2	Method and system for integrated power combiners A system for integrated power combiners is disclosed and may include receiving optical signals in input optical waveguides and phase-modulating the signals to configure a phase offset between signals received at a first optical coupler, where the first optical coupler may generate output signals having substantially equal optical powers. Output signals of the first optical coupler may be phase-modulated to configure a phase offset between signals received at a second optical coupler, which may generate an output signal having an optical power of essentially zero and a second output signal having a maximized optical power. Optical signals received by the input optical waveguides may be generated utilizing a polarization-splitting grating coupler to enable polarization-insensitive combining of optical signals. Optical power may be monitored using optical detectors. The monitoring of optical power may be used to determine a desired phase offset between the signals received at the first optical coupler.
US08625920B2	Method and apparatus for creating a virtual microscope slide The invention is directed to a method and apparatus for constructing a virtual microscope slide. The method encompasses the construction of a data structure by digitally scanning a specimen and acquiring digital image data of a series of digitized adjacent image segments of the specimen. The image segments are useable to provide an overall magnified image of the specimen as well as higher magnification images of selected points on the specimen. The scanned digital image data can be stored and transferred over an Internet or intranet communication channel. A control program is provided for the data structure for viewing the overall magnified image and higher magnification images of selected points on the specimen. The control program allows for the selection of a point on the overall magnified image, and display from the stored digital image data a corresponding higher magnification image of the selected point.
US08625917B2	Method and apparatus for realizing adaptive quantization in process of image coding A method and apparatus for realizing adaptive quantization in the process of image/video coding, which includes the following steps: acquiring the parameter information of the neighbor blocks of the current block; determining the quantization mode of the current block according to the parameter information of the neighbor blocks; and performing quantization processing on transform coefficients of the current block by using the determined quantization mode. Wherein, block coding type and motion vector of the neighbor blocks are used as the parameter information for determining the quantization mode of the current block. An apparatus for adaptive quantization in process of image/video coding is provided. The invention can use different quantization mode for adaptive quantization in different image content of an image sequence, thereby improving the subjective quality of the compressed images at the same bit rate.
US08625911B2	Compression of 3D meshes with repeated patterns 3D models of the engineering class usually have a large number of connected components, with small numbers of large triangles, often with arbitrary connectivity. To enable compact storage and fast transmission of large 3D mesh models, an efficient compression strategy specially designed for 3D mesh models is provide. A method for encoding a 3D mesh model comprises determining and clustering repeating components, normalizing the components, wherein scaling factors are clustered and orientation axes are clustered, encoding the connected components using references to the clusters, and entropy encoding the connected components.
US08625908B2	Managing raw and processed image file pairs Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for managing image files. In one aspect, a method includes displaying, at a data processing device, a preview of images available for import from a storage device, wherein each image is associated with a pair of corresponding image files comprising a compressed image file and a raw image file obtained from a single image capture. At the data processing device, both the raw image file and the compressed image file of the pair associated with at least one of the images are imported. At the data processing device, at least one of the pair of corresponding image files is identified as a master image file for the associated image. At the data processing device, the identified master image file for the associated captured image is displayed.
US08625903B2	Pose estimation In a pose estimation for estimating the pose of an object of pose estimation with respect to a reference surface that serves as a reference for estimating a pose, a data processing device: extracts pose parameters from a binarized image; identifies a combination of pose parameters for which the number of cross surfaces of parameter surfaces that accord with surface parameter formulas, which are numerical formulas for expressing a reference surface, is a maximum; finds a slope weighting for each of cross pixels, which are pixels on each candidate surface and which are pixels within a prescribed range, that is identified based on the angles of the tangent plane at the cross pixel and based on planes formed by each of the axes of parameter space; and identifies the significant candidate surface for which a number, which is the sum of slope weightings, is a maximum, as the actual surface that is the reference surface that actually exists in the image.
US08625895B2	Table grid detection and separation A technique is described for table grid detection and separation during the analysis and recognition of documents containing table contents. The technique includes the steps of table detection, grid separation, and table cell extraction. The technique is characterized by the steps of detecting the grid lines of a table using, for example, inverse cell detection, separating noise and touching text from the grid lines, and extracting the cell contents for OCR recognition.
US08625888B2	Variable kernel size image matting Image matting is performed on an image having a specified foreground region, a background region and an unknown region by selecting a kernel size based on a size of the unknown region. The matting processing is performed using the selected kernel size to provide an alpha matte that distinguishes a foreground portion from a background portion in the unknown region. Further, in some implementations, a trimap of the image may be segmented and matting processing may be performed on each segment using a kernel size appropriate for that segment.
US08625887B2	Systems and methods for matching visual object components Systems and methods for modeling the occurrence of common image components (e.g., sub-regions) in order to improve visual object recognition are disclosed. In one example, a query image may be matched to a training image of an object. A matched region within the training image to which the query image matches may be determined and a determination may be made whether the matched region is located within an annotated image component of the training image. When the matched region matches only to the image component, an annotation associated with the component may be identified. In another example, sub-regions within a plurality of training image corpora may be annotated as common image components including associated information (e.g., metadata). Matching sub-regions appearing in many training images of objects may be down-weighted in the matching process to reduce possible false matches to query images including common image components.
US08625885B2	Methods and systems for data analysis and feature recognition Systems and methods for automated pattern recognition and object detection. The method can be rapidly developed and improved using a minimal number of algorithms for the data content to fully discriminate details in the data, while reducing the need for human analysis. The system includes a data analysis system that recognizes patterns and detects objects in data without requiring adaptation of the system to a particular application, environment, or data content. The system evaluates the data in its native form independent of the form of presentation or the form of the post-processed data.
US08625884B2	Visualizing and updating learned event maps in surveillance systems Techniques are disclosed for visually conveying an event map. The event map may represent information learned by a surveillance system. A request may be received to view the event map for a specified scene. The event map may be generated, including a background model of the specified scene and at least one cluster providing a statistical distribution of an event in the specified scene. Each statistical distribution may be derived from data streams generated from a sequence of video frames depicting the specified scene captured by a video camera. Each event may be observed to occur at a location in the specified scene corresponding to a location of the respective cluster in the event map. The event map may be configured to allow a user to view and/or modify properties associated with each cluster. For example, the user may label a cluster and set events matching the cluster to always (or never) generate an alert.
US08625881B2	Enhanced ghost compensation for stereoscopic imagery A method and apparatus for reduction of ghost images in stereoscopic images. This disclosure provides a ghost compensation apparatus and methods that detect affected regions where ghosting may occur in a stereoscopic image, yet where conventional ghost compensation techniques are ineffective because there is insufficient luminance overhead to conduct a conventional ghost compensation process. Luminance values are modified in such regions prior to applying a ghost compensation process.
US08625878B2	Method and system of rail component detection using vision technology A method, system, and computer program product for automatically inspecting railroad tracks. The method includes assessing a configuration of rail components depicted in an image by comparing the configuration of the rail components to known hazards. The method also includes determining a severity of detected problems in the configuration of the rail components, using a computer processor.
US08625877B2	Methods of operating an image-based check processing system to detect a double feed condition of carrier envelopes and an apparatus therefor A method is provided of operating an image-based check processing system to detect a double feed condition of carrier envelopes. An example method includes attempting to read a magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) codeline from a first predefined area of an image of a document item, determining if the document item is a carrier envelope, concluding that the document item is not a double-fed item when a determination is made that the document item is a carrier envelope, and concluding that the document item is potentially a double-fed item when a determination is made that the document item is not a carrier envelope.
US08625871B2	Method for processing magnetic resonance images and apparatus for processing magnetic resonance images In an embodiment, a method is disclosed which includes: carrying out interpolation by using a slice away from a slab boundary, and substituting a slice having slab boundary artifacts existing in the slab boundary, to obtain an interpolated image; carrying out Fourier transform on the interpolated image to generate first K-space data; carrying out Fourier transform on the original image to generate second K-space data; merging the first K-space data with the second K-space data, wherein the weight of the first K-space data is greater than that of the second K-space data in the middle of the K-space, and the weight of the second K-space data is greater than that of the first K-space data at the edge of the K-space; and carrying out inverse Fourier transform on the merged K-space data.
US08625857B2	Image processing method and image processing apparatus According to one embodiment, an image processing method for inspecting an image includes creating synthetic image information in which information is synthesized with main image information in a visible state which the human eyes perceive in an invisible state which is hard to perceive with the human eyes, printing the synthetic image information onto a medium, acquiring an image printed on the medium as an inspection image information, extracting information embedded in the main image information from the inspection image acquired, and determining a fault in the image printed on the medium based on an extraction result of information.
US08625852B2	System and method for linking real-world objects and object representations by pointing A system and method are described for selecting and identifying a unique object or feature in the system user's three-dimensional (“3-D”) environment in a two-dimensional (“2-D”) virtual representation of the same object or feature in a virtual environment. The system and method may be incorporated in a mobile device that includes position and orientation sensors to determine the pointing device's position and pointing direction. The mobile device incorporating the present invention may be adapted for wireless communication with a computer-based system that represents static and dynamic objects and features that exist or are present in the system user's 3-D environment. The mobile device incorporating the present invention will also have the capability to process information regarding a system user's environment and calculating specific measures for pointing accuracy and reliability.
US08625849B2	Multiple camera control system A multiple camera tracking system for interfacing with an application program is provided. The tracking system includes multiple cameras arranged to provide different viewpoints of a region of interest, and are operable to produce a series of video images. A processor is operable to receive the series of video images and detect objects appearing in the region of interest. The processor executes a process to generate a background data set from the video images, generate an image data set for each received video image, compare each image data set to the background data set to produce a difference map for each image data set, detect a relative position of an object of interest within each difference map, and produce an absolute position of the object of interest from the relative positions of the object of interest and map the absolute position to a position indicator associated with the application program.
US08625848B2	Adjusting display format in electronic device A display format adjustment system includes a receiving module, a visual condition determination module, a display format determination module, and a display control module. The receiving module receives content for display in a first display format. The visual condition determination module determines a visual condition of a viewer in front of a display. The display format determination module determines a second display format based on the first display format and the visual condition of the viewer. The display control module displays the content in the second display format on the display.
US08625847B2	Login method based on direction of gaze A method of authenticating a user of a computing device is proposed, together with computing device on which the method is implemented. A plurality of objects is displayed on a display screen. The plurality of objects includes at least objects that make up a sequence of objects pre-selected as the user's passcode. In response to a trigger signal an image of the user's face is captured while looking at one of the objects on the display screen. A determination of which object is in the direction of the user's gaze is made from the photograph and whether or not the gaze is on the correct object in the sequence of the passcode. This is repeated for each object in the sequence of the passcode.
US08625843B2	Monitoring system, image-processing apparatus, management apparatus, event detecting method, and program A monitoring system includes a plurality of image-capturing apparatuses each including an event detector that executes on a corresponding captured image at least one of a plurality of processing algorithms for detection of a monitor event, and a transmission controller that outputs to a network only a processing result of the executed processing algorithm when a monitor event is not detected and that outputs to the network at least the captured image when a monitor event is detected; and a management apparatus managing the plurality of image-capturing apparatuses via the network and including an event determination unit that determines occurrence of a monitor event in accordance with the received processing result and a record controller that records the received captured image.
US08625836B2	Cable structure for preventing tangling This is directed to a cable structure for use with an electronic device. The cable structure can include one or more conductors around which a sheath is provided. To prevent the cable structure from tangling, the cable structure can include a core placed between the conductors and the sheath, where a stiffness of the core can be varied along different segments of the cable structure to facilitate or hinder bending of the cable structure in different areas. The size and distribution of the stiffer portions can be selected to prevent the cable from forming loops. The resistance of the core to bending can be varied using different approaches including, for example, by varying the materials used in the core, varying a cross-section of portions of the core, or combinations of these.
US08625825B2	Electrostatic speaker An electrostatic speaker including a frame; a first electrode installed at a first end of the frame; a second electrode installed at a second end of the frame to be at a predetermined distance apart from the first electrode; a suspension which is arranged between the second electrode and the first electrode and is elastically installed inside the frame; and a diaphragm assembly which is supported by the suspension and has a multilayer structure. The electrostatic speaker adopts a dual electrode structure, has the multilayer structure formed inside the diaphragm assembly, and is provided with a driving chip that applies a bias voltage to the diaphragm assembly by rectifying an audio signal after applying a driving signal that has amplified the audio signal to the dual electrodes. Thus, the invention does not require any external power, and is also capable of maintaining relatively high sensitivity by enhancing the charge density.
US08625824B2	Flat speaker unit and speaker device therewith A flat speaker unit is provided herein. The flat speaker unit includes a first porous electrode, a second porous electrode, and a vibrating membrane with an electret layer disposed there between. In one embodiment, a plurality of supporting members may be configured between the vibrating membrane and the first porous electrode, or between the vibrating membrane and the second porous electrode. In one embodiment, a flat speaker device is provided with at least two flat speaker unit stacked together. By electrically connecting two ends of a signal source respectively to the first and second porous electrodes, or, in another embodiment, electrically connecting one end of the signal source to both of the first and second porous electrodes and connecting another end of the signal source to the vibrating membrane, a sound with low THD is generated accordingly from the flat speaker unit.
US08625822B2	Thermoacoustic device A thermoacoustic device includes a substrate, a sound wave generator and a signal device. The substrate has a net structure and includes a number of first wires and a number of second wires. The first wires and the second wires are crossed with each other. Each of the first wires includes a composite wire. The composite wire includes a carbon nanotube wire structure and a coating layer wrapping the carbon nanotube wire structure. The sound wave generator is located on a surface of the substrate and includes a graphene layer including at least one graphene. The signal input device is configured to input signals to the sound wave generator.
US08625821B2	Method and apparatus for outputting audio signal A method of outputting an audio signal includes receiving an audio signal; generating a carrier waves having phases differing from each other; generating modulation signals by comparing the respective carrier waves with the audio signal; amplifying the modulation signals; and outputting the amplified modulation signals.
US08625817B2	Faster cadzow denoising based on partial eigenvalue decomposition Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for speeding up the Cadzow iterative denoising algorithm as a part of the Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI) processing and for decreasing its computational complexity.
US08625814B2	Earphone antenna of a portable terminal An earphone antenna of a portable terminal having enhanced reception sensitivity even when a wearing state of the earphone of the mobile terminal is changed is provided. The earphone antenna includes a plurality of voice signal lines, an insulating sheath configured to cover an outer surface of the plurality of the voice signal lines, a receptacle configured to connect to a first end of each of the plurality of the voice signal lines, and a ground and antenna line including a first antenna line configured to wind around an outer surface of the insulating sheath at a first interval in a spiral form, the first antenna line having a first thickness, wherein the ground and antenna line includes a second antenna line configured to wind around an outer surface of the receptacle at a second interval in the spiral form, the second antenna line having a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness and the second interval being different from the first interval.
US08625813B2	Asymmetric polynomial psychoacoustic bass enhancement Psychoacoustic bass audio signal enhancement can be accomplished using a monotonic, asymmetric polynomial distortion. A non-linear process applies a monotonic, asymmetric polynomial distortion function that has continuous first and second derivatives to generate even and odd harmonics of missing fundamental frequencies. This polynomial distortion produces the desired psychoacoustic effect with a fairly rapid roll-off so as to avoid unpleasant aliasing. Moreover, the lack of first-order discontinuities prevents clicks or glitches.
US08625805B1	Digital security bubble A digital security bubble encapsulation is disclosed. A public key and a device identifier of at least one recipient is requested from a first server. A message containing one or more components is encrypted using a symmetric key. The symmetric key is encrypted with a public key received in response to the request. The encrypted message, the encrypted symmetric key, and the device identifier are encapsulated in a digital security bubble encapsulation. The digital security bubble encapsulation is transmitted to a second server.
US08625803B1	Updating shared keys Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for updating shared keys. In one aspect, a method includes generating, at a first server and using a first key associated with a current period of time on the first server, a first piece of information based on a first request received from a first client device; receiving, at a second server, a second request from the first client device, the second request including the generated first piece of information; and validating, at the second server and using the first key, the first piece of information, wherein the validating is performed during the current period of time on the second server and wherein to generate information the second server uses a second key different from the first key.
US08625799B2	Privacy management for tracked devices A system is disclosed that protects private data of users while permitting the monitoring or tracking of electronic devices that are shared for both business and private purposes. The electronic devices are configured to selectively encrypt location data, and/or other types of data, before such data is transmitted to a monitoring center. For example, data collected or generated on a user device outside of work hours may be encrypted with a private key of the device's user prior to transmission to the monitoring center, so that the data is not accessible to the employer. Data collected or generated during work hours may be transmitted without such encryption.
US08625797B2	Releasing a service on an electronic appliance There is proposed a method for enabling a service made available by an electronic device (100), wherein a registration request (114) is generated (S3) by the device (100) and sent (S7) to the registration server (300). The registration server (300) thereupon generates (S8) a registration confirmation (305) and sends (S9) it to the device (100), where the service is finally enabled by receiving and saving (S10) of the registration confirmation (305) on the device (100). In this connection, a trustworthy authority (200) sets up (S6, S12) a timeframe on the registration server (300) such that the registration server (300) sends (S9) a registration confirmation (305) only for a registration request (114) received within the timeframe, and the device (100) sends (S7) the registration request (114) to the registration server (300) within the timeframe.
US08625791B2	Methods and apparatuses for selective data encryption A method of encryption, using an encryption key K with key length k, of at least one message M comprising uniformly distributed symbols, k bits are encrypted of messages at least k bits long, while shorter messages are lengthened, e.g. by padding or concatenation, to obtain a lengthened message at least k bits long before encryption. The encryption efficiency is thus optimized while the encryption security is retained. The encryption method is particularly suitable for JPEG2000 encoded packets comprising a message M. Also provided are an encryption apparatus, a decryption method and a decryption apparatus.
US08625788B2	Method and apparatus for building a hardware root of trust and providing protected content processing within an open computing platform A system architecture provides a hardware-based root of trust solution for supporting distribution and playback of premium digital content. In an embodiment, hardware root of trust for digital content and services is a solution where the basis of trust for security purposes is rooted in hardware and firmware mechanisms in a client computing system, rather than in software. From this root of trust, the client computing system constructs an entire media processing pipeline that is protected for content authorization and playback. In embodiments of the present invention, the security of the client computing system for content processing is not dependent on the operating system (OS), basic input/output system (BIOS), media player application, or other host software.
US08625784B2	Broadcast encryption method and broadcast decryption method thereof A broadcast encryption method and a broadcast decryption method. The broadcast encryption method includes generating a message encryption key using a public key and a secret key generated by using a Strong Diffie-Hellman tuple; encrypting a message by the message encryption key; and generating a message header using a sum of a plurality of Strong Diffie-Hellman tuples corresponding to an authorized user group. Accordingly, a transmission amount and a storage amount can be reduced when a broadcast encryption message is transmitted.
US08625783B2	Method and apparatus for providing privacy of user identity and characteristics in a communication system A methods and apparatus for providing privacy of user identity and characteristics in a communication system. A public key and a private key is generated, corresponding to a transceiver. The public key is transmitted to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device encrypts one or more an initial messages using the public key and transmits the one or more encrypted initial messages to the transceiver. The transceiver receives the one or more encrypted initial messages and decrypts it using the private key. The transceiver may then allocate resources to initiate a desired communication between said wireless communication device and a second communication device.
US08625782B2	Method for privacy-preserving computation of edit distance of symbol sequences Embodiments of the invention discloses a system and a method for determining an encrypted edit distance as an encryption of a minimum cost of transformation of a first sequence into a second sequence based on an insertion cost, a deletion cost, and a substitution cost. The method determines recursively a current element of the matrix as an encryption of a minimum of a first element, a second element, and a third element to produce the dynamic programming solution, wherein the first element represents the insertion cost, the second element represents the deletion cost, and the third element represents the substitution costs, and wherein the current element, the first element, the second element, and the third element are homomorphically encrypted with a public key; and selects the dynamic programming solution as the encrypted edit distance, wherein steps of the method are performed by a first processor and a second processor.
US08625776B2	Detection and suppression of returned audio at near-end Audio from a near-end that has been acoustically coupled at the far-end and returned to the near-end unit is detected and suppressed at the near-end of a conference. First and second energy outputs for separate bands are determined for the near-end audio being sent from the near-end unit and for the far-end audio being received at the near-end unit. The near-end unit compares the first and second energy outputs to one another for each of the bands over a time delay range and detects the return of the sent near-end audio in the received far-end audio based on the comparison. The comparison can use a cross-correlation to find an estimated time delay used for further analysis of the near and far-end energies. The near-end unit suppresses any detected return by muting or reducing what far-end audio is output at its loudspeaker.
US08625768B2	Recursive identification of individuals for casual collaborative conferencing A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information.
US08625761B2	Method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for user authentication A user authentication method is applied to a user authentication apparatus for authentication using a unique ID that is information unique to a communication apparatus. The method includes acquiring a user ID as information identifying a user, and detecting a unique ID corresponding to the user ID from a user ID list. The method also includes making a call with a predetermined number of rings to a communication apparatus having the unique ID. Additionally, the method includes receiving a callback made by a communication apparatus after a predetermined number of rings of the call in response to the call. In addition, the method includes determining whether a unique ID of the communication apparatus having made the callback matches the unique ID of the communication apparatus to which the call has been made, and determining, if there is a match, that a user having the user ID is an authorized user.
US08625756B1	Systems and methods for visual presentation and selection of IVR menu Embodiments of the invention provide a system for providing advertisements to a caller. The system comprises a database having advertisements associated with a list of telephone numbers. The telephone numbers are associated with destinations implementing Interactive Voice Response (IVR). Further, the system comprises a device configured to display a visual menu for the IVR and the associated advertisements.
US08625754B1	Method and apparatus for providing information associated with embedded hyperlinked images A method and apparatus for allowing a network provider to embed hyperlinks within streaming video contents that will enable users to click on an embedded hyperlinked image to obtain more information related to the streaming video contents are disclosed. For example, someone watching a tennis match can click on the hyperlinked image corresponding to one of the players and receive a frame of data about his or her recent performance, or someone watching the news can click on a hyperlinked image of a segment of a world map and receive a frame of data about current events occurring in a particular region.
US08625741B2	Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device 1 includes a photodetecting section 10, a signal readout section 20, a controlling section 30, and a correction processing section 40. In the photodetecting section 10, M×N pixel units P1,1 to PM,N each including a photodiode that generates charge of an amount according to an incident light intensity and a readout switch connected to the photodiode are two-dimensionally arrayed in M rows and N columns. A charge generated in each pixel unit Pm,n is input to an integration circuit Sn through a readout wiring line LO,n, and a voltage value output from the integration circuit Sn according to the charge amount is output to an output wiring line Lout through a holding circuit Hn. In the correction processing section 40, a correction processing is applied to respective frame data output from the signal readout section 20, and the frame data after the correction processing is output. Accordingly, a solid-state image pickup device that allows acquiring a high-resolution image by correcting pixel data when any readout wiring line is disconnected is realized.
US08625738B2	Radiation therapy and scanning system A radiation therapy and scanning system is provided. The radiation and therapy scanning system includes a therapy source adapted to deliver a predetermined dose of treatment radiation along an axis to a patient positioned in a scan field, a stationary scanning source producing an electron beam, and a detector positioned to partially circumscribe the scan field. The radiation therapy and scanning system also includes a target arranged concentric with the detector and located opposite the detector across the scan field, the target positioned at an angle θ to the axis such that when the electron beam impinges on the target the target transmits radiation through the scan field to the detector.
US08625726B2	Low power radio frequency to digital receiver A radio frequency to digital receiver has a modulator sampling a signal at a first rate. The receiver has at least one processing unit. The processing unit has a plurality of digital bandpass filters separating the signal and recombining the signal at a rate less than the first rate. The processing unit has a digital down converter adjusting frequency offset or centering the signal at the rate less than the first rate. The receiver has at least one rate control buffer coupled to adjacent processing units when two or more processing units are within the receiver.
US08625713B2	Method for beamforming transmissions from a network element having a plurality of antennas, and the network element In one embodiment, the method includes receiving a pilot signal from a terminal at a target antenna of the plurality of antennas of the network element, determining an uplink channel estimate for the target antenna based on the received pilot signal, and obtaining a calibration coefficient associated with the target antenna. The calibration coefficient is based on a channel estimate between the target antenna and a different one of the plurality of antennas. The method further includes beamforming a transmission to the terminal using at least the target antenna based on the determined uplink channel estimate and the obtained calibration coefficient.
US08625712B2	Communication method and apparatus using codebook in MIMO system A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals using a codebook which maps each codeword to at least two different antennas is provided for a MIMO system. A transmission method includes mapping multiple codewords to multiple layers; mapping the multiple layers to multiple antennas using a precoding matrix selected from a rank-3 codebook which is designed to map the codewords to different antennas; and transmitting the codewords through paths formed by mapping the layers and the antennas. The precoding matrix of the rank-3 codebook is designed to equalize transmit power ratios between the antennas. The communication method and apparatus is advantageous to solve the problem of transmit power imbalance among the layers and the problem of performance degradation at the high SNR region in the conventional system using the rank-3 precoding matrices.
US08625710B2	Resource block mapping for cross-carrier assignments Methods and apparatuses are provided for cross-carrier decoding and mapping of data and control information in a wireless communication system.
US08625709B2	Device method and system for communicating data Disclosed is a method, circuit and system for communicating data. A data value to be transmitted from a data source transmitter or transceiver to a downstream receiver or transceiver may be Shannon mapped, by functionally associated processing/mapping logic, to a point on a shape within a higher dimensional plane. Different portions of the shape, for example branches of a spiral, may be designated by a portion or branch number. Coordinates of the Shannon mapping, or another descriptors, of the Shannon mapped point may be transmitted using analog transmission methods. A set of data values may be Shannon mapped and transmitted to a downstream receiver/transceiver in series. For each set of mapped and transmitted data values, processing logic may calculate a branch ambiguity resolution factor. The branch ambiguity resolution factor for each set of values may be transmitted to the downstream receiver/transceiver before, after or with the data values. Decoding logic associated with the downstream receiver/transceiver may then use the branch ambiguity resolution factor to convert/decode received coordinates associated with the set of values into the data values.
US08625700B2	Evaluation device for providing a transceiver system with transceiving performance information thereof An evaluation device provides a transceiver system with performance information. The transceiver system models channels between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module, a computing module and an output module. The computing module is operable, based upon the fading parameter, an average SNR of the channels, a number of transmit antennas and a number of receive antennas, to estimate an average output SNR, a bit error rate and an outage probability related to signals received by the receiver. The output module is operable to provide the transceiver system with the average SNR and the estimated information as the performance information.
US08625696B2	Hybridization device with segregated kalman filters The invention relates according to a first aspect to a hybridization device (1) comprising a virtual platform (2) calculating inertial measurements (PPVI), a bank (3) of Kalman filters each formulating a hybrid navigation solution on the basis of the inertial measurements of the virtual platform (2) and of measurements of signals emitted by a constellation of satellites, which measurements are delivered by a satellite positioning system (GNSS), characterized in that it comprises, for each filter of the bank, a module for correcting the satellite measurements (4) delivering to the filter the measurements of the satellite positioning system (GNSS) which are used by the filter after correction with the aid of the hybrid navigation solution formulated by the filter.
US08625692B2	Transmission/reception apparatus and method for improving throughput in a multi-input multi-output communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting at least two transport blocks in a Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) communication system, in which a transmitter determines whether a type of a receiver receiving the at least two transport blocks is a Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) receiver, determines a Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS) level for the at least two transport blocks depending on whether the type of the receiver is an SIC receiver, and transmits the at least two transport blocks using the determined MCS level.
US08625685B2	Signal quality estimation for OFDMA systems Certain embodiments utilize raw signals to estimate channel quality, as contrasted to utilizing equalized signals or after channel estimation. For example, signal quality may be estimated by calculating powers of pilot sub-carriers and null sub-carriers of the raw signals. To mitigate channel effect, certain embodiments utilize first and/or second order differentiation schemes.
US08625670B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding image Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding an image, which can variably encode a residual of a current block that is predicted with a skip mode according to prediction modes of neighboring blocks, and a method and apparatus for decoding the encoded image. When both the prediction mode of the current block and the prediction modes of the neighboring blocks are skip modes, since the method of encoding the image also encodes the residual of the current block that is predicted with the skip mode, more bits can be assigned to the current block with a high probability of acting as a reference block for other blocks.
US08625666B2	4:4:4 color space video with 4:2:0 color space video encoders and decoders systems and methods A system for communicating video, the video including 4:4:4 color space frames, includes a 4:2:0 video encoder having a 4:4:4 to 4:2:0 color space frame converter and a 4:2:0 video decoder having a 4:2:0 to 4:4:4 color space frame converter, communicatively connected to the 4:2:0 video encoder. The 4:2:0 video encoder, without conversion by the 4:4:4 to 4:2:0 color space converter, communicates the video as a plurality of encoded 4:2:0 color space frames to the decoder. The 4:2:0 video decoder, without conversion by the 4:2:0 to 4:4:4 color space frame converter, saves the video as a plurality of 4:4:4 color space frames in memory. Each of the 4:4:4 color space frames in memory of the decoder device is identical to its corresponding 4:4:4 color space frame of the video at the encoder device.
US08625658B2	Digital repeater having bandpass filtering, adaptive pre-equalization and suppression of natural oscillation Repeaters, event those having digital processing, exist. The significant drawback of these digital repeaters is that the computational complexity or the processing speed has to be very high in order to guarantee, particularly when compensating for echo, that the necessary delay does not excessively impair the performance. The aim of the invention is to provide a structure of the repeater in which the computational complexity is reduced without this reduction having a negative effect on the performance during signal filtering and/or suppression of natural oscillation. To this end, the invention provides that in order to carry out bandpass filtering, adaptive pre-equalization and suppression of the natural oscillation, the components of the repeater in the uplink branch and downlink branch are arranged in a designated sequence, whereby duplex filters are used for coupling both repeater branches to the antennas. In addition, only one reconfiguration in the modules at the user is necessary in order to adapt to user-specific requirements. The invention is used in the field of digital repeaters for data systems technology and telecommunications technology.
US08625655B2	Adaptive radio frequency interference mitigation during channel scanning or hopping In some embodiments an adaptive clock controller is to determine clock interference associated with a channel changing pattern for a radio in a computing platform, and to determine an earliest switching time of a clock of the computing platform. A clock generator is to change a frequency of the clock in response to the determined clock interference and in response to the earliest switching time. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08625654B2	Pulse generator of UWB system A pulse generator of an ultra wideband (UWB) system includes: a plurality of delay cells for receiving pulses, delaying the received pulses for a predetermined time, and outputting the delayed pulses; and an edge combiner connected to output ends of the plurality of delay cells for receiving the delayed pulses from the plurality of delay cells, outputting fine pulses corresponding to the delayed time, and generating one impulse signal with the outputted fine pulses. The edge combiner includes a plurality of XOR gates for receiving a first delayed pulse and a second delayed pulse from an nth delay cell and an (n+1)th delay cell among the plurality of delay cells and generating fine pulses, respectively, and an OR gate for receiving a first fine pulse and a second fine pulse respectively output from a first XOR gate and a second XOR gate included in the plurality of XOR gates.
US08625636B2	Checked write operation dispersed storage network frame A method begins by a processing module generating a payload of a dispersed storage network frame by generating a transaction number field including a transaction number and generating one or more slice payload sections, wherein each slice payload section includes a slice name field to include a slice name corresponding to an encoded data slice, a last known slice revision numbering field including a last known revision number of the slice name, a new slice revision numbering field including a new revision number of the slice name, a slice length field including a length of the encoded data slice, and a slice payload field including the encoded data slice. The method continues with the processing module generating a protocol header including a payload length field and remaining fields of the protocol header.
US08625620B2	Communication system and communication control method for requesting cancellation of registration as bad terminal A communication system providing a multimedia service which enables requesting a communication network to cancel a registration for a calling terminal as a bad terminal in the communication network. Typically, the calling terminal is connected to a calling-side communication network; and if the calling terminal is registered as a bad terminal in a called-side communication network, the calling-side communication network requests the called-side communication network to cancel the registration. The calling terminal may be informed that reception of a communication in the communication system has been restricted.
US08625601B2	Method and apparatus for low-overhead packet data transmission and control of reception mode A method for wireless communications where a control packet is not transmitted for all transmissions of a new data packet. A control packet is only sent with a retransmission of a data packet where the previously transmitted data packet is not completely received. The control packet contains information related to a previously transmitted data packet. The previously transmitted data packet and the retransmission data packet are derived from common data. The common data is derived based on the information related to the previously transmitted data packet, wherein the previously transmitted data packet and the retransmission data packet are associated with a series of data packets.
US08625598B2	Packet header compression for lossy channels The disclosed systems and methods provide for the compression and decompression of packet headers. An uncompressed header can be compressed in size to form a smaller, compressed header, such that the compressed header can include values that can be used to re-produce the uncompressed header. A compressed header can include at least two such values. A first value of the at least two values can be computed based on a second, earlier uncompressed header and can be used to derive the uncompressed header. Similarly, a second value of the at least two values can be computed based on a third uncompressed header and can be used to derive the same uncompressed header. Accordingly, the uncompressed header can be derived based on the first value and the second uncompressed header, or based on the second value and the third uncompressed header. The uncompressed header, second uncompressed header, and third uncompressed header can be associated with different packets.
US08625589B2	Video/audio network A packet-based data network including: an audio/video network comprising: a packet-switched network over which data including audio and/or video data packets can be carried; at least one data source connected to the network and operable to assemble packetised data comprising audio/video data at a first resolution and at a second resolution greater than the first resolution, and to transmit data packets carrying multiple audio/video streams at the first resolution by multicast network transmission; at least one client connected to the network, being a data handling device for handling packetised audio/video data and being arranged to join the multicast group to receive the multiple audio/video streams at the first resolution, wherein the client is associated with a graphical user interface configured in conjunction with a processor to select an audio/video stream, and the processor is arranged to issue a unicast command to cause transmission of a selected audio/video stream at the second resolution from the source to the client.
US08625588B2	Packet transmission method and packet transmission device A packet transfer method in a network apparatus that transfers packets is disclosed. In the packet transfer method, a sending side apparatus generates two copies of a send packet, provides a sequence number identifying the same sending sequence to each of the copied packets, provides an identifier corresponding to a send/receive pair to each of the copied packets to send the packets, and a receiving side apparatus receives each of the packets with two receiving units; recognizes the identifiers each corresponding to a send/receive pair; identifies packets having the same information and the sequence based on the sequence number when the identifiers are the same; selects one of the packets of the same sequence so as to send the packet downstream, and discards another packet, wherein, when only one of the packets of the same sequence arrives, the arriving packet is sent downstream.
US08625587B2	Transmission system and transmission apparatus Network connection of a terminal such as a mobile apparatus can be implemented at a transmission speed higher than that by a radio LAN. A connection method between a terminal and a connection apparatus is configured by replacing a radio LAN with electromechanical coupling, and transmission between the terminal and the connection apparatus is carried out using a baseband as it is without up conversion into a radio frequency band. This eliminates a bottleneck by the throughput of the radio LAN and eliminates the problems of the cost and the power consumption which arise from up conversion of a transmission signal. Further, bridging of data can be carried out by simple code conversion, and since the apparatus configuration is simplified, the cost can be reduced.
US08625580B2	Voice over internet protocol session identifiers for voice over internet protocol calls Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, and systems for voice session identifiers to facilitate voice over Internet protocol calls. Some embodiments include use of session identifiers that indicate an enabled status of individual call types for a mobile station. These session identifiers may be generated based on an authentication of a voice-services session.
US08625578B2	Access independent common architecture for real-time communications services for networking environments An access architecture for real-time communications is described. The architecture includes an inter-architecture network utilizing a single protocol, a plurality of border elements in communication with the inter-architecture network and with an external network, and one or more call control elements in communication with said inter-architecture network. The external network utilizes any of a variety of known networking technologies and protocols. The inter-architecture network utilizes a single protocol such as SIP. The present architecture provides a single common infrastructure for offering real-time communications services independent of call control protocols and networking technologies.
US08625571B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method with sleep condition features In order to solve problems arising when a communication system such as a wireless LAN is constructed as a decentralized distributed type network without a relationship of control station and controlled stations such as a master station and slave stations, in a wireless communication system composed of a plurality of communication stations without a relationship of control station and controlled stations, respective communication stations transmit beacons with information concerning a network written thereon with each other to construct the network, and it becomes possible to make sophisticated judgment such as communication states of other communication stations by those beacons.
US08625570B2	Robust unicast/broadcast/multicast communication protocol Methods and apparatus for implementing a robust unicast/broadcast/multicast protocol are provided. In one aspect, a method of avoiding collision of intra-basic service set unicast, broadcast or multicast transmissions notifies stations in the basic service set of a reserved transmit opportunity for a unicast, broadcast or multicast transmission. Transmissions from at least one station in the basic service set are deferred until after the reserved unicast, broadcast or multicast transmit opportunity.
US08625566B1	Detection of transmission in collocated wireless devices Interference between wireless devices communicating in close proximity to each other can result in performance degradation. Although the wireless devices may exchange information to schedule their communications, in some instances, a first wireless device may not notify the second wireless device before initiating a transmission. In addition to interference, components of the second wireless device may be damaged. Functionality can be implemented on the second wireless device to detect transmissions in the first wireless device and accordingly suspend communications of the second wireless device. This can help mitigate interference between the first and second wireless devices and prevent component damage of the second wireless device.
US08625565B2	Millimeter-wave communication station and method for multiple-access beamforming in a millimeter-wave communication network Embodiments of a millimeter-wave communication station and method for multiple-access beamforming in a millimeter-wave network are generally described herein. In some embodiments, an initiating station performs multiple-access beamforming with one or more responding stations by announcing a number of sector-sweep (SS) slots of a beamforming training (BFT) period and a number of SS frames of each SS slot. One or more SS frames are received from one or more of the responding stations within one of the SS slots of the BFT period. The initiating station transmits one or more SS feedback frames to the responding stations within the one SS slot to indicate an antenna configuration to the responding stations for communication with the initiating station. The responding stations transmit a limited number of SS frames per SS slot based on the number of SS frames announced by the initiating station and transmit any additional SS frames in a next SS slot of the beamforming training period. Each SS frame contains an indication to the initiating station of an antenna configuration for communication with the responding station.
US08625563B1	Conduit-sharing apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to share an energy conduit, such as an antenna, between first data communicated according to a first formatting mechanism and second data communicated according to a second formatting mechanism according to a first priority assigned to the first data and a second priority assigned to the second data. The first formatting mechanism may be different from the second formatting mechanism.
US08625558B2	Method and apparatus to determine a CFI (control format indicator) value in a wireless communication network A method and apparatus are disclosed determine a CFI value in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method comprises configuring system devices, such as a UE or an eNB, with a plurality of component carriers for carrier aggregation. Furthermore, the method comprises receiving PDSCH on a first component carrier. The method also comprises transmitting a corresponding PDCCH on a second component carrier. In addition, the method comprises using a RRC signal to configure a CFI with an initial configured value. The method further comprises setting the CFI so that the CFI could be used to determine a starting point of the PDSCH.
US08625545B2	Synchronization for extending battery life The present invention discloses a method and system for efficiently supporting data calls to WTRUs in systems that also support telephony. Various types of data is transmitted on a known schedule which is tightly synchronized to a predetermined time frame. The WTRUs synchronize their wake-up periods to search for data at times when data may or will actually be transmitted to them.
US08625541B2	Seamless session switching method and mobile terminal A seamless session switching method and a mobile terminal are provided in the present invention. The method includes: a first mobile terminal establishing a first VOIP session with a second terminal via an initial wireless network; the first mobile terminal acquiring a target wireless network when the first mobile terminal detects that a switching event occurs; the first terminal transmitting a second session request to the second terminal via the target wireless network, and keeping the first VOIP session continued; and the first mobile terminal establishing a second VOIP session with the second terminal via the target wireless network after receiving an acknowledge message for the second session request from the second terminal, and terminating the first VOIP session after the second VOIP session is established. The present invention can realize the seamless free switching, and use a better wireless network for the session, so as to increase the session quality of the user.
US08625535B2	Radio transmitting/receiving apparatus and method, terminal apparatus, base station apparatus and wireless communication system A terminal apparatus (1) which is a radio transmitting/receiving apparatus receives, from a femto cell base station (home eNB), a pilot channel signal for reception quality measurement and a synchronization channel signal for synchronization. The terminal apparatus (1) has a whitelist stored therein indicative of an accessible femto cell, and determines whether or not a CSG cell of handover destination is accessible based on a PCI of the CSG cell acquired from the synchronization channel and the whitelist. The terminal apparatus (1) then adds the PCI and a CGI to a measurement report for reception quality, and transmits the measurement report to a macro eNB (base station apparatus (2)). In this way, it is possible to suppress wasteful signaling and prevent unnecessary resources from being reserved even when two or more CSG cells that use the same PCI are present in the macro cell.
US08625530B2	Data processing during a mobile handover operation A data processing method is provided for forwarding data in the case of handover between heterogeneous networks. The data processing method includes: when a user equipment (UE) is handed over from an originating network to a receiving network, receiving, by the originating network, a data forwarding address obtained by the receiving network; creating a data forwarding tunnel between an originating network gateway and a receiving network gateway according to the data forwarding address; and forwarding data to the receiving network through the data forwarding tunnel. A data processing device is also provided. The lossless data processing solution can overcome the problem of data loss in the case of handover between heterogeneous networks in the existing technology, reduces the time of user service interruption and enhances the user experience.
US08625522B2	Techniques for resource block mapping in a wireless communication system A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes creating a resource block map by associating respective subscriber station identifications, corresponding to respective subscriber stations, with one or more resource blocks. The respective subscriber station identifications and the resource block map are transmitted, from a serving base station, in one or more control channel symbols.
US08625512B2	Encoding ratio setting method and radio communication device Disclosed are an encoding ratio setting method and a radio communication device which can avoid encoding of control information at an encoding ratio lower than necessary and suppress lowering of the transmission efficiency of the control information. In the device, an encoding ratio setting unit (122) sets the encoding ratio R′control of the control information which is time-multiplexed with user data, according to the encoding ratio Rdata of the user data, ΔPUSCHoffset as the PUSCH offset of each control information, and ΔRANKoffset as the rank offset based on the rank value of the data channel using Expression (1). Where ┌x┐ is an integer not greater than x, and max(x,y) is the greater one among X and Y.
US08625510B2	Method and system for using resources allocated to a wireless network in a coexisting wireless network A wireless device includes a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. The first wireless transceiver is configured to communicate via a first wireless network, and includes a first scheduler configured to schedule communication via the first wireless network. The second wireless transceiver is configured to communicate via a second wireless network. The second wireless transceiver includes a second scheduler. The second scheduler is configured to identify a resource allocated to the second wireless transceiver for a transaction via the second wireless network, to identify a portion of the resource used by the second wireless transceiver for the transaction, and to transfer information defining the portion to the first transceiver. The first scheduler is also configured to schedule, based on the information transferred by the second scheduler, the first transceiver to communicate via the first wireless network using the resource allocated to the second wireless transceiver for the transaction.
US08625506B2	System and method for determining establishment causes A user agent (UA), core network (CN) device, and method for a circuit switched (CS) fallback service in an evolved packet system (EPS). In one embodiment, the UA or CN includes a protocol layer having a non-access stratum (NAS). A processor of the UA or CN is configured to promote the NAS to process an EXTENDED SERVICE REQUEST having a service type with a decode value. The decode value identifies an EPS-defined radio resource control (RRC) establishment cause (EC).
US08625502B2	Method for reducing information load of packet service control channel The present disclosure provides a method for reducing information load of Packet Service Control Channel and a method for updating channelization code. The method for reducing information load of Packet Service Control Channel comprises the following steps: sending a service access request to a RNC by means of a UE; determining whether the service need to monitor HS-SCCH, and if the HS-SCCH is determined not to be monitored, configuring a transport block size index used when the UE does not need to monitor the HS-SCCH and transmitting the transport block size index to a BS, by means of a RNC; determining a channelization code of a High-Speed Physical Shared Channel according to the transport block size index, and sending the channelization code to the RNC, by means of the BS; transmitting the transport block size index and the channelization code to the UE by means of the RNC.
US08625498B2	Tiling allocations for wireless communication Allocations for access in a wireless system may be tiled onto a subframe having a first dimension and a second dimension. In an exemplary embodiment, allocations are distributed along the first dimension while the second dimension is locked, and the allocations are distributed along the second dimension while the first dimension is locked. In another exemplary embodiment, allocations are striped by extending a length of a first allocation along the first dimension and by expanding a breadth of the first allocation along the second dimension responsive to a size of the first allocation and by extending a length of a second allocation along the second dimension and expanding a breadth of the second allocation along the first dimension responsive to a size of the second allocation. In yet another exemplary embodiment, multiple allocations are placed proximately to an allocation placement target and allocation-free areas are produced on a subframe.
US08625496B2	Wireless network system and method for providing same A wireless network, which includes a wireless router client operable to broadcast data packets to at least one wireless server and one additional wireless client. Each client and server includes programs for determining optimum routes between them. The client also includes a program for determining if a received data packet is not addressed to it and if the packet has been sent via a new optimal route unknown to the client, and for notifying the respective server of such a new optimal route.
US08625486B2	MAC reset and reconfiguration A method and apparatus for reconfiguring a medium access control (MAC) entity in a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU). The method and apparatus includes the WTRU transmitting a MAC reconfiguration request, the WTRU receiving a MAC reconfiguration command including new MAC parameter values and the WTRU reconfiguring a MAC entity based on the new MAC parameter values in the MAC reconfiguration command.
US08625484B2	Methods and apparatus for providing fast and power efficient multicast scheme A base station (BS) may determine a fixed modulation scheme, a fixed PDU payload size, and a fixed number of PDUs per downlink burst for transmission of multicast data to subscriber stations. The BS may allocate downlink bursts to deliver the multicast data to the subscriber stations via PDUs using the fixed modulation scheme, the fixed PDU payload size, and the fixed number of PDUs per DL burst. A subscriber station (SS) may bypass the processing of multicast frames if the SS does not belong to any multicast groups. An SS may search for multicast connection identifiers (CIDs) in DL MAP IEs in multicast frames if the SS belongs to at least one multicast group. The SS may bypass the parsing of a PDU's MAC header within a corresponding downlink burst in the multicast frame in response to identifying a multicast CID in a DL-MAP IE in a multicast frame.
US08625483B2	Connection based local IP-mobility The invention relates to a method for packet switched data transmission in a local network, the local network comprising a mobile node and a plurality of interconnected connection anchor points each with a link at which the mobile node can attach. The method comprises the steps of detecting a movement of the mobile node from a first connection anchor point to a second connection anchor point, the mobile node communicating via a tunneled connection between the first and second connection anchor point, maintaining the existing tunneled connections between the second connection anchor point and the first connection anchor point, and enabling new connections between the mobile node and correspondent nodes using addresses that are topologically correct.
US08625480B2	Method and system for a relay node to access a network A method and a system for a relay node to access a network are provided, and are related to the field of communications technology. The invention is disclosed in order to solve the problem that the RN cannot access the network directly in the prior art. The method for the RN to access the network includes: receiving, by a base station, a network access message including information for identifying the RN (101); enabling, according to the information for identifying the RN (102), the RN waiting for access to access the network. Through the method, the RN can access the network directly through the base station.
US08625476B2	Mobility management system and method for distributed mobility management network The present invention relates to a mobility management system and method for distributed mobility management network providing initial connection and handoff processes of mobile nodes to support IP multicast, and a method of selecting agents and networks to receive multicast data by anchor agents in the distributed mobility management network, comprising: a mobile node receiving network access services by conducting wireless communications in the distributed mobility management network through the wireless transmitter-receiver as a device consists of a wireless transmitter-receiver, an antenna and a control unit; a mobility management anchor agent supporting the mobility of the above mobile node, and taking the role of anchor each time the mobile node moves; a mobility management information server receiving information on agent or network transmitting multicast channel and data currently received from the above mobility management anchor agent, and then registering and updating the information.
US08625474B2	System and method for the simultaneous reception of FLO and FLO-EV data A system for receiving data includes a receiver configured to receive a radio frequency communication signal comprising at least one superframe, the at least one superframe having at least a first data stream and a second data stream encoded therein, wherein the receiver decodes at least one of the first data stream and the second data stream.
US08625473B2	Method for forming an ad hoc network An ad hoc network is formed as a connection between a local area network with its services and at least one body-worn network when at least one computer in the local area network detects the local services located in the local area network, translates them into Jini services and offers them on the IP plane with the use of Jini middleware for body-worn networks.
US08625467B2	Rate-varying multicast transmission for clock distribution in packet networks In at least some embodiments, the disclosure includes an apparatus a root node in a packet based network that multicasts a plurality of packets. The apparatus also includes an intermediary node coupled to the root node and a plurality of leaf nodes coupled to the intermediary node. The root node, the intermediary node, and the plurality of leaf nodes are arranged in a tree topology. The packets are received at the intermediary node from the root node at a data rate equal to the data rate of the leaf node having the maximum data rate. The packets are multicast from the intermediary node to each of the plurality of leaf nodes at a plurality of different data rates such that each particular one of the plurality of leaf nodes receives the packets at a data rate corresponding to the data rate for the particular one of the plurality of leaf nodes.
US08625466B2	Multi-card network device appearing as single entity in spanning tree network Techniques are disclosed that may allow a network device comprising multiple line cards that are each executing a spanning tree algorithm to appear as a single spanning tree protocol entity to other network devices within a bridged local area network (LAN). In one example, a method includes determining, via a first processor on a first card of a network device, a first superior local port on the first card, transmitting, from the first card to a second card of the network device, a data unit specifying the determined first superior local port, and determining, via a second processor on the second card, a superior port on the network device among the first superior local port and a second plurality of ports on the second card based on a second plurality of BPDUs received via the second plurality of ports.
US08625459B2	Method and apparatus for planning radio network controllers in a wireless network A method and apparatus for providing planning of a plurality of radio network controllers in a wireless network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains input data, and determines a limit for at least one radio network controller parameter in accordance with the input data. The method determines if the limit for the at least one radio network controller parameter is exceeded and determines an optimal output for an objective function, wherein the objective function is based on a plurality of penalty factors, if the limit for the at least one radio controller parameter is exceeded.
US08625453B2	Ad-hoc network and a method for configuring the ad-hoc network and a mobile repeater telephone for use in the ad-hoc network and use of the mobile repeater telephone An ad-hoc network that includes a plurality of telephones at least one of which is a mobile repeater telephone for establishing a first telephone connection line between a first caller telephone and a first receiver telephone, and for simultaneously establishing at least one second telephone connection line between a second caller telephone and a second receiver telephone. A subset of all the mobile repeater telephones in the network each have its own unique code and a subset of the unique codes are known to a subset of all mobile repeater telephones in the ad-hoc network. The mobile repeater telephones have a software program stored on the processors of the telephones or a database that is accessible by the telephones. The software program includes a geographic map in electronic form of the area of the network and includes data about topography and obstacles and how much the obstacles attenuate the signal.
US08625452B2	Maintenance of high-speed channels by inserting channel maintenance data in a mobile data network to avoid channel type switching A mobile data network includes a radio access network and a core network. A first service mechanism in the radio access network breaks out data coming from a basestation. When data is broken out by the first service mechanism, the data is delivered at the edge, which means the true activity of the channel is not visible to the core network. The reduction of data in the core network due to serving data at the edge risks causing a switch from a high-speed channel to a low-speed channel by the mechanism in the core network that monitors and assigns channel speeds. In order to maintain the high-speed channel, the on-going data rate for a subscriber session is monitored and channel maintenance traffic is injected towards and from the radio network controller (in both directions). The amount of channel maintenance traffic depends on thresholds that determine a desired data rate.
US08625443B2	System for measuring transmission bandwidth for media streaming and method for same A system for measuring a transmission bandwidth for media streaming and a method thereof that are capable of calculating the transmission bandwidth by using a transmission packet to be transmitted to a receiver without transmitting a proving packet to the receiver and streaming media data to a receiver by using the transmission bandwidth in a service for streaming the media data such as a moving picture in real time.
US08625433B2	Method and apparatus for use in a communications network A method of enabling redundancy for a Home Subscriber Service (HSS) of an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is provided. Redundancy is provided by a plurality of HSS instances. Where a client node of the IMS requires details of an HSS, the client node is provided with details of a proxy HSS representing the HSS instances. The client node uses the details to send a subsequent request directed to the proxy HSS. The proxy HSS selects an appropriate one of the HSS instances to handle the request received at the proxy HSS from the client node. The proxy HSS forwards the request to the selected HSS instance for handling.
US08625430B2	Method and system for implementing smoothing of signaling traffic, and home location register Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for implementing smoothing of signaling traffic, and a home location register. The method includes: when a link between an HLR and an exchange device is congested or the HLR is overloaded, receiving, by the HLR, a location update request message of a user equipment UE sent by the exchange device, and returning a location update response message to the exchange device, so as to inform the exchange device that the location update of the UE is successful, where the HLR does not send user data corresponding to the UE to the exchange device; and when the link between the HLR and the exchange device is normal, the load of the HLR is normal, or the UE performs a service, sending, by the HLR, the user data corresponding to the UE to the exchange device.
US08625428B2	Method and apparatus for handling a switch using a preferred destination list The present invention relates to switching technology, such Ethernet, where data switching is performed based on a collision-prone switching table (31). The invention provides a possibility to avoid difficult collision-caused flooding and makes it possible to use simple and inexpensive switching equipment, while still not having to worry about consequences of collision-caused flooding. A preferred destination list (43) is provided. This list identifies one or more preferred switching destinations (1, 11). For each preferred destination, a switching address and a corresponding port identification is obtained (53). An order (55) is then made to enter and lock the obtained switching address and corresponding port identification into the switching table (31).
US08625426B2	Network flow termination A network has a plurality of edge nodes (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) and core nodes (3a, 3b, 3c) for carrying flows of data from an ingress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) to an egress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) along a path of core nodes. For any given path in the network work from an ingress node to an egress node, the number of flows is controlled. When network congestion occurs, the egress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) provides an indication of the level of network congestion. Terminating flows is disruptive and therefore the ingress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) can mark other flows with a congestion marker and send them to the egress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d). These marked flows are routed by the core and egress gateway (7a, 7b, 7c, 7d) but ignored for calculating network congestion. When the network congestion is alleviated, the marked flows can be un-marked and treated as normal flows, hence the network avoids unnecessary flow termination.
US08625424B2	Method and system for routing information in a network A method and system for determining an optimal route from a node to a given sink node in a network is described. Sink node periodically transmits routing information containing an indicator of recency. This indicator of recency is periodically updated. Routing information is received by a plurality of nodes in the network. Each node receiving routing information compares the indicator of recency contained in the routing information with an indicator of recency stored at the node to determine whether the received routing information is more recent than the stored routing information. An optimal route to the sink node is determined based on this comparison. Each node also periodically transmits routing information based on stored routing information to other nodes.
US08625423B2	Device and method for relaying packets A system having a plurality of network devices, each including: an interface module including a plurality of physical ports to transmit and receive packets; a computing module configured to execute a computing process with a computational expression using seed information, the seed information including at least one of destination information and source information associated with a received packet; a destination search module configured to, based on the result of the computation, select a physical port for transmission of the received packet from a plurality of candidate ports among the plurality of physical ports; and a modifying module configured to modify the computational expression, wherein the plurality of network devices include preceding-stage and subsequent-stage network devices, the subsequent-stage network device being directly coupled to the preceding-stage network device with physical wiring, and wherein the subsequent-stage and preceding-stage network devices are configured to use different expressions in the computing process.
US08625421B2	DAD-NS triggered address resolution for DoS attack protection A first network element that receives an appropriation message from a second network element that indicates a target address which the second network element intends to appropriate for its use. In response to the appropriation message, the first network element broadcasts a discovery message to a plurality of network elements on the network to request a link-layer address in association with the first target address. The first network element receives a discovery response from the second network element with the first target address and the link-layer address of the second network element. Then the first network element updates a neighbor cache to include a pre-cached neighbor cache entry associating the link-layer address to the first target address. This prevents one or more future neighbor cache misses associated with the first target address.
US08625420B2	System and method for increasing granularity of prefix control in a computer network In one embodiment, a routing table of a router is populated with a plurality of prefixes. One or more performance characteristics of the plurality of prefixes are monitored. The router determines that a need exists to split a selected prefix of the plurality of prefixes. The router determines one or more boundaries upon which to split the selected prefix based on the monitored performance characteristics. The router then injects one or more more-specific prefixes into the routing table, each more-specific prefix referring to a smaller subset of nodes than the selected prefix, to split the selected prefix on the one or more boundaries to create a plurality of split prefixes. The split prefixes are controlled to optimize distribution of traffic.
US08625417B2	Wireless roaming with QoS and dynamic call capacity management According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for assistance in roaming and call capacity comprises the transmission of a first message to obtain information regarding access point capacity prior to transmitting a data flow. The first message identifies the priority level of the data flow and a requested medium time for the data flow. Thereafter, an access point transmits a second message that identifies whether the requested medium time is available for the data flow. This may involve setting of a “zero” value in the medium time allowed if there are no resources available or a reduced medium time if limited resources are offered to the requesting wireless device.
US08625416B2	Verifying communication redundancy in a network Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media support diagnosing a communications network using a network protocol that ensures a loop-free topology to prevent bridge loops. One of the network devices is identified as a selected device in a network ring, where the selected device interacts with the network ring through first and second ports. The values of some of the parameters of the selected device are modified to be distinguishable from that of any network device in the ring, and diagnostics about the functioning of the network protocol are then performed to obtain state information about the first and second ports. When one of the ports is determined to be in the blocking state, network redundancy for the network ring is verified. However, when neither of the ports is not in the blocking state, a redundancy problem may be detected.
US08625415B2	Dynamic buffer status report selection for carrier aggregation In one exemplary aspect of this invention a method includes buffering data in a user equipment and, in response to an amount of buffered data exceeding a threshold value, triggering the generation of a buffer status report and the sending of the buffer status report to a network access node, where the threshold value is a function of the capacity of a currently allocated uplink data transmission resource and some certain amount of time. In another exemplary embodiment the triggering of the generation of the buffer status report and the sending of the buffer status report to a network access node occurs when an amount of buffered data in a buffer of a particular logical channel group exceeds a maximum value associated with one of a plurality of buffer status report tables that is currently in use.
US08625412B2	Redundant pseudowires between ethernet access domains A computer network includes first and second Ethernet access domain networks, each of Ethernet access domain networks including a user-facing provider edge (u-PE) device, and a stack group of network-facing provider edge (n-PE) devices coupled with the u-PE device, the n-PE devices running a bidding protocol to select one of the n-PE devices as a primary n-PE device for a single pseudowire connection path between the first and second Ethernet access domain networks. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US08625409B2	Method and apparatus for correlating and suppressing performance alerts in internet protocol networks A method and apparatus for correlating and suppressing performance alerts in a packet network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for handling alerts in a packet network includes receiving a plurality of alerts relating to one or more faults in the packet network, wherein the plurality of alerts is generated from information contained in a plurality of call detail records, correlating the plurality of alerts into one or more sets of performance alerts, each of the one or more sets of performance alerts being associated with a common one of the one or more faults, and suppressing at least one further alert relating to at least one of the one or more sets.
US08625394B2	Variable alarm sounds Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide in an exemplary aspect thereof a method that includes storing data descriptive of a plurality of alarm sounds received from at least one source of alarm sounds, the stored data forming a set of alarm sounds; selecting an alarm sound from the set of alarm sounds; and playing the selected alarm sound at a predetermined time, where the selected alarm sound is one corresponding to data that was most recently stored. In another exemplary aspect of the invention a method includes, in response to a user input, enabling an alarm function and recording a current time of day; monitoring the time of day and activating the alarm function when the time of day is equal to a predetermined time of day; and making an alarm sound audible, where the alarm sound is selected from a set of alarm sounds based at least in part on a difference in time between the recorded time of day and the predetermined time of day.
US08625381B2	Stacked semiconductor device Provided is a stacked semiconductor device including n stacked chips. Each chip includes “j” corresponding upper and lower electrodes, wherein j is a minimal natural number greater than or equal to n/2, and an identification code generator including a single inverter connecting one of the j first upper electrode to a corresponding one of the j lower electrodes. The upper electrodes receive a previous identification code, rotate the previous identification code by a unit of 1 bit, and invert 1 bit of the rotated previous identification code to generate a current identification code. The current identification code is applied through the j lower electrodes and corresponding TSVs to communicate the current identification code to the upper adjacent chip.
US08625375B2	Temperature detection circuit of semiconductor memory apparatus A temperature detection circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a fixed period oscillator, a temperature variable signal generating unit and a counting unit. The oscillator is configured to generate a fixed period oscillator signal when an enable signal is enabled. The temperature variable signal generating unit is configured to generate a temperature variable signal whose enable interval varies based on temperature variations, when the enable signal is enabled. The counting unit is configured to count the oscillator signal during the enable interval of the temperature variable signal to generate a temperature information signal.
US08625365B2	Memory device and method using encode values for access error condition detection A memory module decodes an address to determine a one or more wordline select pattern, or other spatial select pattern. An encoder determines an encoded value based upon the wordline select pattern that is compared to an expected encode value. The encode value has fewer than twice the number of address bits used to determine the wordline select pattern.
US08625360B2	Semiconductor storage device operative to search for data To provide a semiconductor storage device capable of performing a search of the next data while performing a search of certain data. A first comparator compares data output to a bit line from a memory cell with first search data by activating a word line. A second comparator compares data output to a bit line from the memory cell with second search data by activating a word line. Data output to a bit line by the activation of one word line is input to both the first comparator and second comparator.
US08625353B2	Method and apparatus for staggered start-up of a predefined, random, or dynamic number of flash memory devices A method, apparatus, and manufacture for memory device startup is provided. Flash memory devices are configured such that, upon the power supply voltage reaching a pre-determined level, each flash memory is arranged to load the random access memory with instructions for the flash memory, and then execute a first portion of the instructions for the flash memory. After executing the first portion of the instructions for the flash memory, each separate subset of the flash memories waits for a separate, distinct delay period. For each flash memory, after the delay period expires for that flash memory, the flash memory executes a second portion of the instructions for the flash memory.
US08625344B2	Memory system and method of accessing a semiconductor memory device A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed.
US08625340B1	Magnetic sidewalls for write lines in field-induced MRAM and methods of manufacturing them In one embodiment, there is provided a non-volatile magnetic memory cell. The non-volatile magnetic memory cell comprises a switchable magnetic element; and a word line and a bit line to energize the switchable magnetic element; wherein at least one of the word line and the bit line comprises a magnetic sidewall that is discontinuous.
US08625337B2	Method and apparatus of probabilistic programming multi-level memory in cluster states of bi-stable elements A probabilistic programming current is injected into a cluster of bi-stable probabilistic switching elements, the probabilistic programming current having parameters set to result in a less than unity probability of any given bi-stable switching element switching, and a resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements is detected. The probabilistic programming current is injected and the resistance of the cluster state detected until a termination condition is met. Optionally the termination condition is detecting the resistance of the cluster of bi-stable switching elements at a value representing a multi-bit data.
US08625333B2	Memory device having memory cells with write assist functionality A memory device includes a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells. At least a given one of the memory cells comprises a pair of cross-coupled inverters and associated write assist circuitry. The write assist circuitry comprises first switching circuitry coupled between a supply node of a device of the first inverter and a supply node of the memory cell, and second switching circuitry coupled between a supply node of a device of the second inverter and the supply node of the memory cell. The first and second switching circuitry are separately controlled, with the first switching circuitry being controlled using a wordline and an uncomplemented bitline of the memory device, and the second switching circuitry being controlled using the wordline and a complemented bitline of the memory device.
US08625330B2	Nonvolatile memory apparatus and write control method thereof A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes a memory cell array, and a write operation controller configured to verify a write operation by comparing input data of the write operation controller to cell data written into the memory cell array, measure a resistance value after a first time is elapsed, and determine whether or not to re-perform the write operation according to the measured resistance value.
US08625325B2	Memory cells including resistance variable material patterns of different compositions A non-volatile memory device includes a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and an array of variable resistance memory cells each electrically connected between a respective word line and a respective bit line. Each of the memory cells includes first and second resistance variable patterns electrically connected in series between first and second electrodes. A material composition of the first resistance variable pattern is different than a material composition of the second resistance variable pattern. Multi-bit data states of each memory cell are defined by a contiguous increase in size of a programmable high-resistance volume within the first and second resistance variable patterns.
US08625324B2	Non-salicide polysilicon fuse The embodiments of methods and structures disclosed herein provide mechanisms of forming and programming a non-salicided polysilicon fuse. The non-salicided polysilicon fuse and a programming transistor form a one-time programmable (OTP) memory cell, which can be programmed with a low programming voltage.
US08625323B2	Memory module having high data processing rate A memory module having a high data processing rate and high capacity is provided. The memory module may include a memory chip, a controller controlling an operation of the memory chip, an optical detector converting an external input signal into an internal input signal to transmit the converted signal to the controller, and an optical generator converting an internal output signal received from the controller into an external output signal. The optical detector converts an external input optical signal into an internal input signal to transmit the converted signal to the controller. The optical generator converts an internal output signal received from the controller into an external output optical signal.
US08625315B2	Inverter modulator with variable switching frequency An inverter control is used to control the output of a distributed power generating station, such as a photovoltaic (PV) solar power station, connected to a power grid. The power station is connected to an inverter output. Pulse width modulation is used to shape the output in order to maximize power output within power quality parameters and provides control of a switching frequency of the inverter responsive to a sensed parameter. The technique allows an increase in output efficiency and provides for adjustment of power output to meet power quality parameters to an extent required in order to connect to the power grid.
US08625300B2	Circuit manufacturing and design techniques for reference plane voids with strip segment Manufacturing circuits with reference plane voids over vias with a strip segment interconnect permits routing critical signal paths over vias, while increasing via insertion capacitance only slightly. The transmission line reference plane defines voids above (or below) signal-bearing plated-through holes (PTHs) that pass through a rigid substrate core, so that the signals are not degraded by an impedance mismatch that would otherwise be caused by shunt capacitance from the top (or bottom) of the signal-bearing PTHs to the transmission line reference plane. In order to provide increased routing density, signal paths are routed over the voids, but disruption of the signal paths by the voids is prevented by including a conductive strip through the voids that reduces the coupling to the signal-bearing PTHs and maintains the impedance of the signal path conductor.
US08625299B2	Circuit board with even current distribution A circuit board includes an outer conductive layer, a number of inner conductive layers, at least one group of vias defined through the outer conductive layer and the inner conductive layers and electrically connected each conductive layers, at least one power supply element, and at least one electronic element. The at least one group of vias surrounds the at least one power supply element. When the least one power supply element outputs current to the at least one electronic element, a first portion of the output current flows to the inner conductive layers through the group of vias surrounding the at least one power supply element to be input to the at least one electronic element, and a second portion of the output current flows into the at least one electronic element through the outer conductive layer.
US08625290B2	Waterproof structure for portable terminal A waterproof structure for a portable terminal including a flexible printed circuit (FPC) extending outside of a first housing of a pair of housings from inside the first housing and arranged inside of a second housing of the pair of housings. A wiring hole is formed in each housing to provide a path allowing passage of the FPC therethrough. A waterproof member provided in the wiring hole substantially contacts at least inner walls of the housings and an outer circumferential surface of the FPC to prevent movement of the FPC. An outer circumferential surface of the waterproof member substantially contacts a circumference of an inlet of the wiring hole or an inner wall of the wiring hole. The waterproof member is provided between the housing of the portable terminal and the FPC improving a waterproof function and preventing moisture or water from being introduced into the housing of the terminal.
US08625284B2	Printed circuit board system for automotive power converter An automotive power converter may include a cold plate, a printed circuit board spaced away from the cold plate and including at least one heat generating electrical component attached thereto, and another printed circuit board disposed between the cold plate and the printed circuit board spaced away from the cold plate. The converter may further include at least one thermally conductive element configured to provide a thermally conductive path from the at least one heat generating electrical component to the cold plate. The at least one thermally conductive element may pass through the printed circuit boards.
US08625271B2	Mounting apparatus for PCI card A mounting apparatus for a PCI card includes an enclosure, a mounting bracket configured to secure a first end of the PCI card, a securing bracket mounted on the bottom panel, and a securing member. The securing bracket includes a bracket body and an engaging plate extending from the bracket body. The securing member includes a pressing element pivotably mounted to the securing bracket and a securing element pivotably mounted on the pressing element. The securing element is configured to engage the engaging plate to enable the pressing element to press the second end to locate the second end between the bracket body and the pressing element.
US08625266B2	Laptop computer A laptop computer includes a main body, a display, a component, and a frame. The main body includes a front end, a back end opposite to the front end, a left side surface and a right side surface connected between the front end and the back end, and a socket positioned at the back end. The display is pivoted to the front end of the main body. The component is detachably inserted into the socket. The frame is movably connected to the left side surface and the right side surface. The frame is able to rotate between a locked position and an unlocked position, when the frame is at the locked position, the frame keeps the component in the socket, and when the frame is at the unlocked position, the component is able to be pulled out from the socket.
US08625265B2	Flat panel display A flat panel display includes a housing, a support base, a support plate, a connecting plate, and a fixing element. The housing defines a sliding groove and a plurality of holes arranged in a line parallel to the extending direction of the sliding groove. The support plate is fixed at the support base. The connecting plate is rotatably connected with the support base. A protruding part is formed on the connecting plate and is sliably received in the sliding groove. The connecting plate further defines a through hole. The fixing element extends through the through hole and is inserted into one of the holes to fix the position of the connecting plate relative to the housing.
US08625252B2	Ion diffusing apparatus and ion generating cartridge An ion diffusing apparatus is disclosed which can maintain a stable ion supplying capability. In the ion diffusing apparatus, the ion generator is detachable for easy maintenance and can deliver the positive ions and negative ions to a remote position while uniformly generating positive ions and negative ions. The ion diffusing apparatus includes an ion generator housing which houses the generator so that a positive ion generating part and a negative ion generating part are provided separately in a direction crossing a flow direction of a stream from a fan, and an ion generating surface is exposed which conforms to a stream flow surface of a stream flow passage extended from the fan to a supply opening. The ion generator may also be a cartridge which has an ion generating surface shaped to conform to the stream flow surface of the stream flow passage.
US08625248B2	Electrostatic discharge protector The present invention provides an electrostatic discharge protector capable of protecting electronic circuit boards having various designs from electrostatic discharge freely, simply and easily. The electrostatic discharge protector of the present invention comprises at least three conductive members containing one pair of electrodes and the conductive members other than the electrodes, the conductive members are each disposed in such a way that the gap between one conductive member and the other conductive member has a width of 0.1 to 10 μm, an insulating member is disposed and embedded in at least one of gaps having a width of 0.1 to 10 μm which are adjacent to each conductive member and one electrode is connected to the other electrode paired with the one electrode through the insulating member and the conductive members other than electrodes.
US08625245B2	Method for protecting an electronic switch incorporated in an automotive vehicle, for controlling the power supply of an electric load A method for protecting an electronic switch incorporated in an automotive vehicle in order to control the power supply of an electric load, the method including implementing a protection strategy, based on the use of a table of overload intensity values IS, intended to make it possible to detect and count the overshoots of the overload values IS, and to interrupt the operation of the electronic switch beyond a given number of overloads undergone. A table of overload intensities IS is established giving, for values of the power supply voltage that are greater than a predetermined voltage value VNbat, values IS=IT+ΔIc, with ΔIc being identical for all the values, and for values of the power supply voltage that are less than or equal to VNbat, a constant value IS such that IS=IT(VNbat)+ΔIc.
US08625244B2	System and method for circuit overcurrent protection In one aspect, the invention provides a method for overcurrent sensing including; generating an analog output signal representative of a sensed AC current, generating a digital representation of the analog output signal using a plurality of discrete samples, determining those of the plurality of discrete samples having a substantially identical magnitude and estimating an amount of overcurrent in the sensed AC current by evaluating those of the plurality of discrete samples that have the substantially identical magnitude. In some embodiments, the substantially identical magnitude is a maximum magnitude represented by the digital representation.
US08625240B2	Input/output circuit with inductor An input/output (I/O) circuit includes an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit electrically coupled with an output node of the I/O circuit. At least one inductor and at least one loading are electrically coupled in a series fashion and between the output node of the I/O circuit and a power line. A circuitry is electrically coupled with a node between the at least one inductor and the at least one loading. The circuitry is operable to increase a current flowing through the at least one inductor during a signal transition.
US08625224B1	Characterizing magnetic recording parameters of a disk drive by evaluating track profile of dual microtracks A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of tracks. The head is positioned over a track minus a first delta and a first frequency pattern is written at a first frequency. The head is positioned over the track plus a second delta and a second frequency pattern is written at a second frequency different from the first frequency. After writing the first frequency pattern and second frequency pattern, a third frequency pattern is written substantially centered on the track at a third frequency. After writing the third frequency pattern, the head is scanned across the track while reading the disk to generate a read signal. A first frequency component is extracted from the read signal representing the first frequency, and a second frequency component is extracted from the read signal representing the second frequency.
US08625222B2	Storage device having calibration circuitry providing programmable phase update values A hard disk drive or other disk-based storage device comprises a storage disk, a read/write head configured to read data from and write data to the disk, and control circuitry coupled to the read/write head and configured to process data received from and supplied to the read/write head. The control circuitry comprises calibration circuitry configured to vary a phase of a clock signal as a test pattern is written to the storage disk as part of a calibration procedure, and disk locked clock circuitry coupled to the calibration circuitry and configured to obtain phase lock between the clock signal and a timing pattern on a surface of the storage disk. The calibration circuitry is further configured to determine an initial phase update value to be applied by the disk locked clock circuitry in a control loop as the phase of the clock signal is varied as part of the calibration procedure.
US08625221B2	Detector pruning control system Various embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses, systems and methods for data detection in a detector with a pruning control system. For example, a data detector is disclosed that includes a first set of counters operable to distinguish prunable data from non-prunable data in the data detector, a second set of counters operable to generate initial values for the first set of counters, and a prune control signal generator operable to generate a prune control signal based on the first set of counters. The second set of counters is operable to generate the initial values at least in part before a syncmark is detected in a data sector. The initial values are used to initialize the first set of counters when the syncmark is detected in the data sector. The prune control signal controls whether the data detector is allowed to prune a trellis.
US08625218B1	ACQ in the presence of baseline pop Systems and methods for the correction of DC noise in signals read by a head of a disk drive are presented. Circuitry on a first data path may be configured to filter an input signal to remove a DC component. Acquisition parameters on the first data path may be configured based on the filtered signal. Circuitry on a second data path may be configured to adjust the input signal based on the configured acquisition parameters. A mean of a window of data samples of the adjusted input signal may be computed. Based on the computed mean, a correction may be applied to the adjusted input signal until a stopping rule is satisfied.
US08625217B1	Branch metric computation and noise predictive calibration/adaptation for over-sampled Y samples Techniques are disclosed for performing branch metric computations/noise predictive calibration/adaptation for over-sampled Y samples. In one or more embodiments, the techniques employ a data processing apparatus (circuit) that includes a parallel to serial convertor configured to receive a first stream of sample data (e.g., Y samples) and a second stream of sample data (e.g., Z samples). The parallel to serial convertor is operable to combine the first stream of sample data and the second stream of sample data into a combined stream of sample data (e.g., combined Y and Z samples). The data processing apparatus (circuit) further includes a filter (e.g., a noise predictive finite impulse response (NPFIR) filter, a noise whitening filter, such as a noise predictive calibration/adaptation module (NPCAL) filter, and so forth) that is configured to receive the combined stream of sample data and whiten noise in the combined stream of sample data.
US08625215B1	Method and system for compensating for adjacent tracks during writing of data A method of writing data to a storage device includes writing current data to a first track of data, monitoring write head position, and on detection of encroachment of the write head position on a second track of previously written data, using the current data to recover the previously written data on the second track, and rewriting the current data to the first track. A storage controller includes a device controller that writes data to a current track of data on a storage device. The device controller monitors write head position. On detection of encroachment of the write head position on a second track of previously written data uses the current data to recover the previously written data on the second track, and rewrites the current data to the first track. A storage system includes a storage medium having a plurality of tracks of data thereon, and a storage controller.
US08625212B2	System for guiding optical elements A system for guiding optical elements, in particular lenses, along an optical axis of a microscope, in particular a stereomicroscope, or of a macroscope, guide system including at least one guide rod which extends parallel to the optical axis and is at least partially made from a magnetizable material, and further including a carrier for the optical elements, the carrier being displaceable along the at least one guide rod and providing magnetic attraction between itself and at least one guide rod; for providing magnetic attraction, including at least one magnetizable wheel adapted to roll along the at least one guide rod while rotating about an axis as the carrier is displaced; the at least one guide rod (312, 314) being made of magnetizable material and/or the magnetizable wheel being at least in part permanently magnetic.
US08625200B2	Head-mounted display apparatus employing one or more reflective optical surfaces Head-mounted displays (100) are disclosed which include a frame (107), an image display system (110) supported by the frame (107), and a reflective surface, e.g., a free-space, ultra-wide angle, reflective optical surface (a FS/UWA/RO surface) (120), supported by the frame (107). In certain embodiments, the reflective surface (120) produces spatially-separated virtual images that are angularly separated by at least 100, 150, or 200 degrees. Methods and apparatus for designing reflective optical surfaces, including FS/UWA/RO surfaces, for use in head-mounted displays (100) are also disclosed.
US08625193B2	Optical semiconductor device The present invention is an optical semiconductor device including a lower clad layer 12 having a first conduction type, an active layer 14 that is provided on the lower clad layer 12 and has multiple quantum dot layers 51-55 having multiple quantum dots 41, and an upper clad layer 18 that is provided on the active layer 14 and has a second conduction type opposite to the first conduction type, the multiple quantum dot layers 51-55 having different quantum dot densities.
US08625192B2	Optical amplifier system for pulsed laser based on a guiding gain medium and pulsed laser comprising same An optical amplifier for pulsed laser with short or ultra-short and energetic pulses includes an optical pumping source for generating a pump wave, an elongate amplifying medium including an input interface for receiving an optical signal to be amplified, the medium being able to amplify the optical signal propagating along the amplifying medium and to extract an amplified signal and an optical system for coupling the pump wave in the amplifying medium so as to pump the amplifying medium longitudinally. The amplifying medium has a minimum transverse dimension φ3 and the optical system focuses the pump wave inside the gain medium, the focused pump wave having a transverse dimension φ6 which is smaller than the dimension φ3 of the medium and a smaller numerical aperture than the numerical aperture of the medium, so that the pump wave propagates freely over a part of the amplifying medium and then in a confined manner over a part of the amplifying medium.
US08625188B2	Process for the manufacture of electrophoretic displays This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of a multi-color electrophoretic display involving adding colorant solutions or dispersions of different colors and charged pigment particles in separate steps. The process comprises a first step of pattern-wise filling colorant solutions or dispersions into microcups in predetermined areas, followed by a step of pattern-wise or non-pattern-wise adding an electrophoretic fluid comprising charged pigment particles dispersed in a dielectric solvent or solvent mixture into the microcups which are pre-filled with the colorants.
US08625183B2	Three dimensional holographic volumetric display A holographic volumetric display comprises a pattern generation unit (20), a programmable lighting device and a holographic screen (28). The holographic screen contains one or more pre-recorded set(s) of spatially sampled holographic interference patterns (or sub-holograms) each capable of reproducing one or more volume element(s) or voxel(s) (32) in three dimensional space outside the plane of the holographic screen when each sub-hologram is selectively illuminated. A sub-hologram is a sampled hologram of a voxel and sub-holograms in one set are spatially interleaved across the surface of the holographic screen with other sub-holograms. The programmable lighting device may be provided by a color digital projection unit (28) and the pattern generation unit which can illuminate any number of sub-holograms on the holographic screen. In this way, a volumetric display with holographic voxels can be made. The holographic volumetric display can reconstruct three-dimensional moving images in color.
US08625173B2	Image recording apparatus An image recording apparatus including: a main frame including (a) a pair of side plates facing each other in one direction and (b) a base plate whose opposite end portions in the one direction are respectively supported by the pair of side plates; a guide member provided at an inside area interposed between a pair of side plates in the one direction, so as to define a conveying path through which a recording medium is conveyed; and a sensor device supported by one of the pair of side plates and configured to sense the recording medium conveyed through the conveying path.
US08625166B2	Image processing method and apparatus utilizing halftone processing and test patch Upon setting of a halftone process of an initial setting, there is such a problem that graininess deteriorates due to an aging change or an environmental change. To solve this problem, an image processing apparatus executes a halftone process on a test image for tone correction and prints the processed test image; forms a tone correction table in accordance with read values from the printed test image; obtains graininess from a read value of a low density portion of a tone correction patch of the test image for the tone correction; discriminates whether the obtained graininess exceeds a predetermined reference level; and changes a setting of the halftone process so as to reduce the graininess when it is discriminated that the obtained graininess exceeds the predetermined reference level.
US08625164B2	Image forming apparatus and method, computer program, and recording medium using density signal and look-up table In a recording medium selecting step, a recording medium on which an image is to be formed is selected from among a plurality of recording media having unique color tones. In a mode setting step, it is determined whether the image is to be output in a monochrome mode. In a signal converting step, a luminance signal corresponding to the image is converted into a density signal when the monochrome mode is set in the mode setting step. In a forming step, an image is formed on the recording medium selected in the recording medium selecting step according to the density signal. The signal converting step is controlled so that a color tone of an intermediate-density portion of the image formed on the recording medium is set to be near a=A in the ab* plane of the CIE-Lab* space, where A is a constant.
US08625154B2	Apparatus and method for reproducing optimized preference color using candidate images and natural languages An apparatus and method are provided for reproducing an optimized preference color using candidate images and natural languages, in which user-oriented optimized picture quality can be provided through a printer. The apparatus includes a preference color-natural language information memory which stores characteristic information of a preference color mapped on a natural language, a candidate image provider module which provides candidate images having characteristic information applied to original images, and a candidate preference image input module which inputs one image, which satisfies a user's preference, among the candidate images.
US08625152B2	System and method for adding data to a printed publication Systems and methods for adding data to a printed publication are provided. One system comprises a data source for providing the data, a processing circuit, and an energy source. The processing circuit is configured to retrieve the data from the data source and to control the energy source to at least partially ablate the printed publication based on the data. The publication is printed by a web offset printing press as the substrate travels through a plurality of print units of the web offset printing press. The processing circuit is configured to control the energy source to ablate the printed publication in-line with its production on the print units.
US08625149B2	Apparatus and method controlling zooming process at laser device for high-speed high-resolution double-sided printing without wide-ranged image degradation or banding An image forming apparatus includes a positioning unit that acquires a misalignment amount of a pixel in a main-scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction, the pixel as a reference pixel for zooming image data, and decides a position of a pixel as a correction target, based on the misalignment amount; a correcting unit that corrects the pixel; a zooming unit that controls the positioning unit and the correcting unit so as to repeatedly perform the positioning process and the correction process on a pixel line; a pattern recognition unit that performs pattern matching on a predetermined pattern and a predetermined pixel line; and a pixel position changing unit that shifts the decided pixel position in the sub-scanning direction, wherein the zooming unit performs the zooming process on the pixel line of the sub-scanning direction including the pixel that is located at shifted pixel position.
US08625146B2	Laser oscillating mirror support for color printer Systems, apparatuses, and methods for pre-rendering image data for a plurality of scanning paths are described here. The method includes receiving image data including a plurality of scan lines for a top portion of an image page, pre-rendering the data for a first scanning path to generate a first data set, pre-rendering the data for a second scanning path to generate a second data set, determining an initial scanning direction, and selecting the first data set or the second data set responsive to said determining. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08625139B2	Image forming apparatus, service cooperation method, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of individual processing units respectively corresponding to a plurality of services that cooperate with the image forming apparatus via a network and configured to communicate with the services and perform individual processing corresponding to the services, a specifying unit configured to specify an individual processing unit corresponding to the service selected out of the plurality of services in response to a user operation from the plurality of individual processing units, and a generation unit serving as a module commonly used among the plurality of individual processing units and configured to generate screen information corresponding to the individual processing unit specified by the specifying unit based on the information managed by the individual processing unit.
US08625128B2	Information-processing device, an information-processing system, and a storing medium An information-processing device includes: an execution unit that executes a first part of a process, based on process instruction data representing a process including a first part and a second part of the process, the first part and the second part of the process performed by the information-processing device and an external device, respectively; an instruction unit that instructs the external device to execute the second part of the process; a receiving unit that receives data from the external device regarding the history of the second part of the process; and a memory that stores data regarding the history of the first part of the process and data received by the receiving unit.
US08625126B2	Management of recording medium storage when outputting print job log information An output job in an image forming apparatus not connected to a network is managed. To accomplish this, an image forming apparatus in an image forming system includes an input unit which inputs document data stored in a recording medium, a verification unit which verifies the validity of the document data on the basis of verification information associated with the input document data, an output unit which forms and outputs an image on a print medium on the basis of the document data, and an output log storing control unit which, when it is determined that the document data is valid, stores, in the recording medium, output log information containing no output image, and when it is determined that the document data is invalid, stores output log information containing the output image in the recording medium.
US08625124B2	Image forming device capable of transmitting document to another device An MFP (A) on a document transmission side transmits a document to an MFP (B) on a document reception side. The MFP (A) stores the transmitted document. The MFP (A) acquires a status of the transmitted document from the MFP (B). If the MFP (B) deletes the document in an unread state, the MFP (A) retransmits the stored document to the MFP (B).
US08625109B2	Method of determining an overlap distance of an optical head and digital exposure device using the method An apparatus and a method for determining an overlap distance of an optical head is disclosed. Positions and light amount distributions of each light spot can be measured, which may be provided from an optical head to a substrate. Gaussian distribution may be applied to the positions and the light amount distributions to calculate a compensation model of each of the light spots. A first accumulated light amount corresponding to each first area of the substrate may be calculated if the optical head is scanning along a first direction of the substrate using the compensation model. A second accumulated light amount corresponding to each second area overlapped with the each first area is calculated if the optical head is scanning along the first direction, which is moved in a second direction by a first distance using the compensation model. An overlap distance may be determined based on a uniformity of summations of the first and second accumulated light amount.
US08625107B2	Target for motion tracking system A target for use in a motion tracking system includes an optically transparent substrate with front and rear artwork. A robust landmark is comprised of portions of the front and rear artwork, and includes alternating spokes and interstitial spaces. The front and rear artwork also define orientation dependent radiation regions that occupy a portion of the interstitial spaces. The artwork also provides target identification markings and markings for providing in-plane rotation information. The surface area of the robust landmark maximized with respect to the total surface area of the target size.
US08625100B2	Method for the optical determining of a measured variable of a medium In a method for determining a measured variable of a measured medium, wherein the measured medium is brought in contact with an indicator or an indicator mixture, whose absorption spectrum has a first, and a second, wavelength range, which essentially do not overlap, a first light source is activated for emitting a first light signal with a wavelength from the first wavelength range and a second light source is activated for emitting a second light signal with a wavelength from the second wavelength range. The intensity of the first light signal is modulated by a first and the intensity of the second light signal by a second, periodic signal, wherein at least a part of the first light signal and at least a part of the second light signal propagate as first and second measurement light signals along a measuring path and are transformed on the measuring path by optical interaction with the indicator or the indicator mixture to transformed measurement light signals, and wherein a total intensity of the transformed first and second measurement light signals is registered. The first periodic signal has a first phase difference relative to the second, periodic signal, and a second phase difference between the total intensity of the transformed first and second measurement light signals and the first, or the second, periodic signal is ascertained. The measured variable is determined with application of the second phase difference.
US08625090B2	Method and apparatus for inspecting substrates A method and an apparatus for inspecting a substrate are provided. The method includes irradiating light to a semiconductor device formed on a substrate and detecting light reflected from the semiconductor device in order to inspect a defect of the semiconductor device. An irradiation position of the light may gradually move from a semiconductor device formed at the center of the substrate to a semiconductor device formed on an edge of the substrate. at least one semiconductor device formed on a substrate, a light irradiating member which irradiates light onto the semiconductor surface formed on the substrate; a light detecting member which detects light reflected from the semiconductor device in order to inspect the semiconductor device for defects; and an irradiation position of the light gradually moves from a semiconductor device formed at the center of the substrate to a semiconductor device formed on an edge of the substrate.
US08625088B2	Integrating sphere photometer and measuring method of the same Provided are an integrating sphere photometer and a measuring method of the same. The integrating sphere photometer includes an integrating sphere including a left hemisphere and a right hemisphere, a photometer disposed on the center surface of the right hemisphere, a photometer baffle disposed in front of the photometer to be spaced apart therefrom, a light source to be tested disposed at the center region of the integrating sphere to illuminate light to at least an illumination region of the left hemisphere, an auxiliary lamp part disposed in the vicinity of a contact region between the left hemisphere and the right hemisphere to illuminate light to the illumination region, and an auxiliary lamp baffle disposed around the auxiliary lamp part to prevent the light emitted from the light source to be tested from being directly illuminated to the auxiliary lamp part and also to prevent the light emitted from the auxiliary lamp part from being directly illuminated to the light source to be tested.
US08625084B2	Distance detecting induction device A distance detection induction device 100 comprises a housing 1, a condensing lens 2, a circuit board 3 having multiple electronic components, an infrared light emitting means 4, a light receiving means 5 for receiving and sensing the reflected infrared light. The housing 1 comprises a main body 10 and two round openings 11 and 12 on the top of the main body 10. The condensing lens 2 has an emitting lens 21 and a receiving lens 22 respectively located at the two round openings 11 and 12. The circuit board 3 bearing multiple electronic components for processing signal is mounted inside the main body 10. The infrared light emitting means 4 is to be infrared light-emitting diodes, emitting the infrared light to the emitting lens 21. The infrared light receiving means 5 is to be distance detecting sensing module, sensing the reflected light focused by the receiving lens 22. A connection part 23 having at least a bending part is set between the emitting lens 21 and the receiving lens 22. The distance detection induction device of the present invention has higher positioning precision and can enhance the induction performance of the whole device.
US08625078B2	Illumination design for lens heating mitigation A method for reducing the effects of lens heating of a lens in an imaging process includes determining heat load locations on the lens according to an illumination source and a reticle design, obtaining a lens response characterization according to the heat load locations, and utilizing the heat load locations and the lens response characterization to generate a lens heating sensitivity map.
US08625077B2	Positioning apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A positioning apparatus according to the present invention includes: a tabletop having a plane; a plurality of actuators configured to be driven in a direction perpendicular to the plane to move the tabletop; and a control unit configured to measure a frequency response of the tabletop and, when a peak is detected at the resonance frequency of elastic vibration of the tabletop, adjust the thrust distribution ratio for the plurality of actuators to reduce the peak.
US08625065B2	Array substrate and display panel having the same An array substrate includes a gate line, a data line, a plurality of common electrodes, a shield electrode, and a pixel electrode. The gate line is extended along a first direction, and the data line is extended along a second direction. The common electrodes are formed in a plurality of pixel areas. The common electrodes are spaced apart from each other. The shield electrode is formed below the data line and formed between the common electrodes formed in the pixel areas adjacent to each other. The pixel electrode is overlapped with the common electrodes. The pixel electrode has a plurality of openings formed thereon. Therefore, an electric field of a common electrode pattern may prevent coupling between a pixel electrode and a data line, so that a distance between the pixel electrode and the data line may be minimized, and thus an aperture ratio and light transmittance may be enhanced.
US08625063B2	Display and electronic unit having particular optical laminate A display capable of obtaining high contrast and an electronic unit including the display are provided. The display includes: a liquid crystal display panel including a liquid crystal layer and a light reflective layer; and an optical laminate disposed on the liquid crystal display panel, in which the optical laminate includes a first retardation layer, a light diffuser layer, a second retardation layer, and a polarization layer in order from a side closer to the liquid crystal display panel, the first retardation layer is a negative C-plate, and the second retardation layer is a λ/4 plate or a combination of a λ/4 plate and a λ/2 plate arranged in order from a side closer to the liquid crystal display panel.
US08625060B2	Reflective display apparatus A reflective display apparatus includes a transparent substrate, a reflective substrate, a display layer and a transparent gluing layer. The transparent gluing layer is disposed between the transparent substrate and the display layer and the refractive indices of the transparent gluing layer and of the transparent substrate are substantially the same. Therefore, the energy loss of light can be reduced at the interface between the transparent gluing layer and the transparent substrate, so the brightness of the image displayed by the reflective display apparatus may be increased.
US08625059B2	Liquid crystal display device In a screen configuration in which pixels are in a delta arrangement, video signal lines are formed on every other pixel, and two scanning lines in one set are disposed, transmittance of the screen is improved. Pixels corresponding to a red pixel (R), a green pixel (G), and a blue pixel (B) are disposed in a delta arrangement in a TFT substrate. A red color filter, a green color filter, a blue color filter are formed, in a counter substrate, corresponding to the red pixel (R), the green pixel (G), and the blue pixel (B) of the TFT substrate. A black matrix is formed to a portion where the color filter is not present. Two blue color filters are formed continuously adjacent each other in the first direction, and a black matrix is not formed between the blue color filters adjacent each other.
US08625056B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display includes a first flat glass substrate, an opposite second flat glass substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched therebetween, a backlight module disposed adjacent to the first flat glass substrate, a color filter disposed adjacent to the second flat glass substrate, a bandpass filter member disposed on the color filter. The bandpass filter member is configured for allowing light of a given spectrum emitted from the backlight module to pass therethrough and blocking light that is not in the given spectrum from passing therethrough, and a touch panel disposed adjacent to the bandpass filter member.
US08625055B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate having a transmitting region interposed between pixel regions; thin film transistors on a first surface of the substrate; a passivation layer covering the thin film transistors; pixel electrodes on the passivation layer; an opposite electrode disposed to face the pixel electrodes; an organic emission layer between the pixel electrodes and the opposite electrode; a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) device disposed such that the thin film transistors are between the PDLC device and the passivation layer, the PDLC device having: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a PDLC layer in which liquid crystal is dispersed in polymer matrix. Distortion of images transmitted through the organic light emitting display device is prevented by restricting scattering of the transmitted light, the transmission of the external light may be adjusted simply, and degradation of the brightness and color coordinate reproduction may be prevented.
US08625053B2	Light emitting diode and backlight unit and liquid crystal display device with the same A light emitting diode adapted to improve light efficiency is disclosed. The light emitting diode includes: a light emitting chip; a first lead frame loaded with the light emitting chip and configured to include first through fourth tilted surfaces which expand outwardly from a region loaded with the light emitting diode, the first and second tilted surfaces being arranged symmetrically with each other in a first direction and the third and fourth tilted surfaces being symmetrical with each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a second lead frame separated by a fixed distance from the first lead frame; first and second wires configured to connect the first and second lead frames to the light emitting chip, respectively; and a mold frame configured to encompass the first and second lead frames and to include first and second reflection surfaces, which are arranged symmetrically with each other in the first direction of the first lead frame, and third and fourth reflection surfaces which are arranged symmetrically with each other in the second direction of the first lead frame.
US08625040B2	Array substrate for use in displays, and method of manufacturing the same An array substrate for displays, includes a first conductive film pattern, a first insulating layer, a second conductive film pattern, a second insulating layer, a contact hole, and a transparent conductive film. The first conductive film pattern is pattern-formed on a transparent substrate. The first insulating layer is formed on the first conductive film pattern. The second conductive film pattern is pattern-formed upper the first insulating layer and overlapping the first conductive film pattern. The second insulating layer is formed upper the first insulating layer and the second conductive film pattern. The contact hole is made from the first insulating layer to the second insulating layer. The transparent conductive film electrically connects the first conductive film pattern and the second conductive film pattern in the contact hole. The contact hole is made in a region where an edge of the second conductive film pattern overlaps the first conductive film pattern.
US08625037B2	Stereoscopic image display device The present invention relates to stereoscopic image display device which can compensate mismatch of bonding between a switchable panel and a liquid crystal panel.The stereoscopic image display device includes a liquid crystal panel for forwarding a 2D image, a switchable panel formed on the liquid crystal panel to have n (where n is 2 or greater than 2) first electrodes in correspondence to one switchable region for forwarding the 2D image in a 3D image upon application of a voltage thereto, and a voltage generating unit having n voltage sources for applying voltages to the n first electrodes, independently.
US08625034B2	Seatback entertainment display system A seatback entertainment display system for a vehicle is provided having a support member extending from a seatback frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the support member, and a display device coupled to the adjustment mechanism. The support member may be a cantilever type beam or frame extending upwardly from the seatback at a position behind and adjacent to a headrest. The support member may also be a pair of rods arranged to fixedly receive the display device and movably receive the headrest. The adjustment device may include any one or more of a forward-rearward tilting mechanism, a side to side pivoting mechanism and an up-down translation mechanism. The seatback entertainment display system is adaptable to optimize a viewing angle for a rear seat occupant of the vehicle, throughout a normal adjustment range of the seat.
US08625024B2	Webcam with moveable zoom lens A webcam with an optical lens that can manually be moved into a position in front of the camera lens. The lens may slide or be rotated to a position in front of the camera lens. The optical lens may be a zoom lens, such that, in combination with the lens of the camera, a fixed zoom or magnification function is provided. Alternately, at least a second lens may also be provided, such as to provide two fixed zoom positions. The two lenses could be moved together with a single mechanical structure, or separately with two different manual controls.
US08625018B2	Synchronized, interactive augmented reality displays for multifunction devices A device can receive live video of a real-world, physical environment on a touch sensitive surface. One or more objects can be identified in the live video. An information layer can be generated related to the objects. In some implementations, the information layer can include annotations made by a user through the touch sensitive surface. The information layer and live video can be combined in a display of the device. Data can be received from one or more onboard sensors indicating that the device is in motion. The sensor data can be used to synchronize the live video and the information layer as the perspective of video camera view changes due to the motion. The live video and information layer can be shared with other devices over a communication link.
US08625017B2	CMOS image sensor with shared sensing mode A CMOS image sensor has a pixel array provided with a plurality of unit pixels arranged in a matrix shape of rows and columns. Each of the unit pixel includes a photocharge generation means for generating photocharges by absorbing an external light; and a sensing node for receiving the photocharges transferred from the photocharge generation means, wherein the sensing node of the unit pixel in a previous scan line is shared with a sensing node of a unit pixel in a current scan line in response to a line select signal of the current line.
US08625016B2	Image sensors having multiple photoelectric conversion devices therein Image sensors include a second photoelectric conversion device disposed in a lower portion of a substrate and a first photoelectric conversion device extending between the secondary photoelectric conversion device and a light receiving surface of the substrate. Electrical isolation between the first and second photoelectric conversion devices is provided by a photoelectron barrier, which may be an optically transparent electrically insulating material. MOS transistors may be utilized to transfer photoelectrons generated within the first and second photoelectric conversion devices to a floating diffusion region within the image sensor. These transistors may represent one example of means for transferring photoelectrons generated in the first and second photoelectric conversion devices to a floating diffusion region in the substrate, in response to first and second gating signals, respectively. The first and second gating signals may be active during non-overlapping time intervals.
US08625006B2	Active imaging device and method for speckle noise reduction The present invention relates to an active imaging device and a corresponding device for imaging a scene, in particular for effectively reducing speckle noise. The proposed device comprises an illuminator that illuminates said scene with radiation, a radiation detector that detects radiation received from said scene in response to said illumination and that generates detection data from said detected radiation, an image constructor that constructs an image of said scene or one or more parts of said scene from the detection data, a noise reduction unit that processes said image by applying a one- or multi-dimensional transform to the complete image, to one or more parts of the image or to selected features in said image, and a transform selector that selects for the complete image, for one or more parts of the image or for selected features in said image a selected transform for application by said noise reduction unit resulting in the minimum speckle noise in the image, the respective part or the respective feature of the image.
US08624990B2	Signal processing device, camera module, mobile terminal device and imaging method A signal processing device is provided which includes, an input terminal to receive input of an imaging start instruction signal, and a signal processing unit to output an exposure start instruction signal when the imaging start instruction signal is input to the input terminal.
US08624989B2	System and method for remotely performing image processing operations with a network server device A system and method for efficiently performing image processing operations includes a camera device that is configured to automatically capture an image sequence of related offset images that correspond to a particular selected photographic target. The camera device then transmits the captured image sequence to an image processing server through an electronic network. The image processing server perform one or more processing-intensive operations upon the received image sequence to thereby produce an enhanced image that may then be transmitted to any appropriate image destination.
US08624982B2	Receiver and a transmitter A receiver is described for a testing device for a data stream in which the data stream comprises a plurality of encoded data components. The receiver comprises an input for inputting a plurality of encoded data components, a processor for processing the plurality of encoded data components; and a plurality of outputs each for outputting a processed one of the plurality of encoded data components. The receiver is arranged, such that, in use, a plurality of encoded data components received at the input are processed by the processor and a processed one of the plurality of encoded data components is output from one of the plurality of outputs.
US08624978B2	Network camera management system and network camera management method The present invention is intended to manage a plurality of network cameras simply. The network camera management system comprises: a server for managing a plurality of cameras and controlling recording and/or displaying of an image captured by a camera; and a controller for instructing a management state of a camera on the server. By the operation of the controller, an image to be displayed is dynamically selected from images captured by the plurality of cameras according to the mode instructed by the controller. Thus, even if there are a large number of cameras, it is possible to display in such a form that it is intuitively easy to understand which camera's image is being displayed.
US08624971B2	TDI sensor modules with localized driving and signal processing circuitry for high speed inspection An inspection system for inspecting a surface of a wafer/mask/reticle can include a modular array. The modular array can include a plurality of time delay integration (TDI) sensor modules, each TDI sensor module having a TDI sensor and a plurality of localized circuits for driving and processing the TDI sensor. At least one of the localized circuits can control a clock associated with the TDI sensor. At least one light pipe can be used to distribute a source illumination to the plurality of TDI sensor modules. The plurality of TDI sensor modules can be positioned capture a same inspection region or different inspection regions. The plurality of TDI sensor modules can be identical or provide for different integration stages. Spacing of the modules can be arranged to provide 100% coverage of the inspection region in one pass or for fractional coverage requiring two or more passes for complete coverage.
US08624967B2	Integrated portable in-situ microscope A hand-held microscope includes a rigid tripod stand with adjustable legs, a visual display component, an imaging detector and an optical assembly comprising an imaging lens and an objective lens housed within an imaging tube. Multiple illumination sources can be used in the microscope, including LED or laser diode sources. The microscope can also include interchangeable imaging tubes that enable bright field, dark field, fluorescence and other imaging modalities.
US08624964B2	Depth dependent filtering of image signal A method and apparatus for rendering of image data for a multi-view display, such as image data for a lenticular auto-stereoscopic display, is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of receiving an image signal representing a first image, the first image comprising 3D image data, and spatially filtering the first image signal to provide a second image signal. The second image signal represents a second image, the spatial filtering being, e.g., a low-pass filter, a high-pass filter or a combination of a low-pass and a high-pass filter. A strength of the spatial filter is determined by a reference depth of the first image and a depth of an image element of the first image. The second image is sampled to a plurality of sub-images, each sub-image being associated with a view direction of the image.
US08624956B2	Systems and methods for implementing internet video conferencing using standard phone calls A video conferencing system (100) includes a switch (125), a server (140), a telephony device (152), and a node (102) in a packet-switched network (135). The switch (125) establishes a circuit-switched connection between a calling party number and a called party number. The server (140) associates first and second network addresses in a packet-switched network (135) with each of the called party and calling party numbers. The telephony device (152) transmits audio data via the circuit-switched connection. The node (102) in the packet-switched network (135) transmits packetized video between the first and second network addresses responsive to establishment of the circuit-switched connection.
US08624950B2	Surface-emitting laser comprising emission region having peripheral portion with anisotropy in two perpendicular directions, and surface-emitting laser array, optical scanning apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same A surface-emitting laser includes a substrate; a lower semiconductor multilayer film reflector disposed on the substrate; a resonator structure including an active layer and disposed on the lower semiconductor multilayer film reflector; and an upper semiconductor multilayer film reflector disposed on the resonator structure. The second semiconductor multilayer film reflector includes a confinement structure in which a current passage region is surrounded by an oxidized portion of a selectively oxidized layer containing aluminum. An emission region includes a central portion and a peripheral portion, the peripheral portion being covered with a transparent dielectric film whose reflectivity is lower than a reflectivity of the central portion. The selectively oxidized layer has a thickness in a range from 30 nm to 40 nm. The temperature at which an oscillation threshold current is minimized is 60° C. or lower.
US08624949B2	Raster output scanner with beam delay compensation to counteract jitter and wiper-induced banding Methods and raster output scanner (ROS) systems are presented in which beam delay values are set for an array of ROS light sources based on wiper error and jitter error with column alignment achieved at an alignment location spaced from a center of scan (COS) location toward an end of scan location (EOS) along a fast scan range of operation of the ROS.
US08624947B2	Printer The disclosure discloses a printer includes a main-body case, a housing portion configured to house substantially sheet-shaped media to be printed as a print object therein, a pickup roller configured to pick up and feed the medium to be printed toward a first direction along a surface direction of the medium, a platen roller configured to feed the medium to be printed, a print head configured to perform desired printing on the medium to be printed being fed, a paper guide configured to reverse the medium to be printed being fed toward a second direction in opposite to the first direction, the paper guide including at least one arc-shaped surface portion provided along the outer peripheral surface of the platen roller in an opposed manner thereto, and a coupling member that couples between the paper guide and a rotation shaft of the platen roller.
US08624945B1	Printing device for printing a stereograph and related method A printing device for printing a stereograph is disclosed in the present invention. The printing device includes an actuating unit, a ribbon, a thermal print head and a controller. The actuating unit conveys a print medium. The ribbon includes a plurality of dye regions and at least a protecting layer. The thermal print head can transfer the dye regions and the protecting layer onto the print medium, and further manufacture a lenticular lens structure on a surface of the protecting layer in a heat working manner. The controller is coupled to the actuating unit and the thermal print head. The controller drives the actuating unit to convey the print medium according to a target image datum, further controls the thermal print head to respectively transfer the dye regions and the protecting layer onto the print medium, and simultaneously manufactures the lenticular lens structure on the protecting layer.
US08624942B2	Luminance correction system for organic light emitting display There is provided a luminance correction system for an organic light emitting display, in which reference offset values are set in order to correct gamma voltages of reference gray scale levels and an additional offset value is set for at least one gray scale level among the remaining gray scale levels other than the reference gray scale levels to apply the offset value to the correction of the gamma voltage corresponding to the gray scale level so as to prevent color coordinates from being distorted in the respective gray scale levels and luminance components.
US08624941B2	Apparatus, methods, and systems for multi-primary display or projection An apparatus, methods, and systems for multi-color projection or display for video or lighting applications. One aspect of the present invention comprises an algorithm for utilizing at least four primary light sources to represent a projected pixel color. The algorithm and associated system can be applied to both a natively monochromatic light source or traditional light sources filtered for their colored components. The algorithm can be used for either color sequential or parallel modes of operation. The algorithm takes input pixel data represented in a universal color coordinate system, performs a color transform, and disperses the results among parallel display devices or sequentially to a single device such that each pixel is presented by the combination of four or more primaries.
US08624934B2	Dynamic display of icons on a small screen Where a label for an item to be represented by an icon is customized, the icon is generated to dynamically display all of the label. Thus, at some point, the entire label is displayed, even though only a portion of the label is eventually displayed in the icon.
US08624925B2	Content boundary signaling techniques Methods and devices provide a user interface that provides visual cues when a document pan or scroll has reached an end or boundary by distorting the document image in response to further user inputs. The image distortion functionality may include shrinking, stretching, accordion expansion, or bouncing of a document image. The degree of image distortion may be proportional to the distance that a user input would have the document move beyond the encountered boundary. When a boundary of a document image is reached during a rapid pan or scroll, a bouncing image distortion may be applied to the document image to inform the user that the document reached a boundary during the movement.
US08624924B2	Portable immersive environment using motion capture and head mounted display Embodiments of the present invention provide a collaborative visualization system, which integrates motion capture and virtual reality, along with kinematics and computer-aided design (CAD), for the purpose of, for example, virtual training on a task. A portable motion capture system tracks the movements of one or more trainers and records full-body motion capture data for one or more trainers performing one or more tasks. A virtual reality simulator receives the recorded motion capture data and animates scaled avatars within a three-dimensional virtual reality simulation responsive to recorded motion capture data. An immersive observation system displays the virtual reality simulation, including the animated avatars, as a three-dimensional image that appears to surround one or more trainees using one or more head mounted displays so that the one or more trainees can analyze the one or more tasks performed.
US08624919B2	Method and system for fast clipping of line segments A method of static graphics rendering in a mobile device. Panning increments are received for panning a previously rendered frame to a panned frame. A rendering region is then determined based on the panning increments. A candidate line segment or polyline is then clipped to create clipped line segments contained within the rendering region. The clipped line segments can then be rendered, and a portion of the previously rendered frame can be copied, to provide the panned frame.
US08624916B2	Processing global atomic operations using the bending unit datapath One embodiment of the invention sets forth a CROP configured to perform both color raster operations and atomic transactions. Upon receiving an atomic transaction, the distribution unit within the CROP transmits a read request to the L2 cache for retrieving the destination operand. The distribution unit also transmits the source operands and the operation code to the latency buffer for storage until the destination operand is retrieved from the L2 cache. The processing pipeline transmits the operation code, the source and destination operands and an atomic flag to the blend unit for processing. The blend unit performs the atomic transaction on the source and destination operands based on the operation code and returns the result of the atomic transaction to the processing pipeline for storage in the internal cache. The processing pipeline writes the result of the atomic transaction to the L2 cache for storage at the memory location associated with the atomic transaction.
US08624912B2	Program, image generation device, and image generation method A program causing a computer to select a first color range from a plurality of color ranges based on input information, and to determine a color within the first color range to be a color of one of part objects corresponding to categories that form main parts of a model object under a predetermined condition.
US08624909B2	Image processing system and method thereof A method and system is described by which a graphics engine can be shared to implement the functions of video encoder, such as video compression, to generate motion vectors.
US08624906B2	Method and system for non stalling pipeline instruction fetching from memory A method and system for graphics instruction fetching. The method includes executing a plurality of threads in a multithreaded execution environment. A respective plurality of instructions are fetched to support the execution of the threads. During runtime, at least one instruction is prefetched for one of the threads to a prefetch buffer. The at least one instruction is accessed from the prefetch buffer if required by the one thread and discarded if not required by the one thread.
US08624905B2	Data processing unit with multi-graphic controller and method for processing data using the same A portable terminal that includes a first processing core configured to process data; a second processing core, which is faster than the first processing core, configured to process the data; and a storage unit configured to store multimedia data. The first and second processing cores are integrated into a single chipset, and are configured to be individually enabled or disabled based on a workload. The portable terminal is configured to be operated in one of a standby state and an operating state, to play back the multimedia data stored in the storage unit, and for Internet access.
US08624902B2	Transitioning between top-down maps and local navigation of reconstructed 3-D scenes Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map.
US08624892B2	Integration of graphical application content into the graphical scene of another application This application describes a system that captures 3D geometry commands from a first 3D graphics process and stores them in a shared memory. A second 3D environment process creates a 3D display environment using a display and display hardware. A third process obtains the 3D commands and supplies them to the hardware to place 3D objects in the 3D environment. The result is a fused display environment where 3D objects are displayed along with other display elements. Input events in the environment are analyzed and mapped to the 3D graphics process or the environment where they affect corresponding processing.
US08624886B2	Light emission driving device, illumination device, display device A light emission driving device sequentially on a time division basis drives a red light source (200R), a green light source (200G), and a blue light source (200B), to calculate a light emission amount control parameter (PWM(k+1)) for setting the light emission amount for one of the light sources. The following values are used: a detected light emission amount (DET(k)) detected for a previous illumination of the same light source, a predetermined value (REF(k+1)) for comparison to the detected light emission amount (DET(k)), and the light emission amount control parameters (PWM(k)) for a previous illumination of the same light source.
US08624881B2	Image display control device, image display device, image display control method, and image display control program To display an image on an electronic paper display properly, even when image data is transmitted continuously from a host of the existing LCD display system, for example. A sampling section inputs a single image data by each prescribed period from a plurality of pieces of continuously transmitted image data corresponding to one screen of the electronic paper display. A difference detecting section detects a difference amount showing a difference between previous image data and latter image data of two pieces of consecutive image data inputted by the sampling section, and determines to perform screen update by using the latter image data when the difference value is equal to or larger than a threshold value. A driving section generates a driving signal of the latter image data and outputs the signal to the electronic paper display, when the screen update is determined by the difference detecting section.
US08624876B2	Display device having optical sensing frame and method for detecting touch using the same A display device having an optical sensing frame, including a display panel; at least one waveguide unit arranged at two adjacent sides of the display panel, the waveguide unit having a stacked structure, the stacked structure including a light-emitting layer, and a light-receiving layer to receive reflected light, and a plurality of retroreflectors arranged at opposing sides of the waveguide unit.
US08624873B2	Method for detecting touch spots of touch panel A method for detecting a touch spot of the touch panel includes the following steps. The electrode pairs are scanned along the impedance direction for determining a first coordinate. A number of electrode pairs near the first coordinate are selected to obtain an electrode pair signal. The first driving electrodes of the selected electrode pairs are scanned to obtain a first signal. The second driving electrodes of the selected electrode pairs are scanned to obtain a second signal. A second coordinate is determined according to the electrode pair signal, first signal, and second signal. Finally, the touch spot is determined according to the first coordinate, and second coordinate.
US08624872B2	Method for detecting touch trace based on resistive touch panel A method for detecting a touch trace is provided. A look up table, including a plurality of position coordinates and calibrating rules f corresponding to each of the plurality of position coordinates, is built. A touch trace including at least one touch point is received, wherein if an actual contact area Ai of the at least one touch point is a basic contact area A0, an actual signal value Vi of the at least one touch point is V0i. Each of the calibrating rules f is to convert the value V0i to a standard signal value Vs. Position coordinates of the at least one touch point are calculated, the actual signal value Vi under the actual contact area Ai is obtained; and the calibrating rule f corresponded is queried. The actual signal value Vi is calibrated to the calibrated signal value V′i.
US08624870B2	System for and method of transferring charge to convert capacitance to voltage for touchscreen controllers A touchscreen controller system determines the actual locations of multiple simultaneous touches by eliminating mutual capacitance between adjacent rows and columns during self-capacitance measurements and selectively enabling mutual capacitance during mutual capacitance measurements. During the self-capacitance measurements, the controller system generates a set of candidate touch locations, which includes the locations of real and ghost touches. During the mutual capacitance measurements, only the locations in the candidate set are measured and, from these measurements, the actual touch locations are determined. By limiting the mutual capacitive measurements to only a small subset of the locations over the entire touch panel, real touch locations are determined on a linear order. Also, by using on-chip integration capacitors, embodiments of the invention are able to perform each measurement in a single cycle.
US08624867B2	Liquid crystal display device, manufacturing method of liquid crystal display device, display device and information input apparatus A display device includes: a display panel including first and second substrates spaced from and opposite to each other, and has a touch sensor switch. The touch sensor switch includes a first touch electrode provided on a surface of the first substrate facing the second substrate, and a second touch electrode provided on a surface of the second substrate facing the first substrate and spaced from and faces the first touch electrode. The first and second touch electrodes contact with each other when the touch panel is deformed by an external pressure. The first touch electrode covers a surface of a concave and convex area where grooves are formed to be spaced from each other, and on the surface on which the first touch electrode is provided, an application film is provided to expose a surface of a top face of a convex part of the concave and convex area.
US08624861B2	Method for determining touch point An exemplary method for determining a touch point includes the following steps of: performing a first operation to determine whether a detected result of a first touch detection point exceeds a first threshold; performing a second operation to determine whether all detected results of multiple second touch detection points are no more than the detection result of the first touch detection point, the second touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; performing a third operation to determine whether a sum of detected results of multiple third touch detection points exceeds a second threshold, the third touch detection points neighboring with the first touch detection point; and determining the first touch detection point as the touch point is being touched if the determine results of the first through third operations are all true.
US08624819B2	Driving circuit of liquid crystal display A driving circuit of a liquid crystal display includes: a timing controller to output a gate control signal and a data control signal to control driving of a gate driving unit and a data driving unit and to output digital video data; a pair of gate driving units to be alternately driven by using at least one frame as a period to supply gate signals to gate lines of a liquid crystal panel in response to the gate control signal; and a data driving unit to supply pixel signals to data lines of the liquid crystal panel in response to the data control signal. Degradation of characteristics of transistors constituting each gate driver can be prevented.
US08624816B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of driving the same A liquid crystal display device includes a display unit including a plurality of liquid crystal cells at crossing regions of a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, a source driver for supplying source voltages to the plurality of data lines, and a temperature sensor for sensing an ambient temperature and for outputting an temperature sensing signal corresponding to the ambient temperature, wherein the source driver includes a source amplifying register unit for controlling a rising slope of the source voltages in accordance with the temperature sensing signal.
US08624809B2	Communication using light-emitting device Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for communicating information. An event is detected. A light effect is emitted in response to the detected event. The emitted light effect simulates the detected event or a sensory output associated with the detected event.
US08624808B2	Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit A method and system for driving an active matrix display is provided. The system includes a drive circuit for a pixel having a light emitting device. The drive circuit includes a drive transistor for driving the light emitting device. The system includes a mechanism for adjusting the gate voltage of the drive transistor.
US08624804B2	Method of driving organic light emitting diode display device in an interlaced scanning mode in which a single frame is divided A method of driving an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device that displays grayscales in a time-division manner and can prevent the occurrence of false contours and flickers at an interface between neighboring grayscales when displaying sequential images, such as moving images, at a high speed. The method is an interlaced scanning method in which a single frame is divided into an odd-numbered field and an even-numbered field that are sequentially driven, and includes dividing each of the odd-numbered field and the even-numbered field into x sub-frame groups; dividing each of a plurality of sub-frames corresponding to bits of driving data into y divided sub-frame portions; and disposing the y divided sub-frame portions in different ones of the x sub-frame groups.
US08624803B2	Electroluminescent display device having pixels with NMOS transistors An active matrix electroluminescent display device has pixels using an amorphous silicon or microcrystalline silicon drive NMOS transistor (22) connected between the anode of the display element (2) and a power supply line (26). A storage capacitor (24) is connected between the anode of the display element and the gate of the drive transistor (22). An amorphous silicon or microcrystalline silicon second drive NMOS transistor (30) supplies a holding voltage to the anode of the display element (2). This arrangement enables the voltage across the display element to be held while the transistor gate drive voltage is stored on the storage capacitor. This enables an accurate current source pixel circuit to be implemented using NMOS transistors.
US08624799B2	Illumination unit, projection display unit, and direct view display unit An illumination unit includes: one or more light sources, an optical member, and an optical device. The optical member includes an integrator having a first fly-eye lens on which light from a solid-state light-emitting device is incident and a second fly-eye lens on which the light from the first fly-eye lens is incident. The integrator uniformalizes an illuminance distribution of light in a predetermined illumination region illuminated by the light incident from the solid-state light-emitting device. The optical device is disposed on an optical path between the first fly-eye lens and one or more light sources including one or more chips configured by the laser diode, and allows a shape of a luminance distribution of incidence light on an incidence plane of the first fly-eye lens to be expanded along a minor axis direction of the shape of the luminance distribution.
US08624796B2	Apparatus and method for controlling dual display using RGB interface in mobile terminal with projector module A method and apparatus is provided for controlling a dual display using a Red, Green and Blue (RGB) interface in a mobile terminal with a projector module, in which the projector module expends a high-resolution image and projects the expended image to the outside, a display displays a menu image for operation of the projector module, an image processor has a first buffer assigned to the display for data transmission to the display, and a second buffer assigned to the projector module for data transmission to the projector module, and a controller transmits image data to the first and second buffers, and outputs control signals for activating both or a selected one of the first and second buffers, depending on selection of a display mode.
US08624790B2	Porous magnetic antenna The present invention relates to a porous magnetic antenna, comprising: an antenna; an insulating layer, having one side next to said antenna; and a magnetic layer, placed next to the other side of the insulating layer, separated from said antenna with a distance, and having at least one hole. The porous magnetic antenna has the advantages of shaping the field pattern, lowering the sensitivity, improving the gain value and possessing stable directionality.
US08624783B2	Internal antenna module and wireless communication apparatus having the same An internal antenna module and a wireless communication apparatus having the same are disclosed. The internal antenna module includes a carrier having a partition formed on a surface thereof and a space defined by the partition; and a radiator disposed on the partition of the carrier. The space is formed in a region of the surface of the carrier excluding a region required to support the radiator. Therefore, influence of the carrier is minimized so that the radiation performance may be improved.
US08624764B2	Test circuits and methods for redundant electronic systems A redundant analog-to-digital conversion system can include at least one input multiplexer, first and second redundant analog-to-digital converters, a comparison circuit and an output multiplexer. The at least one input multiplexer can receive a plurality of analog input signals and output at lest one multiplexed analog input signal. The first and second redundant analog-to-digital converters can convert the at least one multiplexed analog input signal to respectively generate first and second digital output signals, the first digital output having a greater digital resolution than the second digital output. The comparison circuit can produce a comparison output signal as a function of a comparison of a plurality of most significant corresponding bit pairs of the first and second digital output signals. The output multiplexer can produce a multiplexed output including information from the comparison output signal and one of the digital output signals.
US08624763B2	Offset cancellation for analog to digital converters An offset cancellation circuit for canceling an offset voltage in an amplifier is provided herein. The offset cancellation circuit includes a current source configured to provide an offset current, a switching stage comprising first and second switches, and a cascode stage. The cascode stage comprises a first cascode device configured to receive the offset current from the first switch and inject the offset current into a first differential end of the amplifier, and a second cascode device configured to receive the offset current from the second switch and inject the offset current into a second differential end of the amplifier. Offset voltages are common to many differential circuits as a result of mismatch. The injection of current by the offset cancellation circuit can reduce or eliminate an offset voltage, while the cascode stage can prevent parasitic capacitance associated with the offset cancellation circuit from creating further mismatch.
US08624758B2	Communication system including telemetric device for a vehicle connected to a cloud service A telemetric device for a vehicle includes a location determining device arranged to determine the vehicle's location and a transmitting device arranged to continuously or nearly continuously transmit location data concerning the vehicle in real-time or near real-time. The transmission of the location data is not based on a condition of the vehicle and is without prompting by a user.
US08624756B2	Fully automated parking system The present invention relates to a parking system, which comprises: (a) plurality of Curb Devices for communication with car device and a host, each Curb Device having its own unique Curb Device ID and is installed close to a corresponding parking space; the Curb device is also provided with a sensor for sensing a physical positioning of a car within the respective parking space; (b) plurality of Car Devices, each Car Device is provided with its own unique Car Device ID, and is positioned at a corresponding car at a location which is visible from the outside; and (c) a Host which is provided with Users Data and Parking Spaces Data, for remotely managing, billing, enforcing and controlling on line and in real time parking of vehicles at each of said parking spaces. The invention also enables a driver of a car which is not provided with a car device to use a cellular alternative, where the driver uses his cellular phone to report to the Host the Curb Device ID, as visually displayed, while his phone number serves as a replacement for the Car Device ID. The invention also relates to a parking enforcement by the system of the present invention, which enforces parking in real time, while providing to the enforcement inspector the exact parking location where a proven violation has occurred.
US08624755B2	Method and apparatus for displaying system status with a wide range of viewing angle Network device includes a plate, an OTST plate, and a light source. First plate is situated at a first side of the network device wherein the first side can be the front side of device. OTST plate is situated at a second side of the network device and positioned substantially perpendicular to the plate, wherein the OTST plate having a first surface and a second surface further includes status indicators showing performance status associated with the network device. The light source, in one embodiment, can be an LED device capable of projecting a light beam with a predefined angle onto the first surface of OTST plate illuminating one or more status indicators. At least one status indicator is viewable from the second surface or bottom surface of OTST second plate when at least a portion of OTST plate is illuminated.
US08624753B2	Event sensor including printed electronic circuit An event sensor device comprises a detector and circuitry, connected thereto, produced by printed electronics processes. This circuitry may be comprised of fixed characteristic devices, such as a series resistive chain, or variable characteristic devices such as thin film transistors (TFTs) and the like. A pulse is input to the printed electronic circuitry. The printed electronic circuitry divides the pulse across the various devices comprising the circuitry according to pulse amplitude and pulse width. The circuitry provides an output signal which is provided to a plurality of display elements, which are capable of indicating the division performed at the printed electronic circuitry. In one embodiment, each display element is an electrophoretic display which changes contrast as a function of the applied voltage. Not only the pulse amplitude and pulse width, but the number of pulses applied to the printed circuitry (i.e., sensed by the detector) may be indicated.
US08624737B2	Charging merchandise items Methods, systems and other embodiments associated with charging merchandise items are presented. A method of charging merchandise items includes displaying merchandise items at a consumer display so that the merchandise items can be handled by a consumer. A first power supply charges a portion of the display that does not include the merchandise items and a second power supply charges the merchandise items. The merchandise items can be charged at the display on a multiplexed basis.
US08624734B2	Intruder identifying method, intruder identifying device and intruder identifying sensor device In an intruder identifying method and device, an intruder identifying sensor device identifies an intruder as a detection target to be originally detected by determining whether a variation style for a predetermined time of intruder intrusion state information based on the reception signal of the electric wave receiving unit during a time period from the time when the intruder identifying sensor device detects an intruder till the time when the intruder identifying sensor device does not detect the intruder is a predetermined variation style.
US08624723B2	Position and proximity detection systems and methods According to an aspect, a computing device may include a processor configured to determine a position coordinate of a first movable device. Further, the processor is configured to determine whether the position coordinate of the first movable device is a predetermined distance from a second movable device. The processor is also configured to signal the second movable device in response to determining that the position coordinate of the first movable device is a predetermined distance from a second movable device.
US08624715B2	System and method for altering obstruction for a bicycle mounted on a vehicle Systems and methods may be provided for alerting a user of an obstruction to a bicycle mounted on a vehicle. An obstruction sensing device may be provided that may be mounted on the bicycle. The obstruction sensing device may include an engagement mechanism configured to attach the obstruction sensing device to a bicycle, an emitter configured to emit a detection signal, a receiver configured to receive a reflection of the emitted detection signal that may indicate an obstruction, and a transmitter configured to transmit an alarm signal when the reflection is received by the receiver. In some embodiments, a remote may be provided that may alert a user.
US08624713B2	Programming a universal remote control via physical connection A method and system for programming a universal remote control (URC) to operate with a remote-controlled device is disclosed. A connection to the remote-controlled device may be established. In response, the remote-controlled device may send device information. The device information may include programming codes for programming the URC to control the remote-controlled device. The device information may also be used to query a server to obtain the programming codes.
US08624709B2	System and method for camera control in a surveillance system A method and a system for calibrating a camera in a surveillance system. The method and system use a mathematical rotation between a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system in order to calibrate a camera with a map of an area. In some embodiments, the calibration can be used to control the camera and/or to display a view cone on the map.
US08624703B2	Semiconductor ceramic element and method for producing same A semiconductor ceramic element includes an element main body where a PTC section including a semiconductor ceramic which has PTC characteristics and an NTC section including a semiconductor ceramic which has NTC characteristics are integrated by co-firing while suppressing interdiffusion. The element main body is formed in such a way that a PTC substrate is first obtained by firing a semiconductor ceramic material to serve as the PTC section at a predetermined temperature, and a paste containing a semiconductor ceramic material to serve as the NTC section is then applied or printed on the PTC substrate, followed by co-firing at a temperature lower than the predetermined temperature.
US08624698B2	Transformer and power module having the same A transformer capable of security insulting reliability and a power module having the same are provided. The transformer includes: a winding unit having at least one winding space in which a plurality of coils are wound in a stacked manner on an outer circumferential surface of a cylindrical body portion; and a terminal fastening unit formed to extend from one end of the winding unit in an outer diameter direction and having a plurality of external connection terminals fastened to an end thereof, wherein a width of the winding space is less than 0.45 times that of a diameter of the body portion.
US08624695B2	Sensor fusion Accurate and reliable techniques for determining a current status of an accessory device in relation to an electronic device are described.
US08624694B2	Residual-current circuit breaker A residual-current circuit breaker includes a core-balance transformer, a first conductor and a second conductor of an electrical supply system which is to be protected being routed through the core-balance transformer, and a secondary winding being arranged on the core-balance current transformer. The secondary winding is connected to a release by circuitry. A test circuit connecting the first conductor and the second conductor has at least a first test resistor and a reset button, in order to provide accurate checking of an ability of residual current tripping to function, the test circuit has a second test resistor arranged in series with the first test resistor by circuitry. The second test resistor is bridged by a bypass line that is routed through the core-balance transformer and at least one first voltage dependent resistor is arranged in the bypass line by circuitry.
US08624683B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is provided which can reduce a parasitic inductor and/or parasitic capacitance added to the wiring that couples spiral inductors and MOS varactors included in a VCO. An LC-tank VCO includes first and second spiral inductors, and first and second MOS varactors. As seen perpendicularly to the semiconductor substrate, the first and second MOS varactors are arranged in a region between the first spiral inductor and the second spiral inductor.
US08624674B2	Output stage of a class-A amplifier An output stage of an integrated class-A amplifier in a technology adapted to a first voltage and intended to be powered by a second voltage greater than the first one, including: one or several transistors of a first channel type between a first terminal of application of the second voltage and an output terminal of the stage; transistors of a second channel type between this output terminal and a second terminal of application of the second voltage, wherein: a first transistor of the second channel type has its gate directly connected to an input terminal of the stage; at least a second and a third transistors of the second channel type are in series between the output terminal and said first transistor, the gate of the second transistor being connected to the midpoint of a resistive dividing bridge between said output terminal and the gate of the third transistor, and the gate of the third transistor being biased to a fixed voltage.
US08624655B2	Level shifter circuit and gate driver circuit including the same There are provided a level shifter circuit and a gate driver circuit including the same. The level shifter circuit includes: a plurality of switching devices connected to a predetermined DC power supply through a resistor and operated by different driving signals; a gain conversion unit operated by first signals output from the plurality of switching devices, respectively, and generating second signals having a level within a predetermined range of the first signals; and a noise removal unit connected to at least one output terminal among the plurality of switching devices to prevent malfunctioning of the gain conversion unit, wherein the gain conversion unit inputs the second signals to a high side gate driver circuit through an inverter circuit.
US08624640B2	Inductive load driving device An inductive load driving device includes a first switching element, a second switching element, a counter current regeneration circuit, and a circuit element protection circuit. The first switching element is coupled between an output terminal of the power circuit and one end of the inductive load. The second switching element is coupled between the other end of the inductive load and a ground terminal. The counter current regeneration circuit is configured to supply to the output terminal of the power circuit, a counter current output from the other end of the inductive load when the first and second switching elements are in off-state. The circuit element protection circuit is configured to turn on the second switching element when a value of the output voltage of the power circuit becomes equal to or more than a threshold value.
US08624638B2	Semiconductor device including driving circuit A semiconductor device includes an information generation circuit configured to generate first information, an information multiplexing circuit configured to multiplex the first information and second information, and an information driving circuit configured to drive an output pad in response to an output signal of the information multiplexing circuit.
US08624637B2	Switching control circuit for thermal protection of transistors A circuit for controlling the switching operation of a transistor is described. A gate driver circuit is operably connected to a control electrode of the transistor and is configured to charge and discharge the control electrode to switch the transistor on and off, respectively, in accordance with a control signal. The charging and discharging of the control electrode is done such that the corresponding transitions in the load current and the output voltage are smooth with a defined slope. A controllable switch is connected to the control electrode such that, when the switch closes, the control electrode is quickly discharged via the switch thus quickly switching off the transistor. A control logic circuit is configured to close the controllable switch for switching off the transistor when at least one of a number of conditions holds true.
US08624632B2	Sense amplifier-type latch circuits with static bias current for enhanced operating frequency Sense amplifier-type latch circuits are provided which employ static bias currents for enhancing operating frequency. For example, a sense amplifier-type latch circuit includes a latch circuit that captures and stores data during an evaluation phase of the sense amplifier-type latch circuit, and outputs the stored data to differential output nodes. An input differential transistor pair has drains connected to the latch circuit and sources commonly connected to a coupled source node. A static bias current circuit is connected to the coupled source node to provide a static bias current which flows through the differential transistor pair and cross-coupled inverters of the latch during a precharge phase. A switch device, which is connected to the coupled source node, is turned off during the precharge phase and turned on during the evaluation phase by operation of a clock signal to increase current flow through the differential transistor pair.
US08624621B2	Chucks for supporting solar cell in hot spot testing In an embodiment, a chuck to support a solar cell in hot spot testing is provided. This embodiment of the chuck comprises a base portion and a support portion disposed above the base portion. The support portion is configured to support the solar cell above the base portion and to define a cavity between a bottom surface of the solar cell and the base portion that thermally separates a portion of the bottom surface of the solar cell from the base portion.
US08624616B2	Suspended IO trace design for SSP cantilever data read / write A suspended IO trace design for SSP cantilever Read/Write is described. Instead of having the whole I/O trace attached to surface of the cantilever, the cantilever is designed with fish-bone-like support and the I/O traces are anchored to cantilever structures 110 at some specific attachment locations with dielectric insulation in between. This design provides very compliant trace compared to cantilever's see-saw actuation around the torsional beam pivot and is also insensitive to residual stress variations from I/O trace in fabrication.
US08624612B2	RF non-contact thin film measurement using two port waveguide The system disclosed herein for non-destructively testing a resistive film includes first and second waveguides that are gapped apart from each other. The resistive film is disposed between the first and second waveguides and tested. The film is then advanced and re-tested by the first and second waveguides. The waveguides do not contact the film during testing or while the film is being advanced to its next position. Accordingly, the system provides a non-destructive method of testing the sheet resistance of a film in an accurate manner.
US08624606B2	System and method for augmented impedance sensing An impedance monitoring circuit for an electrosurgical generator. The monitoring circuit includes an isolation transformer coupled to an active terminal and a return terminal of an electrosurgical generator. The isolation transformer includes a primary winding coupled to a reference resistor and a secondary winding coupled to a load. A driver transmits a sensor signal to the reference resistor and the load. A primary converter coupled to the reference resistor and the load detects a primary converted signal as a function of the sensor signal passing through the reference resistor and the load. A secondary converter coupled to the driver detects a secondary converted signal as a function of the sensor signal prior to passing through the reference resistor and the load. A controller determines a fault condition based on the primary and secondary converted signals.
US08624605B2	Apparatus and method to distinguish nominally identical objects through wave fingerprints apparatus and method to distinguish nominally identical objects through wave fingerprints The present invention exploits extreme sensitivity to initial conditions in ray-chaotic enclosures to create a method to distinguish nominally identical objects through their unique “wave fingerprints.” The fingerprint can be measured through transmission of a pulsed microwave signal as a function of carrier frequency and time. When internal components are re-arranged, the Electromagnetic Fingerprints (EMF) changes in significant ways. The EMF can be detected by direct injection measurements of the enclosure or through remote measurement.
US08624601B2	System and method for determining physical status of switch elements System and methods are provided for monitoring a state of a switch element connecting a DC power supply to a load. A system includes a transformer having first and second windings, where a first end of the second winding electrically coupled to a first switch node of the switch element. The system also includes a transmit circuit configured for providing a waveform at the first winding and a sensor element having galvanically isolated input and output nodes for inducing a monitor signal at the output nodes in response to a signal at the input nodes. The system further includes a receive circuit coupled to the output nodes and configured for generating one or more output signals in response to the monitor signal. The system also includes capacitor elements for providing DC isolation for the second winding with respect to the first switch node and the sensor element.
US08624590B2	Low noise magnetic field sensor using a lateral spin transfer A magnetoresistive sensor including: a first pinned-magnetization magnetic layer, called pinned layer; a free-magnetization magnetic layer, called sensitive layer, of which the magnetization, in the absence of an external field, is substantially orthogonal to the magnetization of the pinned layer, the pinned and sensitive layers being separated by a first separating layer for magnetic uncoupling; and a layer, called lateral coupling layer, located on the side of the sensitive layer opposite that of the separating layer, the lateral coupling layer serving to control the lateral spin transfer.
US08624584B2	Method and arrangement relating to analyses of a substance A device for detecting a magnetic field response or changes in a magnetic response of at least one magnetic particle in a carrier fluid, the detection comprising measuring the magnetic particles characteristic rotation period, and the measurement involving measurement of a Brownian relaxation in the carrier fluid under influence of an external pulsed magnetic field. The device includes means for generating the pulsed magnetic field, at least two substantially identical detection coils connected in gradiometer coupling to detection electronics for measuring the differential induced voltage which is dependent on the frequency dependent susceptibility or the magnetization change.
US08624581B2	Input power measuring device An input power measuring device includes a board with an edge connector, a first dual inline memory modules (DIMM) socket, a resistor, a differential amplifier circuit, a voltage dividing circuit, a display screen, and a controller. When the edge connector is inserted into a second DIMM socket of a motherboard and the motherboard is powered on, the resistor samples first current, and converts the first current into a first voltage. The differential amplifier circuit amplifiers the first current to a second current. The voltage dividing circuit divides the first voltage, and outputs a second voltage. The controller converts the second current into a third current, converts the second voltage into a third voltage, and calculates a power according to the third current and the third voltage.
US08624574B2	Pulse width modulation controller of DC-DC converter A DC-DC converter including a Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) controller for converting an input voltage into an output voltage is provided. The PWM controller includes: an error amplifier, receiving a reference voltage and a feedback voltage and provides an error signal; a compensation unit coupled to an output of the error amplifier, compensating the error signal and comprising a first resister and a first capacitor; a ramp generator, generating a ramp signal according to a constant on time PWM signal; a first comparator coupled to the compensation unit and the ramp generator, comparing the compensated error signal with the ramp signal to generate a trigger signal; and a PWM generator coupled to the first comparator, providing the constant on time PWM signal according to the trigger signal, an input voltage of the DC-DC converter and the output voltage of the DC-DC converter.
US08624572B2	Switching control circuit and switching power-supply apparatus A switching power-supply apparatus and a switching power supply circuit in which a feedback signal is input from a feedback circuit to a feedback terminal of a switching control IC includes a capacitor and a Zener diode connected between the feedback terminal and a ground terminal. The Zener diode is a selectively connected external circuit. A voltage of the feedback terminal during an overcurrent operation changes depending on whether or not the external circuit is present. A return/latch determination circuit detects the voltage of the feedback terminal to switch between an automatic return system and a latch system in an overcurrent operation state.
US08624571B2	DC-DC converters with pulse generators shared between PWM and PFM modes A DC-DC converter system having at least one DC-DC converter operating in either a PWM mode or a PFM mode is provided. The DC-DC converter system includes a state machine configured to control the switching between the PWM mode and PFM mode. The state machine determines whether an inductor current provided by the DC-DC converter reaches a first specified value for a selective number of clock cycles so switching between the PWM mode and PFM mode is to occur. A pulse generator circuit is connected to the state machine and being configured to provide the appropriate switching period for the PWM mode and the PFM mode at the time of switching. The pulse generator circuit is shared amongst the PWM mode or PFM mode and utilizes a master clock for its operations.
US08624564B2	Switched reluctance generator initial rotor position estimation A method of estimating rotor speed of a generator 106 having a rotor 110 and a stator 112 is provided. The method may provide a source current to the stator 112, determine a relative rotor speed based on a sensor signal provided by a rotor speed sensor 130, determine a relative rotor position corresponding to the relative rotor speed, determine an absolute rotor position based on the sensor signal and phase currents, and calibrate the sensor signal based on an offset between the relative rotor position and the absolute rotor position.
US08624563B2	Static exciter of a field winding and method for operating the same A static exciter of a field winding includes a rectifier connected to an electric grid and to the field winding; a unidirectional electronic switch connected in series with the rectifier; a capacitor bank; and a further switch disposed between the unidirectional electronic switch and the capacitor bank. Exciter also includes a control unit connected to the further switch and configured to close the further switch when a grid voltage drops below a first prefixed voltage value so as to connect the capacitor bank to the field winding and configured to open the further switch when the grid voltage exceeds a second prefixed voltage value so as to disconnect the capacitor bank from the field winding and so as to supply energy to the field winding from the capacitor bank for a time period.
US08624560B2	Controlling battery charging based on current, voltage and temperature Some embodiments of the present invention provide a system that charges a lithium-ion battery. During operation, the system monitors: a current through the battery, a voltage of the battery, and a temperature of the battery. Next, the system uses the monitored current, voltage and temperature to control a charging process for the battery. In some embodiments, controlling the charging process involves: inferring electrode lithium surface concentrations for the battery from the monitored current, voltage and temperature; and applying the charging current and/or the charging voltage in a manner that maintains the inferred electrode lithium surface concentrations for the battery within set limits.
US08624553B2	Battery temperature adjusting system and operating method thereof The present invention relates to a battery temperature adjusting system including: a battery unit having a heating pad; a leading wire connected to the battery unit; and a current induction unit surrounding the leading wire, wherein the current induction unit is electrically connected to the heating pad. The battery temperature adjusting system according to the present invention generates the induced current by applying the current induction unit surrounding the leading wire connected to the battery unit, and increases the temperature of the battery unit by supplying the induced current to the heating pad, thereby obtaining a desired battery output in a low-temperature region even without the use of an external power source.
US08624539B2	Start-up circuit and motor driving IC The present invention discloses a start-up circuit for a motor driving IC. The activation circuit includes a determination unit, for generating a determination result indicating an operating mode of the motor driving IC according to an external pulse width modulation signal, and an output unit, for outputting an activation signal according to the determination result and a pulse width modulation activation signal. A duty of the pulse width modulation activation signal is greater than a duty of the external pulse width modulation signal.
US08624536B2	System and method for detecting a high current condition in a motor In one embodiment, a system for controlling a motor is disclosed. The system has a driver circuit configured to drive a motor, a current sensing impedance coupled to the driver circuit, and an overload detection circuit coupled to the current sending impedance that has a transistor and a detection output node.
US08624535B2	Power supply circuit A power supply circuit includes two half bridge circuits, a controller and two terminals for connecting a motor. The controller includes a signal input terminal, a phase inverter, a wiring board having four soldering pads, and two conductors. The four soldering pads are connected to the signal terminal, an output terminal of the phase inverter, control terminals of lower switches of the two half bridge circuits. Two ends of the first conductor are connected to the first and the fourth soldering pads and two ends of the second conductor are connected to the second and the third soldering pads. Alternatively, two ends of the first conductor are connected to the first and the third soldering pads and two ends of the second conductor are connected to the second and the fourth soldering pads.
US08624534B2	Control device for electric motor driving apparatus A control device for an electric motor driving apparatus, configured with a switching control unit that performs rectangular wave control in which a plurality of switching elements provided in a direct current-alternating current conversion unit are ON/OFF-controlled to output rectangular wave-shaped voltages of a plurality of phases. System voltage varies during execution of the rectangular wave control, the switching control unit performs rectangular wave width adjustment control to set ON/OFF timings of the plurality of switching elements on the basis of a rate of change of the system voltage such that time-integrated values of the rectangular wave-shaped voltages of the respective phases within a control period set at a length corresponding to an integral multiple of a single electrical angle period are substantially identical among the respective phases.
US08624530B2	Systems and methods for transmission of electric power to downhole equipment Systems and methods in which output power that would conventionally be provided by surface equipment to drive downhole equipment, is transformed to increase the voltage before transmitting the power over a power cable to downhole equipment. The downhole equipment includes a step-down transformer that receives power from the power cable at a voltage which is too high to drive the motor or other downhole equipment and reduces the voltage to a level that is suitable for use by the downhole equipment. The step-down transformer may utilize toroidal transformers that are positioned around other components of the system, such as the shaft that couples a motor to an electric submersible pump. The step-down transformer may be configured as a modular unit that can be inserted between components (e.g. motor and seal) that are manufactured using conventional designs.
US08624522B2	Backlight control circuit A backlight control circuit includes a driver circuit, a sensing circuit, and a control circuit. The driver circuit adjusts an illumination intensity of a backlight source. The sensing circuit senses an environmental illumination intensity. The control circuit is set between the driver circuit and the sensing circuit. The control circuit controls the driver circuit to adjust an illumination intensity of a backlight source according to the sensed environmental illumination intensity.
US08624518B2	Power management circuit and liquid crystal display using same A power management circuit comprising a power-on signal input, an output terminal a control unit, a switching unit, and a discharge unit. The control unit configured to selectively turn on the switching unit to output a power-on signal to a display module and selectively turn off the switching unit to cut off an electrical connection between the power-on signal input and the output terminal. The discharge unit configured to discharge residual electrical charges in the display module when the switching unit is turned off.
US08624516B2	Power supply apparatus for light emitting diode A power supply apparatus for LED is provided. The power supply apparatus for LED includes a detector, a voltage dropper, and a control switch. The detector detects whether an LED is connected to the power supply apparatus. The voltage dropper drops a voltage applied to the LED. The control switch is connected to the voltage dropper in parallel, and changes a path of a power applied to the LED according to the detected result of the detector. Accordingly, the power supply apparatus for LED compensates for a low impedance of an LED to an impedance equal to or higher than a predetermined impedance at a time when connection of the LED is detected, thereby inhibiting an overcurrent from flowing in the LED.
US08624512B2	Circuit for eliminating threshold voltage difference between backlight LED strings and liquid crystal display using the same The circuit eliminating threshold voltage differences between backlight LED strings includes a voltage supply input, a number of first switching units, and a number of LED strings. The LED strings are connected to each other in parallel, and one end of each LED string is connected to the voltage supply input and the other end thereof is connected to the corresponding first switching unit. The constant current controller includes a constant current source for supplying a constant current to each LED string, a current detector for detecting a working current of each LED string, a comparator for comparing the working current of each LED string and the constant current, and outputting a comparing result, and a square wave generator for outputting driving signals of different frequencies each which is capable of driving the corresponding LED string to work at the corresponding frequency.
US08624508B2	LED device with voltage-limiting unit and voltage-equalizing resistance The present invention provides a LED device with voltage-limiting unit and voltage-equalizing resistance in which a light-emitting unit is structured through a LED being connected in parallel with a voltage-limiting unit in the same polarity, and two ends thereof being further connected in parallel with an voltage-equalizing resistance, so that when plural sets of the light-emitting units are connected in series or in series-parallel in the same polarity, the end voltage of each set is stabilized by the voltage-equalizing resistance connected in parallel with the two ends of the LED and the voltage-limiting unit.
US08624503B2	Collector-radiator structure for an electrohydrodynamic cooling system An electrohydrodynamic fluid accelerator includes an emitter electrode and leading surfaces of a collector electrode that are substantially exposed to ion bombardment. Heat transfer surfaces downstream of the emitter electrode along a fluid flow path include a first portion not substantially exposed to the ion bombardment that is conditioned with a first ozone reducing material. The leading surfaces of the collector electrode are not conditioned with the first ozone reducing material, but may include a different surface conditioning. The downstream heat transfer surfaces and the leading surfaces can be separately formed and joined to form the unitary structure or can be integrally formed. The electrohydrodynamic fluid accelerator can be used in a thermal management assembly of an electronic device with a heat dissipating device thermally coupled to the conditioned heat transfer surfaces.
US08624500B2	Single-ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) based power supply for driving multiple strings of light emitting diodes (LEDs) in roadway lighting fixtures A lighting fixture and power supply are provided that allows a power factor correction (PFC) single ended primary inductance controller (SEPIC) that provides a controlled voltage output to provide a constant current to an LED load. The power supply provides an efficient and stable power supply for LEDs. Multiple power supplies can be provided on the same printed circuit board to control multiple LED channels.
US08624499B2	Power converter and vehicle lighting device, vehicle headlight and vehicle using power converter A power converter that receives a plurality of direct current (DC) powers, which are received in different modes and have a common ground and substantially the same potential, and operates a plurality of loads, wherein the power converter operates the respective loads according to input states of the plurality of DC powers and supplies the plurality of loads with power via at least a common switch element or a common coil.
US08624496B2	Phase and frequency locked magnetron A magnetron of improved performance capable of stabilizing the frequency and phase of magnetron output for use in particle accelerators and other applications. Thin variable-permeability blocks are attached inside the resonant anode structures of a standard magnetron design. A variable bias electromagnet, with field orthogonal in direction to the RF magnetic field, is used to vary the permeability of each block and therefore the resonant frequency of each anode structure. An electronic feedback control circuit adjusts the bias magnetic fields to lock in the frequency and phase of the magnetron output to an external low-level reference signal. Such devices may be used to provide synchronized high-power RF to many locations (e.g. the RF cavities of a particle accelerator), while requiring the distribution only of electrical power and an appropriate low-level RF reference signal.
US08624493B2	Integrated gas discharge lamp with an ignition electronics integrated into the base for generating asymmetrical ignition pulses An integrated gas discharge lamp (5) with ignition electronics integrated into the base, comprising an ignition transformer (TIP), an ignition capacitor (CIP), and a controlled switching element (SIP), wherein the integrated ignition electronics are configured to generate an asymmetrical ignition pulse, and wherein the voltage ratio between the first lamp electrode near the base and the second lamp electrode distant from the base ranges from 22:1 to 5:4.
US08624476B2	Ion-generating device and electrical apparatus An ion-generating device includes a discharge electrode and an induction electrode. The discharge electrode has a needle-like tip. The induction electrode has a circular through hole. The tip of the discharge electrode penetrates the through hole of the induction electrode, and protrudes upward with respect to an upper surface of the induction electrode. It is thereby possible to obtain an ion-generating device capable of improving ion emission efficiency, and an electrical apparatus provided with the ion-generating device.
US08624465B2	Surface acoustic wave sensor system and measurement method using multiple-transit-echo wave A surface acoustic wave (“SAW”) sensor system comprises a signal generating part, which applies an electrical signal to a SAW sensor, the SAW sensor connected to the signal generating part, which converts the electrical signal into a SAW, senses a measurement target using the SAW, and converts a SAW output corresponding to the measurement target into an electrical signal, and a signal measuring part connected to one side of the SAW sensor, which detects a change in the electrical signal by time-gating a multiple-transit-echo wave.
US08624462B2	Rotating electrical machine A rotating electrical machine includes: a rotor comprising a rotor core and a field winding wound round the rotor core; and a stator comprising a stator core and a stator winding wound round the stator core. The stator is arranged in opposition to the rotor with a predetermined spacing therebetween. the stator core is formed by punching a split piece, which comprises teeth for insertion of the stator winding thereinto and a core back on an outer periphery thereof, from a magnetic steel sheet, and laminating a plurality of those circular configurations in an axial direction, in which a plurality of the split pieces are arranged in a circle in a circumferential direction. The stator core has magnetic steel sheets, which are different in magnetic permeability in a diametrical direction, laminated at an axial end region of and in an axial central region of the stator core.
US08624461B2	Motor stator A motor stator includes an insulating frame having a plurality of projecting rods, an induction unit, and a plurality of conductive members. The induction unit includes an induction circuit board, a plurality of induction coils embedded within the induction circuit board, and a plurality of coil windings wound respectively on the projecting rods. The conductive members extend through the insulating frame and the induction circuit board for establishing an electrical connection between each of the induction coils and a corresponding one of the coil windings. The turn numbers of the coil windings are not limited by the area and thickness of the induction circuit board, and can be increased. Alternatively, the coil windings may be positioned to increase the magnetic pole slot number when energized. As such, a driving force of the motor stator can be increased.
US08624448B2	Electrodynamic linear oscillating motor The invention is an electrodynamic linear oscillating motor, which has high power densities in the magnet gap, a high efficiency, and magnetically restores the oscillating system to a center position. The linear oscillating motor has a stator system, which has at least one magnet, and an oscillating system, which is movably mounted in the magnetic field of the stator. The oscillating system has at least one core made of a soft magnetic material, and at least one driving coil. The electrodynamic linear motor combines the advantages of the known moving coil and moving magnet linear motor, achieving electrodynamic conversion levels of up to 99%. The motor is suited as a drive for refrigerating and air conditioning systems having low power and also for pumping and injection systems, and, reversing the electrodynamic principle, as a generator, such as for shock absorber systems in a motor vehicle.
US08624443B2	Renewable energy monitoring system A solar photovoltaic monitoring system for monitoring and controlling a solar photovoltaic inverter is provided. The system includes a wireless transceiver coupled to a solar photovoltaic inverter that includes a device monitor for monitoring and controlling the inverter. The device monitor generates monitoring data defining a status of the system and transmits the data by using the transceiver coupled to the inverter. The system also includes a wireless repeater for receiving data from the inverter and retransmitting the data and a transceiver coupled to a gateway capable of communicating the received retransmitted data to a monitoring station. The gateway also transmits control data received from the monitoring station. The repeater receives control data from the gateway and retransmits data to the inverter. The inverter receives the retransmitted control data and controls its operation based on the received data.
US08624439B2	Delivery of electric power by means of a plurality of parallel inverters and control method based on maximum power point tracking The system provides for one or more photovoltaic panels (3) or other energy sources, connected to a series of inverters (5) in parallel, the outputs of which are connected to a load (Z) and/or to an electricity distribution grid (7). One of the inverters operates as master unit and generates a power control signal in order to track the maximum power point that can be obtained from the panels (3). The other inverters operate as slave units. The control is performed so that all the inverters absorb a variable quantity of power according to the fluctuations in the power available at the output of the photovoltaic panels (3) or other source subject to fluctuations.
US08624431B2	System and method for power sharing of front-end converters without communication link in a modular-stacked DC transmission system A sub-sea power transmission/distribution network includes a plurality of standard proven power converter building blocks on each of the power source side and the sub-sea load side. The power source side converters and the sub-sea load side converters are each configured to provide a modular stacked dc (MSDC) converter architecture. The power source side converters are further configured to share the load equally or in proportion to their individual power ratings. The configurations are based on corresponding droop curves representative of MSDC link current magnitude data and average output voltage data of the power source side converters.
US08624429B2	Single-inductor-multiple-output regulator with auto-hopping control and the method of use A switching regulator is provided herein comprising a voltage source, a plurality of switching elements, an inductive element, and a controller. The controller coordinates the plurality of switching elements as to sequentially and periodically switching the inductive element to generate a plurality of regulated DC voltages. The controller adjusts a switching frequency of the regulator in accordance with at least one characteristic of a load current.
US08624427B2	Vehicular electrical systems, automotive electrical systems, and automotive propulsion systems Vehicular electrical systems are provided. The vehicular electrical systems include a source device including an electrical component, a load device, and a cable assembly interconnecting the source device and the load device. The cable assembly includes a conductive core electrically interconnecting the electrical component and the load device, a conductive shield surrounding and being electrically insulated from the conductive core, the conductive shield having a first portion and a second portion, and an insulating body positioned between the first and second portions of the conductive shield such that the first and second portions of the conductive shield are electrically separated.
US08624426B2	Power supply system for electrically powered vehicle, electrically powered vehicle, and method for controlling power supply system of electrically powered vehicle A power supply system includes a main power storage device and a plurality of sub power storage devices. A converter is sequentially connected to one of the sub power storage devices to convert voltage between the selected sub power storage device and an electric power feeding line bidirectionally. The sub power storage device undergoes a connection switching process, and when there is no new sub power storage device remaining for replacement, then, in accordance with that sub power storage device's SOC and the vehicle's state, a request is generated to disconnect the sub power storage device. Here, when a condition regarding a temperature of at least one of the main power storage device and the plurality of sub power storage devices is satisfied, generation of a disconnection request is prohibited, in order to protect the main power storage device.
US08624415B2	Multi-rotor generator A generator system comprises an inner generator rotor, an outer generator rotor, and a stator. The inner rotor is mounted on the first shaft rotating at a first speed, while the outer rotor is mounted on a second shaft coaxial with the first shaft, and rotating at a second speed different from the first speed. The outer rotor is mounted coaxially with and radially outward of the inner rotor, and the stator is mounted coaxially with and radially outward of the outer rotor.
US08624413B2	Regeneration energy type electric generation apparatus and its rotor fixing method Described is a power generating apparatus and a rotor locking method for the apparatus, which is capable of locking the rotor without using a huge braking mechanism. The power generating apparatus of renewable energy type includes a blade, a rotor including a hub and a main shaft, a hydraulic pump of variable displacement type driven by rotation of the rotor, a hydraulic motor driven by operating oil pressurized by the hydraulic pump, and a generator coupled to the hydraulic motor. The rotor locking method for the power generating apparatus may include the steps of: decelerating the rotor by adjusting a pitch angle of the blade: after the decelerating step, stopping the rotor by applying a braking force by the hydraulic pump to the rotor; and locking the rotor so that the rotor is immovable in a rotation direction.
US08624409B2	Shock absorber electrical generator The shock absorber electrical generator includes a piston adapted for reciprocating motion within a cylindrical piston chamber as a vehicle's suspension system deflects. A working fluid is contained within the piston chamber. During the compression stroke of the piston, working fluid is forced through a circuit having at least one chamber in the cylinder opposite the piston. The working fluid communicates with at least one fan turbine motor disposed in the chamber, and with the piston chamber, which captures the working fluid on the return stroke. Upon compression of the piston, the working fluid passes through the fan turbine motor, thereby turning a shaft connected to a DC generator. The electric energy generated is routed to vehicle electrical components and/or charges the vehicle battery. Multi-generator systems, fan, and housing units are deployed in a plurality of shock absorber electrical generators that are attached to the vehicle's wheel system.
US08624404B1	Integrated circuit package having offset vias Integrated circuit packages comprise vias, each of which extends from a pad in communication with an integrated circuit on a semiconductor chip through insulating material overlying the semiconductor chip to an attachment surface facing a substrate. The portion of each via proximate the attachment surface is laterally offset from the portion proximate the pad from which it extends in a direction away from the center of the semiconductor chip. Metallic material received in the vias mechanically and electrically interconnects the semiconductor chip to the substrate.
US08624403B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device manufacturing technique which allows reduction of semiconductor chip size. First, a pad and other wires are formed over an insulating film. A surface protective film is formed over the insulating film including the pad and wires, and an opening is made in the surface protective film. The opening lies over the pad and exposes a surface of the pad. A bump electrode is formed over the surface protective film including the opening. Here, the pad is smaller than the bump electrode. Consequently, the wires are arranged just beneath the bump electrode in the same layer as the pad 10. In other words, the wires are arranged in space which becomes available because the pad is small enough.
US08624402B2	Mock bump system for flip chip integrated circuits A mock bump system includes providing a flip chip integrated circuit having an edge and forming a mock bump near the edge.
US08624399B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device An interconnect is provided in a first insulating layer and the upper surface of the interconnect is higher than the upper surface of the first insulating layer. An air gap is disposed between the interconnect and the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is formed at least over the first insulating layer and the air gap. The second insulating layer does not cover the interconnect. An etching stopper film is formed at least over the second insulating layer. The etching stopper film is formed over the second insulating layer and the interconnect. A third insulating layer is formed over the etching stopper film. A via is provided in the third insulating layer so as to be connected to the interconnect.
US08624397B2	Electrode layer structure for a thin-film transistor and process for manufacture thereof This wiring layer structure includes: an underlying substrate of a semiconductor substrate or a glass substrate; an oxygen-containing Cu layer or an oxygen-containing Cu alloy layer which is formed on the underlying substrate; an oxide layer containing at least one of Al, Zr, and Ti which is formed on the oxygen-containing Cu layer or the oxygen-containing Cu alloy layer; and a Cu alloy layer containing at least one of Al, Zr, and Ti which is formed on the oxide layer.
US08624390B2	Packaging an electronic device An electronic device comprises a plurality of integrated circuit dies mounted on different areas of a carrier. The carrier is folded into a plurality of layers, each layer comprising one of the different areas of the carrier and one of the integrated circuit dies, such that the plurality of integrated circuit dies form a stack. Adjacent surfaces of neighboring layers are fixed together, for example by an adhesive layer, and the folded carrier and the integrated circuit dies are embedded in a molded material.
US08624389B2	Light emitting diode module An LED module includes a plurality of lighting sources each including a substrate, a first and second lead frames arranged on the substrate, an LED chip electrically connected to the first and the second lead frames, and an encapsulation covering the LED chip. The first lead frame of each of the lighting sources connects with the second lead frame of an adjacent lighting source electrically and mechanically.
US08624387B1	Top port multi-part surface mount silicon condenser microphone package The present invention relates to a surface mount package for a silicon condenser microphone and methods for manufacturing the surface mount package. The surface mount package uses a limited number of components which simplifies manufacturing and lowers costs, and features a substrate that performs functions for which multiple components were traditionally required, including providing an interior surface on which the silicon condenser die is mechanically attached, providing an interior surface for making electrical connections between the silicon condenser die and the package, and providing an exterior surface for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between package and the device's printed circuit board.
US08624386B1	Bottom port multi-part surface mount silicon condenser microphone package The present invention relates to a surface mount package for a silicon condenser microphone and methods for manufacturing the surface mount package. The surface mount package uses a limited number of components which simplifies manufacturing and lowers costs, and features a substrate that performs functions for which multiple components were traditionally required, including providing an interior surface on which the silicon condenser die is mechanically attached, providing an interior surface for making electrical connections between the silicon condenser die and the package, and providing an exterior surface for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between package and the device's printed circuit board.
US08624385B1	Top port surface mount silicon condenser microphone package The present invention relates to a surface mount package for a silicon condenser microphone and methods for manufacturing the surface mount package. The surface mount package uses a limited number of components which simplifies manufacturing and lowers costs, and features a substrate that performs functions for which multiple components were traditionally required, including providing an interior surface on which the silicon condenser die is mechanically attached, providing an interior surface for making electrical connections between the silicon condenser die and the package, and providing an exterior surface for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between package and the device's printed circuit board.
US08624384B1	Bottom port surface mount silicon condenser microphone package The present invention relates to a surface mount package for a silicon condenser microphone and methods for manufacturing the surface mount package. The surface mount package uses a limited number of components which simplifies manufacturing and lowers costs, and features a substrate that performs functions for which multiple components were traditionally required, including providing an interior surface on which the silicon condenser die is mechanically attached, providing an interior surface for making electrical connections between the silicon condenser die and the package, and providing an exterior surface for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between package and the device's printed circuit board.
US08624375B2	Semiconductor package for selecting semiconductor chip from a chip stack A semiconductor package includes: first, second, third and fourth semiconductor chips stacked while having the arrangement of chip selection vias; and a connection unit provided between a second semiconductor chip and a third semiconductor chip, and configured to mutually connect some of the chip selection vias of the second and third semiconductor chips and disconnect the others of the chip selection vias of the second and third semiconductor chips, wherein the first and second semiconductor chips and the third and fourth semiconductor chips are stacked in a flip chip type.
US08624372B2	Semiconductor component comprising an interposer substrate A semiconductor component (10) has an interposer substrate (1) as stack element of a semiconductor component stack (25). The interposer substrate (1) has, on one of the interposer substrate sides (2, 4), a semiconductor chip protected by plastics composition (12) in its side edges (22). An interposer structure (3) partly covered by a plastics composition (12) is arranged on the interposer side (2, 4) opposite to the semiconductor chip (6). Edge regions (11) of the interposer substrate (1) remain free of any plastics composition (12) and have, on both interposer sides (2, 4) external contact pads (7) which are electrically connected to one another via through contacts (8).
US08624358B2	Semiconductor substrate and semiconductor device A semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor device formable area, wherein a reinforcing part, which is thicker than the semiconductor device formable area and has a top part of which surface is flat, is formed on an outer circumference part of the semiconductor substrate, and an inner side surface connecting the top part of the reinforcing part and the semiconductor device formable area has a cross-sectional shape of which inner diameter becomes smaller as being closer to the semiconductor device formable area.
US08624357B2	Composite semiconductor substrates for thin-film device layer transfer Described herein are composite semiconductor substrates for use in semiconductor device fabrication and related devices and methods. In one embodiment, a composite substrate includes: (1) a bulk silicon layer; (2) a porous silicon layer adjacent to the bulk silicon layer, wherein the porous silicon layer has a Young's modulus value that is no greater than 110.5 GPa; (3) an epitaxial template layer, wherein the epitaxial template layer has a root-mean-square surface roughness value in the range of 0.2 nm to 1 nm; and (4) a set of silicon nitride layers disposed between the porous silicon layer and the epitaxial template layer.
US08624339B2	Vibrating device and electronic apparatus A vibrating device has a package having an accommodating space in the interior thereof and a gyro element and an IC chip accommodated in the accommodating space. The package has a plate-like bottom plate having an IC chip mounting area and a vibrating element mounting area. The IC chip mounting area includes an IC chip mounting surface on which the IC chip is mounted. The vibrating element mounting area is arranged in parallel with the IC chip mounting area and includes a vibrating element mounting surface on which the gyro element is mounted. The thickness of the IC chip mounting area is smaller than that of the vibrating element mounting area. The IC chip mounting surface is located closer to a bottom side than the vibrating element mounting surface.
US08624322B1	High voltage device with a parallel resistor Provided is a high voltage semiconductor device. The high voltage semiconductor device includes a transistor having a gate, a source, and a drain. The source and the drain are formed in a doped substrate and are separated by a drift region of the substrate. The gate is formed over the drift region and between the source and the drain. The transistor is configured to handle high voltage conditions that are at least a few hundred volts. The high voltage semiconductor device includes a dielectric structure formed between the source and the drain of the transistor. The dielectric structure protrudes into and out of the substrate. Different parts of the dielectric structure have uneven thicknesses. The high voltage semiconductor device includes a resistor formed over the dielectric structure. The resistor has a plurality of winding segments that are substantially evenly spaced apart.
US08624317B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing same Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes first memory cell array layer, first insulating layer formed thereabove, and second memory cell array layer formed thereabove. First memory cell array layer includes first NAND cell units each including plural first memory cells. The first memory cell includes first semiconductor layer, first gate insulating film formed thereabove, and first charge accumulation layer formed thereabove. The second memory cell array layer includes second NAND cell units each including plural second memory cells. The second memory cell includes second charge accumulation layer, second gate insulating film formed thereabove, and second semiconductor layer formed thereabove. Control gates are formed, via an inter-gate insulating film, on first-direction both sides of the first and second charge accumulation layers positioned the latter above the former via the first insulating layer. The control gates extend in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US08624313B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a non-volatile semiconductor memory element formed over the semiconductor substrate, including a variable resistance element including a laminate comprising a first electrode, a variable resistance layer, and a second electrode, and a volatile semiconductor memory element formed over the semiconductor substrate, including a capacitance element including a laminate comprising a third electrode, a dielectric layer including a same material as the variable resistance layer, and a fourth electrode.
US08624312B2	Semiconductor device structure as a capacitor A capacitor structure includes a conductive region; a first dielectric layer over the conductive region; a conductive material within the first dielectric layer, wherein the conductive material is on the conductive region and forms a first plate electrode of the capacitor structure; an insulating layer within the first dielectric layer and surrounding the conductive material; a first conductive layer within the first dielectric layer and surrounding the insulating layer, wherein the first conductive layer forms a second plate electrode of the capacitor structure; a second conductive layer laterally extending from the first conductive layer at a top surface of the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer; and a third conductive layer within the second dielectric layer and on the conductive material.
US08624310B2	Image sensors with lightly doped drain (LDD) to reduce dark current A method of fabricating an image sensor may include providing a substrate including light-receiving and non-light-receiving regions; forming a plurality of gates on the non-light-receiving region; ion-implanting a first-conductivity-type dopant into the light-receiving region to form a first dopant region of a pinned photodiode; primarily ion-implanting a second-conductivity-type dopant, different from the first-conductivity-type dopant, into an entire surface of the substrate, using the gates as a first mask; forming spacers on both side walls of the gates; and secondarily ion-implanting the second-conductivity-type dopant into the entire surface of the substrate, using the plurality of gates including the spacers as a second mask, to complete a second dopant region of the pinned photodiode. An image sensor may include the substrate; a transfer gate formed on the non-light-receiving region; a first dopant region in the light-receiving region; and a second dopant region formed on a surface of the light-receiving region.
US08624303B2	Field effect transistor A lateral field-effect transistor capable of improving switching speed and reducing operationally defective products is provided. A gate wiring has a base, a plurality of fingers protruding from the base, and a connection connecting tips of adjacent fingers. The finger of the gate wiring is arranged between the finger of a source wiring and the finger of a drain wiring. The base of the gate wiring is arranged between the base of the source wiring and the fingers of the drain wiring and intersects with the fingers of the source wiring, with an insulating film interposed between the base of the gate wiring and the fingers.
US08624290B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device is provided which includes: lower electrodes each have a light-reflective first metal material layer and a second metal material layer provided thereon which has a superior alkaline-solution resistance to that of the first metal material layer; an insulating pattern which is formed from a photosensitive composition material, which has opening portions to expose the lower electrodes, and which covers peripheries of the lower electrodes; organic layers each of which at least include an organic light emitting layer and which are provided in the opening portions so as to cover the lower electrodes; and a light-transmissive upper electrode provided to sandwich the organic layers with the lower electrodes.
US08624289B2	Optoelectronic component An optoelectronic component comprising the following features is disclosed, at least one semiconductor body (1) provided for emitting electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range, an inner radiation-permeable shaped body (2), into which the semiconductor body (1) is embedded, a wavelength-converting layer (6) on an outer side (5) of the inner shaped body (2), said layer comprising a wavelength conversion substance (8) suitable for converting radiation of the first wavelength range into radiation of a second wavelength range, which is different from the first wavelength range, a coupling-out lens (10), into which the inner shaped body (2) and the wavelength-converting layer (6) are embedded, wherein the coupling-out lens (10) has an inner side enclosed by an inner hemisphere area having a radius Rconversion, and an outer side enclosing an outer hemisphere area having a radius Router, and the radii Rconverstion and Router meet the Weierstrass condition: Router≧Rconversion*nlens/nair, where nlens is the refractive index of the coupling-out lens and nair is the refractive index of the surroundings of the coupling-out lens.
US08624288B2	Light emitting diode having vertical topology and method of making the same An LED having vertical topology and a method of making the same is capable of improving a luminous efficiency and reliability, and is also capable of achieving mass productivity. The method includes forming a semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a first electrode on the semiconductor layer; forming a supporting layer on the first electrode; generating an acoustic stress wave at the interface between the substrate and semiconductor layer, thereby separating the substrate from the semiconductor layer; and forming a second electrode on the semiconductor layer exposed by the separation of the substrate.
US08624287B2	Light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a light emitting diode (LED) and a method of fabricating the same. The LED includes a substrate, a semiconductor stack arranged on the substrate, the semiconductor stack including an upper semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a lower semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type, isolation trenches separating the semiconductor stack into a plurality of regions, connectors disposed between the substrate and the semiconductor stack, the connectors electrically connecting the plurality of regions to one another, and a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) having a multi-layered structure, the DBR disposed between the semiconductor stack and the connectors. The connectors are electrically connected to the semiconductor stack through the DBR, and portions of the DBR are disposed between the isolation trenches and the connectors.
US08624283B2	Light emitting device, manufacturing method thereof, light emitting device package, and lighting system A light emitting device is provided. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer, a light emitting structure, and a second electrode layer. The light emitting structure is formed on the first electrode layer to emit blue series light having a main peak wavelength region of about 430 nm to about 470 nm, and includes a light extraction structure. The second electrode layer includes a first layer, which is formed of a metal material different from a wavelength of the blue series light in Plasmon frequencies, on the light extraction structure.
US08624281B2	Optical designs for high-efficacy white-light emitting diodes A method for increasing the luminous efficacy of a white light emitting diode (WLED), comprising introducing optically functional interfaces between an LED die and a phosphor, and between the phosphor and an outer medium, wherein at least one of the interfaces between the phosphor and the LED die provides a reflectance for light emitted by the phosphor away from the outer medium and a transmittance for light emitted by the LED die. Thus, a WLED may comprise a first material which surrounds an LED die, a phosphor layer, and at least one additional layer or material which is transparent for direct LED emission and reflective for the phosphor emission, placed between the phosphor layer and the first material which surrounds the LED die.
US08624280B2	Light emitting device package and method for fabricating the same A light emitting device package comprises a substrate, an electrode on the substrate, a light emitting device on the substrate and electrically connected to the electrode layer, and a pattern enclosing the light emitting device.
US08624270B2	Device having a plurality of light emitting structures bonded by adhesive layers and light emitting device package having the same Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package having the same. The light emitting device includes a first chip structure including a first reflective layer and a first light emitting structure having a plurality of compound semiconductor layers on the first reflective layer; a second chip structure bonded onto the first chip structure and including a second reflective layer and a second light emitting structure having a plurality of compound semiconductor layers on the second reflective layer; and an electrode on the second chip structure.
US08624267B2	Low 1C screw dislocation 3 inch silicon carbide wafer A high quality single crystal wafer of SiC is disclosed having a diameter of at least about 3 inches and a 1 c screw dislocation density from about 500 cm−2 to about 2000 cm−2.
US08624264B2	Semiconductor device with low resistance SiC-metal contact A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first electrode and a first silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor part. The first electrode uses a conductive material and the first silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor part is connected to the first electrode, in which at least one element of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba) is contained in an interface portion with the first electrode in such a way that a surface density thereof peaks, and whose conduction type is a p-type.
US08624263B2	Diamond semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same The present invention is contemplated for providing a diamond semiconductor device where an impurity-doped diamond semiconductor is buried in a selected area, and a method of manufacturing the same. That is, a diamond semiconductor device having an impurity-doped diamond area selectively buried in a recessed portion formed in a diamond substrate; and a method of manufacturing a diamond semiconductor device, including the steps of selectively forming an recessed portion on the {100}-facet diamond semiconductor substrate, wherein the bottom face of the recessed portion is surrounded by the {100} facet and the side face of the recessed portion is surrounded by the {110} facet, and forming an impurity-doped diamond area by epitaxially growing diamond in the <111> direction while doping with impurities and burying the recessed portion.
US08624261B2	Nitride semiconductor device According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor device includes a first, a second, a third and a fourth transistor of n-type channel and a resistor. The first transistor has a first gate, a first source, and a first drain. The second transistor has a second gate, a second source electrically connected to the first gate, and a second drain. The third transistor has a third gate, a third source electrically connected to the first source, and a third drain electrically connected to the first gate and the second source. The fourth transistor has a fourth gate electrically connected to the third gate, a fourth source electrically connected to the first source and the third source, and a fourth drain electrically connected to the second gate. The resistor has one end electrically connected to the second drain and one other end electrically connected to the second gate and the fourth drain.
US08624257B2	Light emitting device An object of the present invention is to provide a light emitting device in which variations in an emission spectrum depending on a viewing angle with respect to a side from which luminescence is extracted are decreased. A light emitting device according to the invention has a transistor, an insulating layer covering the transistor and a light emitting element provided in an opening of the insulating layer. The transistor and the light emitting element are electronically connected through a connecting portion. Additionally, the connecting portion is connected to the transistor through a contact hole penetrating the insulating layer. Note that the insulating layer may be a single layer or a multilayer in which a plurality of layers including different substances is laminated.
US08624254B2	Thin film transistor A highly reliable transistor in which change in electrical characteristics is suppressed is provided. A highly reliable transistor in which change in electrical characteristics is suppressed is manufactured with high productivity. A display device with less image deterioration over time is provided. An inverted staggered thin film transistor which includes, between a gate insulating film and impurity semiconductor films functioning as source and drain regions, a semiconductor stacked body including a microcrystalline semiconductor region and a pair of amorphous semiconductor regions. In the microcrystalline semiconductor region, the nitrogen concentration on the gate insulating film side is low and the nitrogen concentration in a region in contact with the amorphous semiconductor is high. Further, an interface with the amorphous semiconductor has unevenness.
US08624245B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor layer including a crystalline region over an insulating surface, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer covering the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer, and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer in a region overlapping with the crystalline region. The crystalline region includes a crystal whose c-axis is aligned in a direction substantially perpendicular to a surface of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US08624236B2	Phase change memory cell having vertical channel access transistor A device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region. The first region comprises a first field effect transistor having a horizontal channel region within the substrate, a gate overlying the horizontal channel region, and a first dielectric covering the gate of the first field effect transistor. The second region of the substrate includes a second field effect transistor comprising a first terminal extending through the first dielectric to contact the substrate, a second terminal overlying the first terminal and having a top surface, and a vertical channel region separating the first and second terminals. The second field effect transistor also includes a gate on the first dielectric and adjacent the vertical channel region, the gate having a top surface that is co-planar with the top surface of the second terminal.
US08624234B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and electronic device Disclosed is a light-emitting element with a good carrier balance and manufacturing method thereof which does not require the formation of the heterostructure. The light-emitting element includes an organic compound film containing a first organic compound as the main component (base material) between an anode and a cathode, wherein the organic compound film is provided in contact with the anode and with the cathode. The first organic compound further includes a light-emitting region to which a light-emitting substance is added and includes a hole-transport region to which a hole-trapping substance is added and/or an electron-transport region to which an electron-trapping substance is added. The hole-transport region is located between the light-emitting region and the anode, and the electron-transport region is located between the light-emitting region and the cathode.
US08624228B2	Compound having pyridoindole ring structure bonded with substituted pyridyl group, and organic electroluminescent device Objects of the invention are to provide an organic compound having excellent properties, which is excellent in eleclron-injecting/transporling performance, has hole-blocking ability, and is highly stable in a thin-film state, as a material for an organic electroluminescent devices having a high-efficiency and a high durability; and to provide an organic electroluminescent device having a high-efficiency and a high durability using the compound. The invention relates to: a compound having a pyridoindolc ring structure bonded with a substituted pyridyl group and an organic electroluminescent device comprising a pair of electrodes and at least one organic layer interposed between the electrodes.
US08624223B2	Side-gate defined tunable nanoconstriction in double-gated graphene multilayers A graphene-based electrically tunable nanoconstriction device and a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium encoded with a program for fabricating the device that includes a back-gate dielectric layer over a conductive substrate are described. The back-gate dielectric layer may be hexagonal boron nitride, mica, SiOx, SiNx, BNx, HfOx or AlOx. A graphene layer is an AB-stacked bi-layer graphene layer, an ABC-stacked tri-layer graphene layer or a stacked few-layer graphene layer. Contacts formed over a portion of the graphene layer include at least one source contact, at least one drain contact and at least one set of side-gate contacts. A graphene channel with graphene side gates is formed in the graphene layer between at least one source contact, at least one the drain contact and at least one set of side-gate contacts. A top-gate dielectric layer is formed over the graphene layer. A top-gate electrode is formed on the top-gate dielectric layer.
US08624218B2	Non-volatile memory structure and method for fabricating the same The disclosure provides a non-volatile memory structure and a method for fabricating the same. The non-volatile memory structure includes a first contact connected to a first transistor. A second contact is connected to a second transistor. A resistance-changing memory material pattern covers and contacts the second contact but not the first contact. A top electrode contacts both the resistance-changing memory material pattern and the first contact. An area of the resistance-changing memory material pattern is substantially larger than an area of its interface with the second contact.
US08624215B2	Phase change memory devices and methods comprising gallium, lanthanide and chalcogenide compounds A new class of phase change materials has been discovered based on compounds of: Ga; lanthanide; and chalcogenide. This includes compounds of Ga, La, and S (GLS) as well as related compounds in which there is substitution of S with O, Se and/or Te. Moreover, La can be substituted with other lanthanide series elements. It has been demonstrated that this class of materials exhibit low energy switching. For example, the GLS material can provide an optical recording medium with erasability 3-5 dB greater than the erasability of GeSbTe (GST) material which is the standard material for phase change memories.
US08624198B2	Neutron detection systems with radiation portal monitors A neutron detection system comprising a radiation portal monitor is disclosed. The radiation portal monitor includes a neutron moderator sheet and a neutron-sensing panel and is configured to receive incoming neutrons through a neutron collection portal area. The neutron-sensing panel comprises a neutron-sensing material optically coupled to a plurality of optical fibers such that the neutron moderator sheet and the neutron-sensing panel are disposed substantially parallel to the neutron collection portal area.
US08624193B2	Timing response improvement in light-sharing detectors A method for improving timing response in light-sharing scintillation detectors is disclosed. The method includes detecting an event, by a plurality of photo sensors, from a scintillation crystal. The method then includes sampling and digitizing the photo sensor outputs by an analog-to-digital converter. Then the method includes correcting associated timing data, by a processor, for each of the photo sensor outputs based on a lookup table. The method then includes selectively time shifting the photo sensor outputs based on the lookup table to generate corrected photo sensor outputs. The method then includes summing the corrected photo sensor outputs by the processor. The method then includes generating an event time, by the processor, for the detected event based on the sum of the corrected photo sensor outputs.
US08624190B2	Method and device for determining the sex of fertilized, non-incubated bird eggs The invention relates to a method and a device (1, 100) for determining the sex of fertilized, nonincubated bird eggs (13, 130), where an egg (13, 130) has a solid egg shell (14), an egg yolk (2) which is surrounded by the egg shell and further egg integuments and a blastodisc (3) associated with the egg yolk (2), and where a probe (4, 40) for measuring a spectrum is introduced through a hole (17) of the egg shell (14) towards the blastodisc (3) with blastodisc cells (23), with the following steps: —positioning of the probe (4, 40) in the region of the blastodisc (3), —spectroscopic in-ovo characterization of the blastodisc cells (23), and —identification of the sex by an automatic classification of spectra.
US08624186B2	Movable detector for charged particle beam inspection or review The present invention generally relates to a detection unit of a charged particle imaging system. More particularly, portion of the detection unit can move into or out of the detection system as imaging condition required. With the assistance of a Wein filter (also known as an E×B charged particle analyzer) and a movable detector design, the present invention provides a stereo imaging system that suitable for both low current, high resolution mode and high current, high throughput mode. Merely by way of example, the invention has been applied to a scanning electron beam inspection system. But it would be recognized that the invention could apply to other system using charged particle beam as an observation tool.
US08624183B2	Determining a reconstructed image with viterbi detection using a particle-optical apparatus The invention relates to a method for determining a reconstructed image using a particle-optical apparatus. The particle-optical apparatus comprises a particle source for producing a beam of particles, an object plane on which an object to be imaged may be placed, a condenser system for illuminating the object plane with the beam of particles, a projection system for forming an image of the object plane by imaging particles transmitted through the object on an image plane, and a detector for detecting the image, the detector comprising a semiconductor sensor having an array of pixels for providing a plurality of pixel signals from respective pixels of the array in response to particles incident on the detector.
US08624178B2	Method of correcting sensitivity and matrix image sensor for implementing this method The invention relates to matrix image sensors, and more particularly to a method for correcting the spatial noise caused by the dispersion of the physical properties of the various pixels of the matrix. According to the invention, a signal Xi(L) is established pixel by pixel that corresponds to the illumination of a pixel Pi by a luminance L; a fixed reference K0 is defined for this signal, the value K0 being chosen such that, for a given luminance L0, the pixels all supply an identical signal Xi(L0) that is equal to K0; and a corrected signal X*i(L) is established by applying to the duly referenced signal Xi(L)−K0 a multiplying correcting coefficient specific to the pixel concerned, the correcting coefficient being determined from the signal Xi(Lr) supplied by the pixel Pi for a determined reference luminance Lr which is the same for all the pixels. The correcting coefficient is preferably stored in an initialization register REG1 specific to the pixel, which contains a value dTi for modulating the integration time of a counting frequency representing the luminance.
US08624164B2	Shut-off timer for a heating blanket A blanket for warming patients during surgery and other medical procedures. The blanket includes one or more temperature sensors and a shut-off timer to prevent prolonged exposure of excessive heat to a patient. Embodiments of the present invention provide a safety feature that cuts power to a heating blanket after a certain period of time has elapsed, irrespective of the feedback provided by a temperature sensor concerning the blanket temperature. That period of time is longer than it takes for the blanket to reach its threshold temperature but shorter than it takes to cause thermal burn injury.
US08624159B2	Method of fabricating light emitting diode using laser lift-off technique and laser lift-off apparatus having heater An approach is provided for fabricating a light emitting diode using a laser lift-off apparatus. The approach includes growing an epitaxial layer including a first conductive-type compound semiconductor layer, an active layer and a second conductive-type compound semiconductor layer on a first substrate, bonding a second substrate, having a different thermal expansion coefficient from that of the first substrate, to the epitaxial layers at a first temperature of the first substrate higher than a room temperature, and separating the first substrate from the epitaxial layer by irradiating a laser beam through the first substrate at a second temperature of the first substrate higher than the room temperature but not more than the first temperature.
US08624156B2	Manufacturing method of laser processed parts and protective sheet for laser processing Providing a method of manufacturing a laser processed part by using a protective sheet for laser processing capable of effectively suppressing contamination of surface of workpiece by decomposition product, and processing at high precision, when processing the workpiece by optical absorption ablation of laser beam. It is also an object to present a protective sheet for laser processing for use in the manufacturing method of laser processed part.
US08624147B2	Method and system of welding a bearing A method of welding a bearing is provided. The method includes providing an apparatus including at least one welding torch and a processor, positioning a holding fixture proximate the apparatus, securing a bearing in position in the holding fixture, applying a bead of weld to facilitate repairing a damaged surface of the bearing and incrementally rotating the bearing with the apparatus.
US08624139B2	Key button mechanism and electronic device using same A key button mechanism includes a retaining board, a sliding board, a key button and a stopping member. The sliding board is slidably mounted to the retaining board. The sliding board is capable of sliding between a first configuration and a second configuration. The key button is fixed to the sliding board so the key button can be slid relative to the retaining board. The stopping member is located between the retaining board and the sliding board. The stopping member, which can be overcome with fingernail pressure, holds the sliding board in either the first configuration or the second configuration.
US08624136B2	Cable termination systems and isolating apparatus for electrical power transmission conductors and methods using the same A conductor termination system for use with an electrical power transmission conductor includes a termination assembly and a connector. The termination assembly includes an end member and an integral retainer mechanism. The end member includes a receiver portion configured to receive a segment of the conductor. The retainer mechanism includes a moveable keeper member on the end member. The retainer mechanism is operable to selectively clamp a segment of the conductor in the receiver portion to the end member and to apply a retention load to the conductor segment. The connector is adapted to be applied to the end member and the conductor to securely clamp the conductor segment to the end member.
US08624111B2	Multilayer portable device case and method therefor A mobile device case including a housing sized to receive a mobile device; at least a portion of the housing including a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer of material, the second layer of material being disposed between the first and third layers of material and having a material with a higher durometer than the first and third layers of material.
US08624105B2	Energy conversion device with support member having pore channels Energy devices such as energy conversion devices and energy storage devices and methods for the manufacture of such devices. The devices include a support member having an array of pore channels having a small average pore channel diameter and having a pore channel length. Material layers that may include energy conversion materials and conductive materials are coaxially disposed within the pore channels to form material rods having a relatively small cross-section and a relatively long length. By varying the structure of the materials in the pore channels, various energy devices can be fabricated, such as photovoltaic (PV) devices, radiation detectors, capacitors, batteries and the like.
US08624100B2	Apparatus, systems and methods for electrical power generation from heat Systems and methods are operable to generate electric power from heat. An exemplary direct thermal electric converter embodiment includes at least a first recombination material having a first recombination rate, a second recombination material adjacent to the first recombination material and having a second recombination rate, wherein the second recombination rate is different from the first recombination rate, and a third recombination material adjacent to the second recombination material and having a third recombination rate substantially the same as the first recombination rate. Application of heat generates at least first charge carriers that migrate between the first recombination material and the second recombination material, and generates at least second charge carriers that migrate between the third recombination material and the second recombination material. The migration of the first charge carriers and the migration of the second charge carriers generates an electrical current.
US08624095B2	Musical instrument A musical instrument has an instrument body with a neck extending from the instrument body and including a finger board thereon and eight strings arranged to provide the sounds of a Violin, Viola and Cello. The strings cooperate with two separate bridges for supporting the strings and communicating the sounds to two compartments within the body. The strings connect with tuning pegs carried on a peg support mounted at the base of the body. The body is shaped and arranged to be carried in the manner of a guitar and to cooperate with a curved bow with a center handle.
US08624093B2	Soybean variety S110148 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated S110148. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety S110148. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety S110148 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety S110148 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08624092B1	Soybean variety XB48E12 A novel soybean variety, designated XB48E12 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB48E12, cells from soybean variety XB48E12, plants of soybean XB48E12, and plant parts of soybean variety XB48E12. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB48E12 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB48E12, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB48E12, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB48E12. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB48E12 are further provided.
US08624078B2	Permeable pressure sensitive adhesive The present invention relates to a pressure sensitive, hot melt processable adhesive composition comprising a polar plasticising oil, a polar polyethylene copolymer and polyisobutylene and a layered adhesive construction and a medical device comprising the adhesive composition according to the invention.
US08624072B2	Chemical reactors with annularly positioned delivery and removal devices, and associated systems and methods Chemical reactors with annularly positioned delivery and removal devices, and associated systems and methods. A reactor in accordance with a particular embodiment includes a reactor vessel having a light-transmissible surface proximate to a reaction zone, and a movable reactant delivery system positioned within the reactor vessel. The reactor can further include a product removal system positioned within the reactor vessel and positioned annularly inwardly or outwardly from the delivery system. A solar concentrator is positioned to direct solar radiation through the light-transmissible surface to the reaction zone.
US08624069B2	Conversion of biomass feedstocks into hydrocarbon liquid transportation fuels Methods for converting a carbon-containing feedstock into a fluid transportation fuel are described. The methods may include converting the carbon-containing feedstock into a producer gas comprising H2, CO, CO2, and N2, and reacting the producer gas with a substrate catalyst to produce a combination of Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) products, the F-T products including the fluid transportation fuel. A portion of the F-T products may be catalytically cracked to produce additional amounts of the fluid transportation fuel. A portion of the F-T products may also be hydrogenated to produce additional amounts of the fluid transportation fuel. Apparatuses are also described or converting a carbon-containing feedstock into a fluid transportation fuel. The apparatuses may include a producer gas reactor, a Fischer-Tropsch reactor, a cracking reactor, and a hydrogenation reactor.
US08624068B2	Gas oil composition The present invention provides a gas oil composition for use in a diesel engine with a geometric compression ratio of 16 or less, equipped with a supercharger and an EGR, containing an FT synthetic base oil and having a sulfur content of 5 ppm by mass or less, an oxygen content of 100 ppm by mass or less, a bulk modulus of 1250 MPa or greater and 1450 MPa or less, a saybolt color of +22 or greater, a lubricity of 400 μm or less, an initial boiling point of 140° C. or higher and an end point of 380° C. or lower in distillation characteristics, and the following characteristics (1) to (3) in each fraction range wherein: (1) the cetane number in a fraction range of lower than 200° C. is 40 or greater and less than 60; (2) the cetane number in a fraction range of 200° C. or higher and lower than 280° C. is 60 or greater and less than 80; and (3) the cetane number in a fraction range of 280° C. or higher is 50 or greater. The gas oil composition is used in a summer or winter season, suitable for both diesel combustion and homogeneous charge compression ignition combustion.
US08624064B2	4-hydroxyphenylalkylamine derivative The present invention relates to a compound represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group; R3 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; X represents a divalent hydrocarbon group; and R4, R5 and R6 independently represent a monovalent organic group or a group represented by the following general formula (II): in which R7 and R8 independently represent a monovalent hydrocarbon group; and R9 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, with the proviso that R5 and R6 may combine together to form a divalent hydrocarbon group. The aforementioned compounds are useful as a polymerization inhibitor and the like.
US08624062B2	Method for producing phenylacetamide compound A method for producing a phenylacetamide compound represented by formula (1): wherein Q represents a hydrogen atom or a halogen atom, R2 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R4 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, Ar represents an unsubstituted or substituted phenyl group, R5 represents R4 when R2 is a hydrogen atom, and R5 represents a hydrogen atom when R2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; including reacting a phenylacetamide compound represented by formula (2): wherein Q, R2 and Ar have the same meanings as defined above; with a dialkyl sulfate represented by formula (3): wherein R4 has the same meaning as defined above; in the presence of a base.
US08624058B2	Process for transformation of lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose by tungsten-based solid lewis acids The invention relates to a process for transformation of lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose that uses tungsten-based heterogeneous catalysts that are dispersed on an oxide-based substrate, preferably with a base of oxide(s) of aluminum and/or zirconium and/or titanium and/or niobium. The use of these catalysts makes it possible to obtain directly lactic acid with high selectivity while limiting the production of oligosaccharides and soluble polymers.
US08624047B2	Solvent-less preparation of polyols by ozonolysis Solvent-less methods to convert oil derivatives, and modified oils to highly functionalized esters, ester polyols, amides, and amide polyols. The products can be used to make polyurethane and polyester films and foams.
US08624044B2	Orthoester derivatives of crown ethers as carriers for pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions This invention relates to A crown ether of formula (I) wherein m is 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 and i is, independently for each occurrence, 1 or 2; each occurrence of R1 and R2 is independently selected from hydrogen; linear or branched and substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C10 alkyl, alkenyl and alkinyl; and substituted or unsubstituted aryl with up to 10 ring atoms; or R1 and R2 together form an oxo group; at least one occurrence in the crown ether of R1, R2 and the carbon to which R1 and R2 are attached, said carbon being bound directly to an ether oxygen of formula (I), form together a group of formula (II) wherein L is a linker which is absent or selected from a covalent bond and (CR5R6)n, each occurrence of R5 and R6 being independently selected from hydrogen; linear or branched and substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C10 alkyl, alkenyl and alkinyl; and substituted or unsubstituted aryl with up to 10 ring atoms, n being 1, 2 or 3; X and Y, independently from each other, are selected from O and S; Z, independently for each occurrence, is absent or an electron-withdrawing group; R3 and R4, independently for each occurrence, are selected from hydrogen; linear or branched and substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C10 alkyl, alkenyl and alkinyl; substituted or unsubstituted aryl with up to 10 ring atoms; H(OCH2CH2)k— and H(OCH2CH2)kO—, wherein k is an integer number from 1 to 10; wherein substituents, if present, are selected from OH, O—CH3 and halogens.
US08624042B2	Process for dimerization of ethylene to but-1-ene using a composition comprising a titanium-based complex and an alkoxy ligand functionalized by a heteroatom The invention describes a process for the selective dimerization of ethylene to but-1-ene using a catalytic composition comprising at least one organometallic titanium complex, said organometallic complex containing at least one alkoxy type ligand functionalized by a heteroatom selected from nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulphur, arsenic and antimony or by an aromatic group.
US08624034B2	Fluoro-pyridinone derivatives useful as antibacterial agents The present invention is directed to a new class of hydroxamic acid derivatives, their use as LpxC inhibitors and, more specifically, their use to treat bacterial infections.
US08624026B2	Method of preparing sitagliptin and intermediates used therein Disclosed are a novel, simple and low-cost method for preparing sitagliptin of formula (I), as DPP-IV (dipeptidyl peptidase IV) inhibitor, which is useful in treating type 2 diabetes mellitus and key intermediates used in said preparation of sitagliptin:
US08624025B2	Antiviral agents This invention relates to compounds of formula I their salts, and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and their use in the treatment of picornavirus infections in mammals, as well as novel intermediates useful in the preparation of the compounds of formula I.
US08624023B2	Synthesis of carbamoylpyridone HIV integrase inhibitors and intermediates A synthesis approach providing an early ring attachment via a bromination to compound I-I yielding compound II-II: whereby a final product such as AA: can be synthesized. In particular, the 2,4-difluorophenyl-containing sidechain is attached before creation of the additional ring Q.
US08624017B2	Probe, polymorphism detection method, method of evaluating drug efficacy or tolerance, disease prediction method and reagent kit A probe for detecting polymorphism in the ABCG2 gene is constituted by including, for example, an oligonucleotide which is complementary to a base sequence including the 301st to the 311th bases of the base sequence indicated in SEQ ID NO:1 and having a length of from 11 bases to 50 bases, and has an identity of at least 80%, and in which a base corresponding to the 311th base has been labeled with a fluorescent dye.
US08624013B2	Interleukin-10 antibodies The methods and compositions provided herein relate generally to IL-10 specific antibodies and uses thereof. More specifically, compositions of humanized IL-10 specific antibodies and methods to use such antibodies in modulating the biological activity of IL-10, particularly in autoimmune disorders and pathogen-mediated immunopathology.
US08624010B1	Nucleic acids encoding B7RP1 Polypeptides comprising ligands and receptors involved in T-cell activation are disclosed. Nucleic acid molecules that encode such polypeptides, and vectors and host cells for expressing polypeptides are also disclosed. In certain embodiments, the polypeptides, agonists thereof, and antagonists thereof may be used to treat T-cell mediated disorders.
US08624006B2	One-pot synthesis of alpha/beta-O-glycolipids The present invention provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected α-O-glycolipid. The first step involves contacting a protected α-iodo sugar with a catalyst and a lipid comprising a hydroxy group, under conditions sufficient to prepare a protected α-O-glycolipid. The second step involves deprotecting the protected α-O-glycolipid under conditions sufficient to prepare the unprotected α-O-glycolipid, wherein the contacting and deprotecting steps are performed in a single vessel. The present invention also provides a one-pot method of preparing an unprotected β-O-glycolipid following the steps for the preparation of the unprotected α-O-glycolipid.
US08624003B2	Methods for preparation of antibody-maytansinoid conjugates This invention describes a method of conjugating a cell binding agent such as an antibody with an effector group (e.g., a cytotoxic agent) or a reporter group (e.g., a radionuclide), whereby the reporter or effector group is first reacted with a bifunctional linker and the mixture is then used without purification for the conjugation reaction with the cell binding agent. The method described in this invention is advantageous for preparation of stably-linked conjugates of cell binding agents, such as antibodies with effector or reporter groups. This conjugation method provides in high yields conjugates of high purity and homogeneity that are without inter-chain cross-linking and inactivated linker residues.
US08624002B2	Prostaglandin E2 binding proteins and uses thereof The present invention encompasses prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) binding proteins. The invention relates to antibodies that are wild-type, chimeric, CDR grafted and humanized. Preferred antibodies have high affinity for prostaglandin E2 and neutralize prostaglandin E2 activity in vitro and in vivo. An antibody of the invention can be a full-length antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof. Methods of making and methods of using the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The antibodies, or antigen-binding portions, of the invention are useful for detecting prostaglandin E2 and for inhibiting prostaglandin E2 activity, e.g., in a human subject suffering from a disorder in which prostaglandin E2 activity is detrimental.
US08623999B2	Modified Clostridial toxins with enhanced targeting capabilities for endogenous Clostridial toxin receptor systems The specification discloses modified Clostridial toxins comprising a Clostridial toxin enzymatic domain, a Clostridial toxin translocation domain and an enhanced Clostridial toxin binding domain; polynucleotide molecules encoding such modified Clostridial toxins; and method of producing such modified Clostridial toxins.
US08623995B2	Peptide conjugates and fluorescence detection methods for intracellular caspase assay Polypeptides labelled with a donor and acceptor pair of dyes selected from a dibenzorhodamine dye and a diamino-benzophenoxazine dye are peptide conjugates which are useful for intracellular and bead-based assays with fluorescence detection. Peptide conjugates with a caspase-recognition site undergo cleavage into peptide fragments which may be detected, located, and quantitated by the changes in fluorescence. Intracellular cleavage of peptide conjugates is correlated with apoptosis.
US08623991B2	IPA/polyester copolymer fiber A process for producing an IPA/PET copolymer fiber that is homogenous having a substantially level, single IPA copolymer content, said fiber having improved pilling resistance and dye uptake.
US08623987B2	Room temperature fast-curing organopolysiloxane composition and its curing method A room temperature fast-curing organopolysiloxane composition which has excellent fast curability as well as deep curability is provided without using an organic compound having C═O group and the organic compound having NH2 group which are the volatile components. A method for curing such composition is also provided. The room temperature fast-curing organopolysiloxane composition comprises: (A) 100 parts by weight of a diorganopolysiloxane having both ends terminated with hydroxy group and/or a hydrolyzable group; (B) 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a silane and/or a siloxane having at least 3 alkenoxysilyl groups in its molecule and being capable of forming a compound having —NH2 group by hydrolysis; (C) 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of a silane and/or a siloxane having at least 3 aminosilyl groups in its molecule and being capable of forming a compound having —NH2 group by hydrolysis; and (D) 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a curing catalyst.
US08623985B2	Silicone composition which is cross-linkable by dehydrogenative condensation in the presence of a metal catalyst A silicone composition is described that includes components having SiH/SiOH groupings and that can be polymerized/cross-linked by a dehydrogenative condensation reaction in the presence of a zinc catalyst and requiring a low activation temperature.
US08623984B2	Compositions containing polyether-polysiloxane copolymers The present invention relates to compositions containing polyether-siloxane copolymers which are based on branched SiH-functional siloxanes, where at least one of the polyether-siloxane copolymers has a radical —OR8 where R8=hydrogen or an alkyl radical having from 1 to 10 carbon atoms which is bound to a silicon atom, a process for producing polyurethane foam in which these compositions are used as foam stabilizers, polyurethane foams containing these compositions and the use of these polyurethane foams.
US08623980B2	Process for making a saturated dendritic hydrocarbon polymer A process for making a substantially saturated dendritic hydrocarbon polymer. The process has the following steps: (a) polymerizing an amount of a first alkadiene monomer under anionic conditions in the presence of a first organic monolithium initiator to produce a linear polyalkadiene having a lithiated chain end; (b) reacting the linear polyalkadiene with an amount of a second organic monolithium initiator in the presence of tetramethylethylene diamine to form a multilithiated polyalkadiene; (c) reacting the multilithiated polyalkadiene with an amount of a second alkadiene monomer to form a branched polyalkadiene; (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) with the branched polyalkadiene one or more times to prepare a dendritic polyalkadiene; and (e) hydrogenating the dendritic polyalkadiene to form the substantially saturated dendritic hydrocarbon polymer.
US08623974B2	Branched vinyl terminated polymers and methods for production thereof This invention relates to a process for polymerization, comprising (i) contacting, at a temperature greater than 35° C., one or more monomers comprising ethylene and/or propylene, with a catalyst system comprising a metallocene catalyst compound and an activator, (ii) converting at least 50 mol % of the monomer to polyolefin; and (iii) obtaining a branched polyolefin having greater than 50% allyl chain ends, relative to total unsaturated chain ends. The invention also relates to the branched polyolefins and functionalized branched polyolefins.
US08623971B2	Polyethersulfone compositions with high heat and good impact resistance Polyethersulfones having Tg greater than about 225° C. and a notched Izod value greater than about 1 ft-lb/in, as measured by ASTM D256, comprise from about 5 mol % to less than about 40 mol % structural units of formula 1; and from greater than about 60 mol % to about 95 mol % structural units of formula 2 wherein R1, R2, and R3 are independently at each occurrence a halogen atom, a nitro group, a cyano group, a C1-C12aliphatic radical, C3-C12cycloaliphatic radical, or a C3-C12aromatic radical; n, m, q are independently at each occurrence integers from 0 to 4; and Q is a C3-C20cycloaliphatic radical, or a C3-C20aromatic radical.
US08623964B2	Room temperature crosslinkable ion conductive polymer system A room temperature crosslinkable polymer system comprising an anhydride containing polymer and an oxyalkylene amine and a polymer electrolyte derived therefrom are prepared and employed as ion conducting materials for batteries such as lithium ion battery, solar cells and electrochromic devices is disclosed.
US08623956B2	Rubber composition for sidewall, insulation or breaker cushion, production method thereof, and pneumatic tire The present invention provides a rubber composition for a sidewall, an insulation, or a breaker cushion, which can achieve both excellent fuel economy (low heat build-up) and high flex crack growth resistance while having processability excellent enough to eliminate the need for mastication, and also provides a pneumatic tire produced using the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a sidewall, an insulation, or a breaker cushion, including: a rubber component that contains a modified natural rubber with a phosphorus content of 200 ppm or less; and carbon black and/or a white filler.
US08623949B2	Rubber composition Disclosed is a rubber composition containing 100 parts by weight of a rubber blend comprising 99-85 by weight % of chloroprene rubber and 1-15 by weight % of chlorinated polyethylene rubber, (A) 10 to 30 parts by weight of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 650, or (B) 10 to 30 parts by weight of both of a polyether ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight of 450 to 900 and an ester-based plasticizer having a molecular weight 350 to 500, and 3 to 10 parts by weight of two or more aromatic amine-based antioxidants. The rubber composition can simultaneously satisfy requirements for use as, for example, an automobile grease cup material, that is, heat resistance, ozone resistance, cold resistance, and adhesion to metal or resin.
US08623932B2	Foamed polyolefin composition A foamed polyolefin composition comprising (all percent amounts being by weight): A) 50%-90% of a polypropylene component; and B) 10%-50% of a copolymer component of ethylene and at least one C3-C10 α-olefin, the copolymer containing from 15% to 50% of ethylene, and optionally minor amounts of a diene; the said amounts of (A) and (B) being referred to the total weight of (A) and (B); said composition having at least one of the following features i) and ii), or both: i) a Polydispersity Index of component (A) of 4 or more; ii) a value of viscosity [η] of the fraction soluble in xylene at room temperature equal to or higher than 3.5 dl/g.
US08623931B2	Protein-containing foams, manufacture and use thereof The invention relates generally to protein-containing polyurethane foams, methods and compositions for making the polyurethane foams, and articles comprising the polyurethane foams.
US08623923B2	Process for the preparation of ajoene A process for the preparation of ajoene, and of ajoene having a relatively high purity which may be obtained by the process. This invention also relates to processes for the preparation of allicin, and to a process for freeze concentrating allicin.
US08623914B2	Medical composition The object of the invention is to find the actions of the crude drugs contained in Daikenchuto or their components and the synergistic effect of the components with one another or with other pharmacologically active substances, and to provide new drugs or pharmaceutical compositions based on the findings. The invention is directed to intestinal peristaltic motility-enhancers comprising an effective amount of hydroxy-α-sanshool or a plant containing the same or an extract thereof; compositions comprising a combination of hydroxy-α-sanshool or a plant containing the same or an extract thereof and capsaicin or a plant containing the same or an extract thereof or bethanechol or a salt thereof; as well as a method for improving intestinal motility which comprises administering the composition to a patient.
US08623911B2	Boron-containing small molecules as anti-protozoal agent This invention provides, among other things, novel compounds useful for treating protozoal infections, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, as well as combinations of these compounds with at least one additional therapeutically effective agent.
US08623909B2	Prophylactic/therapeutic agents for lifestyle-related diseases Disclosed is a method for screening a compound having an activity that selectively modulates an androgen receptor, comprising a step of measuring the mRNA expression level of prostate-specific antigen or the production level of prostate-specific antigen in prostate cancer cells by contacting a test substance with the prostate cancer cells, and a step of measuring the mRNA expression level of uncoupling protein 1 or the production level of uncoupling protein 1 in adipocytes by contacting a test substance with the adipocytes. Additionally disclosed is a selective androgen receptor modulator, comprising as an active ingredient thereof a compound represented by any of structural formulas (I) to (III), and a composition for preventing or treating a lifestyle-related disease, comprising as an active ingredient thereof said selective androgen receptor modulator.
US08623908B2	Use of tellurium compounds for inhibition of interleukin-converting enzyme Use of tellurium-containing compounds for treating conditions in which inhibition of caspase-1/interleuFkin-1β enzyme (ICE) is beneficial is disclosed.
US08623901B2	Compounds for the treatment of CNS disorders The invention relates to novel 1,6-disubstituted pyrazolopyrimidinones of formula (I), in which Hc is a tetrahydropyranyl-group and R1 is the group V−W−*, whereby V and W independently of each other may be an aryl group or an heteroaryl group, which independently of each other may optionally be substituted. According to one aspect of the invention the new compounds are for use as medicaments or for the manufacture of medicaments, in particular medicaments for the treatment of conditions concerning deficits in perception, concentration, learning or memory. The new compounds are also for the manufacture of medicaments and/or for use in the treatment of e.g. Alzheimer's disease, in particular for cognitive impairment associated with Alzheimer's disease.
US08623897B2	Methods and compositions for treatment of diabetes and dyslipidemia The invention is directed to novel compounds of Formula I: as well as its stereoisomers and/or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, for the treatment of diabetes and diabetes associated dyslipidemia.
US08623896B2	Insecticidal compounds A compound of formula (I), wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, G1, L, R1, R2, R3, R4, Y1, Y2 and Y3 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing compounds of formula (I), to insecticidal, acaricidal, molluscicidal and nematicidal compositions comprising them and to methods of using them to combat and control insect, acarine, mollusc and nematode pests.
US08623884B2	Quinazolinedione derivatives as PARP inhibitors The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), their use as PARP inhibitors as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, L1, L2, X, Y and Z have defined meanings.
US08623881B2	Inhibitors of human phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta Methods of inhibiting phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase delta isoform (PI3Kδ) activity, and methods of treating diseases, such as disorders of immunity and inflammation, in which PI3Kδ plays a role in leukocyte function are disclosed. Preferably, the methods employ active agents that selectively inhibit PI3Kδ, while not significantly inhibiting activity of other PI3K isoforms. Compounds are provided that inhibit PI3Kδ activity, including compounds that selectively inhibit PI3Kδ activity. Methods of using PI3Kδ inhibitory compounds to inhibit cancer cell growth or proliferation are also provided. Accordingly, the invention provides methods of using PI3Kδ inhibitory compounds to inhibit PI3Kδ-mediated processes in vitro and in vivo.
US08623868B2	Processes of making and using pharmaceutical formulations of antineoplastic agents In its several embodiments, this invention discloses a pharmaceutical formulation comprising at least one antineoplastic agent or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one dissolution enhancing agent sufficient to substantially dissolve said at least one antineoplastic agent in at least one aqueous diluent, wherein said dissolution enhancing agent is urea, L-histidine, L-threonine, L-asparagine, L-serine, L-glutamine or mixtures thereof; a lyophilized powder comprising said pharmaceutical formulation, and articles of manufacture thereof.
US08623867B2	Cyclic amine BACE-1 inhibitors having a benzamide substituent Disclosed are compounds of the formula or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein R1 is R is —C(O)—N(R27)(R28) or and the remaining variables are as defined in the specification. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I.Also disclosed are methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating cognitive or neurodegenerative diseases comprising the compounds of formula I in combination with a β-secretase inhibitor other than those of formula I, an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, a gamma-secretase inhibitor, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, a cholinesterase inhibitor or an anti-amyloid antibody.
US08623862B2	Derivatives of N-[(1H-pyrazol-1-yl)aryl]-1H-indole or 1H-indazole-3-carboxamide, preparation thereof and applications thereof in therapeutics The present invention relates to compounds corresponding to formula (I): X represents a —CH— group or a nitrogen atom; R1 represents a (C1-C4)alkyl or a (C1-C4)alkoxy; R2 represents a group Alk; R5 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a group Alk; R6 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano, a group —COOAlk or a —CONH2 group.
US08623851B2	Formoterol/steroid bronchodilating compositions and methods of use thereof Bronchodilating compositions and methods are provided. The compositions are intended for administration as a nebulized aerosol. In certain embodiments, the compositions contain formoterol, or a derivative thereof, and a steroidal anti-inflammatory agent. Methods for treatment, prevention, or amelioration of one or more symptoms of bronchoconstrictive disorders using the compositions provided herein are also provided.
US08623849B2	Medicinal applications of benzoic acid hydrazones synthesized on the basis of steroidal tigogenin Novel benzoic acid hydrazones of 5α-androstan-3,17-dione have been prepared on the basis of steroidal tigogenin of the plant Yucca gloriosa. The hydrazones of the General Formula (I), General Formula (II) and General Formula (III) as shown in the accompanying FIGURE of the drawing are synthesized. The hydrazones have shown promising anti-T.B., anti-cancer and anti-HIV activity revealing immense potential as more efficacious, less toxic drugs with fewer undesirable side effects. They could also prove valuable in correcting hormonal abnormalities that cause severe health problems.
US08623848B2	Anxiolytic marcgraviaceae compositions containing betulinic acid, betulinic acid derivatives, and methods Pharmaceutical compositions for preventing or treating anxiety, comprising betulinic acid or derivatives thereof are provided. Methods for preventing or treating anxiety with betulinic acid or derivatives thereof are also provided. The invention further provides betulinic-acid containing preparations of plants of the family Marcgraviaceae having anxiolytic activity and methods for making such extracts and using them to prevent or treat anxiety in a subject.
US08623839B2	Compositions and methods for stabilized polysaccharide formulations Compositions and methods are provided for treating joint conditions, such as osteoarthritis and/or the pain associated therewith. The compositions and methods utilize a first component, namely hyaluronic acid (“HA”), in combination with at least one stabilizer. The composition can include a stabilizer that increases the stability and shelf-life of the HA. In another embodiment, the compositions and methods can also include an additional component, such as one or more glycosaminoglycans (“GAG”) or GAG precursors. Examples of GAGs or GAG precursors can include chondroitin sulfate (“CS”), dermatan sulfate, heparin, heparan sulfate, keratan sulfate, and glucosamine (“GlcN”).
US08623837B2	Combination of immuno gene therapy and chemotherapy for treatment of cancer and hyperproliferative diseases Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a nucleic acid, a gene delivery polymer, and at least one adjunctive chemotherapeutic drug for the treatment of mammalian cancer or hyperproliferative disorders and methods of using thereof for the treatment of mammalian cancer or hyperproliferative disorders by intratumoral, intraperitoneal or systemic injection.
US08623835B2	Materials and methods for treatment of respiratory allergic diseases The present invention pertains to a method for treatment of allergic diseases by administering a natriuretic hormone peptide (NHP), or a nucleic acid sequence encoding NHP, to a patient in need thereof. In another aspect, the present invention concerns an expression vector comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding NHP. In another aspect, the present invention concerns a host cell genetically modified with a nucleic acid sequence encoding NHP. In another aspect, the present invention concerns a pharmaceutical composition comprising NHP or a nucleic acid sequence encoding NHP and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. In another aspect, the present invention pertains to novel fragments of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) exhibiting bronchodilatory and anti-inflammatory activity, and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the fragments.
US08623830B2	Compositions containing α-1-antitrypsin and methods for use Methods and compositions for treating patients (e.g., patients who are insulin resistant, patients who have diabetes, or are at risk for developing diabetes) are disclosed herein. The methods can include administration of an a1 antitrypsin (AAT) polypeptide or an agent, such as a nucleic acid molecule or organic compound, that promotes the expression or activity of a1-antitrypsin.
US08623825B2	Edible fat composition for enhancing bone strength Disclosed is describes a method of increasing bone strength and/or increasing bone resistance to bending and/or improving bone architecture and/or maintaining bone status in a human, comprising administering to said human a composition comprising a fat source, wherein said fat source is a triglyceride fat source comprising triglycerides with 15-55% palmitic acid moieties out of the total fatty acids, and wherein the level of palmitic acid moieties at the sn-2 position of the glycerol backbone is at least 30% (w/w) of total palmitic acid. Said method is particularly intended for subjects at risk of impaired bone strength. Further disclosed is said fat source, as well as food articles and a commercial package comprising the same.
US08623824B2	VIII factors for the treatment of type A hemophilia The present invention relates to improved human FVIII variants having at least one substitution in the A2 and/or C2 domain. The present invention also relates to their uses in the treatment of hemophilia A, particularly in patients with inhibitors.
US08623819B2	Therapy for complications of diabetes A method for enhancing glycemic control and/or insulin sensitivity in a human subject having diabetic nephropathy and/or metabolic syndrome comprises administering to the subject a selective endothelin A (ETA) receptor antagonist in a glycemic control and/or insulin sensitivity enhancing effective amount. A method for treating a complex of comorbidities in an elderly diabetic human subject comprises administering to the subject a selective ETA receptor antagonist in combination or as adjunctive therapy with at least one additional agent that is (i) other than a selective ETA receptor antagonist and (ii) effective in treatment of diabetes and/or at least one of said comorbidities other than hypertension. A therapeutic combination useful in such a method comprises a selective ETA receptor antagonist and at least one antidiabetic, anti-obesity or antidyslipidemic agent other than a selective ETA receptor antagonist.
US08623814B2	Antiviral agents The present invention provides antiviral compounds of formula (I), as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods for synthesizing these compounds and methods of using these compounds for treating a viral infection.
US08623810B2	Protease for wound conditioning and skin care We have identified by molecular cloning a protease which originates from the larvae of Lucilia sericata and which was termed debrilase due to its activities useful for debridement of wounds. Described is a nucleic acid molecule encoding a serine protease having the ability to cleave fibrin and casein which is (a) a nucleic acid molecule encoding the serine protease comprising or consisting of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 as well as to nucleic acid molecules encoding precursors or fragments of said serine protease; (b) a nucleic acid molecule comprising or consisting of the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3; (c) a nucleic acid molecule encoding a serine protease the amino acid sequence of which is at least 80% identical to the amino acid sequence of (a), preferably at least 85% identical, more preferably at least 90% identical, and most preferred 95% identical; (d) a nucleic acid molecule comprising or consisting of a nucleotide sequence which is at least 80% identical to the nucleotide sequence of (b), preferably at least 85% identical, more preferably at least 90% identical, and most preferred 95% identical; (e) a nucleic acid molecule which is degenerate with respect to the nucleic acid molecule of (b) or (d); or (f) a nucleic acid molecule corresponding to the nucleic acid molecule of any one of (a) to (d) wherein T is replaced by U.
US08623809B2	Pearlescent concentrate and process for production The invention relates to pumpable aqueous pearlescent concentrates having a high active content of alkyl sulfates, alkyl ether sulfates, alkyl sulfonates, mono and diesters of sulfosuccinic acid (sulfosuccinates), alkyl glycinates, alkyl sarcosinates, and/or alkyl taurates, and fatty acid glycol esters and/or carbolic acid amides as pearlescent agents, and to a method for the production thereof. The pearlescent concentrates according to the invention are suitable as additives for improving the optical appearance of tenside components, for example of liquid washing and cleaning agents or liquid body wash and body care agents and hair care agents. The pearlescent concentrates according to the invention comprise 35 to 85% by weight of a dispersant selected from alkyl ether sulfates, alkyl sulfates, alkyl sulfonates, mono and diesters of sulfosuccinic acid, alkyl glycinates, alkyl sarcosinates and/or alkyl taurates, and mixtures thereof, 15 to 40% by weight of a pearlescent agent component selected from fatty acid glycol esters, fatty acid alkanol amides and mixtures thereof, optionally advantageous additives and water in the quantity short of 100% by weight, but not in a concentration greater than 30% by weight.
US08623802B2	Concentrated surfactant compositions and methods of preparation thereof An aqueous composition comprising: (a) an acyl isethionate of formula (I): wherein R1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group having from (7) to (21) carbon atoms and M+ is a cation; and (b) a further surfactant selected from nonionic surfactants, cationic surfactants and anionic surfactants other than those of formula (I); wherein component (a) and component (b) together comprise more than (12) wt % of the composition. R1CO2CH2CH2SO3−M+ (I)
US08623791B2	Copolymer and preparation method and application thereof A copolymer and preparation method and application thereof are disclosed. The copolymer is random copolymer obtained from monomers consisting of acrylamide, acrylic acid, alkenyl sulfonate, 2-acrylamido-dodecyl sulfonate, p-styrene sulfonate or isoprene sulfonate and so on. The copolymer of present invention can be used as fluid loss additive and has good fluid loss properties, which would not make the drilling fluid thicken at high temperature of 200° C. and high salt conditions of saturated brine. It has a medium-pressure fluid loss after aging and rolling for 16 h at high temperature of 200° C., as measured in accordance with the American Petroleum Institute Standard Test at room temperature, and has good properties of high temperature-resisting and salt-resisting.
US08623788B1	Flux pinning of cuprate superconductors with nanoparticles The present invention provides a method of making a high temperature superconductor having a doped, nanoparticulate pinning structure. The method includes providing a nanoparticulate pinning material, providing a cuprate material, doping the nanoparticulate pinning material with a dopant to form a doped nanoparticulate material, depositing a layer of the cuprate material on a substrate, and depositing a layer of the doped nanoparticulate material on the layer of cuprate material. The invention also provides a high temperature superconductor (HTS) having a doped, nanoparticulate pinning structure including a plurality of layers of a cuprate material and a plurality of layers of a doped nanoparticulate pinning material. At least one layer of the doped nanoparticulate pinning material is stacked between two layers of the cuprate material.
US08623780B2	Preparation process of a complex oxide catalyst and application thereof to the synthesis of the acrylic acid The present invention provides a complex oxide catalyst whose general formula is Mo12VaCubWcXdYeOf/Z. reducing agent needs to be added into the catalyst during the preparation process of the active component of the catalyst and (or) molding process of the catalyst. Specifically, X is at least one selected from a group consisting of Nb, Sb, Sr, Ba and Te; Y is at least one selected from a group consisting of La, Ce, Nd, Sm and Cs; “a” is ranging from 2 to 8; “b” is ranging from 1 to 6; “c” is ranging from 0.5 to 5; “d” is ranging from 0.01 to 4; “e” is ranging from 0.01 to 4; f is determined by the oxidation state of the component element; Z is silicon powder; the reducing agent is C2˜C6 diol or polyol.
US08623777B2	Process for rejuvenating a catalyst composition This disclosure relates to a method for rejuvenating a catalyst, comprising contacting the catalyst with a gaseous feedstock at rejuvenation conditions for at least one hour to form a rejuvenated catalyst and a gaseous product, wherein the catalyst comprises at least 10 wt. % of a molecular sieve, wherein the catalyst prior to the contacting step comprises from 0.001 wt. % to 45 wt. % of hydrocarbons and 0.001 to 10 wt. % nitrogen containing components based on the total weight of the catalyst prior to the contacting step, wherein the molecular sieve comprises at least one of a MCM-22 family molecular sieve, a molecular sieve having a framework type of *BEA, a molecular sieve having a framework type of FAU, and a molecular sieve having a framework type of MOR, wherein the gaseous feedstock comprises at least one of N2, H2, alkane, He, Ar, CO, and CO2, wherein the gaseous product has at least a portion of the gaseous feedstock and at least a portion of the hydrocarbons of the catalyst and at least a portion of the nitrogen containing components of the catalyst, wherein the rejuvenation conditions comprise a temperature in the range from about 400 to 600° C., a pressure in the range from about 101.3 kPa-a to 10130 kPa-a, a space hourly velocity in the range of from 0.05 to 10 hr−1.
US08623774B2	Printing blanket construction A printing blanket construction is provided which includes a reinforcing fabric ply comprised of a weft insertion fabric or a heavy gauge fabric, where the reinforcing fabric ply provides all of the necessary tensioning properties to the blanket. The use of the reinforcing fabric ply eliminates the need for additional reinforcing fabric plies in the blanket construction, and provides high tensile strength, low stretch, and resistance to gauge loss.
US08623764B2	Composition and methods for forming metal films on semiconductor substrates using supercritical solvents Compositions and methods for forming metal films on semiconductor substrates are disclosed. One of the disclosed methods comprises: heating the semiconductor substrate to obtain a heated semiconductor substrate; exposing the heated semiconductor substrate to a composition containing at least one metal precursor comprising at least one ligand, an excess amount of neutral labile ligands, a supercritical solvent, and optionally at least one source of B, C, N, Si, P, and mixtures thereof; exposing the composition to a reducing agent and/or thermal energy at or near the heated semiconductor substrate; disassociating the at least one ligand from the metal precursor; and forming the metal film while minimizing formation of metal oxides.
US08623761B2	Method of forming a graphene cap for copper interconnect structures Interconnect structures including a graphene cap located on exposed surfaces of a copper structure are provided. In some embodiments, the graphene cap is located only atop the uppermost surface of the copper structure, while in other embodiments the graphene cap is located along vertical sidewalls and atop the uppermost surface of the copper structure. The copper structure is located within a dielectric material.
US08623758B1	Subtractive metal multi-layer barrier layer for interconnect structure A method includes forming an adhesion barrier layer over a dielectric layer formed on a substrate. A first stress level is present across a first interface between the adhesion barrier layer and the dielectric layer. A stress-reducing barrier layer is formed over the adhesion barrier layer. The stress-reducing barrier layer reduces the first stress level to provide a second stress level, less than the first stress level, across a second interface between the adhesion barrier layer, the stress-reducing barrier layer, and the dielectric layer. A metal layer is formed over the stress-reducing barrier layer. The metal layer, adhesion barrier layer, and stress-reducing barrier layer define an interconnect metal stack. Recesses are defined in the interconnect metal stack to expose the dielectric layer. The recesses are filled with a dielectric material, wherein a portion of the interconnect metal stack disposed between adjacent recessed filled with dielectric material defines an interconnect structure.
US08623757B2	Producing a vertical transistor including reentrant profile Producing a vertical transistor includes providing a substrate including a gate material layer stack with a reentrant profile. A patterned deposition inhibiting material is deposited over a portion of the gate material layer stack and over a portion of the substrate. An electrically insulating material layer is deposited over a portion of the gate material layer stack and over a portion of the substrate using a selective area deposition process in which the electrically insulating material layer is not deposited over the patterned deposition inhibiting material. A semiconductor material layer is deposited over the electrically insulating material layer.
US08623754B1	Repairing anomalous stiff pillar bumps Generally, the subject matter disclosed herein relates to repairing anomalous stiff pillar bumps that may be detected above a metallization system of a semiconductor chip or wafer. One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a pillar bump above a metallization system of a semiconductor chip, and forming a plurality of notches in the pillar bump, wherein the plurality of notches are adapted to adjust a flexibility of the pillar bump when the pillar bump is exposed to a lateral force.
US08623752B2	Ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor, method of manufacturing ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device An ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor that contains Si and Ni or an ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor that further contains Au or Pt in addition to Si and Ni is provided. In addition, a method of manufacturing the ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor, a semiconductor device including the ohmic electrode for SiC semiconductor, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided.
US08623750B2	Heat treatment method for promoting crystallization of high dielectric constant film A film of silicon dioxide is formed on the silicon-germanium layer, and a high dielectric constant film is further formed on the film of silicon dioxide. First irradiation from a flash lamp is performed on the semiconductor wafer to increase the temperature of a front surface of the semiconductor wafer from a preheating temperature to a target temperature for a time period in the range of 3 milliseconds to 1 second. Subsequently, second irradiation from the flash lamp is performed to maintain the temperature of the front surface of the semiconductor wafer within a ±25° C. range around the target temperature for a time period in the range of 3 milliseconds to 1 second. This promotes the crystallization of the high dielectric constant film while suppressing the alleviation of distortion in the silicon-germanium layer.
US08623723B2	Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a bit line contact hole A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a device isolation structure for defining an active region, forming a buried word line traversing the active region, forming one or more insulation film patterns over the buried word line, forming a line pattern including a first conductive material at a position between the insulation film patterns, and forming a plurality of storage node contacts (SNCs) by isolating the line pattern. As a result, when forming a bit line contact and a storage node contact, a fabrication margin is increased.
US08623706B2	Microelectronic package with terminals on dielectric mass A package for a microelectronic element 48, such as a semiconductor chip, has a dielectric mass 86 overlying the package substrate 56 and microelectronic element 48 and has top terminals 38 exposed at the top surface 94 of the dielectric mass 86. Traces 36a, 36b extending along edge surfaces 96, 108 of the dielectric mass 86 desirably connect the top terminals 38 to bottom terminals 64 on the package substrate 56. The dielectric mass 86 can be formed, for example, by molding or by application of a conformal layer 505.
US08623699B2	Method of chip package build-up A system and method for chip package fabrication is disclosed. The chip package includes a base re-distribution layer having an opening formed therein, an adhesive layer having a window formed therein free of adhesive material, and a die affixed to the base re-distribution layer by way of the adhesive layer, the die being aligned with the window such that only a perimeter of the die contacts the adhesive layer. A shield element is positioned between the base re-distribution layer and adhesive layer that is generally aligned with the opening formed in the base re-distribution layer and the window of the adhesive layer such that only a perimeter of the shield element is attached to the adhesive layer. The shield element is separated from the die by an air gap and is configured to be selectively removable from the adhesive layer so as to expose the front surface of the die.
US08623695B2	Method for producing semiconductor device A method for producing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming an organic semiconductor layer on a substrate; forming a protective pattern on the organic semiconductor layer; and patterning the organic semiconductor layer by dissolving, in an organic solvent, or subliming the organic semiconductor layer using the protective pattern as a mask.
US08623689B2	Package process of backside illumination image sensor In a package process of backside illumination image sensor, a wafer including a plurality of pads is provided. A first carrier is processed to form a plurality of blind vias therein. The first carrier is adhered to the wafer so that the blind vias face to the pads correspondingly. A spacing layer is formed and a plurality of sensing components are disposed. A second carrier is adhered on the spacing layer. Subsequently, a carrier thinning process is performed so that the blind vias become the through holes. An insulating layer is formed on the first carrier. An electrically conductive layer is formed on the insulating layer and filled in the though holes to electrically connect to the pads. The package process can achieve the exact alignment of the through holes and the pads, thereby increasing the package efficiency and improving the package quality.
US08623688B2	Solar cell and method for manufacturing such a solar cell A method for manufacturing a solar cell from a semiconductor substrate (1) of a first conductivity type, the semiconductor substrate having a front surface (2) and a back surface (3). The method includes in a sequence: texturing (102) the front surface to create a textured front surface (2a); creating (103) by diffusion of a dopant of the first conductivity type a first conductivity-type doped layer (2c) in the textured front surface and a back surface field layer (4) of the first conductivity type in the back surface; removing (105; 104a) the first conductivity-type doped layer from the textured front surface by an etching process adapted for retaining texture of the textured front surface; creating (106) a layer of a second conductivity type (6) on the textured front surface by diffusion of a dopant of the second conductivity type into the textured front surface.
US08623673B1	Structure and method for detecting defects in BEOL processing A test structure and method for monitoring process uniformity. Embodiments of the invention include test structures having a first metallization layer, a second metallization layer formed above the first metallization layer, a defect-generating region in a first metallization layer, a defect-dispersing region in the second metallization layer above the defect-generating region; and a defect-detecting region in the second metallization layer adjacent to the defect-dispersing region. The defect-generating region of the exemplary embodiment may have zero pattern density, uniform non-zero pattern density, or non-uniform non-zero pattern density. The defect-detecting region may include a test pattern such as, a comb-serpentine structure. Embodiments may include more than one defect-generating region, more than one defect-dispersing region, or more than one defect-detecting region. Embodiments may further include methods of manufacturing said test structures and methods of utilizing said test structures to monitor back end processes and determine if such processes are within specification limits.
US08623665B2	Fecal sample collection and processing apparatus and method A method for collecting and processing biological samples (e.g., fecal samples) is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a system comprising a container, a collector, and a lid. Using the collector, a user may collect a sample. The sample may be inserted within the container. The lid may be secured and the container and sample contained therewithin may be transported to a testing facility. At the testing facility, the container may be used throughout the processing of the sample. Accordingly, the risk of cross-contamination may be reduced.
US08623663B2	Reaction apparatus and process A new reaction apparatus including a capillary having an inner surface to which a probe molecule that specifically binds to an analyte is immobilized, allowing a short throughput time for completing the binding reaction, and achieving a highly efficient reaction using a small amount of a sample and a process of the reaction are provided. The reaction apparatus includes a capillary having an inner surface to which a probe molecule that specifically binds to an analyte is immobilized; a columnar magnetic body that is disposed in a fluid containing the analyte in the state that the fluid is placed in the capillary; end-fixing means for fixing one end of the columnar magnetic body in the capillary by a DC magnetic field; and end-moving means for moving the other end of the columnar magnetic body by an AC magnetic field so as to transfer the fluid.
US08623656B2	Screening method for test specimen A test specimen that has one or more chemical substances fixed to prescribed plural independent positions on a substrate, and the quantities of the chemical substances fixed at the respective prescribed positions are the total of integer multiples of existence quantity units defined for the respective chemical substances in the range from 1 amol to 1 nmol (excluding the case in which the total quantity is zero).

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