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US08788491B2	Decoding a hierarchical multi-layer data package A hierarchical decoder is operable to decode a hierarchical multi-layer data package. The hierarchical multi-layer data package includes a plurality of layers and one or more subpackages in each layer. To decode the data package, an objective function is created based on parameters for identifying data in the data package most relevant to information of interest. Subpackages in one or more layers are evaluated using the objective function and a subpackage is selected. Information for the selected subpackage, which may include a summary and metadata, is used to determine whether the subpackage satisfies an information need. If the information need is not satisfied, a drill down procedure is performed to evaluate subpackages in a next lower layer of the data package.
US08788489B2	Evaluation of web pages Determining a web page evaluation value includes is described herein. A plurality of web pages with the same or approximately the same content is obtained. A plurality of generation times and a plurality of first evaluation values that correspond to respective ones of the plurality of web pages is determined. A web page among the plurality of web pages that has the earliest generation time is identified. A second evaluation value of the identified web page according to the plurality of first evaluation values is determined.
US08788488B2	Ranking search results based on recency A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites metadata, or favorites collaborative filtering. The file may be organized based on the assigned scores to provide users with more accurate search results.
US08788480B2	Multiple candidate selection in an entity resolution system Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for matching an inbound identity record to existing entities. Entity resolution (ER) candidate-building keys may be determined for a received identity record. A query may be generated from the ER candidate-building keys. When executing the query, a generic key may be identified. Execution of the query may be aborted upon a condition involving the generic key being satisfied.
US08788476B2	Method and system of triggering a search request A method and system are described for creating a recurring or triggered search request. A search request is associated with a condition which initiates an information search. A search result, including a search query associated with a search request and a condition may be provided to a user via any or all communication services and/or devices associated with the user. A tool is provided to enable a user to select an existing search request and/or search result which may be used to create a triggered or ‘favorite’ search query which may be triggered as designated. Triggered search requests may be suggested to a user using automated and/or human assisted techniques.
US08788474B2	Inode event notification for cluster file systems A mechanism for inode event notification for cluster file systems is disclosed. A method of the invention includes implementing a lock scheme for a cache manager associated with an inode of a cluster file system, wherein the lock scheme includes a null lock (NL) used as a reference count for a lock value block (LVB) and an exclusive (EX) lock used for setting up inode event notifications, and associating a first global counter and a second global counter with the cache manager for the inode, wherein the first global counter is configured to track one or more processes that have the inode open in read-only mode and the second global counter is configured to track processes that have the inode open in read-write mode.
US08788472B2	Conditional commit for data in a database A database comprises a database interface and a database updater. The database interface enables a reading of a first set of information from the database. The database updater updates a second set of information in the database based at least in part on one or more conditions. The one or more conditions limit changes allowable to the first set of information from the database that occurred after the reading of the first set of information from the database.
US08788465B2	Notification of configuration updates in a cluster system A second node receives a message from a first node in a cluster environment. The message includes a unique identifier of a shared data storage device including a cluster configuration database that defines membership of nodes in a cluster. In response to receiving the message, the second node attempts to find the shared data storage device. In response to finding the shared data storage device, the second node locates and reads the cluster configuration database on the shared data storage device. The second node then assimilates a cluster configuration update indicated by the cluster configuration database.
US08788461B2	Creating validated database snapshots for provisioning virtual databases Virtual databases are provisioned using point-in-time copies of a source database. Transaction logs received from the source database are applied to a point-in-time copy of the source database to create recovery milestones comprising database blocks that can be used to provision virtual databases. The recovery milestones are created in advance of receiving a request to provision a virtual database. Each recovery milestone is validated to determine that a consistent database snapshot can be created using the recovery milestone. If a problem is identified that prevents creation of a consistent database snapshot, the problem is fixed before creating the next recovery milestone. In response to receiving a request to provision a virtual database corresponding to a point in time, a recovery milestone is identified and transaction logs applied to the recovery milestone to create a database snapshot corresponding to the requested point in time.
US08788453B2	Data aggregation module supporting dynamic query responsive aggregation during the servicing of database query requests provided by one or more client machines Improved method of and apparatus for aggregating data elements in multidimensional databases (MDDB). In the preferred embodiment, the apparatus is realized in the form of a high-performance stand-alone (i.e. external) aggregation server which can be plugged-into conventional MOLAP systems to achieve significant improvements in system performance. In accordance with the principles of the present invention, the stand-alone aggregation server contains a scalable MDDB and a high-performance aggregation engine that are integrated into the modular architecture of the aggregation server. The stand-alone aggregation server of the present invention can uniformly distribute data elements among a plurality of processors, for balanced loading and processing, and therefore is highly scalable.
US08788450B2	Self-organizing quantum robust control methods and systems for situations with uncertainty and risk Control systems, apparatus, and methods can apply quantum algorithms to control a control object in the presence of uncertainty and/or information risk. A self-organizing controller can include a quantum inference unit that can generate a set of robust control gains for a controller that can meet the control objectives for the particular realization of the control object. In one embodiment, the quantum inference unit can include a quantum correlator configured to generate a plurality of quantum states based on a plurality of controller parameters and a correlation type. In this embodiment, the quantum inference unit can also include a quantum optimizer configured to select the correlation type of the quantum correlator and to select a quantum state from the plurality of the quantum states. The self-organizing controller can control the control object with one or more controller gains that are based on the selected quantum state.
US08788448B2	Occupancy pattern detection, estimation and prediction Systems and methods are described for predicting and/or detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling or other building, which can be used for a number of applications. An a priori stochastic model of occupancy patterns based on information of the enclosure and/or the expected occupants of the enclosure is used to pre-seed an occupancy prediction engine. Along with data from an occupancy sensor, the occupancy prediction engine predicts future occupancy of the enclosure. Various systems and methods for detecting occupancy of an enclosure, such as a dwelling, are also described.
US08788434B2	Search with joint image-audio queries Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing joint image-audio queries. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a joint image-audio query including query image data and query audio data. Query image feature data is determined from the query image data. Query audio feature data is determined from the audio data. The query image feature data and the query audio feature data are provided to a joint image-audio relevance model trained to generate relevance scores for a plurality of resources, each resource including resource image data defining a resource image for the resource and text data defining resource text for the resource. Each relevance score is a measure of the relevance of corresponding resource to the joint image-audio query. Data defining search results indicating the order of the resources is provided to the client device.
US08788433B2	Invoice amount calculation method, invoice amount calculation device, and printer invoicing system A manufacturer server 110 that calculates an invoice amount for an inkjet printer has a billing status acquisition unit 342 that acquires billing status information including actual print volume PV, which is the amount of ink used for actual printing not including maintenance during a specific period L1; an actual print volume calculation unit 343 that determines if actual print volume PV is less than or equal to a specific volume V1; and an invoice amount calculation unit 344 that calculates an invoice amount. When actual print volume PV is less than or equal to the specific volume V1, a first invoice amount, which is a fixed amount, is calculated as the invoice amount, and when actual print volume PV exceeds the specific volume V1, a second invoice amount is calculated based on the actual print volume PV as the invoice amount.
US08788421B2	Systems and methods for processing electronic payments using a global payment directory A computer system for use with a memory device for facilitating electronic payments to a payee from an account associated with a payor is provided. Payor profile information is stored in the memory device, which payor profile information is associated with the payor. A token identifier is created which is associated with the payor profile information. The token identifier is transmitted to a payee, for retransmittal of the token identifier by the payee to the computer system during a subsequent transaction between the payor and the payee.
US08788408B2	Item-specific money transfer methods and systems The invention provides various systems and methods for implementing item-specific money transfers. The method includes receiving identification of an item, determining a vendor and a price of the item, and receiving, from a receiver, a money transfer request for an amount of the price of the item. The money transfer request identifies a sender. The method further includes sending the money transfer request to the sender, receiving, from the sender, authorization for a money transfer in an amount of the price of the item. The authorization includes an indication that funds from the money transfer are restricted for use only for the item.
US08788407B1	Malware data clustering In various embodiments, systems, methods, and techniques are disclosed for generating a collection of clusters of related data from a seed. Seeds may be generated based on seed generation strategies or rules. Clusters may be generated by, for example, retrieving a seed, adding the seed to a first cluster, retrieving a clustering strategy or rules, and adding related data and/or data entities to the cluster based on the clustering strategy. Various cluster scores may be generated based on attributes of data in a given cluster. Further, cluster metascores may be generated based on various cluster scores associated with a cluster. Clusters may be ranked based on cluster metascores. Various embodiments may enable an analyst to discover various insights related to data clusters, and may be applicable to various tasks including, for example, tax fraud detection, beaconing malware detection, malware user-agent detection, and/or activity trend detection, among various others.
US08788402B2	Systems and methods for residential real estate risk transference via asset-backed contract Real estate risk may be transferred via a contract associated with a real estate property. Such a contract may be an asset-backed index swap or an investment contract in which an owner entity of the real estate property grants to an investor entity an economic right to a portion of future appreciation of the real estate property in exchange for consideration. The contract may expire responsive to a transfer of title of the real estate property. Exemplary implementations may provide a way to slice off the growth component of the property to an investor who wants it yet leaves the utility value and existing equity squarely in the hands of the homeowner. This division of growth and utility components may allow the homeowner to sell just the growth component of the property—and do so at a lower price in exchange for the convenience and liquidity tendered.
US08788396B2	Intraday risk management data cloud computing system capable of controlling execution of orders In at least one embodiment, a method and system associated with financial articles of trade may include comparing relevant portions of data pertaining to an attempted transaction, wherein the transaction may pertain to one in which an entity is financially liable but unaware. At least one embodiment includes monitoring market transaction activity data to determine when a trading entity has exceeded an aggregated limit, such as one or more trading sub-limits corresponding to one or more custodial prime brokers facilitating trading for the trading entity. At least one embodiment includes a pre-trade gateway to determine if an order violates a pre-trade risk based on information collected by a front-end analyzer. Possible actions include, but are not limited to, placing a null order, terminating a connection associated with the order, modifying the order so as not to violate a pre-trade risk check, and/or notifications to one or more entities.
US08788392B2	Mortgage and education financial optimization The invention relates to systems and methods for optimizing investments in view of anticipated education or mortgage expenses. One an allocation of assets among investments is determined, and education or mortgage costs are to be considered, systems and methods of the invention assist in optimizing a tax treatment by allocating the chosen investments from accounts based on the tax treatment of those accounts. The invention includes a computer system and methods of the invention run on a computer system.
US08788391B2	Numerical modelling apparatus A numerical modeling apparatus and method of performing numerical modeling are described. An input unit may receive information relating to set of assets. processor unit may provide Risk Relation Matrix V having elements that represent relationship of risk related to respective pair of the assets. The Risk Relation Matrix V may be decomposed into eigenvectors and eigenvalues according to V=E·Λ·E′, where E is set of eigenvectors of the risk matrix V in columns, Λ is the corresponding diagonal eigenvalue matrix, and E′ is the transpose of E. Components of risk vectors may be derived in terms of unit independent risks by the corresponding row of the matrix product E·Λ1/2 relating to respective assets. An output unit may output the risk vector components of the risk vectors as risk vector dataset.
US08788390B2	Estimating values of assets A body of information elements is maintained including facts, assumptions, and relationships, at least one element being generated from the others using the relationships and representative of an estimate of a value of, or a market size of a product or service associated with, an asset. The relationships each define how a resulting fact or assumption can be generated from at least one source fact or assumption. The way in which the at least one source fact or assumption can be generated from another source fact or assumption is defined in each of multiple instances by one of the relationships. The body of information is exposed through a publicly accessible communication medium on a non-discriminatory basis. On the communication medium, users are enabled to engage in moderated collective discussion concerning the information elements. Users are enabled to participate financially in contracts having values that are tied to the estimated value of the asset.
US08788385B2	System and method of auctioning a defaulted loan A method and system for conducting an online property auction whereby the system allows for identifying an owner of property willing to sell his property by an online auction, entering into a contract with the owner obligating him to complete the sales of his property conducted pursuant to terms of the contract; pre-arranging a minimum auction price for his property that accounts for the owner's interest, plus costs and fees, conducting the on-line auction with a plurality of bidders for his property whereby at the on-line auction's conclusion there is a winning bidder and ensuring the transfer of the winning bidder's funds to the escrow holder.
US08788382B2	Systems and methods for automatic migration of a consumer between financial accounts Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for automatically migrating a consumer from one prepaid financial account to another prepaid financial account based on preset trigger criteria. A prepaid payment device, such as a payroll card, may be issued to the consumer and associated with a prepaid financial account. The prepaid financial account may include a profile for the consumer. The issuer of the prepaid payment device may monitor the account activity and set trigger criteria that control when the consumer is automatically migrated from the current prepaid financial account and which type of new account the consumer is migrated into.
US08788381B2	System and method for creating and trading a digital derivative investment instrument An investment instrument is disclosed that allows investors to take risk positions relative to the occurrence or non-occurrence of a contingent binary event. The contingent binary event will have one of two possible outcomes. In a digital derivatives contract, a long investor agrees to pay a short investor a contract amount in return for the short investor agreeing to pay the long investor one of two different settlement amounts depending on the outcome as the contingent binary event. Typically, one settlement amount will be zero and the other will be an amount greater than the derivatives contract price.
US08788380B2	Programmed dispensing of consumable compositions Methods and systems for administering consumable compositions according to a programmed dosing schedule are provided.A method for administering a consumable composition may comprise one or more of the following steps: (a) dispensing a dose of a consumable composition according to a programmed dosing schedule; and (b) detecting an aspect of the consumable composition.A system for administering a consumable composition may comprise: (a) means for dispensing a dose of a consumable composition according to a programmed dosing schedule; and (b) means for detecting an aspect of the consumable composition.
US08788372B2	Method and system for classifying retail products and services using characteristic-based grouping structures A method of and system for classifying retail products and services is disclosed. The method includes determining a grouping of characteristic values in a computerized system, wherein the grouping of characteristic values includes a subset of a plurality of predetermined values for a characteristic. The method also includes associating the grouping of characteristic values with a grouping of at least one of retail products and services. The system includes means for determining a grouping of characteristic values, wherein the grouping of characteristic values includes a subset of a plurality of predetermined values for a characteristic. The system also includes means for associating the grouping of characteristic values with a grouping of at least one of retail products and services.
US08788371B2	Personalized search widgets for customized user interface A set of personalized search widgets for providing a customized user interface are provided. Among the personalized search widgets include a related searches menu to depict related search terms according to popularity and type. A query builder for explicitly including or excluding particular terms from the query may be provided. The search widgets may further include a history of past searches received from a user, a selection of categories to be searched, and one or more category suggestions. Some widgets associated with sellers allow a user to filter results according to a trusted seller status of the seller or the identity of the seller, and provide to the user a tag cloud including feedback about the seller. The results of a search may be presented in a spreadsheet style format.
US08788366B2	Affiliate site creation using automatically identified keywords The present disclosure describes techniques for generating new product codes to add to an affiliate site using automatic keyword selection from content on an affiliate site. In one scenario, a program is launched which automatically identifies words on an existing affiliate website. A keyword list is generated from these words. The keyword list is then uses to search one or more Vendor Websites for products offered for sale relating to the keyword list. A large number of product codes are returned, each including graphic data and descriptive text for products obtained in the search of the Vendor Website along with a link to the Vendor Website. The products codes are displayed in a user friendly manner that allows them to be selected, de-selected, and/or updated so as to produce a list of selected product codes which are then available to be directly transferred/added to the affiliate site without having to do a new search or exit the browser.
US08788362B2	Systems and methods for automated mass media commerce Systems and methods for implementing point of advertising purchasing include using mass media publications configured for or containing service, product or vendor transmittable signals, such as from radio frequency identification tags. In a preferred arrangement, a consumer perceiving an advertisement of the mass media publication may activate a reader in a portable communications device, such as a smart mobile or cellular phone, to receive information from the radio frequency signal associated with the advertisement to identify a vendor, product or service associated with the radio frequency identification. The smart mobile phone or communications device of the consumer may communicate with a system of a vendor across a network to order a product or product information from a system of the vendor over the network by using the information from the radio frequency identification.
US08788358B2	Systems and methods for enterprise branded application frameworks for mobile and other environments An application framework for mobile devices may provide a variety of application modules directed towards enterprise brand extension. The application modules are organized into five main categories: (1) featured, (2) community, (3) play/engage, (4) media, and (5) shop. The “featured” category may allow enterprises to push specific content onto its consumers. The “community” category may allow enterprises to leverage social networks and consumer communities that build and expand around their brands. The “play/engage” category may allow enterprises to offer compelling value and engaging utility to its customers. The “media” category may allow enterprises to entertain, inform, and educate consumers about brands through media content. The “shop” category may allow enterprises to facilitate electronic commerce with its customers. Further application analytics may be utilized by aggregating affiliate, sales, or usage data, etc. to better drive new revenue streams and optimize the return on investment associated with sales, promotion and advertising efforts.
US08788357B2	System and method for productizing human capital labor employment positions/jobs A method includes configuring a human-capital-management (HCM) master taxonomy and a HCM language library. The HCM master taxonomy includes a plurality of levels that range from more general to more specific, each level of the plurality of levels comprising a plurality of nodes. The plurality of levels include a job-species level and a job-family level, the job-species level including a level of greatest specificity in the plurality of levels, the job-family level including a level of specificity immediately above the job-species level. In addition, the method includes transforming human-capital information via the HCM language library. Further, the method includes classifying the transformed human-capital information into a job-family node selected from the plurality of nodes at the job-family level.
US08788353B2	System and method for presenting a financing instrument at a point of sale A system and method for extending credit to a purchaser at a point-of-sale terminal. A merchant registers with a host system operated by or for a lending financial institution. The host receives a request for an installment purchase agreement from a purchaser-borrower. The installment purchase agreement represents a payment instrument for payment to the merchant of a purchase price for goods or services selected for purchase by the purchaser-borrower from the merchant. The host system receives financial information from the purchaser-borrower and velocity data accessible to the host system. The host may determine from the financial information received from the purchaser-borrower whether the credit worthiness of the purchaser borrow exceeds a first threshold and determine from the velocity data whether a risk factor exceeds a second threshold.
US08788352B2	Gift-registry apparatus and method A method is disclosed for administering a gift registry. Within the method, a computer system may associate or link a gift registry to a computing device in the possession of a customer. A point-of-sale system forming part of the computer system may then initiate a transaction comprising the purchase of an item by the customer. The computer system may identify a link between the computing device and the transaction, determine that the item is listed within the gift registry, and receive confirmation that the item was purchased for the gift registry. Accordingly, the computer system may modify the gift registry to reflect the purchase of the item.
US08788350B2	Handling payment receipts with a receipt store A receipt store may be provided as a service. Electronic payment receipts generated in any type of transaction may be delivered to the receipt store. A customer may subscribe to a particular receipt store, to be used as a repository for that customer's receipts. The customer may carry a device that is used to communicate payment information (such as a credit card number) to a device reader when purchases are made. The device may also identify the customer's receipt store. A commercial establishment that accepts the customer's payment may generate an electronic receipt, and may deliver it to the receipt store specified by the customer's device. The establishment may also deliver the receipt to the customer's device, and the customer's device may send the receipt along to the receipt store.
US08788348B2	Combination game controller and point of sale input device An apparatus generally directed to a combination tablet computer and game controller. The tablet computer provides a plurality of sides, in which each of the sides are disposed between an electronic display screen and a back of the tablet computer. The computer game controller provides side structures adjacent to and confining the tablet computer on at least two opposing sides of the tablet computer. The computer game controller further preferably providing input module apertures and a camera. Preferably, each input module aperture selectively accepts either a game control module or a removable keyboard module. The input module apertures are preferably adjacent each of the at least two opposing sides of the tablet computer, and the camera communicates with each the electronic game controller and the tablet computer, the camera selectively captures either still or video images. The electronic game controller further provides an integrated transaction card input feature.
US08788343B2	Price determination and inventory allocation based on spot and futures markets in future site channels for online advertising The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates establishing a true market value for an online advertisement. An interface component can receive data related to at least one of a spot market or a future market. A dynamic pricing component can dynamically establish an ad price for an ad unit based on the spot market and the future market, the ad price reflects a market value of the ad unit in accordance with the spot market and the future market.
US08788340B2	Advertisement based on application-created social content In one embodiment, a social-networking system accesses a social graph, identifies a first set of concept nodes associated with an application, connected to friends of a user, selects a second set of concept nodes from the first set of concept nodes based on edges connected to the concept nodes, and generates an advertisement for the application, where the advertisement includes information representing the concept nodes in the second set of concept nodes.
US08788339B2	Multiple attribution models with return on ad spend A computer system for providing attribution based on advertisement conversion data comprising a processing circuit configured to receive user interaction data, to determine that a conversion event has occurred based on the user interaction data and conversion criteria, to store conversion path data based on the user interaction data, wherein the conversion path data comprises user interaction data prior to and including the conversion event. The system attributes the conversion event to a channel in a conversion path using a plurality of different attribution models. At least one of the attribution models is a model other than a model based solely on a last click in the conversion path. The system receives cost data representing a relative or actual cost of a plurality of channels in the conversion path and generates report data comprising the first attribution data, the second attribution data and the cost data.
US08788335B2	Content distribution system including cost-per-engagement based advertising Content distribution systems that support Cost-Per-Engagement (CPE) based advertising are disclosed. One embodiment includes a server connected to a network and a plurality of user computers connected to the network. In addition, the server is configured to host an interactive web site that enables the uploading of pieces of content in response to the online marketing campaign and the distribution of pieces of uploaded content, each user computer is configured to interact with the web site, the server is configured to track the number of pieces of content uploaded to the website in response to the online marketing campaign, the number of pieces of uploaded content distributed to user computers and the number of other interactions between the user computers and the website, and the server is configured to determine a cost to charge for hosting the marketing campaign based upon at least the number of pieces of content uploaded to the website in response to the online marketing campaign, the number of pieces of uploaded content distributed to user computers and the number of other interactions between the user computers and the website.
US08788322B2	Integration of WIC items and transactions into personal shopping devices A method, system and computer program product for providing access to government benefits is disclosed. The method comprises positioning a short-range transmitter in a predetermined product area in a store, and storing one or more marketing messages in the short-range transmitter, wherein the one or more marketing messages are associated with one or more specific products located in the predetermined product area. The one or more marketing messages are transmitted to a wireless computer, and a user is identified as a participant in a government benefits scheme. Available under a subsidy program are communicated to a user and upon purchase of an item, an analysis of benefits available under a subsidy program is provided.
US08788318B1	Methods and systems for consolidating, distributing and integrating issuer information for a voting entity Various embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for consolidating, distributing and integrating issuer information for a voting entity. More particularly, in one embodiment of the present invention a computer implemented voting method is provided, comprising: consolidating vote request information relating to a security owned by a beneficial owner and held by at least two custodians for the beneficial owner; generating at least a first computer file including the consolidated vote request information; electronically transmitting the first computer file to a computer system of a voting entity; integrating the first computer file into a database associated with the computer system of the voting entity; receiving, at the computer system of the voting entity, at least one beneficial owner vote instruction sent from the beneficial owner; and generating at least one voting entity vote instruction responsive to the consolidated vote request information, wherein the voting entity vote instruction is generated by the computer system of the voting entity based at least in part upon the integrated first computer file and the beneficial owner vote instruction from the beneficial owner.
US08788316B1	Usage license A system is configured to receive a task. The task is received over a first network, includes authentication credentials, and is processed using an application. The system is further configured to send the authentication credentials to a licensing server. The authentication credentials are sent over a second network, and are sent prior to processing the task using the application. The system is also configured to receive an authorization. The authorization is received over the second network, and authorizes the application to process the task.
US08788312B2	Identification, categorization, and integration of unplanned maintenance, repair and overhaul work on mechanical equipment An automated interactive method dynamically identifies an unplanned maintenance task during execution of a planned maintenance task on equipment. A user device displays a maintenance menu system for data entry and access and provides an input relating to unplanned maintenance task discovered on the equipment. The unplanned maintenance task is associated with the planned maintenance task at least with respect to a location. The automated interactive method sequentially processes unplanned maintenance task information based on the input from the user device. The automated interactive method establishes and stores an unplanned maintenance task data record including a selected geographical location, a selected item, a selected work category, a selected task type, a selected task description, and selected component data of the unplanned maintenance task.
US08788305B2	Method for processing concurrent personnel assignments A method includes receiving a person identifier by a first set of computer program instructions; determining if there are a plurality of personnel assignments associated with the person identifier; and if there are a plurality of personnel assignments associated with the person identifier: selecting a specific personnel assignment from among the plurality of personnel assignments, and processing data by a second set of computer program instructions, the data being related to at least both the person identifier and the selected personnel assignment.
US08788299B1	Systems and methods for real-time driving risk prediction and route recommendation A system, method, and computer-usable medium are disclosed for providing routing-based insurance. A telematics device exchanges information related to a user's traversal of a route with a routing-based insurance system. The telematics device determines the current location and destination of the user, which it provides to the routing-based insurance system, for processing to determine available route segments between the two locations. A set of risk score data is generated for each of the available route segments, which in turn is used to generate a set of risk score differential data. Route advisement data, comprising routing instructions and the set of risk score differential data for the route segment, is generated and provided to the telematics device. A route segment is selected by the user and then traversed. The set of risk score differential data associated with the traversed route segment is determined and associated with the user's insurance policy. Insurance policy price data, corresponding to the traversed route segment, is generated and in turn is processed to generate insurance policy adjustment data. The insurance policy price adjustment data is then processed to modify pricing data associated with the user's insurance policy.
US08788295B1	Reusable product system A system is configured to allow a business user to define insurance products based upon reusable product/offering definitions. The reusable product/offerings definitions may include reusable insurance based components and templates, which permit a business user of the software to develop and configure insurance products based upon a hierarchical set of insurance product components and insurance product templates. In addition, the system combines componentization, flexible granularity and reusable product structures to permit a user to more rapidly and predictably generate insurance product configurations and flexibly tailor the insurance products or offerings to meet a specific client or market need.
US08788281B1	System and method for processing qualified healthcare account related financial transactions This invention relates to a system and method for processing qualified healthcare account transactions (e.g., HFA, Health FSA, and HRA) and non-qualified credit card transactions within a transaction processing system. In particular, this invention relates to a multi-purse payment device associated with a transaction processing system for auto-substantiating qualified healthcare transactions.
US08788270B2	Apparatus and method for determining an emotion state of a speaker A method and apparatus for analyzing speech are provided. A method and apparatus for determining an emotion state of a speaker are provided, including providing an acoustic space having one or more dimensions, where each dimension corresponds to at least one baseline acoustic characteristic; receiving an utterance of speech by the speaker; measuring one or more acoustic characteristics of the utterance; comparing each of the measured acoustic characteristics to a corresponding baseline acoustic characteristic; and determining an emotion state of the speaker based on the comparison. An embodiment involves determining the emotion state of the speaker within one day of receiving the subject utterance of speech. An embodiment involves determining the emotion state of the speaker, where the emotion state of the speaker includes at least one magnitude along a corresponding at least one of the one or more dimensions within the acoustic space.
US08788246B2	Simulation method utilizing cartesian grid A simulation method utilizing a Cartesian grid comprises: a process in which a model of a two or three-dimensional space is defined as a Cartesian grid composed of cells; a process in which, based on a physical value and condition associated with the Cartesian grid, a Poisson equation is defined; and a process in which, the physical value is calculated by approximately solving the Poisson equation. The calculating process comprises: a step of calculating an error by using a Block-Cyclic Reduction Algorithm; a step of testing whether the calculated error is within a predetermined acceptable range or not; and a step of correcting a variable φ by the use of a correction parameter if the calculated error is outside the predetermined acceptable range. The calculating process repeats the error calculating step, testing step and error correcting step until the error becomes within the predetermined acceptable range.
US08788244B2	Systems and methods for global voltage security assessment in power systems Systems and methods for global voltage security assessment in power systems are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for assessing voltage security in a power system having a number (i) of buses includes capturing a change in bus voltage and a change in line reactive power for at least some of the buses in the power system, for each of the i number of buses, calculating a voltage assessment index) (Γi) for as follows: Γ i = ∑ j ⁢ Δ ⁢ ⁢ Q ij Δ ⁢ ⁢ V i where ΔVi is the change in bus voltage and ΔQij is the change in line reactive power from a connection j over a predetermined period of time. The method further includes assessing a current voltage security status of the power system based on the calculated voltage assessment index (Γi).
US08788235B2	Method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine A method for diagnosing an actuator for a boost pressure system of an internal combustion engine, in which the actuator is controlled using a triggering signal, and a state variable of the boost pressure system which is at least an indirect function of the triggering signal is detected. The triggering signal is periodic, and a curve of the values of the state variable is analyzed with regard to at least one periodic characteristic.
US08788234B2	Method of calibrating interleaved digitizer channels In a multi-channel oscilloscope a method of calibrating interleaved digitizer channels initially calibrates each digitizer channel to produce a bandwidth enhanced filter for each digitizer channel to match the respective channel frequency and phase characteristics. The oscilloscope is then configured for interleaved operation whereby an input signal is applied to at least two digitizers via a switch through a common preamplifier to produce a reference digitizer channel and an interleaved digitizer channel where the bandwidth enhanced filter for the interleaved digitizer channel is now not correct. Fast Fourier transforms are performed on the data from the reference digitizer channel and the interleaved digitizer channel, from which are derived a match filter for the interleaved digitizer channel so the interleaved digitizer channel and reference digitizer channel are matched in phase and magnitude at all frequencies.
US08788233B2	Diagnostic system and method for a thermistor amplifier circuit A diagnostic system and a diagnostic method for a thermistor amplifier circuit are provided. The system includes a transistor electrically coupled to a controllable variable resistor having a predetermined resistance. The transistor applies a test voltage signal to the circuit indicative of a first temperature value. An amplitude of the test voltage value is indicative of a simulated thermistor temperature value. The microprocessor determines a test temperature value based on the amplitude of an output voltage of the circuit. The microprocessor also determines an inaccuracy value based on the test temperature value and the simulated thermistor temperature value.
US08788232B2	Altitude estimation apparatus, altitude estimation method, and program An information processing apparatus that acquires estimated altitude data corresponding to a position based on detection information detected by a sensor at or near the position, and corrects altitude data associated with the position based on the estimated altitude data.
US08788230B2	Methods, system, and computer-readable media for facility integrity testing Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for facility integrity testing. According to embodiments, a method for populating a watch list with circuits of a communications network to be monitored for repeat failures is provided. According to the method, a trouble ticket associated with one of the circuits and a trouble code and analysis code (TC/AC) combination associated with the trouble ticket is retrieved. Whether the trouble ticket meets a watch list criterion is determined. In response to determining that the trouble ticket meets the watch list criterion, the trouble ticket and the TC/AC combination are added to the watch list.
US08788224B2	Virtual machine placement for minimizing total energy cost in a datacenter Techniques for virtual machine placement in a datacenter are provided. The techniques include using one or more server power characteristics to determine a power cost for any given virtual machine placement in the datacenter, using a heat profile of one or more datacenter components in relation to one or more cooling resources in the datacenter to determine cooling cost for any given virtual machine placement in the datacenter, and using the power cost and cooling cost to apply integrated energy cost minimization at one or more levels of hierarchy in the datacenter to determine placement of a virtual machine in the datacenter such that the integrated energy cost of the datacenter is minimized.
US08788218B2	Event detection system having multiple sensor systems in cooperation with an impact detection system A damage detection and remediation system includes a sensing device for detecting damage events related to a structure of interest. Such damage events may include impact from a ballistic object, a tamper event, a physical impact, or other events that may affect structural integrity or cause failure. Illustratively, the sensing device is in communication with a measurement system to determine damage criteria, and a processing system which is configured to use the damage criteria to determine, for example, a direction of the initiation point of a ballistic causing the damage event.
US08788213B2	Laser mediated sectioning and transfer of cell colonies Disclosed herein are methods and devices for sectioning cell colonies. Also disclosed are methods of purifying cell colonies. A method of sectioning cell colonies can include providing a cell colony on a culture plate comprising a known thickness; positioning a bottom of the culture plate using automated focus technology; and sectioning the cell colony into one or more pieces using a pattern of laser cutting lines. Devices for performing the method are also disclosed.
US08788210B2	Job monitoring methods and apparatus for logging-while-drilling equipment Job monitoring methods and apparatus for logging-while-drilling equipment are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying a downhole scenario based on a property of an underground geological formation, selecting a first telemetry frame type based on the identified downhole scenario, conveying an identifier representative of the selected first telemetry frame type to a downhole fluid sampling tool, and receiving a first telemetry data frame from the downhole fluid sampling tool, the telemetry data frame containing fluid analysis parameters for a fluid, and being constructed in accordance with the selected first telemetry frame type.
US08788208B2	Method to estimate pore pressure uncertainty from trendline variations Disclosed is a method for estimating a pore pressure of an earth formation penetrated by a borehole and an associated uncertainty. The method includes: conveying a carrier through the borehole; performing formation measurements relating to porosity at a plurality of depths in the borehole using a downhole tool coupled to the carrier; defining a first depth interval and a second depth interval deeper than the first depth interval, the first depth interval comprising a first set of formation measurement points and the second depth interval comprising a second set of formation measurement points; establishing a plurality of trendlines of depth versus porosity-related measurements using a processor with each trendline in the plurality of trendlines extending from a point in the first depth interval through a point in the second depth interval; and calculating a pore pressure line and associated uncertainty using the plurality of trendlines.
US08788205B2	Sensor data collection Example apparatus and methods concern rigorous survey-plan based sensor data collection where physical survey locations are correlated to logical locations rather than being tightly coupled to physical map locations. An embodiment includes accessing a venue map and a survey plan associated with the venue map. A survey plan includes a survey path defined by one or more logical survey points. A logical survey point includes a unique co-ordinate free identifier, a description of a recognizable location in the venue, and a co-ordinate configured to register the logical survey point to the corresponding venue map. A surveyor surveys the venue using the survey plan. Surveying the venue includes following the survey plan and acquiring sensor fingerprints at sensor reading points along the survey path. A fingerprint observation data store is populated with survey points that are registered to the survey plan. Survey points include sensor fingerprint data and correlation data.
US08788199B2	Transport using geolocation A system comprises a delivery application executing on a processor of a delivery device. The application communicates a message indicating a problem associated with locating a destination site for a user. The system further comprises a user application executing on a processor of a user device. The user application communicates a message confirming that the user device is located at the destination site, and communicates geocoordinates of the destination site. The system further comprises a vendor server communicatively coupled to the processor of the delivery device and the processor of the user device. The vendor server communicates with the user application to receive the geocoordinates of the destination site. The vendor server further communicates the geocoordinates of the destination site to the delivery application.
US08788198B2	Data management system and method for updating data Systems and methods store information data in an information data frame, including retrieval keys, and store pertinent data specifying the information data in a pertinent data frame for each individual category specified by the retrieval keys. The systems and methods receive an updating file containing updating information data for updating information data subject to update. The systems and methods extract the information data subject to update from the information data frame and update the extracted information data with the updating information data contained in the received updating file. The systems and methods extract the pertinent data in a category specified by a retrieval key contained in the information data subject to update from the pertinent data frame and update the extracted pertinent data with the updating information data contained in the updating file.
US08788195B2	System and method for obtaining map coordinates to fixed location A method for obtaining directions to fixed location such as a restaurant includes using a telephone to call a 411 directory, and providing a prompt to the caller during the 411 call to push a button on the telephone to download the GPS location of the restaurant. The GPS information is transferred from the telephone to a navigation module in a vehicle which displays a map showing the route to the restaurant. Or, the GPS location may be obtained from an Internet server associated with the fixed location.
US08788192B2	Navigation method, system or service and computer program product A navigation method, system, service and computer program product may include providing enhanced travel instructions in response to receiving a destination and detailed travel directions from at least one waypoint to the destination being available.
US08788178B2	Engine auto stop and auto start strategies An automotive vehicle includes an engine and at least one controller. The at least one controller receives information about steering angle velocity or steering input torque during an engine auto stop event, and determines whether to allow the engine to auto stop based on the received information.
US08788176B1	Adjustable threshold for forward collision warning system A driver assistance system for a motor vehicle monitors approaching objects around the vehicle in order to take a driver assistance action in response to a predicted impact with an approaching object according to a time-to-impact threshold. the time-to-impact threshold includes a nominal or default value that is adjusted according to several different measures of vehicle and driving conditions. Respective offsets determined by a load monitor, a braking monitor, and a steering monitor are added to the threshold in response to measured vehicle performance parameters being different from expected values. The driver assistance action may be a perceptible warning for a forward collision warning system, a speed reduction in an adaptive cruise control system, or a braking action in a brake-steer system.
US08788173B2	Fuel saver speed control Embodiments of the invention are used to provide a Fuel Saver Speed Control (FSSC) system that facilitates vehicle speed control while maximizing fuel economy. For instance, when the vehicle traverses an uphill section of the road, the Fuel Saver Speed Control reduces the vehicle's fuel consumption by controllably reducing engine power output within the boundaries of activated FSSC settings.
US08788166B1	Downshift controls using measured output torque A downshift control method during a coasting drive condition includes computing changes in output torque and input speed from initial output torque and initial input speed; reducing offgoing element pressure, provided a change in input speed exceeds a reference input speed change; using closed loop control based on output torque and a change in measured output torque to adjust oncoming element pressure such that output torque remains between predetermined maximum and minimum torques; and fully engaging the oncoming element.
US08788157B2	Control method for driving a ripper A method for driving a ripper is provided in which the movement of a ripper attached to the rear of the body of a bulldozer is controlled. The method includes a first step in which the ripper is operated while the bulldozer is moving forward or is stopped, a second step in which the bulldozer is reversed and the ripper is raised, and a third step in which the ripper is automatically raised.
US08788156B2	Wheel loader Predetermined torque characteristics are obtained by multiplying by a predetermined ratio that is less than 100%, the upper value of engine output torque from the engine output torque line, for at least part of the range of engine rotation speed. Torque upper value information defines the upper value of engine output torque that changes in conformance with vehicle speed and tractive farce. When predetermined conditions for determination are satisfied, an engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on torque upper value information. The predetermined conditions for determination at the least include that a travel condition is forward travel, that a work condition is laden condition and that a raise operation is being performed by the working machine. When the predetermined conditions for determination are not satisfied the engine output torque control part controls engine output torque based on predetermined torque characteristics.
US08788155B2	Optimized bank penetration system A method of optimizing machine performance in a plurality of load cases may involve the steps of: Determining a maximum load case for the machine, the maximum load case involving the application of a maximum force to at least one member of the machine; determining, for each of a plurality of member joints of the machine, a maximum member joint load for the maximum load case for the machine; and operating the machine by applying a force to the at least one member of the machine in each of the plurality of load cases so as not to exceed the maximum member joint load, the applied force exceeding the maximum force during at least one of the plurality of load cases.
US08788148B2	Driver assistance system and driver assistance method Risk and/or control status are presented in such a way that the vehicle driver can easily comprehend the fact. Upon detecting risk during driving a vehicle, the vehicle is controlled and information of at least one of the risk and the status of the vehicle being controlled is presented in visual form. In addition, the driver's initiative (D) in driving the vehicle is calculated (step S2), and the visual form, in which the information is presented, is altered depending on the calculated driver's initiative (step S3). When, for example, a lane departure prevention control works, the status of restraining lane departure is presented by arrow(s) in an anti-lane-departure direction opposite to the direction of lane departure. The size (including the length and the width) and color of the arrow(s) are altered depending on the initiative (D). Here, when the initiative (D) is at a low level, the arrow(s) is set in color, for example, ‘red’ and increased in size because the risk that the tendency of lane departure may increase becomes high.
US08788146B1	Adaptive active suspension system with road preview A method for controlling an active suspension includes steps of determining a dimension of a road abnormality ahead of the vehicle and comparing the dimension with a vehicle dimension. Responsive to the comparison, the abnormality is classified as one type of a plurality of predetermined types. Responsive to a height dimension of the abnormality, the abnormality is further classified as having one of a small, medium, or large severity. The suspension is controlled responsive to the type and severity.
US08788145B2	Determination of sun rays inside a vehicle Methods, systems, and vehicles are provided for determining the sun's rays inside a vehicle. A communication device is configured to obtain information as to a current angle of the sun. A process is coupled to the communications device. The processor is configured to define a ray from a point of interest inside the vehicle toward the sun using the information and determine whether the ray intersects a transparent surface of the vehicle, for use in determining whether the point of interest is irradiated by rays of the sun if the ray intersects the transparent surface.
US08788144B2	Braking torque adjustments based on wheel slip A method for adjusting braking in a vehicle having wheels and a regenerative braking system is provided. The method comprises the steps of providing regenerative braking torque for the vehicle via the regenerative braking system at a first level if a wheel slip of the vehicle is not present, and providing regenerative braking torque for the vehicle via the regenerative braking system at one of a plurality of modulated levels if the wheel slip is present. Each of the plurality of modulated levels is dependent on a magnitude, a location, or both, of the wheel slip. Each of the modulated levels is less than the first level.
US08788143B2	Method for testing hydraulic braking systems in vehicles A method for testing a hydraulic braking system. The method includes activating a brake master cylinder of the braking system mechatronically, and measuring a set of measured decision ratios pertaining to the distance travelled by the piston of the brake master cylinder to the corresponding pressure developed in the brake fluid. The measured decision ratios are then compared with a set of reference decision ratios. In a case where the measured decision ratios lie within a predetermined range, it is detected that the braking system is correctly filled with the brake fluid. However, in a case where the measured decision ratios lie outside the predetermined range, it is determined that the braking system has not been correctly filled with the brake fluid and some air is present in the brake fluid flow circuit of the braking system.
US08788127B1	Precision airdrop terminal seeker A beacon receiving system on a pallet of a container cargo bundle is airdropped from a cargo airplane. The beacon receiving system comprises a sensor that detects during descent a beacon signal generated from a beacon placed at the target drop location. The sensor provides signals to a microcontroller that ascertains an angle at which the beacon signal is received. An inertial measurement unit provides signals indicating a tilt of the pallet during descent, which is used by the microcontroller to determine an offset angle of the received beacon signal. This information is used to steer the container cargo bundle during descent to achieve high precision in landing at the desired target drop location. The beacon signal may comprises a modulated light signal which can be distinguished by the sensor from other light sources.
US08788124B2	System and method for the calculation of the approach speed during air to air refuelling operations Systems and methods for the calculation of the approach speed during air to air refueling maneuvers. The systems comprise: a) capturing means of a sequence of digital photograms of the approach operation scenario calibrated in order to determine the real distance corresponding to a pixel of a photogram; b) computational means configured for obtaining the coordinates of the relative trajectory of the receiver aircraft with respect of the tanker aircraft, by means of a sequence of photograms of the approach operation obtained by said capturing means and calculating the speed difference between receiver aircraft and tanker aircraft based on the trajectory defined by the coordinates recorded in said process b1). The invention also refers to the methods for calculating the approach speed.
US08788122B1	Wing load alleviation methods and apparatus Wing load alleviation methods and apparatus are disclosed. An example method includes collecting data related to a condition of an aircraft; and when a condition identifier implemented via a logic circuit indicates that the condition comprises a high load condition, automatically generating a plurality of control signals to coordinate a first deflection of a first control surface of a configurable winglet and a second deflection of a second control surface of a wing adjacent to the winglet.
US08788117B2	Method for moving an aircraft along the ground The invention relates to a method according to which an aircraft (10) is moved along the ground by means of at least two separate appliances (12) connected to the aircraft independently from each other or other appliances.A control element is provided for moving an aircraft, said element sending instructions to at least two separate appliances in order to move the aircraft along the ground by means of the appliances.The invention also relates to an appliance (12) for implementing the method according to the invention, which can communicate with an identical appliance in order to transmit and/or receive at least one datum relating to a position and/or a movement of one of the appliances.
US08788116B2	Autopilot system for use in a wind tunnel A roadway system for a vehicle and a method for testing a vehicle on a roadway system are provided. The roadway system and/or method include a platform having at least one movable endless belt configured to support a vehicle. A sensor assembly is configured to provide an output signal indicative of position, displacement, velocity and/or acceleration of the vehicle on the belt with respect to at least one reference axis. An autopilot system is configured to operate a component of the vehicle to control the vehicle on the belt with respect to the reference axis based on the output signal.
US08788112B2	Process for controlling functions in a motor vehicle having neighboring operating elements In the case of the process for controlling functions in a motor vehicle having neighboring operating elements, the functions in each case being activatable by the operation of a defined operating element assigned to each function, the functions assigned to two neighboring operating elements receive a different priority. The higher-priority function can be activated immediately if the operating element assigned to it is operated before or within a defined time period after the neighboring other operating element.
US08788101B2	Heating apparatus Disclosed herein is a heating apparatus for a domestic or commercial building. The apparatus comprises a controller for determining whether there is a need for heating in the building and a computer system for installation in the building. The computer system includes a data store, a program store storing processor implementable instructions, and at least one processor coupled to the data and program stores for implementing the stored instructions to thereby produce thermal energy. The apparatus also comprises a thermal energy distribution means arranged for transferring the thermal energy from the computer system to at least one other location in the building, to a thermal energy storage means and/or to an industrial process. The apparatus is arranged to operate the computer system to implement processor implementable instructions, to thereby produce thermal energy, in response to the determination of a need for heating in the building. The apparatus may additionally comprise a computer network interface means for coupling the computer system to a computer network, and the computer system may be arranged for implementing processor implementable instructions received over the computer network interface means in response to the detection of a need for heating in the building.
US08788100B2	System and method for zoning a distributed-architecture heating, ventilation and air conditioning network The disclosure provides an HVAC data processing and communication network and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the HVAC data processing and communication network includes at least one environmental sensor, at least one subnet and a subnet controller. The subnet controller is configured to discover the at least one environmental sensor, the at least one subnet and at least one damper controller. The subnet controller is further configured to set up the network for zoned operation in the event that at least two of the at least one environmental sensor are discovered.
US08788090B2	System and method for creating a personalized consumer product A system and method for creating a personalized consumer product are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure enables a user, e.g., a consumer, to customize products containing solids and/or fluids by allowing a server communicating over the global computer network, e.g., the Internet, to provide product preferences of a user to a product or a mixing device, e.g., a product or beverage dispenser. The method for creating a product according to a user's preferences over a network includes the steps identifying a product to a server over the network; identifying a user to the server over the network; retrieving the user's product preferences from a database at the server based on the product's identity and user's identity; transmitting the user's product preferences to the product over the network; and mixing at least one element contained within the product based on the user's product preferences.
US08788083B2	Compensation for process variables in a numerically-controlled machining operation A method of machining a work part in a numerically-controlled machining process with a selected tool, includes steps of inspecting actual geometric parameters of the selected tool and predicting cutting forces and this tool deflections based on given tool/part engagement conditions and pre-measured static stiffness of the selected tool, then modifying a tool path of the numerically-controlled machining process to compensate for the predicted tool deflections, and finally machining the work part to a desired profile by use of the selected tool to follow the modified tool path.
US08788065B2	Method and apparatus for renal neuromodulation A method is provided for renal neuromodulation. One step of the method includes providing an expandable support member having a cuff-like configuration and including a main body portion (MBP). The MBP includes a lumen for engaging a wall of a blood vessel including a portion of a renal vasculature. At least one electrode connected with the MBP is arranged to selectively deliver electric current to a desired location. An insulative material is attached to at least a portion of the MBP. Next, the MBP is implanted extravascularly so that the MBP is in direct contact with a portion of the renal vasculature. At least one electrode is positioned substantially adjacent a desired location where modulation of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS) is effective to alter renal function. Electric current is then delivered to the at least one electrode to effect a change in the SNS.
US08788050B2	Hearing prosthesis system having interchangeable housings There is disclosed a hearing prosthesis comprising a first housing (11) containing a primary signal processor that receives signals output by a microphone; and a second housing (13) removably connectable to the first housing (11); wherein a user interface (14) is provided on the second housing (13) that provides control of one or more features of the operation of the primary signal processor.
US08788044B2	Systems and methods for tissue stimulation in medical treatment Stimulation treatments for various medical disorders, such as neurological disorders, comprise novel systems, strategies, and methods for providing TMS, electrical, magnetic, optical and other stimulation. Some stimulation methods comprise varying the stimulation parameters to improve the therapeutic efficacy of stimulation, and decrease risk of habituation and side-effects such as interference with normal brain, sensory, motor, and cognitive processes. The creation, and subsequent variation, of stimulation parameters can use sensed data in order to match, adjust, or avoid matching characteristics of the stimulation therapy relative to certain endogenous brain activities. Novel methods are described for choosing, creating and subsequently stimulating with partial signals which summate to produce therapeutic vector fields having unique temporal patterns and low-or high-frequency spectral content.
US08788041B2	Methods and compositions for treating a disease condition in a subject Methods for treating a disease condition in a subject are provided. The subject methods are characterizing by enhancing at least one symptom of the disease condition in a manner effective to cause the subject to mount a compensatory response effective to treat the disease condition. Also provided are compositions, kits and systems for practicing the subject methods.
US08788032B2	Method and circuitry for measurement of stimulation current A method and device for measuring and controlling stimulation current, for example in an implantable device, are disclosed. A series capacitor (Cb) is disposed along the conduction path, and the voltage (Uc) across the capacitor measured, so as to provide a direct measurement of the delivered stimulation current.
US08788029B2	Heart analysis method and apparatus A method and device for monitoring heart behavior. In particular, a visual aid for clinician in which regions of the heart having aberrant characteristics can be displayed. A number of electrodes are positioned near/on an endocardium; electrical signals from the electrodes are monitored and recorded. A variability of a time varying parameter is calculated from each electrode location and displayed on a cardiac image. A user can select the parameter and measurement properties of the parameter, wherein the variability of the parameter is displayed and aberrant behavior can be detected.
US08788027B2	Method and system for detecting and treating junctional rhythms An implantable medical device is provided for detecting transportless ventricular rhythm of a heart lacking atrial transport and comprises a housing, sensors configured to be located proximate to a heart, a sensing module to sense cardiac signals representative of a rhythm originating from the heart and a rhythm detection module. The rhythm detection module determines a change in AV association and identifies a potential ventricular complex with loss of atrial transport (VCLAT) based on the change in AV association.
US08788025B2	ECG electrode and electrode support An electrically non-conductive back plate for supporting the back of a patient in a supine position comprises on its front face facing the back of the patient a pair or more of ECG electrodes capable of maintaining electrically conductive skin contact with the patient's back. The pair of ECG electrodes is disposed at a sharp angle with the mean heart vector, in particular so as to form an angle β of about 45°±25° with the projection S of the patient's spine on the back plate. Also disclosed is an ECG electrode for mounting in a recess of the back plate and an apparatus for treating cardiac arrest by compression of the sternum comprising the back plate.
US08788023B2	Systems and methods for sensing vector selection in an implantable medical device Methods and devices for sensing vector analysis in an implantable cardiac stimulus system. In an illustrative example, a first sensing vector is analyzed to determine whether it is suitable, within given threshold conditions, for use in cardiac event detection and analysis. If so, the first vector may be selected for detection and analysis. Otherwise, one or more additional vectors are analyzed. A detailed example illustrates methods for analyzing sensing vectors by the use of a scoring system. Additional examples include implantable devices, implantable device systems, and/or programmers for use in conjunction with implantable devices, each configured to perform such methods.
US08788016B2	Device for radiation therapy under image monitoring A device for radiation therapy implemented with image monitoring has a magnetic resonance device and an exposure device. The magnetic resonance device has a magnet and primarily serves for image monitoring an examination object of a patient in an examination volume of the magnetic resonance device. The exposure is fashioned to be static and serves to expose the examination subject in the examination volume with therapeutic beams. The patient (and therefore the examination subject) are supported by a patient positioning device such that the examination subject can be moved relative to the magnetic resonance device and the exposure device around at least one rotation axis.
US08788009B2	High impedance signal detection systems and methods for use in electrocardiogram detection systems A biomedical sensor system is disclosed that includes a high impedance conductive electrode having an electrode impedance of at least about 20 kΩ/sq-mil, and a dielectric material on a first side of the electrode for receiving a discharge of an electrical signal from the dielectric material responsive to the presence of a time varying signal adjacent a second side of the dielectric material that is opposite the first side.
US08788002B2	Light-guiding devices and monitoring devices incorporating same A monitoring device configured to be attached to the ear of a person includes a base, an earbud housing extending outwardly from the base that is configured to be positioned within an ear of a subject, and a cover surrounding the earbud housing. The base includes a speaker, an optical emitter, and an optical detector. The cover includes light transmissive material that is in optical communication with the optical emitter and the optical detector and serves as a light guide to deliver light from the optical emitter into the ear canal of the subject wearing the device at one or more predetermined locations and to collect light external to the earbud housing and deliver the collected light to the optical detector.
US08787992B2	Device comprising housings and portable device thereof The portable telephone of the invention comprises two housings having a display screen on one of the housings, a first connection section that connects the two housings such that the housings can be opened and closed in a first direction, and a second connection section that connects the two housings such that the housings can move from an overlapped state in a second direction that is different than the first direction such that step is formed on the end sections of the housings. When the portable telephone is placed on a flat surface such as a desk, the portable telephones stably stands on its own by way of the step with the display screen facing upward at an angle. Therefore, the angle between the display screen and the line of sight of the user becomes nearly perpendicular, so the display screen is easy for the user to see.
US08787973B2	Device and method for controlling usage of a memory card A memory card includes a memory for storing data and a controller that is operative to control access to storage of at least a portion of storage conditional upon an authorization of a corresponding identity card of a service provider. A storage system includes an identity card of a service provider and a memory card, wherein the identity card corresponds to the memory card, and wherein access to storage of at least a portion of the memory card is controlled conditional upon an authorization from only this corresponding identity card. A method of doing business includes equipping a mobile phone with an identity card that corresponds to a memory card, configuring the memory card to operate conditional on an authorization from this corresponding secured card, and then offering the mobile phone and the memory card for sale at a discount.
US08787972B2	Electronic device and method for managing commands In a method for managing commands of an electronic device, a command queue is generated at a radio interface layer (RIL) of the electronic device. The method sets a buffer storage to store an identifier and command contents of each command. A received command from a telephony framework layer is stored in the command queue when the electronic device is establishing a communication link. An identifier of each command in the command queue is determined when the command queue has a command. Command contents corresponding to the determined identifier is determined when the buffer storage stores the determined identifier. The method creates first response information according to the determined command contents, and sends the first response information to the telephony framework layer.
US08787971B2	Mobile terminal and method of displaying image using the same The present invention provides a mobile terminal and a method of displaying an image using the same. A method of displaying an image includes connecting a mobile terminal displaying an image on a screen to a display apparatus through a TV-out cable; terminating the display of the image on the screen by the mobile terminal and displaying supplementary information of the image on the mobile terminal; and displaying the image in the display apparatus by transmitting the image from the mobile terminal to the display apparatus through the TV-out cable. By utilizing a display apparatus for displaying an image, and a display screen of a mobile terminal as a space for controlling the image and displaying supplementary information of the image file, the convenience of a user of the mobile terminal is improved.
US08787967B2	Communication terminals with pull-based digital information distribution capability and pull-based methods for digital information distribution Wireless communication terminals include a memory, a wireless communication module configured to communicate with other communication terminals over a wireless interface, and a controller that is configured to store a digital information signal in the memory and to receive a distribution command from a user of the wireless communication terminal. The controller is further configured, responsive to receiving the distribution command, to send a share notification signal through the wireless communication module to a remotely located other communication terminal, and, responsive to receiving an access request from the other communication terminal, to send the digital information signal to the other communication terminal. Method embodiments are also disclosed.
US08787965B2	Service discovery in a wireless communication system The invention relates to a method for discovering services for a wireless multimode terminal with a plurality of radio interfaces. In order to improve the efficiency of a wireless multimode terminal in terms of power consumption and user-friendliness, an indication is sent to a multimode terminal in the mobile network, the indication indicating that services may be locally available for the multimode terminal via at least one short-range wireless network. The indication is received in the multimode terminal, and information is collected, based on the indication, about services available via at least one short-range wireless network. Based on the information collected, a service list is then compiled, the list describing at least one service available locally in one or more short-range wireless networks.
US08787964B2	Integrated radio frequency front-end circuit An integrated RF front-end circuit comprising a balun, a receiver amplifier, a power amplifier, and a selector circuit is provided. The balun comprises a center-tapped inductor having a first node, a center-tap switchlessly coupled to a fixed voltage, and a second node. The balun receives a single-ended signal through the first node to produce a differential signal at the first and second nodes. The differential signal is provided to balanced input lines of the receiver amplifier. Balanced output lines of the power amplifier provide a differential signal to the first and second nodes. The balun converts the differential signal to a single-ended signal. The single-ended signal is available at the first node of the center-tapped inductor. The selector circuit activates the receiver amplifier and deactivates the power amplifier, and vice versa. The power amplifier may comprise only a single-ended output line connected to either the first or the second node.
US08787954B2	Method and apparatus for synchronizing a wireless network with an external timing source A communications device synchronizes itself with respect to an external reference signal, e.g., a GPS signal. The communications device detects timing reference signals, e.g., beacon signals, from a communications network. If the communications device determines that the network is not synchronized to the external timing reference signal, the communications device operates as a master timing control device. In various embodiments, when operating as a master timing control device the wireless communications device communicates time stamps, e.g., in beacon signals, which indicate a greater passage of time than the actual passage of time. When operating as a master timing control device the communications device transmits network timing reference signals at a higher rate than is being used by the network to seize control of network timing and become the master timing control device. The communications device drives the network timing to synchronize network timing to the external timing reference.
US08787951B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting message in the communication system An apparatus and method for transmitting a message in a mobile communication system is disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting a message in a portable terminal comprises a message generation unit for generating a message including contents corresponding to at least two recipients and for selectively selecting an intended user for the respective content, and a controller for controlling to transmit the message to the at least two recipients.
US08787950B2	Mobile terminal and method for transmitting message thereof A mobile terminal and a method for transmitting a message thereof are provided. The method for transmitting a message in a mobile terminal including at least two communication units capable of communicating with different communication networks, includes, identifying circuits connected through the at least two communication units when at least two identification information of other mobile terminals to which the message is to be transmitted is input, and simultaneously transmitting the message to the at least two other mobile terminals according to the identification information through the identified circuits. Through the method, a message can be simultaneously transmitted to a plurality of other mobile terminals using characteristics of a multi-standby mobile terminal. In addition, the message transmission method can reduce a time required to transmit a message.
US08787947B2	Application discovery on mobile devices Methods and systems for application discovery on mobile devices are provided. A subscriber identity module (SIM) card associated with a mobile device sends information to a network server, which determines an identifier (e.g., a phone number) associated with the SIM card. Using the identifier, the network server provides application information to the mobile device. The application information, which may include the application itself, is then used to install the application on the mobile device.
US08787932B2	Personalized location information for mobile devices Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system.
US08787931B2	Terminal with virtual space interface and method of controlling virtual space interface Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented method for providing a mobile user interface on a mobile computing device. Specifically, among other things, embodiments of the present invention provide a computer-implemented infrastructure comprising: determining a virtual space; generating a display of at least a first portion of the virtual space; sensing a movement in real space of the mobile computing device; determining a change in position in real space of the mobile computing device based upon the sensed movement; determining whether the change in position is within a predefined boundary; and determining a viewing perspective of a second portion of the virtual space based upon the determined change in position of the mobile computing device.
US08787927B2	Apparatus and method for frequency-selective occupancy detection An apparatus for frequency-selective occupancy detection of a channel in a frequency band includes a detector for detecting a receive spectrum in the frequency band, a provider for providing node frequencies, a determiner for determining node level values, a determiner for determining the threshold curve and a comparer. The provider provides the node frequencies for a threshold curve with respect to a noise floor in the frequency band. The determiner determines the node level values at the node frequencies based on receive level values of the receive spectrum. The determiner determines the threshold curve in the frequency band based on the provided node frequencies and the node level values at the node frequencies. The comparer compares a current power of the receive level values in the channel with a reference power in the channel predetermined by the threshold curve to detect occupancy or non-occupancy of the channel depending on the comparison.
US08787926B2	Method and system for the spectrum manager operation in cognitive radio systems A system and method for the operation of a Spectrum Manager (SM) within a cognitive radio system includes two primary states of operation: SM at network initialization and SM at network operation. While in the network Initialization state, the SM's primary responsibility is to find an operating channel. After an operating channel is found, the SM moves from the network initialization state to the network operation state while executing a procedure to establish a network. While in the network operation state, the SM can execute other procedures, a procedure to update list of available channel from the incumbent database of channel and frequency data, a procedure to determine a signal type, a procedure to enter co-existence mode, deciding when to move to a backup channel and issuing calls for the same as well as background procedures such as looking for better backup channels when the SM is otherwise idle.
US08787924B2	Methods and systems for transmission of multiple modulated signals over wireless networks A method and apparatus for requesting and allocating bandwidth in a broadband wireless communication system. The inventive method and apparatus includes a combination of techniques that allow a plurality of CPEs to communicate their bandwidth request messages to respective base stations. The CPE is responsible for distributing the allocated uplink bandwidth in a manner that accommodates the services provided by the CPE. By using a combination of bandwidth allocation techniques, the present invention advantageously makes use of the efficiency benefits associated with each technique.
US08787910B2	Apparatus and method for terminal handover between systems using different frequency allocations An apparatus and a method for a terminal handover between systems using different Frequency Allocations (FAs) are provided. The method includes broadcasting an indication signal to inform of existence of the terminal in a coverage of a macro base station to which an indoor base station is registered; and when receiving a handover command message of the indoor base station, from the macro base station, performing a handover procedure to the indoor base station. The base station can efficiently utilize the control channel resource and the user terminal needs not to conduct the unnecessary scanning procedure. Thus, the time and the power required for the scanning can be spared.
US08787909B2	Server for control plane at mobile communication network and method for controlling local IP access service Disclosed is a method of controlling a LIPA (Local IP Access) service in a server taking charge of the control plane within a mobile communication network. The method of controlling a LIPA service may include receiving an initial message from Home (e)NodeB. The initial message may include at least one of LIPA related information and capability information. The LIPA related information may include at least one of APN (Access Point Name) for LIPA and information for a local gateway, and the capability information may include an indicator indicating whether the Home (e)NodeB supports a LIPA function, and the initial message may include an access request message by a terminal. The method of controlling a LIPA service may further include determining whether the terminal can use a LIPA service at the Home (e)NodeB by considering at least one of the LIPA related information within the initial message, the capability information within the initial message, and subscriber information of the terminal, upon receiving the initial message; storing a result of the determination; generating an access accept message including an indicator indicating whether the terminal can use a LIPA service at the Home (e)NodeB; and transmitting an initial setup message including the generated access accept message to the Home (e)NodeB.
US08787899B2	Restricting and preventing pairing attempts from virus attack and malicious software A method, device and system restrict and prevent virus attack and malicious software to a wireless communication device from a pairing attempt by another wireless communications device. A switch is included in a transmission path coupling a first device to a second device, wherein the second device is attempting to pair with first wireless communications device. A detector coupled to the transmission path, detects an address of the second wireless communications device in a pairing communication protocol between the first and second devices. A counter coupled to the detector counts the pairing attempts of the second device. A compare circuit compares the pairing attempts to a selected number N. The compare circuit signals the switch to open when the number of attempts equals or exceeds the number N, breaking the connection, thereby preventing the first device from receiving virus attacks and malicious software.
US08787895B2	System and method for providing advertising on a device A display system and method of advertising, includes, in one embodiment, loading a graphic advertisement onto a computer-readable medium of an electronic device. The graphic advertisement is or has a time passage indicator for indicating the passage of time. An idle-time sensor determines an idle-time period in which updated application information is not presented on a display of the device due to, for example, data processing activity by the processor, data transfer activity, congestion or latency in the network, or any other activity that occupies resources in the device to delay or temporally preventing updating of the display. The graphic advertisement is displayed when the device is in the idle-time period, animated to indicate the passage of time, and removed after the idle-time period has ended.
US08787891B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method A base station apparatus includes a wireless receiving unit wirelessly receiving identification information on a terminal apparatus located in the vicinity of the base station apparatus; a storage unit storing the identification information received by the wireless receiving unit; a request receiving unit receiving, from a communication apparatus, a start request containing identification information regarding a terminal apparatus to be started; a determination unit determining whether the identification information contained in the start request received by the request receiving unit having been stored in the storage unit; and a distribution unit wirelessly distributing a start instruction to start the terminal apparatus indicated by the identification information upon the determination unit determining the identification information having been stored in the storage unit.
US08787890B2	Handheld electronic device and saving number method and digital storage media A method for saving number applied to a handheld electronic device is provided. The method has the following steps. An entered number is shown on a screen of the handheld electronic device. Whether the entered number is one of saved numbers is determined. If the entered number is not corresponding to one of the saved numbers, a save button is shown on the screen, and the entered number is saved after the save button is triggered.
US08787889B2	Conferencing system A method for administering conferencing resources in a communications system comprising a plurality of terminals and a conference server, the method comprising: transmitting from a first terminal to the server a first message comprising a request for a resource capable of sustaining a conference call; allocating by means of the server a network address identifying a resource capable of sustaining the conference call; and transmitting from the server to the first terminal a second message comprising the network address.
US08787880B2	Wireless device caching data proxy A wireless device is provided to act as a caching data proxy for a first device, which may or may not be wireless. In particular, a cellular telephone is associated as a caching data proxy for a wireless portable computing device. The cellular telephone caches data as a proxy for the portable computing device when the portable computing device is either out of network coverage, powered down, or the like.
US08787879B2	Multiple SIM card secure global mobile device The present invention is directed to electronic and global communication systems, devices, and methods resulting from the realization that global usage of mobile phones may be made easier and more secure by providing a system and method which have multiple subscriber identification modules (SIMs) cards including domestic and international SIM cards that enable businessmen, politicians and others to stay connected with their co-workers when traveling abroad by receiving calls and emails without paying high roaming and international fees.
US08787874B2	Method and mobile device for conference call security override A method for controlling access to a conference call, the method comprising authenticating a mobile device in accordance with access requirements for the conference call rejecting the mobile device if the participant does not comply with the access requirements in response to the rejection, determining by a processor based on information other than said access requirements that the mobile device is legitimate and overriding the rejection to allow connection to the conference call if it is determined that the mobile device is legitimate.
US08787871B2	System and method for calculating and disseminating intelligent evacuation routes based on location awareness and integrated analytics A system for providing emergency-related information. The system can include a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions. The system can also include one or more communications devices utilized by a user, wherein the one or more communications devices is communicatively linked with a provider. Additionally, the system can include a personalized notification route engine (PNRE) configured to execute on the processor and communicatively linked with the provider. The PNRE can be configured to receive geospatial information associated with the one or more communications devices via the provider. Also, the PNRE can be configured to obtain data comprising one or more among evacuation routes, evacuation rules, demographic data, environmental conditions, external alerts, real-time traffic data, and traffic control data. The PNRE can further be configured to determine the emergency-related information based on the geospatial information and the obtained data and transmit the determined emergency-related information to the user via the provider.
US08787868B2	Alarm notification system and method Apparatus for alert notification, the apparatus comprising: a power mode detector, configured to detect a predefined change in a power mode of a mobile phone, and an alert notifier, associated with the power mode detector and configured to notify a predefined user about an alert condition the detected predefined change in the power mode is indicative of.
US08787864B2	Receiver IIP2 analog calibration Techniques for performing analog calibration of a receiver to optimize a second-order input intercept point (IIP2). In an aspect, a signal generator modeling an interferer is coupled to an adjustable input of a receiver, e.g., a gate bias voltage of a mixer. For example, the signal generator output may be a single-tone on-off keying (OOK) modulated signal. The mixer mixes the signal down to baseband, wherein an analog correlator correlates the down-converted signal with the known sequence of bits used to perform the OOK modulation. The analog correlation output is then provided to drive the bias voltage in the mixer, e.g., one or more gate voltages of transistors in the differential mixer, to optimize the overall receiver IIP2. Further aspects of the disclosure provide for calibrating receivers having multiple LNA's, and also dual or diversity receivers having multiple receive paths.
US08787857B2	Receiving apparatus, frequency deviation calculating method, and medium storing computer program therein A receiving apparatus includes a memory that stores parameters corresponding to lines based on a first time interval and a second time interval in a coordinate space in which first phase rotation in a reception signal is defined as a first axis and second phase rotation in a reception signal is defined as a second axis; a selecting device that selects a line that is closest to a coordinate point in the solution space, the coordinate point being represented by a first observation value of the first phase rotation and a second observation value of the second phase rotation; an acquiring device that acquires the parameters corresponding to the line from the memory; and an estimating device that estimates, based on the parameters, the first observation value, and the first time interval or the parameters, the second observation value, and the second time interval, frequency deviations of the reception signals.
US08787856B2	Method and system for receiving radio stations A system for receiving radio stations includes: at least one A/D converter in order to digitize the entire desired frequency band, for instance, an FM band, received via at least one antenna, and a demodulation unit for demodulating at least two signals of different transmitting frequencies of a radio station.
US08787854B2	Low power local oscillator signal generation A method and apparatus for providing an oscillating signal within a transmitter/receiver circuit is described. The transmitter/receiver circuit may include an oscillator that generates an oscillating signal that may be provided to a low power, low gain mixer of the transmitter/receiver circuit along a shorter circuit path that includes low power circuitry, such as low power buffers and low power frequency dividers. The oscillating signal may also be provided to a high power, high gain mixer along a longer circuit path that includes high power circuitry, such as high power buffers and high power frequency dividers. Specifically, the low power circuitry is adapted to consume less power in an ON state than the high power circuitry in an ON state, and the shorter circuit path has a shorter electrical path length than the longer circuit path.
US08787842B2	Method using differentially encoded feedback information in precoded MIMO-OFDM systems A method, program and system for transmitting from a transmitter to a receiver over a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output channel. In one aspect, the method may comprise encoding precoding information fed back from the receiver to the transmitter according to a differential encoding scheme, and resetting the differential encoding scheme upon detecting a condition. In another aspect, the method may comprises encoding precoding matrices fed back from the receiver to the transmitter relative to a most-probable subset of precoding matrices. In another aspect, the method may comprise transmitting an indication of and/or the size of a preferred subset of precoding matrices for use in the encoding.
US08787831B2	Smart data storage apparatus and data transmitting method for the same A smart data storage apparatus and data transmitting method for the same are to combine the hard disk with the dual interface memory, and are to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology or near field communication (NFC) technology. The information of the self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology (SMART) of the hard disk still could be received by the handheld device without the power for the hard disk. Moreover, the external hard disk could be registered with the handheld device quickly.
US08787828B2	In-band provisioning for a closed subscriber group In-band provisioning enables subscribers to manually provision themselves via an access point at which the subscribers would not otherwise be allowed access. For example, a subscriber may be temporarily accepted by a restricted access point (e.g., an access point that belongs to a closed subscriber group). The subscriber is then given limited access to enable the subscriber to be provisioned at the access point. For example, the subscriber may be provisioned for full access at the access point if the subscriber presents a valid authorization credential to a provisioning entity.
US08787827B2	Gain control and frequency stability in digitally-channelised RF bi-directional amplifiers Improved gain control for a digital signal processing (DSP) repeater, such as a bi-directional repeater, is disclosed. A repeater includes a back-end subsystem which comprises, for each channel in a set of wanted frequency channels that are amplified by the repeater, a coupler (314) arranged to provide a monitor signal corresponding with an output channel power level. A feedback loop (306) receives the monitoring signal, and incorporates a power control circuit (308) that compares the monitored output channel power level with a predetermined maximum output signal level (310). A corresponding control signal is generated, and provided to a variable attenuator (304) in order to maintain the individual output channel power level at or below the maximum output signal level (310). Advantageously, a DSP output level control function (404) is also provided, which maintains the output signal level of each digital channel below a maximum rated value for a digital-to -analogue converter (402). It is also advantageous to provide a front-end subsystem (420) including a variable gain attenuator (424) that is controlled by a signal (430) generated by a digital processing element (428) that monitors an output of an analogue-to-digital converter (426), in order to maintain an IF signal level at the analogue-to-digital converter input below a predetermined threshold value. An improved frequency stability control apparatus (600) and method (800) are also disclosed.
US08787816B2	Image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a housing having a discharge port, a plurality of photosensitive bodies mounted in the housing, a transfer unit to transfer visible images formed on the plurality of photosensitive bodies onto a printing medium, a fusing unit to fuse transferred visible images to the printing medium, and a reverse unit to reverse a moving direction of the printing medium, after the printing medium has passed through the fusing unit. As the moving direction of the printed printing medium is reversed by the reverse unit, the printing medium may be discharged while a printed surface of the printing medium is directed downward, allowing a user to easily draw out the printing medium.
US08787793B2	Image carrier driver and image forming apparatus with damper configured to attenuate oscillation associated with power transmission An image carrier driver includes an image carrier, a first power transmitter, a rotator, a second power transmitter, and a damper. The image carrier is configured to rotate by power generated by a driving source. The first power transmitter is configured to transmit the power from the driving source to the image carrier. The rotator is disposed further downstream than the image carrier in a flow of power transmission. The second power transmitter is configured to transmit the power from the image carrier to the rotator. The damper is disposed in the image carrier and is configured to attenuate an oscillation associated with the power transmission and transmitted to the image carrier.
US08787791B2	Packaging arrangement for image formation apparatus accommodating process cartridge A packaging arrangement of an image formation apparatus and a process cartridge includes a main body formed with an accommodation chamber configured to accommodate a process cartridge containing toner used for image formation. The main body is formed with an opening through which the process cartridge is detachably attached. The image formation apparatus is configured to be packaged with the process cartridge attached in the accommodation chamber. An openable cover configured to openably cover the opening is provided, and a drying agent is detachably arranged in a clearance formed between an inner face of the accommodation chamber and the process cartridge attached in the accommodation chamber. A part of the drying agent is exposed to outside through the opening of the clearance when the cover is opened, while the process cartridge and the drying agent are covered when the cover is closed.
US08787790B2	Developing apparatus having a spacer and a leakage preventer A developing apparatus includes an organic photo conductor, an OPC frame part to support the organic photo conductor, a developing roller to develop a latent image formed on the organic photo conductor by supplying a developer, a developing roller frame part to support the developing roller, a developer storing part to store the developer and provided with a supplying opening through which the developer is supplied to the developing roller, a spacer removably interposed between the OPC frame part and the developing roller frame part and spacing the OPC frame part from the developing roller frame part such that the organic photo conductor and the developing roller do not contact each other, a leakage preventer removably attached to and sealing the supplying opening, and a connecting part to connect the spacer with the leakage preventer. Thus, the spacer and the leakage preventer are capable of being removed simultaneously.
US08787788B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image holding body that holds an electrostatic latent image; a developing device that develops the electrostatic latent image with a toner and forms a toner image on the image holding body; a transfer member having a fluorocarbon resin dispersion layer at least at a surface layer of the transfer member, fluorocarbon resin being dispersed in the fluorocarbon resin dispersion layer; a first transfer device that first-transfers the toner image, which is formed on the image holding body, on the transfer member; a second transfer device that second-transfers the toner image, which is first-transferred on the transfer member, on a recording medium; and an abrading member that is arranged to come into contact with and be separated from the transfer member and abrades part of the surface layer of the transfer member when the abrading member contacts the transfer member.
US08787779B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus which has an improved follow-up property indicating how a toner supply amount follows a toner consumption amount to prevent a defective image, including: a photosensitive drum; a developing device; a toner replenishing device; a toner sensor configured to detect a toner amount inside the developing device; and a controller configured to drive the toner replenishing device to replenish the developing device with toner based on a detection result of the sensor during a developing device driving time and to stop the toner replenishing device during a non-image forming period to stop replenishing the developing device with toner, wherein if the toner amount inside the developing device detected by the sensor is reduced to a level equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold value, the controller drives the developing device and the toner replenishing device even during the non-image forming period.
US08787761B2	Multi-service provisioning in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-passive optical network OFDMA-PON A method for multi-service provisioning in an OFDMA-PON that includes linking communicatively to a core network and bandwidth provisioning, dynamically within a single wavelength, traffic from the core network to a network of multiple virtual passive optical networks VPONs for multi-service provisioning to the VPONs.
US08787759B2	Dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus and method and optical line terminal in PON system A dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus 12 of the present invention is mounted on, for example, an optical line terminal 1 in a PON system that relays upstream frames F1 and F2 received from optical network units 2, to upper networks 6. The dynamic bandwidth allocation apparatus 12 calculates, based on the reception rates of the upstream frames F1 and F2 from the optical network units 2, the sending rates of relay destinations of the upstream frames F1 and F2, and changes in the amounts of data occurring upon relaying the upstream frames F1 and F2, allocated bandwidth upper limits (max_bw) at which even when the amounts of data increase, the upstream frames F1 and F2 can be relayed; and dynamically allocates amounts of upstream transmission for the respective optical network units 2 in the range of the calculated allocated bandwidth upper limits (max_bw).
US08787757B2	Optical communication network and supervisory control device An optical communication network includes a plurality of optical transmission devices, a communication path, an optical repeater, and a supervisory controller that includes a supervisory control information sender which is installed on at least one of one of the optical transmission devices and the optical repeater and controls a drive signal supplied to a semiconductor optical amplifier that amplifies and outputs input signal light onto the communication path on the basis of the supervisory control information, and a supervisory control information receiver that receives the light which has been output from a semiconductor optical amplifier and transmitted through the communication path, converts the received light to an electric signal and identifies the supervisory control information on the basis of an intensity-modulated component of the total power of the electric signal in at least the other of one of the optical transmission devices and the optical repeater.
US08787755B1	Monitoring polarization-mode dispersion and signal-to-noise ratio in optical signals based on polarization analysis Techniques, devices and applications are provided for monitoring a polarization mode dispersion (PMD) effect in an optical signal.
US08787752B2	Systems and methods for optically powering transducers and related transducers The present disclosure describes an optically powered transducer with a photovoltaic collector. An optical fiber power delivery method and system and a free space power delivery method are also provided. A fabrication process for making an optically powered transducer is further described, together with an implantable transducer system based on optical power delivery.
US08787748B2	Image capturing system, image capturing device, and image capturing method To enable satisfactory simultaneous and widely varied pictures to be obtained, for example, by allowing a common user to obtain an overall picture while the common user performing desired image capturing, or the like. A first image capturing device image-captures a subject to record this image, and also transmits a trigger signal to a second image capturing device. The second image capturing device image-captures an image to record this image in accordance with the trigger signal. Thus, the first and second image capturing devices enable both of an overall image and a zoomed image to be obtained with simultaneous timing.
US08787720B2	Optical fiber An optical fiber includes a core portion that confines light therein and guides the light therethrough and a cladding portion that is formed around an outer circumference of the core portion. The cladding portion contains a hole which is formed at a position a distance away from the core portion such that the hole does not substantially affect an effective core area or a chromatic dispersion characteristic of the optical fiber. The hole decreases a microbending loss of the optical fiber.
US08787712B2	Low loss directional coupling between highly dissimilar optical waveguides for high refractive index integrated photonic circuits An optocoupler, an optical interconnect and method of manufacture providing same are provided for coupling an optical signal between a high refractive index waveguide of an integrated circuit and a waveguide external to the integrated circuit. The optocoupler includes a thinned high refractive index waveguide having a thickness configured to exhibit an effective refractive index substantially matching a refractive index of the external waveguide.
US08787708B2	Endless phase shifting Endless phase shifting apparatus, structures, and methods useful—for example—in MIMO optical demultiplexing.
US08787706B2	Acquisition of a user expression and an environment of the expression Embodiments include an apparatus, device, system, and method. In an embodiment, a human wearable apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an annotation environment capture device operable to generate information indicative of a recognizable aspect of an item and an annotating device operable to generate information indicative of a user expression associated with the recognizable aspect of the item.
US08787703B2	Method for simplified storage of data representing forms A procedure for structuring and storing data representing the form of an object that can be represented by a set of interpolation points, wherein the data representing an object is stored in a hierarchy having at least two levels, wherein a subset of the data representing the object is saved at each level and wherein the data is assigned to the levels by selecting at least two anchor points, whose data is saved in the uppermost hierarchical level, from the set of interpolation points and by consecutively selecting, from the interpolation points remaining in the set, the interpolation point with the largest distance from a line through the interpolation points and anchor points that have already been assigned to levels.
US08787700B1	Automatic pose estimation from uncalibrated unordered spherical panoramas Methods and systems for automatically generating pose estimates from uncalibrated unordered panoramas are provided. An exemplary method of automatically generating pose estimates includes receiving a plurality of uncalibrated and unordered panoramic images that include at least one interior building image, and extracting, for each panoramic image, feature points. The method includes generating a match matrix for all the panoramic images based on the one or more feature points, constructing a minimal spanning tree based on the match matrix, identifying a first and second panoramic image, based on the minimal spanning tree, wherein the second panoramic image is associated with the first panoramic image providing a navigation from the first panoramic image to the second panoramic image.
US08787697B2	Image processing apparatus and method, and program A normal-phase candidate position selection unit designates a pixel on a horizontal or vertical line in a position separated by two lines from a target position of an input image as a normal-phase candidate pixel, which is a candidate for a pixel at which jaggies are in the same phase as a pixel of the target position. A reverse-phase candidate position selection unit designates a pixel between the target position in the input image and the normal-phase candidate pixel as a reverse-phase candidate pixel. The weight value calculation unit calculates a weight value based on a degree of similarity between an image adjacent to the target position and an image adjacent to the normal-phase candidate pixel. The weighted expected value calculation unit performs weighted addition of reverse-phase candidate pixels using the weight value and generates a reverse-phase image by reversing only the phase of the jaggies in the input image.
US08787696B1	Method and apparatus for replacing a block of pixels in a digital image frame to conceal an error associated with the block of pixels In one embodiment the present invention includes a digital image processing method for concealing errors. The method includes determining error pixel locations based on motion vectors and determining if the error pixel locations in a current frame are on an edge of an object in the current frame. If an error pixel location is on an edge, then a search of pixel values is performed in the current frame along the edge for a replacement pixel value. If the error pixel location is not on an edge, then a search of pixel values is performed in a region adjacent to the edge for the replacement pixel value.
US08787690B2	Binarizing an image The invention provides various methods and techniques for binarizing an image, generally in advance of further processing such as optical character recognition (OCR). One step includes establishing boundaries of image objects of an image and classifying each image object as either suspect or non-suspect. Another step includes creating a local binarization threshold map that may include or store threshold binarization values associated with image objects classified as non-suspect. Yet another step includes expanding the local binarization threshold map to cover the entire image thereby creating a global binarization threshold map for the entire image. The methods and techniques are capable of identifying and working with separation objects and incuts in images.
US08787686B2	Image processing device and image processing method An image processing device includes: a significant digit number encoding unit designating a set of a predetermined number of coefficient data items generated from image data. The maximum number of significant digits of coefficient data for each set every cycle is obtained, and information regarding the maximum number is encoded. A zero run encoding unit encodes zero runs formed by sets that include only coefficient data whose value is 0 at a cycle that differs from the cycle of encoding the significant digit number. The absolute value for the maximum number of significant digits other than the zero runs is extracted and encoded. The positive or negative sign of each coefficient data item whose absolute value is not 0 in a set at a cycle that differs from a cycle in relation to coefficient data other than the zero runs is encoded.
US08787682B2	Fast image classification by vocabulary tree based image retrieval Systems and methods are disclosed to categorize images by detecting local features for each image; applying a tree structure to index local features in the images; and extracting a rank list of candidate images with category tags based on a tree indexing structure to estimate a label of a query image.
US08787677B2	Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and program Function approximation performed when a raster image is converted into a vector image is performed in a simple manner with high accuracy, without using feedback. When anchor points are extracted from a coordinate point sequence obtained from the raster image, and function approximation is performed on the coordinate point sequence between anchor points, an appropriate point among coordinate points defined in a unit approximation section that is partitioned by anchor points is selected, and after setting the direction of the corresponding coordinate point as a tangential direction, correction is performed such that the position of a control point obtained from a tangent line does not intersect another control point.
US08787672B2	Reader device having various functionalities A reader device for identifying a label associated with a section of a printed publication and presenting first information adjusted for the section. The device comprises a sensing unit for reading a unique machine-readable representation of the first information from the label, a voice recognition unit for intercepting a voice message having a related audio signature associated with second information, a processing unit for identifying the first information according to the representation and the second information according to the related audio signature, and a presentation unit configured for presenting the first and second information.
US08787665B2	Image processing device An image processing device may create corrected image data by correcting target image data. The image processing device may determine a representative value which represents specific pixels in the object image data, determine a target value based on the representative value and a degree of correction designated by a user, and correct a value of each particular pixel included in the object image data such that the value of the each particular pixel approaches the target value. The each particular pixel may be included in a surrounding area of the representative value.
US08787656B2	Method and apparatus for feature-based stereo matching Disclosed are a method and apparatus for feature-based stereo matching. A method for stereo matching of a reference image and at least one comparative image captured by at least two cameras from different points of view using a computer device includes collecting the reference image and the at least one comparative image, extracting feature points from the reference image, tracking points corresponding to the feature points in the at least one comparative image using an optical flow technique, and generating a depth map according to correspondence-point tracking results.
US08787654B2	System and method for measuring potential eyestrain of stereoscopic motion pictures A system and method for measuring the potential eyestrain felt by audiences while watching a 3D presentation, e.g., a stereoscopic motion picture, are provided. The eyestrain measurement system and method of the present disclosure is based on the measurement of disparity (or depth) and disparity transition of stereoscopic images of the 3D presentation. The system and method of the present disclosure provide for acquiring a first image and a second image from a first segment, estimating disparity of at least one point in the first image with at least one corresponding point in the second image, estimating disparity transition of a sequence of first and second images, and determining potential eyestrain felt while viewing the 3D presentation based on the disparity and the disparity transition of the sequence of the first and second images.
US08787646B2	Method and apparatus for computed tomography image reconstruction A method and apparatus are provided to reconstruct projection data obtained from CT imaging devices with offset detector geometries. According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided to reconstruct projection data obtained from CT imaging devices with offset detector geometries that includes the following steps: (i) matching projection data measured at opposing sides of the acquisition trajectory and splicing them together to generate a full, non-truncated projection data set; (ii) differentiation of the projection data; (iii) filtering the differentiated projection data with a filter, such as for example a Hilbert filter; (iv) applying redundancy weighting to the filtered projection data; and (v) back-projecting the redundancy weighted projection data to generate image data.
US08787636B2	Diagnostic imaging support in which image data of high magnification is generated to image data of low magnification for classification thereof A diagnostic imaging support device includes an image data acquisition unit that acquires image data of high magnification of sample tissue, an image classifying unit that generates image data of low magnification from the image data of high magnification acquired by the image data acquisition unit, and classifies the generated image data of low magnification into group by each image data pattern of a plurality of pathological tissue, and an image evaluating unit that evaluates whether or not the image data of high magnification, which is to be a base of the image data of low magnification classified by the image classifying unit, is the pathological tissue of the classified group.
US08787635B2	Optimization of multiple candidates in medical device or feature tracking Multiple candidates are optimized in medical device or feature tracking. Possible locations of medical devices or features for each of a plurality of different times are received. The possible locations of devices are modeled using a probability function. An iterative solution to obtain the maximum of the probability function determines the possible locations to be used as the locations of the medical devices or features for each time. Where two or more medical devices or features are provided with a geometric relationship, such as being connected by a detected guide wire, the probability function may account for the geometric relationship, such as a geodesic distance between the possible locations for the two medical devices.
US08787630B2	Multispectral barcode imaging A multispectral sensor is provided with an illumination source and a digital imaging system. The illumination source is disposed to provide light at multiple wavelengths to an object. The digital imaging system is disposed to receive light scattered from the object and has a digital array of light detectors and a color filter array. The color filter array has a multiple distributed filter elements, each of which is adapted to transmit light of one of a limited number of specified narrowband wavelength ranges. The color filter array is disposed to filter the light scattered from the object prior to encountering the digital array of light detectors.
US08787626B2	OMNIGENE software system A software system which employs a special set of simulated electrical circuits to generate user-specific textured and signature color images based on DNA, speech, fingerprint and retinal scans. The output of the system can be used in a variety of applications including easy visual identification of different types of gene sequences (human, plant, diseased, normal, etc.), drug design, multi-level security ID cards based on biometric data, custom colors and textures for diverse home and office products such as clothing, bedspreads, linen, stationery and fabric.
US08787615B2	Methods and apparatus for embedding watermarks Methods and apparatus for embedding a watermark are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to embed a watermark in a compressed data stream comprises obtaining a set of transform coefficients included in the compressed data stream, the set of transform coefficients having a respective first set of mantissa codes and a respective set of exponents, the first set of mantissa codes associated with a respective set of mantissa step sizes, identifying a first transform coefficient from the set of transform coefficients having a smallest magnitude among the set of transform coefficients, determining a second set of mantissa codes based on the first transform coefficient and the set of step sizes, and replacing the first set of mantissa codes included in the compressed data stream with the second set of mantissa codes to embed the watermark without uncompressing the compressed data stream.
US08787613B2	Forensic mark insertion apparatus and method A forensic mark insertion apparatus includes: an original content segment storage unit for storing multiple original contents; and a service control unit for, in response to a request for a content from a user, retrieving an original content corresponding to the request for the content from the original content segment storage unit, separating the retrieved original content into plurality of content segments, selectively inserting a forensic mark into some of the content segments, and assembling the content segments to produce an forensic-mark inserted content to be provided to the user.
US08787611B2	Frame for speaker, speaker using same, and electronic apparatus and mobile device using speaker A connector housing made of resin includes a hole through which an eyelet terminal is inserted, a first wall for regulating a position of the eyelet terminal in an inserting direction of the eyelet terminal, and a second wall for regulating the position of the eyelet terminal in a direction opposite to the inserting direction of the eyelet terminal. The eyelet terminal includes a stopper contacts a wall surface and is provided at a place corresponding to the wall surface for regulating the position of the eyelet terminal in the inserting direction of the eyelet terminal, and a protrusion engaged with the second wall. The second wall is provided on a side wall surface of the hole. The above structure prevents the eyelet terminal from being taken off from the connector housing.
US08787606B2	Electronically compensated micro-speakers Electronics for altering the audio frequency response of a micro-speaker without modifying the micro-speaker itself are used to provide a selected frequency response of the micro-speaker. The micro-speaker has a resonant peak region, from which the response declines for both higher and lower frequencies. In one embodiment the electronics includes a first circuit for modifying the frequency response curve up to the resonant peak region, and a second circuit for modifying the frequency response curve for audio frequencies higher than this region. Each filter yields an integer multiple of 6 dB per octave slope. In the described embodiment, for approximately correcting presbyacusis (age related hearing loss), a set of high pass filters, low pass filters, and/or high order filters are connected to the micro-speaker to progressively attenuate the frequency response curve as the frequency decreases from 10000 Hz to 100 Hz.
US08787603B2	Method for operating a hearing device as well as a hearing device Acclimatization of a hearing device user to a hearing device is made more acceptable by automatic acclimatization management. The intensity of the hearing device is increased in the long term, e.g. during several months. The speed of the intensity increase depends on user inputs. A user controls an audio processing parameter (APP), such as volume, with a user control. Each time the user switches the hearing device off and on again, the power-on value (POV) of the audio processing parameter (APP) is changed. The amount of the change depends on which settings for the audio processing parameter (APP) have been selected by the hearing device user and how long the settings have been active. An initial power-on value (iPOV) and a target power-on value (tPOV), which is to be reached at the end (H) of the acclimatization phase, may be programmed by an audiologist.
US08787600B2	Assembly of a capacitive acoustic transducer of the microelectromechanical type and package thereof A microelectromechanical-acoustic-transducer assembly has: a first die integrating a MEMS sensing structure having a membrane, which has a first surface in fluid communication with a front chamber and a second surface, opposite to the first surface, in fluid communication with a back chamber of the microelectromechanical acoustic transducer, is able to undergo deformation as a function of incident acoustic-pressure waves, and faces a rigid electrode so as to form a variable-capacitance capacitor; a second die, integrating an electronic reading circuit operatively coupled to the MEMS sensing structure and supplying an electrical output signal as a function of the capacitive variation; and a package, housing the first die and the second die and having a base substrate with external electrical contacts. The first and second dice are stacked in the package and directly connected together mechanically and electrically; the package delimits at least one of the front and back chambers.
US08787596B2	Audio system including multiband audio dynamics processor An audio system includes a level controller receiving an input audio signal from an audio medium. The level controller includes a gain adjust module producing an output audio signal based on the input audio signal. A filter arrangement is communicatively coupled to the level controller. The filter arrangement receives the output audio signal and divides the output signal into a plurality of filtered signals. Each of the filtered signals corresponds to a respective frequency band. A multiband dynamics controller is communicatively coupled to the filter arrangement. The multiband dynamics controller receives the filtered signals and applies a respective gain characteristic to each of the filtered signals to thereby produce a plurality of gain adjust signals. The gain adjust signals are combined into a multiband dynamics controller output signal.
US08787594B1	Multi-stream audio level controller A volume level and crossfade controller with programmable fades and audio stream priority controls saturation for a multiple audio stream mixer. Start of fade and end of fade events trigger updates of relative volume level targets and volume ramps.
US08787591B2	Method and system for interference suppression using blind source separation A method of interference suppression is provided that includes receiving a first audio signal from a first audio capture device and a second audio signal from a second audio capture device wherein the first audio signal includes a first combination of desired audio content and interference and the second audio signal includes a second combination of the desired audio content and the interference, performing blind source separation using the first audio signal and the second audio signal to generate an output interference signal and an output audio signal including the desired audio content with the interference suppressed, estimating interference remaining in the output audio signal using the output interference signal, and subtracting the estimated interference from the output audio signal to generate a final output audio signal with the interference further suppressed.
US08787589B2	Electronic device and system and method thereof for identifying electronic accessory and controlling electronic device An electronic device connectable with an electronic accessory according to the present disclosure is provided. The electronic device includes a jack, a data signal transceiving unit, a measuring unit, a switching unit and a processing unit. The jack is adapted to receive an insertion of a plug of the electronic accessory and has a first contact terminal adapted to be in contact with a first contact of the plug. The data signal transceiving unit is adapted to transmit to or receive from the electronic accessory a data signal through the first contact terminal of the jack. The measuring unit is adapted to measure a parameter resulted from the contact of the first contact terminal of the jack with the first contact of the plug through the first contact terminal when the plug is inserted into the jack. The switching unit is adapted to selectively connect the first contact terminal of the jack electrically to the data signal transceiving unit or the measuring unit. The processing unit executes a corresponding function according to the measured parameter when the measured parameter has a first predetermined value.
US08787588B2	Coupling of speakers with integrated circuit Systems and methods for a low pin architecture to couple speakers with integrated circuits are disclosed herein. In an implementation, the low pin architecture facilitates in reducing the required pin interfaces to couple a low power speaker, a high power speaker, and earphone speakers with integrated circuits (ICs). For this, the high power speaker can be cross-coupled between the pin interfaces that are coupled to the low power speaker and the earphone speakers. These pin interfaces are driven by corresponding driver circuits. In said implementation, some of the driver circuits can be shared to drive multiple pin interfaces. These shared driver circuits include a combined cascode circuit having a first cascode circuit integrated with a second cascode circuit to reliably and selectively drive one or more of the pin interfaces.
US08787587B1	Selection of system parameters based on non-acoustic sensor information An audio processing system processes an audio signal that may come from one or more microphones. The audio processing system may use information from one or more non-acoustic sensors to improve a variety of system characteristics, including responsiveness and quality. Those audio processing systems that use spatial information, for example to separate multiple audio sources, are undesirably susceptible to changes in the relative position of any audio sources, the audio processing system itself, or any combination thereof. Using the non-acoustic sensor information may decrease this susceptibility advantageously in an audio processing system.
US08787578B2	Method and apparatus for encrypting transmissions in a communication system Method and apparatus for encrypting transmission traffic at separate protocol layers L1, L2, and L3 so that separate encryption elements can be assigned to separate types of transmission traffic, which allows the implementation of different levels of encryption according to service requirements. Encryption elements use variable value inputs, called crypto-syncs, along with semi-permanent encryption keys to protect from replay attacks from rogue mobile stations. Since crypto-sync values vary, a method for synchronizing crypto-syncs at the mobile station and base station is also presented.
US08787571B2	Wired communications systems with improved capacity and security Provided are methods and systems of using division-free duplexing (DFD) in a cable communication network. Techniques for applying DFD in a cable communication network may enable data to be transmitted and received over a coaxial cable without using division duplexing techniques. For example, the cable communication network may include DFD enabled network nodes and each subscriber to the cable network may be equipped with a DFD system configured to operate in a DFD mode. In some embodiments, oppositely propagating signals may be transmitted over one frequency channel, and DFD techniques may be used to recover originally transmitted signals. Further, in some embodiments, DFD techniques may be used with encryption methods to increase the security of data transmitted in the cable communication network.
US08787569B2	System and method for secure communication of components inside self-service automats Method to secure the communication of components within self-service automats that are linked to each other by a bus system, having a transmitter and a receiver, characterized in that data are exchanged as tuples (C, A, R, N, Z) on the transport layer of the bus system where C are the message data M encrypted with an encryption key, A are the message data M authenticated with an authentication key, R represents the role of a component on the bus system of active or passive participants, N represents a message counter, Z represents a session counter.
US08787566B2	Strong encryption An embodiment generally relates to a method of strong encryption. The method includes generating a first cryptographic key based on a random number and generating a second cryptographic key based on a password. The method also includes encrypting private data with the first cryptographic key to arrive at wrapped private data and encrypting the first cryptographic key with the second cryptographic key to arrive at a wrapped first cryptographic key.
US08787557B2	Method and apparatus for non-disruptive telecommunication loop condition determination In one embodiment, a low cost, simple circuit for detecting an off-hook condition of a telecommunication line comprising tip and ring signal lines is provided. The circuit comprises a voltage divider for coupling between the tip and ring lines without an intervening transistor and having a node at which is presented a scaled version of a voltage across the voltage divider. The circuit further comprises a transistor having a control terminal coupled to the node, a first current flow terminal coupled to a voltage source, and a second current flow terminal coupled to an output terminal, wherein the output terminal bears a value that is indicative of a voltage across the tip and ring lines and thus whether the telecommunication line is off-hook.
US08787550B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing a nature of address indicator and/or calling party number to support telecommunication features A call is processed by examining a nature of address indicator in a signaling message associated with the call and allowing the call to complete in a jurisdiction associated with a national nature of address indicator if the nature of address indicator is international. A call is also processed by examining a nature of address indicator in a signaling message associated with the call. A number of digits associated with a calling party number in the signaling message is determined and the call is allowed to complete if the nature of address indicator is national and the number of digits associated with the calling party number exceeds ten.
US08787548B2	System and method for distributed communication control within an enterprise Systems and methods for providing distributed call control are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a communication user interface is provided on a client device associated with an individual. The communication user interface comprises a plurality of selectable communication control operations configured to provide control over communications of users within an enterprise. A selection of one of the plurality of communication control operations is received from the individual. Permissions associated with the individual are reviewed to determine if the individual is allowed to perform the communication control operation. If the individual is allowed, the communication control operation is performed. If the individual is not allowed, a denial indicator may be provided.
US08787538B2	Automated communication techniques Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing an autoresponder that allows subscribers to opt-in to one or more autoresponder campaigns using their spoken voice. Voice input is received from a subscriber and converted to text. The subscriber is added to at least one campaign. A contact communication identifier is stored in a subscriber contact record from the text that was converted from the voice input. One or more messages are sent to the subscriber using the contact communication identifier, and according to a schedule specified in the campaign. A virtual seminar playback system is described that simulates a live virtual seminar and allows subscribers to access a playback of a media recording over a communication connection at a specified time. An autoresponder system is described that delivers messages to subscribers in multiple available formats, based upon selections received by the subscribers.
US08787534B1	Method and apparatus of processing speech dialog data of a user call A method and apparatus of processing caller experiences is disclosed. One example method may include determining a call event type occurring during a call and assigning a weight to the call event type via a processing device. The method may also include calculating a caller experience metric value representing a caller's current call status responsive to determining the at least one call event type, the caller experience metric being a function of the current event type weight and a discounting variable that discounts a value of past events. The method may also provide comparing the caller experience metric to a predefined threshold value and determining whether to perform at least one of transferring the call to a live agent and switching from a current caller modality to a different caller modality.
US08787530B2	Telecommunication diagnostic information management A diagnostic tool is adapted to include the capability of initiating one or more diagnostic tests, collecting the raw data from the diagnostic test(s) and transporting the raw diagnostic data to an OSS. The OSS interprets the raw diagnostic data and stores the results in a database. The stored results can be searched, sorted, manipulated, analyzed, and the like. The results of any of these operations can then be, for example, displayed to one or more entities such as customer support, network operators, network planners, or the like.
US08787527B2	Mammography apparatus A mammography apparatus includes a detector that detects X-rays transmitted through a breast, and an optically transparent or semitransparent pressing panel for pressing the breast. The apparatus further includes a near infrared ray source that provided between the X-ray source and the pressing panel and arranged in a two-dimensional shape in alignment with the pressing panel, and that is movable between a first position in close contact with the pressing panel and a second position outside an X-ray image capture region. Near infrared image capture is carried out using the near infrared ray source by causing the near infrared ray source to be in the first position, and the near infrared ray source is caused to retract to the second position when carrying out X-ray image capture using the X-ray source.
US08787521B2	System and method of iterative image reconstruction for computed tomography A system and method include acquisition of a set of image data corresponding to a time period of data acquisition, the set of image data corresponding to a plurality of voxels, wherein each of the plurality of voxels corresponds to a distinct acquisition time within the time period of data acquisition. The system and method further include the modeling of the plurality of voxels as a function of time based on a plurality of kinetic parameters associated therewith and reconstruction of an image from the set of image data based on the modeled plurality of voxels.
US08787520B2	Radiation imaging device Disclosed is an X-ray imaging apparatus in which a correction function used to correct scattered X-rays and a correction function used to correct beam hardening can be simply and precisely determined so that the correcting operations are performed in an appropriate sequence using the correction functions thus determined to enhance the precision in the correction and improve the image quality. The scattered X-rays and the beam hardening are corrected sequentially in this order, using the scattered X-ray correction function and the beam hardening correction function, both calculated using measured data for calculating the correction functions. The scattered X-ray correction function approximates as to each transmission distance, the data measured with changes in the transmission distance and with changes in the scattered X-ray amount, and associates the correction value thus obtained with transmittance data. Upon calculation of the beam hardening correction function, data measured with changes in the transmission distance is converted into projection data and is linearly approximated to obtain an ideal amount of beam hardening.
US08787519B2	System and method of optimizing a representation of dual energy spectral CT images An imaging system includes an x-ray source, a detector, a data acquisition system (DAS) operably connected to the detector, and a computer operably connected to the DAS. The computer is programmed to obtain CT scan data with two or more incident energy spectra, decompose the obtained CT scan data into projection CT data of a first basis material and a second basis material, generate a first basis material image and a second basis material image using the decomposed projection CT data, generate a first monochromatic image from the first basis material image and the second basis material image at a first energy that is selected based on an amount of correlated noise at the first energy, noise-reduce the first monochromatic image to generate a noise-reduced first monochromatic image, and generate a final monochromatic image based at least on the noise-reduced first monochromatic image.
US08787508B2	Channel estimation method and apparatus A channel estimation method and apparatus are provided. The channel estimation method includes: extracting pilot data in a received signal; performing pilot channel estimation by using the extracted pilot data to obtain transmission coefficients of multiple groups of pilot channels; and obtaining a transmission coefficient of a data channel through non-linear interpolation processing by using the obtained transmission coefficients of the multiple groups of pilot channels. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present invention help improve the channel estimation precision in a fast time-changing channel environment, thereby improving the system performance.
US08787501B2	Distributed sensing of signals linked by sparse filtering Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for distributed sensing and centralized reconstruction of two correlated signals, modeled as the input and output of an unknown sparse filtering operation.
US08787490B2	Transmitting data in a communication system A signal to be transmitted from a terminal via a channel in a communication network is encoded by receiving the signal at the terminal; determining characteristics of the channel; encoding a first portion of the signal in accordance with a first encoding method to produce a first encoded signal portion; and encoding a second portion of the signal in accordance with a second encoding method to produce a second encoded signal portion. The first portion of the signal is encoded in accordance with the first encoding method depending on the determined characteristics of the channel. The first encoded signal portion and the second encoded signal portion are transmitted via the channel.
US08787487B2	Distortion compensation device and distortion compensating method A distortion compensation device which reduces a distortion of an amplifier which is added to an output signal of the amplifier, the distortion compensation device including: a plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits which stores a plurality of distortion compensation coefficients and outputs the distortion compensation coefficients according to an amplitude of an input signal of the amplifier, a distortion compensating processing circuit which adds the distortion compensation coefficient output from each of the plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits to the input signal of the amplifier, and a distortion compensation coefficient updating circuit which performs weighting processing on the distortion compensation coefficient output from each of the plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage circuits to reduce the distortion compensation coefficient and which calculates an update value of the distortion compensation coefficient by using the distortion compensation coefficient which is subjected to the weighting processing.
US08787466B2	Video playback device, computer readable medium and video playback method A video playback device includes a part to acquire a first video data at a first frame rate containing frame sequences each including a frame holding information about a background image and information about a moving object image, and second frames each holding information about position of the moving object image; and a generation part to generate, based on the first video data, a second video data to be played back at a second frame rate, the generation part includes a part to compute, with respect to each two contiguous frames in the first video content, position of a virtual moving object image situated in between two moving object images in the two contiguous frames; and a part to create, with respect to each position of the virtual moving object image, a frame image containing the background image and the motion object image placed in the computed position.
US08787456B2	Image decoding device and method thereof using inter-coded predictive encoding code An image encoding device and corresponding decoding device are disclosed for achieving a high rate of compression. The encoding device includes an image conversion module that converts the direction of the images using right-left symmetry mode convention or up-down symmetry mode conversion. Encoding modules are used to encode both the unconverted and converted images. A mode selector module compares the quantity of codes in the encoded unconverted images and the quantity of codes in the encoded converted images, and selects codes that are smaller in the quantity of codes for output.
US08787452B2	Method of removing a blocking artifact using quantization information in a filtering system In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining quantization information related to at least one of a first block and an adjacent second block, comparing the quantization information with a predefined constant value, and performing a filtering process based on a result from the comparing step. The filtering process includes calculating a value of at least one pixel in the first block based on pixel values of at least two pixels in the first block, and calculating a value of at least one pixel in the second block based on pixel values of at least two pixels in the second block. The at least two pixels in the first block and the at least two pixels in the second block are successive pixels across a block boundary between the first block and the second block.
US08787448B2	Picture coding method and picture decoding method In a picture coding method for generating a coded signal corresponding to each picture by coding a plurality of coded signals, a switching picture which is capable of switching a plurality of coded signals and subsequent pictures of the switching picture can refer to only a group of pictures of the same time in the coded signals. More specifically, the case where picture numbers of an adjacent picture of an S picture and the S picture are not continuous is not considered as an error.
US08787442B2	Communication system and data transception method thereof An apparatus and method for receiving data in a communication system including a communication module and a memory. The communication module may compress data received from an external system by using a first data compression/decompression block, and may transfer the compressed data to the data bus. The memory may decompress the compressed data received from the data bus using the second data compression/decompression block, and may store the decompressed data in the memory. Also, the memory may compress data to be transmitted using the second data compression/decompression block and may transfer the compressed data to the data bus. The communication module may decompress the compressed data received from the data bus using the first data compression/decompression block, and may transmit the decompressed data to the external system.
US08787438B1	Reconditioning equalizer filter for non-constant envelope signals A technique for a reconditioning equalizer filter for non-constant envelope signals is described. The input to a transmitter chain is modified by a reconditioning equalizer filter, prior to being applied to the transmitter. The reconditioning equalizer filter modifies and smoothens the amplitude of the signal. The modified and smoothened signal has its peaks reduced which results in lower Crest Factor. The input to the reconditioning equalizer filter could be a baseband, intermediate frequency (IF) or radio frequency (RF) signal. When the signal is an IF or RF signal, it needs to be down-converted to baseband before being applied to the reconditioning equalizer filter. The reconditioning equalizer filter could be performed in a digital or analog domain.
US08787437B2	Adaptive equalizer and method thereof An adaptive equalizer and an adaptive equalizing method are provided. The adaptive equalizer includes an adaptive equalizing unit, for adaptively equalizing an inputted signal to output the equalized signal; a coefficient updating unit, for updating a coefficient of a filter of the adaptive equalizing unit; a switching unit, connected between the coefficient updating unit and the adaptive equalizing unit and a monitoring device, for controlling on or off of the switching unit in accordance with the fact that a down sampling phase of the inputted signal or a down sampling phase of the equalized signal is within a predetermined range. When the switching unit is on, the coefficient updating unit is capable of updating the coefficient of the adaptive equalizing unit, and when the switching unit is off, the coefficient updating unit is incapable of updating the coefficient of the adaptive equalizing unit.
US08787435B2	Narrow band interference determined by second and fourth order norms Automatic gain control in a receiver. A method for controlling operating range of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) by an automatic gain control circuit includes estimating a peak-to-average ratio corresponding to an analog signal from digital samples of the analog signal. The method includes determining a peak value corresponding to the analog signal based on the peak-to-average ratio. Further, the method includes maintaining magnitude of the analog signal at an input of the ADC and gain of the receiver based on the peak value.
US08787431B2	Transmitter and communication device A transmitter compensates for AM/PM distortion and operates with low distortion and high efficiency. A compensation section calculates an amplitude signal M representing the magnitude of a vector consisting of IPL and QPL signals which pass through LPFs, respectively, thereby predicting variation of the envelope of a radio frequency signal Pi, which variation occurs due to Ip′ and Qp′ signals passing through LPFs, respectively. The compensation section calculates a phase compensation amount θcomp, based on the calculated amplitude signal M, and adds the phase compensation amount θcomp to a phase signal θ.
US08787425B2	Signal processing arrangement and signal processing method A signal processing arrangement is designed to process a digitalized phase-modulated and/or digitalized spreaded input signal (1) and has a complex channelizer (2) which despreads and/or demodulates the input signal (1) in the time range on the basis of a folding operation.
US08787416B2	Laser diode using zinc oxide nanorods and manufacturing method thereof Provided are a laser diode using zinc oxide nanorods and a manufacturing method thereof. The laser diode using zinc oxide nanorods according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a wafer; an electrode layer formed on the wafer; a nanorod layer including a plurality of n-doped zinc oxide nanorods grown on the electrode layer; and a p-doped single crystal semiconductor layer that is physically in contact with the ends of the zinc oxide nanorods.
US08787413B2	Temperature controller for gas laser A temperature controller for a gas laser which controls temperatures of a plurality of temperature-controlled apparatuses including a first temperature-controlled portion requiring a high-precision temperature-control and a second temperature-controlled portion requiring a low-precision temperature-control as compared with the first temperature-controlled portion and allowing a temperature-control with a low or high temperature as compared with the first temperature-controlled portion, comprises a first temperature control portion generating a cooling agent or a heating agent for adjusting a temperature of each first temperature-controlled portion, a second temperature control portion generating a cooling agent or a heating agent for adjusting a temperature of each second temperature-controlled portion, a first piping system connecting the first temperature control portion and each first temperature-controlled portion in parallel, and a second piping system connecting the second temperature control portion and each second temperature-controlled portion in parallel.
US08787412B2	Method for calibrating a tunable laser Method for calibrating and tuning a part wise monotonically, continuously tunable semiconductor laser having a phase section and a first Bragg reflector section, through which sections a phase current and a first reflector current, respectively, are applied, which laser is not actively cooled, includes a) a calibration step, including obtaining at least two tuning lines along which tuning lines all combinations of phase and Bragg currents are stable operating points, identifying at least one reference stable operating point along a first one of the identified tuning lines at which operating point the laser emits light at a certain reference frequency, and storing at least one reference stable operating point; and b) a subsequent tuning step, during which the output frequency of the laser in relation to the reference frequency is controlled to a desired output frequency by translating the operating point of the laser along the first tuning line.
US08787411B2	Mode-locked fiber laser based on narrowband optical spectral filtering and amplifier similaritons Implementations and examples of mode-locked fiber lasers based on fiber laser cavity designs that produce self-similar pulses (“similaritons”) with parabolic pulse profiles with respect to time at the output of the fiber gain media to effectuate the desired mode locking operation. An intra-cavity narrowband optical spectral filter is included in such fiber lasers to ensure the proper similariton conditions.
US08787405B1	Device and method for adapting transmission parameters based on successful transmission of a frame A network device including a medium access control device and an adaptation module. The medium access control device is configured to transmit a first frame based on a first parameter. The first parameter identifies one of a first guard interval, a first group of one or more antennas, a first preamble type, or a first bandwidth. The adaptation module is configured to (i) determine whether transmission of the first frame is successful, and (ii) if the transmission of the first frame is unsuccessful, select a second parameter. The second parameter identifies one of a second guard interval, a second group of one or more antennas, a second preamble type, or a second bandwidth. The medium access control device is configured to, in response to unsuccessful transmission of the first frame, transmit the first frame based on the second parameter.
US08787404B2	Event-based keep alive times in communication networks A method of communicating in a network having a plurality of nodes including a base node (BN), and a plurality of service nodes (SNs) having at least one switch node (SW) and at least one terminal node (TN). The method includes at least one of a) a first SN from the plurality of SNs receiving (i) a data/ALV_B/ACK frame from the BN or (ii) a beacon from the BN or SW, and restarting a first KA timer at the first SN upon (i) or (ii), and b) restarting an ALV_S timer at the BN for the first SN upon receiving a data/ALV_S/ACK frame from the first SN.
US08787400B1	Weighted equal-cost multipath Routers balance network traffic among multiple paths through a network according to an amount of bandwidth that can be sent on an outgoing interface computed for each of the paths. For example, a router receives a link bandwidth for network links that are positioned between the first router and a second router of the network, and selects a plurality of forwarding paths from the first router to the second router. Upon determining that one of the network links is shared by multiple of the plurality of forwarding paths, the router computes a path bandwidth for each of the plurality of outgoing interfaces so as to account for splitting of link bandwidth of the shared network link across the multiple forwarding paths that share the network link. The router assigns packet flows to the forwarding paths based at least on the computed amount of bandwidth for each of the outgoing interfaces.
US08787398B2	Linear route protection A system for controlling packet forwarding through a point-to-point (p2p) connection between first and second end nodes of a packet network domain having a mesh topology. The system comprises a sub-ring network instantiated in the network domain, the sub-ring network comprising a pair of topologically diverse ring spans extending between the first and second end nodes. Each of the end nodes is controlled to forward packets of the p2p connection through the sub-ring network in accordance with a ring network routing scheme, and an intermediate node traversed by one of the ring spans is controlled to forward packets of the p2p connection through the ring span in accordance with a linear path routing scheme.
US08787397B2	High speed ring/bus A data communication bus and method of operation thereof, including a plurality of nodes connected to a respective plurality of media segments. A typical node includes an output port coupled to a media segment that it exclusively controls. And an input port coupled to a media segment that is exclusively controlled by another node of the bus. Each media segment typically includes a plurality of high speed data channels such as electrical transmission lines.
US08787394B2	Separate ethernet forwarding and control plane systems and methods with interior gateway route reflector for a link state routing system The present disclosure provides a separate Ethernet forwarding and control plane system, method, network, and architecture with a Link State Interior Gateway route reflector for the control plan system and a layer two network architecture for the forwarding system. The present invention optionally utilizes a cloud implementation for the Designated Router (DR) or designated peering node reducing peering requirements and distributing the functionality. Through the architecture of the present invention, the Provider router is obviated by the application of layer two switches and servers. Such an architecture provides improved scaling, performance, and cost reduction.
US08787393B2	Preventing duplicate sources from clients served by a network address port translator Preventing duplicate sources on a protocol connection that uses network addresses, protocols and port numbers to identify connections that include port number translation. In response to an inbound IPsec packet from a remote source client, a determination is made as to whether or not a port number is available within a range of port numbers that comply with a security association governing the connection. If so, an available port number is assigned to the connection, thereby avoiding a possibility of a duplicate source. If a port number is not available, the packet is rejected.
US08787385B2	Method and apparatus for determining channel bandwidth In a method implemented in a first communication device, a control frame having a bandwidth is generated. The control frame is transmitted via a first composite communication channel, wherein the first composite communication channel comprises a plurality of communication channels. A bandwidth of a response frame, received from a second communication device in response to transmitting the control frame, is determined. A second composite communication channel based on the bandwidth of the response frame is determined, wherein the second composite communication channel comprises at least one communication channel from the plurality of communication channels. One or more data frames are transmitted to the second communication device via the second composite communication channel.
US08787378B2	Systems and methods to improve performance of TCP over large bandwidth-delay-product networks The apparatus, systems, and methods described herein may operate to receive at least one data packet from a transmitter connected to a first network. A packet forwarding time may be scheduled for the at least one data packet. The at least one data packet may be forwarded to a receiver connected to a second network based on the packet forwarding time such that transmission of the at least one data packet prevents a buffer overflow at the receiver.
US08787377B2	Usage of masked BMAC addresses in a provider backbone bridged (PBB) network Techniques disclosed herein include features and methods that extend functionality of provider networks including Provider Backbone Bridges (PBB) networks. Techniques include using a portion of information within Ethernet address encapsulation headers for purposes other than identifying source and destination device addresses. The system limits a number of bits in an address header that should be considered by a provider network node when doing an address lookup in forwarding tables of a provider network node, such as by masking the portion of bits or otherwise disregarding that portion of bits during address lookup. The remaining bits in the address field(s) become free bits that can be used for a variety of application purposes, such as flow path selection. By using information fields that already exist in the Mac-In-Mac (MIM) encapsulation header, such Techniques provide additional information without increasing packet size or requiring new protocols.
US08787373B2	Multicast miss notification for a distributed network switch Techniques are provided for multicast miss notification for a distributed network switch. In one embodiment, a bridge element in the distributed network switch receives a frame destined for a multicast group on a network. If a local multicast forwarding table of the bridge element does not include any forwarding entry for the multicast group, a forwarding entry is selected from the local multicast forwarding table as a candidate for being replaced. An indication of the candidate is sent to a management controller in the distributed network switch.
US08787370B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting packet switch domain service data The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting packet switch domain service data. The method comprises: establishing a correlation between multiple services and a predetermined transmission channel, wherein the predetermined transmission channel comprises multiple links and multiple channels between a Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) client and a PPP server; and according to the correlation, transmitting the service data of the multiple services between a service application side and a protocol side via the predetermined transmission channel. The present invention achieves PDP multi-link and can process the transmission of PS domain data in parallel.
US08787369B2	Apparatus for transmitting MAC PDU with a fragmentation and packing extended header and method thereof A method of transmitting data in a transmitting stage is disclosed. The present invention includes configuring a MAC PDU (medium access control protocol data unit) including fragmented data and a fragmentation extended header (FEH) and a packing extended header (PEH) for transmitting the fragmented data and transmitting the configured MAC PDU to a receiving stage. Preferably, the FEH or the PEH includes an extended header type field indicating a type of an extended header and a fragmentation control field including information on the fragmented data.
US08787366B2	Community driven program access system and method A method to create community channels is provided. The method includes defining a subset of channels from a broadcast network, associating one or more tags with the channels, and employing the tags to enable a community network from the broadcast network.
US08787364B2	Serial memory and IO access architecture and system for switched telecommunication and computing platforms A computing and communication architecture utilizes a serial protocol based switched fabric among circuit cards housed in packaging arrangement. In one embodiment, each circuit card connected to the serial protocol based switched fabric in the packaging arrangement is provided with a protocol processor that enables all of the circuit cards to efficiently provide packet-based serial self-clocked communications at line speed. As a result, it is not necessary to arrange the circuit cards in a hierarchical manner in order to address the problems of switch blocking and related traffic congestion issues that would otherwise limit the implementation of the serial protocol based backplane arrangement for housing circuit cards.
US08787361B2	System and method for call routing and paging across different types of networks A network architecture uses an Application Server Autonomous Access (ASAA) server which allows paging and call routing across different types of wireless and wireline access networks. The ASAA server provides connectivity between an external voice or data network and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The external voice or data network may be a public switched telephone network (PSTN) or a public data network (PDN), so that the connectivity between the external network and the WTRU is provided through the access networks using data from the ASAA server.
US08787359B2	Enhanced wide area network support via a broadband access gateway A wireless broadband access gateway having a wireless interface compatible with any of a number of commercial wireless wide area network standards provides enhanced wire area network coverage via a broadband network. The gateway may function as a wireless wide area network base station having a small coverage area, and may be communicatively coupled via a broadband access provider to a broadband wireless controller that cooperatively coordinates call management for access devices comprising cellular or mobile multimedia handsets. The broadband network may comprise cable, digital subscriber line, satellite, T1, or T3 type networks, and may carry traffic unrelated to the signaling, control, voice, and multimedia information of associated with wide area network calls. The wireless broadband access gateway may comprise a set-to-box, and may operate to convert from air interface protocols used to communicate with mobile handsets of the wireless wide area network, to/from the packet-based protocols that may be used in the broadband network.
US08787358B2	System for ad-hoc communication sessions In one implementation, a guest device on an ad hoc network is permitted to initiate a communication session through a packet switched network depending on the destination endpoint of the communication session. A network device maintains a list of approved destination endpoints, which may be identified by telephone numbers, addresses, or uniform resource identifiers. The approved destination endpoints correspond to services that are offered to users of guest devices, such as voicemail, videoconferencing, or customer service. The network device receives a request for a communication session from a guest device, and the request includes data indicative of a destination endpoint. The network device compares the data indicative of the destination endpoint to the list of approved destination endpoints. If there is a match, the request is forwarded to a next hop router. If there is no match the request is dropped or returned to the guest device.
US08787330B2	Dense mesh network communications A frame groupcast system for a mesh node in a mesh network having a plurality of mesh nodes includes a transceiver that receives a groupcast frame and a groupcast determination module that determines whether to forward the received groupcast frame based on at least one measurement.
US08787325B2	Scheduling best effort traffic with guaranteed latency traffic in a communications system having a bluetooth-like packet communication protocol Time frames (TFs) are allocated for performance of transactions of a low latency data stream (LLDS) and a best effort data stream (BEDS) in Bluetooth®-like equipment, wherein payload carrying packets of the different data streams are equal in size, each occupying multiple TFs. An overrule mechanism enables uncompleted transactions of one data stream to continue as needed into TFs allocated to another data stream. Every TF within an allocation window (AW) is individually allocated to the LLDS or the BEDS, and plural TFs immediately following the AW form a guard space between adjacent AWs, the guard space being allocated to neither the LLDDS or the BEDS. Configuration of the AW and of the guard space guarantees the LLDS a first opportunity to transmit a payload carrying packet and continued opportunities to retransmit the packet until successful, after which the BEDS is given an opportunity for transmission and possible retransmissions.
US08787323B2	Wireless communication methods and apparatus supporting synchronization Peer to peer communication timing, e.g., for an ad hoc network, is referenced with respect to an external broadcast signal from a terrestrial or satellite based transmitter. Wireless terminals, seeking to communicate via peer to peer communications, receive the reference broadcast signal, and set their internal timing structure with respect to the reference signal. This facilitates peer to peer timing coordination. A wireless terminal transmits a signal, e.g., a user beacon signal identifying its presence, during a time interval during which another wireless terminal is expected to be monitoring. Reference signal based coordinated timing and use of user beacon signals allows the wireless terminals to maintain situational awareness and coordinate peer to peer communications, while keeping power consumption low, since wireless terminal modules can be powered down during predetermined intervals in the coordinated timing structure where the wireless terminal does not need to transmit and/or receive.
US08787316B2	Mechanism for 3rd generation partnership project multiple inter-network quality of service continuity A system to promote connectivity for inter-radio access technology (RAT) handover from a first radio access network (RAN) to a second radio access network (RAN) is provided. The system comprises a component configured such that for each access point name (APN) in communication with the first radio access network (RAN), the maximum bit rate (MBR) for each active non-guaranteed bit rate (non-GBR) bearer in the second radio access network (RAN) is determined based on each respective access point name's (APN's) used aggregate maximum bit rate (AMBR) and the number of active non-guaranteed bit rate(s) (non-GBR) bearers for the respective access point name (APN).
US08787315B2	Method and device for handing off between base stations The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for handoff between base stations. A target base station bears its PILOT_INC information into a handoff request acknowledge message to inform a source base station when sending a handoff request acknowledge message to the source base station after receiving a handoff request from the source base station, thus, even if a UE requesting handoff reports PILOT_PN_PHASE under the target BS in a residual set, the source BS can determine PILOT_PN corresponding to the PILOT_PN_PHASE through the PILOT_INC information of the target base station, thereby completing cell handoff between the base stations successfully. The present invention is a supplement to the existing handoff between the base stations with configurations of the PILOT_INC information being different, and augments the success rate of handoff between the base stations of the UE, thereby improving the traffic service quality of a CDMA system.
US08787313B2	Method, network system and destination network for transmitting QoS during a handover process between systems A method for transmitting quality of service (QoS) during a handover process between systems and a network system and a destination network thereof are provided, which enable the QoS to be transmitted to a second access network during a handover process of a user equipment (UE) between systems. The method comprises: a second network mobility management network element acquires QoS of a UE during a handover process of the UE from a first network to a second network; and the second network mobility management network element transmits the acquired QoS to the second network access network and/or a user plane network element.
US08787308B2	IMS femtocell for voice, data and video An Internet Protocol Multimedia System (IMS) femtocell serves as a base station and base station controller in a wireless/wireline service provider's macro network and a Wi-Fi access point to seamlessly support cellular and packet user devices and deliver both circuit switched and packet switched services inside a building.
US08787307B2	Mobile terminal and method of moving network thereof A mobile terminal and method of moving network thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a first communication module configured to set a link with a first network, to receive second network-associated information from the first network, and to output the received second network-associated information, a second communication module configured to set a receive-only mode with respect to the second network, to receive signal strength information of one or more neighbor cells belonging to the second network from the second network using the second network-associated information output from the first communication module, and to output the received signal strength information and a controller configured to control a signal input/output operation between the first and second communication modules and a signal transmission/reception operation between the first communication module and the first network, and the second communication module and the second network, respectively.
US08787304B2	Method for reference signal pattern allocation and related communication device A method for reference signal pattern allocation for a eNodeB in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises allocating a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) to at least one mobile device; and mapping a plurality of reference signal patterns to the PRBs according to a mapping rule.
US08787303B2	Methods and apparatus for data traffic offloading at a router This disclosure relates to a system and method for offloading selected data traffic in logical tunnels to the Internet. The offloading provides another data path for selected data traffic that can relieve the burden on a mobile operator's network, such as the backhaul and core networks. As the proliferation of data rich content and increasingly more capable mobile devices has continued, the amount of data communicated over mobile operator's networks has increased. Upgrading the existing network that was designed for voice calls is not desirable or practical for many mobile operators. This disclosure provides systems and methods for offloading data to the Internet at a router to relieve congestion on the mobile operator's network.
US08787296B2	Method for allowing a UICC to manage the PDP context parameters A method for allowing a Universal Integrated Circuit Card (UICC) to set up data bearer parameters for wireless communication between a User Equipment (UE) and a remote server in a telecommunication network, the UE including the UICC and a mobile equipment, the method including the UICC sending to the mobile equipment Packet Data Protocol (PDP) context parameters within a specific command defined for activating a PDP context, on reception of the specific command, the mobile equipment transmitting a PDP context activation request, including an access point name and the parameters received in the specific command, to the telecommunication network, on reception of the PDP context activation request, the telecommunication network transmitting to the mobile equipment a confirmation for a PDP context activation, and the mobile equipment, on receipt of the confirmation, sending a response message to the UICC for confirming a successful command performance.
US08787295B2	Channel quality signaling for persistent/semi-persistent radio resource allocations A persistent or a semi-persistent uplink resource allocation also comprises an indication for a user equipment UE to send channel quality reports. The format for the channel quality report is determined (based on a transmission mode for which the UE receives a downlink shared channel). In at least first transmissions of user data for instances of the persistently allocated uplink resource the UE sends user data and a channel quality report according to the determined format. For the case that a NACK is received in reply to one of those sent user data with channel quality reports, four options are detailed: re-send the NACK'd user data on a next instance of the persistently allocated UL resource with or without a channel quality report, and re-send the NACK'd user data on a dynamically allocated uplink resource with or without a channel quality report.
US08787292B2	Method and apparatus for multi-channel operation in wireless local area network system Disclosed are a method and apparatus for multi-channel operation, performed by an access point (AP), in a WLAN system, the method includes: transmitting channel assignment information to a plurality of stations (STAs), in which the channel assignment information is for assigning at least one of a first channel and a second channel to each of the plurality of STAs; transmitting channel activity information to the plurality of STAs, in which the channel activity information is for indicating an activity duration where the AP transmit or receive a frame through each of the first channel and the second channel; and transmitting or receiving a frame through the first channel or the second channel on the basis of the channel activity information.
US08787286B2	Method and apparatus for admitting a request for allocation of wireless connection resources in a communication system A method and apparatus for admitting requests for allocation of bandwidth in a communication system is provided herein. During operation, available bandwidth is logically divided for use among commercial users and public-safety users, where the commercial users utilize a predefined portion of the bandwidth and the public-safety users utilize a public-safety portion of the bandwidth. When a public-safety bearer request is made, and available bandwidth does not exist within the public safety portion of the bandwidth, some bandwidth unoccupied by commercial users from commercial portion can be used to admit the bearer request. When commercial bandwidth is occupied by commercial users, lower priority commercial users can be preempted so that commercial bandwidth can be used to handle the bearer request. In a similar manner, the public-safety portion of available bandwidth can temporarily be used by commercial users.
US08787285B2	Dual association local area network transceiver and methods for use therewith A radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes an RF section including an RF receiver operable to convert a received RF signal into inbound data and an RF transmitter to convert outbound data into a transmit signal in accordance with a local area network protocol. A processing module configures the RF section for communication with a first remote device via a first frequency channel of the local area network protocol and configures the RF section for communication with a second remote device via a second frequency channel of the local area network protocol to maintain simultaneous association with both the first remote device and the second remote device.
US08787284B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting frame in WLAN system A method of transmitting a frame in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system, and which includes receiving, by a first station, information about an association identifier (AID) from an access point, the AID identifying the first station in the WLAN system; transmitting, by the first station, a DLS request frame to a second station; receiving, by the first station, a DLS response frame from the second station; generating, by the first station, a PPDU including a VHT-SIG field and a PSDU; and transmitting, by the first station, the PPDU to the second station via the direct link. Further, the VHT-SIG field includes identity information indicating a partial AID that is formed from the AID of the second station and has a length shorter than the length of the AID of the second station.
US08787281B2	Base station apparatus and user terminal A base station apparatus having a control information generation section that generates, per fundamental frequency block, a downlink control information piece for demodulating a data channel that is transmitted for each of a plurality of fundamental frequency blocks assigned to a user terminal, a determining section that determines, per fundamental frequency block, a search space which is a candidate area where the downlink control information piece is arranged, and a transmission section that transmits a downlink control channel in which the search space containing the downlink control information piece is arranged is disclosed. The control information generation section arranges respective downlink control information pieces corresponding to the fundamental frequency blocks in a downlink control channel of a specific fundamental frequency block among the fundamental frequency blocks, and the determining section distributes positions of search spaces such that the search spaces are separate between fundamental frequency blocks and between user terminals.
US08787273B2	Base station apparatus and communication control method To avoid a collision between transmission timing of a data signal by SPS and transmission timing of an uplink control signal or a sounding reference signal, the base station apparatus has a DRX On-duration setting processing section configured to set reception duration of DRX control so as to minimize the total resource usage amount in the reception duration of DRX, and a control signal resource allocation section that allocates radio resources for a first signal in uplink for user equipment to transmit during On-duration of discontinuous reception to within predetermined time duration from the beginning of the ON-duration of discontinuous reception. The control signal resource allocation section allocates radio resources for an uplink control signal of CQI, scheduling request, etc. or sounding reference signal to the time duration (4 ms) between PDCCH for SPS and SPS PUSCH from the beginning of the reception duration of DRX control.
US08787271B2	Method and device for communication between devices with different transmission coverage Provided is a large range management device (LRMD) of managing a communication between a plurality of small range devices (SRDs) and a plurality of large range devices (LRDs), the SRDs and the LRDs being located in a single cell and having different transmission coverage, the LRMD including an access slot allocation unit to allocate an SRD access slot to a radio resource for a downlink, to enable a first SRD to request an association from a network, a selection unit to select a communication relay device for relaying relay data of the first SRD, a relay slot allocation unit to allocate at least one SRD relay slot to a radio resource for an uplink, to enable the communication relay device to relay the relay data to a second SRD or another LRD, and a receiving unit to receive the relay data based on the at least one SRD relay slot.
US08787269B2	Method for communicating with relay station A method for communicating with a relay station is disclosed. The method for communicating with a relay station comprises transmitting resource allocation information of downlink traffic and uplink traffic from a base station to the relay; and transmitting the downlink traffic to the relay by encapsulating the downlink traffic in accordance with the resource allocation information and receiving encapsulated uplink traffic from the relay in accordance with the resource allocation information. It is possible to enable efficient communication through a relay using a minimum interface without deterioration of throughput even in the case that a base station does not know detailed attributes of a relay existing in a system. Also, it is possible to coordinate collision through a master relay in case of a system supporting multi-hop relays.
US08787263B2	Apparatus and method for estimating channel based on weather data In a satellite communication system, a central station receives a message including channel measurement information that is provided from a terminal and calculates a channel estimating value based on the received channel measurement information and weather data of a region corresponding to a location of the terminal. The central station determines encoding and modulation methods of data to transmit based on the calculated channel estimating value.
US08787262B2	Receiving cell broadcast (CB) messages A method for receiving cell broadcast messages is described. The method includes communicating with a first cell. The method also includes switching to communicating with a second cell. A cell broadcast channel is read after switching cells. The method further includes switching from a dedicated mode to a packet idle mode. The cell broadcast channel is reread once after switching from a dedicated mode to a packet idle mode. Other aspects, embodiments and features are also claimed and described.
US08787261B2	Base station apparatus, mobile station apparatus and transmission power control method To suppress deterioration of throughput characteristics in the entire system even when a plurality of transmission antennas is placed in an indoor environment, a base station apparatus (eNode B) is provided with a power control matrix generating section (508b) that generates a power control matrix (Sx) reflecting average reception power of each of transmission signals from a plurality of transmission antennas (TX#1 to TX#NTX), a codebook update section (508c) that updates a codebook which beforehand defines a plurality of precoding weights corresponding to the power control matrix (Sx), a precoding weight selecting section (508d) that selects precoding weights that maximize throughput or reception SINR obtained after combining the transmission signals from the updated codebook, and a precoding multiplying section (transmission power control section) (507) that controls transmission power of each of the transmission signals corresponding to the selected precoding weights.
US08787251B2	Method and apparatus for provisioning of information in a cellular communication network A network management system for managing communications in a cellular communication network comprising an access point operably coupled to an access controller. The network management system comprises an access controller configuration logic module arranged to configure the access controller with configuration information. The network management system further comprises an access point configuration logic module arranged to configure the access point with configuration information comprising, at least in part, configuration information intended for the access controller.
US08787248B2	Method in a wireless repeater employing an antenna array including vertical and horizontal feeds for interference reduction An echo cancellation wireless repeater with first and second antenna arrays having vertical and horizontal feed antenna elements selects a combination of antenna elements for reception and transmission to reduce interference and improve the quality of signal reception. In one embodiment, the antenna elements are switchably connected to transceiver circuits and a combination of antenna elements is selected based on the best desired performance result. In another embodiment, the antenna elements are each connected to its own transceiver circuit and the echo cancellation repeater performs beamforming in baseband to select a combination of antenna elements.
US08787246B2	Systems and methods for facilitating wireless network communication, satellite-based wireless network systems, and aircraft-based wireless network systems, and related methods A wireless network system may include a source node having a first source wireless interface and a second source wireless interface, wherein the source node initiates a data transmission via the first source wireless interface. The wireless network system may also include a repeater node having a first and second repeater wireless interfaces, wherein the repeater node is configured to receive the data transmission on the first or second repeater wireless interface and to repeat the data transmission on the other of the first or second repeater wireless interface. The wireless network system also includes a destination node having first and second destination wireless interfaces, wherein the destination node is configured to receive the data transmission on the first or second destination wireless interface. A wireless network system may also include a satellite-based, wireless network system, including an earth station server, a satellite client, and a terrestrial client.
US08787235B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting data in a wireless communication system A data transmission method and apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The data transmission method include dividing a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) zone including a plurality of cells into at least one sub-zone including at least one cell, enabling a plurality of cells belonging to the MBSFN zone to transmit first multicast broadcast service (MBS) data, and enabling the cell belonging to the at least one sub-zone to transmit sub-zone data superposed with the first MBS data, wherein the sub-zone data is second MBS data.
US08787232B2	Method and apparatus for updating extended access barring information A method and apparatus for extended access barring (EAB) in a wireless communication system. In detail, the present description proposes a DRX cycle threshold, which is used to determine specific mechanism of EAB information update and acquisition. In detail, the present description proposes a method in which a first EAB information update/acquisition scheme is applied when a DRX cycle for a certain UE is greater (i.e., longer) than the DRX cycle threshold and a second EAB information update/acquisition scheme is applied when the DRX cycle is not greater than the DRX cycle threshold.
US08787230B2	Voice activity detection in communication devices for power saving A mechanism can be implemented in a communication unit of a network device to utilize periods of silence encountered in voice communication to conserve power at the network device. In some embodiments, it can be determined that one or more packets of a received RF signal comprise audio data. The communication unit of the network device can determine whether the audio data associated with the one or more packets comprises voice information. The network device can switch to a power save mode based, at least in part, on determining that the audio data associated with the one or more packets does not comprise voice information.
US08787229B2	Mobile terminal and mobile terminal data relay method A mobile terminal includes: a first manner of wireless communicator for conducting wireless communication with a client terminal; a second communicator for conducting wireless communication with a network (NW1); storage for storing data; and communication control for causing data to be transmitted between communicators. The communication control causing data received via the second communicator to be stored when a client terminal is in a state in which the client terminal does not receive data, and causes the stored data to be transmitted by the first communicator when the client terminal is in a state in which the client terminal receives data. Further, the communication control causes the data received via the first communicator to be stored when wireless communication with the network is not possible, and causes the stored data to be transmitted by the second communicator when wireless communication with the network is possible.
US08787227B2	Discontinuous reception with user equipment based mobility A new RRC Connected (mobility) state in which a UE utilizes a temporary identifier to monitor a downlink control channel in accordance with a discontinuous reception cycle; and maintains the new connected state, the discontinuous reception cycle and the temporary identifier while the UE re-selects to a second/serving access node which lies within a same designated reselection area as a first/source access node. The DRX cycle is maintained but re-aligned with a system frame number of the second access node; the temporary identifier is a CRNTI and the designated re-selection area is defined by all contiguous cells in which respective access nodes broadcast the CRNTI in system information; the UE re-selects to the second access node; and the UE enters the new connected mobility state automatically upon expiry of a time alignment timer or upon explicit network signaling while in a different connected state.
US08787223B2	Coaxial cable distribution of CATV and wireless signals A system and method for distributing signals from a first communications network and a second communications network to a location, including a base transceiver station configured to receive a signal from the first communications network and convert the signal into an RF signal for transmission to a mobile terminal, the RF signal having an RF frequency above a threshold frequency, and a coupling module configured to: receive the RF signal from the base transceiver station and receive a data signal from the second communications network, the data signal having an RF frequency below the threshold frequency; combine the RF signal and the data signal into a combined signal with the RF signal and data signal each retaining their respective frequencies; and provide the combined signal over a coaxial cable link to the location.
US08787221B2	Method of transmitting, receiving, recording, playing and displaying weather radio A receiver may receive alerts from a radio-broadcast following a tone or other indication preceding each alert, for example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) broadcasted weather alerts. Received alerts may be recorded and stored for future playback to an end user, and the receiver may indicate to the user that an alert has been stored, varying the type of indication according to the type of alert stored. The receiver may record alerts specific to one or more zip codes, geographic regions, Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates, Federal Information Processes Standards (FIPS) codes, Specific Area Messaging Encoding (SAME) profiles, or other user location data. The user may then select locations and type of alerts to be replayed. Additionally, the receiver may be used in conjunction with other co-located devices to provide information to an end user through a variety of methods and devices.
US08787215B1	Combined switch and receive tuner for enhanced LTE-TDD system An antenna tuner unit (ATU) that includes a T/R switch integrated with a receive only tuner circuit that is made up of a relatively tiny tuner circuitry is provided. The integration of the T/R switch with the receive only tuner circuit uses a microelectronics fabrication technology like silicon-on-insulator (SOI) with minimum cascading stages. As a result, the ATU of the present invention avoids a relatively complicated and expensive technology like Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). The ATU of the present disclosure is applicable to fourth generation (4G) standards like long term evolution time division duplex (LTE-TDD) or for a receiver diversity system such as a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) system. The control of the receive only tuner circuit is accomplished via a relatively simple one-wire general input output (GPIO) thus allowing interface with most existing or future 4G transceiver products.
US08787213B2	Correlating calls after a referral In one embodiment, a network device attaches a header including an identifier for an original call to an outgoing refer message and may also modify a table entry for a consultative call to include the identifier. The network device then monitors incoming invite messages for a header containing the identifier and observes that an incoming invite message containing the header correlates to the original call. When a header is not included, the network device extracts information from the incoming invite messages and compares the extracted information to the modified table entry to correlate one of the incoming invite messages to the original call.
US08787211B2	Methods and arrangements for configuring the L2GPs in a first STP domain connected towards a second STP domain Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and arrangements for configuring the L2GPs in a first STP domain connected towards a second STP domain such that L2GPs in the first STP domain are assigned with the same Pseudo Root identity. Thus the Pseudo Root identity does not have to be changed if one of the L2GPs goes down, which implies that count-to-infinity loops may be avoided. It should be noted that only one L2GP is allowed to be open towards the second STP domain. The root path costs are assigned to the L2GPs towards the pseudo root and the value of the root path cost controls which of the L2GPs that should be open. The most preferred L2GP will be given a root path cost=0, the second best L2GP will have a path cost which is high enough so the two ports never will be open at the same time if there is connectivity between the Ethernet switches having the L2GPs.
US08787205B2	System and method for multicast transmission A system and method for multicast transmission are disclosed. In one embodiment, a virtual exchange network including interconnected nodes is embedded within a network. A sender is disposed in communication with a root node and receivers are disposed in communication with a set of edge nodes. The sender publishes a packetized data stream to which the receivers subscribe. The packetized data stream is promulgated by implicit signaling through optimum virtual exchange network connections from the sender through the virtual exchange network to the receivers. The interconnected nodes, responsive to receiving the published packetized data stream, are adapted to multicast N instances of the published packetized data stream to N recipients selected from the group consisting of receivers and other of the interconnected nodes.
US08787201B2	System and methods for designing network surveillance systems Systems and methods for efficiently configuring network surveillance systems are disclosed. A network surveillance system is designed by selecting a first component for the network surveillance system. The surveillance performance index for the first component is determined. A second component for the network surveillance system is then selected based on the surveillance performance index of the first component.
US08787192B2	Method and apparatus for processing data between different layers of mobile station in a wireless communication system A method and user equipment (UE) for communicating data between a serving layer and a served layer are provided. In one design, a serving layer adjusts the value for the served layer before it forwards the value to the served layer. In another design, The serving layer forwards the value to the served layer without adjusting but the served layer adjusts the received value. A predefined mapping rule can be further applied when adjusting the value between two layers.
US08787189B2	Feedback method and system of channel quality indicatior A method of CQI feedback comprises: in a CoMP system, a terminal feeding back a CQI corresponding to a comprehensive channel formed between the terminal and all transmission nodes in a CATS or each CQI corresponding to each channel between the terminal and each transmission node. A system of CQI feedback; in the system is also disclosed, a feedback unit at the terminal side is used in the CoMP system to calculate and feed back the CQI corresponding to the comprehensive channel formed between the terminal and all the transmission nodes in the CATS or each CQI corresponding to each channel between the terminal and each transmission node. With the method and system of the present invention, not only the CQI feedback in the CoMP system can be realized, but also the difference between the CQI feedback in the control channel and that in the traffic channel can be avoided.
US08787180B2	System and method for rate assignment A method and apparatus for determining the data rate of a reverse link communication. An embodiment includes transmitting at a null rate on the communication channel only when the station is not transmitting voice, signaling, or data. An embodiment includes determining a maximum requested rate based on the normalized average pilot transmit power and the pilot reference value, and determining the timing of the rate request. An embodiment involves determining a maximum transmission rate. An embodiment involves determining sufficient power and a power-control set point.
US08787173B2	Base station, mobile station, communication system, and reordering method thereof A communication system wherein a base station sends packets having sequence numbers attached, to a mobile station, the mobile station rearranges the packets by sequence number, and hard handover is performed. A handover source base station having a controller decides whether the handover source base station forwards packets which were not sent to the mobile station, out of packets received from a host station, to a handover target base station, controls forwarding of the packets to the handover target base station and sends forwarding execution information from the handover source base station to the mobile station to notify whether the forwarding of the packets has been executed, the mobile station including a receiver that receives the forwarding execution information from the handover source base station; and a controller that executes reordering of the received packets based on the forwarding execution information at the handover.
US08787167B2	System and method for balancing uplink bandwidth utilization in a relay assisted cellular network A system and method for balancing uplink (UL) bandwidth utilization in a relay assisted cellular network are disclosed. In one embodiment, scheduler context data associated with one or more mobile users/devices connected to the relay assisted cellular network is obtained. Further, static and dynamic load values of data packets coming from the one or more mobile users or devices are computed using the obtained scheduler context data. Furthermore, UL bandwidth utilization between the one or more mobile users or devices and a base station in the relay assisted cellular network is balanced using the computed static and dynamic load values.
US08787166B2	Communication network control system, radio communication apparatus, and communication network control method The present invention can provide a radio communication apparatus comprising an antenna which receives a restriction signal from a radio base station, a reception circuit which decodes the restriction signal received by said antenna, and a control circuit which controls the radio communication apparatus, in which the control circuit can be adapted to select appropriately a speech outgoing/incoming scheme for performing communication with the radio base station on the basis of the restriction signal from the radio base station. As the speech outgoing/incoming scheme, a domain scheme or a speech communication scheme is used. In addition, the present invention further provides a communication network control system using the radio communication apparatus, and a communication network control method.
US08787164B2	Media delivery system and method for transporting media to desired target devices A media delivery system and technique are described to enable a media stream to be received at one end on a user's computer, and then re-streamed to a target device in a form that is suitable for that target. As an example of an implementation of such an embodiment, a streaming video and/or audio feed may be received on a user's media center, then re-streamed to a user's designated target device. The target device may correspond to, for example, another computer, a cell phone, or some other media output device.
US08787152B2	Virtual switch interconnect for hybrid enterprise servers Virtual switch interconnect for hybrid enterprise servers including a system for network configuration. The system includes a first processor coupled to a second processor via a network. The network includes a plurality of switches and links between the switches to offload processing from the first processor to the second processor. The switches include at least one virtual switch. The first processor is configured to perform a method that includes receiving network configuration data and switch state information for the network. It is detected that a first link and a second link provide two different paths between two of the switches. The first link is selected, at the computer, as a primary link based on contents of the network configuration data. The second link is deactivated in response to the selecting.
US08787151B2	N+N protection switching A communication system comprises a plurality of DSL links comprising a first group and second group of DSL links, each group comprising more than one DSL link. The communication system also comprises a first node and a second node each having at least one application port and a plurality of DSL ports. Each DSL port is coupled to a respective one of the DSL links such that the first and second nodes are communicatively coupled via the DSL links. Each of the first and second nodes is configured to interleave a first copy of data received over the respective application port across the first group and to interleave a second copy of the data across the second group. When a failure is detected on a DSL link in the first group, each of the first and second nodes is configured to switch from the first group to the second group.
US08787149B1	MAC address synchronization for multi-homing with multichassis link aggregation In general, techniques are described for using a light-weight protocol to synchronize layer two (L2) addresses that identify routable traffic to multiple L3 devices, such as PE routers, that cooperatively employ an active-active redundancy configuration using a multi-chassis LAG to provide an L2 network with redundant connectivity. In one example, a network device establishes a multi-chassis LAG with a peer network device to provide redundant connectivity to a layer three (L3) network. A synchronization module of the network device receives a synchronization message that specifies an L2 address of the peer network device. When the network device receives an L2 packet data unit (PDU) from the L2 network, a routing instance of the network device routes an L3 packet encapsulated therein when the PDU has an L2 destination address that matches the L2 address of the peer network device.
US08787148B2	Methods and systems to communicate media data across different networks Example methods and apparatus to communicate media across different networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves determining, with a processor, whether a second network device in a second network has a capability associated with a first descriptor in a first data packet from a first network device in a first network, communicating, with the processor, a second descriptor indicative of whether the second network device has the capability to the first network device via a second data packet, and when the second network device has the capability, receiving, via the second network device, data from a communication source that bypasses the first network device and communicates the data to the second network device.
US08787147B2	Ten gigabit Ethernet port protection systems and methods The present disclosure provides protection systems and methods for Ethernet ports. In particular, the present invention may provide a form of facility protection for any two facilities, located on any two cards. The facilities are provisioned as a protected pair and using automatic ITU-T Y.1731 control frames for control. In an exemplary embodiment, provisioning includes creation of an L2 protection service and associating it to a pair of facilities. One facility is identified as a working facility and the other as a protection facility. Under normal conditions (i.e., no facility fault), the working facility is in an active state and not conditioning while the protection facility is in a standby state and transmitting conditioning to subtending equipment. If a facility fault is detected at the working facility, then the working facility transmits condition Remote Fault (RF) and the protection facility removes it's transmit conditioning and becomes the active facility.
US08787144B2	Interleaved signaling Signal interleaving of multiple signals, such as those associated with transmissions within a high-speed data network from subscribers to the Internet or other locations, is contemplated. The transmitted signals may be interleaved by adding signals from one subscriber with those transmitted from another subscriber. The transmitted signals may include spectral holes such that when one or more spectral holes of the signal sent from one subscriber add together with signals from another subscriber, or other simultaneously transmitting device, it fills spectral holes in a manner that maximizes transmission capabilities.
US08787141B2	Frame and data pattern structure for multi-carrier systems A transmitting apparatus for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, each frame including at least one signalling pattern and one or more data patterns, said transmitting apparatus including frame forming means for arranging first signalling data in the at least one signalling pattern in a frame, and adapted to arrange data in the one or more data patterns in a frame, whereby the data of the one or more data patterns are arranged in data frames, each data frame comprising second signalling data and content data, transforming means for transforming the at least one signalling pattern and the one or more data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain in order to generate a time domain transmission signal, and transmitting means for transmitting the time domain transmission signal.
US08787138B2	Information storage medium, reproducing method, and recording method A machine readable information storage medium, a reproducing method and apparatus which reproduces data from the storage medium, and a recording method and apparatus for recording data on the storage medium. The information storage medium includes a control area which stores within a data structure information usable by the recording or reproducing apparatus to record or reproduce the data on or from the storage medium. The information stored within the data structure includes a version corresponding to a specification, a revision number of recording speed, and an extended part version field.
US08787134B2	Thermally assisted magnetic recording head inspection method and apparatus In a method and an apparatus for inspecting a thermally assisted magnetic recording head element, a specimen is mounted on a table movable in a plane of a scanning probe microscope device, evanescent light is generated from a portion of light emission of evanescent light of the specimen, scattered light of the evanescent light is detected by moving the table in the plane while a cantilever of the scanning probe microscope having a probe is vertically vibrated in the vicinity of a surface of the specimen, and an intensity distribution of the evanescent light emitted from the portion of light emission of evanescent light or a surface profile of the portion of light emission of evanescent light of the specimen is inspected using position information of generation of the evanescent light based on the detected scattered light.
US08787126B2	Waveguide with blocking layer An apparatus includes a write pole, a waveguide adjacent to the write pole, the waveguide having a truncated end, and a blocking layer positioned adjacent the truncated end and extending from one side of the waveguide across a portion of an aperture at the truncated end. The waveguide can be a solid immersion mirror or a channel waveguide.
US08787125B1	Disk drive calibrating fly height actuator to enable laser biasing during non-write mode A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head comprising a laser operable to heat the disk while writing data to the disk, and a fly height actuator (FHA) operable to actuate the head vertically over the disk. A setting is applied to the FHA to maintain a fly height of the head. An approximately zero bias laser power is applied to the laser during a non-write mode, and a first write laser power is calibrated during a write mode. A non-zero bias laser power is applied to the laser during the non-write mode, and a second write laser power is calibrated during the write mode. When the second write laser power is different than the first write laser power, the setting of the FHA is adjusted to adjust the fly height of the head.
US08787122B2	Time reporting through vibration A tool for reporting a particular time using vibration is disclosed. The tool assigns a distinct vibration to separate hour regions and minute regions. The tool uses a short series of vibration pulses, one of which is the distinct vibration assigned to the hour region associated with the hour of the particular time, to indicate the hour. The tool produces the distinct vibration assigned to the minute region associated with the minute of the particular time, to indicate the minute to the nearest quarter hour. The total sequence of pulses consists of no more than five separate vibrations.
US08787119B2	Watch assembly with a spare battery for readily powering an external mobile electronic device A watch assembly is provided with a watch housing, a watch movement, a watch display, as well as a special compartment holding a spare battery assembly and a standardized charging plug which enables the watch assembly to be connected to an auxiliary mobile device, such as a telephone, to be temporarily charged via the spare battery. Thus, a telephone can be a mobile device, such as a telephone, can be tethered to the watch assembly and utilize the mobile device while holding it in the palm of his or her hand.
US08787115B1	Acoustics for power and communication in small devices The invention provides devices and methods for using acoustics to communicate between a macro-scale transceiver and a micro-device or between multiple micro-devices. The micro-devices may passively scatter sound from a transceiver or actively generate sound. Acoustic waves can also provide power to a micro-device.
US08787104B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a temperature sensor configured to generate a low-temperature signal which is enabled at below first set temperature and a high-temperature signal which is enabled at above second set temperature; a start signal generator configured to receive a refresh command and generate a start signal according to the low-temperature signal; and an address counter configured to count refresh addresses in response to the start signal.
US08787096B1	N-well switching circuit A dual-mode PMOS transistor is disclosed that has a first mode of operation in which a switched n-well for the dual-mode PMOS transistor is biased to a high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a second mode of operation in which the switched n-well is biased to a low voltage that is lower than the high voltage. The dual-mode PMOS transistor has a size and gate-oxide thickness each having a magnitude that cannot accommodate a permanent tie to the high voltage. An n-well voltage switching circuit biases the switched n-well to prevent voltage damage to the dual-mode PMOS transistor despite its relatively small size and thin gate-oxide thickness.
US08787089B2	Semiconductor device and method of controlling the same An embodiment of the invention provides a semiconductor device that includes: a memory cell array that includes non-volatile memory cells; a first selecting circuit that connects or disconnects a source and a drain of a transistor that forms one of the memory cells, to or from a data line DATAB connected to a first power supply; and a second selecting circuit that connects or disconnects the source and drain to or from a ground line ARVSS connected to a second power supply. In this semiconductor device, the first selecting circuit and the second selecting circuit are arranged on the opposite sides of the memory cell array. One embodiment of the invention also provides a method of controlling the semiconductor device.
US08787088B2	Optimized erase operation for non-volatile memory with partially programmed block In connection with an erase operation of a block of non-volatile storage elements, a determination is made as to whether the block is partially but not fully programmed. A degree of partial programming can be determined by a pre-erase read operation which determines a highest programmed word line, or which determines whether there is a programmed storage element in a subset of word lines above a small subset of source side word lines. Since a partially programmed block will pass an erase-verify test more easily than a fully programmed block, a measure is taken to ensure that the block is sufficiently deeply erased. In one approach, an erase-verify test is made stricter by adjusting a sensing parameter when the block is partially programmed. In another approach, the block can be programmed before being erased. Or, an extra erase pulse which is not followed by an erase-verify test can be applied.
US08787084B2	Semiconductor device and driving method thereof The storage device includes a volatile first memory circuit and a nonvolatile second memory circuit which includes a transistor whose channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer. In the case of high-frequency driving, during a period when source voltage is applied, a data signal is input to and output from the first memory circuit, and during a part of a period when source voltage is supplied, which is before the supply of the source voltage is stopped, a data signal is input to the second memory circuit. In the case of low-frequency driving, during a period when source voltage is applied, a data signal is input to the second memory circuit, the data signal input to the second memory circuit is input to the first memory circuit, and the data signal input to the first memory circuit is output.
US08787081B2	Data path for multi-level cell memory, methods for storing and methods for utilizing a memory array Memories, data paths, methods for storing, and methods for utilizing are disclosed, including a data path for a memory using multi-level memory cells to provide storage of multiple bits per memory cell. One such data path includes a bit mapping circuit and a data converter circuit. Such a bit mapping circuit can be configured to map bits of the original data to an intermediate arrangement of bits and such a data converter circuit can be configured to receive the intermediate arrangement of bits and convert the intermediate arrangement of bits into intermediate data corresponding to a memory state to be stored by memory cells of a memory cell array.
US08787076B2	Magnetic memory and method of manufacturing the same A magnetic memory according to the present invention has: a first underlayer; a second underlayer so formed on the first underlayer as to be in contact with the first underlayer; and a data storage layer so formed on the second underlayer as to be in contact with the second underlayer. The data storage layer is made of a ferromagnetic material having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. A magnetization state of the data storage layer is changed by current driven domain wall motion.
US08787073B2	Signal processing circuit and method for driving the same An object is to provide a signal processing circuit which can be manufactured without a complex manufacturing process and suppress power consumption. A storage element includes two logic elements (referred to as a first phase-inversion element and a second phase-inversion element) which invert a phase of an input signal and output the signal, a first selection transistor, and a second selection transistor. In the storage element, two pairs each having a transistor in which a channel is formed in an oxide semiconductor layer and a capacitor (a pair of a first transistor and a first capacitor, and a pair of a second transistor and a second capacitor) are provided. The storage element is used in a storage device such as a register or a cache memory included in a signal processing circuit.
US08787060B2	Method and apparatus for optimizing driver load in a memory package An apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of array dies and at least two die interconnects. The first die interconnect is in electrical communication with a data port of a first array die and a data port of a second array die and not in electrical communication with data ports of a third array die. The second die interconnect is in electrical communication with a data port of the third array die and not in electrical communication with data ports of the first array die and the second array die. The apparatus includes a control die that includes a first data conduit configured to transmit a data signal to the first die interconnect and not to the second die interconnect, and at least a second data conduit configured to transmit the data signal to the second die interconnect and not to the first die interconnect.
US08787057B2	Fast analog memory cell readout using modified bit-line charging configurations A method for data storage includes providing at least first and second readout schemes for reading storage values from a group of analog memory cells that are connected to respective bit lines. The first readout scheme reads the storage values using a first bit line charging configuration having a first sense time, and the second readout scheme reads the storage values using a second bit line charging configuration having a second sense time, shorter than the first sense time. A condition is evaluated with respect to a read operation that is to be performed over a group of the memory cells. One of the first and second readout schemes is selected responsively to the evaluated condition. The storage values are read from the group of the memory cells using the selected readout scheme.
US08787053B2	Close control of electric power converters A close control of electric power converters includes a diode D1 in parallel with a switch I1; a diode D2 in parallel with a switch I2; a transformer (T1). The switches (I1, I2) are controlled, cyclically repeating the following stages: at a time T0 the switch I1 is switched on; at a time T1 the switch I1 is switched off; the switch I2 is switched on before the current passing through the diode D2 reaches zero; at a time T3 the switch I2 is switched off; and at a time T4, when the diode D1 becomes conductive, the first stage is returned to. In particular, the close control of electric power converters relates to electrically isolated electric power supplies working at high frequency with high efficiency and a high level of integration.
US08787046B2	Switch mode power supply device A power supply device including a rectifying unit, a supplying unit, a controlling unit, a conversion unit and a detection unit is disclosed. The rectifying unit processes an alternating current (AC) voltage to generate a direct current (DC) voltage. The supplying unit generates an operation voltage according to an input voltage. The controlling unit receives the operation voltage and generating an enabling signal. The conversion unit transforms the DC voltage to generate an auxiliary voltage according to the enabling signal. The auxiliary voltage is not equal to the operation voltage. The detection unit detects the auxiliary voltage. When the auxiliary voltage is generated, the detection unit de-activates the supplying unit to stop generating the operation voltage.
US08787035B2	Electrical interconnect device An electrical interconnect device includes a frame having frame walls that define a socket that extends along a socket axis between an open top and an open bottom of the frame. The socket is configured to receive an electronic package through the open top. The electrical interconnect device also includes a contact assembly having an insulative carrier that holds an array of conductive elastomeric columns with each of the elastomeric columns having opposite first and second ends. The elastomeric columns are internally conductive between the first and second ends. The elastomeric columns are configured to electrically interconnect the electronic package to a second electronic component. The insulative carrier is configured to float within the frame in a direction generally parallel to the socket axis.
US08787034B2	Co-support system and microelectronic assembly A system includes a microelectronic assembly having terminals and a microelectronic element, and a component for connection with the microelectronic assembly. The component includes a support structure bearing conductors configured to carry command and address information, and contacts coupled to the conductors and connected with the terminals of the microelectronic assembly. The contacts have address and command information assignments arranged in a first predetermined arrangement for connection with a first type of microelectronic assembly in which the microelectronic element is configured to sample command and address information coupled thereto through the contacts at a first sampling rate, and in a second predetermined arrangement for connection with a second type of microelectronic assembly in which the microelectronic element is configured to sample the command and address information coupled thereto through a subset of the contacts at a second sampling rate greater than the first sampling rate.
US08787032B2	Enhanced stacked microelectronic assemblies with central contacts A microelectronic assembly includes a dielectric element having first and second surfaces, first and second apertures extending between the first and second surfaces and defining a central region of the first surface between the first and second apertures, first and second microelectronic elements, and leads extending from contacts exposed at respective front surfaces of the first and second microelectronic elements to central terminals exposed at the central region. The front surface of the first microelectronic element can face the second surface of the dielectric element. The front surface of the second microelectronic element can face a rear surface of the first microelectronic element. The contacts of the second microelectronic element can project beyond an edge of the first microelectronic element. At least first and second ones of the leads can electrically interconnect a first central terminal of the central terminals with each of the first and second microelectronic elements.
US08787031B2	Casing comprising a re-recordable computer medium to be fixed in a service cabinet The invention relates to a case 1 intended to be fixed in an electrical cabinet, said case comprising a frontal opening which can be closed by a means of closing 3, and further comprising means of fastening 5 making it possible to fix said case 1 in said electrical cabinet, in particular on a metal rail, and said case 1 further comprising (a) at least one anti-magnetic and/or anti-static protective means 4, (b) a re-writeable medium 2, 21 for storing computer data, which is protected by said anti-magnetic and/or anti-static protective means 4.
US08787023B2	Rail mounting clamp for electronic equipment enclosure An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure having side cross members between front and rear frames, a vertical mounting rail and a clamping bracket attached to the vertical mounting rail. At least one of the side cross members defines an interior-facing channel that extends at least substantially along the length thereof. Upon insertion into the channel, the clamping bracket is rotatable within the channel to tighten, and thereby fasten, the vertical mounting rail to the frame structure.
US08787022B2	Semiconductor storage device and method of manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, coupling capacitance in a state in which a first heat radiation member is arranged between parallel flat plates of a first capacitor formed by a surface of a housing opposed to one surface of a printed circuit board and the printed circuit board is smaller than coupling capacitance in a state in which an integrally formed object having a relative dielectric constant of 5.8 is arranged between the first capacitor to cover a first radiating region containing the controller and the first nonvolatile semiconductor memories.
US08787021B2	Memory cooler A cooler for a memory module includes heat plates on the sides of the memory module and heat fins extending from the top of the heat plates. The heat fins are optimized according to simulated or actual airflow about the memory module inside an enclosure. The heat fins may curve diagonally outward from the memory module and their free ends may be arranged substantially parallel to the airflow so air flows over their larger lateral surfaces down to the memory module.
US08787015B2	Liquid cooling system for stackable modules in energy-efficient computing systems A processing module is provided that comprises a set of processing module sides, each comprising a circuit board, a plurality of connectors coupled to the circuit board, and a plurality of processing nodes coupled to the circuit board. Each processing module side couples to another processing module side to form a modular processing module. The modular processing module comprises an exterior connection to a power source and a communication system and a plurality of cold plates coupled to the plurality of processing nodes. Liquid coolant is circulated through the plurality of cold plates via a closed loop by at least one pump through a plurality of tubes and through at least one heat exchanger. The at least one heat exchanger is coupled to an exterior portion of the processing module. The at least one heat exchanger cools the liquid coolant using air surrounding the processing module.
US08787011B2	Mounting apparatus for expansion card A mounting apparatus includes a chassis and a mounting piece. The chassis includes a rear plate. An expansion slot is defined in the rear plate, and a clipping portion extends from an edge of the expansion slot. The mounting piece includes a main body, an engaging piece extending from a first end of the main body, and an inserting portion extending from a second opposite end of the main body. The engaging piece defines a clipping slot, and two blocking portions are located on the opposite side of entrance of the clipping slot. The clipping portion is engaged in the clipping slot, and the two blocking portions prevent the clipping portion from being disengaged from the clipping slot.
US08787010B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus is disclosed which can be enhanced in degree of freedom in design. A hinge mechanism is provided which includes a first shaft structure provided in an exposed state on a second face of a main body section, a second shaft structure provided on a display section, and a shaft connection section which connects the first and second shaft structures to each other. The hinge mechanism pivotably connects the display section to the main body section between a first position at which a screen of the display section is opposed to a first face of the main body section and a second position at which the screen is inclined with respect to the first face of the main body section such that the center of the pivotal motion of the display section varies during the pivotal motion.
US08787003B2	Low inductance capacitor module and power system with low inductance capacitor module According to one embodiment of a capacitor module, the capacitor module includes a substrate having a metallization on a first side of the substrate, a plurality of connectors electrically coupled to the metallization and a plurality of capacitors disposed on the metallization. The plurality of capacitors includes a first set of capacitors electrically connected in parallel between a first set of the connectors and a second set of the connectors. The capacitor module further includes a housing enclosing the plurality of capacitors within the capacitor module.
US08786999B2	Component module for a reduced pressure treatment system A reduced pressure treatment system includes a control unit having a control system and a reduced pressure source. The reduced pressure treatment system further includes a manifold unit in fluid communication with the reduced pressure source and a component module to augment treatment. The component module is configured to communicate with the control system of the control unit, and the component module includes a first mounting region configured to be coupled to a complimentary mounting region of the control unit. The component module further includes a second mounting region identical to the complimentary mounting region of the control unit to allow a second component module to be coupled to the first component module.
US08786989B2	Electronic device comprising a buffer and means for protecting against electrostatic discharges The electronic device comprises a first terminal and a second terminal, a buffer connected between the first terminal and the second terminal and comprising a signal input, and means for protecting against electrostatic discharges likely to occur across at least a pair of nodes of the buffer. The device comprises at least one integrated structure connected between the two nodes and said signal input, containing at least one MOS transistor and forming both said protection means and at least a part of said buffer.
US08786985B1	System, method and apparatus for storage architecture for bit patterned media using both erase band and shingled magnetic recording Storage architecture for bit patterned media uses both erase band and shingled magnetic recording. A hard disk drive may comprise a disk having bit patterned media with a plurality of data tracks arrayed in architecture pages having at least one of erase band mode (EBM), shingled mode (SM) and unallocated space. An actuator has a head for writing data to the data tracks of the bit patterned media. A control system monitors, reallocates and reconfigures the architecture pages from EBM, SM or unallocated space to a different one of EBM, SM or unallocated space to enhance performance of the hard disk drive.
US08786970B2	Determining inter-track coherence using output signals from first and second tracks An assembly and method to determine adjacent track coherence is disclosed. The assembly includes coherence circuitry configured to receive phase and frequency offsets from timing recovery circuitry and determine an inter-track phase and frequency coherence between the encoded data on a first track and the encoded data on a second track adjacent to the first track utilizing the frequency and phase offsets from the timing recovery circuitry for the output signals corresponding to the first and second tracks.
US08786960B2	Projection apparatus The present invention provides a projection apparatus including an image generation device and a projection lens. The image generation device has a light valve, and generates a light. The projection lens includes a first lens group having an optical axis and a second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the light valve. The light generated from the light valve penetrates through the second lens group and forms an intermediate image between the first lens group and the second lens group. The intermediate image penetrates through the first lens group to form a projection image. A center of the projected image and a center of the light valve are disposed at a first side of the optical axis, and a center of the intermediate image is disposed at a second side of the optical axis different from the first side.
US08786959B2	Auto-focusing camera module and auto-focusing method using same An auto-focus camera module includes an lens module, an image sensor, a color separation unit, a main processor unit and an image processing unit. The lens module captures an image of object. The image sensor receives the image captured by the lens module. The color separation unit separates the image into red, green and blue colors. The main processor unit calculates MTF values of the sensed image and determines a shooting mode of the AF camera. The image processing unit processes the image according to the MTF values to compensate for any blurring of the image caused by being out of focus. The driving unit drives the lens module to the point of optimal focus on the object according to MTF values.
US08786958B2	Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having negative optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the third lens unit moves along an optical axis in focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition, and the conditions: 0.5<\|f3/fW\|<2.0 and 0.005
US08786951B2	Composite optical film A composite optical film is provided. The composite optical film sequentially includes a substrate, a light diffusion layer, and a light-gathering layer. The light diffusion layer includes a binder and plural micro beads dispersed therein. The thickness of the light diffusion layer is 2-6 times of the average diameter of the micro beads, and the distance between adjacent micro beads is smaller than the average diameter of the micro beads. The light-gathering layer has plural light-gathering micro structures.
US08786950B1	Method and system for managing light at an optical interface An interface between two different optical materials can comprise a stack of thin film layers that manage light incident on that interface. One of the optical materials can have a first composition and a first refractive index, while the other optical material can have a second composition and a second refractive index. The stack can comprise thin film layers of the first optical material interleaved between thin film layers of the second optical material. The layers of the stack can be configured to provide the stack with an aggregate composition of at least one of the optical materials that progressively varies from one end of the stack to the other end. To provide the progressive variation in composition, the layers of one of the optical materials can have a progressively increased thickness across the stack, or can progressively increase in number, for example.
US08786949B2	Method for polarizing terahertz electromagnetic wave using polarizer, and polarizer A method for polarizing an electromagnetic wave having a frequency of not less than 0.1 THz and not more than 0.8 THz using a polarizer includes steps (a) and (b). The step (a) includes preparing the polarizer. The polarizer includes: a sapphire single crystalline layer; and a CaxCoO2 crystalline layer. The CaxCoO2 crystalline layer is stacked on the sapphire single crystalline layer, a surface of the CaxCoO2 crystalline layer has a (100) plane orientation and the CaxCoO2 crystalline layer has a thickness of not less than 2 micrometers and not more than 20 micrometers. The step (b) includes irradiating the polarizer with the electromagnetic wave having a frequency of not less than 0.1 THz and not more than 0.8 THz to output an output wave having only a component parallel to a c-axis direction of the sapphire single crystalline layer.
US08786947B2	Far-optical device A far-optical device comprising a reversal system and an adjustable optical magnification means with more than fourfold magnification, wherein the far-optical device has an optical beam deflection means which at all magnifications ensures a subjective field of view of the far-optical device of at least 22° at least for light of a wavelength of about 550 nm.
US08786932B2	Advanced electrode structures and electrochromic devices The present invention provides for a display device and a method to manufacture the display device. The display device includes: a transparent layer; a coloring electrode; a separator; a second electrode; an electrolyte permeating throughout the display device; and a back layer positioned on the back side of the display. The transparent layer, which has a top surface and a bottom surface, is positioned at the viewer side of the display. The coloring electrode is positioned on the transparent layer bottom surface and includes: a connected conductor system formed from one or more heterogeneous conductive layers and a coloring layer, with the proviso that the heterogeneous conductive layers are not positioned between the transparent layer bottom surface and the coloring layer. The conductor heterogeneity includes variations in one or more of: conductor material composition; conductor layer dimension; conductor layer pattern; conductor layer grid design, and combinations thereof. The separator layer is positioned between the coloring electrode and the second electrode.
US08786926B2	Driver for optical deflector using two asyncronous saw-tooth drive voltages and method for setting the same An optical deflector includes a mirror, a movable frame for supporting the mirror, a support body surrounding the movable frame, and a first group of piezoelectric actuators and a second group of piezoelectric actuators alternating with the first group of piezoelectric actuators. A driver applies a first drive voltage having first saw-tooth waves to the first group of piezoelectric actuators, and applies a second drive voltage having second saw-tooth waves opposite in phase with the first saw-tooth waves to the second group of piezoelectric actuators. A difference in phase between the first and second saw-tooth waves is a predetermined value to suppress resonation of harmonic frequency components of the first and second drive voltages with a natural frequency of a mechanically-vibrating system of the mirror with respect to the axis thereof depending upon the piezoelectric actuators.
US08786925B2	System and method for color motion holography A method for producing and replaying a color holographic image. The method includes multiple hologram films, each film containing content replayed at a viewing angle or range of viewing angle in primarily one or more replay color(s), replay being caused by reference beam(s) of substantially the film's replay color(s) incident upon the film at reference angle(s) outside the viewing angle(s). The method also includes angularly-dependent color filters between the hologram films. Each filter substantially transmits the replay color(s) of preceding hologram film(s) within the viewing angles, blocks the replay color(s) of succeeding hologram film(s) within the viewing angles, transmits the replay color(s) of succeeding hologram film(s) at angle(s) close to the replay angle(s) of succeeding hologram film(s), and blocks the replay color(s) of the immediately preceding hologram film at angle(s) close to the replay angle(s) of the immediately preceding hologram film.
US08786913B2	Image reading apparatus and image forming apparatus An image reading apparatus configured to read an image of an original, including: a light source configured to irradiate the original with light; an optical system configured to condense and image a light beam from the light source reflected from the original; a substrate member having a photoelectric conversion unit; a fixing member fixed to the substrate member; a support member configured to support the optical system; and an adhesive bonding the fixing member and the support member together, wherein one of the support member and the fixing member has a protruding portion which protrudes toward the other of the support member and the fixing member, the other has a recessed portion opposed to the protruding portion, the protruding portion protrudes in the recessed portion in a non-contact state to maintain a gap between the protruding portion and the recessed portion, and the adhesive is applied to the gap.
US08786899B2	Conversion arrays for print image data transformation Systems and methods for using conversion arrays to transform image in print jobs to different color depths. In one embodiment, the system stores a plurality of conversion arrays for converting images of print jobs encoded according to a page description language. The system receives a print job encoded according to the page description language, locates an image in the encoded print job, and identifies an existing color depth of the image, a pel color range, and a desired output color depth for the image. The system further selects a conversion array from the memory based on at least one of the existing color depth of the image, the pel color range, and the desired output color depth, and converts the image from the existing color depth of the image to the desired output color depth using the conversion array. The system further transmits the converted image for printing.
US08786893B2	Printing apparatus, method and system for previewing printing A printing apparatus, a method, and a system for previewing printing are provided. The provided method includes receiving a printing job; determining whether the printing job includes a preview printing command; storing a printing data when the printing job includes the preview printing command; printing the printing data; when the printing job is determined to include the preview printing command, determining whether to continue executing the printing job; and when it is determined to continue executing the printing job, continuing to print the printing data. Thus, after the printing data is printed, a user can directly review the printing quality when he or she is beside the printing apparatus, and the user can continue to execute the printing job.
US08786892B2	Control apparatus, storage medium in which control program is stored, and printer to execute a plurality of processing in parallel A control apparatus, which is configured to communicate with an external apparatus, to control a display section and a printing section, and to execute a plurality of processing in parallel, includes: a storage section which is configured to store image data to be supplied to the display section and first data transmitted from the external apparatus, a first processing executing section which is configured to execute a first processing in which the image data is supplied to the display section; a second processing executing section which is configured to execute a second processing, which is to be executed in parallel with the first processing, and in which a predetermined image processing is applied to the first data to generate second data to be stored in the storage section; and an identifying section which is configured to identify the number of the second data stored in the storage section.
US08786889B2	Method for computing scale for tag insertion Computing a scale factor to insert a first set of shapes into a second set of shapes to form a combined image includes receiving the two sets of shapes, using a processor to convert the first set of shapes into a set of rectangles and the second set of shapes into a set of intervals and computing the scale factor for either the set of intervals or the set of rectangles to generate the combined image by iteratively inserting the set of rectangles into the set of intervals and updating the scale factor in response to a residual area or an overflow area until all the rectangles in the set of rectangles have been inserted into the set of intervals and the residual area in the set of intervals is below a threshold, and storing the combined image in memory.
US08786884B2	Printing system, printing system control method, and storage medium When a user sets a paper attribute to a sheet holding unit, the user can recognize the existence of another sheet holding unit to which the same paper attribute as the paper attribute to be set has been set.
US08786880B2	Device agent for distributed processing and printing Systems and algorithmic processes directed to first and second image processing devices connected to a network for distributed processing/printing. The first device receives a print job from a user device, and divides the print job into a plurality of portions of the print job which require image processing prior to printing. These portions are then transmitted to a number of the second devices which are compatible with distributed processing/printing and which are in an idle status mode. The second devices process the portions by, for example, rasterizing the portions, and then transmit the rasterized portions back to the first device. The first device assembles the rasterized portions into an assembled print job which is ready for printing. The first device prints the assembled print job or transmits the assembled print job to another networked device for printing, facsimile transmission, email transmission or storage.
US08786872B2	Image forming apparatus controlling power supply state to processing members Provided is an image forming apparatus including: a print unit; an instruction unit for giving an instruction to start a printing operation; and a print control unit for controlling the printing operation according to the instruction to start the printing operation from the instruction unit, in which, when there is no instruction to start a subsequent printing operation after the executing of the printing operation to the recording medium according to the instruction to start the printing operation from the instruction unit, the print control unit executes a first post-processing operation for completing the printing operation, and the print control unit determines an operation to be performed after the executing of the first post-processing operation based on whether or not the instruction to start the subsequent printing operation is received during the executing of the first post-processing operation.
US08786871B2	Printer with selectable capabilities A system comprising a processor and a memory comprising firmware is provided. The firmware is executable by the processor to cause the processor to operate a print mechanism in accordance with a first state associated with a capability of the print mechanism, change the first state associated with the capability to a second state in response to receiving first information from an external interface, and operate the print mechanism in accordance with the second state associated with the capability.
US08786867B2	Inspection device and inspection method for boiler furnace water wall tubes An inspection device and an inspection method for boiler furnace water wall tubes. The inspection device includes a scanner including columns placed upright and fixed by magnets onto the surfaces of multiple water wall tubes extending in the up-down direction on the inner wall surfaces of the boiler furnace, a support frame fixed to the columns to support a displacement sensor producing laser light to be irradiated onto the surface of a water wall tube, and a moving mechanism for moving the displacement sensor in the axial direction of the water wall tube relative to the support frame. A signal processing unit calculates the amount of reduced wall thickness of the water wall tube from a difference between the cross-sectional surface shape of the water wall tube based on a signal from the displacement sensor and a reference shape without reduction in wall thickness.
US08786856B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring combustion properties in an interior of a boiler A method of monitoring combustion properties in an interior of a boiler of the type having walls comprising a plurality of parallel steam tubes separated by a metal membrane. First and second penetrations are provided in the metal membrane between adjacent tubes on opposite sides of the boiler. A beam of light is projected through a pitch optic comprising a pitch collimating lens and a pitch relay lens, both residing outside the boiler interior. The pitch relay lens projects the beam through a penetration into the boiler interior. The beam of light is received with a catch optic substantially identical to the pitch optic residing outside the boiler interior. The strength of the collimated received beam of light is determined. At least one of the pitch collimating lens and the catch collimating lens may then be aligned to maximize the strength of the collimated received beam.
US08786854B2	Spectroscopic detector A spectroscopic detector includes a spectroscopic element for dispersing light, a photodetector for detecting the light dispersed by the spectroscopic element and a condensing optical system for condensing the dispersed light to the photodetector and compensating for a deviation in a detected wavelength deriving from nonlinearity of the angle of emergence generated in the spectroscopic element through chromatic aberration of magnification.
US08786851B2	System for testing distortion of liquid crystal display device A system for testing a distortion of a liquid crystal display (LCD) device can test the LCD device within a chamber in a state of being assembled perpendicular to the ground, whereby whether any distortion occurs in an internal component can be fast detected even in severe conditions of high temperature and high humidity and under an actual installation environment of a user.
US08786849B2	Method for measuring an optical system First test beams (464a-d), after passing through an optical system on optical paths that differ in pairs, impinge on a first measurement region (461) at angles that differ in pairs with respect to the measurement plane. Second test beams (465a-d), after passing through the optical system on optical paths that differ in pairs, impinge on a second measurement region (462) at angles that differ in pairs, wherein the second region differs from the first. A value of a first measurement variable of the test beam at the first region is detected for each of the first test beams, and comparably for a second measurement variable at the second region for the second test beams. Impingement regions (467a-d) on reference surface(s) (466, 471) of the optical system are determined and a spatial diagnosis distribution of a property of the reference surface(s) for each test beam is calculated.
US08786843B2	Testing of passive optical components Methods and devices provide for transmitting a series of optical signals within a range of an O-band through a U-band into a device under test comprising one or more passive optical components; measuring powers of the optical signals that propagated through the device under test; calculating wavelength-dependent insertion loss values based on the measured power of the optical signals; measuring powers of reflected portions of the optical signals that propagated through the device under test; and calculating wavelength-dependent return loss values based on the measured powers of the reflected portion of the optical signal.
US08786839B2	Object authentication A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as banknotes moving along a document conveyer.
US08786835B1	System, apparatus and method for detecting presence and range of an object A multifunctional detector for emitting and receiving optical signals in order to determine the presence, location, and range movement of a player within a field of regard is disclosed. The detector generally includes a laser module operable for emitting an optical signal; an optional fiber optical delay line; a microcontroller/processor; a faceted scanning mirror pattern having multiple facets with each facet being tilted downward to allow for unique depressions for reflecting and scattering optical signals emitted by the laser module; a spinner/motor for driving and rotating the faceted mirror pattern; an optional combiner for separating emitted optical signals from the laser module or combining reflected optical signals from an reflective source; and a transceiver with an integrated APD receiver for receiving reflected optical signals combined from the combiner and transmitting reflected optical signal data to a central controller or other players. A method of using the detector is also disclosed.
US08786831B2	Positioning apparatus A positioning apparatus includes a moving member, an actuator, and a controller. The moving member can move in at least a first direction. The actuator is provided along the first direction. The controller controls a current applied to the actuator in order to support the weight of the moving member. The bending rigidity of the moving member in the first direction is greater than the bending rigidity of the moving member in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US08786826B1	Arrangement for actuating an element in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus The invention relates to arrangements for actuating an element in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus. In accordance with one aspect, an arrangement for actuating an element in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus comprises a first number (nR) of degrees of freedom, wherein an adjustable force can be transmitted to the optical element in each of the degrees of freedom, and a second number (nA) of actuators, which are coupled to the optical element in each case via a mechanical coupling for the purpose of transmitting force to the optical element, wherein the second number (nA) is greater than the first number (nR). In accordance with one aspect, at least one of the ac-tuators is arranged in a node of at least one natural vibration mode of the optical element.
US08786825B2	Apparatus and method of measuring a property of a substrate The present invention makes the use of measurement of a diffraction spectrum in or near an image plane in order to determine a property of an exposed substrate. In particular, the positive and negative first diffraction orders are separated or diverged, detected and their intensity measured to determine overlay (or other properties) of exposed layers on the substrate.
US08786816B2	Display panel and manufacturing method for the same A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a dam disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate along edges of the first and second substrates, the first substrate, second substrate, and dam having a same outermost incision surface, and a sealing member disposed between the first and second substrates, the sealing member being between an interior of the display panel and the dam.
US08786813B2	Liquid crystal display and pixel units thereof The present invention provides a liquid crystal display and pixel units thereof. The pixel unit has a plurality of subpixel units, and each of the subpixel units is a rectangular block, and the rectangular block is divided into a triangular bright-partition and a triangular dark-partition along an inclined line, and the bright-partition of each subpixel unit corresponds to the dark-partitions of adjacent subpixel units, so as to reduce jagged phenomenon of lines in screen images with the configuration of the pixel unit, and thereby enhance image quality of the liquid crystal display.
US08786810B2	Liquid crystal device and electronic apparatus A first peripheral electrode and a second peripheral electrode are provided at a peripheral region sandwiched between a pixel region and a seal material in a first substrate of a liquid crystal device, and strength of electric potentials which are applied to the first peripheral electrode, the second peripheral electrode, and a common electrode of an opposite substrate satisfies the condition of the second peripheral electrode
US08786807B2	Liquid crystal display module and liquid crystal display device The present invention provides a liquid crystal display module configured with a color filter substrate, a TFT substrate, a layer of liquid crystal, and a sealant. The TFT substrate and the color filter substrate are arranged opposite to each other and the sealant is used to confine the layer of liquid crystal within the space defined between the TFT substrate and the color filter substrate. The color filter substrate includes a first glass substrate, a transparent conductive layer, and a black matrix. Wherein the transparent conductive layer is laminated over the black matrix and defines a recess which is located on a surface facing the layer of liquid crystal of the first glass substrate. The recess is surrounded by the black matrix, and end of the sealant abuts against the recess, and a width of the sealant is smaller than the width of the recess. The present invention further provides a LCD device incorporated with a LCD module as described. The present invention can readily provide a recognizable benchmark for identifying and checking the border of the sealant. The area of the sealant applied can be readily inspected and checked, therefore ensure the quality of the final product.
US08786803B2	Backlight assembly and display apparatus having the same A display apparatus includes a light guide plate, a light source unit, a display panel, a receiving container, and a driving part. The light guide plate includes at least one chamfered corner and a light incident surface defined by the chamfered corner. The light source unit generates the light and is positioned adjacent to the light incident surface. The display panel receives the light to display an image and the receiving container includes a bottom and sidewalls extended from the bottom to receive the light guide plate and the light source unit. The driving part is electrically connected to the display panel to apply a driving signal to the display panel and is electrically connected to the light source unit to apply a power source voltage to the light source unit.
US08786802B2	Backlight assembly and display apparatus having the same A backlight assembly includes a light source generating light and a first optical member diffusing the light. The first optical member includes a first diffusion member provided on an exit surface of the first optical member, from which the light exits, to diffuse the light. The first diffusion member includes a plurality of edges each having a curved shape and extending between the exit surface and a vertex of the first diffusion member. Accordingly, the light exiting through the exit surface is effectively diffused by the edges of the first diffusion member.
US08786801B2	Liquid crystal module and liquid crystal display device including the same A liquid crystal module and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal module. The liquid crystal module comprises a liquid crystal panel, a backlight module and a back plate for assembling the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module together. The back plate includes a bottom wall and lateral walls extended upward from edges of the bottom wall, a cavity with a top opened end is formed and surrounded by the bottom wall and the lateral walls. The backlight module is accommodated inside the cavity. Further includes an elastic rubber frame for assembling the liquid crystal panel and the backlight module together. The rubber frame is installed on the lateral wall of the back plate and is disposed at the top opened end of the cavity. The liquid crystal panel is installed on the rubber frame and seal off the top opened end of the cavity.
US08786797B2	Backlight lamp cover, backlight backboard and liquid crystal display module The present disclosure provides a backlight lamp cover, a backlight backboard and a liquid crystal display module. According to the present disclosure, a lamp cover is improved by further providing a bending structure to support and limit a movement of a liquid crystal display panel as well as to support a bezel, in substitution of main functions of a mold frame in the related art. At the same time, the backboard structure is improved accordingly by adding a stepped structure so as to supplementally limit the liquid crystal display panel. Thus, the functions of a mold frame in the related art can be provided without a conventional mold frame in a liquid crystal display module. That is, one part is reduced.
US08786796B2	Display device In a structure for holding a display panel disposed within a cabinet, which includes a frame part positioned on one side of a display face of the display panel; a peripheral part positioned around the display panel; and a rear part covering the other face side of the display panel, from both sides by the frame part and a holding member supported by the peripheral part, a projecting portion projects on an inner face portion of the frame part in a position on an outer peripheral side of a rim portion of the display panel and the holding member so as to extend from the side of the display face of the display panel toward the opposite side of the display face, and a reinforcing portion for coupling the inner face portion of the projecting portion and the inner face portion of the frame part is provided.
US08786792B2	Mother substrate for liquid crystal display device and method of fabricating the same A mother substrate for a liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of unit array patterns on the substrate, each of the plurality of unit array patterns including a gate line, a data line crossing the gate line, a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line and a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a first electrostatic discharge pattern surrounding the plurality of unit array patterns; a second electrostatic discharge pattern connected to the gate line and crossing the first electrostatic discharge pattern; and a third electrostatic discharge pattern connected to the data line and crossing the first electrostatic discharge pattern, the third electrostatic discharge pattern contacting the second electrostatic discharge pattern.
US08786791B2	Display device and backlight module thereof A display device and a backlight module are provided in the present invention. The display device includes the backlight module and a liquid crystal display panel. The backlight module, which is used to provide a backlight source for the liquid crystal display panel, includes a luminant device and a micro-lens array. The luminant device is disposed under the liquid crystal display panel, and the luminant device has a plurality of first luminant regions and a plurality of second luminant regions. The micro-lens array is disposed between the luminant device and the liquid crystal display panel. The micro-lens array includes a plurality of micro-lenses, and each of the micro-lenses overlaps at least one first luminant region and at least one second luminant region in a direction perpendicular to the liquid crystal display panel.
US08786782B2	Multiple-input configuration and playback video enhancement A system and method for delaying a first version of a video feed from a video camera according to a first delay to generate a second version of the feed, supplying the first version to an insertion system, wherein the insertion system inserts an indicia into the first version to create an enhanced version with a second delay substantially matching the first delay and supplying the enhanced version and the second version to a production switcher, wherein the enhanced version and the second version supplied to the production switcher are synchronized with one another.
US08786781B2	Detection and enhancement of in-video text The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for detecting text information in a video signal that includes subtitles, captions, credits, or other text, and also for applying enhancements to the display of text areas in video. The sharpness and/or contrast ratio of subtitles of detected text areas may be improved. Text areas may be displayed in a magnified form in a separate window on a display, or on a secondary display. Further disclosed are methods and apparatus for extending the duration for which subtitles appear on the display, for organizing subtitles to be displayed in a scrolling format, for allowing the user to control when a subtitle advances to the next subtitle using a remote control, and for allowing a user to scroll back to a past subtitle in cases where the user has not finished reading a subtitle. Additionally, optical character recognition (OCR) technology may be applied to detected areas of a video signal that include text, and the text may then be displayed in a more readable font, displayed in a translated language, or rendered using voice synthesis technology.
US08786766B2	Illumination device with improved remote control The present invention relates to an illumination device comprising at least one light source and a reflector system forming a spotlight (1), one or several actuators (5) arranged to pivot the spotlight (1) relative in a mounting base (4) for varying an illumination angle, and a camera (13) attached to the spotlight (1) and aligned to acquire images of an illumination region (7) to which the spotlight (1) is directed. The spotlight (1) is designed to comprise a central region from which the illumination region (7) is visible and which does not reflect or emit light of the light source towards the illumination region (7), wherein the camera (13) is arranged in said central region on an optical axis (14) of the spotlight (1). With the proposed illumination device an exact aiming of the spotlight (1) can be achieved even in applications in which the illuminated region (7) is close to the spotlight (1) without causing undesired shadows in the illumination region (7).
US08786764B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and non-transitory storage medium which perform backlight correction An imaging apparatus for capturing a moving image performs backlight correction of an image and outputs a natural image. The imaging apparatus electronically captures an image of a subject. An optical system has a light amount adjustment function. An imaging unit reads an optical image of the subject that is formed by the optical system. An A/D converter subjects an output of the imaging unit to A/D conversion. A backlight correction unit converts the tones of an image read by the A/D converter using a conversion characteristic selected differently according to a spatial position and at least increases the luminance level of a dark region of the image. An instruction unit instructs to start backlight correction. A control unit operates the backlight correction unit based on an instruction signal output from the instruction unit, and decreases an exposure light amount of the optical system by a predetermined amount.
US08786758B2	Method and apparatus for imaging a surrounding area onto a detector device An image of a surrounding area is projected onto a detector of a detector device by way of an optical system that produces an imaging beam path. A screen is disposed in the imaging beam path and the screen shadows a subarea of the image of the surrounding area on the detector. In order to allow an object which is dazzling the detector device to be masked out and nevertheless to allow the surrounding area to be monitored, the screen is subdivided into a plurality of segments which can be operated individually, and segments which are associated with the subarea are selected and operated, and are in this way heated. The transmission of the selected segments is reduced by the heating throughout the frequency range in which the detector is sensitive, and the selected segments of the screen thus shadow the subarea of the image.
US08786757B2	Wideband ambient light rejection Optical apparatus includes an image sensor and objective optics, which are configured to collect and focus optical radiation over a range of wavelengths along a common optical axis toward a plane of the image sensor. A dispersive element is positioned to spread the optical radiation collected by the objective optics so that different wavelengths in the range are focused along different, respective optical axes toward the plane.
US08786754B2	Information processing apparatus, method, and computer-readable storage medium for controlling captured image display An information processing apparatus includes a captured image acquisition unit, a recommended composition acquisition unit, and a control unit. The captured image acquisition unit acquires captured image data, a subject recognition unit that recognizes a subject of a captured image based on the captured image data. The recommended composition acquisition unit acquires recommended composition data representing a recommended composition of the subject. The control unit allows a display unit to display a display screen including the captured image, a frame representing the subject, and information about the recommended composition, changes the display of the frame when the composition of the captured image is similar to the recommended composition, and fixes and displays the frame being changed in display.
US08786751B2	Display control system, display control apparatus and control method therefor A display control apparatus having a connecting portion communicably connected to an imaging apparatus obtains an inclination angle of the imaging apparatus, and displays a displayed item on a display unit based on the obtained inclination angle. At this time, the display control apparatus performs control for displaying the displayed item indicating an inclination angle whose positive and negative have been inverted relative to positive and negative of the obtained inclination angle.
US08786749B2	Digital photographing apparatus for displaying an icon corresponding to a subject feature and method of controlling the same A digital photographing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital photographing apparatus detects a feature of a subject from an input image, and displays an icon corresponding to the detected feature.
US08786733B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes an image recording section which records a plurality of image data items obtained on different dates and including image data items including a person, and a control section which displays one of the image data items selected from the image data items on a display section, retrieves another one of the image data items obtained on a date different from a date of the selected image data item and including the person, and displays the another one of the image data items on the display section.
US08786726B2	Imaging processing apparatus, camera system, image processing method, and program A camera system, image processing method and computer program stored on a computer readable medium for image processing. Long and short accumulation images with longer and shorter exposure times are respectively obtained from one field. First and second long accumulation evaluation values are computed from the long accumulation image. A short accumulation evaluation value is computed from the short accumulation image. A short accumulation target exposure time and short accumulation exposure control information are acquired from the short accumulation evaluation value and a first target level. A long accumulation evaluation value is acquired by synthesizing the first and second long accumulation evaluation values. Long accumulation exposure control information is acquired from the long accumulation evaluation value and a second target level. An image is generated from the long accumulation image and the short accumulation image.
US08786725B2	Camera A camera detects a face portion of a subject from a shot image to determine whether a shot image is a good shot candidate image from the features of the face portion and a face portion-related image portion. As examples, the features include, but not be limited to, (1) the shape and variation in contour ranging from the vicinity of the face portion, (2) the position of a hand or leg to be determined by similarity to the skin tone of the face portion, and (3) determination made from the detection result of the face portion as to whether the subject is a half-length or full-length figure.
US08786724B2	Image-capturing device for controlling a timing for generating of image-capture data and timing control circuit for controlling a timing for generating of image-capture An image-capturing device includes an image-capturing section, an image-data-generation section, a progress-information-acquiring section, and an image-capture control section. The image-capturing section captures an image of a subject and repeatedly generates image-capture data of frames which represent single video frames. The image-data-generation section carries out processing for generating image data indicating an image of the subject, on the basis of image-capture data of the image-capturing section. The progress-information-acquiring section acquires progress information indicating progress of processing for generating the image data. The image-capture control section controls, on the basis of the progress information, a timing for starting the generating of the image-capture data for the next frame in the image-capturing section.
US08786719B2	Image calibration method and operation method for sensor array module with wide angle A sensor array module with wide angle for creating a composite image includes a first image sensor, a second image sensor, a storage unit and a processor. The first image sensor is for capturing a first image. The second image sensor is for capturing a second image and has a relative spatial relationship with respective to the first image sensor. The storage unit stores at least one transformation matrix obtained according to the relative spatial relationship between the first and the second image sensors. The processor combines the first image and the second image by using the transformation matrix to create the composite image. The present invention also provides an image calibration method, an operation method and an application for a sensor array module with wide angle.
US08786718B2	Image processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image processing method and storage medium There is provided an image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire captured images captured by a plurality of image capturing units for capturing an object from different viewpoints; a specifying unit configured to specify a defective image from the plurality of captured images; a determination unit configured to determine a weight for each captured image based on a position of the image capturing unit that has captured the defective image specified by the specifying unit; and a synthesis unit configured to generate a synthesized image by weighting and synthesizing the plurality of captured images based on the weights determined by the determination unit.
US08786711B2	Image quality evaluation system, and apparatus, method and program used for the evaluation system Provided is an image quality evaluation system for evaluating quality of an image. The image quality evaluation system includes bit extraction means and image quality evaluation means. For predetermined data expressing an image frame of a first image, the bit extraction means extracts a predetermined number of bits which is smaller than the number of bits required for expressing one data piece. By using a value expressed by the bit string extracted by the bit extraction means and a value of data equivalent to the data to be extracted from the bit string in a second image, the image quality evaluation means estimates a difference between the first image and the second image and evaluates the image quality of the first to image or the second image.
US08786710B2	Test system and method for testing motherboard of camera A test system for a motherboard of a camera includes a storage device, a processor, and a terminal device. The storage device pre-stores image signals. The processor is electronically connected between the storage device and the motherboard, and the terminal device is electronically connected to the motherboard. The terminal device pre-stores a plurality of pictures corresponding to the image signals in the storage device. The processor converts the image signals into test signals. The motherboard restores the test signals into images and transmits the images to the terminal device. The terminal device compares the plurality of pictures with the images, and determines a performance of the motherboard according to the comparison.
US08786698B2	Blow tracking user interface system and method A blow tracking user interface method and apparatus may detect an orientation of blowing of a user's breath and a magnitude of blowing of the user's breath. A blow vector may be generated from the orientation and magnitude of the blowing of the user's breath. The blow vector may be used as a control input in a computer program.
US08786679B2	Imaging device, 3D modeling data creation method, and computer-readable recording medium storing programs A control part 210 sets up an exposure condition under which the bright part of the object is properly exposed and an exposure condition under which the dark part of the object is properly exposed. The control part 210 controls the first and second imaging part 110 and 120 to capture images with the set exposures, whereby a pair of images captured with different exposures is obtained. The control part 210 extracts corresponding points that are characteristic points corresponding between the image pairs. The control part 210 optimizes the extracted corresponding points based on the density of corresponding points between the images constituting an image pair captured with the same exposure and based on the pixel value of the corresponding points between the images captured with different exposures. The control part 210 creates 3D modeling data using the optimized corresponding points.
US08786677B2	Imaging device An imaging device is provided that comprises a movement detection component configured to detect movement of the imaging device based on a force imparted to the imaging device, an imaging component configured to produce image data by capturing a subject image, a movement vector detection component configured to detect a movement vector based on a plurality of sets of image data produced by the imaging component, and a three-dimensional NR component configured to reduce a noise included in first image data produced by the imaging component, based on second image data produced earlier than the first image data, wherein the three-dimensional NR component is configured to decide whether to correct the second image data in response to the detection result of the movement vector detection component, based on both the detection result of the movement detection component and the detection result of the movement vector detection component.
US08786673B2	Systems and methods for performing video conversion based on non-linear stretch information A method implemented in a computing system for converting two-dimensional (2D) video to three-dimensional (3D) format comprises sampling the 2D video, wherein the sampling is performed non-linearly in one or more directions. The method further comprises determining depth information of one or more objects within the 2D video based on sampling information and transforming the 2D video to a 3D-compatible format according to the sampling and the depth information.
US08786671B2	Driving recorder system and method thereof A driving recorder system and a coordinate positioning method thereof. The system comprises a curved image lens, an operation module, a processing module, a display module and a storage module. The curved image lens captures the curved image of the surrounding areas thereof. The operation module restores the curved image into a restored image. The processing module receives the restored image and adds time data to the restored image. The display module displays the restored image and the time data. The storage module stores the restored image and the time data.
US08786666B2	Providing separate video and presentation streams to a recording server A videoconference may be initiated between a plurality of endpoints. At least one of the endpoints may be coupled to a recording server, which may be configured to record the videoconference. A configuration may be selected (e.g., automatically or manually) for performing the recording. The endpoint (e.g., acting as an MCU) may transmit information to endpoints and may transmit recording information to the recording server. The recording information may be different from the videoconference information. For example, it may be in a “streaming friendly” format, at a different bit rate, encoded differently, have different inputs, etc. The manner in which the videoconference is stored and/or recorded may be based on the selected configuration. Clients may be configured to receive and display the videoconference from the recording server and may be configured to change the provided layout to different layouts, e.g., based on user input.
US08786657B2	Image forming apparatus with structure for suppressing position variation of exposure unit caused by vibrations generated therein An image forming apparatus, including: an image bearing member; a latent image forming unit configured to emit a light beam based on image data and to form an electrostatic latent image on the image bearing member by the light beam; a placement unit provided in a main body of the image forming apparatus, on which the latent image forming unit is placed; an elastic member disposed between the latent image forming unit and the placement unit; and a pressing unit provided in the main body of the image forming apparatus and configured to press the latent image forming unit toward the placement unit so that the elastic member is pressed by the latent image forming unit and the placement unit.
US08786652B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and system An information processing apparatus that generates positional information relating to an energy transmitting position includes a shape information obtaining unit that obtains shape information of a region, a circumscribed rectangle generating unit that generates a circumscribed rectangle of the region, a parallel line generating unit that generates parallel lines extending across the region at a predetermined interval, an intersection calculating unit that calculates a first intersection point between a parallel line of the parallel lines and a line segment of an outline defining the region that is generated based on the shape information, and a data generating unit that generates parallel line data by dividing the parallel line at the first intersection point and removing a divided line that overlaps with the circumscribed rectangle, or by shortening an edge point of the parallel line to the first intersection point.
US08786645B2	Subpixel arrangements of displays and method for rendering the same An apparatus including a display and control logic is provided. In one example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a plurality of zigzag subpixel groups. Each zigzag subpixel group includes at least three zigzag subpixel units arranged adjacently along a horizontal or vertical direction. Each zigzag subpixel unit includes a plurality of subpixels of the same color arranged in a zigzag pattern. In each zigzag subpixel unit, a first plurality of subpixels are arranged along one diagonal direction from a turning subpixel disposed at a turning corner of the zigzag pattern, and a second plurality of subpixels are arranged along another diagonal direction from the turning subpixel. In another example, the display includes an array of subpixels having a novel subpixel repeating group. The control logic is operatively coupled to the display and configured to receive display data and render the display data into control signals for driving the display.
US08786628B2	Rendering electronic chart objects Rendering electronic chart objects is provided. A set of chart elements having a common set of properties is identified. Formatting attributes of the chart elements and the data point locations for each chart element are also identified. Path information is generated for the chart elements that includes the formatting attributes and the data point locations. The path information is provided to a rendering engine that renders a chart element. Each chart element in the set is displayed on a display screen. Chart elements having a common set of properties are only rendered once. Alternatively, chart objects are rendered by generating and storing an image of chart objects having a common geometry and common properties and by copying the stored image to each data point location. Dynamic selection of rendering engines based on property and performance criteria may be utilized to enhance rendering performance.
US08786622B2	Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services Methods and apparatus to provide dynamic messaging services are disclosed. An example method includes determining, in a pre-boot environment, supported dimensions for display of information on the display screen; generating, in the pre-boot environment, restricted dimensions that are less than the supported dimensions; providing the restricted dimensions to an operating system of a virtual machine supported by a virtual machine manager, wherein the restricted dimensions define a boundary between a first screen portion and a second screen portion; displaying first information in the first screen portion and displaying second information in the second screen portion; and preventing, via the virtual machine manager, elimination of the first screen portion from the display screen.
US08786621B2	Display update for a wireless display device Embodiments of partial update for a wireless display device include providing an update information message identifying a location of the partial update and the changed image data. A display source identifies changes in image data stored in a frame buffer, generates an update information message to identify the location of the changed image data and to provide the changed image data. A display sink receives the update information message and merges the changed image data with image data stored in a local frame buffer.
US08786605B1	Systems and methods for distance and congestion-aware resource deployment Computer-implemented systems and methods are disclosed for distance and congestion-aware resource deployment. In some embodiments, a method is provided to estimate a vehicle deployment region. The method includes constructing a graph data structure using at least in part a single invocation of a form of Dijkstra's algorithm. The method additionally includes partitioning an angular space centered on a vehicle location into a plurality of angular space regions, the vehicle location corresponding to a current or potential location of the vehicle. The method also includes selecting, for at least three of the plurality of the partitioned angular space regions, a geographical location within the angular space region, wherein each selected geographical location in an angular space region is a geographical location furthest from the vehicle location, and wherein each selected geographical location was determined, using the graph data structure, to be reachable from the vehicle location within a specified maximum cost. The method further includes forming a polygon representing a vehicle deployment region from the selected geographical locations.
US08786602B2	System and method for hierarchically decomposing process model A system and associated method for hierarchically decomposing a workflow graph G into a process structure tree PST. The workflow graph G is a two-terminal graph parsed into a tree T having triconnected components. Boundary pairs of all triconnected components in T are computed and fragments are discovered with boundary pairs. T is restructured into PST pursuant to categories of triconnected components in T. PST is deterministic and modular. PST represents a block-based process model that has fine blocks of execution units. PST is computed in time linear to the number of edges in G.
US08786582B2	Display panel and display apparatus The present invention is to provide a display panel and a display apparatus which can reduce the picture-frame area while sufficiently preventing the delay of signals by allowing a required amount of current to flow. The display panel of the present invention is a display panel which includes a circuit substrate, and an opposed substrate facing the circuit substrate, and which is featured in that the circuit section is arranged in the picture-frame area of the display panel, in that the circuit section includes trunk wiring, and branch wiring connected to the gate electrode or the source electrode of a transistor in the circuit section, and in that all or a part of the trunk wiring is provided on the opposed substrate, and the branch wiring is provided on the circuit substrate so as to be electrically connected to the trunk wiring via a conductor.
US08786579B2	Handwriting pen A handwriting pen is disclosed. The handwriting pen comprises of a pen barrel 12 and a pen tip 11 which is arranged at one end of the pen barrel 12. A slit 121 is opened on the pen barrel 12. A rotatable rotation element 13 is mounted in the slit 121 through a rotation shaft 14. An enlarged head portion 131, with thickness larger than the width of the slit 121, is on one end of the rotation element 131. When using the handwriting pen, the user rotates the rotation element 13 to make the enlarged head portion 131 of the rotation element rotate 13 into the slit 121 on the pen barrel 12. Since the thickness of the head portion 131 is larger than the width of the slit 121, the slit 121 will be pried open by the head portion 131, and the diameter of the pen barrel 12 is thus increased. The user can hold the pen barrel 12 at the bulged place where the diameter is larger; therefore the handwriting pen can be held and handled more easily. Additionally, the rotation shaft 14 mounted on the pen barrel 12 at the other extremity to the pen tip 11. After the rotation element 13 is rotated, the longer end of the rotation element 13 will extend out a considerable distance from the slit 121 and lengthen the entire length of the handwriting pen. With the length of the handwriting pen is increased, handling and maneuvering of the handwriting pen is made easier.
US08786568B2	Disappearing button or slider An input device receives an input that is a deflection based capacitive sensing input. Deflection of a metal frame of the input device causes a change in capacitance that is used to control a function of an electrical device. The input appears invisible because it is made of the same material as the housing it is contained in. Invisible backlit holes may make the input selectively visible or invisible to the user.
US08786563B2	Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same A display method in a mobile terminal includes displaying a plurality of menu items on a display of the mobile terminal, such that each of the plurality of menu items corresponds to a different function that is executable at the mobile terminal. Further operations include selecting a first menu item and a second menu item from the plurality of menu items, the selecting occurs responsive to user input, and displaying a first screen on the display, the first screen relating to the function that corresponds to the selected first menu item. Additional features include displaying first data and second data in the first screen, the first data being data that is associated with the function that corresponds to the selected first menu item, and the second data being data that is associated with the function that corresponds to the selected second menu item.
US08786559B2	Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating tables using multi-contact gestures An electronic device having a display and a touch-sensitive surface, displays a table having a plurality of rows, a plurality of columns, and a plurality of cells. The device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface that includes movement of one or more of a first contact and a second contact. When the detected gesture is a pinch gesture at a location that corresponds to one or more respective columns in the table and has a component that is perpendicular to the one or more respective columns, the device decreases the width of the one or more respective columns. When the detected gesture is a de-pinch gesture at a location that corresponds to one or more respective columns in the table and has a component that is perpendicular to the one or more respective columns, the device increases the width of the one or more respective columns.
US08786552B2	Handheld electronic device and associated method enabling text input in a language employing non-roman characters A handheld device includes a plurality of input members, a first set of which each have a Roman character assigned thereto, a least some of which have a first non-Roman and a second non-Roman character assigned thereto. In response to an actuation of a first one of the input members, a first one of the non-Roman characters that is assigned to the first one of the input members is displayed. Based on one or more rules which govern permissible character sequences in the subject language, the display of a second one of the non-Roman characters in response to an actuation of a second one of the input members having the second one of the non-Roman characters assigned thereto immediately following the actuation of said first one of the input members is prevented.
US08786542B2	Display device including first and second scanning signal line groups A display device is disclosed which is capable of suppressing characteristic changes due to a long period of conduction, thereby achieving high-quality video display, and also to provide a drive method therefor. In at least one embodiment, while sequentially activating n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n), a predetermined voltage, which is the same as a voltage for turning off a thin-film transistor included in each pixel formation portion in that the polarity thereof is negative and is at a higher level than that voltage, is applied simultaneously to n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n). Thereafter, while sequentially activating the n second scanning signal line groups G2(1) to G2(n), the predetermined voltage is applied simultaneously to the n first scanning signal line groups G1(1) to G1(n). By repeating this, charges accumulated in the vicinity of the thin-film transistors are eliminated, thereby suppressing changes in off characteristics thereof. At least one embodiment of the present invention is suitable for matrix display devices intended for a long period of use.
US08786534B2	Liquid crystal display device According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a first gate line and a second gate line, a storage capacitance line, a first source line and a second source line, a switching element, and a pixel electrode surrounded by the first gate line, the second gate line, the first source line and the second source line, the pixel electrode including a contact portion which is put in contact with the switching element, a first main pixel electrode and a second main pixel electrode, a second substrate including a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer held between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US08786522B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device includes a scan driver transmitting a plurality of scan signals to a plurality of scan lines, a data driver transmitting a plurality of data signals to a plurality of data lines, a display unit including a plurality of pixels connected to corresponding scan lines and corresponding data lines, and respectively receiving the corresponding data signal when the plurality of pixels are selected with the corresponding scan signal, and a timing controller controlling the scan driver and the data driver, dividing one frame period into a first viewpoint image display period, a second viewpoint image display period, and a black image display period, and generating image data signals corresponding to the first viewpoint image display period, the second viewpoint image display period, and the black image display period, and supplying the respective image data signals to the data driver, wherein the black image display period is shorter than the first viewpoint image display period and the second viewpoint image display period, and the image data signal corresponding to the black image display period is a black image data signal controlling the plurality of pixels not to emit light.
US08786516B2	Electronic device including electrically conductive mesh layer patch antenna and related methods An electronic device may include a substrate, and a patch antenna carried by the substrate. The patch antenna may include an electrically conductive mesh layer having a perimeter defined by perimeter segments including at least one pair of arcuate perimeter segments with a cusp therebetween. The patch antenna may also include at least one antenna feed coupled to the patch antenna.
US08786510B2	Radio frequency (RF) antenna containing element and methods of making the same A radio frequency (RF) antenna containing element is provided. The RF antenna containing element includes a reinforced metal foil laminate antenna bonded to a carrier layer. The reinforced metal foil laminate antenna includes a metal foil layer bonded to a reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer can mitigate tearing of the metal foil layer during formation of the antenna.
US08786509B2	Multi polarization conformal channel monopole antenna A conformal channel monopole antenna system includes: a housing; a cavity formed within the housing; and a substrate covering the cavity. The substrate includes a first elongated radiating element coupled to two opposing sides of the top surface of the housing at two opposing ends in a first direction; a second elongated radiating element coupled another two opposing sides of the top surface of the housing at two opposing ends in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a first feed port at one end of the first elongated radiating element; and a second feed port at one end of the second elongated radiating element. The first elongated radiating element is configured to radiate a first type of polarization and the second elongated radiating element is configured to radiate a second type of polarization simultaneously with the first type of polarization.
US08786505B2	Antenna alignment fixture An alignment apparatus configured to be mounted to a radar array antenna having a generally planar face for aligning the antenna includes a rigid frame defining a plane generally parallel to the face of the antenna when the rigid frame is mounted to the antenna. A flexible member is associated with the rigid frame and is configured to flex relative to the rigid frame. The apparatus further includes an optical source for emitting a light beam and a target. One of the optical source and the target is associated with the flexible member and the other of the optical source and the target is associated with the rigid frame. A distance between the path of the light beam and the target is indicative of the degree of misalignment between the flexible member and the rigid frame.
US08786503B2	Dual UHF dipole quadrafiler helix antenna A dual purpose antenna is provided with the UHF antenna in the form of a pair of copper tubes to provide an off center fed dipole, with a pair of quadrafiler helix L1 and L2 GPS antennas stacked on top of the UHF antenna, and with the top section of the UHF dipole providing a ground plain for the GPS antenna. The antennas are fed internally by two coaxial feeds, one feeding the UHF antenna, the other passing through the UHF antenna to feed the GPS antennas. In one embodiment, a tuning coil is provided at the base of the UHF antenna by the coiling of the two coaxial feeds around a non-conductive mandrel, with copper taping placed on top of the coiled coaxial sections to provide an LC circuit to lower the resonant frequency of the UHF antenna to 225 MHz.
US08786501B2	Memory card A disclosed memory card having a built-in antenna and being connected to an electronic apparatus includes a circuit board configured to be covered by a case, an antenna element formed on one surface of the circuit board or on one surface of a board mounted on the circuit board, and a ground element formed on another surface of the circuit board or on another surface of the board mounted on the circuit board, wherein a part or all of the antenna element and a part or all of the ground element are formed to protrude outside the electronic apparatus when the memory card is connected to the electronic apparatus.
US08786498B2	Antenna and method for making same An antenna includes a transparent substrate, a silver layer directly formed on a surface of the transparent substrate, an ink layer made of an electroconductive ink directly formed on the silver layer, and a transparent protective layer directly formed on the silver layer. The silver layer forms a desired antenna pattern and has a feed portion and grounding portion. The ink layer covers the feed portion and the grounding portion. The protective layer covers the silver layer besides the feed portion and the grounding portion. A method for making the antenna is also described.
US08786496B2	Three-dimensional array antenna on a substrate with enhanced backlobe suppression for mm-wave automotive applications A multilayer antenna including a first microstrip patch positioned along a first plane, a second microstrip patch positioned along a second plane that is substantially parallel to the first plane, and a ground plane having a slot formed therein. The multilayer antenna also includes a microstrip feeding line for propagating signals through the slot in the ground plane and to the second microstrip patch and a backlobe suppression reflector for receiving some of the signals and reflecting the signals to the slot in the ground plane.
US08786494B2	Method to modify calibration data used to locate a mobile unit A method of modifying calibration data used to geo-locate a mobile station located in an indoor environment is disclosed. When a mobile station is located indoors, the signal strength of signals received and/or transmitted by the mobile station have the tendency to be lower than the strength of the signals received by a mobile station located outdoors. As a result of these lower signal strengths, geo-location efforts which rely on signal strengths may result in unsatisfactory location accuracy. Modifying pre-existing calibration data obtained outdoors may provide a way to simulate indoor calibration data characteristics.
US08786485B2	Mobile coherent change detection ground penetrating radar Described are a method and system for detecting and locating changes in an underground region. Changes are detected using a mobile coherent change detection ground penetrating radar (GPR). The GPR system is located on a mobile platform that makes two more measurement passes over the same route to acquire GPR images of an underground region at different times. A lateral offset between the GPR images for the two different times is determined and applied to one of the GPR images to generate a GPR shifted image that is spatially aligned with the other GPR image using a correlation process or other technique. A GPR difference image is generated from the GPR shifted image and the other GPR image. The GPR difference image includes data representative of changes to the underground region that occurred between the two measurement passes.
US08786478B1	Circuit for implementing a continuous-time deglitching technique for digital analog converters A processor and a circuit implementing a continuous-time deglitching technique for a digital-to-analog converter are disclosed. The circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter having a differential current output, an operational amplifier having an inverting input coupled to a first output of the differential current output and a non-inverting input coupled to a second output of the differential current output, and a transistor coupled to the second output and the output of the operational amplifier. The operational amplifier is configured to operate the transistor to adjust the voltage potential of the second output to substantially match the voltage potential of the first output.
US08786477B1	Digital-to-analog conversion with improved dynamic range An audio downlink path is provided including a Dynamic Range Boost (DRB), a modified Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC), and a modified audio driver gain control to produce a very high Dynamic Range (DR) while maintaining a limited scale and complexity of the components within the audio downlink path.
US08786476B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for digital-to-analog conversion of superconducting magnetic flux signals A superconducting flux digital-to-analog converter includes a superconducting inductor ladder circuit. The ladder circuit includes a plurality of closed superconducting current paths that each includes at least two superconducting inductors coupled in series to form a respective superconducting loop, successively adjacent or neighboring superconducting loops are connected in parallel with each other and share at least one of the superconducting inductors to form a flux divider network. A data signal input structure provides a respective bit of a multiple bit signal to each of the superconducting loops. The data signal input structure may include a set of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). The data signal input structure may include a superconducting shift register, for example a single-flux quantum (SFQ) shift register or a flux-based superconducting shift register comprising a number of latching qubits.
US08786475B2	Input configuration for analog to digital converter A circuit includes an input, two or more sampling capacitors each in a different channel, means for connecting each sampling capacitor to the input, means for discharging the sampling capacitors to a given voltage in a reset phase, and means to use the voltage across the sampling capacitor for further processing in a hold phase. The two sampling capacitors operate in anti-phase such that the reset phase and sampling phase of one channel are performed in the time period the other channel is in the hold phase.
US08786472B1	Low complexity non-integer adaptive sample rate conversion Generally described herein are methods and systems for sample rate conversion of non-integer and integer factors. In one or more embodiments an apparatus can include a sample rate converter that can include an input configured to receive an input signal with a first frequency and an output configured to provide an output signal with a second frequency different from the first frequency. The sample rate converter can include a filter coefficient lookup table and a numerically controlled oscillator configured to provide filter coefficients from the filter coefficient lookup table at a rate that is a function of the first frequency and the second frequency. The sample rate converter can include a multiplier configured to produce an output that is the product of a filter coefficient of the filter coefficients from the numerically controlled oscillator and a sample of an input signal and an accumulator configured to sum an output of the multiplier and provide a result of the summation when the accumulator receives an indicator to dump the result.
US08786469B2	Method and system for saving and retrieving spatial related information The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for storing, referencing, retrieving, and graphically displaying spatial and non-spatial related information of a mobile computing device, such as a laptop computer or a cellular telephone. The spatial-related information may be obtained by using positioning tracking systems such as a global positioning system, whereas the non-spatial related information may include communication activities associated with the mobile computing device, such as phone calls, e-mails, text messages, pages, etc. The present invention also provides methods and apparatus of sharing event information between mobile communication devices as well as related navigational information for traveling to an event from a real-time position of a mobile communication device.
US08786451B2	Leak detection system having power and communication lines A leak detection system having power and communication lines includes a leak sensing cable having sensor lines for sensing a leak, detection controllers connected to the sensor lines to detect a leak position signal, and a master controller receiving the detected leak position signal from the detection controllers, wherein the leak sensing cable includes power and communication lines that are wired to supply power to the detection controllers via the master controller and to transmit the leak position signal to the master controller from the detection controllers. According to this invention, the leak detection system has power and communication lines that are able to transmit the leak position signal between the detection controllers and the master controller while supplying power to the detection controllers and the master controller.
US08786442B2	Systems and methods for indicating a quality of grouped items Systems and methods for determining a relative quantity of recyclable items with respect to a total number of items are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method includes reading an identifier respectively associated with at least some of a total number of items. The computer determines a number of identifiers associated with the recyclable items. The computer also receives the total number of items, and computes the relative quantity of recyclable items by dividing the number of identifiers associated with the recyclable items by the total number of items.
US08786432B2	Method and system for detecting an airborne trigger An apparatus includes a cantilevered element including a coating material having an affinity for at least one compound. The apparatus further includes a first capacitive plate and a second capacitive plate that are each spaced from and capacitively coupled to the cantilevered element. The first capacitive plate is configured to induce a vibration in the cantilevered element at a frequency related to a mass of the cantilevered element. A frequency detector is coupled to the second capacitive plate to detect a change in vibrational frequency of the cantilevered element as a result of at least one particle of the at least one compound coupling to the coating material.
US08786425B1	Aberration engine An aberration engine that collects data sensed by a monitoring system that monitors a property of a user and aggregates the collected data over a period of a time. The aberration engine detects, within the aggregated data, patterns of recurring events and, based on detecting the patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data, takes action related to the monitoring system based on the detected patterns of recurring events within the aggregated data.
US08786421B2	Method and system to enhance traffic safety and efficiency for vehicles including calculating the expected future driver'S behavior A method is provided for enhancing safety and traffic efficiency for vehicles transmitting information on an expected behavior of a driver of an ego vehicle in response to a stimulus including the steps of (i) sensing a parameter of the stimulus in order to generate a stimulus signal function of the sensed parameter, (ii) monitoring the stimulus signal function of the sensed parameter, (iii) calculating an expected future driver's behavior in response to the stimulus using said stimulus signal, (iv) comparing the expected future driver behavior with a standard driver behavior, and (v) emitting a warning signal to the surrounding of the ego vehicle in case the expected future driving behavior is not a standard behavior. Additionally, a system operating according to said method is disclosed.
US08786419B2	Method for controlling a device and a device for controlling the device A device for controlling a device by using a rotation-rate sensor. In order to provide a device for determining a triggering signal for a safety device which allows a particularly compact implementation of the device, the device is set up to ascertain an acceleration variable on the basis of a first sensor signal for a first seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and the second sensor signal for a second seismic mass of the rotation-rate sensor and to control the device as a function of the acceleration variable.
US08786411B1	Remote control programming system A method and apparatus for programming a remote control is provided. Control data that identifies one or more mode codes is stored in a computing device that is operationally connected to a detector. A user presses a button on a source remote control to cause an input signal to be transmitted from the source remote control to be received by the detector. The detector decodes the input signal, and consults the control data to determine a particular IR code that is associated with the source remote control. The computing device may then display information identifying a particular mode code on a display to allow the user to manually program a target remote control with the particular mode code. Alternately, the computing device may transmit the particular mode code to the target remote control to allow the target remote control to automatically configure itself with the particular mode code.
US08786409B2	System for impulse input of commands, control arguments and data An advanced technique of user interaction with compact, portable, hand-held devices, larger electronic devices and other surfaces and objects is disclosed. The particular component arrays, configuration modes and analytic methodologies disclosed are optimized and directed toward logical interpretation of device motions resulting from vector impulses as user data inputs and commands. Apparatus, system and method embodiments are described and illustrated by examples.
US08786407B2	Universal and reusable RFID system and method for use in supply chain and logistics management An universal and reusable RFID system comprises an universal and reusable RFID reader, an universal and reusable RFID data carrier, a universal and reusable RFID neutral tag, a RFID neutral tag equipped collapsible and reusable pallet and a RFID neutral tag equipped collapsible and reusable box. In various embodiments, the universal and reusable RFID system is used for data collection, data comparison, data confirmation and data combination under all conditions in the supply chain and logistics management. A “bank-like” system is further used for all components of the universal and reusable RFID system to be efficiently supplied for use and collected for further application.
US08786394B2	Oxidation resistant induction devices Certain embodiments described herein are directed to induction devices comprising an oxidation resistant material. In certain examples, the induction device comprises a coil of wire that is produced from the oxidation resistant material. In some examples, the oxidation resistant induction device can be used to sustain an inductively coupled plasma in a torch.
US08786388B2	Electromagnetic switch for a starting device, and method for switching the electromagnetic switch The invention relates to an electromagnetic switch (16) for a starting device (10), comprising two contacts (180, 181) that are electroconductively inter-connected by a mobile contact bridge (184). At least one of the two contacts (180, 181) preferably comprises a contact surface (300) fixed to a contact stud (150, 151). According to the invention, a) the contact surface (300) is at least essentially flat, and an edge (279) of the contact bridge (180, 181), is arranged in such a way that, (184), providing electrical contact between the contact bridge (184) and the contact once it has come into contact with the contact surface (300), it enables a linear contact between the contact (189, 181) and the contact bridge (184), or b) the contact surface (300) comprises bumps lying essentially in one plane, and an edge (279) of the contact bridge (184), providing electrical contact between the contact bridge (184) and the contact (180, 181), is arranged in such a way that, once it comes into contact with the contact surface (300), it enables essentially a multiple-point contact between the contact (180, 181) and the contact bridge (184), or c) a surface (318) of the contact bridge (184), oriented towards the contact (180, 181), and a longitudinal axis (312) of the contact stud (150, 151), form an angle (β) oriented towards a central axis (315) of the switch (16) and larger than 90°, or d) a surface (318) of the contact bridge (184), oriented towards the contact (180, 181), and a longitudinal axis (312) of the contact stud (150, 151), form an angle (β) which is radially outwardly oriented towards a central axis (315) of the switch (16) and is larger than 90°. The invention also relates to a method for switching an electromagnetic switch, preferably a starting device (10), comprising two contacts (180, 181) that are connected by a mobile contact bridge (184). When the contact bridge (184) is contacted by at least one of the two contacts (180, 181), a rubbing movement is generated between the contact bridge (184) and the contact surface (300) of the contact (180, 181).
US08786381B2	Transformer structures for a power amplifier (PA) In one embodiment, the present invention includes a transformer formed on a semiconductor die. Such transformer may have multiple coils, including first and second coils. Each coil may have segments that in turn are formed on a corresponding metal layer of the semiconductor die. The segments of a given coil are coupled to each other, and the first and second coils can be interdigitated with each other.
US08786376B2	Varactor voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) providing independent coarse and fine frequency tuning A voltage controlled oscillator, includes a tank circuit including an inductor having a value L, interconnected with first and second variable capacitors, having values CVAR1 and CVAR2, and a fixed capacitor CFIXED, to cause oscillation of the oscillator at a controlled frequency f osc = ( 2 ⁢ π ) - 1 ⁢ ( L ⁢ { C VAR ⁢ ⁢ 2 + C FIXED ⁢ C VAR ⁢ ⁢ 1 C FIXED + C VAR ⁢ ⁢ 1 } ) - 1 / 2 CVAR1 controls coarse frequency tuning of the oscillator, and CVAR2 may control fine tuning of the oscillator. The variable capacitors may be formed using accumulation-mode MOS varactors.
US08786375B2	Runtime compensated oscillator Disclosed is a method for generating an oscillating signal and an oscillator circuit.
US08786368B2	Distributed amplifier with improved stabilization A distributed amplifier with improved stabilization includes an input transmission circuit, an output transmission circuit, at least one cascode amplifier coupled between said input and output transmission circuits. Each cascode amplifier includes a common-gate configured transistor coupled to the output transmission circuit, and a common-source configured transistor coupled between the input transmission circuit and the common-gate configured transistor. The distributed amplifier also includes a non-parasitic resistance and capacitance coupled in series between a drain and a gate of at least one of the common-gate configured transistors for increasing the amplifier stability.
US08786364B2	Gain enhancement for cascode structure Aspects of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods to provide significant gain enhancement for a cascode structure for a differential amplifier. The cascode structure of the differential amplifier can include first and second pairs of output transistors. The second pair of output transistors can be configured to approximately cancel modulation effects of the first pair of output transistors induced by changes in a differential output of differential amplifier, thereby resulting in conditions for providing enhanced gain.
US08786360B2	Circuit and method for fast switching of a current mirror with large MOSFET size The present invention discloses a fast switching current mirror circuit and method for generating fast switching current. The circuit and method for fast switching of a current mirror with large MOSFET size will save space and current consumption.
US08786356B2	Conductive shield for shaping an electric field of a conductive wire In one embodiment, a method comprises generating, by a control unit, a first drive signal and a second drive signal. The method further comprises emitting, by a conductive wire coupled to a capacitive touch sensor, a first electric field that extends in a plurality of directions in response to reception of the first drive signal. The method further comprises shaping, by a conductive shield that surrounds the conductive wire, at least a portion of the first electric field that extends from the capacitive touch sensor towards the conductive shield by generating a second electric field in response to reception of the second drive signal.
US08786354B2	Low-power, high-voltage integrated circuits Embodiments relate to integrated circuits with protection. In one embodiment the protection is coupled between a first circuit provided to control a low power mode of the integrated circuit and a supply voltage. The protection comprises in an embodiment a transistor being one of a depletion transistor or a junction field effect transistor.
US08786349B2	Semiconductor device, electronic device having the same, and driving method of the same A digital circuit which can operate normally regardless of binary potentials of an input signal is provided. A semiconductor device comprising a correcting unit and one or a plurality of circuit elements, the correcting unit including a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first switch, and a second switch, wherein the first electrode of the first capacitor is connected to an input terminal, the supply of a first potential to the second electrode of the first capacitor is controlled by the first switch, the supply of a second potential to the second electrode of the second capacitor is controlled by the second switch, and a potential of the second electrode of the first capacitor or a potential of the second electrode of the second capacitor is supplied to the one or the plurality of circuit elements.
US08786344B2	Low-power dual-edge-triggered storage cell with scan test support and clock gating circuit therefor A storage cell having a pulse generator and a storage element is proposed. The storage element input is connected to receive a data input signal. The storage element output is connected to provide a data output signal. The storage element is operable in one of a data retention state and a data transfer state in response to a storage control signal received from the pulse generator. The pulse generator is connected to receive a clock signal with rising and falling clock signal edges and is adapted to provide control pulses in the storage control signal. Each control pulse has a leading edge and a trailing edge. The control pulses have a polarity suited to invoke the data transfer state on their leading edges. The novel feature is that the pulse generator is adapted to initiate a rising-edge control pulse when receiving a rising clock signal edge and to initiate a falling-edge control pulse when receiving a falling clock signal edge. In this way, a dual-edge-triggered flip-flop may be made using only combinatorial logic circuitry and one level- or single-edge-triggered storage element. The storage cell has low power consumption, facilitates scan testing and can be used by existing design tools and test equipment.
US08786336B1	Phase-lock loop-based clocking system, methods and apparatus In part, the invention relates to an optical coherence tomography system that includes one or more phased-locked loop circuits. In one embodiment, the phased-locked loop circuit includes a phase detector, a loop filter, and a voltage controlled oscillator wherein the phased-locked loop circuit is configured to generate a sample clock. The optical coherence tomography system can include an analog to digital converter having a sample clock input, an interferometric signal input, and a sample data output, the analog to digital converter configured to receive the sample clock and sample OCT data in response thereto. In one embodiment, the phased-locked loop circuit is configured to lock on a first signal in less than or equal to about 1 microseconds.
US08786333B2	Phase calibration device and phase calibration method A phase calibration device comprises: an oscillator for generating a reference clock; a phase-lock-loop for generating an input clock by the reference clock; a multiphase clock generator for generating a plurality of output clocks by the input clock; a selector for selecting one of the output clocks as an operation clock; an analog-to-digital convertor for performing analog-to-digital conversion to input data by the operation clock to generate a conversion result; a control circuit for generating parameters according to the conversion result and controlling the selector to do selection; and a phase calibration circuit for outputting a calibration signal and the input clock of the phase-lock-loop to the multiphase clock generator after restarting the phase-lock-loop, so that the multiphase clock generator can correctly regenerate the output clocks by the calibration signal and the input clock, and then the control circuit controls the selector to do selection by the parameters.
US08786332B1	Reset extender for divided clock domains A clock divider may provide a lower speed clock to a logic block portion, but during reset, the clock divider may not operate properly, causing the logic block portion to be reset at a clock frequency greater than the frequency for which that logic was designed. However, an extended reset may be employed in which the clock divider is reset normally first before the logic block portion, allowing that logic to be reset according to the divided clock (e.g., rather than a higher speed clock). An asynchronous reset may also be employed in which one or more clock dividers first emerge from reset before being provided with a (synchronized) high speed clock signal, causing the clock dividers to be in phase with each other. This may enable communication between different areas of an IC that might not otherwise be in proper phase with each other.
US08786328B2	RF logic divider An apparatus is provided. Latches are coupled in series with one another in a ring configuration. Each latch includes a tri-state inverter, a first resistor-capacitor (RC) network, and a second RC network. The tri-state inverter has a first clock terminal and a second clock terminal. The first RC network is coupled to the first clock terminal. The second RC network is coupled to the second clock terminal. A biasing network is also provided. The biasing network has a first bias voltage generator that is coupled to the first RC network for each latch and a second bias voltage generator that is coupled to the second RC network for each latch.
US08786326B2	Integrated circuit chip and system having the same An integrated circuit chip includes: an internal circuit; a data output circuit configured to output a data packet of the internal circuit in response to a strobe signal; an oscillator configured to generate a first clock signal; a divider configured to divide the first clock signal and generate a second clock signal; and a strobe signal supply unit configured to supply the second clock signal as the strobe signal during an initial period of transmission of the data packet and supply the first clock signal as the strobe signal after the initial period.
US08786324B1	Mixed voltage driving circuit A driving circuit is provided. The driving circuit is configured to generate an output signal according to an input signal generated from an input-stage voltage with a first voltage level and a reference voltage with a second voltage level. The driving circuit has a differential amplifier and an output stage. The differential amplifier has a first input terminal coupled to the reference voltage, a second input terminal coupled to the output signal, and an output terminal. The differential amplifier is supplied by an operation voltage with a third voltage level. The output stage is configured to receive the input signal and the operation voltage to generate the output signal. The second input terminal is coupled to the output terminal of the differential amplifier according to the input signal. The operation voltage is generated according to the input signal and the input-stage voltage.
US08786314B2	Contactless power transfer system and control method thereof A contactless power transfer system, including a coil configured to supply or receive power contactlessly via magnetic coupling, a bridge circuit having two direct current (DC) terminals and two alternating current (AC) terminals, and a smoothing capacitor connected between the DC terminals. A load is connectable to either end of the smoothing capacitor. One of the AC terminals is connected to one end of the coil via a first capacitor. The other of the AC terminals is connected to the other end of the coil. The bridge circuit includes two serially-connected circuits each having upper and lower arms, each arm having a semiconductor switch and a diode in reverse parallel connection. A second capacitor is connected in parallel to the semiconductor switch of an upper arm, or of a lower arm, or to two semiconductor switches respectively of an upper arm and of a lower arms, of the bridge circuit.
US08786313B2	Logic circuit and display device having the same It is an object to provide a logic circuit which can be operated even when unipolar transistors are used. A logic circuit includes a source follower circuit and a logic circuit an input portion of which is connected to an output portion of the source follower circuit and all transistors are unipolar transistors. A potential of a wiring for supplying a low potential connected to the source follower circuit is lower than a potential of a wiring for supplying a low potential connected to the logic circuit which includes unipolar transistors. In this manner, a logic circuit which can be operated even with unipolar depletion transistors can be provided.
US08786299B1	Adherable holder and locater tool An assistive fine positioning support device for positioning and/or holding a test probe tip (the test probe tip being distanced from the probing head). The support device includes at least one positionable support member having a first support end and a second support end. A tip adapter at the first support end is for connecting the test probe tip to the at least one positionable support member, the tip adapter being in direct contact with the test probe tip. The second support end having means for holding and securing to a surface supporting an electrical component to be probed.
US08786298B2	Apparatus and method for near field scan calibration Disclosed are a method and an apparatus of near field scan calibration, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for near field scan calibration for calibrating a characteristic of an antenna for near field scan measurement of a semiconductor chip. The apparatus for near field scan calibration includes: a plane-type text fixture having a plane shape; an antenna positioned spaced apart from the plane-type test fixture by a set spacing distance and acquiring data including a magnetic field; and a spectrum analyzer analyzing the data acquired by the antenna.
US08786296B2	Resistance-measuring circuit and electronic device using the same A resistance-measuring circuit includes a controller for outputting a PWM signal and further for adjusting the duty cycle of the PWM signal, and a sampling circuit for processing the PWM signal and transmitting the processed PWM signal to the sensor. The sampling circuit samples the signal outputted from the sensor to generate a sampled signal with the voltage thereof changing according to any change in the duty cycle of the PWM signal, and further transmits the sampled signal to the controller. The controller obtains the real-time duty cycle of the PWM signal when the voltage of the sampled signal reaches a threshold voltage, and further calculates the exact resistance of the sensor according to the obtained real-time duty cycle of the PWM signal and the threshold voltage. An electronic device with the resistance-measuring circuit is also provided.
US08786282B2	Method to control a magnetic resonance device for image acquisition, and corresponding magnetic resonance device In a method to control a magnetic resonance device for image acquisition in at least one slice, the magnetic resonance device has a radio-frequency antenna with multiple transmission channels. At least one slice deviates from a cuboid shape and/or that is roughly adapted to a target volume of interest that is to be acquired, and/or at least one saturation volume adapted to a shape in a subject to be acquired, are defined automatically and/or manually via a user interface. The selection of possible slices and/or saturation volumes is limited automatically under consideration of the technical embodiment of the radio-frequency antenna. The image acquisition takes place in the selected slice and/or under consideration of the saturation volume.
US08786271B2	Circuit and method for generating reference voltage and reference current A circuit for generating reference voltage and reference current includes a band-gap reference circuit and a voltage-to-current converting circuit. The band-gap reference circuit is configured to generate a temperature-independent reference voltage by generating a first current with a positive temperature coefficient. The voltage-to-current converting circuit is coupled to a node of the band-gap reference circuit and configured to convert a voltage with a negative temperature coefficient at the node into a second current with a negative temperature coefficient. The band-gap reference circuit and the voltage-to-current converting circuit share a common current source having a feedback transistor through which a reference current flows. The reference current is divided into the first current of the band-gap reference circuit and the second current of the voltage-to-current converting circuit, thus having a temperature coefficient substantially equal to zero by combining the first current and the second current.
US08786270B2	Synthetic ripple regulator with frequency control A synthetic ripple regulator including frequency control based on a reference clock. The regulator includes an error network, a ripple detector, a combiner, a ripple generator, a comparator network and a phase comparator. The error network provides an error signal indicative of relative error of the output voltage. The ripple detector provides a ramp control signal based on the input and output voltages and a pulse control signal. The combiner adjusts the ramp control signal based on a frequency compensation signal to provide an adjusted ramp control signal. The ripple generator develops a ripple control signal based on the adjusted ramp control signal. The comparator network develops the pulse control signal to control switching based on the error signal and the ripple control signal. The phase comparator compares the pulse control signal with the reference clock and provides the frequency compensation signal.
US08786269B2	Constant frequency synthetic ripple power converter A novel method to operate synthetic ripple switching power converters at constant frequency is presented. The method includes the generation of a clock signal and the summing of a ramp signal to a DC voltage reference to be compared to a synthetic ripple signal. The ramp signal is synchronous with the clock signal. A minimum on-time or minimum off-time type of control is implemented. The switching frequency is constant.The presented approach provides significant advantages with respect to the more traditional means of utilizing hysteretic approaches combined with frequency control circuits.The switching frequency can be as high as the one obtained for a hysteretic power converter, the load and line transient response is comparable with or better than the one achieved with hysteretic approaches. The stability is obtained by adapting the slope of the ramp signal in order to obtain the adequate gain of the system.The method is presented for buck and boost hysteretic high frequency switching power converters, but can be utilized also for buck-boost converters. The general method can be utilized also for multiphase switching power converters.A non clocked variant of the novel circuit topology is also presented to improve load and line transient performance.
US08786268B2	Current mode voltage regulator with auto-compensation A method for automatically compensating a voltage regulator initially disconnects the error amplifier and compensation network from the feedback loop. A DC bias voltage is applied to the feedback loop to cause the regulator's output voltage to be at 90% of its nominal value. An AC perturbation signal is then added to the DC bias voltage to cause the output voltage to have a ripple at a frequency of the AC signal. The gain of the feedback loop and the phase difference between the AC signal and the ripple is then measured. The measured values are then used to automatically adjust operating characteristics of the error amplifier and the compensation network such that, when these components are connected back in the feedback loop during normal operation, the feedback loop has the desired gain and phase margin at the frequency of the AC signal, such as the loop's unity gain frequency.
US08786266B2	Effective current sensing for high voltage switching regulators A high voltage switching regulator has significantly reduced current sensing delay between measurement of input current and generation of sensed current values, while maintaining good accuracy of the current through a power transistor using current replication and a current conveyor. High sensing accuracy of the input current ensures good load regulation, and low sensing delay ensures fixed duty cycle over a wide range of output currents and high input to output voltage ratios. A current conveyor is used to transfer high side current values to low side control circuits, e.g., pulse width modulation (PWM) control. The current conveyor is always on, e.g., some current flow is always present, thus minimizing any current measurement delay. This is accomplished by dynamically biasing the current conveyor by draining to ground a current equal to the sensed current. Wherein balancing of the current conveyor is ensured and offset at the input of the current conveyor is minimized.
US08786262B2	Systems and methods for synchronous power generation One embodiment of the present invention is a unique method of controlling the output of a synchronous electrical machine. Another embodiment is a unique method of controlling the output of a synchronous electrical machine for powering a load. Still another embodiment is a unique aircraft power generation system. Other embodiments include apparatuses, systems, devices, hardware, methods, and combinations for fluid driven actuation systems. Further embodiments, forms, features, aspects, benefits, and advantages of the present application will become apparent from the description and figures provided herewith.
US08786255B2	Active charge balancing circuit A charge balancing circuit and an energy storage arrangement with a charge balancing circuit are disclosed.
US08786245B2	Motor control device A motor control device main unit includes a pressure command signal generation module, a simulated pressure control module, a simulated position calculation module, a simulated pressure signal generation module, a pressure control module, a speed control module, and a current control module. The speed control module receives a motor speed command signal, which is a signal of a sum of an actual motor speed command value of an actual motor speed command signal from the pressure control module and a simulated speed calculated value of a simulated motor speed signal. The speed control module carries out speed control calculation based on a motor speed command value of the motor speed command signal and an actual motor speed of an actual motor speed signal.
US08786242B2	Method and device for controlling load and voltage in voice coils A method for sensing and compensating for variances in load and voltage in a closed loop voice coil system is described. A load in a system which included a supply voltage and the load, which includes an inductive element, is excited with a known duty cycle for a time interval. At an end time, at the end of the time interval, the current which flows through the load is sensed. A lumped term based at least in part on the time interval and a change in the load current during the time interval is calculated. The lumped term is representative of the supply voltage and one or more electrical characteristic of the load. A control signal to control a voltage applied to the load may be generated based at least in part on the lumped term. Apparatus and computer-readable media are also described.
US08786241B2	Software center and highly configurable robotic systems for surgery and other uses Telerobotic, telesurgical, and/or surgical robotic devices, systems, and methods employ surgical robotic linkages that may have more degrees of freedom than an associated surgical end effector n space. A processor can calculate a tool motion that includes pivoting of the tool about an aperture site. Linkages movable along a range of configurations for a given end effector position may be driven toward configurations which inhibit collisions. Refined robotic linkages and method for their use are also provided.
US08786237B2	Voltage regulator and cooling control integrated circuit According to an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus is provided which includes a microprocessor, and a built-in temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the microprocessor as a reference temperature. The apparatus further includes external temperature sensors, where at least one of the external temperature sensors is configured to measure the temperature of the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to make an external temperature calibration using the reference temperature measured by the built-in temperature monitor. Each of the external temperature sensors is configured to monitor temperature information of a component and provide the temperature information to the microprocessor.
US08786236B2	Method of automatically controlling a motorized window treatment while minimizing occupant distractions A load control system provides for automatically controlling a position of a motorized window treatment to control the amount of sunlight entering a space of a building through a window located in a façade of the building in order to control a sunlight penetration distance within the space and minimize occupant distractions. The load control system automatically generates a timeclock schedule having a number of timeclock events for controlling the position of the motorized window treatment during the present day. A user is able to select a desired maximum sunlight penetration distance for the space and a minimum time period that may occur between any two consecutive timeclock events. In addition, a maximum number of movements that may occur during the timeclock schedule may also be entered. The load control system uses these inputs to determine event times and corresponding positions of the motorized window treatment for each timeclock event of the timeclock schedule.
US08786234B2	Method and devices for driving a damper An actuator (1) comprises an electrical motor (10) for driving a damper (3) from a rest position to a stalled position. The damper (3) is biased toward the rest position with at least one spring. A control module (2) is configured to supply, upon activation of the actuator (1), a drive current to the electrical motor (10) for driving the damper (3) from the rest position to the stalled position against a bias force produced by the spring. The control module (2) is further configured to reduce the drive current to a lower level for maintaining the damper (3) in the stalled position when a defined duration of time has elapsed since activation of the actuator (1). Damages to the electrical motor (10) and/or gear trains can be avoided without having to provide any circuitry or sensory equipment for measuring the drive current.
US08786233B2	Electric ratchet for a powered screwdriver A powered screwdriver system includes an electric ratchet. In accordance with one aspect, the powered screwdriver system includes a driver housing and includes a motor disposed within the housing. A working end provides a rotational output and is mechanically coupled to the rotor. A power source provides power to the motor. A controller receives signals representative of a motor condition and, based on the received signals, controls the motor in a manner providing the electric ratchet.
US08786228B2	Controller for electrical power steering apparatus The electrical power steering apparatus 10 includes the 1st MOS-FET 13 and the 2nd MOS-FET 14 accommodating the 1st parasitic diode 15 and the 2nd parasitic diode 16 in the conducting path between the battery 100 and the motor driving circuit 11 and being connected in series at the opposite direction respectively, and the condenser 18 in an output side of the latter 2nd MOS-FET 14. The ECU 6 of the controller of the electrical power steering apparatus controls to turn on or off the 1st MOS-FET 13 and the 2nd MOS-FET 14 in accordance with the predetermined sequence after the ignition switch 17 is turned on, detecting the fault of the 1st MOS-FET 13, the 2nd MOS-FET 14 and the 1st parasitic diode 15 and the 2nd parasitic diode 16 on the basis of the output voltage from each of the 1st MOS-FET 13 and the 2nd MOS-FET 14.
US08786219B2	Motor control device A motor control device includes: a feedforward computing section for computing a motion reference value and a feedforward driving force based on a motion command; a deviation compensation computing section for outputting a deviation compensation driving force by a control computation for reducing a control deviation; a driving-force command synthesizing section for outputting a driving-force command based on the feedforward driving force and the deviation compensation driving force; a reaction-force compensation computing section for computing a motion correction value based on a predetermined reaction-force reference value and the deviation compensation driving force; and a control-deviation computing section for computing the control deviation based on a deviation between the motion reference value and a motor motion detection value, and the motion correction value.
US08786213B2	Compensating LED current by LED characteristics for LED dimming control LED dimming control circuit and method compensate LED current or LED average current by LED characteristics to improve dimming efficiency and performance. LED characteristic related look-up tables are stored to provide compensation values, and input LED current setting information is compensated by the compensation values to generate corrected LED current setting information for determining LED brightness.
US08786210B2	Drive circuit for light emitting diode A drive circuit for a light emitting diode, and applications thereof, are disclosed. In one example, the drive circuit includes an input voltage and a ground, and a current control block including a voltage supply connection, a ground connection, a first voltage sense connection, and a second voltage sense connection. The voltage supply connection electrically connects to the input voltage and the ground connection connected to the ground. The drive circuit includes a current sense resistor connected to the first voltage sense connection, a first current adjustment resistor connected between the current sense resistor and the second voltage sense connection, and a second current adjustment resistor connected between the second voltage sense connection and the input voltage. A light emitting diode can connect from a point between the current sense resistor and the first current adjustment resistor to the ground.
US08786203B2	Variable effect light spring A light system that is controllable to generate a plurality of selected lighting effects, the light system includes a main processor, the main processor being in communication with a plurality of light sources; and each of the plurality of light sources having a distinct, known address whereby one of more of the light sources are individually addressable by the main processor, a known address being received by a selected light source of the plurality of light sources and acting to set the selected light source of the plurality of light sources in a disposition to receive a subsequent command from the main processor for generating a selected lighting effect. A light source and a method of forming a light system are further included.
US08786202B2	Lighting device and method of controlling light emitted thereby A lighting device and a method of controlling a light emitted thereby are disclosed. A lighting device according to the present invention includes a rectifier unit configured to rectify an alternation current voltage to supply the rectified voltage to each of light emitting units, the light emitting units configured of a plurality of light emitting diodes connected with each other in series, a control unit configured to control each light emitting unit and a first switching element based on the input voltage and the first switching element configured to be switched on and off based on the control of the control unit, wherein the control unit controls to the first switching element switch on and off based on the input voltage to connect the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit alternatively in series and parallel.
US08786199B2	Method for compensating and checking light amount of light-emitting device A method for compensating and checking a light amount is applicable to a light-emitting device including a plurality of light-emitting elements, and the following steps are successively executed on the light-emitting elements: measuring an original light amount output by a light-emitting element within a reference time interval; generating a calibration value corresponding to the light-emitting element according to the measured original light amount and a reference light amount; and adjusting light output of the light-emitting element according to the calibration value, so that the original light amount reaches a target light amount.
US08786196B2	Load control system having a rotary actuator A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load comprises a rotary actuator, such as a rotary knob or a rotary wheel. The load control device increases and decreases the amount of power delivered to the electrical load in response to rotations of the rotary knob in first and second directions, respectively. The load control device accelerates the rate of change of the amount of power delivered to the load in response to the angular velocity of the rotary actuator. The load control device generates a ratcheting sound when the rotary actuator is rotated in the first direction at a high-end intensity of the load control device. The load control device is operable to control the electrical load in response to both actuations of the rotary actuator and digital messages received via a communication link.
US08786188B2	Wireless electroluminescent device An electroluminescent device (100) comprising a top electrode layer (102) and a bottom electrode layer (104), an electroluminescent layer (106) and an interconnection (108), the interconnection connecting the top and the bottom electrode layers, wherein —the two electrode layers (102,104) are structured as windings; —the electroluminescent layer (106) is located between the two electrode layers; and —the interconnection (108) forms an electrical connection between a first end of the top electrode layer and a second end of the bottom electrode layer.
US08786181B2	Materials for organic electroluminescent devices The present invention relates to a blend comprising; a) at least one polymer or copolymer or a mixture of a plurality of polymers and/or copolymers which contain a main chain and a side chain, where at least one side chain contains a structural unit of the following formula (I), the symbols and indices used here are as defined below; b) at least one host molecule which has electron- or hole-transporting functionality, and c) at least one emitter molecule.
US08786179B2	Light emitting device comprising phosphorescent materials for white light generation The present invention relates to phosphors for energy downconversion of high energy light to generate a broadband light spectrum, which emit light of different emission wavelengths.
US08786177B2	Single-photon type organic electroluminescent element An object of the present invention is to provide an organic EL element including a plurality of light-emitting layers which each emit light having a different peak wavelength, and having excellent light-emitting performances such as light-emitting intensity with a simple structure.The present invention is a single-photon type organic electroluminescent element including a first electrode having optical transparency, a second electrode, and a plurality of light-emitting layers disposed between the first and second electrodes, wherein the plurality of light-emitting layers stacked between the first and second electrodes each emit light having a different peak wavelength, and each of the light-emitting layers is disposed separately from the second electrode at such a position that optical resonance is generated by reflected light emitted from a predetermined light-emitting layer toward the second electrode and reflected by the second electrode to return, and light emitted from the predetermined light-emitting layer toward the first electrode.
US08786175B2	Lighting device, a lamp and a luminaire A lighting device 100, a lamp and a luminaire is provided. The light device 100 emits a first color distribution predominantly in a first direction and a second color distribution predominantly in a second direction. The lighting device comprises a light exit window, a light source 118, a light distributing layer 108, and a luminescent material. Light 104, 106 is emitted into the ambient of the lighting device through the light exit window. The light exit window has a first part 110 for an escape of light of the first color distribution and a second part 102 for an escape of light of the second color distribution. The second part 102 is different from the first part 110. The light source emits light of a predefined color distribution. The predefined color distribution comprises light of a first color 106. The light distributing layer 108 partly reflects or backscatters impinging light and partly transmits impinging light. The light distributing layer 108 is arranged in between the light source 118 and the second part 102 of the light exit window. The light distributing layer 108 is not fully transparent and has an edge near the light exit window for separating the first part 110 and the second part 102. The luminescent material converts light of the first color 106 to light of a second color 104. The luminescent material is arranged in the light distributing layer 108, is arranged in between the light distributing layer 108 and the second part 102 of the light exit window, or is arranged at the first part 110 of the light exit window or the second part 102 of the light exit window.
US08786174B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate in which a first pixel area and a second pixel area different from each other are defined, a first electrode, a pixel defining layer, a common layer, a first surface processing layer, a second surface processing layer, a first liquid solution layer, a second liquid solution layer, and a second electrode. The first surface processing layer has a first width and is correspondingly included in the first pixel area. The second surface processing layer has a second width different from the first width and is correspondingly included in the second pixel area. The first liquid solution layer has the first width, and the second liquid solution layer has the second width. The first and second liquid solution layers have the same volume and different thicknesses.
US08786170B2	Optical system for providing telecentric light beam An optical system, including a light source module, a first lens array and a second lens array, is disclosed. The first lens array is located on one side of the light source module and includes first lenses. The first lenses are arranged according to a first pattern which is non-radially symmetrical and has a first major axis. The second lens array is located on one side of the first lens array and includes second lenses. The second lenses are arranged according to a second pattern and have optical axes aligned with optical axes of the first lenses. The second pattern is non-radially symmetrical and has a second major axis which deflects from the first major axis by a first angle. With this arrangement, the light source module can provide a telecentric light beam formed by radially symmetrical light cones, and the first and second lens arrays can transform this telecentric light beam into a light beam with non-radially symmetrical light cones illuminated onto a target area.
US08786168B2	Microchannel plate for electron multiplier A microchannel plate (1) for a microchannel plate electron multiplier, comprising: a substrate (5) forming a plate having first and second opposing faces and having a plurality of parallel channels therethrough from first to second faces and; a first electrode (3) on the first face, the first electrode (3) having a first side adjacent to the substrate and a second side opposite to the first side; a second electrode (4) on the second face, the second electrode (4) having a first side adjacent to the substrate (5) and a second side opposite to the first side; and a layer (6, 7) of resistive and secondary emissive material on the second side of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US08786165B2	QFN/SON compatible package with SMT land pads A leadless package and method for manufacturing silicon based leadless QFN/SON compatible packages are described. In addition the package allows for hermetic sealing of devices while maintaining electrical and optical access. Micro-vias with feed-through metallization through a silicon structure facilitates a surface mount technology-compatible silicon package with bottom SMT pads and top surface device integration. Sloped edges on the SMT side enable solder filleting for post solder inspection. Hermetic seal can be attained for example using anodic bonding of a glass lid or using metal soldering. Metal soldering enables the use of solder bumps to provide electrical connections for the package to the lid with integrated device functionality used for sealing. Hermetically sealed silicon packages eliminates the need for an extra packaging layer required in plastic packages and provides a standard interface for enclosing one or more discrete devices.
US08786160B2	Brush holder for an electric motor A brush holder for an electrical motor has an electrically insulating support structure supporting a number of brushes. The support structure has a molded-plastic body incorporating conducting elements forming conductive paths for connecting the brushes to a power supply. A discontinuity is provided in one of the connection paths. A resiliently deformable and electrically conductive strip is connected across the discontinuity with a substantially permanent connection at one end and a heat-meltable connection at the other, with a resilient pre-load tending to break the heat-meltable connection. A voltage drop resistor is provided for operating the motor at a reduced speed. One terminal of the resistor is connected to one side of the discontinuity via a thermally and electrically conducting connection.
US08786141B2	Magnetic linear actuator Magnetic linear actuator (MLA) and use. The MLA includes a driver portion with motor and rotating mount with a first magnet (M1) having poles aligned in a plane, and an actuator portion, having a frame with a second magnet (M2) proximate to a first end of the frame with a specified pole facing the frame's center, and a third magnet (M3) proximate to a second end of the frame with the specified pole facing the frame's center. The frame holds M2 and M3 collinear with M1, in the plane, and on opposite sides of the M1, and is constrained to move along an axis collinear with M1, M2, and M3. During operation, the motor rotates M1 through a first orientation where M1 attracts M2 and repels M3, then a second orientation where M1 repels M2 and attracts M3, in response to which the frame moves back and forth, e.g., reciprocates.
US08786138B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling actuator drive current using bi-directional hysteresis control Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling actuator drive current. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for controlling actuator drive current. The method may include receiving a reference signal, determining a feedback signal based at least in part on the drive current, determining a conditioned feedback signal based at least in part on the feedback signal, comparing the reference signal to the conditioned feedback signal, and controlling the drive current based on the comparison of the reference signal and the conditioned feedback signal. Certain embodiments of the method may include manipulating one or more devices to establish at least one positive current path and at least one negative current path through an actuator via hysteresis control.
US08786137B2	Digital wiring device A digital wiring device including a user interface panel, a digital display, and a paddle including a transparent portion to reveal the digital display and an opaque portion to cover the user interface panel. The paddle rotates from a first closed position to a second open position. A digital “schedule-at-a-glance” may be provided so that a user can quickly assess a schedule of events. The digital wiring device may include a back light to illuminate the digital display. The paddle may be operatively associated with the back light. A battery may provide an electrical current to power the digital wiring device in a battery backup mode, and the back light may be disabled based on the mode. The user interface panel may be used to schedule events or otherwise configure the digital wiring device.
US08786121B1	Wave-making and power-generating system A wave-making and power-generating system uses a motor reducer to move a wave-making drum up and down in a water reservoir via a rocker arm, causing a float to rotate a power generator for generating electricity by a transmission mechanism via an inertial wheel set. A small amount of electricity can move the wave-making drum to drive the power generator to generate electricity. Multiple floats can be used with a respective transmission mechanism and a respective inertial wheel set to drive one power generator.
US08786120B2	Hydroelectric generator having water-filled gap between rotor and stator “IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT GENERATOR OF ELECTRICAL POWER”, the invention herein refers to improvements in electrical power generating equipment which, due to the construction adopted, allows simplified maintenance at reduced frequency; in addition to useful application in several types of hydro electrical power plants, namely: micro, mini and small sized hydroelectric power plants.
US08786119B2	Electric generator control system and method The invention describes a system and a method for controlling an electric generator connected to the power grid during a voltage drop in the power grid, the system comprising a back-to-back converter (2) connected between the generator (3) and the power grid (4) and also, in parallel to the generator side converter (2a), rectifying means (5) connected in series between the generator (3) and the DC-link (2b) of the back-to-back converter (2), thus providing an alternative way for the energy excess at the generator side to enter the DC-link (2b).
US08786118B2	Energy-efficient wireless communication scheme for wind turbines A method of operating a wind turbine includes providing a wind turbine having a plurality of blades. A respective sensor is attached to each of the blades. First measurements of a structural characteristic of each of the blades are repeatedly taken by use of the sensors. A tolerance band is established for the measurements. Signals indicative of the first measurements are wirelessly transmitted only if the first measurements are outside of the tolerance band. The transmitted signals are received at a controller. An actuator signal is sent from the controller to at least one actuator associated with the blades. The sending is in response to the receiving of the transmitted signals. At least one of the blades is actuated dependent upon the actuator signal. The actuating is performed by the at least one actuator. Second measurements of the structural characteristic of each of the blades are repeatedly taken by use of the sensors after the actuating step. The wirelessly transmitting, receiving, sending and actuating steps are repeated for the second measurements.
US08786115B2	Systems for generating electrical energy A method and apparatus for producing useful work by a traffic-way or roadway having a moveable portion that can be readily displaced by the weight passing thereover, and translating the displacement of the moveable portion into a storing energy system; e.g., a torsion spring being compressed having a energy release mechanism that connects to an rotor or a drive shaft.
US08786113B2	Device and a method for downhole energy generation A downhole electrical energy generating device and a method for transforming energy from a fluid flow passing the device are described. A vibrating assembly is influenced by the fluid flow to oscillate, the vibrating assembly including an elongated body having a longitudinal axis being arranged non-parallel with the fluid flow, a stiff body connecting the elongated body to a portion of the device located downstream of said elongated body; at least one energy harvester influenced by the vibrating assembly, wherein the energy generating device is provided with means for influencing the oscillation frequency of the vibrating assembly.
US08786109B2	Conductive structure and method for forming the same A conductive structure for a semiconductor chip and a method for forming the conductive structure are provided. The semiconductor chip comprises a plurality of first pads and second pads. The pad area is defined with a first area, a second area and a third area, wherein the first area is located between the second area and the third area. Each of the first pads and the second pads are interlaced to each other on the first area. The conductive structure comprises a plurality of conductive bumps formed on each of the first pads and the second pads respectively to electrically connect with each of the first pads and the second pads. Each of the conductive bumps has a first bump-width disposed on the first area and a second bump-width disposed on one of the second and third areas in which the first bump-width is shorter than the second bump-width.
US08786106B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device An inventive semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having a passivation film, and a sealing resin layer provided over the passivation film for sealing a front side of the semiconductor chip. The sealing resin layer extends to a side surface of the passivation film to cover the side surface.
US08786105B1	Semiconductor device with chip having low-k-layers A semiconductor device is described having at least one semiconductor chip, the chip having an active area on a top side thereof, the active area formed at least in part of low-k material, said low-k material defining a low-k subarea of said active area; an embedding material, in which said at least one semiconductor chip is embedded, at least part of the embedding material forming a coplanar area with said active area; at least one contact area within the low-k subarea; a redistribution layer on the coplanar area, the redistribution layer connected to said contact areas; at least one first-level interconnect, located outside said low-k subarea, the first-level interconnect electrically connected to at least one of said contact areas via the redistribution layer.
US08786102B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes a first wiring board, a second semiconductor chip, and a second seal. The first wiring board includes a first substrate, a first semiconductor chip, and a first seal. The first semiconductor chip is disposed on the first substrate. The first seal is disposed on the first substrate. The first seal surrounds the first semiconductor chip. The first seal has the same thickness as the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip is stacked over the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip is between the second semiconductor chip and the first substrate. The second semiconductor chip is greater in size in plan view than the first semiconductor chip. The second seal seals at least a first gap between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip.
US08786097B2	Method of forming vias in semiconductor substrates and resulting structures Methods for forming through vias in a semiconductor substrate and resulting structures are disclosed. In one embodiment, a through via may be formed by forming a partial via from an active surface through a conductive element thereon and a portion of the substrate underlying the conductive element. The through via may then be completed by laser ablation or drilling from a back surface. In another embodiment, a partial via may be formed by laser ablation or drilling from the back surface of a substrate to a predetermined distance therein. The through via may be completed from the active surface by forming a partial via extending through the conductive element and the underlying substrate to intersect the laser-drilled partial via. In another embodiment, a partial via may first be formed by laser ablation or drilling from the back surface of the substrate followed by dry etching to complete the through via.
US08786087B2	Semiconductor device having damascene interconnection structure that prevents void formation between interconnections having transparent dielectric substrate A semiconductor device is made up of a first insulating layer having a through hole; a first interconnection which includes a first conductive layer, a first barrier layer, and a first main interconnection, and a second interconnection connected to one of the first conductive layer and the first barrier layer. Accordingly, the semiconductor device can avoid a problem where the material of the first main interconnection transfers from a portion connected to the second interconnection due to electromigration to form a void, with the result that the first interconnection is disconnected from the second interconnection.
US08786086B2	Semiconductor device including wiring having main portion and extended portion A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate; an insulating film formed over the semiconductor substrate, there being formed in the insulating film a trench that in a sectional view has a stepped shape; and a wiring formed in the trench, wherein the wiring includes, a main portion with a first thickness; and an extended portion with a second thickness that is thinner than the first thickness and that extends outward from a side of the main portion.
US08786085B2	Semiconductor structure and method for making same One or more embodiments relate to a semiconductor structure, comprising: a barrier layer overlying a workpiece surface; a seed layer overlying the barrier layer; an inhibitor layer overlying said seed layer, the inhibitor layer having a opening exposing a portion of the seed layer, and a fill layer overlying the exposed portion of the seed layer.
US08786082B2	Semiconductor structure having no adjacent bumps between two adjacent pads A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, at least two pads, a passivation layer, at least two under bump metallization (UBM) layers and at least two bumps. The pads are disposed adjacent to each other on the substrate along the first direction. The passivation layer covers the substrate and the peripheral upper surface of each pad to define an opening. Each of the openings defines an opening projection along the second direction. The opening projections are disposed adjacent to each other but not overlapping with each other. Furthermore, the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. The UBM layers are disposed on the corresponding openings, and the bumps are respectively disposed on the corresponding UBM layers. With the above arrangements, the width of each bump of the semiconductor structure of the present invention could be widened without being limited by the bump pitch.
US08786081B2	Method and device for circuit routing by way of under-bump metallization A semiconductor device includes a substrate that contains a plurality of electronic components/elements. The semiconductor device includes an interconnect structure disposed over the substrate, the interconnect structure containing a plurality of interconnect layers. The semiconductor device includes a passivation layer disposed over the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device includes an Under-Bump Metallization (UBM) layer disposed over the passivation layer, the UBM layer containing a UBM pad and a plurality of UBM devices, the UBM devices including at least one of: a UBM trace that is electrically coupled to one of the electronic components through the interconnect structure, and a dummy UBM device. The semiconductor device includes a solder bump disposed on, and electrically coupled to, the UBM pad.
US08786076B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming a thermally reinforced semiconductor die A semiconductor device includes a substrate with conductive traces. A semiconductor die is mounted with an active surface oriented toward the substrate. An underfill material is deposited between the semiconductor die and substrate. A recess is formed in an interior portion of the semiconductor die that extends from a back surface of the semiconductor die opposite the active surface partially through the semiconductor die such that a peripheral portion of the back surface of the semiconductor die is offset with respect to a depth of the recess. A thermal interface material (TIM) is deposited over the semiconductor die and into the recess such that the TIM in the recess is laterally supported by the peripheral portion of the semiconductor die to reduce flow of the TIM away from the semiconductor die. A heat spreader including protrusions is mounted over the semiconductor die and contacts the TIM.
US08786074B2	Packaging device for matrix-arrayed semiconductor light-emitting elements of high power and high directivity A packaging device for matrix-arrayed semiconductor light-emitting elements of high power and high directivity comprises a metal base, an array chip and a plurality of metal wires. The metal base is of highly heat conductive copper or aluminum, and a first electrode area and at least one second electrode area which are electrically isolated are disposed on the metal base. The array chip is disposed on the first electrode area, on which multiple matrix-arranged semiconductor light-emitting elements and at least one wire bond pad adjacent to the light-emitting elements are disposed. The light-emitting element is a VCSEL element, an HCSEL element or an RCLED element. The metal wires are connected between the wire bond pad and the second electrode area to transmit power signals. Between the bottom surface and the first electrode area is disposed a conductive adhesive to bond and facilitate electrical connection between the two.

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