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US08943410B2	Modified media presentation during scrubbing A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a thumbnail representing at least a portion of a media clip, receiving user input corresponding to a play speed at which a media clip is to be played, determining whether the received user input exceeds one or more predetermined thresholds, and selectively disabling playing of a video portion or an audio portion, or both, based on a result of the determination.
US08943406B2	Generating user help information for customized user interface A method for generating user help information for a customized user interface, the customized user interface including one or more user interface components from a library of user interface components, the method comprising the steps of: associating library component help information with each user interface component in the library of user interface components; identifying component help information from the library component help information for each component in the customized user interface; aggregating the identified component help information into user help information for presentation to a user of the customized user interface.
US08943400B2	Document processing apparatus, document processing method and storage medium storing document processing program A document processing apparatus has an attachment unit and a storage. The attachment unit attaches a comment to an electronic document as additional information. The comment relates to a modification of the electronic document. The storage associates the comment with modified place information and stores them. The modified place information indicates a modified place of the electronic document, when the electronic document is modified based on the comment.
US08943393B1	Distributed burst error protection A method of protecting digital words traversing multiple data paths is presented. The method identifies a number of bits for a header of a digital word and determines a number of protection bits for the header. A bit value for each of the protection bits is computed, and the computed bit values of the protection bits are transmitted through one or more data paths.
US08943390B1	Peel decoding for concatenated codes A codeword that is associated with one uncorrected codeword in a set of first codewords is selected from a set of third codewords. Error correction decoding is performed on the selected codeword using a third, systematic error correction code.
US08943387B2	Programming management data for a memory Methods, apparatus, systems, and data structures may operate to combine block management data with a portion of data, to generate error correction data for the combined portion, and to store the data, the block management data, the error correction data for the combined portion, and error correction data for the data in a memory. Additional embodiments may operate to generate or store error correction data for each of a plurality of sectors of a page except for a particular sector in the page and combine block management data with the particular sector to generate a modified sector. Additional embodiments may operate to generate or store error correction data for the modified sector and combine the plurality of sectors, the error correction data for each of the plurality of sectors other than the particular page, and the block management data and the error correction data for the modified sector.
US08943377B2	On-chip detection of types of operations tested by an LBIST An integrated circuit includes an LBIST controller operative to run a test program on at least one selection of core logic of the integrated circuit to test the operability of the at least one selection of core logic. The integrated circuit also includes a monitoring logic structure operative to detect at least one type of operation executed for the test program from at least one particular control signal activated by the LBIST controller for controlling the at least one selection of core logic to execute the test program from among at least one control signal for controlling operations on the at least one selection of core logic.
US08943376B2	Position independent testing of circuits Scan distributor, collector, and controller circuitry connect to the functional inputs and outputs of core circuitry on integrated circuits to provide testing through those functional inputs and outputs. Multiplexer and demultiplexer circuits select between the scan circuitry and the functional inputs and outputs. The core circuitry can also be provided with built-in scan distributor, collector, and controller circuitry to avoid having to add it external of the core circuitry. With appropriately placed built-in scan distributor and collector circuits, connecting together the functional inputs and outputs of the core circuitry also connects together the scan distributor and collector circuitry in each core. This can provide a hierarchy of scan circuitry and reduce the need for separate test interconnects and multiplexers.
US08943375B2	Combo static flop with full test A SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) macro test flop circuit includes a flip-flop circuit, a scan control circuit, and an output buffer circuit. The flip-flop circuit includes a master latch circuit and a slave latch circuit. The master latch circuit includes a master storage node and a multiplexer. The slave latch circuit includes a slave storage node driven by the master latch. The scan control circuit includes a scan slave feed-forward circuit, a scan latch circuit, and a scan driver circuit driven by the scan feed-back circuit. The scan latch circuit includes a scan feed-back circuit, a scan storage node, and a scan feed-forward circuit driven from the slave latch. The output buffer circuit includes a master driver driven from the master latch circuit and a slave driver driven from the slave latch circuit.
US08943372B2	Systems and methods for open and extensible integration of management domains in computation and orchestration of resource placement An aspect of this invention is a method that includes evaluating a computing environment by performing auditing of a fault tolerance ability of the computing environment to tolerate each of a plurality of failure scenarios; constructing a failover plan for each of the plurality of scenarios; identifying one or more physical resource limitations which constrain the fault tolerance ability; and identifying one or more physical resources to be added to the computing environment to tolerate each of the plurality of failure scenarios.
US08943368B2	Method for computer-aided detection of errors during the execution of one or more software-based programs in a system of components A method detects errors during execution of software based programs in a system of motor vehicle components. During execution a component executes its assigned program, and the components call each other interactively. When a component is called, a program identity and an error parameter are transmitted from the other component to the component. If a component identifies an error during execution, it stores an active error entry that contains the program identity, the component identification and an error status. If a component, which has called another component, receives the component identification, it stores a passive error entry that contains the program identity, its component identification and the identification of the other component. A component, which stores one or more active or passive error entries, returns the program identity and the component identification of the component, at least once during program execution, to the component that has called it.
US08943355B2	Cloud data storage system A cloud data storage system is provided for multiple clients to access data of files comprising at least one node connecting to a first storage means; at least one namenode module for processing file operations issued from the clients, namenode module issuing data access instructions to access and maintain the metadata on the first storage means; at least one datanode module respectively executing on at least one node, each datanode module functioning to scan and access a second storage means connected thereto; at least one data import module selectively executing on nodes in which datanode module are executing, the data import module scanning a second storage means newly connected to the cloud data storage system and obtaining a corresponding metadata, and executing data migration operation for the data in second storage means without actual physical uploading operation.
US08943351B2	USB based synchronization and timing system A synchronization apparatus, comprising: a USB device having a USB microcontroller, circuitry for observing USB traffic, and circuitry for decoding from a USB data stream a periodic data structure (such as a clock carrier signal) containing information about a distributed clock frequency and phase and outputting a decoded carrier signal; and circuitry for receiving the decoded carrier signal, for generating a software interrupt upon receipt of a predefined data packet (such as a SOF packet) and for passing the software interrupt to the USB microcontroller; wherein the USB microcontroller is configured to respond to the software interrupt (such as with an interrupt service routine provided therein) by generating an output signal adapted to be used as a synchronization reference signal.
US08943345B2	Emergency mobile device power source In various aspects, a portable electronic device includes electrical components supported by a housing, the electrical components including a user interface coupled to a processor and a storage medium including an emergency power storage module coupled to the processor. The portable apparatus further includes one or more power storage devices configured to provide electrical energy to the electrical components, at least one power storage device operably controlled by the emergency power storage module to provide emergency electrical energy to the electronic components for an emergency communication.
US08943344B2	Power sourcing equipment for power over ethernet with low energy standby mode A power sourcing equipment (PSE) exhibiting a low power sleep mode, the PSE constituted of: a sleep control circuitry comprising a first timer; an effective resistance threshold detector responsive to the sleep control circuitry and arranged to detect whether the effective resistance across the output port of the PSE is less than a predetermined threshold; and a detection and powering circuitry responsive to the sleep control circuitry, wherein the sleep control circuitry is arranged to load the first timer with a first predetermined time period, and at the expiration of the first predetermined time period: activate the effective resistance threshold detector for a second predetermined time period; and in the event the effective resistance threshold detector detects that the effective resistance across the output port of the PSE is less than the predetermined threshold, enable the detection and powering circuitry.
US08943340B2	Controlling a turbo mode frequency of a processor In one embodiment, the present invention includes a multicore processor with a power controller to control a frequency at which the processor operates. More specifically, the power controller can limit a maximum operating frequency of the processor to less than a configured maximum operating frequency to enable a reduction in a number of frequency transitions occurring responsive to power state events, thus avoiding the overhead of operations performed in handling such transitions. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08943338B2	Server power system A power server system includes a power transmission interface, a power supply and a battery backup unit (BBU). The power supply converts an AC power into a DC power and outputs the DC power to the power transmission interface. After the AC power is disconnected, the power supply continues outputting the DC power in a holding period having a rising period and a current sharing period. The BBU outputs a redundant power to the power transmission interface before the power supply stops outputting the DC power. The BBU boosts the voltage level of the redundant power in the rising period, and controls the voltage level of the redundant power to be the same with that of the DC power in the current sharing period, so that the battery output inrush current is reduced and the battery life is extended.
US08943337B1	Power management within a data protection system Various techniques for managing power consumption of computing devices within a data protection system are disclosed. For example, one method involves accessing policy information, which the policy information indicates when one or more data protection system activities should be performed and identifies whether a computing device is participating in the data protection system activities. Based upon this policy information, the method then identifies whether power consumption of the computing device can be reduced. In response to identifying that the power consumption of the computing device can be reduced, a power management command is automatically sent via a network. Performance of the power management command reduces the power consumption of the computing device.
US08943329B2	Method and apparatus for sharing an integrity security module in a dual-environment computing device A method and apparatus are disclosed for sharing an integrity security module in a dual-environment computing device. The apparatus include an integrity security module, one or more processors, a detection module and a regeneration module. The one or more processors may have access to the integrity security module and may operate in two distinct operating environments of a dual-environment computing device. The detection module may detect, during an initialization sequence, a power state transition of an operating environment of the dual-environment computing device. The regeneration module may regenerate one or more integrity values from a stored integrity metric log in response to detecting the power state transition of the operating environment of the dual-environment computing device.
US08943327B2	Apparatus and method to enable operation between a main assembly and a sub-assembly that are cryptographically related According to one aspect of embodiments of the present invention there is provided apparatus comprising a main assembly having a processing element configured to: obtain a first and second sub-assembly identifier stored on a second-assembly in communication with the main assembly; and enable operation of the main assembly and second assembly based on a determination that the first and second sub-assembly identifiers are cryptographically related.
US08943325B2	Use of a digital signature obtained from at least one structural characteristic of a material element to protect the direct reading of sensitive data and method for reading this protected data The invention is related to the use of one or several digital signatures obtained from at least one structural characteristic of a material element that has a complex, chaotic, unique and stable structure, to protect the direct reading of sensitive data, a media of such protected data and a method for reading this protected data.
US08943323B2	System and method for provisioning device certificates A method is provided for provisioning a device certificate. A device certificate request is transmitted from a communication device to a server in a communication network using an established communications channel between the communication device and the server. The device certificate request comprises at least a user identifier and a device identifier. The server provides to the communication device a device certificate that includes the user identifier and the device identifier and that is signed by a private key of a certificate authority.
US08943320B2	Techniques for authentication via a mobile device Techniques for authentication via a mobile device are provided. A mobile device is pre-registered for website authentication services. A user encounters a website displaying an embedded code as an image alongside a normal login process for that website. The image is identified by the mobile device, encrypted and signed by the mobile device and sent to a proxy. The proxy authenticates the code and associates it with the website. Credentials for the user are provided to the website to automatically authenticate the user for access to the website bypassing the normal login process associated with the website.
US08943313B2	Fine-grained security in federated data sets A data processing system, a server such as a federated server, a computer system, and like devices, and associated operating methods can be configured to support fine-grained security including resource allocation and resource scheduling. A data processing system can comprise a federated server operable to access data distributed among a plurality of remote data sources upon request from a plurality of client users and applications; and logic executable on the federated server. The logic can be operable to enforce fine-grained security operations on a plurality of federated shared data sets distributed among the plurality of remote data sources.
US08943312B2	Method of and system for authenticating online read digital content A method of authenticating an online read right of a digital content includes: receiving an online read first request from a terminal, the first request including first user information, obtaining first right information corresponding to the first user information, generating a first right model, obtaining first certificate information corresponding to the first right model, generating a second request including the first right model and the first certificate information, and authenticating the first certificate information and M function rights in the first right model.
US08943310B2	System and method for obtaining a digital certificate for an endpoint According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of establishing a digital certificate on an endpoint includes establishing a connection between a proxy function module and the endpoint. The proxy function module is remotely located from the endpoint and operable to communicate with the endpoint and a certificate authority. Authentication information is generated at the endpoint. A portion of the authentication information is transmitted to the proxy function module. The proxy function module obtains a digital certificate based on the portion of the authentication information. The digital certificate is received at the endpoint from the proxy function module.
US08943305B2	Frame structure for medium access in body area networks (BAN) A system and method for providing a variety of medium access and power management methods are disclosed. A defined frame structure allows a hub and a node to use said methods for secured or unsecured communications with each other. Contended access is available during a random access phase. The node uses an alternate doubling of a backoff counter to reduce interference and resolve collisions with other nodes attempting to communicate with the hub in the random access phase. Non-contended access is also available, and the hub may schedule reoccurring or one-time allocation intervals for the node. The hub and the node may also establish polled and posted allocation intervals on an as needed basis. The node manages power usage by being at active mode at times during the beacon period when the node is expected to transmit or receive frames.
US08943299B2	Operating a stack of information in an information handling system A pointer is for pointing to a next-to-read location within a stack of information. For pushing information onto the stack: a value is saved of the pointer, which points to a first location within the stack as being the next-to-read location; the pointer is updated so that it points to a second location within the stack as being the next-to-read location; and the information is written for storage at the second location. For popping the information from the stack: in response to the pointer, the information is read from the second location as the next-to-read location; and the pointer is restored to equal the saved value so that it points to the first location as being the next-to-read location.
US08943295B1	System and method for mapping file block numbers to logical block addresses A system and method for mapping file block numbers (FBNs) to logical block addresses (LBAs) is provided. The system and method performs the mapping of FBNs to LBAs in a file system layer of a storage operating system, thereby enabling the use of clients in a storage environment that have not been modified to incorporate mapping tables. As a result, a client may send data access requests to the storage system utilizing FBNs and have the storage system perform the appropriate mapping to LBAs.
US08943288B2	Method of controlling memory access Provided is a method of controlling memory access. In a system including a first layer element executed in a privileged mode having a first priority of permission to access the entire region of a memory and second and third layer elements executed in an unprivileged mode having a second priority of permission to access a partial region of the memory, the method of controlling memory access determines whether the memory is accessible for each page that is an address space unit, based on which mode a layer element currently accessing the memory is executed in between the privileged mode and the unprivileged mode; and determines whether the memory is accessible based on which one of the first, second and third layer elements corresponds to a domain currently being attempted to be accessed from among a plurality of domains of the memory. Accordingly, a memory domain allocated to a guest operating system kernel is effectively protected from an application executed in the unprivileged mode in which the guest operating system kernel is executed.
US08943287B1	Multi-core processor system configured to constrain access rate from memory A multi-core processor system includes a number of cores, a memory system, and a common access bus. Each core includes a core processor; a dedicated core cache operatively connected to the core processor; and, a core processor rate limiter operatively connected to the dedicated core cache. The memory system includes physical memory; a memory controller connected to the physical memory; and, a dedicated memory cache connected to the memory controller. The common access bus interconnects the cores and the memory system. The core processor rate limiters are configured to constrain the rate at which data is accessed by each respective core processor from the memory system so that each core processor memory access is capable of being limited to an expected value.
US08943285B2	Methods for migrating data in a server that remains substantially available for use during such migration Methods and software are provided for “hot migration” of data an original storage unit for a target system to destination storage unit. In one embodiment, a virtual storage device is provided, having a control block mapped to both the original storage unit, as well as to the destination storage unit. The target system is stopped, the virtual storage device is substituted for the original storage unit, and the target system is restarted. The virtual storage device directs requests to the destination storage unit, and fulfills read requests from whichever of the two storage units has a valid copy of data requested (depending, e.g., on whether the data is as yet unchanged, has been re-written, or has been copied, during the migration process). Unchanged data blocks are copies from the original storage unit to the destination storage unit. The target system is stopped, the virtual storage device is disconnected from the target system, and the destination storage unit is connected in its place. Software may also be provided to automate these processes.
US08943282B1	Managing snapshots in cache-based storage systems A method is used in managing snapshot in cache-based storage systems. A request to create a snapshot of a data object is received. A portion of the data object is cached in a global cache. The data object is associated with a mapping object. The mapping object manages access to the portion of the data object. A snapshot of the data object is created. A snapshot mapping object is associated with the snapshot of the data object. The snapshot mapping object includes a link to the mapping object. The snapshot mapping object is a version of the mapping object and shares the portion of the data object cached in the global cache.
US08943274B2	Changing power state with an elastic cache An apparatus and associated method is provided employing data capacity determination logic. The logic dynamically changes a data storage capacity of an electronic data storage memory. The change in capacity is made in relation to a transient energy during a power state change sequence performed by the electronic data storage memory.
US08943248B2	Method and system for handling discarded and merged events when monitoring a system bus A bus monitoring and debugging system operating independently without impacting the normal operation of the CPU and without adding any overhead to the application being monitored. The bus is monitored for discarded speculative read and for merged write transactions in order to determine the true bus throughputs. Bus statistics that are relevant to providing insight to system operation are automatically captured. Logging of relevant events may be enabled or disabled when a sliding time window expires, or alternatively by external trigger events.
US08943237B1	Performance improvement for attached multi-storage devices A data storage device may comprise a controller, first and second host-addressable logical units and a communication interface. The first logical unit may comprise a first data storage, first endpoints associated with the first data storage and a first bus interface coupled between the first data storage and the first endpoints. The second logical unit may comprise a second data storage and second endpoints. The second endpoints may be associated with the second data storage and may be separate and distinct from the first endpoints. A second bus interface may be coupled between the second data storage and the second endpoints. The communication interface may be coupled to the first and second host-addressable logical units and may be configured according to communicate with the host according to a predetermined communication protocol.
US08943231B2	Display device, projector, display system, and method of switching device A display device is capable of switching a function of an indication body in accordance with the need of the user in the case in which the indication body is made to function as a pointing device. The display device is provided with a function device having a first interface. The configuration information of the first interface is stored in the storage section, and is supplied to a host device by a supply section via the function device. A change section is capable of change the configuration information in accordance with the operation of the user received by a reception section.
US08943228B2	Peripheral interface, data stream, and data transfer method A peripheral interface for use with a control computer and a peripheral device. The peripheral interface has a controller receiving an input data stream from the control computer and delivering an output data stream to the peripheral device, the controller obtaining an instruction from the input data stream for a modification of the output data stream. Prior art devices transfer data streams for peripheral devices blockwise by means of DMA using peripheral interfaces. In conventional peripheral interfaces, a burdensome real-time operating system must be used on the control computer in order have a sufficiently short reaction time to bring about a continuous, uninterrupted data stream. The invention achieves the object using a non-real-time operating system. A data stream is generated in the control computer, comprising control data (Bn) for the peripheral device and a segment (SOS) having spare control data to be output in case of a break in the data stream, and a leading spare data marking, particularly a jump command (JMP) past the spare control data. The data stream is received in the peripheral interface, and output to the peripheral device, wherein an instruction for a modification of the output of the data stream is identified in the received data stream, and the data stream is modified for output according to the identified instruction.
US08943227B2	Data storage architecture extension system and method A data storage architecture extension (DAX) system and method that daisy-chains multiple SATA disk drive storage elements to allow a single host bus adapter (HBA) to view the daisy-chain as one logical SATA disk drive is disclosed. The system/method may be broadly described as comprising a pass-thru disk drive controller (PTDDC) further comprising a pass-thru input (PTI) port, disk drive interface (DDI) port, and pass-thru output (PTO) port. The PTDDC intercepts and translates PTI port input to the requirements of a SATA disk drive connected to the DDI. Each PTDDC may be daisy-chained to other PTDDCs to permit a plethora of SATA drives to be associated with a given HBA, with the first PTDDC providing a presentation interface to the HBA integrating all SATA disk drive storage connected to the PTDDCs. Rack mounting of PTDDC-enabled SATA disk drives enables creation of inexpensive dynamically expandable petabyte-class storage arrays.
US08943212B2	System and method for translating application program network service requests into actions and performing those actions through the management and/or control plane responsive to previously defined policies and previous requests by the same or another application program Application program network service requests are translated into specific actions that are then performed through the management plane and/or control plane. The translations and resulting actions are responsive to previously defined policies for the communication network, and may further reflect processing of previous service requests by the same or another application program. The amount of resources available for use by a given application program may be predefined based on a globally defined network policy. Each service request obtained from an application program may be translated into multiple actions performed using various specific protocols and/or interfaces provided by either the management plane, the control plane, or both the management and control planes. Reports of network activity, status and/or faults for a requesting application program may be tailored to the requesting program's view of the network, and passed directly and exclusively to the requesting program.
US08943209B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for policy and charging rules function (PCRF) fault tolerance Methods, systems, and computer readable media for PCRF fault tolerance are disclosed. One exemplary method for PCRF fault tolerance includes sending, from the PCRF to a Diameter peer, a message concerning Diameter application session state information associated with Diameter application sessions currently or previously managed by the PCRF. The method further includes receiving, by the PCRF, a message from the Diameter peer in response to the message concerning the Diameter application session state information. The method further includes, determining, by the PCRF and based on the response, whether the Diameter application session state information maintained by the PCRF is accurate. The method further includes, in response to determining that the Diameter application session state information maintained by the PCRF is not accurate, requesting, by the PCRF, Diameter application session state information.
US08943207B2	System and method for providing dynamic roll-back reservations in time A systems, method and computer-readable media are disclosed for providing a dynamic roll-back reservation mask in a compute environment. The method of managing compute resources within a compute environment includes, based on an agreement between a compute resource provider and a customer, creating a roll-back reservation mask for compute resources which slides ahead of current time by a period of time. Within the roll-back reservation mask, the method specifies a subset of consumers and compute resource requests which can access compute resources associated with the roll-back reservation mask and, based on received data, the method dynamically modifies at least one of (1) the period of time the roll-back reservation mask slides ahead of current time and (2) the compute resources associated with the roll-back reservation mask.
US08943198B2	Automatically addressing performance issues in a distributed database A database performance monitor monitors performance of a distributed database, identifies a database performance issue for the distributed database, determines from a distributed virtual network mechanism which physical networks are related to the database performance issue, determines a potential solution to the database performance issue that changes configuration of the distributed database, and applies the potential solution by automatically changing configuration of the distributed database without intervention of a user to address the database performance issue.
US08943195B2	Node detection apparatus, node detection method and computer readable medium There is provided a node detection apparatus including: an acquisition section that acquires address information of communication equipment managed by a DNS server; an operation confirmation section that confirms operations of the communication equipment based on the address information acquired by the acquisition section; and a node registration section that registers the communication equipment having the address information acquired by the acquisition section as an operating node, based on a result of the operation confirmation by the operation confirmation section.
US08943185B2	Networked gaming system having a browser manager An integrated browser manager and networked gaming system that provides server based dynamic content onto a content display area of one or more gaming machines is disclosed. The system includes: a browser manager, one or more application servers connected to the browser manager by a server-to-server (S2S) server and S2S web service, and one or more gaming machines are connected to the browser manager by a game-to-server (G2S) server and G2S web service. The browser manager includes a user interface application and a core service, wherein the user interface application generates a user interface display on a user control station. Each gaming machine includes a network interface to receive external content from the application server via the browser manager, and a content display area for displaying the external content.
US08943183B2	Decoupled installation of data management systems Systems and methods for providing decoupled installation of data management systems used in conjunction with computer networks are disclosed. The method comprises installing data storage software in order to facilitate communication with a second computer in order to perform data storage operations. The software may be installed without knowledge of the second computer and/or the ability to communicate with the second computer. During the installation process, configuration parameters are obtained by the first computer and stored in a data structure. At least a portion of the configuration parameters recorded in the data structure is also provided to the second computer. The first and second computers subsequently communicate in order to register the first computer for use with the second computer.
US08943171B2	Location-aware web service-based application skinning for web applications A mechanism for location-aware web service-based application skinning for web applications is disclosed. A method includes identifying, by a server device, a locale of an originator of a request for a web page of a web application hosted by the server device, obtaining skinning files associated with a combination of the web application and the identified locale; and rendering, in response to the request, the web page comprising the skinning files, wherein the skinning files provide a language and style to a user interface (UI) of the web page based on the identified locale that is separate from a development of the web application.
US08943166B2	Data transfer device, data transfer method, and data transfer system A data acquirer acquires data from another device and stores the data in a buffer. A communicator transmits the data stored in the buffer to a data collection server. A line state acquirer acquires information on a line (line state data) and accumulates and stores the acquired line state data in a line state storer. A transmission data amount determiner determines a data amount transmittable by one connection to the data collection server based on the line state data stored in the line state storer. A transmission schedule generator generates a transmission schedule for data based on a total amount of data stored in the buffer and the data amount transmittable by one connection. The communicator transmits data according to the transmission schedule.
US08943164B2	Apparatus and methods for retrieving/ downloading content on a communication device Apparatus, methods, processors, and computer readable media for receiving or transmitting content based on a presentation area size of a communication device are provided. In one aspect, the method includes obtaining a presentation area size of a display on a first communication device, and obtaining a first portion of content from a second communication device located across a communications network. The first portion of content is based on the presentation area size. The method further includes storing the first portion of content in a memory of the first communication device.
US08943158B2	System, method and computer program product for performing an action based on an aspect of an electronic mail message thread A system, method and computer program product are provided for performing an action based on an aspect of a thread associated with electronic mail messages. In use, an aspect of a thread associated with a plurality of electronic mail messages is identified. Further, an action is performed based on the aspect of the thread.
US08943138B2	Altering logical groups based on loneliness Systems and methods for adding a first user to a first group of users are presented. First, logical relationship information describing logical relationships among a plurality of users is accessed. Then potential membership of a first user in a first group of users is determined based on the logical relationship information, by selecting the first group from a plurality of possible groups, the selecting being based on scores generated, for each of the plurality of possible groups, by a candidate scorer module, the scores based at least partially on a loneliness score for the first user. Then the first user is added to the first group of users.
US08943136B2	Creating and sharing interest lists in a social networking system A social networking service allows a user of the service to create an interest list associated with a topic of interest, where the interest list includes members that may post content via the social networking service. Members of the interest list may post content associated with the topic. Other users of the social network service may subscribe to the list, and these subscribers may then receive a feed that contains the content posted by the members of the interest list.
US08943134B2	Targeting based on social updates Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, are described for providing content to a user. A method comprises: receiving an update for publication to an activity stream associated with the user, the activity stream being produced by a social application executing on one or more server computers and being published for consumption by one or more subscribers to the social application that have been designated by the user as being authorized to receive the update; and distributing additional content to the user based on the received user update.
US08943132B2	Systems and methods for optimization of subscriptions to resource changes in machine-to-machine (M2M) systems Systems and methods provide for bundling subscriptions associated with a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) device or M2M application into a single hypertext transport protocol (HTTP) session. A method includes subscribing, by a gateway (GW), to an M2M device on behalf of a plurality of subscribers using a single Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP) session.
US08943131B2	Predictive collaboration management A method and apparatus for managing collaborations. Requests are received by a computer for collaboration on a topic. A set of experts is identified by the computer having expertise in the topic for the collaboration and having activity prior to the collaboration relating to the topic to predict a likelihood of participation by the respective expert in the collaboration. The set of experts are identified from searching a number of collections of information.
US08943124B2	Systems and methods for customizing mobile applications based upon user associations with one or more entities Systems and methods for customizing mobile applications are provided. The systems and methods may include a computer program product, comprising a computer-usable medium having a computer-readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for customizing a mobile application, said method comprising: receiving or retrieving information representative of (i) a user, and (ii) an entity that the user is affiliated with; delivering the information representative of (i) the user, and (ii) the entity that the user is affiliated with; receiving customization information associated with one or both of the user or the entity; and presenting a user interface for the user, the user interface reflecting at least a portion of the customization information.
US08943118B2	Data processing apparatus and method for reducing the size of a lookup table A lookup table receives an n-bit input value and returns an output value that would be obtained by performance of a predetermined operation on the input value. The number of entries in the lookup table is less than 2n. An n-bit input data value is received, a modification condition is detected if any of a predetermined number of significant bits of the input data value are logic zeroes, and a shift operation is performed on the input data value if the modification condition is detected, prior to providing the input to the lookup table. If the modification condition is detected, an output value derivation operation is performed on the output value received from the lookup table to modify it prior to returning it to for processing. The derivation operation accounts for the shift operation. This approach can lead to a significant reduction in the lookup table size.
US08943114B2	Method for implementing 32 bit complex multiplication by using 16-bit complex multipliers An apparatus including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to receive a first 2N-bit complex number and a second 2N-bit complex number, each having a first format, and to reformat the first and the second 2N-bit complex numbers to a second format such that a lower portion of each real and imaginary part of each 2N-bit complex number is positive. The second circuit may be configured to multiply the first and the second 2N-bit complex numbers using at least one N-bit signed complex multiplier, where N is an integer.
US08943108B2	Hardware off-load memory garbage collection acceleration A memory allocation message for each primary memory allocation in a primary memory made by a primary processor is received at a hardware memory management module. A representation of each primary memory allocation is allocated within a second memory in response to each memory allocation message. A determination is made, based upon the allocated representations of each primary memory allocation within the second memory, to free a primary memory allocation in the primary memory. A memory free message is sent to the primary processor instructing the primary processor to free the primary memory allocation in the primary memory.
US08943103B2	Improvements to query execution in a parallel elastic database management system A database management system implemented in a cloud computing environment. Operational nodes are assigned as controller-nodes, compute-nodes or storage-nodes. The number of operational nodes, and their assignment as compute-nodes or storage-nodes can vary. Queries specify tables, with each such table assigned to a respective group of storage nodes. The number of operational nodes executing a given query may change by (a) changing the compute-nodegroup associated with a connection, or (b) adding or removing nodes from the compute-nodegroup; and/or distributing data from the tables among the nodes in a storage nodegroup. State information is maintained for each client connection, such that steps are executed assuming that the state exists. State changes are recorded during step execution for a given connection, so that subsequent steps from the same connection are executed with the state as left by a prior step, and so that subsequent queries on the same connection are executed with the state as left by the prior query.
US08943095B2	Systems and methods for accessing web pages using natural language Systems and methods for building an interface that receives and responds to varied natural language expressions. In an embodiment, the system receives a natural language expression in text or audio, and translates it by building at least one data structure which reflects the concepts expressed in the natural language expression. The data structure may comprise a symbol representing each concept. In an embodiment, a parser utilizes the data structure to parse language expressions to single concept symbols that represent the meaning of the expressions. Response actions may also be performed in response to the parsed language expressions. In addition, a parser may receive a single concept symbol, and generate one or many natural language expressions of the meaning of the concept symbol. Furthermore, the system may be configured to understand the local meaning of words and phrases.
US08943088B2	System and method for processing database queries The present invention provides a system and method for processing a database query between one or more clients and one or more databases. The database query, which is formatted using a first protocol, is received from one of the clients. One of the databases is selected to process the database query and the database query is translated from the first protocol to a second protocol. The translated database query is then sent to the selected database for processing. A response to the database query, which is formatted using the second protocol, is received from the selected database and the response is translated from the second protocol to the first protocol. The present invention determines which of the clients sent the database query and sends the translated response to the client that sent the database query. This method can be implemented as a computer program embodied on a computer readable medium.
US08943085B2	Start pointer tracking in NFAs In a hardware engine, finding rule matches within an input stream by executing a Nondeterministic Finite Automaton (NFA) with active states tracked in parallel cells, a Start Pointer (SP) is captured by the cell beginning a match and passed from cell to cell until the match completes, when it is reported by the cell ending the match. For multiple overlapping matches, different cells may hold different SPs, and a cell representing multiple NFA states may hold multiple SPs. Methods are given to select one SP when multiple SPs collide in the same state.
US08943081B2	User-powered recommendation system Recommendation systems are widely used in Internet applications. In current recommendation systems, users only play a passive role and have limited control over the recommendation generation process. As a result, there is often considerable mismatch between the recommendations made by these systems and the actual user interests, which are fine-grained and constantly evolving. With a user-powered distributed recommendation architecture, individual users can flexibly define fine-grained communities of interest in a declarative fashion and obtain recommendations accurately tailored to their interests by aggregating opinions of users in such communities. By combining a progressive sampling technique with data perturbation methods, the recommendation system is both scalable and privacy-preserving.
US08943077B1	Community-modified profile with activity-based authorization In some embodiments, techniques for modifying a profile may include associating a permissions level with a second user; responsive to detecting activity by the second user, increasing the permissions level; comparing the permissions level to a threshold; determining that the permissions level exceeds the threshold; responsive to determining that the permissions level exceeds the threshold, permitting the second user to modify a first profile data associated with profile associated with a first user; receiving a second profile data from the second user, wherein the second profile data is a result of a modification of the first profile data; associating the second profile data with the profile of the first user; and providing the profile of the first user to a third user, wherein the profile of the first user includes the second profile data.
US08943075B1	Shared tenancy classes in a service model architecture An object class is disclosed. The object class comprises a mixed-tenanted object class. An instance of the mixed tenanted object class is indicated as tenanted or is indicated as non-tenanted.
US08943069B2	Knowledge filter A method and system for sharing knowledge may include receiving information input into a database and organizing items of information in the database. Some embodiments may also include collecting ratings and comments associated with each item of information and allowing users to access and sort items of information according to selected rating criteria in order to find the most reliable and/or valuable information from the database. The described system and method may allow individual members to easily locate the items of information from a collectively generated knowledge base that is presented in accordance with that individual's personal measure of value in the information.
US08943060B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for identifying links among interactional digital data The invention provides in some aspects methods of digital data processor-based analysis of digital data that represent interactions to identify distinct individuals and/or the entities with which they are affiliated (e.g., households, businesses, social or other groups) involved in those interactions. The methods can be employed, for example, to analyze digital data representing retail purchase, marketing and visitor interactions for tracking and/or reporting purposes.
US08943059B2	Systems and methods for merging source records in accordance with survivorship rules According to some embodiments, a plurality of source records may be received from a plurality of data sources, with each source record including a plurality of fields. It may be determined that a match group of source records from different data sources relate to the same entity, and a single best record may be automatically created for the match group based on field values from different source records in the match group. The creating may includes, for example, assigning a first set of fields to a first survivorship group associated with a first survivorship rule and a second set of fields to a second survivorship group associated with a second survivorship rule. All records in the match group may then be simultaneously ranked in accordance with the first and second survivorship rules using a single query. The best record could then be stored for subsequent use by other applications.
US08943054B2	Social media content management system and method A social media content management system coupled to a social media network includes database files and execution instructions to assemble, manage and transmit social media content. The database files store a feed content file, a social content management file, and management tables including a schedule file and an export content file. Execution instructions include a feed channel content system for receiving and storing feed content items in the feed content file. A selection subsystem is used for selecting and storing export content as social media posts in the social content management file. A scheduling subsystem enables a user to create and store schedules, to select a schedule and to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form the export content file. An export system transmits the stored content as social media content posts to the social media network according to the selected schedule.
US08943051B2	Lexical answer type confidence estimation and application A system, method and computer program product for automatically estimating the confidence of a detected LAT to provide a more accurate overall score for an obtained candidate answer. A confidence “score” or value of each detected LAT is obtained, and the system and method performs combining the confidence score with a degree of match between a LAT and an AnswerType of the candidate answer to provide improved overall score for the candidate answer.
US08943041B2	Query plan reformulation Apparatus, systems, and methods may operate to receive an original query plan, to transform the original query plan into an equivalent executable compact query plan, and to store the compact query plan on a machine readable device. Further activities may include computing maximal source sub-queries associated with the compact query plan, and computing semi-join reductions of the maximal source sub-queries to provide an executable derivative query plan, which may also be stored on a machine readable device. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08943039B1	Centralized web-based software solution for search engine optimization A system and method for modifying a parameter of a website in order to optimize an organic listing of the website at one or more search engines is described. Several embodiments include methods and systems for generating scored representations based upon different portions of data associated with a website, and then combining the scored representations to achieve a result. The result indicates a feature of the website that may be modified in order to optimize the organic ranking of the website at one or more search engines.
US08943038B2	Method and apparatus for integrated cross platform multimedia broadband search and selection user interface communication Disclosed is a method and system for an integrated cross platform multimedia broadband search and selection user interface. The user interface searches for media across different platforms including the user's stored media and all other media available both online and offline. The interface uses a series of icons to display search results. The method includes (i) receiving a query having at least one search term from a user, (ii) performing a search in a network of databases being executed by the user utilizing the at least one search term, (iii) assigning each search result among the search results to at least one icon, and (iv) displaying the at least one icon with the respective search result.
US08943036B1	Search controls using sliders and lightboxes Code is injected into a web page loaded by an Internet browsing application. A search control to accept Internet search input is presented within an Internet browsing application. The search control visually covers at least a portion of a content display area of the Internet browsing application. A slider search control may be presented by automatically sliding the slider search control into the content display area. The presentation of a lightbox search control may include shading, darkening, dimming, blurring, or opaquing the content display area outside of the lightbox search control. The presentation of the search control may occur in response to a period of user inactivity, an amount of page scrolling, or a percentage of page scrolling. The search control receives input corresponding to a search query, a tracking code is combined with the received input, and the combination is communicated to a search engine.
US08943035B2	Distributing web applications across a pre-existing web An embodiment is a system and method for a user to organize web content and applications and to share web content and applications with other users. A user may bubble web pages that interest them. The bubbles may be linked or stitched together to form a trail of pages that may not only aid the user to navigate relevant pages, but also be shared with other users.
US08943031B2	Granular self-healing of a file in a distributed file system A server processing device acquires a lock on a region of a file which has stale data. The server processing device self-heals the stale data in the locked region using current data and receives a write request to modify another region of the file during the self-healing of the locked region of the file. The server processing device provides write access to the requested region during the self-healing of the locked region of the file.
US08943022B2	Distributed file system A computer node connected with an upstream computer node and a downstream computer node so as to be capable of communicating therewith has a replication file system of a master file system, a storing unit, and a controlling unit. The controlling unit receives incremental data showing a changed part of the master file system from the upstream computer node, stores the incremental data into the storing unit, reflects the incremental data on the file system, and transfers the incremental data to the downstream computer node. Moreover, in a case that incremental data for plural times having received from the upstream computer node and having not transferred to the downstream computer node yet are accumulated in the storing unit, the controlling unit merges, with last received incremental data among the incremental data for plural times, the rest of the incremental data for plural times.
US08943019B1	Lookup optimization during online file system migration A system and method for migrating file systems is provided. A file system migration operation copies a plurality of files from a first file system to a second file system. A request to access one of the files being migrated during the file system migration operation results in the creation of a pseudo vnode for the file being requested in the second file system. The pseudo vnode is created prior to creating a vnode for the file in the second file system. In addition, the pseudo vnode is associated with a vnode of the file at the first file system. Information identifying the pseudo vnode is then returned to the application.
US08943018B2	Advanced contact management in communications networks A system provided herein permits a communications network subscriber to establish a local contact database on at least one communications device. The local contact database can communicate with a global contact database to receive contact information updates for a group of subscribers stored within the local contact database. The contact information can include basic contact information, such as name, address, email address, and telephone number. The contact information can also include advanced contact information, such as registration and activity information for each communications device associated with the group of subscribers, location information, hotspot information, points of interest information, and social networking information. Methods are provided herein that permit subscribers to introduce each other and obtain contact information securely. Methods are also provided herein that permit subscribers to request further contact information after a communication session is terminated.
US08943014B2	Determination of statistical error bounds and uncertainty measures for estimates of noise power spectral density Systems/methods for computing a power spectral density estimate for a noise signal. Where the noise signal appears in two channels (a single channel), n successive data acquisitions from the two channels (the single channel) are used to compute n respective cross (power) spectral densities, which are then averaged. The averaged cross (power) spectral density may then be smoothed in the spectral domain. The magnitude of the smoothed cross (power) spectral density comprises an estimate for the noise power spectral density. An effective number of independent averages may be computed based on the number n, the time-domain window applied to the acquired sample sets, the amount of overlap between successive sample sets, and the shape of the frequency-domain smoothing function. A statistical error bound (or uncertainty measure) may be determined for the power spectral density estimate based on the effective number of averages and the averaged single-channel and cross-channel spectral estimates.
US08943013B2	Real-time equipment behavior selection At creation, a state machine of an industrial control configuration can be hard-coded with a number of states in a hierarchical manner. Once implemented into the configuration, it can be desirable for the states, interpretations of the states, and the like to be modified in accordance with particular desires and processes. Therefore, a user can select a change to a hierarchical rule set of the state machine while the state machine is part of the configuration and the change can be implemented.
US08943010B2	Adaptive information technology solution design and deployment An automated incremental solution deployment strategy created for an enterprise organization based upon evaluation of a set of possible information technology solution alternatives within an automated architectural framework is received. An information technology solution is incrementally deployed and incrementally selected from the set of possible information technology solution alternatives during the incremental deployment using the automated incremental solution deployment strategy.
US08943005B2	Metric learning apparatus A metric learning apparatus memorizes a learning pattern in a feature space and a category which the learning pattern belongs to, performs variable transformation of the learning pattern to a metric space by a transformation matrix, calculates a transformation matrix having a minimum loss value of a loss function in which the loss value is increased when there is a learning pattern belonging to a different category but closer than learning patterns up to kth closest learning pattern in an aggregate of the learning pattern belonging to the same category on the basis of the k-nearest neighbor algorithm and belonging to the same category, and determines that the metric learning is terminated and outputs the transformation matrix corresponding to the minimum loss value when the minimum loss value is at least equal to or smaller than a threshold value.
US08943003B2	Composite production rules A method for forming and using a composite production rule may include compiling, by a computer system, a decision table or a decision tree to generate a composite production rule. The method may also include generating the composite production rule and selecting, by the computer system, an algorithm for compiling the composite production rule. The method may additionally include compiling, by the computer system, the composite production rule into an executable program based on pattern matching of the selected algorithm. The method may further include executing, by the computer system, the composite production rule to provide an output based on the composite production rule.
US08942996B2	Determination of customer proximity to a register through use of sound and methods thereof A method is disclosed for determining a customer's progress through a checkout line at a store and for correlating customer satisfaction thereto. A mobile electronic device with mobile self checkout software thereon may record and analyze ambient noise to determine when a customer is in a checkout line as well as to track the customer's progress through the checkout line. The software may provide detailed data about the shopping and checkout experience. This information may be correlated to customer satisfaction and used identify particular strengths and weaknesses in the shopping experience offered by a store.
US08942991B2	Agent-side traveler application for mobile computing devices Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating passenger bookings along transportation routes. In some implementations, actions include generating a request at a mobile computing device, the request including route data corresponding to a route, transmitting the request to a server system, receiving route data and fare data from the server system at the mobile computing device, displaying the route data and the fare data on a display of the mobile computing device, receiving a single user input at the mobile computing device, in response to receiving the single user input, generating booking data and transmitting the booking data to the server system, receiving confirmation data from the server system at the mobile computing device, and displaying the confirmation data on the display of the mobile computing device.
US08942985B2	Centralized method and system for clarifying voice commands A method and system for facilitating centralized interaction with a user includes providing a recognized voice command to a plurality of application modules. A plurality of interpretations of the voice command are generated by at least one of the plurality of application modules. A centralized interface module visually renders the plurality of interpretations of the voice command on a centralized display. An indication of selection of an interpretation is received from the user.
US08942966B2	Method for parameterizing and morphing stochastic reservoir models A method for creating a modified realization of a geostatistical model of a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir is described, which may be used in a history matching process. The modified realization is based on a current realization which is a function of a first uniform random number field. At least one further uniform random number field Ui is created and a linear combination made of the first uniform random number field and the further uniform random number field or fields Ui, together with combination coefficients ri, to derive a modified non-uniform random number field V. A uniform score transformation procedure is then performed, e.g. using an empirical cumulative distribution function, on the modified non-uniform number field V, to derive a modified uniform random number field Umod. A modified realization of the model can then be derived from the uniform random number field Umod.
US08942965B2	System and method for underwater vehicle simulation System and method for using forecast ocean currents to improve the prediction of an underwater vessel's trajectory as compared to using a simple dead reckoned path determined by vessel commanded heading and speed through the water. System and method include a motion model specific to underwater gliders that incorporates 4d forecast currents.
US08942951B2	Touch device and detection method thereof A touch device includes a plurality of sensors, a storage module and a processing module. The sensors are placed on a substrate for detecting acoustic waves and generating electrical signals. The storage module stores a plurality of templates of delay measurement for a plurality of locations on the substrate. The processing module is coupled to the sensors and to the storage module for calculating a received delay measurement and comparing the received delay measurement to the plurality of templates of delay measurement to estimate touch location. A detection method for the touch device is also provided.
US08942950B2	Motion detection device, electronic device, motion detection method, and program storage medium A motion detection device includes: an acceleration detection unit, a separating unit, a gravity axis determination unit, and a motion detection unit. The acceleration detection unit detects acceleration components of each axis of a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system of acceleration acting on the acceleration detection unit and outputs sets of acceleration component data. The separating unit separates the outputted sets of acceleration component data into stationary components and motion components. The gravity axis determination unit determines an axis whose separated stationary component is the largest to be a gravity axis. The motion detection unit detects, if an axis corresponding to a largest motion component showing a largest value of the separated motion components is an axis other than the determined gravity axis, a motion axis of the acceleration detection unit on the basis of the largest motion component.
US08942949B2	Apparatus and method for determining a state parameter of an object to be monitored An apparatus for determining a state parameter of an object to be monitored includes a means for providing a plurality of measurement values, wherein the measurement values include information relating to the state parameter of the object to be monitored, a comparison means for comparing the measurement value to a predeterminable comparison parameter, wherein the comparison means is formed to output a first comparison signal when a predeterminable number of measurement values falls below the comparison parameter within a measurement interval, or to output a second comparison signal when the predeterminable number of measurement values exceeds or reaches the comparison parameter, wherein the first comparison signal or the second comparison signal indicate the state parameter.
US08942948B2	Device and method for measuring and/or generating electrical variables An apparatus for measuring electrical variables includes an external measuring connection, and a converter that converts a plurality of measurement variables into respective electrical measurement variables of a single predefined type. A control device for controlling the converter is provided and at least one type of variable to be measured with the converter can be selected via the control device, and a converter for at least two types of variables to be measured respectively has at least one independent input stage that can be used to detect the measurement variable of the type to be measured and to convert it into a predefined or predefinable type of variable. An electrical signal provided at the measuring connection is analysed in a parallel manner with respect to at least two different criteria via at least two input stages for different types of variables to be measured.
US08942945B2	System and method for prospective correction of high order eddy-current-induced distortion in diffusion-weighted echo planar imaging A computer is programmed to acquire calibration data from a calibration scan, the calibration data configured to characterize high order eddy current (HOEC) generated magnetic field error of an imaging system. The computer is also programmed to process the calibration data to generate a plurality of basis coefficients and a plurality of time constants and to calculate a plurality of basis correction coefficients based on the plurality of basis coefficients, the plurality of time constants, and gradient waveforms in a given pulse sequence. The computer is further programmed to execute a diffusion-weighted imaging scan that comprises application of a DW-EPI pulse sequence to acquire MR data from an imaging subject and reconstruction of an image based on the acquired MR data. The computer is also programmed to apply HOEC-generated magnetic field error correction during application of the DW-EPI pulse sequence configured to reduce HOEC-induced distortion in the reconstructed image.
US08942944B2	System and method for dynamically measuring oxygen levels An oxygen sensing system including an oxygen sensor, a microprocessor and one or more additional sensors for sensing parameters associated with the environment or with the oxygen sensor, accounts for one or more sensed conditions when calculating oxygen levels. The one or more sensors may sense conditions associated with environmental effects or effects of use that may cause the oxygen sensor to degrade over usage or over time. A baseline amplification and measurement circuit coupled to the oxygen sensor may enable the sensor to operate less frequently or for shorter periods of time, thereby increasing the life span, calibration hold time of the sensor, and reducing power requirements.
US08942937B2	Linear device value estimating method, capacitance detection method, integrated circuit, touch sensor system, and electronic device A capacitance distribution detection circuit includes a multiplexer, a driver, and a sense amplifier. The multiplexer switches states between a first connection state and a second connection state. The first connection state drives first signal lines in parallel so that voltages are applied, outputs, along second signal lines, a linear sum of electric charges stored in capacitors corresponding to that respective one of the second signal lines, and estimates, a capacitance of capacitors formed along that second signal line. The second connection state drives, the second signal lines in parallel so that voltages are applied, outputs, along the first signal lines, a linear sum of electric charges stored in the capacitors corresponding to that respective one of the first signal lines, and estimates, a capacitance of the capacitors formed along that first signal line.
US08942932B2	Determining transistor leakage for an integrated circuit Techniques are disclosed relating to determining power consumption of an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a power monitor unit configured to receive a temperature of the integrated circuit, and to determine an estimate of power consumed by transistor leakage of the integrated circuit based on the received temperature. In one embodiment, to determine the estimate, the power monitor unit is configured to multiply a base value and a scaling factor that is adjusted based on the received temperature. In some embodiments, the power monitor unit is configured to receive performance state information of the integrated circuit, and to determine an estimate of power consumed by transistor leakage of the integrated circuit based on the performance state information.
US08942923B2	Method of determining navigation parameters for a carrier and hybridization device Method of determining navigation parameters for a carrier by a hybridization device comprising a Kalman filter (3) formulating a hybrid navigation solution on the basis of inertial measurements calculated by a virtual platform (2) and of raw measurements of signals emitted by a constellation of satellites delivered by a satellite positioning system (GNSS), characterized in that it comprises, the steps of: —determination, for each satellite, of at least one likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir′) between a hypothesis regarding a fault of a given nature of the satellite and a hypothesis regarding an absence of fault of the satellite, —declaration, of a fault of a given nature on a satellite as a function of the likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir′) associated with this fault and of a threshold value, —estimation of the impact of the declared fault on the hybrid navigation solution, and □correction of the hybrid navigation solution as a function of the estimation of the impact of the declared fault.
US08942918B2	Multiple route pre-calculation and presentation for a vehicle navigation system A navigation system and related operating methods are provided for instructing an operator of a vehicle. The navigation system obtains a destination location and generates a proposed route to the destination location. The proposed route is defined by one or more driver decision points and associated driving maneuvers. Before the vehicle reaches an approaching driver decision point, the navigation system pre-calculates alternate routes between the approaching driver decision point and the destination location, and saves the alternate routes for subsequent activation. Pre-calculated alternate routes can also be used to determine and indicate the relative importance of an approaching driving maneuver. The driver can consider the importance of driving maneuvers when deciding whether or not to follow the recommended route.
US08942913B2	System and method for on-road traffic density analytics using video stream mining and statistical techniques A method and system for analyzing on-road traffic density are provided. The method involves allowing a user to select a video image capturing device and coordinates in a video image frame captured by the video image capturing device such that the coordinates form a region of interest (ROI). The ROI is processed to generate a confidence value and a traffic density value. The traffic density value is compared with a first set of threshold values. Based on the comparison, the traffic density values at different instants in a time window are displayed to enable monitoring of the traffic trend.
US08942906B2	Method for adjusting the clamping force exerted by a parking brake, regulating and control appliance for carrying out said method, and vehicle parking brake comprising such a control appliance In a method for adjusting the clamping force exerted by a parking brake, which force is applied by an electric-motor braking apparatus and a hydraulic braking apparatus, the electric braking motor impinging upon a brake piston of a hydraulic wheel brake unit of the hydraulic braking apparatus, for the case in which the pre-pressure existing in the hydraulic braking apparatus exceeds a threshold pressure value, an inlet valve in the braking circuit of the hydraulic braking apparatus is closed, and the target braking force is established by actuation of the electric-motor braking apparatus.
US08942900B2	Management of operation of motor vehicle internal combustion engine and gearbox for leaving a motor vehicle freewheel running condition with internal combustion engine off An automotive electronic control system configured to control the powertrain to stop the internal combustion engine and disengage the drive line, which results in the motor vehicle entering a freewheel running condition with the internal combustion engine off. The control system is further configured to control the drive line during an internal combustion engine run-down after the motor vehicle enters the freewheel running condition, to cause a gear to engage for inertial cranking of the internal combustion engine before the internal combustion engine leaves a self-sustaining operating condition.
US08942897B2	System and method for determining a location of an unloaded unit of agricultural product and locating a desired unit of agricultural product A system and method for determining a location of an unloaded unit of agricultural product and locating a desired unit of agricultural product or identifying a candidate unit of agricultural product as a function of sensing system information indicating contact of the unit with the ground or other surface onto which the unit is unloaded, global positioning system or other location system information identifying the contact or related location, and heading information, which information can then be used to discern the unit from others at the location for desired loading.
US08942896B2	Seed meter control system A seed meter control system is provided that allows for controlling seed meters of a row crop planter in a manner that reduces frequency of skip occurrences in which no seeds are delivered during a delivery event and double occurrences in which more than one seed is delivered during a delivery event. A target seeding session performance may be compared with an observed seeding session performance value and a delivery anomaly value to determine whether to make a corrective action by controlling at least one of the seed meters.
US08942894B2	Seeding machine for planting multiple seed varieties and prescription for multiple varieties seeding machine A seeding machine, such as a row crop planter, is described which is adapted to switch between two or more seed varieties as the machine traverses a field. The control system uses a programmed quantity of seed representing a number of seeds in the seed meter that need to be substantially consumed once the flow of a first seed variety is stopped before introducing a second seed variety to minimize seed mixing. The seed quantity can be determined by a calibration process or published from the manufacturer or third parties. The seed quantity can also be part of a seeding prescription that includes assignment of where each seed variety is to be planted in a field. The seed quantity and the distance traveled to empty the meter can be used to optimize the planting operation including the machine direction which can also be part of the prescription.
US08942891B2	Vehicle interior-exterior structure A vehicle interior-exterior structure of the present invention is equipped with a main body formed from a resin foam material, a covering formed from a resilient material to cover the main body, and a void formed between the main body and the covering. The vehicle interior-exterior structure is also equipped with a front bumper cover supported by a vehicle body and a pressure sensor that outputs a signal corresponding to the internal pressure of the void. A reaction force is obtained from the main body when a colliding body collides with the location where the void is positioned in the front bumper and the void undergoes compression deformation. The degrees of freedom for the placement position of the void, namely for the placement position of an impact detection region, can accordingly be raised.
US08942888B2	Extensible scheme for operating vehicle head unit as extended interface for mobile device In an example, a processing device sends, to a remote network device, a request for an application of a mobile device to utilize a resource of a vehicle head unit, the request including a first profile of the vehicle head unit and a second profile of the mobile device. Responsive to sending the request, the processing device receives an instruction from the remote network device, the instruction to be executed by embedded software of the vehicle head unit so as to enable the application to utilize a resource of the vehicle head unit.
US08942880B2	Method and device for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle A method for operating a driver assistance system of a vehicle is described, together with a corresponding device, a corresponding vehicle, and a corresponding computer program. The driver assistance system is configured to autonomously safely park the vehicle when activated. While the vehicle is traveling, an activation intent for the driver assistance system is detected, whereupon the driver assistance system is activated and the vehicle is autonomously safely parked with the aid of the activated driver assistance system.
US08942877B2	Hybrid vehicle and method for controlling the same A motor generator and a power converter are driven by an engine, to supply electric power to a power storage device. ECU causes the engine to start if SOC of the power storage device falls below a first threshold value, and causes the engine to stop if SOC exceeds a second threshold value which is larger than the first threshold value. In the case where a running range has been selected when the vehicle stops, ECU causes the engine to stop if SOC exceeds a third threshold value which is larger than the first threshold value and smaller than the second threshold value. In the case where a non-running range has been selected, ECU causes the engine to stop if SOC exceeds the second threshold value.
US08942861B2	Road surface condition estimation method, and road surface condition estimation apparatus The invention provides a method and apparatus capable of accurately estimating a road surface condition under a traveling vehicle using unsprung acceleration and wheel speed data. The unsprung fore-aft acceleration (Gx) is detected by an acceleration sensor (11) attached to a knuckle (31) which is an unsprung component of a vehicle. At the same time, the wheel speed (Vw) is detected and the variation (ΔVw) in wheel speed is calculated. Then the fluctuation range (σ(ΔVw)) of the variation in wheel speed and the fluctuation range (σ(Gx)) of the unsprung fore-aft acceleration are calculated. And whether the road surface is a rough road surface with some bumpiness or a flat (smooth) road surface is estimated from a relationship between the fluctuation range (σ(ΔVw)) of the variation in wheel speed and the fluctuation range (σ(Gx)) of the unsprung fore-aft acceleration.
US08942857B2	Method and system for thermal load management in a portable computing device Methods and systems for leveraging temperature sensors in a portable computing device (“PCD”) are disclosed. The sensors may be placed within the PCD near known thermal energy producing components such as a central processing unit (“CPU”) core, graphical processing unit (“GPU”) core, power management integrated circuit (“PMIC”), power amplifier, etc. The signals generated by the sensors may be monitored and used to trigger drivers running on the processing units. The drivers are operable to cause the reallocation of processing loads associated with a given component's generation of thermal energy, as measured by the sensors. In some embodiments, the processing load reallocation is mapped according to parameters associated with pre-identified thermal load scenarios. In other embodiments, the reallocation occurs in real time, or near real time, according to thermal management solutions generated by a thermal management algorithm that may consider CPU and/or GPU performance specifications along with monitored sensor data.
US08942829B2	Trans-septal lead anchoring Methods, devices and assemblies for anchoring implanted medical electrical leads employed in the stimulating and/or sensing of signals in tissue are disclosed. The devices include a lead anchoring clip having a central hub portion, an anchoring portion for coupling to tissue and a lead engagement mechanism that couples the clip to a medical electrical lead.
US08942825B2	Implantable device with elongated electrical conductor A temporarily or permanently implantable medical device having at least one elongated electrical function conductor for transmitting therapeutic signals or diagnostic signals or both. At least one additional conductor is provided which together with the function conductor forms, at least in places, a double line which is separated from the function conductor by a dielectric and which is coupled to the function conductor via a coupling impedance. The coupling impedance is dimensioned so that the value of the line wave impedance of the function conductor for frequency ranges far above a frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals is much greater than the in the frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals, so that currents in a frequency range above the frequency range of the therapeutic or diagnostic signals are damped more intensely than the currents which form therapeutic or diagnostic signals.
US08942814B2	Punctual stimulation device Disclosed is a device for the punctual stimulation of the nerve endings located in the region of the ears The device has a battery-powered therapeutic current generator (3) arranged in a housing (4) which is to be worn in the region of the ear. The generator supplies a low frequency therapeutic current and has a plurality of output channels (9a, 9b, 9c). Each output channel is associated with its own stimulation electrode (6a, 6b, 6c), and contains an amplifier (15a, 15b, 15c), controlled by a digital-analog converter (12) and designed for bipolar output signals. A control signal may be fed to the amplifiers causing current strength and stimulation voltage behavior in the output circuit of the respective amplifier. The behavior adapts to the resistance value in said circuit and corresponds to I=k−R U=k−R2, in which k is a selectable constant. In addition, three output channels are preferably provided, each associated with its own stimulation electrode, and during the periods of current flow, the therapeutic current fed to each stimulation electrode is compensated each time with regard to the intensity and polarity by the therapeutic currents being fed to the other stimulation electrodes.
US08942811B2	Transcranial current stimulation device and method A device for transcranial stimulation. The device for transcranial stimulation comprises an adjustable current source for providing a stimulation current; a first electrode connected to the current source for electrical connection to a patient; a second electrode connected to the current source for electrical connection to the patient; a first current interruptor for interrupting current flow between the current source and the electrode, the first current interruptor connected between the adjustable current source and the first electrode; and an output monitor connected between the current source and the first electrode for monitoring current to the patient. The output monitor detects an abnormal current it signals the first interruptor, which interrupts the current to the patient. A method of operating a device for transcranial stimulation is also provided.
US08942809B2	Systems and methods for improving a cognitive function In many aspects, the invention relates to systems and methods for providing cognitive therapy through stimulation of activating and inhibiting neurons in the brain, thereby modulating neural firing rhythms. The stimulation of neurons is controlled through a feedback process whereby neuron firing rhythms are altered based on naturally occurring electrical and chemical activity in the brain. Neurons in specific regions of the brain may be targeted in order to establish neural signaling pathways and establish communication between these regions.
US08942805B2	Method and apparatus for right ventricular resynchronization An apparatus comprises a cardiac signal sensing circuit and a first implantable electrode pair. At least one electrode of the first implantable electrode pair is configured for placement at a location in a right branch of a His bundle of the subject. The apparatus can include a therapy circuit and a control circuit. The control circuit can include an AH delay calculation circuit configured to calculate an optimal paced AH delay interval. The pacing stimulation location is distal to a location of RV conduction block in a right branch of the His bundle. The control circuit initiates delivery of an electrical stimulation pulse to the stimulation location in the His bundle according to the calculated paced AH delay interval and in response to an intrinsic depolarization event sensed in an atrium of the subject.
US08942804B2	Mechanism for detecting coronary ischemia A system for detecting myocardial ischemia includes an implantable device having one or more leads connected thereto, at least one electrode on a lead of the device, and a microprocessor in the implantable device. The electrode is configured to stimulate the heart. The at least one sensor is configured to measure a characteristic of blood in a coronary vessel. The microprocessor is programmed to: run a stress test on the heart by stimulating the heart with the electrode; record data obtained from the at least one sensor during the stress test; and determine whether there is myocardial ischemia based upon the recorded data.
US08942798B2	Alternative operation mode for an implantable medical device based upon lead condition A method, apparatus, and system for determining an adverse operational condition associated with a lead assembly in an implantable medical device used for providing a therapeutic electrical signal to a cranial nerve. A first impedance associated with the lead assembly configured to provide the therapeutic electrical signal to a cranial nerve is detected. A determination is made as to whether the first impedance is outside a first predetermined range. A second impedance is detected. The detection of the second impedance is performed within a predetermined period of time from the time of the detection of the first impedance. A determination is made as to whether the second impedance is outside a second predetermined range. If the first impedance is outside the first range and the second impedance is outside the second range, the implantable medical device is prevented from providing the therapeutic electrical signal.
US08942795B2	Implantable medical device with real time T-wave oversensing detection An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) senses ventricular depolarizations (R-waves) in an electrogram signal to detect a ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation episodes. The EGM signal is also monitored in real time for characteristics that uniquely identify instances of T-wave oversensing. The ICD determines whether detection of a tachycardia or fibrillation episode is appropriate based upon counts of each of the unique characteristics evidencing T-wave oversensing.
US08942783B2	Stochastic resonance and brownian motion for the reduction of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Inventive embodiments include a system for preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in an infant, by the application of Stochastic Resonance neurological stimuli. The system includes a crib mattress and copper noise grids, wherein the copper noise grids are embedded in the crib mattress. The system also includes a mechanism for generating time controlled white noise and time controlled cyclic signals, combined with a multitude of varying frequencies and harmonics, wherein the mechanism is adjustable for measured local (near crib) white noise power density levels, the mechanism further adjustable for diurnal and seasonal white noise power density level changes. The system also includes circuitry effective for producing positive and negative adjustable DC voltage levels.
US08942767B2	Communications convergence and user interface systems, apparatuses, and methods In an exemplary method, communications data representative of communication instances of distinct types is converged and a graphical user interface (“GUI”) including a set of listings representative of a grouping of the communication instances of distinct types is displayed. In certain embodiments, at least one of the communication instances represented in the set of listings includes a voice type communication instance. In certain embodiments, a user selection of one of the listings displayed in the GUI is detected, the selected listing associated with a contact, and another set of listings representative of another grouping of converged communication instances of distinct types is displayed in response to the user selection. In certain embodiments, each of the communication instances in the other grouping is associated with the contact. In certain embodiments, the other set of listings is displayed as a subset within the set of listings in the GUI.
US08942758B2	Method and device for link-characteristic based selection of supporting access nodes For uplink cooperation of a serving access node (100-1) one or more supporting access nodes (100-2) are selected. The selection is based on a characteristic of a link between a terminal (200) served by the serving access node (100-1) and the supporting access node (100-2), or is based on a characteristic of a link between a further terminal (200′) served by the supporting access node (100-2) and the serving access node (100-1). The characteristics of the links may comprise a signal quality, e.g. a path gain, a signal strength, or a latency. The characteristics of the links may also comprise scheduling information, e.g. time resources and/or frequency resources used on the link.
US08942753B2	Telecommunications network node and methods A telecommunications network node and methods are disclosed. The method is for generating, by genetic programming, evolved algorithms for adjusting base station transmission power to control coverage of a cell to assist in providing desired base station operating characteristics. The method comprises the steps of: generating, using predetermined functions and terminals defined in a functions and terminals list, a plurality of evolved algorithms each of which determine whether, for any particular base station operating conditions, to adjust said base station transmission power; determining a fitness level indicative of each evolved algorithm's ability to adjust base station transmission power to control coverage to achieve said desired base station operating characteristics under expected operating conditions; and iteratively performing said steps of generating and determining to generate further evolved algorithms using at least one of said evolved algorithms determined to have achieved a particular fitness level. In this way, it can be seen that algorithms can be assembled and then tested to see how suitable they are at controlling base station power to achieve particular operating characteristics under particular operating conditions. Those algorithms which are determined to be the best at achieving those characteristics under those particular operating conditions may then be used to generate further algorithms which, in turn, are also then assessed. Hence, those individual algorithms which are suited to the operating characteristics and the operating conditions can rapidly be generated thereby avoiding the need to manually design new algorithms which are specialized to particular environments.
US08942752B2	Apparatus and method for cluster based opportunistic power control in wireless communication system An apparatus and a method for a cluster-based power control at a macro base station in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes broadcasting an interference allowance value determined based on a predefined aggregate interference to a femto cell, updating the interference allowance value with consideration of a channel activity for each femto cell group on a cluster basis, and when detecting a change in an aggregate interference generated due to femto cell power allocation, repeating determination of an interference allowance value so that a Quality of Service (QoS) of a macro cell user is met, and broadcasting the interference allowance value to a femto cell.
US08942749B2	Method and device for user scheduling and managing transmit power in a communication system A user scheduling and transmission power controlling method in a hierarchical-cell communication system or a multi-cell communication system, and a device to perform the methods, are provided. Interference may occur between various cells in the hierarchical-cell communication system or the multi-cell communication system, and the interference may be controlled by adjusting transmission power of various cells. The various cells may determine an optimal transmission power based on a cost of a corresponding transmission power. Also, the various cells may serve various users and may propose an optimal user scheduling method.
US08942748B2	Adapters for facilitating half-duplex wireless communications in portable electronic communications devices, and systems comprising same Adapters (10) for use with portable electronic communications devices (12) such as cellular phones, smart phones, and personal digital assistants can facilitate use of the devices (12) in half-duplex communications modes such as push to talk (PTT) and land portable radio (LMR). The adapters (10) can include a case (18) configured to receive the communications device (12), and a button or key (40) mounted on the case. The key (40) communicates with the communications device (12) when the communications device (12) is disposed in the case (18), and is operable to generate on a selective basis an input corresponding to a transmit command that causes the communications device (10) to transmit. The adapters (10) can also include a speaker module and a microphone that communicate with the communications device (10) via a connector (28) on the case (18), or wireless transceivers (41a, 41b).
US08942742B2	Method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters A method and apparatus for synchronizing multiple transmitters is disclosed. A global time reference is used to synchronize the arrival of data from a plurality of secondary transmitters in a receiver station. In one embodiment, the global time reference is provided by a GPS satellite, and may also be used to synchronize the carriers of the signals received at the receiver station from each of the plurality of transmitters. In one embodiment, a pilot signal used for ATSC applications is added by the secondary transmitters.
US08942739B2	Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications Methods and apparatus for communication of notifications are disclosed. A disclosed method for communicating notifications from a server to a device includes sending a primary message including data indicating notification status information; and sending notification messages apart from the primary message addressed to specific groups of devices. Similarly, another disclosed method for obtaining notifications in a device from a server includes monitoring the primary message including current notification status information, comparing the current notification information status information with a previous notification status information to determine if a change in notification status information has occurred, and obtaining addressed notification information when a change in the notification status information has been determined. By using a primary message with abbreviated information to communicate whether changes to notification information have occurred without the need for further processing and/or addressed notification messages, system resources can be conserved. Corresponding apparatus are also disclosed.
US08942738B1	Adjustment of zone-based paging based on the prevalence of eCSFB devices Disclosed herein are methods and systems that may help to determine and/or adjust parameters for zone-based paging over CDMA paging channels, based on the prevalence of devices that are configured for enhanced circuit switch fallback (eCSFB) in one or more paging zones. For example, a switch in a radio access network (RAN) may: (a) determine a respective measure of CSFB-device prevalence in one or more paging zones in the RAN, (b) use the respectively determined measure of CSFB-device prevalence in at least one of the paging zones as a basis to determine one or more parameters for zone-based paging in the at least one of the paging zones, and (c) apply the one or more determined parameters for zone-based paging in the at least one of the paging zones.
US08942730B2	Method and system for facilitating exchange of items in a network A method and system for defining a route between a first user and a second user having respective mobile devices. A communication is established between a backend server (13) and a plurality of mobile devices (11) belonging to a respective user of a cellular phone network (12). The mobile devices (11) capture geographical position information and send it towards said backend server (13); said backend server (13) receives geographical position information from the plurality of mobile devices (11) and infers thereof geo-temporal mobility patterns related to each mobile device; said backend server (13) receives information from the cellular phone network (12) about originated and terminated calls of the plurality of mobile devices (11) and constructs thereof call graphs of each mobile device, said call graph comprising frequently used numbers and from where the calls are initiated and terminated; said backend server (13) receives a route definition request between two mobile respectively associated to said first user and said second user; said backend server (13) analyzes said geo-temporal mobility patterns of said mobile devices associated to said first and second users and geo-temporal mobility patterns of the remaining mobile devices included in their call graphs for defining thereto a route between the first and second users; said backend server (13) establishes the route between the first and second users and notifies said route to all mobile devices involved in said route.
US08942728B2	Methods and apparatus for blackout, retune and subscription enforcement in a cellular network multimedia distribution system A method for blackout, retune and roaming enforcement in a cellular network multimedia distribution system is disclosed. The method includes the acts of receiving a plurality of service regions in the cellular network multimedia distribution system; determining an affiliation of the client with one of the service regions in the plurality of service regions; and processing a service region specific message based on the affiliation. An apparatus, as well as a computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the stored instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method are also disclosed.
US08942722B2	Integration of wired information and wireless information to locate a wireless device One embodiment described herein includes a method of determining the location of a wireless device. The method includes capturing wired information about layer one and layer two used by wired components in a network; capturing wireless information about a wireless device communicatively coupled to the network; integrating at least some of the wired information and the wireless information; and using the integrated wired information and wireless information to locate the wireless device.
US08942714B2	Method of controlling interference from femtocells in consideration of macrocell A method of controlling femtocell interference considering a macrocell is provided. The method of controlling the interference includes a method of setting transmission power of the femtocell and methods of avoiding the interference of the femtocell. The methods of avoiding the interference include a PRB rotation method, a PRB transmission power restriction method, a hybrid method and a UB rotation method. The method of setting the transmission power and the methods of avoiding the interference may be implemented independently or implemented in combination with each other. Hence, according to the present invention, the femtocell itself can control the interference without affecting an interface of an existing macrocell base station and without signaling through the interface with the macrocell.
US08942708B2	Management of radio connection assignment in coverage area correlated with geographic region A method, apparatus, and system for helping to manage advanced handoff to a coverage area based on correlation with a geographic region. A mobile station determines that it is in or approaching a defined geographic region, and the mobile station determines from correlation data that the geographic region is correlated with a particular cellular coverage area. The mobile station therefore requests handoff to the cellular coverage area and provides an advanced-handoff indication to cause the serving radio access network to maintain assignment of a radio connection in the coverage area longer than the network would normally, to help allow time for the mobile station to arrive at the coverage area and begin communicating on the radio connection with the network.
US08942705B1	Systems and methods for redirecting a mobile station via a traffic channel Various embodiments are described for redirecting a mobile station via a traffic channel. In one embodiment, a first RAN receives a request from a mobile station to establish a traffic channel between the mobile station and the first RAN for use in a communication session. The first RAN makes a determination to not establish the communication session, but nevertheless establishes the requested traffic channel after making the determination. Then, without establishing the communication session, the first RAN redirects the mobile station via the established traffic channel to a second RAN. By establishing the traffic channel even though the RAN may be unable (or unwilling) to allow the mobile station to establish the communication session, the RAN is able to control the behavior of the mobile station in the event that the RAN cannot establish the requested communication session.
US08942695B2	Method and apparatus for reducing call setup delay by adjusting SIB7 and SIB14 scheduling frequency An apparatus and method for reducing call setup time of a wireless communication device including measuring paging intensity, and adjusting SIB7 or SIB14 repetition period based on the measured paging intensity to reduce call setup time. In one aspect, a paging intensity threshold is determined based on the measured paging intensity, and the paging intensity threshold is used to adjust the SIB7 or SIB14 repetition period.
US08942683B2	System and method of routing conference call participants A system and method of routing a conference call participant to a conference call is disclosed. Participant location data is requested from an electronic device of the conference call participant. The participant location data is received on a system server from the electronic device of the conference call participant. A least cost connection conference call access phone number is determined from an access number group of one or more available conference call access phone numbers based on the location data from the electronic device of the conference call participant. The conference call participant is provided with the least cost connection conference call access phone number.
US08942676B2	Systems and devices for emergency tracking and health monitoring The present disclosure provides for systems, devices, and methods which address needs of seniors, disabled persons, or any other similar users, at a stage in life when they can still live independently while benefiting from monitored care. Embodiments described herein enable a higher level of connectivity without requiring the member to be technologically savvy, and provides a simple mechanism for personalized emergency support. Embodiments utilize at least one personal communication device which may allow for remote interactions with medical and concierge personnel in a monitoring center or other emergency contacts, in order to fulfill requests for everyday needs, ranging from providing directions to a locations, to health alerts based on health and status measurements collected electronically and remotely.
US08942674B2	Responding to incoming calls A method and device for responding to an incoming call. A first device detects an incoming call from a caller. In response to detecting the incoming call, an indication of the incoming call is sent to a second device different from the first device. The indication identifies the caller. A message indicating a response to the caller is received from the second device.
US08942673B2	Method and apparatus for providing cellphone service from any device A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for providing a cellular communication service for any device via a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a log-in request of a user from a device, if the log-in request is authenticated, synchronizes the device with a configuration associated with the user and provides the cellular communication service via a subscription plan subscribed to by the user.
US08942662B2	System and method to predict and avoid musculoskeletal injuries A miniaturized, ruggedized, field-deployable Portable Exposure Assessment System (PEAS) is used to remotely monitor workers and provide real-time warning of exposure to musculoskeletal injury conditions via alarm and smart-phone transmission. The PEAS unit wirelessly acquires exposure data from sensors; conducts initial data analysis; triggers proximal and remote alarms; sends out text messages with abnormal data, GPS locations, and time stamps to a safety office; and saves data for more extensive assessment. Sensor technology is used in this field-deployable system to simultaneously measure and collect the body loads and awkward postures imposed by package handling as well as driving-related, low-frequency vibration exposures. Wireless technology is used to set up wireless communication links between the sensors and a data logger and between the data logger and a smart phone with GPS, date/time stamp and text messaging capabilities.
US08942659B2	Method for selecting state of a reconfigurable antenna in a communication system via machine learning A method for selecting the state of a reconfigurable antenna installed at either the receiver or transmitter of a communication system is provided. The proposed method uses online learning algorithm based on the theory of multi-armed bandit to perform antenna state selection. The selection technique utilizes the Post-Processing Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PPSNR) as a reward metric and maximizes the long-term average reward over time. The performance of the learning based selection technique is empirically evaluated using wireless channel data. The data is collected in an indoor environment using a 2×2 MIMO OFDM system employing highly directional metamaterial Reconfigurable Leaky Wave Antennas. the learning based selection technique shows performance improvements in terms of average PPSNR and regret over conventional heuristic policies.
US08942649B2	Radio-frequency transmitter and amplifier A method is provided for reducing non-linear effects in an electronic circuit including an amplifier. The method may include receiving a modulated signal at an input of the amplifier, the modulated signal comprising a baseband signal modulated by an oscillator frequency. The method may further include substantially attenuating counter-intermodulation in the modulated signal caused by harmonics of the oscillator frequency and the baseband signal by a resonant circuit. In some embodiments, the resonant circuit may include at least one inductive element and one capacitive element coupled to the at least one inductive element, the at least one inductive element and the at least one capacitive element configured to substantially attenuate counter-intermodulation in the modulated signal.
US08942646B2	Method and system for a 60 GHz communication device comprising multi-location antennas for pseudo-beamforming Methods and systems for a 60 GHz communication device comprising multi-location antennas for pseudo-beamforming are disclosed and may include configuring antennas in RF modules for beamforming transmitted signals. Each of the RF modules may receive IF signals via coaxial lines. The beamformed RF signals may be transmitted via the antennas to external devices. The RF signals may be generated from IF signals from baseband signals. The RF modules may be configured utilizing a processor in the wireless communication device. The RF signals may be transmitted to a display device. Control signals for the RF devices may be communicated utilizing the coaxial lines. The RF devices may be selected for the beamforming based on a direction to a receiving device. The beamforming may include adding a phase shift in upconverting the IF signals to the RF signals, which may include 60 GHz signals.
US08942636B2	Adaptive transmission of resource utilization messages based on throughput An adaptive scheme controls the transmission of interference management messages by wireless nodes. For example, the adaptive scheme may be used to determine whether and/or how to transmit resource utilization messages. Such a determination may be based on, for example, comparison of a quality of service threshold with a current quality of service level associated with received data. A quality of service threshold may be adapted based on the effect of previously transmitted resource utilization messages. A quality of service threshold for a given wireless node may be adapted based on the frequency at which the wireless node transmits resource utilization messages. A quality of service threshold for a given wireless node may be adapted based on information received from another wireless node. An adaptation scheme also may depend on the type of traffic received by a given wireless node. A quality of service threshold also may be adapted based on throughput information.
US08942635B2	Method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer Aspects of a method and system for compensating for estimated distortion in a transmitter by utilizing a digital predistortion scheme with a single feedback mixer are presented. Aspects of the system may include at least one circuit that enables generation of an output signal in response to one or more generated input signals. A feedback signal may be generated within a single feedback mixer circuit that may perform a frequency mix-down operation on the generated output signal. The generated feedback signal may be inserted at one or more insertion points in a receiver. Each of the insertion points may be located between a mixer stage of the receiver, and one or more circuits that generate a baseband signal based on the generated feedback signal.
US08942631B2	Power-scavenging receiver to generate a signal to be used to control operational state Methods and apparatuses for initiative communication between first and second wireless communication devices using first and second RFID transceivers.
US08942630B2	Terminal and method of improving interference in a terminal A terminal and method of improving interference in a terminal are provided, by which interference generated from implementing a plurality of wireless communication technologies can be improved. The terminal includes a first communication module implemented by a first wireless communication technology and a controller determining that interference is generated by at least one of the first wireless communication technology or a second wireless communication technology and performing an operation to improve the generated interference, the second wireless communication technology implementing a second communication module provided in the terminal or in a different terminal.
US08942624B2	Apparatus, system, and method for back-channel communication in an inductive wireless power transfer system An inductive wireless power transfer device comprises a transmitter that comprises a transmit coil configured to generate a wireless power signal to a coupling region in response to an input voltage, and a modulator configured to modulate the wireless power signal and encode data with the wireless power signal to establish a back-channel communication link from the transmitter to a receiver. An inductive wireless power receiving device comprises a receiver that comprises a receive coil configured to generate a time varying signal in response to receiving a modulated wireless power signal from a transmitter in a coupling region, and a demodulator configured to demodulate the modulated wireless power signal from an established back-channel communication link from the transmitter to a receiver. Related inductive wireless power transfer systems and methods for back-channel communication from the transmitter to the receiver of an inductive wireless power transfer system are disclosed.
US08942620B2	Method and system for using routine driving information in mobile interactive satellite services A method and an apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a controller to process a criterion for selecting a point-of-interest (POI). The criterion can be based on historical trip data. Data related to a POI, including a community-of-interest rating, for example, can be accessed through a satellite and terrestrial mobile communication network. Multiple POIs can be graphically represented for user selection based on the criterion and/or other data. Once a POI is selected, data related to the selected POI, including navigation data, can be displayed. In another embodiment, the controller can access navigation data to a specified destination. The navigation data can be based on historical trip data such as route segments and destination areas. The navigation data can be accessed from an in-vehicle system or from a navigation service provider and can be displayed to assist a user in reaching the specified destination.
US08942602B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus including same A developing device having: a guide member creating a guide channel for guiding the developer being fed thereto while being supported on the developer support; and a regulating member regulating the amount of the developer that has passed through the guide channel, the guide member further creates a reflux channel in a gap from an inner surface of the housing, the reflux channel is connected to the guide channel via a communication channel such that the developer regulated by the regulating member returns toward an upstream end of the guide member, the upstream end of the guide member is disposed in a position opposed to the position where the magnetic flux density of the catch pole peaks, and the magnet assembly further includes a feeding pole that is disposed downstream of the catch pole and upstream of the developing pole, so as to be opposed to the guide channel.
US08942597B2	Printing system According to one example there is provided a printing system comprising print engine for printing on a substrate in a print zone, and a drum positioned in proximity to a print zone. The drum supported by a plurality of support rollers in contact with an inner surface of the drum.
US08942596B2	Transfer device In a transfer device, a flexible guide plate is disposed in a position upstream relative to a transfer position along a medium conveyance path, such that a first side of the guide plate faces to a recording medium being conveyed along the medium conveyance path. The guide plate has a downstream end portion that is angled by bending the guide plate. A support frame supports an upstream end portion of the guide plate and extends in a downstream direction beyond the downstream end portion to form an extension portion which is disposed opposite to a second side of the guide plate and toward which the downstream end portion extends obliquely downstream. The extension portion has a recess/hole formed in a position separated in an upstream direction from a first edge of the extension portion, to allow the downstream end portion to be moved without being blocked by the extension portion.
US08942584B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method In an image forming apparatus, a processor performs: a solid density stabilization of adjusting, in accordance with detected toner adhesion amounts of solid toner images of solid tone patterns, a condition to form solid images with respective target image densities; a misregistration reduction of adjusting, in accordance with detection timing of position detection toner images of misregistration detection patterns, a condition to reduce misregistration of toner images; and a halftone density stabilization of adjusting, in accordance with detected toner adhesion amounts of area coverage modulation toner images, a condition to form halftone images with respective target image densities. The processor continuously performs the solid density stabilization and the misregistration reduction, and starts the halftone density stabilization when the solid density stabilization is completed and the misregistration reduction is not completed, to concurrently perform a step of the misregistration reduction and at least a step of the halftone density stabilization.
US08942580B2	Image forming apparatus having a plurality of image forming modes An image forming apparatus includes an intermediary transfer member, image forming portions each including an image bearing member first transfer portions, cleaning portions, and a controller capable of executing a single-color image forming mode operation in which a developer image of a single color is transferred onto the intermediary transfer member by an image forming operation of one of the image forming portions to form a single-color image. The controller executes, during the execution of the single-color image forming mode operation, a sequence in which the developer image is formed on the image bearing member at the image forming portion which does not operate for the image formation, and a bias voltage for charging the developer to an opposite polarity to a normal charge polarity of the developer is applied to the first transfer portion to permit the charged developer to reach the cleaning portion.
US08942575B2	Image forming apparatus that includes a cover open/closed detection sensor The image forming apparatus includes a cover member, a cover open/closed detection sensor, a driven unit, a drive detection sensor, and an attitude determination unit. The cover open/closed detection sensor outputs a closed signal corresponding to a closed attitude and an open signal corresponding to an open attitude. The drive detection sensor outputs a state signal corresponding to the drive state of the driven unit. The attitude determination unit determines whether the cover member is in an open attitude or is in a closed attitude based on a closed signal and a state signal input after the open signal.
US08942573B2	Blind equalization algorithms for adaptive polarization recovery and PMD compensation A device and method are disclosed for blind equalization of an optical signal to implement adaptive polarization recovery, Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) compensation, and residual Chromatic Dispersion (CD) compensation in a digital coherent optical communication system.
US08942568B2	Optical communication apparatus An apparatus has frame loss detecting unit 14 for detecting frame loss of a data frame; dispersion amount control request transmission device for transmitting, when the frame loss detecting device 14 detects the frame loss in an undetected state of an input break of an optical signal by optical input break detecting unit 13, an optical signal of a dispersion amount control request pattern to the opposite apparatus at a bit rate lower than that for transmitting the optical signal of the data frame until the frame loss becomes undetected state; and dispersion amount control request receiving device for receiving the optical signal of the dispersion amount control request pattern transmitted from the opposite apparatus, wherein dispersion compensator 21 controls the dispersion amount of transmission line between the apparatus and the opposite apparatus when the dispersion amount control request receiving device receives the optical signal of a specific pattern.
US08942563B2	Wavelength real time display on the equipment for WDM optical networking systems with wavelength tunable capability A wavelength tunable device for use in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system comprising a display device for displaying at least one operating wavelength of the wavelength tunable device. The display device is electrically coupled to a control unit in the wavelength tunable device so as to display the tuned wavelength in real time. The wavelength tunable device may be, in exemplary embodiments, an optical transponder, wavelength division demultiplexer, or wavelength division multiplexer. In embodiments where the optical equipment has a plurality of tunable ports, the display device is adapted to display the operating wavelength of each tunable port.
US08942562B2	Integrated commercial communications network using radio frequency and free space optical data communication A stabilized ultra-high bandwidth capacity transceiver system that combines an E-band (71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz) millimeter wave RF transceiver with an eye-safe adaptive optics Free Space Optical (FSO) transceiver as a combined apparatus for simultaneous point-to-point commercial communications. The apparatus has a high degree of assured carrier availability under stressing environmental conditions. The apparatus establishes and maintains pointing and stabilization of mmW RF and FSO optical beams between adjacent line of sight apparatuses. The apparatus can rapidly acquire and reacquire the FSO optical carrier link in the event the optical carrier link is impaired due to adverse weather.
US08942561B2	Synchronization transport over passive optical networks One embodiment provides an Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) system for clock transport. The system includes a reference clock configured to generate a frequency-reference signal, an optical line terminal (OLT) coupled to the reference clock, and an optical network unit (ONU). The OLT includes a clock generator configured to generate an OLT clock based on at least the frequency-reference signal. The ONU includes an optical transceiver, a clock recovery module, and a clock output mechanism. The optical transceiver is configured to transmit optical signals to and receive optical signals from the OLT. The clock-recovery module is configured to recover the frequency-reference signal from the received optical signals. The clock output mechanism is configured to output the recovered frequency-reference signal, thus facilitating transport of the frequency-reference signal over the EPON.
US08942560B2	Ethernet passive optical network with report threshold calculations The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for maintaining sub-queues at an ONU and for maintaining a count of an amount of data stored in each sub-queue or a count of an amount of data associated with elements stored in each sub-queue. The sub-queues represent partitions in a first in, first out (FIFO) queue used by the ONU to buffer packets, or elements that are associated with packets, to be sent upstream. The sub-queues are coupled in series such that the output of a first sub-queue feeds the input of a second sub-queue, the output of the second sub-queue feeds the input of a third sub-queue, etc. Each sub-queue has a defined threshold that sets a maximum amount of packet data it can buffer or the elements in which it buffers can be associated with.
US08942558B2	Method and apparatus for displaying a three dimensional representation of available wavelength paths across a network Due to demand for more network bandwidth, a need for multi-user optical network topologies has, and will continue to, increase. A method or corresponding apparatus in embodiments of the present invention provide for an availability determination tool for determining and displaying wavelength and subrate availabilities within a network. Benefits of embodiments of a tool include allowing a user to identify the availability and capacity of any wavelength on any network, via an interactive graphical user interface, such as by using three-dimensional representations. In one embodiment, the disclosed availability determination tool allows users to locate and view any combination of available wavelengths between nodes in an optical network topology, and generate graphical and tabular reports of the availability in order to maintain an efficient and organized method or apparatus for determining and controlling wavelengths in a network. Consequently, service providers using the tool can keep performance rates high and costs low.
US08942549B2	Resume point for digital media playback A system (and method and computer readable medium) are disclosed for configuring a digital media device to resume playback of content stopped at a first digital media playback device to resume at a second digital media playback device. The configuration detects a stop in play of content stored on a digital media storage device and determines digital media playback preference selections for the content played on the first digital media playback device. The configuration generates a playback preference file and determines a stop location for content, the stop location corresponding to a resume point for the content on the second media playback device. The configuration writes the playback preference file and the stop location to the digital media storage device.
US08942542B1	Video segment identification and organization based on dynamic characterizations This disclosure relates to video segment identification and organization based on dynamic characterizations. A characteristics component analyzes a video, and determines a set of video characteristics based at least in part on the analysis. The video characteristics include but are not limited to a category, a type, an identity of a person, and/or an identity of an object. A segmenting component segments the video based in part on the set of video characteristics, and an indicator component associates indicators corresponding to respective video characteristics with the corresponding video segments.
US08942539B2	Method of setting a system time clock at the start of an MPEG sequence Method to enable a local system time clock counter (STC) of a receiving recording device to lock to program clock reference (PCR) information comprised in a received real time sequence of information signal packets, such as MPEG2 Transport Stream packets. The method comprising determining the number of cycles between arrival of the first information signal packet and the arrival of the information signal packet comprising the first Program Clock Reference (PCR) information. This information is stored as an attribute of the stored sequence.
US08942537B2	Content reproduction apparatus and content processing method therefor A content reproduction apparatus that adopts a content processing method includes a video processor, a video analyzer, and an audio processor for processing audio data and video data input thereto. The video analyzer analyzes video characteristics of video data such as resolutions, compressive distortions, and real frame rates. The video processor processes video data in accordance with video processing, which is determined based on analyzed video characteristics of video data. The audio processor processes audio data in accordance with audio processing, such as dynamic range compression and/or frequency component extension/enhancement, which is determined based on analyzed video characteristics of video data. Thus, it is possible to reproduce sound in an articulate manner depending on the video quality, which is either professional-level video shooting or nonprofessional-level video shooting.
US08942536B2	Video navigation system and method A video navigation system and method can be utilized to efficiently and adjustably navigate video content. In one embodiment, a video information control method facilitates efficient video navigation. A video stream is received and video access point selection between multiple access points in said video stream is controlled. The presentation information is forwarded for each of the multiple access points. In one exemplary implementation, the presentation information is forwarded to a display and the information is directed to presenting a main viewing area and navigation areas that present looping video clips or portions of the video stream at time intervals ahead of and behind the video portion being presented in the main viewing area.
US08942535B1	Implicit video location augmentation A method and apparatus for performing implicit video location augmentation are provided. Implicit video location augmentation may include identifying a first geolocation for a first frame from a plurality of video frames based on a first image captured by the first frame, identifying a second geolocation for a second frame from the plurality of video frames based on a second image captured by the second frame, determining, by a processor, a third geolocation for a third frame from the plurality of video frames based on the first geolocation and the second geolocation, and storing an updated plurality of video frames such that the first frame is associated with the first geolocation, the second frame is associated with the second geolocation, and the third frame is associated with the third geolocation.
US08942531B2	Optical fuse devices, optical fiber lines, and methods of manufacturing same An optical fuse device adapted to be placed in between ends of lead-in fibers of an optical fiber line. The optical fuse device has a destructible region having a core, the destructible region including a light absorbing material adapted to heat and destroy the core upon application of a light intensity greater than a predetermined threshold. Optical fiber lines including the optical fuse device and methods of manufacturing the optical fuse device are provided. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US08942526B2	Miniaturized optical fiber drop cable A fiber optic cable includes first and second optical fibers. A fiber section surrounds the fibers and is formed of a first material. First and second strength members are adjacent to the fiber section on opposite sides thereof. A jacket surrounds the first and second strength members and fiber section. The jacket is formed of a second material, stronger than the first material and which does not adhere to the first material. The jacket may be manually torn open to access the fiber section. The fiber section may be manually pinched and stripped cleanly from the fibers. The fiber section acts as a cocoon to protect the fibers when the jacket is opened and cleanly pulls off of the fibers by manual force.
US08942525B2	Photoelectric conversion device and optical fiber coupling connector A photoelectric conversion device includes a circuit board, light-emitting modules arranged on the circuit board in a first straight line, light-receiving modules arranged on the circuit board in a second straight line, and an optical coupling module. The optical coupling module includes a first optical surface, a second optical surface perpendicular to the first optical surface, a reflecting surface obliquely relative to the first and second optical surfaces, first converging lenses arranged on the first optical surface in a third straight line, second converging lenses arranged on the first optical surface in a fourth straight line, third converging lenses arranged on the second optical surface in a fifth straight line, and fourth converging lenses arranged on the second optical surface in a sixth straight line. The first to six straight lines are substantially parallel to each other.
US08942512B2	Methods and systems for processing a first image with reference to a second image An image registration method is disclosed for processing a distorted image into a registered image that is aligned with reference to an original image. Distortions from the original image may include scaling, rotation, and noise. The method is based on correlating Radon transforms of both images to determine the rotation angle, and the scaling factor is determined by dividing averages of the overall luminance of each image on the assumption that any added noise will cancel. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is used to estimate global spatial shifts. In one embodiment, the distorted image is first scaled to the size of the original image before being rotated. In another embodiment, the original image is first scaled to the size of the distorted image before rotating the distorted image, and finally scaling it to match the original image. A corresponding system for image registration is also provided.
US08942511B2	Apparatus and method for detecting object from image, and program An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to input an image, a determining unit configured to determine a foreground area and a background area in the image input by the input unit, an expansion unit configured to expand the foreground area determined by the determining unit, a calculating unit configured to calculate a feature amount of the foreground area expanded by the expansion unit, and a detecting unit configured to detect an object from the image using the feature amount.
US08942508B2	Movement control apparatus, movement control method and program There is provided a movement control apparatus including a feature value calculation part calculating, on a basis of a movement direction of a region of interest defined based on input for moving the region and a target in which the region is provided, a feature value of the target in which the region is provided in the movement direction of the region on a per-unit distance basis regarding movement of the region, a movement value calculation part calculating a movement value by which the region is moved, based on the input, and a movement controller moving the region in the movement direction based on the calculated feature value and the calculated movement value.
US08942504B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Medium with image decoding program effecting: extracting motion vector information, quantized DCT coefficients, and rounding method information from input information; dequantizing quantized DCT coefficients to obtain DCT coefficients; performing inverse DCT conversion to obtain an error image; synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image by performing motion compensation using motion vector information, rounding method information, and a previously decoded reference image; and adding the prediction and error images to obtain a decoded image; wherein motion compensation is performed with half-pixel accuracy and uses bilinear interpolation to calculate intensity values of chrominance or luminance at points where no pixels exist in the reference image, the interpolation using a positive or negative rounding method, and performed using rounding specified by rounding method information included in coded information of the currently decoded image; wherein the rounding method specifies one of two values specifying a positive or negative rounding method.
US08942501B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Medium having image decoding program effecting: extracting motion vector information, quantized DCT coefficients, and rounding method information; dequantizing quantized DCT coefficients to DCT coefficients; performing inverse DCT conversion on the DCT coefficients to an error image; synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image via motion compensation using motion vector information, rounding method information, and a previously-decoded reference image; and adding the prediction and error images to a decoded image; wherein motion compensation is performed with half-pixel accuracy and uses bilinear interpolation to calculate intensity values of chrominance or luminance where no pixels exist in the reference image, using a positive or negative rounding method; wherein interpolation is performed using a rounding method specified by the rounding method information included in a header section of coded information of the current image; wherein the rounding method specifies one of two values specifying a positive or negative rounding method.
US08942498B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Medium with image decoding program effecting: extracting motion vector information, quantized DCT coefficients, and rounding method information from input information; dequantizing quantized DCT coefficients to obtain DCT coefficients; performing inverse DCT conversion on DCT coefficients to obtain an error image; synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image by performing motion compensation using motion vector information, rounding method information, and previously decoded reference image; and adding prediction and error images to obtain a decoded image; performing motion compensation with half-pixel accuracy and uses bilinear interpolation to calculate intensity values of chrominance or luminance at points where no pixels exist in the reference image, the interpolation being performable using a positive or negative rounding method; wherein the interpolation uses a rounding method specified by rounding method information included in coded information of the currently decoded image; and wherein the rounding method information specifies one of a plurality of values.
US08942492B2	Recording medium having recorded thereon coded information using plus and/or minus rounding of images Medium having image decoding program effecting: extracting motion vector information, quantized DCT coefficients, and rounding method information from input information; dequantizing quantized DCT coefficients to DCT coefficients; performing inverse DCT conversion on the DCT coefficients to an error image; synthesizing a prediction image of a currently decoded image by performing motion compensation using motion vector information, rounding method information, and a previously decoded reference image; and adding the prediction and error images to obtain a decoded image; wherein motion compensation is performed with half-pixel accuracy using bilinear interpolation to calculate intensity values of chrominance or luminance at points where no pixels exist in the reference image, the interpolation being performable using a positive or negative rounding method, and using a rounding method specified by rounding method information included in coded information of the currently decoded image, in a header section of the coded information of the current image.
US08942488B2	System and method for placing spine groups within a display A system and method for placing spine groups within a display is provided. A shape is defined within a display. Groups of cluster spines are placed circumferentially around the defined shape. Overlap between at least two of the spine groups is identified. One of the overlapping spine groups is rotated in one of a clockwise and anticlockwise direction away from the other overlapping spine group. Overlap between the rotated spine group and at least one of the other overlapping spine group and another placed spine group is identified. The rotated overlapping spine group is moved in an outward direction away from the shape.
US08942483B2	Image-based georeferencing An image-based georeferencing system comprises an image receiver, an image identification processor, a reference feature determiner, and a feature locator. The image receiver is configured for receiving a first image for use in georeferencing. The image comprises digital image information. The system includes a communicative coupling to a georeferenced images database of images. The image identification processor is configured for identifying a second image from the georeferenced images database that correlates to the first image. The system includes a communicative coupling to a geographic location information system. The reference feature determiner is configured for determining a reference feature common to both the second image and the first image. The feature locator is configured for accessing the geographic information system to identify and obtain geographic location information related to the common reference feature.
US08942478B2	Information processing apparatus, processing method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus acquires an image; sets a plurality of partial regions for the acquired image, and acquiring an image feature amount including a plurality of frequency components from each of the partial regions; compares the acquired image feature amount with an image feature amount of a background model which holds, for each of the partial regions, an image feature amount of an image as a background; updates, based on the comparison result, each of a plurality of frequency components included in the image feature amount held in the background model using the acquired image feature amount by a degree according to each of the frequency components; and detects, using the background model updated in the updating, for each of the partial regions, a region where a target object to be detected exists.
US08942474B2	Method and system for interpolating index values of associated tiles in an image A method for performing indexing in an image decoder. The method includes identifying a tile in an image, wherein the image comprises a plurality of tiles, and wherein each tile includes color data associated with a plurality of pixels. The method includes asymmetrically providing a plurality of indices throughout the tile. The method includes identifying a pixel in the tile. The method also includes determining a corresponding rectangular grid that includes the pixel, wherein the corresponding rectangular grid comprises at least one indices in a group of indices. The method includes determining an index for the pixel by bilinearly filtering the group of indices that is associated with the corresponding rectangular grid, wherein the filtering is performed in relation to the pixel.
US08942468B1	Object recognition Techniques for a shape descriptor used for object recognition are described. Tokens of an object in digital image data are captured, where tokens can be edges, interest points or even parts. Geometric configurations of the tokens are captured by describing portions of the shape of the object. The shape of such configurations is finely quantized and each configuration from the image is assigned to a quantization bin. Objects are recognized by utilizing a number of quantization bins as features. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US08942458B2	Method for distinguishing and sorting of cells and device therefor A method for distinguishing and sorting cells characterized by comprising distinguishing and sorting a specific cell mass or a part of the cells in the cell mass with the use of transmitted light data reflecting the morphological characteristics of the cells such as size and shape optionally together with side-scattering light data reflecting the characteristics of the internal structure of the cells. The part of the cells in the specific cell mass as described above are at the G1 stage or at a part of the M stage in the cell cycle. A part of the cells at the G1 stage are referred to as the left bottom line in an analytical dispersion diagram of the cells wherein the abscissa indicates the transmitted light data, while a part of the cells at the M stage are referred to as the right bottom line in the analytical dispersion diagram of the cells wherein the abscissa indicates the transmitted light data.
US08942454B2	Signal to-noise enhancement in imaging applications using a time-series of images An apparatus and method are disclosed for improving imaging based on a time-series of images. In one embodiment, a time-series of images are acquired using a same imaging protocol of the same subject area, but the images are spaced in time by one or more time intervals (e.g, 1, 2, 3 . . . seconds apart). A sub-region is projected across all of the images to perform a localized analysis (corresponding X-Y pixels or X-Y-Z voxels are analyzed across all images) that identifies temporal components within each sub-region. In some of the sub-regions, the temporal components are removed when the amplitude of the component is below a predetermined amplitude threshold. The images are then combined using the sub-regions with reduced components in order to obtain a single image with reduced noise.
US08942441B2	Optimizing the initialization and convergence of active contours for segmentation of cell nuclei in histological sections A computer-implemented segmentation method is used to process an image representing a plurality of nuclei. The method is implemented in a computer having a processor and a physical memory. A set of instructions are provided to the processor the physical memory of the computer. The processor is configured by executing the set of instructions in the physical memory so as to automatically segment the image by: thresholding a grey-scale image to create a black and white image; identifying objects in the black and white image and removing objects failing to meet predetermined criteria; extracting objects; and applying an edge detector on the segmented image to identify the edges of the nuclei. Overlapping nuclei are split to improve results.
US08942439B2	Fingerprint authentication system, fingerprint authentication method, and fingerprint authentication program To improve the precision with which a false finger formed by attaching a transparent thin film to a surface of a finger is identified, a fingerprint authentication system includes: an image division unit 31 that divides a captured image of an authentication subject to be subjected to fingerprint authentication into a plurality of small regions; a frequency analysis unit 32 that performs a frequency analysis on each of the small regions; a ridge candidate extraction unit 33 that extracts frequency components corresponding to ridge candidates in the small regions from frequency components obtained in the frequency analysis; a continuous ridge candidate group generation unit 34 that compares the ridge candidates between adjacent small regions, and when the ridge candidates satisfy a condition enabling the ridge candidates to be determined continuous, generates a continuous ridge candidate group including the ridge candidates; and a determination unit 35 that determines that an abnormality exists in the image when overlap exists between the image regions corresponding to the continuous ridge candidate group.
US08942434B1	Conflict resolution for pupil detection The pupil locations of a user with respect to a computing device can be determined by capturing one or more images of the user and analyzing those images using a set of pupil detection algorithms. Each algorithm can produce at least one estimated position with an associated confidence value, and this information from each algorithm can be used to determine a probable location of each pupil. In some embodiments, one or more environmental factors can be used to adjust the confidence values or select algorithms based on how the corresponding algorithms perform under those conditions. Similarly, an independence of the various algorithms can be utilized in some embodiments to adjust the confidence levels or weight results based on a level of dependence between those algorithms.
US08942429B2	Method for improving false acceptance rate discrimination for biometric authentication systems A method, system and computer program product for improving error discrimination in biometric authentication systems. The error discrimination is set to a predetermined security policy. A plurality of biometric samples are provided and authenticated by a computer system in conjunction with a security token. An alternate embodiment allows inputting of the plurality of biometric samples in a predetermined sequence. The predetermined input sequence is maintained as an authentication secret which may be used to further reduce the authentication transaction error rate. A user may input one or more biometric samples, where a portion of the biometric samples are inputted in a predetermined sequence, selecting from among a plurality of available processing units, a set of processing units which will generate intermediate results from the processing of the biometric samples, processing at least a portion of the biometric samples by the selected set of processing units to provide intermediate results, verifying the predetermined sequence, and arbitrating the intermediate results to generate a final result which at least meets a predetermined security policy. Various embodiments provide for a security token to perform at least a portion of the processing or the arbitration function.
US08942425B2	Airport target tracking system A system for tracking objects using an Intelligent Video processing system in the context of airport surface monitoring. The system addresses airport surface monitoring operational issues such as all weather conditions, high robustness, and low false report rate. The output can be used to complement existing airport surface monitoring systems. By combining the use of multi-sensors and an adverse weather optimized system, the system is capable of producing an improved stream of information for the target object over traditional computer vision based airport surface monitoring systems.
US08942421B1	Geolocation of remotely sensed pixels by introspective landmarking A method of geodetically locating pixels of a captured image of a planetary body comprises the steps of: detecting an object on the planetary body using an imaging sensor viewing the planetary body; matching the object to a predetermined landmark on the planetary body; and updating, at a time tk, a state vector representing kinematics of the imaging sensor, and tk representing a present update time. Updating the state vector at the present time occurs if, and only if, the matching step is successful. In addition, the method includes computing a line-of-sight (LOS) vector from the imaging sensor to the planetary body, based on observations of the planetary body and the kinematics of the state vector; and geodetically locating the pixels of the captured image, based on the LOS vector. The LOS vector is based only on (a) the predetermined landmark and (b) a position command from a ground processing segment to the imaging sensor.
US08942420B2	Detecting embossed characters on form factor A portable computing device reads information embossed on a form factor utilizing a built-in digital camera and determines dissimilarity between each pair of embossed characters to confirm consistency. Techniques comprise capturing an image of a form factor having information embossed thereupon, and detecting embossed characters. The detecting utilizes a gradient image and one or more edge images with a mask corresponding to the regions for which specific information is expected to be found on the form factor. The embossed form factor may be a credit card, and the captured image may comprise an account number and an expiration date embossed upon the credit card. Detecting embossed characters may comprise detecting the account number and the expiration date of the credit card, and/or the detecting may utilize a gradient image and one or more edge images with a mask corresponding to the regions for the account number and expiration date.
US08942419B1	Position estimation using predetermined patterns of light sources Methods and systems are described for determining eye position and/or for determining eye movement based on glints. An exemplary computer-implemented method involves: (a) causing a camera that is attached to a head-mounted display (HMD) to record a video of the eye; (b) while the video of the eye is being recorded, causing a plurality of light sources that are attached to the HMD and generally directed towards the eye to switch on and off according to a predetermined pattern, wherein the predetermined pattern is such that at least two of the light sources are switched on at any given time while the video of the eye is being recorded; (c) analyzing the video of the eye to detect controlled glints that correspond to the plurality of light sources; and (d) determining a measure of eye position based on the controlled glints.
US08942414B2	Method and apparatus for making personalized contents A method for making personalized content by providing attributes to an object included in the electronic book content to reconfigure the electronic book content suited to tastes of a user and an apparatus thereof by executing electronic book content, extracting text information of the executed electronic book content, extracting keywords registered in an effect database from the extracted text information, providing a list of the extracted keywords when selection of a specific objected included in the electronic book content, and providing an attribute mapped to a keyword selected from the keyword list to the selected object.
US08942408B1	Magnetically one-side driven planar transducer with improved electro-magnetic circuit A single-ended planar transducer device for generating a sound signal based on an electrical signal comprising at least two primary rows of primary magnets, at least one return row of at least one return structure, a diaphragm, a conductive trace formed on the diaphragm, and a frame. The frame supports two primary rows to define at least one core set comprising no more than two primary rows. A primary magnetic field is established between the primary rows in the at least one core set. The frame supports at least one return row adjacent to the at least one core set. A return magnetic field is established between each return row and any primary row adjacent thereto. A first portion of the trace is arranged at least partly within each primary magnetic field and a second portion of the trace is arranged at least partly within each return magnetic field.
US08942407B2	Loudspeaker and diaphragm therefor A loudspeaker radiating diaphragm can be stiffened to help increase the breakup frequency to above the working frequency range of the driver concerned, by forming it of a molded part and an attached formed part. The molded part is a radiating surface with stiffening ribs. The formed part is a thin surface of high modulus material, attached to the rear of the ribs. The overall structure can have significantly higher stiffness than either of the two parts. This helps in designing a loudspeaker driver that does not breakup within its working frequency range.
US08942388B2	Modulation device and demodulation device A modulation device includes: a spread code generation unit which generates a spread code having a predetermined cycle; an audio signal input unit to which an audio signal is input; a first modulation unit which phase-modulates the spread code in each cycle on the basis of a data code; and a combining unit which combines the audio signal with a modulation signal which has been generated on the basis of the phase-modulated spread code and distributed in a frequency range higher than a predetermined frequency to output a combined signal.
US08942384B2	Dual-mode headset A headset comprises a body, an audio transducer, an arm, a detector and processor. The detector can indicate whether the arm is in a first or second position. The headset operates in a headset mode or speakerphone mode responsive to the arm's position.
US08942381B2	Control of a loudspeaker output A method of controlling a loudspeaker output comprises deriving an admittance function over time from the voice coil voltage and current. In combination with a delta function, the force factor of the loudspeaker and the blocked electrical impedance, the input-voltage-to-excursion transfer function over time is obtained. This is used to control audio processing for the loudspeaker thereby to implement loudspeaker protection and/or acoustic signal processing; The invention provides a modelling and control approach which is not based on a parametric model. As a consequence, it does not require prior knowledge regarding the enclosure (e.g. closed or vented box) and can cope with complex designs of the enclosure.
US08942380B2	Method for generating a downward-compatible sound format A method of generating an audio output signal according to a downward compatible sound format, the method including: generating a sum signal by combining a first input channel signal with a second input channel signal; and dynamically correcting the sum signal using samples of the first and second input channel signals from overlapping time windows.
US08942378B2	Method and device for encrypting multicast service in passive optical network system A method for encrypting multicast services in a passive optical network system is provided in the present invention, and the method includes: an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) generating a public key, and using the public key to encrypt the multicast service data in a bearer channel and then transmitting the encrypted data, the multicast service data in the same one bearer channel being encrypted using the same public key; and said OLT sending the public key ,which is used to encrypt the multicast service data, via a management control channel to an Optical Network Unit (ONU) which is activated successfully and requests to receive said multicast service data. A device for encrypting multicast services in a passive optical network system is also provided in the present invention.
US08942376B2	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for renewability with digital content protection systems In one embodiment of the invention, a format for renewability content (e.g., a System Renewability Message (SRM)) corresponding to a content protection protocol (e.g., High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP)) may be interoperable with devices that are compliant with different versions of the standard (e.g., HDCP1.x and 2.x devices) and that include different amounts of storage for the renewability content (e.g., first and second generation devices).
US08942363B2	Method and apparatus for abstracting telephony functions A method and apparatus for abstracting telephony functions is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a terminal device having a User Interface (UI) element that presents a plurality of Graphical User Interface (GUI) elements that abstract a corresponding plurality of telephony functions, and a telephony element that initiates a telephony process in response to a selection by an end user of the terminal device of two or more of the plurality of GUI elements to form a combined telephony function. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08942357B2	Stopping robocalls A robocall is prevented from reaching a telephone subscriber, by an automated calling screening system that tests for presence of a human caller on the line, and disconnects calls absent a predetermined response indicating presence of a human caller.
US08942355B1	Optimizing identification of public safety answering platform next generation 911 media support A method, system, and medium are provided for generating a profile for public safety answering platforms. The profile identifies media formats or media format combinations that are supported by the PSAPs at various cell sector locations maintained by a network provider. A network server selects a cell sector and generates test emergency services calls. The test emergency services calls are transmitted to a PSAP but are optimized to reduce a number of test emergency services calls based on media support included in the profile of the PSAP. The PSAP generates a response that indicates whether the PSAP supports a media format identified in the test emergency services call. The PSAP may rely on capabilities of a secondary PSAP to generate the response. The PSAP transmits the response to the network server for storage in the profile.
US08942342B2	Multi-modality image acquisition The techniques described herein provide a means for generating an x-ray image and ultrasound image depicting parallel planes of an object under examination and may be used in conjunctions with x-ray or ultrasound techniques known to those in the field (e.g., x-ray tomosynthesis, computed tomography ultrasound imaging, etc.). In one example, one or more x-ray images are spatially coincident to one or more ultrasound images and the images may be combined through spatial registration. It finds particular application to mammography examinations but may be used in other fields that use information from multiple modalities.
US08942341B2	Method of dose reduction for CT imaging and apparatus for implementing same A CT system includes an x-ray source configured to project an x-ray beam toward an object, a detector array, and a bowtie filter. The bowtie filter includes a first x-ray filtration region positioned to attenuate x-rays that pass through an isochannel of the detector array, a second x-ray filtration region positioned to attenuate x-rays that pass through channels of the detector array that are offcenter in a channel direction from the isochannel, and an x-ray attenuation material positionable to attenuate the x-rays that pass through the channels of the detector array that are offcenter in the channel direction from the isochannel. The CT system also includes a data acquisition system (DAS) connected to the detector array and configured to receive outputs from the detector array, and a computer programmed to acquire projections of imaging data of the object, and generate an image of the object using the imaging data.
US08942337B2	Systems and methods for handling race conditions during data transfer in an implantable medical device The accuracy of data processing operations in implantable medical devices is improved through reductions in errors associated with data acquisition, reading, and transmission. In one embodiment, two or more circuit modules of the device are operated at different clock speeds and a voting scheme is utilized to obtain a valid data value from one of the modules. The disclosure describes methods, devices and systems that utilize the voting schemes to eliminate errors induced by race conditions in obtaining the valid data values by obtaining a plurality of data samples during operation of the circuit modules at the different clock speeds and selecting from among the data samples the valid data value.
US08942326B2	Channel decoding method and tail biting convolutional decoder The disclosure provides a channel decoding method and a tail biting convolutional decoder. The method comprises: the tail biting convolutional decoder performs add-compare-select processing on metric values of 2N states according to input data to be decoded and N zeros input after the data to obtain final cumulative metric values of the 2N states, and stores selection result of add-compare-select processing, wherein N is the constraint length of tail biting convolutional coding; the tail biting convolutional decoder starts to backtrack from one state of the 2N states according to the selection result to obtain intermediate decoding result after the add-compare-select processing is finished; the tail biting convolutional decoder outputs the bits except the last N bits of the intermediate decoding result as decoded result of the data to be decoded. The tail biting convolutional decoder comprises an add-compare-select module, a backtracking module and an outputting module.
US08942324B2	Circuit, use, and method for controlling a receiver circuit A circuit, use, and method for controlling a receiver circuit is provided, wherein a complex baseband signal is generated from a received signal, a phase difference between a phase of the complex baseband signal and a phase precalculated from previous sampled values is determined, the phase difference is compared with a first threshold, a number is determined by counting the exceedances of the first threshold by the phase difference, a number of the counted exceedances is compared with a second threshold, and the receiver circuit is turned off if the number of counted exceedances exceeds the second threshold within a time period.
US08942307B2	Antenna switching apparatus based on spatial modulation An antenna switching apparatus based on spatial modulation includes a plurality of antennas; a control signal generator configured to generate a plurality of switching control signals; and a plurality of switches configured to switch on to apply a transmission signal to the respective antennas according to the respective switching control signals. Further, the antenna switching apparatus includes a delay analyzer configured to receive the transmission signal output from each of the plurality of switches to calculate delay information for synchronizing the switching control signals applied to the respective switches; and a delay adjuster configured to synchronize the switching control signals to apply the synchronized switching control signals to the respective switches according to the calculated delay information.
US08942298B2	Data communications Data communication apparatus comprising transmission means adapted to transmit data as the ratio of pairs of frequencies between objects that are moving relative to one another. It is particularly applicable to acoustic data communications at ultrasound frequencies in air.
US08942294B2	Digital broadcasting transmission/reception system utilizing mull packet and TRS code to improve receiving performance and signal processing method thereof A digital broadcasting transmission and/or reception system having an improved reception performance and a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TRS encoder for to TRS-encode a MPEG-2 transmission stream having null data for inserting a Known data and a TRS parity at predetermined positions, randomizer to input and randomize data stream from the TRS encoder, a null packet exchanger to replace the null data for inserting the Known data to the known data, and an encoder for encoding a data streams to which the Known data is inserted. Accordingly, the present invention detects the known data from a signal received from a reception side and uses the detected known data for synchronization and equalization and further uses the TRS parity for correcting error of the received signal, so that the digital broadcasting reception performance can be improved at poor multipath channels.
US08942278B2	Systems and methods for detecting data collisions for a near field communication system In a wireless near field communication (NFC) system, a target, such as a smart card, can communicate with an initiator, such as a card reader, by load modulating a radio frequency (RF) signal generated by the initiator. When two or more targets load modulate the RF signal generated, “collisions” can occur with the load modulation. Apparatus and methods detect the presence or absence of collisions in a lower layer or physical layer and report the presence of detected collisions to an upper layer for further handling.
US08942262B2	Communication device, communication system and computer readable medium A communication device includes: a division unit that divides first data to be transmitted to another communication device via a transmission path including a plurality of lanes into a plurality of second data; a transmission unit that transmits the plurality of second data to the another communication device by distributing them to either one of the plurality of lanes; and an error notification reception unit that receives an error notification when an error is detected from one of the plurality of second data received by the another communication device. When the error notification reception unit receives the error notification, the division unit divides second data, in which an error is detected, into a plurality of third data, and the transmission unit retransmits the second data to the another communication device by distributing the plurality of third data to either one of the plurality of lanes.
US08942258B2	Segmentation and reassembly of network packets for switched fabric networks Reassembly of member cells into a packet comprises receiving an incoming member cell of a packet from a switching fabric wherein each member cell comprises a segment of the packet and a header, generating a reassembly key using selected information from the incoming member cell header wherein the selected information is the same for all member cells of the packet, checking a reassembly table in a content addressable memory to find an entry that includes a logic key matching the reassembly key, and using a content index in the found entry and a sequence number of the incoming member cell within the packet, to determine a location offset in a reassembly buffer area for storing the incoming member cell at said location offset in the reassembly buffer area for the packet for reassembly.
US08942253B2	System and method for data transmission on wireless alternating switching channels A system for data transmission on wireless alternating switching channels comprises a user, which allows a user to have at least an additional service on multiple service channels. The user sends at least a service forwarder a request to get at least an additional service, and receives the replied information of a specified forwarding channel. Before the connection between the user and the service forwarder fails or ends, the user receives original service and the service forwarder uses a specified service channel and transmits or receives additional service data for the user in the service channel interval; while in the control channel interval, the service forwarder uses the specified forwarding channel and transmits selective control message and selective additional data for the user, and the user switches to the specified forwarding channel to receive the selective control messages and the selective additional data.
US08942247B1	System for automatic registration of expeditionary telecommunications deployments A system and method for enabling voice and broadband data delivery to users in expeditionary deployments is disclosed. More specifically the system is composed of a registration server, a wireless telco network server, a wide area transport network, and an external network interconnect (like satellite or fiber location) such that when users arrive at a disaster scene where communications infrastructure has been destroyed or is unavailable, they are either handed a smart device (smartphone, laptop, tablet, etc.) or they utilize an existing smart device they brought with them (BYOD) and via the Wi-Fi interface they connect to the wide area transport network.
US08942243B2	Adaptive rate control in a communications system The invention relates to a method for controlling a bit-rate of a session in a packet-switched communications system where multiple sessions are set-up via a shared resource. A current bit-rate of the session is compared to a bit-rate range valid for the session to determine a distance from the position of the current bit-rate to one of the end-points of the bit-rate range. The current bit-rate is then adapted differently depending on the distance to the selected end-point. By controlling the bit-rate of each session that is set-up via the shared resource for applications that provide delay-sensitive services to users in this way the method and corresponding system and sender-receiver arrangements have the effect that rate adaptations can be distributed among the applications so that users share responsibility for rate adaptations.
US08942240B2	Broadband access for virtual private networks Communications between a source and a destination include receiving, at an egress edge device from an ingress edge device, an upper layer packet including a virtual private network identification identifying a destination. The upper layer packet is authenticated at the egress edge device using the virtual private network identification by comparing the virtual private network identification against an expectation for the upper layer packet. Upon authentication, the upper layer packet is decapsulated into a lower layer packet for the destination.
US08942238B2	Apparatus and method for establishing tunnels between nodes in a communication network Tunnels are established between nodes along a packet transfer route in a communication network so that a packet is transferred from a first relay node to a second relay node via one or more intermediate relay nodes using the established tunnels. An intermediate relay node receives, from an adjacent downstream relay node, a reply message storing relay-node addresses identifying the downstream relay node and at least one intermediate relay node between the downstream relay node and the first relay node. The intermediate relay node establishes a tunnel to the downstream relay node in association with the relay-node address of the downstream relay node, updates the reply message by removing the relay-node address of the down stream relay node from the reply message, and transfers the updated reply message to an adjacent upstream relay node along the packet transfer route.
US08942236B1	Stateless packet segmentation and processing High-speed processing of packets to, and from, a virtualization environment can be provided while utilizing segmentation offload and other such functionality of commodity hardware. Virtualization information can be added to extension portions of protocol headers, for example, such that the payload portion is unchanged and, when physical address information is added to a frame, a frame can be processed using commodity hardware. In some embodiments, the virtualization information can be hashed and added to the payload or stream at, or relative to, various segmentation boundaries, such that the virtualization or additional header information will only be added to a subset of the packets once segmented, thereby reducing the necessary overhead. Further, the hashing of the information can allow for reconstruction of the virtualization information upon desegmentation even in the event of packet loss.
US08942225B2	Optimizing communications A method of transmitting a data stream to end-user nodes of a network, and a corresponding communication system, program, and distribution system for distributing the program. The method comprises: for each of a plurality of possible combinations of routes of the stream to a plurality of consuming end-user nodes, evaluating a utility function for each of the consuming end-user nodes, the utility function being dependent on route and defining a quantitative measure of end-user benefit that would be experienced at the respective end-user node by consumption of the stream; for each of the plurality of possible combinations of routes, determining an overall utility value based on the respective evaluation of the utility functions of each of the plurality of consuming end-user nodes; and selecting a preferred combination of routes for the stream based on the overall utility values of the different possible combinations.
US08942222B2	Frequency synchronization in wireless communication systems The present invention provides a method of wireless communication over a communication link including at least one carrier that comprises a plurality of sub-carriers. The method includes modifying at least one frequency of at least one uplink sub-carrier in response to a signal indicating a modification of the frequency.
US08942221B2	Caching network discovery responses in wireless networks Network information may be discoverable without requiring a connection to that network. For example, Access Network Query Protocol (“ANQP”) may allow a device to discover information about a network prior to the device associating with that network. The network discovery information may be stored in a cache memory for future associations with the same network.
US08942219B2	Support for network management and device communications in a wireless network A method of efficiently operating a wireless communication network in a process control environment, such that the wireless communication network includes a plurality of field devices, includes defining a communication protocol for supporting wireless communications between pairs of the plurality of field devices, including providing a set of protocol commands, transferring process control data from at least some of the plurality of field devices using a first subset of the set of protocol commands of the communication protocol, and transferring network management data to at least some of the plurality of field devices using a second subset of the set of protocol commands of the communication protocol.
US08942217B2	System and method for hierarchical link aggregation Systems and methods for hierarchical link aggregation are disclosed. A system for hierarchical link aggregation may include a network interface having a plurality of physical ports. A first plurality of the physical ports may be configured as member ports of a first link aggregation group (LAG). A second plurality of the physical ports may be configured as member ports of a second LAG. The first LAG and second LAG may be configured as member logical ports of a third LAG.
US08942216B2	Hybrid band intelligent backhaul radio A hybrid band intelligent backhaul radio (HB-IBR) is disclosed that is a combination of two radios operating in different bands. Embodiments include a dual radio configuration wherein a first radio operates in a non-line of sight (NLOS) radio link configuration and a second ancillary radio operates in a near line of sight or line of sight configuration (n)LOS. For example, the HB-IBR may have an Intelligent Backhaul Radio (IBR) operating in the non-line of sight mode of operation within the 5.8 GHz unlicensed band, and have an ancillary radio link operating in the FCC part 101 E band of operation at 60 GHz. A common medium access control (MAC) block may be utilized between the dual radios.
US08942213B2	Method and system for accessing storage devices An approach for enabling wireless communication devices to mount and/or unmount one or more storage devices to facilitate data sharing is described. A processor of a user device generates a request message according to a storage access protocol that is operating system agnostic. The processor then initiates transmission of the request message over a wireless link of an ad-hoc network to a system that includes one or more storage devices, wherein the request message requests storage device information relating to the one or more storage devices.
US08942210B2	Method and apparatus for channel access in a wireless communications system A method of wireless communications is provided. The method includes transmitting a channel time allocation request from a first device to a second device, wherein the channel time allocation request comprises a list of devices to be trained by the first device; receiving a channel time allocation granted by the second device; and transmitting, from the first device, at least one training packet to at least one device in the list of devices to be trained during the channel time allocation granted by the second device. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.
US08942203B2	Transmission power control method, mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus It is an object to provide a transmission power control method, mobile terminal apparatus and radio base station apparatus for enabling a mobile terminal apparatus that performs radio communications in a system band including a plurality of component carriers to suitably control uplink transmission power in each component carrier, and a transmission power control method of controlling uplink transmission power of a mobile terminal apparatus that performs radio communications in a system band including a plurality of component carriers is provided with the steps of receiving a transmission power control command generated in a radio base station apparatus, and applying the received transmission power control command to a plurality of component carriers in common and setting transmission power of each component carrier.
US08942198B2	Channel allocation notifying method, communication method, and communication apparatus The number of communication channels necessary for communication with a terminal is calculated by using type and volume of data to be transmitted. When calculated number of communication channels is one, a single communication channel is allocated based on quality information of a communication line to the terminal and, when calculated number of communication channels is more than one, then more than one communication channels are allocated based on the quality information. Allocation information used for notifying of allocated communication channels is generated based on virtual channels, which are defined in advance as channel units having a combination of a plurality of consecutive communication channels, and the allocation information is transmitted to the terminal.
US08942190B2	HARQ process number management for downlink carrier aggregation A method for use with a mobile user agent, the method for managing Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) processes in a multi carrier communication system that uses HARQ process indicators (HPIs) to manage HARQ processes, the method comprising the steps of designating a first subset of the HPIs as shared HPIs wherein each shared HPI designates a HARQ process irrespective of which of a plurality of system carrier frequencies are used to transmit a traffic packet, designating a second subset of the HPIs as non-carrier-shared HPIs wherein each non-carrier-shared HPI, in conjunction with the carrier frequency used to transmit a traffic packet, designates a carrier frequency unique HARQ process, receiving an HPI at the mobile user agent, receiving a first traffic packet via a carrier frequency at the user agent that is associated with the HPI, where the HPI is a first subset HPI using the HPI to identify a HARQ process associated with the first traffic packet irrespective of the carrier frequency used to transmit the traffic packet and providing the traffic packet to the identified HARQ process and where the HPI is a second subset HPI using the HPI and the carrier frequency on which the first traffic packet was received to identify a carrier frequency specific HARQ process associated with the first traffic packet and providing the first traffic packet to the carrier frequency specific HARQ process.
US08942189B2	Apparatus and method for enabling communications among unsynchronized wireless devices A method enables a wireless device (310) to rendezvous with another wireless device (320) through a wireless network (330), where activation schedules of the wireless devices are not synchronized. The method includes determining a number of time units in each cycle of multiple communication cycles, identifying active time units in each cycle during which the first wireless device enters an active mode, and identifying inactive time units in each cycle during which the first wireless device enters an inactive mode. The sum of the active time units and the inactive time units equals the number of time units in each cycle. A first active time unit in each cycle occupies a same position in the cycle as an active time unit in a previous consecutive cycle. Also, a second active time unit in each cycle occupies a different position in the cycle than any active time unit in the previous consecutive cycle.
US08942178B2	Collection of subscriber information for data breakout in a mobile data network A method and system supports subscriber based IP data breakout at the edge of a mobile data network without monitoring the use of security keys or breaking into ciphered message exchanges. The system employs a first service mechanism operating at the edge of the mobile data network a second service mechanism operating at the core on the S11 interface. The second service mechanism at the core collects subscriber related data, subscriber identifiers and tunnel identifiers and sends this data to the first service mechanism. The second service mechanism at the core collects subscriber related data, subscriber identifiers and tunnel identifiers and sends this data to the first service mechanism. The first service mechanism uses the tunnel identifiers received from the second service mechanism to identify sessions and tunnels carrying subscriber dependent data packets (S1-U packets) in order to perform subscriber-based IP data breakout, offloading and optimization.
US08942177B1	Presenting an indication of an originating carrier of a wireless call A method, system, and medium are provided for presenting carrier-specific information associated with an incoming communication on a mobile network. The method, system, and medium include a device that receives call information associated with an incoming call. The call information includes carrier-identification information that is useable to identify an originating carrier responsible for originating the incoming call. The carrier-identification information is communicated to a database and the database retrieves carrier-specific data. The carrier-specific data is communicated to a mobile device and presented via a presentation component coupled to the mobile device. The carrier-specific data may include a carrier identifier (“carrier-ID”), geographic designation, and a denotation as to whether the incoming communication is an in-carrier communication versus an inter-carrier communication. The presentation component may include a display, a speaker, and a vibration apparatus.
US08942173B2	Interference notification in device-to-device communication Systems and techniques for wireless device-to-device (D2D) communication are provided herein. A D2D group identifier may be included in wireless transmissions within D2D groups. D2D interference mitigation processes may be initiated when a D2D group identifier is detected by a wireless device outside the D2D group.
US08942169B2	Network comprising a privately owned base station coupled with a publicly available network element It is described a telecommunication network. The telecommunication network includes a base station, which is privately owned and which is adapted to provide a restricted access service to a limited number of communication devices, which are assigned to a picocell of the telecommunication network. The telecommunication network further includes a network element, which is publicly available and which is adapted to provide unrestricted access service to communication devices, which are assigned to a wide area cellular network. The base station is coupled with the network element via a radio transmission link. It is further described a method for operating a telecommunication network of the above described type. Furthermore, it is described a base station and a network element, which in connection with each other represent the described telecommunication network and/or are adapted to carry out the described method for operating the telecommunication network.
US08942168B2	Packet flow processing in a communication system Method and apparatus for processing packet flows in a communication system. In one embodiment, a resource reservation message includes packet flow parameter information used to determine flow treatment of the associated packet flow. The packet flow mapping is based on the quality of service of the associated packet flow. In another embodiment, a bearer connection is established and monitored for information relating to flow treatment.
US08942157B2	Receiver and method for receiving a composite signal A first signal generator is arranged to generate a first signal. A ranging code generator is arranged for generating a ranging code. A mixer is capable of accepting the ranging code and the first signal and outputting a locally generated reference signal. After down-conversion and digitization of the received composite signal, the code correlator can correlate the digital received composite signal to the locally generated reference signal to decode at least a first portion of the received composite signal, while leaving a second portion of the received composite signal undecoded. A tracking loop signal processor can process one or more digital signals, of the locally generated reference signal with respect to the digital received composite signal to maximize correlation of the received composite signal to the locally generated reference signal.
US08942151B2	Receiving messages in connection with LTE wakeup In some implementations, a method for managing a receiver for user equipment in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system includes receiving, when in a DRX state or sub-state, a message within a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) resource region of a first sub-frame. The message is associated with a PDSCH transmission in a second sub-frame different from the first sub-frame. When not in the DRX state or sub-state, a message is received within a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) resource region of a first sub-frame. The message associated with a PDSCH transmission in the first sub-frame.
US08942145B2	Implant access in the medical implant communications service band A system and method for providing communications between a hub (medical controller) and a node (an implant) are disclosed. The hub selects an operating channel within a channel group in accordance with applicable regulations, and transmits signals to facilitate communications with nodes. A node sequentially tunes to individual channels within the group, monitoring each channel for a hub transmission during a monitoring period. If a hub transmission is detected, the node stays on the current channel. Otherwise, the node tunes to a next channel in the channel group. The hub transmission may be directed to unconnected nodes, to a single connected node, or to a group of connected nodes. The node transmits a first frame to the hub at a designated transmission time and receives a response. The node reports an emergency by sequentially transmitting emergency frames on each of the channels until receiving an acknowledgment from the hub.
US08942144B2	Adaptive pause time energy efficient ethernet PHY An energy efficient Ethernet physical layer (PHY) device including an EEE control module configured to generate a control signal to transition the PHY device into a low power consumption mode based an operating condition, and a pause frame generator module responsive to the control signals to generate a pause frame. The pause frame generator module is configured to send the pause frame to a media access control (MAC) device to reduce an incoming flow of data packets from the MAC device to the PHY device for a pause time duration. In operation, the pause frame generator module generates the pause frame including a pause time indicating the length of time for the PHY device to be in the low power consumption mode. The value of the pause time for each pause frame is determined adaptively based on the amount of data traffic to be transmitted from the PHY device.
US08942141B2	Multi-channel multi-access Voice over IP intercommunication systems and methods The present invention provides systems and methods employing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology to provide multi-channel, multi-access voice communication capabilities.
US08942134B1	System and method for selective registration in a multi-beam system A system and method for selective registration of a user equipment (UE) to one of a plurality of access points (APs). An indication may be received that each of a plurality of APs have received a signal from a UE. The UE may be registered to the first one of the plurality of APs to satisfy registration requirements associated with the UE. Information may be reported to a controller related to the signal strength of communication received at each AP from the UE. If the signal strength received at the registered AP is less than the signal strength received at one or more of the non-registered APs by more than a threshold amount, the registration of the UE to the registered AP may be rejected.
US08942130B2	Peer-to-peer communication in ad hoc wireless network For a peer-to-peer call in an ad hoc wireless network, a wireless device performs discovery of a target wireless device, performs authentication of the target wireless device and generates a session key (e.g., using a pre-shared key or a certificate provisioned on the wireless device), forms an ad hoc wireless network with the target wireless device, and communicates peer-to-peer with the target wireless device via the ad hoc wireless network. The wireless device may perform discovery with a list of identifiers for wireless devices designated to communicate with this wireless device. The wireless device may derive a service set identifier (SSID) used to identify the ad hoc wireless network based on its user-specific identifier (e.g., its phone number) and/or a user-specific identifier for the target wireless device. The wireless device may also performs IP address discovery using the user-specific identifier for the target wireless device.
US08942129B1	Method and system for optimizing inter-frequency handoff in wireless coverage areas A radio access network (RAN) may be configured to identify a set of wireless coverage areas in which to transmit inter-frequency search directives. Identifying the set of coverage areas may involve determining which of the coverage areas defined by the RAN have threshold weaker coverage on one carrier frequency than on another carrier frequency of that coverage area. For each coverage area of the set, the RAN may identify one or more WCDs operating in the coverage area that are operating on the coverage area's carrier frequency that has the weaker coverage. Based on the identifying of the WCDs, the RAN may send to each identified WCD an inter-frequency search directive to cause the WCD to scan for and report to the RAN a measurement of coverage on one or more carrier frequencies other than the carrier frequency on which the WCD is currently operating.
US08942119B1	Determining a burstiness profile of a wireless communication system Active wireless devices in communication with an access node of a wireless communication system are detected and prioritized, and a group of the active wireless devices is selected. Data is provided to each selected wireless device, a burstiness metric is received based on the provided data, and a burstiness profile of the wireless communication system is determined.
US08942116B2	Asymmetrical link configuration for increased total network capacity A method for managing transmission settings in a wireless point-to-point link, including making a first estimate of a current required traffic capacity for transmitting in a first direction, from a first point in the wireless point-to-point link to a second point, and selecting a first technique for transmitting in the first direction, based, at least in part, on the first estimate of the current required traffic capacity, in which the first technique selected provides a traffic capacity which is less than a maximum capacity possible in the first direction. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US08942112B2	System and method for providing selective mobility invocation in a network environment A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes invoking a mobile access gateway function based on an end user requesting an Internet Protocol (IP) address in a wireless or a wireline network. The invocation is selective such that the mobile access gateway function is invoked if the end user requires IP mobility services. The method also includes communicating with a gateway in order to obtain the IP address. The mobile access gateway function is coupled to a network element that receives packets for a communications flow from the end user that can conduct the flow through the wireless network and through the wireline network.
US08942105B2	Method for processing traffic in an intermediate access point A method for processing traffic destined for a BS received from one or more terminals in an intermediate access point supporting two or more communication schemes is disclosed. The method includes receiving traffic from the one or more terminals according to a first communication scheme, measuring a congestion level of the received traffic, transmitting a first traffic being part of the received traffic to a second intermediate access point according to a second communication scheme, if the congestion level is a predetermined threshold or higher, and transmitting a second traffic being remaining traffic of the received traffic except the first traffic to the BS.
US08942096B2	Congestion-based traffic metering In one aspect, the invention provides apparatuses and methods for communicating, from one network node to another network node, congestion information. Advantageously, the congestion information may be communicated at a per-packet level so that the node receiving the congestion information may meter the network usage of a user based, at least in part, upon the level of network congestion experienced by each packet sent or received by the user.
US08942089B2	Method and apparatus for adaptive fast start in link aggregation In one embodiment, a period between periodic transmissions of protocol data units (PDUs) used to form or maintain a link aggregation group is initially set to a fixed value. When a stress condition is detected, the period between periodic transmissions of PDUs is increased from the initial value. When the stress condition is determined to have eased, the period between periodic transmissions of PDUs is reduced back toward the fixed value.
US08942088B2	BNG to PCRF mediation entity for BBF and 3GPP access interworking A Mediation Entity (ME) provides a single policy server common to the BroadBand Forum (BBF) fixed domain and the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) mobile domain. A Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) in the mobile domain provides policy control for both fixed and mobile domains. The ME in the 3GPP domain enables such PCRF approach. The ME may be introduced as a 3GPP mobile domain-based network function or element between a fixed domain-based Border Network Gateway (BNG) and the PCRF. With regard to the BBF fixed domain, the ME acts before the BNG as a Broadband Policy Control Function (BPCF), and with regard to the 3GPP mobile domain, the ME acts before the PCRF as a gateway implementing a Bearer Binding and Event Reporting Function (BBERF) or as a Policy and Charging Enforcement Function (PCEF).
US08942082B2	Cooperative subspace multiplexing in content delivery networks A source node selects a plurality of original data components to transfer to at least one destination node. A plurality of transmitting nodes cooperatively encodes the original data components to generate a plurality of subspace coded components and a corresponding code matrix. Each of the transmitting nodes transmits a subset of the plurality of subspace coded components and corresponding code matrix, wherein at least one of the transmitting nodes has a rank that is insufficient for decoding the plurality of subspace coded components. A destination node may employ a plurality of receiving nodes to cooperatively receive a plurality of subspace coded components and their corresponding code vectors, wherein the rank of at least one of the receiving nodes is insufficient for decoding the coded components. The destination node builds up the dimension of the subspace spanned by code vectors it collects from the receiving nodes so it can decode the coded components.
US08942080B2	Transmission of bundled ACK/NAK bits This invention is applicable to wireless communication between a user equipment (UE) and a base station using frames where at least one uplink (UL) is assigned a subframe to respond to a plurality of DL assigned subframes. This invention is an improvement in the acknowledge (ACK) or non-acknowledge (NAK) response by the UE. The UE generates an ACK or NAK dependent upon whether a DL communication is correctly received. For an UL subframe assigned to respond to communications on plural DL subframes, the UE logically combines plural ACK/NAK responses into a single bundled response for transmission to the base station. This logical combining produces a bit in a first digital state if all said responses are ACKs and in a second opposite digital state if any response is a NAK.
US08942078B2	Digital data transmitting device and digital data receiving device To provide a digital data transmitting apparatus and a digital data receiving apparatus that can realize, even when a transmission channel characteristic changes because of aged deterioration or the like of a relay, improvement of a reception performance following the change.A transmitting apparatus 1 generates a multiplexing frame formed by N slots including control information, data, outer parities, stuff bits, and inner parities and added with synchronization, pilot, and a transmission control signal and a parity and transmits data of the respective slots in a transmission system designated by the transmission control signal. In this case, pilot signals are symbols allocated to all signal points in order determined in advance for each of modulation schemes. A receiving apparatus 2 rewrites a phase error table 214 to calculate a phase error and performs synchronous detection according to the pilot signals. The receiving apparatus 2 also rewrites a likelihood table 235 to perform inner code decoding. Consequently, since reception processing adapted to distortion of a transmission channel characteristic can be performed, improvement of a reception performance can be realized.
US08942076B2	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.
US08942075B2	Battery management device, battery apparatus, disk array apparatus and battery management method Disclosed is a battery management device 1 and the like that maintains each secondary battery (SB) 2 in an appropriate state. The battery management device 1 calculates a degradation state of no smaller than the three SB 2 to be managed separately, selects, as the new power source, one of the SB 2 that have not been selected as a power source among a plurality of the SB 2 as management objects based on the degradation state, selects one of the plurality of the SB 2 that have been selected as the power source based on the degradation state and removing it from the power source, changes a combination of a plurality of the secondary batteries as the power source based on the degradation state, and activates the SB 2 disconnected from the power source by discharging and charging the SB 2.
US08942069B2	Wearable object such as a timepiece including means for triggering an electronic control function Portable object such as a timepiece including a dial (4) covered by a watch glass (2), the portable object (1) enclosing an electronic control circuit (16) for at least one time function or non-time related function, the portable object further comprising at least one light source (12) and an associated light sensor (10), which are arranged on the dial (4), the light source (12) emitting, through the glass (2), a light beam, which is at least partially reflected towards the light sensor (10), when it is intercepted by the user's finger (D) placed on the glass (2) of the portable object, the light sensor (10) supplying the electronic control circuit (16) with an electric signal for activating the corresponding function when it detects the light produced by the light source (12) and reflected by the user's finger (D), the portable object being characterized in that the light source (12) emits collimated light while forming, on the glass (2), a spot of defined dimensions which defines the place on the glass (2) where the user has to place his finger.
US08942067B2	Mechanism for displaying and correcting the state of two different time measurable quantities A mechanism for displaying and correcting a state of two different time measurable quantities for a timepiece includes a movement driving a first display mechanism to display a first measurable time quantity and a second display mechanism to display a second measurable time quantity, and including an adjusting member. The first and second display mechanisms respectively include first and second drive mechanisms sharing a common drive mechanism driven by the movement, and controlling a driving of one of the display mechanisms by instantaneous jumps and of the other by dragging. The display mechanisms respectively include a first and a second correction mechanism, sharing a common correction mechanism driven by the adjusting member independent of the common drive mechanism, including a friction safety device.
US08942059B2	Container system for seismic cable and stations Container systems used in storage, deployment or retrieval of a seismic cable array comprise a container, at least two coiling elements attached to a bottom side of the container, and storage means for allocating or accommodating, in an ordered arrangement, a number of seismic stations and/or a number of couplers/splices and/or other discontinuities which are being interconnected by sections of the seismic cable. Said storage means is arranged between said coiling elements and are attached to the bottom side of the container. The seismic cable is spooled or wound around said coiling elements. Corresponding methods of storing a seismic cable and deploying/retrieving the seismic cable are based on the use of at least two coiling elements and storage means for allocating or accommodating a number of seismic stations and/or a number of couplers/splices and/or a number of other discontinuities and arranged between said coiling elements.
US08942056B2	Protocol for memory power-mode control In one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory core and input receivers to receive commands and data. The memory device also includes a register to store a value that indicates whether a subset of the input receivers are powered down in response to a control signal. A memory controller transmits commands and data to the memory device. The memory controller also transmits the value to indicate whether a subset of the input receivers of the memory device are powered down in response to the control signal. In addition, in response to a self-fresh command, the memory device defers entry into a self-refresh operation until receipt of the control signal that is received after receiving the self-refresh command.
US08942053B2	Generating and amplifying differential signals A circuit includes a first node, a second node, a first current mirror circuit, and a second current mirror circuit. The first current mirror circuit has a reference end and a mirrored end. The reference end of the first current mirror circuit is coupled to the first node, and the mirrored end of the first current mirror circuit is coupled to the second node. The second current mirror circuit has a reference end and a mirrored end. The reference end of the second current mirror circuit is coupled to the second node, and the mirrored end of the second current mirror circuit is coupled to the first node.
US08942052B2	Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) min/max voltage circuit for switching between multiple voltages A voltage selection mechanism is provided for switching between multiple voltages without causing a direct current (DC) that may further stress storage elements due to excessive power consumption and electro-migration effects. The voltage selection mechanism comprises cross-coupled circuitry, which comprises a first positive-channel field effect transistor (PFET) and a second PFET. The voltage selection mechanism further comprises diode circuitry, which comprises a third PFET and a fourth PFET.
US08942046B2	Method of programming a 3-dimensional nonvolatile memory device based on a program order of a selected page and a location of a string selection line A nonvolatile memory device comprises cell strings formed in a direction substantially perpendicular to a substrate and is configured to select memory cells in units corresponding to a string selection line. The device selects a page to be programmed among pages sharing a common word line, determines a level of a program voltage to be provided to the selected page according to a location of a string selection line corresponding to the selected page, and writes data in the selected page using the determined level of the program voltage.
US08942039B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device This nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises: a memory cell array configured having a plurality of blocks arranged therein, each of the blocks configured as an arrangement of NAND cell units, each of the NAND cell units configured having a plurality of electrically rewritable memory cells and a select transistor connected in series; and a row decoder configured to select anyone of the blocks of the memory cell array and supply to any one of said blocks a voltage required in various kinds of operations. The row decoder comprises: a plurality of first transfer transistors each disposed in a first region and connected to any one of the memory cells; and a plurality of second transfer transistors each disposed in a second region and connected to the select transistor, the second region being a residual region of the first region.
US08942035B2	Non-sequential encoding scheme for multi-level cell (MLC) memory cells Apparatus and method for managing an array of multi-level cell (MLC) memory cells. In accordance with various embodiments, a non-sequential encoding scheme is selected that assigns a different multi-bit logical value to each of a plurality of available physical states of a selected MLC memory cell in relation to write effort associated with each of said plurality of physical states. Data are thereafter written to the selected MLC memory cell in relation to the selected non-sequential encoding scheme. In some embodiments, the MLC memory cell comprises a spin-torque transfer random access memory (STRAM) memory cell. In other embodiments, the MLC memory cell comprises an MLC flash memory cell.
US08942022B2	Embedded non-volatile memory circuit for implementing logic functions across periods of power disruption A circuit having an autonomous ferroelectric memory latch (AML) is disclosed. An AML characterized by an AML input, an AML output, a first AML power contact, a second AML power contact and an AML state, and a first switch in series with one of the AML input or the AML output. The switch is positioned to prevent the state of the AML from changing when power is provided between the first and second AML power contacts. In one aspect of the invention, the circuit could include a second switch in series with the other of the AML input or the AML output and a latch in series with the AML input or the AML output. The latch is positioned such that a direct path back does not exist between the AML output and the AML input.
US08942014B2	Converter cell for cascaded converters and a control system and method for operating a converter cell A cascaded electric power converter and a method of operating a cascaded electric power converter are disclosed. The cascaded converter includes: a converter cell including a cell capacitor and at least one phase leg having at least two electric valves, the at least one phase leg being connected in parallel to the cell capacitor; and a control system for controlling the switching of the electric valves of the at least one phase leg. The control system is configured to, upon detection of a need to by-pass the converter cell, control the switching of the electric valves in a manner so that the cell capacitor is short circuited via a phase leg, so as to obtain a current surge through the phase leg, thereby creating a permanent current path through the converter cell.
US08942012B2	Method of forming a switched mode power supply controller device with an off mode and structure therefor At least one embodiment is directed to a semiconductor voltage controller comprising: a start-mode circuit associated with a start-mode; and an off-mode circuit associated with an off-mode, where the voltage controller can be configured to receive a feedback signal and an off-mode signal from a single input and provide an output voltage, where the voltage controller can be configured to be in the off-mode when the feedback signal is less than a skip level and the feedback signal is less than a HV control level, and where the voltage controller can be configured to be in start mode when the feedback signal is greater than HV control level and Vcc is below a Vcc-start.
US08942011B2	Power supply apparatus and image forming apparatus A power supply apparatus supplies regulated power to an external apparatus. A power switch is turned on to receive AC power and turned off not to receive the AC power. The AC power is rectified by a rectifying section and is switched by a switching section into switched DC power which is smoothed by a rectifying/smoothing section. Upon reception of an alarm signal, the power disconnecting section stops sending the switched DC power to the rectifying/smoothing section. If the AC switch is turned off and then back on again after stopping sending the switched DC power to the smoothing section, the power disconnecting section allows receiving of the AC power only a time after turn-off of the power switch. Upon reception of an auto-off signal indicative of an idle state of the external apparatus, an auto-off section does not send the switched DC power to the rectifying/smoothing section.
US08942010B2	Inverter of new and renewable energy storage system Provided is an inverter of a renewable energy storage system, which has an input port and an output port electrically insulated, and is compact and low-priced, while having a simplified circuit. The inverter includes a DC-DC converting unit connected to the DC link, and an inverting unit connected between the DC-DC converting unit and the power system, wherein the DC-DC converting unit is an unregulated DC-DC bus converter.
US08942008B2	Electronic device with riser card An electronic device includes a chassis, a mounting assembly, and an assisting member. The mounting assembly is secured to the chassis and includes a circuit board and a connector secured to the circuit board. The signal module is secured to the chassis and includes a signal card, and the signal card is engaged with the connector. The assisting member is secured to a first end of the mounting assembly and includes an assisting corner. The assisting corner abuts the signal module. The connector is located between the assisting corner and a second end of the mounting assembly, which is opposite to the first end. The second end rotates about the assisting corner, and the connector disengages from the signal card when the second end is rotated about the assisting corner.
US08942003B2	Multilayered printed wiring board A multilayered printed wiring board includes a plurality of insulating layers; a plurality of wiring layers which are located between the corresponding adjacent insulating layers; and a plurality of interlayer connection conductors for electrically connecting the wiring layers through the insulating layers; wherein a cavity is formed through one or more of the insulating layers so as to insert a first electric/electronic component and an area for embedding a second electric/electronic component is defined for the insulating layers.
US08941991B2	Keyboard and electronic device employing the keyboard A keyboard includes a cover, a housing, and a main body. The main body is sandwiched between the cover and the housing. The keyboard further includes an adjustment mechanism for supporting the keyboard at an inclination. The adjustment mechanism includes an adjustment portion, a supporting portion corresponding to a first through hole defined in the housing, a driving portion configured to drive the supporting portion to move along a central axis of the first through hole, and a securing portion configured to control the supporting portion to stop moving. When the adjustment portion is operated, the driving portion drives the supporting portion to move along the central axis of the first through hole to support the keyboard at different inclinations. When the adjustment portion is free, the securing portion engages with the supporting portion, and the keyboard holds the selected inclination.
US08941990B2	Device foot A moveable device foot for an electronic device is described. The device foot can include a rigid weight bearing member and a flexible sealing member that is integrally formed with the weight bearing member. The device foot can be formed using a double-shot injection molding process. The weight bearing member of the foot can be mounted to an interior portion of the electronic device such that it extends through an external casing of the electronic device. The flexible sealing member can be mounted to the external casing to seal the interior of the electronic device. During operation of the electronic device, the device foot can be configured to move relative to the external casing, such as in response to an external force applied to the electronic device.
US08941988B2	Electronic apparatus and cover According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a main body, a cover, and a storage portion. The main body includes a display unit. The cover includes a first surface at which the main body is supported, and a second surface on which the main body is placed. The storage portion is provided between the first and second surfaces. The cover includes a first use mode in which the display unit is covered, and a second use mode in which the display unit is exposed, and the first and second surfaces are rotatable with respect to each other in the second use mode.
US08941981B2	Computer with high intensity screen A computer includes various features that improve its functionality and/or ease of use. A modular electronics cartridge that includes a piston seal and opposed-direction latches removably engages a cartridge bay of the computer. A high intensity touch-screen display and a high power processor are disposed in a sealed compartment of the computer, and a remote heat exchanger is used to cool the sealed compartment. An interface converter/adapter converts a standard mini-PCI Express slot into a specialized mini-PCI Express slot with voice capabilities. SIM and microSD card slots mount to a pivoting door on the computer such that opening the door provides easier access to the card slots.
US08941979B2	Foldable keyboard A foldable keyboard including an upper housing having a plurality of keys, a lower housing having a plurality of keys, a spine member configured for pivotally connecting the upper and lower housings along a horizontal axis defined by the upper and lower housings, and a hinge mechanism provided in the spine member and configured for enabling movement of the upper housing relative to the lower housing to move the keyboard between a closed configuration and an open configuration.
US08941975B2	Laminated ceramic electronic component Provided is a laminated ceramic electronic component which has excellent mechanical characteristics, internal electrode corrosion resistance, high degree of freedom in ceramic material design, low cost, low defective rate, and various properties. The laminated ceramic electronic component includes: a laminate which has a plurality of laminated ceramic layers and Al/Si alloy-containing internal electrodes at a plurality of specific interface between ceramic layers; and an external electrode formed on the outer surface of the laminate, wherein the Al/Si ratio of the Al/Si alloy is 85/15 or more.
US08941950B2	Underlayers for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media Various embodiments provide for a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media comprising: a magnetic recording layer; a barrier layer disposed under the magnetic recording layer; a first underlayer disposed under the barrier layer; and an amorphous seedlayer disposed under the first underlayer. For some embodiments, the recording medium may comprise: a magnetic recording layer including FePt alloy, a CoPt alloy, or a FePd alloy; a barrier layer including MgO, TiC, TiN, CrN, TiCN, β-WC, TaC, HfC, ZrC, VC, NbC, or NiO; a first underlayer including RuAl-oxide, NiAl, FeAl, AlMn, CuBe, or AlRe; or an amorphous seedlayer including a Cr—X alloy, where X comprises Al, B, C, Cu, Hf, Ho, Mn, Mo, Ni, Ta, Ti, V, W, or Ru.
US08941949B1	Write head A write head is provided for writing a servo pattern to a magnetic tape storage medium. The write head comprises at least a first write gap (A) and a second write gap (B), the first write gap (A) and the second write gap (B) being separately energizable. The second write gap (B) comprises at least a first section (a) and a second section (b). The first section (a) is designed such that an energization of the second write gap (B) causes a magnetic flux across the first section (a) insufficient for changing a magnetization of a track of the magnetic tape storage medium (TP) passing the first section (a) of the second write gap (B). The second section (b) is designed such that an energization of the second write gap (B) causes a magnetic flux across the second section (b) sufficient for magnetizing a track of the magnetic tape storage medium (TP) passing the second section (b) of the second write gap (B).
US08941938B1	Apparatus and methods for circumferentially aligned features Provided herein is an apparatus, including a first region corresponding to a data region in a patterned recording medium; a first set of features in the first region; a second region corresponding to a servo region in a patterned recording medium; and a second set of features in the second region including rhomboidal protrusions, wherein the first set of features and the second set of features are circumferentially aligned in accordance with concentrically circular lines etched into the apparatus across the first region and the second region.
US08941935B1	System and method for initiating refresh operations A magnetic storage system includes a magnetic storage medium, a random-access memory (RAM), and a controller. The controller interfaces with both the magnetic storage medium and the RAM, and implements a refresh algorithm that determines when a data track on the magnetic storage medium should be refreshed. The controller maintains in the magnetic storage medium a plurality of finer-granularity damage count tables, each table having finer-granularity damage counts each representing damage to one or more sectors within each of the plurality of tracks associated with the table. The controller maintains in RAM a plurality of track-level damage count values, each associated with one of the plurality of data tracks and representing estimated damage to one of the plurality of data tracks. Based on data written to the plurality of data tracks, the controller utilizes finer-granularity damage count tables stored in the magnetic media to update the track-level damage.
US08941933B2	Image capturing system An image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface. The third lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface at a paraxial region and a convex image-side surface at a paraxial region. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave image-side surface at a paraxial region, wherein the image-side surface of the fourth lens element has a convex shape at a peripheral region, and both of the surfaces of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The image capturing system has a total of four lens elements with refractive power.
US08941926B2	Zoom lens, image pickup apparatus using the same, image transmission apparatus, and image transmission system A zoom lens includes in order from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, and a last lens group having a positive refractive power. At the time of zooming from a wide angle end to a telephoto end, the second lens group and the third lens group move, and one of the fourth lens group, the fifth lens group, and the last lens group moves.
US08941915B2	Illuminating device for an operating microscope The present invention relates to an illuminating device for an operating microscope including two observation beam paths for a first observer and two observation beam paths for a second observer. An illuminating system provides two parallel illuminating beam paths and a deflecting device, for deflecting the parallel illuminating beam paths onto an object that is to be observed. The deflecting device includes a first semitransparent deflector element which is associated with a first observation beam path of the first observer and a first observation beam path of the second observer, and a second semitransparent deflector element, which is associated with a second observation beam path of the first observer and a second observation beam path of the second observer. The first illuminating beam path acts exclusively on the first deflector element and the second illuminating beam path acts exclusively on the second deflector element.
US08941914B2	Light microscope with novel digital method to achieve super-resolution Methods and apparatus for reconstructing a wave, including interpolation and extrapolation of the phase and amplitude distributions, with application to imaging apparatus, such as microscopes.
US08941909B2	Display device Provided is a display device, including: a pair of substrates arranged at an interval; oil filled between the pair of substrates; a shutter arranged in the oil; a drive portion, which is arranged in the oil, for driving the shutter in a predetermined direction; and a wall portion provided in the oil and on one of the pair of substrates. The wall portion is positioned adjacent to the shutter in one of the predetermined direction of the shutter and a direction orthogonal to the predetermined direction. The wall portion has a height exceeding a height of the shutter in a thickness direction of the shutter. The wall portion has at least a part positioned lateral to the shutter.
US08941900B2	Image forming apparatus and method of processing image thereof An image forming apparatus and a method of processing an image of the image forming apparatus are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a scanner to scan a document, a detector to detect text and image areas included in the scanned document, a conversion unit to convert the scanned document so as to output one of the detected text and image areas as color data and the other as monochrome data, and an output unit to output the converted document, wherein the conversion unit converts the scanned document to set a color value of the detected text area to a preset color value so as to output the detected text area as monochrome data or set a color value of the detected image area to a preset color value so as to output the detected image area as monochrome data.
US08941896B2	Image reading unit and overhead image reading device An image reading unit includes an image reading section that reads an image of a document in a one-dimensional direction by one-dimensionally aligned imaging elements, a light source that irradiates an image reading region by the image reading section with light, and a rotation head that holds the image reading section and the light source in a manner that the image reading section and the light source are rotatable relative to the document about a rotation axis which is parallel to an alignment direction of the imaging elements.
US08941891B2	Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. One aspect includes a pixel unit including a plurality of pixels formed at portions at which scanning lines and data lines intersect with each other; a scan driver for supplying scan signals to the scanning lines. The OLED display further comprises a data driver for supplying data signals to the data lines; and a data compensation unit changing the input data using a correction coefficient stored as a unit of a pixel block including a plurality of pixels and supplying the changed input data to the data driver. In such OLED display, the pixel block is divided so that the number of pixel arranged in the first direction is different from the number of pixel arranged in the second direction which intersects with the first direction.
US08941884B1	Method and apparatus for dynamically generating a stochastic threshold table Various techniques for generating transformed tables by applying transformations indicated in a transformation table to a first threshold halftone table that is unsuitable for tiling an image as part of an image half-toning process are described. A block of the transformed tables represent a second threshold halftone table that is suitable for the half-toning process, wherein the second threshold halftone table is larger than the first threshold halftone table, such that the block is too large to be stored in the memory. A half-toned image of the image is generated based at least in part on the second threshold halftone table.
US08941878B2	Page description data processing apparatus, page description data processing method, and recording medium With respect to an object that strokes a path existing in page description data, the position of a start point of a line element formed along the path is estimated based on a path construction operator and a dotted line pattern determining operator. If the distance between the start point and an end point of the path is equal to or less than a prescribed threshold value, the position of the end point of the path is changed to another position along the path in order to increase the distance.
US08941875B2	Image processing system, image processing method, and computer readable recording medium storing program thereof There is provided an image forming device capable of performing overlay printing in which a desired image overlaps with a desired page. An image processing system includes a display control unit that displays a setting screen which enables at least one overlay image overlapping with a page to be selected from predetermined overlay images and which enables at least one target page to be selected from pages, an operation input unit that receives an operation, an information obtaining unit that obtains selected image information indicating a selected overlay image in the setting screen, target page information indicating a target page selected as a target with which the selected overlay image overlaps, and selection method information indicating a selection method used to select the target page, and an image setting unit that sets an overlay image.
US08941873B2	Processing instruction device, processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium A processing instruction device includes a memory, a display instruction data acquisition unit, a specifying unit, a display controller, an operation data acquisition unit, and a processing instruction unit. The memory stores processing instruction data, processing identification data, and processing attribute data. The display instruction data acquisition unit acquires display instruction data. If the display instruction data includes processing identification data which is not stored in the memory, the specifying unit specifies alternative processing instruction data. The display controller causes a display device to display an image which prompts a user to select the alternative processing instruction data. If the operation data acquisition unit acquires operation data indicating selection of processing instruction data, the processing instruction unit instructs at least one of an image forming device, an imaging device, and a data communication device to perform a processing operation in accordance with the acquired processing instruction data.
US08941867B2	Printing system, server apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium A printing system, responsive to a request from an image forming apparatus, applies general-purpose print setting to print setting information of a printer driver in the image forming apparatus specified in the request, applies dedicated print setting using a ticket in a print job stored in a storage device to the print setting information to which the general-purpose print setting has been applied, reflects the print setting information of the printer driver to which the dedicated print setting has been applied, on the print setting information in the print job, generates a print job including the reflected print setting information in the print job and print data in the print job, and outputs the generated print job to the image forming apparatus.
US08941864B2	Image processing apparatus, image reading apparatus, image forming apparatus, and image processing method Disclosed is an image processing apparatus which (i) determines whether or not characters to be subjected to a character recognition process in image data have a size larger than a predetermined size, (ii) in a case where the characters is determined as larger than the predetermined size, reduces at least a region including the characters so that the size of the characters fits within the predetermined size, and (iii) performs a character recognition process of the characters with use of the reduced image data.
US08941863B1	Techniques for image duplication optimization Techniques for image copying optimization are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for image copying optimization comprising receiving a request to copy a plurality of images, copying one or more of the plurality of images, deferring synchronization for each of the one or more of the plurality of images, receiving an indication to stop deferring synchronization, and synchronizing the one or more copied images of the plurality of images.
US08941857B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing system includes plural information processing apparatuses and a management apparatus. A first information processing apparatus includes a first notifying unit that notifies the management apparatus of a storage location associated with updated authentication information. The management apparatus notifies the first information processing apparatus of apparatus identifying information concerning the received storage location. A second notifying unit notifies an information processing apparatus identified by the apparatus identifying information of the storage location and the updated authentication information. A third notifying unit notifies the management apparatus of apparatus identifying information concerning an information processing apparatus to which the second notifying unit has failed to supply the information. The management apparatus notifies this information processing apparatus of the storage location and apparatus identifying information concerning an information processing apparatus in which the authentication information is updated. An updating unit of this information processing apparatus updates authentication information.
US08941852B2	Print data processing system, print data processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium A print data processing system includes plural intermediate data generation units, an allocation unit, one or more memories, a print image conversion unit, and a reprint controller. Each intermediate data generation unit interprets PDL data and generates intermediate data in units of pages. The allocation unit allocates processes of interpreting the PDL data to the intermediate data generation units in units of pages and causes the intermediate data generation units to execute processes of interpreting pages in parallel. The one or more memories store pieces of intermediate data of the individual pages. The print image conversion unit acquires the pieces of intermediate data, converts the acquired data to print image data, and supplies the print image data to a printer. The reprint controller performs control to cause the print image conversion unit to reacquire the pieces of intermediate data and to reconvert the reacquired data to the print image data.
US08941850B2	Image processing apparatus having a plurality of communication devices for facilitating printing An image processing apparatus is provided that includes a first communication device, a second communication device, an informing device, and a controller configured to control the first communication device to establish first communication with an information processing terminal device that is within a predetermined communicable distance from the first communication device, and to control the second communication device to transmit, to the information processing terminal device, target data that has been informed of by the informing device at a time when the first communication is established between the first communication device and the information processing terminal device.
US08941844B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for suppressing image degradation caused by a printing position fluctuation The invention provides a technique which allows high-quality printing. An image processing apparatus for forming an image by executing N printing scans for a single region on a printing medium, comprises: a readout unit configured to read out image data of a region corresponding to a k-th printing scan from input image data; a print data generation unit configured to generate print data from the image data by halftone processing; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain position fluctuation information of dots in a preceding printing scan, wherein the readout unit controls a readout position of the region corresponding to the k-th printing scan in accordance with the position fluctuation information at the time of the preceding printing scan obtained by the obtaining unit.
US08941843B2	Light interference system and substrate processing apparatus A light interference system and a substrate processing apparatus can suppress loss of reflection spectrum. The light interference system 1 includes a light source 10, a coupler 41, multiple collimators 12A and 12B, a collimator 42, a mirror 43, a spectrometer 14, and an operation unit 15. The collimator 42 and the mirror 43 are provided at a side of multiple input terminals except a first input terminal and configured to send reflected lights from multiple output terminals to the multiple output terminals again.
US08941840B2	Device for optical coherence tomography In certain embodiments, a device for optical coherence tomography (OCT) includes a signal detection device and a computer arrangement. The signal detection device is designed to detect an interference signal (G(ω)) for an object to be imaged in an optical frequency range (ω). The computer arrangement is designed to determine intermediate signals (G1(k), G2(k)) in a spatial frequency range (k) from the interference signal (G(ω)), whereby each of the intermediate signals (G1(k), G2(k)) is dispersion-compensated for a different depth (z1, z2) of the object. A locally resolved image signal (FFT1, FFT2) is determined for each of the intermediate signals (G1(k), G2(k)) by applying a Fourier transformation to the particular intermediate signal (G1(k), G2(k)). A tomography signal (G(z)) is determined from the image signals (FFT1, FFT2).
US08941839B2	Rate sensitive blanking of a path length control circuit in a gyroscope A method and system for rate sensitive blanking in a path length control circuit of a gyroscope is provided. The method comprises determining an angular rate of the gyroscope, detecting a zero rate of the gyroscope where one or more single beam signals occur, and determining one or more blanker positions based on the zero rate. A blanker pulse is generated at the blanker positions such that the path length control circuit suspends operation when the one or more single beam signals occur.
US08941833B2	Alignment registration feature for analyte sensor optical reader An optical reader for interrogating an optical analyte sensor includes a housing, comprising in its interior: at least one light source, a detector, and a programmable logic device. The housing has a registration feature configured to align the optical reader with an optical analyte sensor. Methods for confirming alignment of such optical readers are also disclosed.
US08941826B2	Three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic focusing using a microfluidic device A microfluidic device comprises inlets for a sample flow and an out-of-plane focusing sheath flow, and a curved channel section configured to receive the sample flow and out-of-plane focusing sheath and to provide hydrodynamic focusing of the sample flow in an out-of-plane direction, the out-of-plane direction being normal to a plane including the curved channel. Examples of the invention also include improved flow cytometers.
US08941815B2	Substrate table for a lithographic apparatus, lithographic apparatus, method of using a substrate table and device manufacturing method A cover is provided for a substrate table in an immersion lithographic apparatus that covers at least the gap between a substrate and a recess in a substrate table in which the substrate is received.
US08941808B2	Immersion lithographic apparatus rinsing outer contour of substrate with immersion space An immersion type lithographic apparatus includes at least one immersion space and an immersion system configured to at least partially fill the immersion space with a liquid. The apparatus is configured to rinse at least part of the immersion space with a rinsing liquid before the apparatus is used to project a patterned beam of radiation onto a substrate.
US08941800B2	Reflective image forming element and optical system A reflective imaging element includes: a plurality of holes penetrating through the plate-like substrate along a thickness direction thereof; two orthogonally-disposed specular elements on inner walls of the plurality of holes; a first principal face on which light from an object is received; a second principal face parallel to the first principal face; and two taper elements opposing the two specular elements. The two taper elements each have a first side parallel to the first principal face, a second side orthogonal to the first principal face and to the first side, and a hypotenuse meeting the first and second sides and constituting an angle β with the second side. An angle constituted by a normal direction of the first principal face and an incident direction of light striking the first principal face defines an incident angle θ, such that, in a range of 0°<θ<90°, the angle β satisfies (90°−θ)/4≦β.
US08941795B2	Electronic device with backlit display An electronic device may have a liquid crystal display with backlight structures. The backlight structures may produce backlight that passes through display layers in the display. The display layers may include color filter elements, a liquid crystal layer, and a thin-film transistor layer. The color filter elements may be interposed between the thin-film transistor layer and the backlight structures or the thin-film transistor layer may be interposed between the color filter elements and the backlight structures. The backlight structures may be formed from optical fiber, a two-dimensional array of light-emitting diodes, a light guide plate that includes a rectangular recess for receiving optical films, or light guide plate structures that include internal light scattering structures. A light guide plate may be provided with alignment features that mate with alignment features on optical films.
US08941792B2	Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device includes a first insulation substrate and a second insulation substrate which hold a liquid crystal material therebetween, a pixel electrode, a common electrode, a thin film transistor which has a semiconductor layer, a first electrode connected with a video signal line, and a second electrode connected with the pixel electrode. The semiconductor layer overlaps and is in physical contact with the pixel electrode, and a part of the pixel electrode, a part of the semiconductor layer, and a part of the second electrode are stacked at an overlapping portion.
US08941788B2	Switchable window having low emissivity (low-E) coating as conductive layer and/or method of making the same A switchable window includes: first and second substrates (e.g., glass substrates); a liquid crystal inclusive layer (e.g., PDLC layer) disposed between at least the first and the second substrates; and a low-E coating provided between at least the liquid crystal inclusive layer and the first substrate. Voltage is applied to the liquid crystal inclusive layer via the low-E coating and a substantially transparent conductive coating which are on opposite sides of the liquid crystal inclusive layer. By adjusting voltage applied to at least part of the liquid crystal inclusive layer, the window is selectively switchable between at least first and second states with different visible light transmissions.
US08941783B2	Image output system, image signal generation apparatus and recording medium An image output system includes plural channels from each of which an image signal is output, a switching unit for switching the channel that outputs the image signal to an image output unit based on connection states of the plural channels, an information display generation unit for generating the image signal of an information display screen related to the currently outputting channel, and a display state storing unit for storing a display state related to the information display screen, the display state including a “display-ON” state and a “display-OFF” state. In a case where there is a change in the connection state of the currently outputting channel, when there is the information display screen whose display state is the “display-ON” state, the switching unit switches the channel after waiting for a predefined change in the display state related to the information display screen.
US08941775B2	Systems, methods, and devices for flash exposure control using preflash statistics Systems, methods, and devices for obtaining a properly exposed strobe-illuminated image are provided. One method for doing so may include, for example, gathering image capture statistics during a first period when a strobe is not emitting light and during a second period when the strobe emits a preflash. These image capture statistics may include distinct image capture control statistics and luma values associated with the periods. Final image capture control statistics then may be determined based at least in part on the first luma value normalized to the first image capture control statistics and the second luma value normalized to the second image capture control statistics. Thereafter, the final image capture control statistics may be used to capture a properly exposed strobe-illuminated image when the strobe emits a main flash.
US08941774B2	Imaging apparatus and accessory, and method and system of the same, and medium An imaging apparatus to which an accessory is detachably attached, said accessory including an optical member, includes a signal generation unit configured to generate a vertical synchronizing signal and output the generated vertical synchronizing signal, an imaging unit configured to accumulate charges in synchronization with the vertical synchronizing signal and output an imaging signal, a control unit configured to generate a clock signal and control data communication with the accessory based on the clock signal, a first terminal for sending the clock signal to the accessory, and a second terminal for communicating data with the accessory, in which the control unit, after the data communication via the second terminal, notifies timing at which the vertical synchronizing signal is output using the clock signal via the first terminal by changing a signal level of the first terminal after a lapse of a predetermined time while the signal level is kept at a predetermined level, and controls the accessory to drive the optical member based on the timing.
US08941757B2	Apparatus and method for adjusting white balance An apparatus and method for adjusting a white balance, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for adjusting a white balance of an image captured with a complex light source are provided. The apparatus includes a camera unit, and a controller for controlling recognition of a facial image from an image captured by the camera unit and, if it is determined that the image has been captured with a complex light source based on a comparison between a white balance gain calculated based on a facial skin color of the recognized facial image and a white balance gain calculated based on a white balance scheme, for adjusting a white balance of the captured image based on a final white balance gain extracted by interpolating the two white balance gains.
US08941752B2	Determining a location using an image Determining a location. An initial image is captured at an image capturing device. The initial image is compared with images in a database of images which have associated locations to determine the location of the image capturing device. A user receives a notification if a location cannot be determined.
US08941750B2	Image processing device for generating reconstruction image, image generating method, and storage medium A sub-image extractor extracts a target sub-image from a light field image. A partial area definer defines a predetermined area in the target sub-image as a partial area. A pixel extractor extracts pixels from the partial area, the number of pixels meeting correspondence areas of a generation image. The pixel arranger arranges the extracted pixels to the correspondence areas of the generation image in an arrangement according to the optical path of the optical system which photographs the light field image. Pixels are extracted for all sub-images in the light field image, and are arranged to the generation image to generate a reconstruction image.
US08941748B2	Imaging system, imaging apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium for improving collection efficiency of image data An imaging system in which an image is shared by a first imaging apparatus and a second imaging apparatus which form a network group, the first imaging apparatus comprising a transmission unit adapted to transmit imaging request information to request imaging to the second imaging apparatus; and the second imaging apparatus comprising a reception unit adapted to receive the imaging request information, a switching unit adapted to switch an imaging mode to a request imaging mode when the imaging request information is received, an imaging unit adapted to capture an image in the request imaging mode, a generation unit adapted to generate, based on the imaging request information, imaging information assigned to the image captured by the imaging unit, and a storage unit adapted to store the image captured by the imaging unit and the imaging information generated by the generation unit in association with each other.
US08941741B1	Authentication using a video signature Methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, are described for authentication using a video signature. A computing device receives a request to access a secure resource, and the request includes a first video segment comprising a plurality of visual and audio elements. The computing device analyzes one or more of the plurality of visual and audio elements in the first video segment to determine a value associated with each of the one or more analyzed elements. The computing device calculates a total score for the first video segment based upon the value associated with each of the one or more analyzed elements. The computing device compares the total score for the first video segment to a score associated with a second video segment associated with the computing device. The computing device determines whether access to the secure resource is permitted based upon the comparison step.
US08941730B2	Color-unevenness inspection apparatus and method A color-unevenness inspection apparatus includes: an image pickup section picking up an image of an inspection target in a color-unevenness inspection; and an image generation section generating an uneven-color image by, in the picked-up image of the inspection target obtained by the image pickup section, calculating a chroma in each unit region and identifying an uneven-color region based on a magnitude of the calculated chroma. The color-unevenness inspection apparatus further includes: a calculation section calculating, for the uneven-color region in the uneven-color image, an evaluation parameter to be used in the color-unevenness inspection; and an inspection section performing the color-unevenness inspection based on the calculated evaluation parameter. The image generation section calculates the chroma, in each unit region of the picked-up image, while performing correction processing that reflects variations in color-unevenness visibility from color to color.
US08941722B2	Automatic intelligent focus control of video The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for providing focus control for an image-capturing device. An exemplary method includes capturing an image frame using an image-capturing device and recording video tracking data and gaze tracking data for one or more image frames following the captured image frame and/or for one or more images frames prior to the captured image frame. The exemplary method additionally includes calculating a focus distance and a depth of field based at least partially on the recorded video tracking data and recorded gaze tracking data. The exemplary method additionally includes displaying the captured image frame based on the calculated focus distance and the calculated depth of field.
US08941718B2	3D video processing apparatus and 3D video processing method A 3D video processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an offset value complementing unit which complements an offset value of the first picture, by assigning a value which is equal to or greater than the first offset value and equal to or smaller than the second offset value, the first offset value representing the smaller one of the offset value assigned to the second picture temporally preceding the first picture and the offset value assigned to the third picture temporally succeeding the first picture, and the second offset value representing the larger one of the offset value assigned to the second picture and the offset value assigned to the third picture.
US08941711B2	Extended presence for video conferencing systems Systems and methods of providing extended presence information for multi-user devices are described. Communication devices used in conference rooms represent a different nature than single user devices such as a personal computer. Conference rooms also have attributes that may be added to existing presence information and provide an enhanced experience for scheduling and dissemination of conference room capabilities. Information such as actual people in attendance may be added to the presence information maintained by a presence server to provide an overall enhancement to the meeting room whether it is physically a single conference room or a multitude of endpoints remotely connected to a conference.
US08941708B2	Method, computer-readable storage medium, and apparatus for modifying the layout used by a video composing unit to generate a composite video signal In one embodiment, a method that includes providing, on a display, an object configured to be moved by a user along an axis, associating a plurality of predefined layouts with respective intervals along the axis, detecting a user action on the object indicating a position on the axis, and composing, in response to the detecting of the user action, a composite video signal using a layout, of the plurality of predefined layouts, associated with an interval among the intervals within which the position is lying.
US08941707B2	Video messaging A method for video messaging includes recording a video message, at a device, for a recipient; and selecting a contact as a recipient of the video message, at the device, without requiring typing at the device.
US08941705B2	Apparatus for inscription of marking tags The invention relates to a device (10) for the inscription of marking tags, comprising a supporting surface (30) for the marking tags, comprising a laser inscription device and comprising a housing (12) for enclosing a laser beam that emerges from the laser inscription device and is directed onto the supporting surface (30), wherein the housing (12) has a lower housing part (14) and a covering hood (16), arranged on or over the lower housing part (14). According to the invention, it is provided that the supporting surface (30) is arranged on a turntable (24), which can rotate about an axis of rotation (26) that is fixed in relation to the housing, is arranged between the lower housing part (14) and the covering hood (16) protrudes laterally beyond the covering hood (16) and can be moved between an inscription position, in which the supporting surface (30) is completely covered by the covering hood (16), and a loading position, in which the supporting surface (30) is completely outside the covering hood (16), and that the turntable (24) has two sealing ribs (36, 38), which extend radially from the axis of rotation (26), protrude from the supporting surface (30) and in the inscription position lie against a front wall (42) of the covering hood (16).
US08941701B2	Image forming apparatus and method for controlling the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a temperature sensor detecting an operating ambient temperature of the polygon motor, and a controller controlling the polygon motor and the paper feed mechanism. If the temperature detected by the temperature sensor is equal to or greater than a preset temperature, the controller controls, before operation for giving a command to start image formation is performed, the polygon motor to rotate; increases, in response to the operation, a rotational speed of the polygon motor up to a rated speed; and controls the paper feed mechanism to start conveying a sheet of paper at a time when a period of time variable depending on the detected temperature has elapsed, the period of time being preset to be shorter as the detected temperature increases, in expectation of a time required for the rotational speed of the polygon motor to reach the rated speed.
US08941696B2	Liquid crystal display device including inspection circuit and inspection method thereof Disclosed is an LCD device having a structure such as a column inversion type or a Z-inversion type where a single data line can be shared by two neighboring pixels, and an inspection circuit and method thereof. The inspection circuit for outputting gate driving signals in a division manner into odd and even-numbered signals is provided between the gate driving unit and a pixel region, so that only color pixels to be inspected can be driven. This can allow pixels to be normally inspected in an LCD device having an enhanced column inversion structure.
US08941689B2	Formatting of one or more persistent augmentations in an augmented view in response to multiple input factors Computationally implemented methods and systems include presenting a first augmented view of a first scene from a real environment, the first augmented view to be presented including one or more persistent augmentations in a first one or more formats, the inclusion of the one or more persistent augmentations in the first augmented view being independent of presence of one or more visual cues in the actual view of the first scene from the real environment, obtaining an actual view of a second scene from the real environment that is different from the actual view of the first scene, and presenting a second augmented view of the second scene from the real environment, the second augmented view to be presented including the one or more persistent augmentations in a second one or more formats that is based, at least in part, on multiple input factors.
US08941664B2	System and method for real-time pose-based deformation of character models Systems and methods for animating a character model by deforming the character model based on poses. Embodiments may contain a modeling component in which a user may create a character model that contains a rig representing animation controls applied to the model, and geometric/graphic parameters for graphically rendering the model. The user also may create directed graphs that contain nodes representing operations that act on the character model and directional connections representing data flow between nodes. The embodiments may contain a compiling component that convert a directed graph into a sequence of instructions that perform the operations denoted at the nodes. The embodiments provide tools and methods to reduce redundancies in the sequence of instructions producing an optimized version of instruction sequence. The resulting instructions are then convertible into machine code for running on a video game device or loaded into a plug-in of a graphic rendering engine.
US08941663B2	Method and device for rendering user interface font The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for rendering fonts of a user interface, both of which can establish a font cache table to cache fonts needed to be rendered, searches a font needed to be rendered in the font cache table and returns that font, and renders the founded font needed to be rendered. The method and the apparatus of the present invention pre-cache the fonts needed to be rendered by establishing the font cache table, so that the font rendering efficiency of the user interface can be improved significantly, especially the fluency of a dynamic user interface which contains plenty of font rendering is not reduced following the plenty of font rendering. In addition, the present invention further proposes a font supplementary scheme and a maintenance scheme of the font cache table, so as to make the present invention have more practical value.
US08941658B2	Method and apparatus for layered overview in visualization of large enterprise it environment A method for layered overview visualization of an IT environment having nodes and links related to the nodes, comprising initializing the layered overview visualization by establishing a number of hierarchical levels, combining the nodes and the links related to the nodes into a plurality of elements based on one of function and type, for each hierarchical level, assigning one or more of the plurality of elements to the level in accordance with one of the function and the type and determining overlap of the assigned elements. The method further comprises navigating the layered overview visualization by selecting a view, selecting a level of the hierarchical levels within the selected view, choosing the overlap of one or more of the assigned elements in the selected level and highlighting the chosen elements, and displaying on a screen the selected level and the highlighted chosen elements in the selected level.
US08941654B2	Virtual flashlight for real-time scene illumination and discovery One object of the present invention is to provide a system that adopts a global illumination technique to seamlessly span light across a real world and a virtual world. The first aspect of the present invention is directed to a system for producing three dimensional images. The system includes a magnetic field sensor; a first 6DOF magnetic tracker; a flashlight which has a second 6DOF magnetic tracker; a monitor; an analyzer; and a rendering apparatus.
US08941648B2	Mobile terminal and control method thereof A mobile terminal for displaying digital contents and a control method thereof may be provided. The mobile terminal may include: a display unit configured to display a first page of digital contents and at least a portion of a second page different from the first page together, and a controller to control a three-dimensional (3D) depth value of at least one of the first and second pages such that the first page can have a 3D depth different from the second page in a state in which the first and second pages are displayed together.
US08941647B2	Depth estimation data generating apparatus, depth estimation data generating method, and depth estimation data generating program, and pseudo three-dimensional image generating apparatus, pseudo three-dimensional image generating method, and pseudo three-dimensional image generating program A high frequency component detector detects a high frequency component of an R signal. A high frequency component comparator outputs a flag indicating a threshold value division range having the highest threshold value including a value of a high frequency component in a specific period. A gain calculating unit calculates a ratio as a gain, the ratio set according to the threshold value division range indicated by the flag input. A multiplying unit multiplies the R signal and the gain to generate an object signal R′ wherein a concavity and convexity difference with adjacent pixels in a small region of an image is suppressed compared to the R signal.
US08941646B2	Ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus and ultrasonic image display method Provided is an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus which constructs a three-dimensional elastic image by separating elastic volume data and then performing volume rendering, and also provided is an ultrasonic image display method. The three-dimensional elastic image constructing unit separates the elastic volume data into a plurality of data sets on the basis of the elastic values and performs volume rendering on the separated elastic volume data sets, thereby constructing a three-dimensional elastic image.
US08941645B2	Comparing virtual and real images in a shopping experience In one embodiment, a computer-based method includes receiving image data of a real world layout. The image data reflects the real world layout across three dimensions (e.g., vertical, horizontal, and orthogonal). Each of the three dimensions has an image range with a beginning and an end. The real world layout has inventory of products distributed across the three dimensions. The computer-based method further includes comparing a 3D model of a planned layout of the environment to the received image data. The 3D model represents the planned layout across the three dimensions. The computer-based method further includes determining whether results of the comparison reach a first particular threshold, and if so, then output a pertinent indication, alert, or the like.
US08941636B2	E-paper printing system An e-paper printing system comprising a set of electrodes comprising a number of electrodes to erase a portion of e-paper as the e-paper moves relative to the set of electrodes in which the set of electrodes causes a first electric field to be applied to the e-paper with a magnitude of the first electric field increasing at a first rate sufficiently high to cause the erasure of the portion of the e-paper, and causes a second electric field to be applied to the e-paper with a magnitude of the second electric field decreasing at a second rate that is sufficiently low to preserve the erasure of the portion of the e-paper.
US08941633B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit, self-luminous display panel module, electronic apparatus, and method for driving power supply line A semiconductor integrated circuit and corresponding display panel and electronic apparatus. A pixel element includes a self-luminous element and a drive transistor connected to a power supply line. In an emission period of the self-luminous element, an active voltage and an intermediate voltage are sequentially applied between the power supply line and a potential line with a pulse-shaped waveform such that a predetermined luminance duration is obtained in the emission period. In a non-emission period of the self-luminous element, an off-state voltage is applied between the power supply line and the potential line so as to maintain the self-luminous element in a non-emission state.
US08941629B2	Scan driver and organic light emitting display device using the same A scan driver for an organic light emitting display includes logic circuitry to receive a plurality of start pulses and either a first clock or a second clock that is an inversion of the first clock and to generate one or more pulse signals as scan signals for driving the sub-pixels of the organic light emitting display panel, where one or more of the pulse signals are delayed by ½ horizontal time from at least another one of the pulse signals.
US08941620B2	System and method for a virtual multi-touch mouse and stylus apparatus A virtual multi-touch input device uses an optical camera system and a processor to detect locations and motions of objects in a virtual working area and to transfer information about the locations and motions of the objects to a host device, such as a personal computer (PC) or a cellular phone. When the user's finger or objects touch a region of interest lit by a flat fan beam of light, the lit portions of the finger or objects are imaged by the optical camera system and the processor processes the images to obtain the locations of the finger or objects. Based on the motions or a movement pattern (gesture) of the finger or objects, the processor produces the multi-touch information for controlling a computing device and associated displays.
US08941619B2	Apparatus and method for controlling information display A display for controlling information display. In one embodiment, the display has a display panel having a display area for displaying information and a peripheral portion surrounding the display area, a plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers, {Xi}, arranged at a plurality of selected locations in the peripheral portion, each acoustic/ultrasonic transducer Xi being configured to transmit a first signal S1i with frequency band fi in a first duration, Δtdi, and to receive a second signal S2i in a second duration, ΔTdi, periodically at each period, where the second signal S2i is reflected from the first signal S1i by at least one object, and a processor in communication with the plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers {Xi} for processing the received second signals {S2i} from the plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers {Xi} to determine a location and a gesture of the at least one object relative to the display area.
US08941618B2	Touch panel and driving method of the same It is an object to provide a touch panel which includes an A/D converter circuit and has a function of image shooting with high resolution and high-level gray scale and at high operation speed. A touch panel includes a plurality of pixels each provided with a display element and a photo sensor, an A/D converter to which a first potential is applied from a photo sensor, and a reading circuit. The A/D converter includes an oscillation circuit which changes the oscillating frequency of a first signal to be generated in accordance with the first potential and stops oscillating when a second potential is applied thereto from the reading circuit, and a counter circuit which generates a second signal having a discrete value determined in accordance with the oscillating frequency.
US08941616B2	Display device with touch panel A touch panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction on the substrate and being disposed in parallel in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a plurality of second electrodes intersecting the plurality of first electrodes, extending in the second direction, and being disposed in parallel in the first direction. Each of the plurality of first electrodes includes a first portion and a second portion with the second portion of first electrode and the second electrode being made of a first conductive film, and the first portion of the first electrode being made of a second conductive film.
US08941614B2	Portable electronic apparatus and key pad thereof A portable electronic apparatus and a key pad thereof are disclosed. The portable electronic apparatus includes a processing module, a panel, and a key pad. The processing module provides a virtual keyboard interface on a capacitive touch surface of the panel. The key pad is placed on the capacitive touch surface in a detachable way and corresponds to the virtual keyboard interface. The key pad includes a plurality of conductive keycaps and a plurality of conductive contact part correspondingly connected to the conductive keycaps. A user can press the conductive keycaps by fingers to make the corresponding conductive contact part touch the virtual keyboard interface, so as to achieve a touch input. Therefore, the invention can provide the user the feeling of pressing keys by use of the key pad when the user is using the virtual keyboard interface, which satisfies the use habit of the user.
US08941609B2	Multi-touch sensing system capable of optimizing touch bulbs according to variation of ambient lighting conditions and method thereof The present invention discloses a multi-touch sensing system capable of optimizing touch bulbs according to the variation of ambient lighting conditions and a method thereof. The system comprises an image capturing module, a computing module and a processing module. The image capturing module captures a touch image. The computing module converts the touch image into a histogram and selects a grayscale threshold to segment the histogram by dichotomy for generating a segmented image of touch bulbs, and then calculates a between-class variance and a total pixel variance of the segmented image to estimate the separability factor thereof. The processing module determines whether or not the separability factor conforms to a predetermined value; if yes, then the processing module performs an image binarization of the touch image to generate a binary image, or else the processing module repeats the aforementioned process until the separability factor conforms to a predetermined value.
US08941602B2	Display device having touch sensor and method for driving the same The present invention relates to a display device having a touch sensor in which the touch sensor is driven in a period which has a small noise component from the display device to reduce influence from the noise for minimizing a touch error; and a method for driving the same.The display device having a touch sensor includes a display panel, a panel driving unit for driving the display panel, a timing controller for controlling driving timing of the panel driving unit, a touch sensor integrated with the display panel attached thereto or built therein, and a touch controller for driving the touch sensor in a no noise period excluding a period in which the noise is generated periodically from the display panel by using at least one synchronizing signal from the timing controller, and calculating touch coordinates from a signal from the touch sensor and forwarding the touch coordinates.
US08941593B2	Pointer control method and device A pointer control method and device applicable to a computer system with a keyboard are provided. The keyboard includes control keys and non-control keys arranged in a matrix and each has an X coordinate and a Y coordinates. In the method, after a first key event that more than two non-control keys are pressed simultaneously is detected, a first coordinate is calculated, in which the first coordinate includes an average value of X coordinates and an average value of Y coordinates. A second key event that one non-control key is pressed is then detected, and a second coordinate is calculated, in which the second coordinate includes an X coordinate and a Y coordinate. Finally, a vector defined by the first and second coordinate is calculated, and a moving direction and a moving speed of the pointer are controlled according to the vector.
US08941591B2	User interface elements positioned for display User interface elements positioned for display is described. In various embodiment(s), sensor input can be received from one or more sensors that are integrated with a portable device. A device hold position that corresponds to where the portable device is grasped by a user can be determined based at least in part on the sensor input. A display of user interface element(s) can then be initiated for display on an integrated display of the portable device based on the device hold position that corresponds to where the portable device is grasped.
US08941583B2	Dual particle electrophoretic display and method of manufacturing same A dual particle electrophoretic display and a method for manufacturing same are disclosed. The display comprises a back substrate and a transparent substrate forming a cavity therebetween. The transparent substrate including one or more cathode electrodes forming a plurality of electronically and selectively addressable pixels; one or more side walls extending from the transparent substrate, the side walls defining corresponding pixel cells, wherein a plurality of electrophoretic particles are contained in each cell and a substantially clear suspension fluid is distributed throughout the cavity by a gap formed between the site walls. A color or shade of the pixels within the display is determined by applying a driving voltage to the pixels of based on a desired level of Gray scale coding.
US08941580B2	Liquid crystal display with area adaptive backlight A backlight display has improved display characteristics. An image is displayed on the display which includes a liquid crystal material with a light valve. The display receives an image signal and modifies the light for a backlight array and a liquid crystal layer.
US08941568B2	Circuit capable of improving a shift of gamma curve resulting from LED temperature rise and a device thereof The present invention relates to an LCD technology. A circuit used for correcting a shift of the gamma curve because of light emitting diode (LED) temperature rise and a device thereof are proposed. The circuit includes at least one temperature sense resistor, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a lookup table. One end of the temperature sense resistor is connected to the ADC which is connected to the lookup table. The present invention can improve image quality rapidly. The structure of the circuit proposed by the present invention is simple, making it easy to be performed, which is good for energy saving and environmental protection.
US08941565B2	EL display device, driving method thereof, and electronic equipment provided with the EL display device An EL display device capable of performing clear multi-gradation color display and electronic equipment provided with the EL display device are provided, wherein gradation display is performed according to a time-division driving method in which the luminescence and non-luminescence of an EL element (109) disposed in a pixel (104) are controlled by time, and the influence by the characteristic variability of a current controlling TFT (108) is prevented. When this method is used, a data signal side driving circuit (102) and a gate signal side driving circuit (103) are formed with TFTs that use a silicon film having a peculiar crystal structure and exhibit an extremely high operation speed.
US08941562B2	Display device A display device which adjusts luminance of a display panel is disclosed. The display device senses light which leaks from a display area to a non-display area and adjusts the luminance of the display panel according to the sensed light.
US08941560B2	Wearable computer with superimposed controls and instructions for external device A wearable computing device includes a head-mounted display (HMD) that provides a field of view in which at least a portion of the environment of the wearable computing device is viewable. The HMD is operable to display images superimposed over the field of view. When the wearable computing device determines that a target device is within its environment, the wearable computing device obtains target device information related to the target device. The target device information may include information that defines a virtual control interface for controlling the target device and an identification of a defined area of the target device on which the virtual control image is to be provided. The wearable computing device controls the HMD to display the virtual control image as an image superimposed over the defined area of the target device in the field of view.
US08941542B2	Slot halo antenna device An antenna of the present disclosure has a housing having a shallow cavity in a top of the housing and a shallow cavity in a bottom of the housing. The antenna further has a substantially circular radiating element disposed in the shallow cavity on the top of the housing, the radiating element having an arc shape slot. In addition, the antenna has a substantially circular parasitic element disposed in the shallow cavity on the bottom of the housing.
US08941526B2	Time integrator and ΔΣ time-to-digital converter A time integrator integrates time axis information represented by a phase difference between two signals. The time integrator includes a pulse generation circuit configured to convert a time difference between edges of two input signals to a difference between pulse widths of two pulse signals, and to output the two pulse signals, a load circuit having load characteristics changed by the two pulse signals, and an oscillation circuit coupled to the load circuit, and having an oscillation frequency changing in accordance with the load characteristics of the load circuit. An output of the oscillation circuit is output as a result of time integration.
US08941523B1	Ultra low power analog to digital interface using range adaptive techniques A medical device and associated method convert an analog signal using an adaptable number of comparisons between the analog signal and a reference signal. The medical device includes an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter for receiving an analog signal. The A/D converter has a full scale range and a total number of bits spanning the full scale range. The A/D converter converts the analog signal to a digital signal over conversion cycles using an adaptable number of comparisons. For at least one of the conversion cycles, the adaptable number of comparisons is less than the total number of comparisons required to convert the analog signal over the full scale range of the A/D converter.
US08941514B2	Image coding and decoding system using variable length coding and variable length decoding An image coding apparatus provides a run-length encoding unit RLE1 that subjects quantized coefficients obtained by quantizing frequency components of an image signal to a variable length coding process by using a run value Run that indicates the number of successive zero coefficients and a level value Lev that indicates a value of a non-zero coefficient following the zero coefficients. The run-length encoding unit RLE1 includes a reordering unit Lreodr for reordering level values Lev; a variable length coder LVLC for coding reordered level values ROLev by using a code table selected according to the value of a quantization parameter QP; a reordering unit Rreodr for reordering run values Run from high frequency component of the quantized coefficients to low frequency component; and a variable length coder RVLC for coding reordered run values RORun by using a code table selected according to the number of already-processed run values.
US08941513B1	Variable frequency data transmission A system comprising an encoder for receiving a binary string of a data, the encoder adapted to partition the binary string into one or more binary substrings and assign a color to each one or more substring corresponding to a color model, a frequency controller for converting the color into electrical pulses corresponding to a predetermined frequency, and at least one antenna for emitting the electrical pulses as pulses as frequencies through a communication channel. The system may further comprise a parallel decoder. The system further comprises at least a processor, memory, and a data compression component for compressing data to output a compressed binary string of data to be transmitted by the encoder or decoder or both.
US08941511B2	Keyboard for hand-held devices A hand-held electronic device has a keyboard with a plurality of keys, each key having a substantially flat contact surface extending to the sides of each key. One of the sides of the key is beveled.
US08941506B2	Methods and systems for identifying wiring of a telematics system Methods and systems are provided for detecting a power line of a telematics unit is incorrectly wired. In one example, a system includes a first module that evaluates at least one of a validity of a global positioning system and a powered on status of the telematics unit. A second module determines that the power line of the telematics unit is incorrectly wired based on the at least one of the validity of a global positioning system and the powered on status.
US08941502B2	Catenary safety monitoring system and method A safety monitoring system for a catenary system that includes an overhead wire, a support pole and a counterweight attached to the end of the overhead wire and suspended by the support pole. The catenary safety monitoring system includes a temperature sensor for detecting an ambient temperature, a position sensor for detecting a position of the counterweight and an electronic controller. The electronic controller compares a detected position of the counterweight with a predicted position determined by the electronic controller using an ambient temperature from the temperature sensor. A message transmitter provides a warning to a user if the detected position of counterweight is not within a predetermined percentage of the predicted position.
US08941499B2	Monitoring system for use with a vehicle and method of assembling same A first sensor is coupled to a seat back surface and/or a seat belt, and a second sensor is positioned remotely from the first sensor. The first sensor is configured to generate a raw signal indicative of biological data and noise, and the second sensor is configured to generate a baseline signal indicative of noise associated with the first sensor. A computing device is programmed to determine a state of the occupant based on at least the raw signal and the baseline signal.
US08941492B2	Receiving apparatus, information processing method and program An information receiving apparatus that includes a receiver that receives an alert signal including a predetermined number of bits, and a controller that detects that the alert signal includes alert information by processing a subset of the predetermined number of bits of the alert signal, and outputs an indication corresponding to the detection.
US08941486B1	Radio frequency detection device and system A radio frequency detection device that includes a housing, a power supply port, a radio frequency circuit board, and a microprocessor is disclosed. The radio frequency detection device is configured to detect signals between approximately 20 Mhz and 6020 Mhz. The microprocessor is configured to report the frequency and decibel level of a detected signal to a computer for display on a user interface. A user may set an alert frequency range and an decibel sensitivity threshold to filter out certain devices. The microprocessor is configured to initiate an alert when any signal is detected, or when a signal within either or both the alert frequency range or the decibel sensitivity threshold is detected. The alert may include pulsing of LED lights on the housing, a message on the user interface, and/or broadcast of an audio alert from a speaker associated with the microprocessor.
US08941483B2	Heating appliance emergency reminder detection device A device uses motion detection and heat detection to monitor a room and heating appliance and to remind a user to check on the appliance after a period of time. A motion detector sensor observes motion within a room or area by the heating appliance. If someone is in the area, then the device resets itself. If no one is detected, then the device alerts a user if heat is detected by a heat sensor. The alert prevents a possible heating or cooking emergency.
US08941482B1	Automating turn indication systems A turn indicator system determines when a moving vehicle has completed a turn and automatically turns off a turn indicator light. The system includes turn indicator lights, an accelerometer, and a processor. The accelerometer can sense acceleration in two-axis or three-axis. The processor is configured to receive the sensed accelerometer data and to determine when a vehicle has completed a turn based on the received accelerometer data. In response to determining that a turn is completed, the processor signals the appropriate turn indicator light to turn off. The turn indicator system can be implemented in a single-track vehicle, such as a bicycle or a motorcycle, or in a multi-track vehicle, such as an automobile.
US08941478B2	System for providing a reminder to remove a mobile electronic device from a vehicle A vehicle system for determining that at least one mobile electronic device is generally stationary and is potentially forgotten is provided. The system includes a vehicle data bus and a control module. The vehicle data bus transmits a signal indicating at least one trigger event. The trigger event indicates a vehicle exit condition. The control module is in communication with the mobile electronic device and the vehicle bus. The control module is in communication with the mobile device through a data connection to receive information. The control module includes control logic for receiving the trigger signal from the vehicle data bus. The control module includes control logic for determining if the mobile electronic device has moved based on information received from the data connection. The control module includes control logic for determining if the mobile electronic device is generally stationary if the trigger signal is received.
US08941477B2	Communication apparatus and method of controlling the same A communication apparatus for transmitting data to a data accumulation apparatus via a relay apparatus detects, by communication with the relay apparatus, which is the relay function used by the relay apparatus to operate, a proxy relay function of temporarily holding and proxy-transmitting the data and a transparent relay function of transparently transmitting the data without holding. The communication apparatus transmits the data based on the detected relay function. When the data is being transmitted using the relay apparatus operating by the transparent relay function, and a disconnection notification representing disconnection of communication between the relay apparatus and the data accumulation apparatus is received from the relay apparatus, the data transmission is immediately stopped. When the data is being transmitted using the relay apparatus operating by the proxy relay function, the data transmission is continued.
US08941474B2	Real time automatic headcount system A real time automatic headcount system is configured with a portable transmitter operated by a crisis coordinator and operable to output an alert signal which is received by a plurality of receivers which are coupled to respective persons associated with a crisis-event site. The receivers each generate an acknowledgement signal transmitted via a central processing unit to the transmitter. Upon receiving the acknowledgement signal, the central processing unit is operable to update a check list of all person associated with the crisis-event site, identify those who have not been accounted for and implement back up procedures for locating and accounting for the previously unaccounted for persons in real time.
US08941473B2	Electronic device and method for RFID An electronic device comprising a first node to be coupled to a first antenna, a second node coupled to a second antenna, a third node to be coupled to a third antenna, a first comparator coupled with a first input to the first node and with a second input to a second node, a second comparator coupled with a first input to the first node and with a second input to the third node, a third comparator coupled with a first input to the second node and with a second input to the third node. Each of the first, the second and the third comparators are configured to compare a first current and a second current at the first input and the second input.
US08941467B2	High value display case system A display case system has a display case, a gateway, and a communication device. The display case houses a product. The gateway is coupled to the display case and communicates with a client device associated with the product in the display case. A communication device is coupled to the gateway and enables a communication session between the communication device and the client device associated with the product. The client device remotely locks and unlocks the display case to allow access to the product based on the communication session.
US08941465B2	System and method for secure entry using door tokens Secure door entry without a traditional card reader is made possible by tagging the door with an unpowered, unique token which can be read by a user's personal mobile electronic device. The user's device transmits both door and user identification to a remote server, where the decision is made whether to open the door. If so, the server sends an open door signal using the IP suite of protocols to an electronic bridge, which in turn passes the signal on to a door strike, opening the door. Another signal may be sent to an annunciator. Single-use digital tokens may also be used to open the doors. The permissions relating to doors or other physical assets may also be used to grant access to logical assets.
US08941464B2	Authorization system and a method of authorization An access control system for a secure facility includes an authorization system having an interface, in the form of an interrogator, for receiving the request signal indicative of a user seeking authorization for a predetermined action, such as gaining access through a door. In one example, an authorization system may include an interface for receiving a request signal indicative of a party seeking authorization for a predetermined action. A first processor, that is responsive to the request signal, determines if the authorization is to be granted. If so, the first processor may generate an authorization signal that includes information that is securely coded, and which is indicative of the determination. An operating device, physically spaced from the first processor, may receive the authorization signal, and may decode the securely coded information and subsequently initiating the action, if appropriate.
US08941463B2	Electric vehicle reserve charge authorization and distribution A system for an electric vehicle for authorizing the utilization of a reserve charge portion of a battery of the electric vehicle for powering the electric vehicle. The authorization system may include a remote device that communicates with the electric vehicle via a telematic link. Upon receipt of one or more data from the electric vehicle (e.g., reserve charge amount of the battery, recharge locations, warranty waiver information, billing information, previous authorization information, etc.) the remote device transmits an authorization signal to the electric vehicle for using at least part of the reserve charge portion of the battery based upon the data. The authorization system may incorporate live personnel for determining whether to authorize the electric vehicle or such authorization may be determined automatically by a processor of the remote device. The authorization system may be entirely local to the electric vehicle such that no remote device is needed.
US08941451B2	Broadband SAW filter A new type of very broad bandwidth filters with small insertion loss and high return loss are given. The new filter uses a substrate that can propagate a PSAW and fan shaped transducers of low metallisation height, high metallisation ratio, low reflectivity and high coupling coefficient.
US08941445B2	Piezoelectric module A piezoelectric module includes a piezoelectric package and a circuit component package. The piezoelectric module includes a thermoset resin with solder particles interposed between a whole circumference of the opening end surface of the second depressed portion including the plurality of connecting terminals of the circuit component package and the outer bottom surface of the first depressed portion of the piezoelectric package. The plurality of external terminals of the piezoelectric package and the plurality of connecting terminals of the circuit component package are electrically connected by metal bonding. The whole circumference of the opening end surface of the second depressed portion of the circuit component package and the outer bottom surface of the first depressed portion of the piezoelectric package are bonded by melting and hardening of the thermoset resin that constitutes the thermoset resin with solder particles.
US08941440B2	Differential circuit compensating gain enhancement due to self heating of transistors A differential circuit with a function to compensate the gain enhancement due to the self-heating of the transistor is disclosed. The differential circuit includes an equalizer unit coupled with one of paired transistors. The other of the paired transistor receives the input signal to be amplified. The base level, or the base-emitter bias, is oppositely modulated by the input signal through the common emitter, which causes the modification of the base current. The equalizer unit reduces the variation of the base level only in low frequencies where the self-heating effect of the transistor appears.
US08941437B2	Bias circuit A bias circuit includes: a reference current generation circuit that has a first reference-current element disposed in a first current path and has a second reference-current element disposed in a second current path; a first current mirror circuit that has a first transistor connected in series with the first reference-current element and has a second transistor connected in series with the second reference-current element; a third reference-current element disposed in a third current path disposed between the power supply terminal and the reference-current element; a third transistor connected in series with the third reference-current element; a bypass capacitor connected between the power supply terminal and a second node connected to a control terminal of the third transistor; an activation circuit connected to the first node; and a first switch connected between the first node and the second node.
US08941433B2	AC coupling circuit with hybrid switches A coupling apparatus having a first branch and a second branch is disclosed. The first branch generally comprises (A) a first switch group configured to connect an input signal to an output node through a first capacitor, and (B) second switch group configured to connect either (i) a second signal, or (ii) a ground voltage, to the output node through a second capacitor. The second branch generally comprises (A) a third switch group configured to connect the input signal to the output node through a third capacitor, and (B) a fourth switch group configured to connect either (i) the second signal, or (ii) the ground voltage, to the output node through a fourth capacitor.
US08941429B2	Master-slave flip-flop with low power consumption In a master-slave flip-flop, the master latch has first and second three-state stages, and a first feedback stage. The slave latch has third and fourth three-state stages, and a second feedback stage. First and second clock switches having opposite phases are provided. The first clock switch is configured in one of the first and fourth three-state stages, and the other stage shares the first clock switch. The second clock switch is configured in one of the second and third three-state stages, and the other stage shares the second clock switch. The second three-state stage has an additional pair of complementary devices having signal paths connected in series with each other with both being gated by a data output of the slave latch. The flip-flop reduces the number of clock switches and clock switch power consumption.
US08941422B2	Method for operating a data interface circuit where a calibration controller controls both a mission path and a reference path Circuits and methods for implementing a continuously adaptive timing calibration training function in an integrated circuit interface are disclosed. A mission data path is established where a data bit is sampled by a strobe. A similar reference data path is established for calibration purposes only. At an initialization time both paths are calibrated and a delta value between them is established. During operation of the mission path, the calibration path continuously performs calibration operations to determine if its optimal delay has changed by more than a threshold value. If so, the new delay setting for the reference path is used to change the delay setting for the mission path after adjustment by the delta value. Circuits and methods are also disclosed for performing multiple parallel calibrations for the reference path to speed up the training process.
US08941412B2	Amplifiers using gated diodes A circuit comprises a control line and a two terminal semiconductor device having a first terminal is coupled to a signal line, and a second terminal coupled to the control line. The semiconductor device has a capacitance when a voltage on the first terminal is above a threshold and has a smaller capacitance when a voltage on the first terminal is below the threshold. A signal is placed on the signal line and a voltage on the control line is modified. When the signal falls below the threshold, the semiconductor device acts as a very small capacitor and the output will be a small value. When the signal is above the threshold, the semiconductor device acts as a large capacitor and the output will be influenced by the signal and the modified voltage on the control line and the signal is amplified.
US08941401B2	Test circuit of an integrated circuit on a wafer A test circuit is described of a circuit integrated on wafer of the type comprising at least one antenna of the embedded type comprising at least one test antenna associated with said at least one embedded antenna that realizes its connection of the wireless loopback type creating a wireless channel for said at least one embedded antenna and allows its electric test, transforming an electromagnetic signal of communication between said at least one embedded antenna and said at least one test antenna into an electric signal that can be read by a test apparatus.
US08941393B2	Detection of a conductive object during an initialization process of a touch-sensing device A method and system for detecting a presence of a conductive object proximate to a capacitive sense element during an initialization process of a touch-sensing device. A reference sense element is calibrated to produce a sensing parameter value. A capacitance of a plurality of capacitive sense elements is measured based on the sensing parameter value, and compared to a baseline capacitance value stored in a non-volatile memory of the touch-sensing device. The presence of a conductive object proximate to a capacitive sense element is detected when a difference between the measured capacitance and the stored baseline capacitance value is greater than a threshold value.
US08941388B2	Auto-calibrating proximity sensor for retail display security system An auto-calibrated proximity sensor used with a protected item in a retail display security system includes a metalized surface that cooperatively interacts with a printed circuit board to form a capacitive cell. A microcontroller senses changes in the frequency of the capacitive circuit if the orientation of the metalized surface changes with respect to the printed circuit board.
US08941386B2	Busbar for battery electrode post connection and battery voltage monitor using the same A busbar for battery electrode post connection with a terminal for voltage detection is provided. Both ends of a length direction of a rectangular thin plate of a conductive metal are left and an elongated opening is formed in a center. Two holes through which an electrode post of one battery and an electrode post of an adjacent battery are inserted are respectively formed in the rectangular thin plates of both sides around the elongated opening of the center. A terminal for voltage detection is extended integrally to the rectangular thin plate from an edge of the rectangular thin plate. The two holes overlap in a state of where the rectangular thin plate is folded in two with respect to the elongated opening. The terminal for voltage detection can be erected from the rectangular thin plate by folding the terminal for voltage detection in a vertical direction.
US08941383B2	System and method for measuring borehole geometry while drilling A method and system for determining a geometry of a borehole includes forming an nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) caliper with a plurality of coils and coupling the NMR caliper to a borehole assembly. The NMR caliper may be calibrated for porosity and the T2 of the drilling mud, prior to drilling, at the surface. After drilling commences, scans of the borehole may be conducted with each coil of the NMR caliper. Each scan may include propagating RF energy across a range of frequencies with each coil in order to excite a NMR signal at varying depths. Borehole wall distances from the NMR caliper may be determined by reviewing a plurality of T2 distributions from CPMG measurements derived from the scans. In some embodiments, borehole wall distances from the NMR caliper may be determined by reviewing porosity values derived from the scans.
US08941375B2	Contactless detection apparatus and method for detecting a rotation direction A contactless detection apparatus has a first magnet ring, a second magnet ring, a first magnetic sensor, a second magnetic sensor and a controller. The two magnet rings are respectively mounted on two ends of a torsion shaft. When the torsion shaft rotates, the controller detects the magnetic fields of the two magnet rings through the two magnetic sensors. The controller calculates a twisting torque exerted on the torsion shaft and a rotational angle of the torsion shaft according to the detected magnetic fields at the same time. The detection apparatus of the invention has simple structure. The magnetic fields of both magnet rings do not interfere with each other, such that the detection result of the invention is accurate.
US08941363B2	Device battery management Technologies and implementations for device battery management are generally disclosed.
US08941351B2	Emergency adjustment device for blade pitch adjustment systems for wind energy installations An adjusting device for rotor blades of a wind power plant is disclosed. An AC motor is provided for adjusting the angle setting of the rotor blades. An input serves for receiving an input alternating current. A frequency converter is provided for generating a second alternating current having a second frequency, wherein the second alternating current drives the AC motor. Additionally, a DC voltage source and an inverter are provided for converting the voltage provided by the DC voltage source into an alternating current for the AC motor. The inverter is thereby separated from the frequency inverter.
US08941333B2	Lighting control method and device A device for controlling an LED lighting in an LED lighting control system including a plurality of LED lightings which are connected via a network is provided. A lighting data receiver receives a first lighting control signal and extracts first lighting control data for the LED lighting from the first lighting control signal including a confirmation code. A verifier verifies the first lighting control data based on the confirmation code, and an error processor records error information when the verifier fails to verify the first lighting control data. A driving signal processor converts the first lighting control data to a driving signal when the verifier succeeds to verify the first lighting control data. An LED driver controls lighting of an LED light source based on the driving signal.
US08941324B2	Systems and methods for dimming control with capacitive loads System and method for dimming control. The system includes a system controller including a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal, a transistor including a first transistor terminal, a second transistor terminal and a third transistor terminal, and a resistor including a first resistor terminal and a second resistor terminal. The system controller is configured to generate a first signal at the first controller terminal based on an input signal and to generate a second signal at the second controller terminal based on the first signal. The first transistor terminal is coupled to the second controller terminal. The first resistor terminal is coupled to the second transistor terminal. The second resistor terminal is coupled to the third transistor terminal. The transistor is configured to receive the second signal at the first transistor terminal and to change between two conditions in response to the second signal.
US08941322B2	Adaptive integrated daylight and electric light control with multi-sensor for controlled-light distribution A system and a method for controlling light distribution in a space including multiple installed light sources (111, 112, 221-223) and an external light source (103, 203). The method includes measuring the luminance levels of light from the multiple installed light sources (111, 112, 221-223) and the external light source (103, 203) at a plurality of measuring areas within the space, controlling the intensity level of each of the installed light sources (111, 112, 221-223) and the amount of light from the external light source entering the space (103, 203) based on the measured luminance levels, and tuning the intensity level of each of the installed light sources (111, 112, 221-223) and the amount of external light entering the space (103, 203) to optimize the conditions such that the mean-squared error between the measured luminance levels and pre-defined target luminance levels for the respective plurality of measuring areas is minimized, and the amount of energy consumed by the multiple installed light sources (111, 112, 221-223) is minimized.
US08941318B2	Power supply for illumination and luminaire According to one embodiment, a luminaire includes a light-emitting module, a first lighting circuit and a back-flow preventing circuit. The light-emitting module includes a light-emitting element and a capacitive element. The first lighting circuit is supplied with power from the first power supply and is configured to activate the light-emitting element. The back-flow preventing circuit interrupts current flowing in a direction from the capacitive element to the first lighting circuit.
US08941313B2	Light emitting unit driving circuit and light emitting device A light emitting unit driving circuit may include: an operating voltage supplying unit configured to supply a voltage input for the driving circuit; a driving unit coupled to the operating voltage supplying unit and configured to drive the light emitting unit to make the light emitting unit turn on or turn off; and a feedback control unit coupled between the driving unit and the light emitting unit, and configured to form a feedback loop together with the driving circuit and the light emitting unit to stabilize an operating current of the light emitting unit.
US08941308B2	Lighting apparatus and methods for controlling lighting apparatus using ambient light levels Lighting apparatus and methods for controlling lighting apparatus using ambient light levels are disclosed. A controller is used to activate and deactivate one or more light radiating devices within a duty cycle. The controller uses a light detection apparatus to sample ambient light levels at a plurality of sampling times during which the light radiating devices are deactivated. The controller determines an average for the light levels sampled over a survey time period, thus generating an averaged ambient light level over the survey time period. The controller adjusts an intensity of the light radiating devices based at least partially upon the averaged ambient light level. The controller may generate a target light level using the averaged ambient light level over the survey time period and a desired light level and, over an adjustment time period, incrementally adjust the intensity of the light radiating devices towards the target light level.
US08941307B1	Light control system using statement of personal computer which is applied to a building for energy saving and method thereof The present invention relates to a light control system using statement of Personal Computer (PC) which is applied to a building for energy saving and method thereof, and more specifically, to a light control system, in which a lighting environment is changed depending on a PC operation state to provide the lighting environment optimized for a working environment and that uses a PC state and is applied to a building for energy saving in order to promote energy saving effects, and a method thereof. According to the invention, a worker's attending and leaving states and being temporarily away from his or her position are easily determined using a PC operation state and thus a light illumination intensity is adaptively adjusted. As a result, it is possible to improve energy saving effects and optimize the lighting environment.
US08941293B2	Solid state lighting devices comprising quantum dots Solid state lighting devices containing quantum dots dispersed in polymeric or silicone acrylates and deposited over a light source. Solid state lighting devices with different populations of quantum dots either dispersed in matrix materials or not are also provided. Also provided are solid state lighting devices with non-absorbing light scattering dielectric particles dispersed in a matrix material containing quantum dots and deposited over a light source. Methods of manufacturing solid state lighting devices containing quantum dots are also provided.
US08941283B2	Electric motor and reduction motor A windshield wiper motor includes a reduction mechanism unit and an electric motor. The electric motor includes a yoke formed in a bottomed cylindrical shape; four magnets arranged in a cylindrical shape on an inner surface of the yoke, an armature including a rotary shaft rotatably supported by the yoke, an armature core fixed to the rotary shaft and including any teeth of fourteen teeth, eighteen teeth, and twenty two teeth, a commutator being fixed to the rotary shaft and including a plurality of segments insulated from each other with the same number as the number of the teeth of the armature core, an armature coil being wound, and a plurality of connecting wires respectively connected to the segments arranged to face each other around the rotary shaft, and a first brush, a second brush, and a third brush coming into sliding contact with the segments of the commutator.
US08941281B2	Rotating electrical machine and stator thereof According to an embodiment, radially extending inner spacers are provided in a stator core at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction at intervals between a prescribed number of stacked magnetic steel plates, and ventilation ducts for cooling gas flow are formed in the radial direction. The perimeter of each ventilation duct is defined by the inner spacers and a magnetic steel plate separated by the inner spacers. The cooling gas, which flows in the rotation direction, is split laterally to both sides of a rotor coil and directed toward the outer circumference. Portions of the shoulder parts of a wedge are cut off such that the width of the shoulder parts of the wedge at positions corresponding to the ventilation ducts matches the slot width.
US08941273B2	Vibration generation device There is provided a vibration generation device, including: a housing including an internal space; a shaft passing through the internal space in an axial direction and mounted in the housing; a bearing member vibrated in the axial direction while contacting the shaft; a yoke mounted on the bearing member; a coil mounted on an outer surface of the yoke; a magnet interacting with electromagnetic force exerted on the yoke by the coil and included in the internal space; and at least one elastic member connected between an end of the yoke in the axial direction and a surface of the housing in the axial direction.
US08941259B2	Electrical power supply system for an aircraft The invention relates to an electrical power supply system for an aircraft comprising at least one main generator (20) feeding at least one technical load and at least one commercial load through at least one electrical power distribution channel comprising at least one electrical distribution busbar (21, 23, 25) and at least one voltage converter (22, 24, 26), wherein the grounding mode of at least one load is an IT type grounding scheme, with an isolated or high impedance neutral.
US08941245B2	Semiconductor package including semiconductor chip with through opening A semiconductor package comprises a substrate having a first opening formed therethrough, a first semiconductor chip stacked on the substrate in a flip chip manner and having a second opening formed therethrough, a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip in a flip chip manner and having a third opening formed therethrough, and a molding material covering the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip and filling up a space between the substrate and the first semiconductor chip, a space between the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip, and filling each of the first opening, the second opening, and the third opening.
US08941242B2	Method of protecting against via failure and structure therefor A method is for forming a decoy via and a functional via. The method includes forming the functional via between a metal portion of a first interconnect layer and a portion of a second interconnect layer. The method further includes forming the decoy via in a protection region between the metal portion of the first interconnect layer and a metal portion of the third interconnect level.
US08941241B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device includes at least 4 conductive line groups arranged in parallel over one memory cell block and each configured to include conductive lines. First contact pads may be coupled to the respective ends of the conductive lines of two of the 4 conductive line groups in a first direction, and second contact pads may be coupled to the respective ends of the conductive lines of the remaining 2 of the 4 conductive line groups in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US08941238B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes formed on the first substrate; and a first insulating film formed on sidewalls of the plurality of first electrodes. The first insulating film is formed not to fill spaces between the plurality of first electrodes.
US08941235B2	Semiconductor device and method of dissipating heat from thin package-on-package mounted to substrate A semiconductor device has a first substrate with a central region. A plurality of bumps is formed around a periphery of the central region of the first substrate. A first semiconductor die is mounted to the central region of the first substrate. A second semiconductor die is mounted to the first semiconductor die over the central region of the first substrate. A height of the first and second die is less than or equal to a height of the bumps. A second substrate has a thermal conduction channel. A surface of the second semiconductor die opposite the first die is mounted to the thermal conductive channel of the second substrate. A thermal interface layer is formed over the surface of the second die. The bumps are electrically connected to contact pads on the second substrate. A conductive plane is formed over a surface of the second substrate.
US08941224B2	Package structure of a chip and a substrate A package structure includes a thin chip substrate, a stabilizing material layer, a chip and a filling material. A first circuit metal layer of the substrate is inlaid into a dielectric layer and a co-plane is defined by the first circuit metal layer and the dielectric layer and is exposed from the dielectric layer. The bonding pads of the substrate are on the co-plane, have a height higher than the co-plane and connected to the first circuit metal layer. The stabilizing material layer is provided on two sides of the co-plane to define a receiving space for accommodating the chip. The filling material is injected into the receiving space to fasten the pins of the chip securely with bonding pads. Since no plastic molding is required, a total thickness of the package structure and the cost is reduced. The stabilizing material layer prevents the substrate from warping and distortion.
US08941219B2	Etched recess package on package system An integrated circuit package system includes: interconnection pads; a first device mounted below the interconnection pads; a bond wire, or a solder ball connecting the first device to the interconnection pads; a lead connected to the interconnection pad or to the first device; an encapsulation having a top surface encapsulating the first device; and a recess in the top surface of the encapsulation with the interconnection pads exposed therefrom.
US08941208B2	Reliable surface mount integrated power module A surface mount packaging structure that yields improved thermo-mechanical reliability and more robust second-level package interconnections is disclosed. The surface mount packaging structure includes a sub-module having a dielectric layer, semiconductor devices attached to the dielectric layer, a first level metal interconnect structure electrically coupled to the semiconductor devices, and a second level I/O connection electrically coupled to the first level interconnect and formed on the dielectric layer on a side opposite the semiconductor devices, with the second level I/O connection configured to connect the sub-module to an external circuit. The semiconductor devices of the sub-module are attached to the first surface of a multi-layer substrate structure, with a dielectric material positioned between the dielectric layer and the multi-layer substrate structure to fill in gaps in the surface-mount structure and provide additional structural integrity thereto.
US08941202B2	Image sensor devices and methods for manufacturing the same A method for forming an image sensor device is provided. First, a lens is provided and a first sacrificial element is formed thereon. An electromagnetic interference layer is formed on the lens and the first sacrificial element, and the first sacrificial element and electromagnetic interference layer thereon are removed to form an electromagnetic interference pattern having an opening exposing a selected portion of the lens. A second sacrificial element is formed in the opening to cover a center region of the selected portion of the lens. A peripheral region of the selected portion of the lens remains exposed. A light-shielding layer is formed on the electromagnetic interference pattern, second sacrificial element, and peripheral region of the selected portion of the lens. The second sacrificial element and light-shielding pattern are removed to expose the center region of the selected portion of the lens as a light transmitting region.
US08941196B2	Precessional reversal in orthogonal spin transfer magnetic RAM devices Orthogonal spin-torque bit cells whose spin torques from a perpendicular polarizer and an in-plane magnetized reference layer are constructively or destructively combined. An orthogonal spin-torque bit cell includes a perpendicular magnetized polarizing layer configured to provide a first spin-torque; an in-plane magnetized free layer and a reference layer configured to provide a second spin-torque. The first spin-torque and the second spin-torque combine and the combined first spin-torque and second spin-torque influences the magnetic state of the in-plane magnetized free layer. The in-plane magnetized free layer and the reference layer form a magnetic tunnel junction. The first spin-torque and second spin-torque can combine constructively to lower a switching current, increase a switching speed, and/or torque decrease an operating energy of the orthogonal spin-torque bit cell.
US08941195B2	Semiconductor device having insulating layer formed through oxidization of electrode In a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, a conductive layer is formed on a substrate, where the substrate has a bottom layer formed thereon. A magnetic tunnel junction layer is formed on the conductive layer. The magnetic tunnel junction layer is patterned using an etching gas containing oxygen. An insulating layer is formed by oxidizing the conductive layer exposed outside the patterned magnetic tunnel junction layer using the etching gas.
US08941190B2	Semiconductor structures and methods of manufacture Semiconductor structures and methods of manufacture semiconductors are provided which relate to transistors. The method of forming a transistor includes thermally annealing a selectively patterned dopant material formed on a high-k dielectric material to form a high charge density dielectric layer from the high-k dielectric material. The high charge density dielectric layer is formed with thermal annealing-induced electric dipoles at locations corresponding to the selectively patterned dopant material.
US08941182B2	Buried sublevel metallizations for improved transistor density Generally, the subject matter disclosed herein relates to modern sophisticated semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same, wherein electrical interconnects between circuit elements based on a buried sublevel metallization may provide improved transistor density. One illustrative method disclosed herein includes forming a contact dielectric layer above first and second transistor elements of a semiconductor device, and after forming the contact dielectric layer, forming a buried conductive element below an upper surface of the contact dielectric layer, the conductive element providing an electrical connection between the first and second transistor elements.
US08941178B2	MOS field-effect transistor formed on the SOI substrate Occurrence of short-channel characteristics and parasitic capacitance of a MOSFET on a SOI substrate is prevented.A sidewall having a stacked structure obtained by sequentially stacking a silicon oxide film and a nitride film is formed on a side wall of a gate electrode on the SOI substrate. Subsequently, after an epitaxial layer is formed beside the gate electrode, and then, the nitride film is removed. Then, an impurity is implanted into an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with using the gate electrode and the epitaxial layer as a mask, so that a halo region is formed in only a region of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is right below a vicinity of both ends of the gate electrode.
US08941166B2	Multiple patterning method An integrated circuit memory comprises a set of lines each line having parallel X direction line portions in a first region and Y direction line portions in a second region. The second region is offset from the first region. The lengths of the X direction line portions are substantially longer than the lengths of the Y direction line portions. The X direction and Y direction line portions have respective first and second pitches with the second pitch being at least 3 times larger than the first pitch. Contact pickup areas are at the Y direction line portions. In some examples, the lines comprise word lines or bit lines. The memory can be created using multiple patterning methods to create lines of material and then the parallel X direction line portions and parallel Y direction line portions.
US08941160B2	Photoelectric conversion module and method of manufacturing the same A photoelectric conversion module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of units formed on a substrate and disposed parallel to each other, each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion cells formed in one direction, the plurality of units disposed in an orthogonal direction to the one direction, and a first separation region disposed between adjacent units of the units. In the solar cell module, each of the photoelectric conversion cells includes a second separation region, and the second separation region in one of the units is extended beyond the first separation region formed between one of the units and the other unit which is adjacent to the one of units toward a part of the other unit.
US08941154B2	Non-volatile memory device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a non-volatile memory device includes: providing a substrate which includes a cell region where a plurality of memory cells are to be formed and a peripheral circuit region where a plurality of peripheral circuit devices are to be formed; forming the memory cells that are stacked perpendicularly to the substrate of the cell region; and forming a first conductive layer for forming a gate electrode of a selection transistor over the memory cells while forming the first conductive layer in the peripheral circuit region simultaneously, wherein the first conductive layer of the peripheral circuit region functions as a resistor body of at least one peripheral circuit device of the peripheral circuit devices.
US08941146B2	Compound semiconductor device and manufacturing method A compound semiconductor device includes an electron transit layer; an electron supply layer formed over the electron transit layer; a first recessed portion and a second recessed portion formed in the electron supply layer; a chemical compound semiconductor layer including impurities that buries the first recessed portion and the second recessed portion and covers over the electron supply layer; a source electrode formed over the chemical compound semiconductor layer which buries the first recessed portion; a drain electrode formed over the chemical compound semiconductor layer which buries the second recessed portion; and a gate electrode formed over the electron supply layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode, wherein, in the chemical compound semiconductor layer, a concentration of impurities included below the source electrode and the drain electrode is higher than a concentration of impurities included near the gate electrode.
US08941134B2	Leadframe-based packages for solid state light emitting devices having heat dissipating regions in packaging A modular package for a light emitting device includes a leadframe including a first region having a top surface, a bottom surface and a first thickness and a second region having a top surface, a bottom surface and a second thickness that is less than the first thickness. The leadframe further includes an electrical lead extending laterally away from the second region, and the package further includes a thermoset package body on the leadframe and surrounding the first region. The thermoset package body may be on both the top and bottom surfaces of the second region. A leak barrier may be on the leadframe, and the package body may be on the leak barrier. Methods of forming modular packages including thermoset package bodies on leadframes are also disclosed.
US08941133B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a first passivation layer formed on the substrate; at least one of color filters formed on the first passivation layer; an overcoat layer that covers the color filter; a second passivation layer that is formed on the first passivation layer and surrounds the overcoat layer; a first electrode formed on the second passivation layer; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US08941111B2	Non-crystalline inorganic light emitting diode Non-crystalline inorganic light emitting diode. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, an article of manufacture includes a light emitting diode. The light emitting diode includes a non-crystalline inorganic light emission layer and first and second semiconducting non-crystalline inorganic charge transport layers surrounding the light emission layer. The light emission layer may be amorphous. The charge transport layers may be configured to inject one type of charge carrier and block the other type of charge carrier.
US08941102B2	Organic electroluminescent element The organic electroluminescent element which is designed to emit white light in a range of a low color temperature to a high color temperature that is important for an illumination light source with a minor design change, and, moreover, has high color rendering property especially in an average color rendering index Ra and a special color rendering index R9 for red, while being highly efficient and long-life is obtained. The organic electroluminescent element includes: a transparent electrode; a first light-emitting unit including blue and green fluorescent light-emitting layers; an intermediate layer; a second light-emitting unit including red and green phosphorescent light-emitting layers; and a reflecting electrode. The first and second light-emitting units are stacked and the intermediate layer is interposed therebetween. The first light-emitting unit is designed to emit light by use of a phenomenon that a singlet exciton is generated by collision and fusion of two triplet excitons.
US08941094B2	Methods for adjusting the conductivity range of a nanotube fabric layer Methods for adjusting and/or limiting the conductivity range of a nanotube fabric layer are disclosed. In some aspects, the conductivity of a nanotube fabric layer is adjusted by functionalizing the nanotube elements within the fabric layer via wet chemistry techniques. In some aspects, the conductivity of a nanotube fabric layer is adjusted by functionalizing the nanotube elements within the fabric layer via plasma treatment. In some aspects, the conductivity of a nanotube fabric layer is adjusted by functionalizing the nanotube elements within the fabric layer via CVD treatment. In some aspects, the conductivity of a nanotube fabric layer is adjusted by functionalizing the nanotube elements within the fabric layer via an inert ion gas implant.
US08941093B2	Compound semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A first electrode, an intrinsic first compound semiconductor layer over the first electrode, a second compound semiconductor layer whose band gap is smaller than that of the first compound semiconductor layer on the first compound semiconductor layer, and a second electrode over the second compound semiconductor layer are provided.
US08941090B2	Resistive memory device, method of fabricating the same, and memory apparatus and data processing system having the same A resistive memory device capable of implementing a multi-level cell, a method of fabricating the same, and a memory apparatus and data processing system including the same are provided. The resistive memory device includes a lower electrode, a first phase-change material layer formed over the lower electrode, a second phase-change material layer formed to surround an outer sidewall of the first phase-change material layer, and an upper electrode formed over the first phase-change material layer and the second phase-change material layer.
US08941089B2	Resistive switching devices and methods of formation thereof In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a resistive switching device includes an opening disposed within a first dielectric layer, a conductive barrier layer disposed on sidewalls of the opening, a fill material including an inert material filling the opening. A solid electrolyte layer is disposed over the opening. The solid electrolyte contacts the fill material but not the conductive barrier layer. A top electrode is disposed over the solid electrolyte.
US08941085B2	Electron beam lithography systems and methods including time division multiplex loading The present disclosure provides a systems and methods for e-beam lithography. One system includes an electron source operable to produce a beam and an array of pixels operable to pattern the beam. Control circuitry is spaced a distance from and coupled to the array of pixels. The control circuitry uses time domain multiplex loading (TMDL) to control the array of pixels.
US08941081B2	Microparticle measurement apparatus and microparticle analysis method There is provided a microparticle measurement apparatus including a first light source configured to irradiate excitation light on a droplet containing a microparticle, the droplet being discharged from an orifice, a second light source configured to irradiate illumination light on the droplet for acquiring an image of the droplet, a light receiving element configured to detect fluorescence generated from the microparticle due to the irradiation of the excitation light, and to acquire an image of the droplet, and a filter member configured to be arranged between the droplet and the light receiving element. The filter member includes a first area through which the fluorescence and the illumination light pass, and a second area that is provided around the first area and that has a wavelength selectivity which lets the fluorescence pass through but blocks the illumination light.
US08941080B2	Method and device for particle analysis using thermophoresis The present invention pertains to a device and method to measure thermo-optical, preferably thermophoretic, characteristics of particles in a solution. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a sample probe comprising marked particles in a solution; (b) providing a temperature control system for creating a temperature gradient within said sample probe by contact heating, electrical heating and/or cooling; (c) detecting the marked particles at a first time; (d) creating a temperature gradient within the sample probe by means of the temperature control system; (e) detecting the marked particles in the sample probe at a, preferably predetermined, second time and/or at a predetermined location within the temperature gradient, and (f) characterizing the particles based on said two detections.
US08941077B2	Deceleration apparatus for ribbon and spot beams A deceleration apparatus capable of decelerating a short spot beam or a tall ribbon beam is disclosed. In either case, effects tending to degrade the shape of the beam profile are controlled. Caps to shield the ion beam from external potentials are provided. Electrodes whose position and potentials are adjustable are provided, on opposite sides of the beam, to ensure that the shape of the decelerating and deflecting electric fields does not significantly deviate from the optimum shape, even in the presence of the significant space-charge of high current low-energy beams of heavy ions.
US08941076B2	Enhanced photon detection for scanner The techniques described herein provide for correcting for pulse pile-up and/or charge sharing in a radiation scanner (100). It finds particular application with the use of a pixilated radiation detector (116) (e.g., a photon counting detector). A circuit (200), comprising a plurality of comparators (204, 206, 208), is configured to determine the energy spectrum of a pulse produced from a photon strike. If the energy spectrum is greater than the energy range for a pulse produced by a single photon strike given an input spectrum and/or if pulses produced from adjacent pixels have temporal coincidence, pulse pile-up and/or charge sharing may be identified and a correction mechanism/correction factors may be applied to determine an actual number of photons that struck the detector (116).
US08941068B2	Infrared imagery device with integrated shield against parasite infrared radiation and method of manufacturing the device Infrared imagery device with integrated shield against parasite infrared radiation, and method of manufacturing the device. This device comprises a support provided with an infrared radiation detector, at least one optical device facing the detector, and a shield against parasite radiation. The shield comprises at least two continuous beads, spaced from each other, extending from the support as far as the optical device, provided with vents and made of a material that significantly attenuates parasite radiation, penetrating laterally between the support and the optical device. The two beads with their vents 15 form a baffle. The device is manufactured using the flip chip technique.
US08941065B2	Space perception device Disclosed is a space perception device which includes a transceiver unit transmitting and receiving a signal; a processing unit analyzing signals transmitted and received through the transceiver unit to search location information of an obstacle at a space; and a vibration unit providing a user with location information of an obstacle at a space in response to a control of the processing unit. The vibration unit includes a plurality of vibrators having different three-dimensional coordinates.
US08941059B2	Sampling apparatus There is provided a chip-type sampling apparatus to be attached so that a sampling side of the sampling apparatus faces the skin, the apparatus including a porous adsorption layer that faces the sampling side and has a pore diameter in a range of 0.1 to 1000 nm. One example of the adsorption layer includes at least three porous layers with different central pore diameters that are laminated from the sampling side in descending order of the central pore diameters. The sampling apparatus should preferably also include a layer that sucks air through the adsorption layer.
US08941057B2	Probe and method for obtaining three-dimensional compositional maps of a biological sample The invention provides a probe and a method of obtaining a three-dimensional compositional map of one or more targets in a biological sample, or a portion thereof, comprising: (a) milling a surface layer of a biological sample with a focused ion beam, thereby creating a newly exposed surface layer of the biological sample; (b) imaging the newly exposed surface layer of the biological sample; (c) identifying the chemical composition of the newly exposed surface layer of the biological sample, or a portion thereof, with a mass spectrometer; and (d) repeating (a) to (c) until a three-dimensional compositional map of one or more targets in the biological sample, or portion thereof, is obtained. Uses of the three-dimensional map obtained from the inventive method are further provided.
US08941056B2	Mass spectrometer A mass spectrometer is disclosed wherein an ion signal is split into a first and second signal. The first and second signals are multiplied by different gains and are digitized. Arrival time and intensity pairs are calculated for both digitized signals and the resulting time and intensity pairs are combined to form a high dynamic range spectrum. The spectrum is then combined with other corresponding spectra to form a summed spectrum.
US08941054B2	Selective ion mobility spectrometer formed from two consecutive mass selective filters Ions with a predetermined range of ion mobilities are produced by filtering input ions with at least two consecutive ion mobility high pass and/or low pass filters. Each ion mobility filter is formed by entraining ions in a moving gas and applying a DC electric field to the ions which causes the ions to move in a direction opposite to the gas flow. An ion mobility high pass filter is formed when the DC electric field drives the ions against the flow of gas, whereas an ion mobility low pass filter is formed when a the gas flow drives entrained ions against an DC electric field barrier.
US08941052B2	Illumination portion for an adaptable resolution optical encoder An illumination portion is used in an optical encoder which comprises a scale grating, an imaging portion, and a detector portion. A light source outputs light having a wavelength λ. A structured illumination generating portion inputs the light and outputs structured illumination. The structured illumination comprises an illumination fringe pattern oriented transversely to the measuring axis direction. A first filtering lens focuses the structured illumination proximate to a plane of the spatial filter aperture configuration. A spatial filtering aperture configuration includes a central portion that blocks zero-order portions of the structured illumination and an open aperture portion that outputs +1 order and −1 order portions of the structured illumination to a second filtering lens. The second filtering lens outputs the structured illumination to a plane of the scale grating with an illumination fringe pitch PMI along the measuring axis direction at a plane coinciding with the scale grating.
US08941051B2	Photosensor for position detecting device, position detecting device using same and position detecting method An object of the present invention is to provide a position detecting device using a reflection type photosensor, which assures a small size and low cost and enables detection of a long distance of about 10 mm or more, and a position detecting method. The position of a moving body is detected by providing, on the moving body, a reflection plate (12) having reflecting surfaces (sa) and non-reflecting surfaces (sb) arranged alternately in a moving direction of the moving body, providing a light receiving element (8) of the reflection type photosensor (9) with, for example, two light receiving portions (8a and 8b) having different light receiving regions in the moving direction of the moving body, outputting output signals from these two light receiving portions (8a and 8b), and carrying out at least one calculation of adding, subtracting, dividing and function calculation of these two output signals.
US08941044B2	Solid state image pickup apparatus An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including a charge storage part, a photoelectric conversion part, a first transfer part and a second transfer part, when a signal charge generated during one period is transferred to an amplifier, a control unit supplies pulses such that a turning-on pulse is supplied to the second transfer part while supplying a turning-off pulse to the first transfer part thereby transferring the stored signal charge to the amplifier, a turning-on pulse is then supplied to a reset part to reset the signal charge transferred to the amplifier, and subsequently a turning-on pulse is supplied to the first transfer part and the second transfer part to transfer the signal charge held in the photoelectric conversion part to the amplifier.
US08941043B2	Device for driving a light receiving element to track a light source A light tracking device comprising first and second support members and at least one light receiving element supported on each support member by one or more resilient flexible beams which deform upon relative translational displacement of the first and second support members. The first and second support members are arranged such that relative translational displacement of the members generates rotational displacement of the element. One or more resilient flexible beams may comprise spiral arms extending from the first to the second support members.
US08941029B2	Methods and systems for keyhole-free laser fusion cutting The invention relates to methods and systems for keyhole-free fusion cutting of a workpiece, wherein the workpiece is melted by a laser beam along a cutting joint and the molten mass produced is expelled from the produced cutting joint, e.g., by a gas jet at high pressure. According to the new methods at least one laser beam follows the laser beam in the cutting direction and influences the molten mass in such a manner that at least one of the two cutting flanks of the workpiece has a better cutting quality than when cutting without the trailing laser beam.
US08941028B2	System for direct engraving of flexographic printing members A system for engraving a flexographic relief member includes a laser scanning apparatus providing a focused radiation beam. The flexographic relief member includes a laser engraveable flexographic member; a thin engraveable control layer on top of the flexographic member; and wherein the engraveable control layer has an engraving sensitivity lower than the flexographic member.
US08941023B2	Method for producing welded helical-seam tubes having optimized tube geometry In a method for producing welded helical seam tubes having optimized tube geometry a metal strip is helically formed into an open seam tube by means of a forming unit and the converging strip edges are welded together, wherein an actual diameter determined on the welded tube is compared with a specific target diameter and a possible deviation lying outside a tolerance threshold is used to correct the actual tube diameter, wherein the strip edges are completely welded in a two stage step, including tack welding as a first step immediately after the shaping to form an open seam tube and thereafter final welding as a second step. The tube diameter is measured after the complete shaping to form an open seam tube and before the final welding. For this purpose, the diameter measuring device is arranged in such a way that either the completely shaped open seam tube or the only tack-welded tube is measured.
US08941003B2	Polyester film with UV-stability and high light transmittance A composite film comprising: (i) a heat-stabilised oriented polyester substrate comprising a UV-absorber in an amount of from about 0.1 to about 10% based on the total weight of the polyester substrate, and (ii) on one or both surfaces of the substrate a polymeric coating layer, which has a thickness in the range of from about 10 nm to about 200 nm, and which comprises an ethylene acrylic acid (EAA) copolymer, wherein the composite film exhibits a shrinkage at 150° C. for 30 minutes of less than 0.1% in both the longitudinal and transverse dimensions of the film, and use thereof in the manufacture of photo-voltaic cells.
US08940992B2	Systems and methods thereof for determining a virtual momentum based on user input A computer-implemented method including generating a user interface implemented on a touch-sensitive display configured to generate a virtual dual flywheel system for modulating a lifecycle of a musical note or chord. The dual flywheel system (DFS) includes a first VFS and a second VFS, where the first virtual flywheel system series connected to the second virtual flywheel system such that an output of the first virtual flywheel system is coupled to an input of the second virtual flywheel system. Upon receiving a user input on the user interface, the dual flywheel system determines a virtual momentum for the first virtual flywheel based on the user input and a predetermined mass coefficient of the first virtual flywheel system, and determines a virtual momentum for the second virtual flywheel based on the virtual momentum of the first virtual flywheel system and a predetermined mass coefficient of the second virtual flywheel.
US08940990B2	Exercise music support apparatus An apparatus temporal stops to output an exercise video, in response to determining that the request for temporal stop is received. The apparatus changes to a second audio volume of MIDI data by decreasing first audio volume by a pre-determined value and to a second exercise tempo by decreasing first exercise tempo by a pre-determined tempo value, in response to determining that a request for the temporal stop is received. The apparatus changes the second audio volume to the first audio volume, and the second exercise tempo to the first exercise tempo, in response to determining that a request for cancelling temporal stop is received. The apparatus restarts to output the exercise video representing the exercise motion based on the first exercise tempo.
US08940986B1	Tremolo and bridge device for stringed instruments A tremolo device for a stringed instrument is described in which a base plate is configured for surface mounting to a body of the instrument. A pivot plate is pivotally coupled to the base plate along an edge of the pivot plate. Each string is associated with a string seat. The string is threaded through the string seat receiving a terminal end of the string. The string seat includes a keyed portion that slidably attaches the string seat to the pivot plate in a keyed slot provided in a bottom surface of the pivot plate. A spring disposed between the base plate and the pivot plate maintains the pivot plate in a first position relative to the base plate until a user provides an action to pivot the pivot plate relative to said base plate. The spring returns the pivot plate to the first position when the user action is terminated.
US08940984B2	Electro-mechanical musical instrument An electro-mechanical musical instrument capable of generating a whole or partial instrument resonant frequency, said instrument comprising a body (1) having a first end (2) and a second end (3), a soundboard (4) positioned between said first and second ends adapted to generate a live frequency response and a contact microphone or sensor (5) adapted to receive said resonant frequency wherein said body includes a rigid member (6) positioned between said first and second ends of said body, said rigid member being adapted to apply tension or compression between said first and second ends of said body and simultaneously contact said soundboard between said first and second body ends such that said application of tension or compression adjusts or modifies said resonant frequency of said instrument.
US08940978B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH741796 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH741796. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH741796, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH741796 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH741796.
US08940977B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH175075 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH175075. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH175075, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH175075 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH175075.
US08940976B2	Tomato line PSQ-9Z06019 The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PX 02461513 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US08940969B2	Soybean variety XB22T13 A novel soybean variety, designated XB22T13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB22T13, cells from soybean variety XB22T13, plants of soybean XB22T13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB22T13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB22T13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB22T13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB22T13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB22T13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB22T13 are further provided.
US08940962B2	Chimeric promoter comprising FMV enhancer and HSP81-2 promoter and plants transformed therewith The present invention provides novel promoters for use in plants. Specifically, the present invention provides novel chimeric promoters comprising combinations of plant viral enhancer elements and plant promoters. The present invention also provides DNA constructs; transgenic cells, plants, and seeds containing these novel chimeric promoters; and methods for preparing and using the same.
US08940960B2	HCV entry factor, Occludin The human Occludin protein is identified as an essential Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) cell entry factor. Occludin is shown to render murine and other non-human cells infectable with HCV and to be required for HCV-susceptibility of human cells. Associated methods for inhibiting HCV infection, transgenic animal models for HCV pathogenesis, methods of identifying compounds or agents that prevent or mitigate interaction of HCV with Occludin, and HCV inhibitory agents are also disclosed. Kits and cell culture compositions useful for identifying compounds or agents that prevent or mitigate interaction of HCV with Occludin are also provided.
US08940959B2	Disposable absorbent articles having inkjet printed wetness indicators The present invention relates to disposable absorbent articles. The disposable absorbent articles include: (a) a body contacting surface; (b) a garment contacting surface opposite the body contacting surface; and (c) an inkjet printed wetness indicator which is seen through either the body contacting surface or the garment contacting surface. The wetness indicator includes a central graphic and a background graphic, the central graphic having at least one permanent ink composition and the background graphic having at least one water soluble ink composition.
US08940953B2	Process for conversion of lower aliphatic ethers to aromatics and lower olefins The invention relates to a process for converting a feed stream consisting of reactive components and an optional feed diluent to a product stream comprising aromatic hydrocarbons and C2-C3 olefins, wherein the reactive components comprise at least 90 vol % of an aliphatic ether selected from the group consisting of methyl tertiary butyl ether and ethyl tertiary butyl ether, the process comprising the step of contacting the feed stream with a catalyst composition comprising a zeolite catalyst, wherein the zeolite catalyst is a zeolite modified by Ga and an element M1 selected from the group consisting of Zn, Cd and Cu.
US08940950B2	Method and apparatus for obtaining aromatics from diverse feedstock The process relates to the use of any naphtha-range stream containing a portion of C8+ aromatics combined with benzene, toluene, and other non-aromatics in the same boiling range to produce toluene. By feeding the A8+ containing stream to a dealkylation/transalkylation/cracking reactor to increase the concentration of toluene in the stream, a more suitable feedstock for the methylation reaction can be produced. This stream can be obtained from a variety of sources, including the pygas stream from a steam cracker, “cat naphtha” from a fluid catalytic cracker, or the heavier portion of reformate.
US08940947B2	Glycerin purification method This invention provides a cost-effective method for removing impurities from waste glycerin generated in the process of biodiesel production, so as to prevent a supercritical water reaction tube from clogging, when synthesizing acrolein by allowing supercritical water and acid to react with glycerin. The method for purification of glycerin of the invention comprises steps of: heating glycerin containing alkali metal, alcohol, organic fatty acid, and water under reduced pressure, so as to remove alcohol and water; adding sulfuric acid to glycerin from which alcohol and water have been removed, so as to neutralize glycerin; subjecting neutralized glycerin to centrifugation, so as to separate and remove a sulfate of alkali metal and organic fatty acid; adding a sulfate of alkaline earth metal to glycerin collected via centrifugation; and subjecting a mixture of glycerin and a sulfate of alkaline earth metal to centrifugation, so as to separate and remove a sulfate of alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal salt of organic fatty acid.
US08940939B2	Process of oxidizing cyclohexane A process of oxidizing cyclohexane, comprising feeding cyclohexane, an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution and optionally an organic solvent into a reaction zone through a feed inlet thereof under the oxidation reaction conditions for contact, and providing all or most of the oxidation product at the reaction zone bottom, wherein a part or all of the packing in the reaction zone is a titanium silicate molecular sieve-containing catalyst. The process of oxidizing cyclohexane according to the present invention carries out the oxidation in the reaction zone, which, firstly, utilizes the latent heat from reaction sufficiently so as to achieve energy-saving; secondly, increases the yield of target product and the availability of oxidizer; and thirdly, allows the separation of the oxidation product from the raw material cyclohexane as the reaction proceeds, such that the cost for subsequent separations can be saved.
US08940934B2	Production process of α-hydroxy acids An object of the present invention is to provide a production process of an α-hydroxy acid having a sufficient quality as a polymer raw material, which process does not produce a large amount of waste as a byproduct and is economical.The present invention provides a production process of an α-hydroxy acid having a step of adding a basic metal to an α-hydroxy acid ammonium salt to yield an α-hydroxy acid metal salt and a step of desalting the α-hydroxy acid metal salt to yield the α-hydroxy acid.
US08940929B2	Preparation method of high-optical purity N2-[1 -(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl]-N6-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine Disclosed is a preparation method of high-optical purity N2-[1-(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl]-N6-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine. The method includes: adding crude N2-[1-(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl]-N6-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine to one or more organic solvents, and then reacting with an organic acid to form a salt, which is precipitated, thereby achieving the purpose of separation and purification; next, adding the obtained solid or mother concentrate into deionized water, and then adding an inorganic base or an organic base for basification, so as to adjust the pH value, removing the organic acid, filtering, washing and drying, to obtain the high-optical purity N2-[1-(S)-ethoxycarbonyl-3-phenylpropyl]-N6-trifluoroacetyl-L-lysine, where the molar ratio of 1S-isomer to 1R-isomer is equal to or greater than 99:1.
US08940927B2	Activators of glucokinase The present invention provides for novel compounds of Formulas I and II and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and co-crystals thereof which have glucokinase activator activity. The present invention further provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as well as methods of treating, preventing, delaying the time to onset or reducing the risk for the development or progression of a disease or condition for which one or more glucokinase activator is indicated, including Type 1 and 2 diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance and hyperglycemia. The present invention also provides for processes of making the compounds of Formulas I and II, including salts and co-crystals thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same.
US08940916B2	Crystallization of (20R)-2-methylene-19-nor-24-difluoro-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 Disclosed are methods of purifying the compound (20R)-2-methylene-19-nor-24-difluoro-1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 to obtain the compound in crystalline form. The methods typically include the steps of dissolving a product containing the compound in a solvent comprising hexane and 2-propanol, cooling the solvent and dissolved product below ambient temperature for a sufficient amount of time to form a precipitate of crystals, and recovering the crystals.
US08940910B2	Cleaning device for separating dilactide from mixtures, polymerisation device, method for separating dilactide from mixtures and use thereof The present invention relates to a device for separating a biodegradable, intermolecular cyclic diester of an alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid from material mixtures which contain in addition the alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid of the diester corresponding thereto. In particular, the diester is thereby dilactide and the acid lactic acid. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for separating dilactide from material mixtures, which is based on a modified, distillative method. In addition, the present invention describes a polymerization device, in particular for preparing polylactide. Likewise, purposes of use of both the devices and of the method are indicated.
US08940905B2	Method for preparing organic/inorganic hybrid functionalized solids having a triazole ring A process is described for the preparation of a functionalized hybrid solid with an organic-inorganic matrix, crystallized, bearing at least one reactive group based on a triazole ring, from a hybrid solid with an organic-inorganic matrix, MOF—NH2, comprising: i/ introduction, in a polar solvent S1, of said crystallized hybrid solid MOF—NH2, of at least one organic compound Q containing a nitride function N3 and at least one intermediate reagent R containing a nitrite function NO2, ii/ reaction of said reaction mixture, iii/ introduction in the reaction mixture of at least one reagent A bearing an alkyne function or an activated cyanide function, at least one Cu-based catalyst C and at least one polar solvent S2, iv/ reaction of said reaction mixture, v/ filtration and then washing and vi/ drying of said crystallized functionalized hybrid solid.
US08940904B2	Use of transition metal-carbene complexes which do not comprise any cyclometallation via non-carbenes in OLEDs The present invention relates to the use of transition metal-carbene complexes, in which the carbene ligand(s) is bonded to the transition metal exclusively via carbene carbon atoms, in organic light-emitting diodes, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one aforementioned transition metal-carbene complex, to a light-emitting layer comprising at least one aforementioned transition metal-carbene complex, to organic light-emitting diodes comprising at least one inventive light-emitting layer, and to devices which comprise at least one inventive organic light-emitting diode.
US08940899B2	Process for the preparation of 5-substituted 1-alkyltetrazolyl oxime derivatives The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 5-substituted 1-alkyltetrazolyl oxime derivatives.
US08940898B2	Piperidinyl alkyne orexin receptor antagonists The present invention is directed to piperidinyl alkyne compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. The present invention is also directed to uses of the piperidinyl alkyne compounds described herein in the treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these pharmaceutical compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved.
US08940897B2	1,3,4-oxadiazole and 1,3,4-thiadiazole β-lactamase inhibitors β-Lactamase inhibitor compounds (BLIs) are disclosed, including compounds that have activity against class A, class C or class D β-lactamases. Methods of manufacturing the BLIs, and uses of the compounds in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions and antibacterial applications are also disclosed.
US08940895B2	Heterocyclic fluorescent dyes and method of production thereof The invention relates to novel compounds of formula (III) that can be used as heterocyclic dyes of unique structure and properties. These dyes can be obtained in a three-step synthesis from simple substrates.
US08940890B2	Preparation method of 5-[[2(R)-[1(R)-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl) phenyl]ethoxy]-3(S)-4-fluorophenyl-4-morpholinyl]methyl]-1,2-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazole-3-one Disclosed is a synthesis method of a compound of formula 1,5-[[2(R)-[1(R)-[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]ethoxyl]-3(S)-4-fluorophenyl-4-morpholinyl]methyl]-1,2-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazole-3-one (i.e. aprepitant), which comprises cyclizing a compound of formula 4 in a solvent, wherein R is C1-C5 alkyl. The intermediate for preparing aprepitant is also disclosed. The present method is especially suitable for industrial production of aprepitant.
US08940888B2	Hydrazido derivatives of hyaluronic acid Disclosed are chemically modified hyaluronic acid (HA) derivatives containing hydrazido groups directly linked to the glucuronic acid residues of HA. Said hydrazido groups are used to obtain crosslinked and labeled HA derivatives. The invention further relates to methods of preparation of said HA derivatives.
US08940883B2	Anti-fXI antibodies and methods of use Disclosed herein are monoclonal antibodies specific for factor XI (fXI) that prevent activation of fXI by factor XIIa (fXIIa). The monoclonal antibodies are universal fXI antibodies, capable of binding all mammalian species tested. The anti-fXI monoclonal antibodies prolong clotting time in mammalian plasmas. Moreover, administration of the fXI monoclonal antibodies disclosed herein results in inhibition of thrombosis without altering hemostasis in animal models of thrombosis. Thus, provided herein are monoclonal antibodies specific for fXI that block activation of fXI by fXIIa, compositions and immunoconjugates comprising such antibodies and their methods of use.
US08940882B2	Multiple fluorophore detector system A detector oligonucleotide comprises multiple pairs of a donor fluorophore and a quencher molecule, which donor fluorophores and quencher molecules are separated by a site that is capable of being cleaved when in double-stranded form. The detector oligonucleotide may be made double-stranded in a manner that depends on the presence of a target nucleic acid, allowing the cleavage sites to be cleaved. Separation of the donor fluorophores and the quencher molecules decreases fluorescence quenching and generates a detectable change in a fluorescence parameter of the fluorophores of the detector oligonucleotide. By using multiple donor/quencher pairs, the present detector oligonucleotide advantageously generates a high signal to noise ratio and high efficiency in detection of a target nucleic acid.
US08940875B2	Process for protein extraction The invention includes a process for extracting a target protein from Escherichia coli cells that includes lowering the pH of a whole E. coli cell solution to form an acidic solution, disrupting the cells to release the protein into the acidic solution, and separating the cellular debris from the released protein to obtain a protein product enriched in the heterologous target protein. The invention also includes addition of a solubility enhancer.
US08940867B2	Pan-antiviral peptides Methods for preparing viral neuraminidase inhibitors including antiviral peptides by specifically chemically modifying disulfide bonds in precursor molecules. A method of inhibiting viral neuraminidases by administering a viral neuraminidase inhibitor comprising an antiviral peptide prepared by the above methods and inhibiting the viral neuraminidase. Therapeutics for inhibiting viral neuraminidases, including effective amounts of viral neuraminidase inhibitors including antiviral peptides derived from selectively chemically modified disuifide bonds in precursor molecules, and present in a pharmaceutically acceptable carriers.
US08940862B2	Selective anticancer chimeric peptides which bind transferrin receptor It is an object of the present invention to provide a substance usable as an anticancer agent or DDS, which has intracellular stability, which is capable of evading side effects from functional disorder with respect to normal cells, or which has instantaneous effect. The inventors developed a novel chimeric peptide targeting cancer cells which overexpress EGFR or the like using a binding peptide such as a peptide sequence binding to EGFR, and a lytic peptide sequence, thereby solving such an object. Particularly, by using a chimeric peptide including an EGF receptor-binding peptide or the like and a cytotoxic peptide, this object was solved.
US08940853B2	Cationic blocked polyisocyanate and aqueous composition comprising the same Blocked polyisocyanates, obtained by using a polyisocyanate derived from an aliphatic and/or an alicyclic diisocyanate monomer, as a precursor, and including both of a blocked isocyanate group blocked with a pyrazole compound and a cationic group neutralized with an anion, in one molecule thereof; methods for making and using such blocked polyisocyanates; and compositions of matter including such blocked polyisocyanates.
US08940834B2	Partially aromatic polyamide moulding compositions and their uses An unreinforced, halogen-free polyamide moulding composition having the following composition: (A) 62-87% by weight of a partially aromatic, partially crystalline copolyamide having a melting point of 270° C. to 320° C. and made up of 100% by weight of diacid fraction composed of: 50-100% by weight of terephthalic acid (TPA) and/or naphthalenedicarboxylic acid; 0-50% by weight of isophthalic acid (IPA), and 100% by weight of diamine fraction; (B) 5-15% by weight of ionomer; (C) 8-18% by weight of flame retardants; (D) 0-5% by weight of additives; where the components (A)-(D) add up to 100% by weight.
US08940830B2	Fast drying emulsion systems The drying time for aqueous asphalt emulsions used in the roofing and other waterproofing industries is shortened by separately applying an emulsion breaking agent to the substrate to be waterproofed, to the aqueous asphalt emulsion after it is applied, or both.
US08940829B1	Powdered coatings compositions Provided are compositions of matter which exist in a powdered, free-flowing form to which water is added preferable just prior to the time of use, to yield flowable liquid compositions which are spreadable, dispersible or sprayable onto various substrates. In some embodiments such free-flowing compositions contain water-soluble styrene/acrylic acid copolymers, and can surprisingly comprise relatively large amounts of water on the order of about 20% or more, while remaining in the form of a free-flowing powder prior to their combination with additional water to yield the spreadable, dispersible or sprayable liquid compositions. By the present disclosure, shelf life concerns are eliminated, as the compositions provided have an essentially indefinite shelf life, and transportation and handling ease are greatly increased over prior art compositions due to less weight by the absence of large relative quantities of water present in prior art compositions.
US08940824B2	Heat-stabilized acrylate elastomer composition and process for its production Polyamide-filled acrylate copolymer compositions comprising a continuous acrylate copolymer phase and a discontinuous polyamide phase are produced by a melt mixing process. When crosslinked with diamine curatives the polyamide-filled acrylate copolymer compositions exhibit enhanced resistance to heat aging compared to carbon black-reinforced acrylate copolymer compositions.
US08940823B2	Water-based coating composition According to a water-based composition characterized by containing a colorant, water, a wetting agent, an amine compound, a hydroxyl group-containing organic solvent and a urethane resin having a polycarbonate group, there is provided a water-based coating composition being capable of easily controlling the gloss of a coating film applied on an object to be coated, having good storage stability, and being excellent in wetting properties to an object to be coated and continuous discharge stability without causing nozzle clogging.
US08940818B2	Halogen-free flame-proofing agent Halogen-free flame retardant for incorporation into a polymer matrix, wherein the flame retardant contains at least ammonium polyphosphate(s) and/or derivatives thereof and an oligomeric or polymeric 1,3,5-triazine derivative or mixtures of several thereof and at least one compound selected from monozinc phosphate, zinc borate, trizinc phosphate, zinc pyrophosphate, zinc polyphosphate, zinc hydroxystannate, zinc stannate, boron phosphate, monoaluminium phosphate, trialuminium phosphate, aluminium metaphosphate and mixtures thereof, precondensed melamine derivatives, melamine salts and adducts, ethylenediamine phosphate, piperazine phosphate, piperazine polyphosphate, 1,3,5-trihydroxyethyl isocyanurate, 1,3,5-triglycidyl isocyanurate and triallyl isocyanurate.
US08940816B2	Master batch for ceramic- or metal-powder injection-molding, and method for preparing said master batch The master batch for molding includes at least one inorganic powder, advantageously ceramic or metallic; an organic mixture, advantageously polymer, comprising: a stable polymer having good ductility features, from 30 to 90% by mass of the mixture; a lubricant, from 5 to 30% by mass of the mixture; a plasticizing polymer, from 5 to 30% by mass of the mixture; with a [% by mass of the lubricant]/[% by mass of the stable polymer] ratio smaller than or equal to 1, advantageously strictly smaller than 1.
US08940812B2	Silicone polymers comprising sulfonic acid groups The present invention relates to a silicone polymer comprising a sulfonic acid component formed from reactive components comprising (i) at least one silicone component and (ii) at least one sulfonic acid-containing component, wherein the sulfonic acid-containing component is comprised of a non-polymerizable, hydrophobic cation and a polymerizable sulfonic acid.
US08940807B2	Method for producing metal oxide organic compound composite A method for obtaining a metal oxide organic compound composite includes dissolving a hydrated yttrium chloride and an epoxide in a solvent, and obtaining a gel including the metal oxide organic compound composite.
US08940804B2	Acrylate-based UV-curable ink, method and an ink base for producing same The invention relates to an acrylate-based UV-curable ink, in particular ink jet ink, having a content of pigments, radical photoinitiators, dispersing agent(s)and optionally additional additives, characterized in that said ink contains at least two radical photoinitiators of the Norrish type I and at least one radically curable monomer in the form of a polyfunctional alkoxylated and/or polyalkoxylated acrylate monomer, which comprises one or more diacrylates and/or triacrylates, wherein the mol ratio of all acrylates to all initiators is approximately 5:1 to 19:1. The invention further relates to a method for producing a UV-curable ink, in particular an ink jet ink of the aforementioned type, wherein 1) a ground product or an ink base is produced by grinding one or more radically curable monomers in the form of a polyfunctional alkoxylated and/or polyalkoxylated acryl monomer, which comprise one or more diacrylate(s) and/or triacrylate(s), with one or more pigments and dispersing agents, in particular optionally additionally with synergists, stabilizers and further additives, in a high-performance mill, in particular in a pearl mill, until a constant viscosity and/or constant particle size develops, and 2) the resulting ground product is mixed with further acrylate monomers and the radical photoinitiators in the form of the Norrish type I, and optionally other additives. Said ground product exhibits advantageous physical properties at elevated temperatures and in long-term storage.

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