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US09037373B2	Lateral control apparatus of vehicle and control method of the same The present invention provides a lateral control apparatus including: an offset measuring unit that measures current lateral offsets of at least two other vehicles at a current time based on a center of a driving lane; a preview offset calculating unit that predicts a lateral offset of the other vehicle based on the center of the driving lane based on a location and a speed of the other vehicle at a time when a predetermined time has elapsed to calculate a preview offset; a priority determining unit that determines a priority of the other vehicles based on a difference between the lateral offset and the preview offset; and a controller that generates a route for lane keeping control of own vehicle based on the lateral offset of the other vehicle to which a top priority is assigned by the priority determining unit.
US09037367B2	System and method for inhibiting top gear at winding road driving A control system having at least one sensor collecting data from a vehicle component such as a steering wheel. A processor determines if the data collected from the sensor is above or equal to a predetermined level. If the processor determines that the data is above a predetermined level, the processor indicates to the controller that the data is above that predetermined level and requires a prevention of upshifting of the transmission. A method of including controlling the transmission of a vehicle by a control system, sensing at least one vehicle property by a sensor in acquiring data relating to that property, storing the data in a data storage unit, determining if the data is above a predetermined level and sending a signal to a transmission of the vehicle if the data is above a predetermined level thereby preventing upshift of the transmission to the top two gears.
US09037366B2	System and method of controlling fail safe for hybrid vehicle A system and method of controlling a fail-safe for a vehicle is provided. The method includes determining, by a controller, that remaining hydraulic pressure exists in the clutch when the clutch is not opened and a target value of oil pressure for opening the clutch is maintained for a predetermined time period. In addition, whether a vehicle is stopped is confirmed in response to determining that remaining hydraulic pressure exists in the engine clutch. The controller is further configured to transmit a signal to shift to the vehicle to a neutral (N) stage to a transmission controller and shift to the vehicle to the N-stage in response to determining that the vehicle is stopped. Then, the engine is driven by the controller in response to determining that the vehicle is shifted to the N-stage.
US09037361B2	Self adjusting shift cable alignment for a transmission range control module system A transmission includes a controller that uses force feedback from a detent mechanism to determine appropriate actuator output for achieving a desired transmission range, which facilitates the implementation of “shift by wire” systems on pre-existing transmission designs.
US09037359B2	System and method for determining saddle block shimming gap of an industrial machine A method of controlling the operation of an industrial machine. The industrial machine includes a boom, a dipper handle attached to the boom, a saddle block pivotally mounted to the boom at a pivot point, and a computer having a controller. The method comprises processing, with the controller, data received from a saddle angle sensor, determining, with the controller, a saddle angle and a saddle angle gap using the data from the saddle angle sensor, determining, with the controller, a height of the dipper handle. The method further comprises determining, with the controller, a height of the saddle block, determining, with the controller, a saddle gap radius, and determining, with the controller, a saddle block shimming gap by comparing the saddle gap radius with the height of the handle.
US09037355B2	Control assembly for auxiliary hydraulics A ground engaging vehicle including a tool having a moving member and a control system controlling a speed of the moving member. The control system includes an adjustable proportional control and a triggering control. The adjustable proportional control creates a signal to thereby select a direction and a speed of the moving member. The triggering control setting the direction and/or the speed dependent upon the signal resulting in a set direction and a set speed, the triggering control subsequently setting the speed to zero.
US09037353B2	System and method for controlling electric power steering system A method controls a torque of an electric power steering (EPS) system of a vehicle. The method determines, based on a state of a movement of the vehicle, a range of values of the torque of the EPS system satisfying constraints. The constraints include at least one constraint on an effect of the torque of the EPS system on the steering wheel. The method selects a value of the torque within the range of values based on an objective of the movement of the vehicle and commands the EPS system to generate the torque according to the value of the torque.
US09037349B2	Trailer identification system for trailer backup assist A system and method for configuring a trailer backup assist system. The system and method communicates predetermined trailer parameters, which are embedded on a tag attached to the trailer, to a controller in the trailer backup assist system. A trailer backup assist system is configured using the predetermined trailer parameters and the configured trailer backup assist system is activated to operate using the trailer parameters.
US09037341B2	Traction control enable/disable feature A method and system for displaying a traction control ON/OFF menu at a display module in a vehicle upon detection of vehicle characteristics and conditions that may warrant a driver's desire to manually disable the traction control feature. The method and system verify traction control is enabled on the vehicle, verify the traction control ON/OFF menu is not already being displayed at a display module, a controller receives at least one signal indicating an occasion that may warrant manual deactivation of traction control and the controller initiates displaying the traction control ON/OFF menu for the convenience of the driver.
US09037337B1	Secondary sources of navigation data for improved control of an automonous vehicle A computer program product is provided including computer readable program code for controlling the operation of an autonomous vehicle. The computer program product includes computer readable program code for using navigation data from a first data source until the autonomous vehicle reaches a specific area for which a second data source has navigation data for the specific area, and computer readable program code for using navigation data from the second data source to control operation of the autonomous vehicle while the autonomous vehicle is within the specific area. Non-limiting examples of a specific area include construction zones, private property, secure areas, and state parks. When the autonomous vehicle reaches these specific areas, navigation data specific to this area may be downloaded from a second data source.
US09037336B2	Robot system A robot system includes a planar sign, a robot, a distance direction sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the robot and includes a map data memory and a progress direction determining device. The map data memory is configured to store map data of a predetermined running path including a position of the planar sign. The progress direction determining device is configured to compare a detection result of the distance direction sensor and the stored map data so as to determine a progress direction of the robot.
US09037329B2	Lash zone detection in a hybrid vehicle A method for controlling an electric vehicle having a traction motor connected to a driveline includes controlling traction motor output torque through a region surrounding the vehicle wheel torque reversal to mitigate torque disturbances in a driveline, wherein the region is determined using a relationship between driveline input torque and driveline output torque and is bounded by a zero input torque and a zero output torque. A hybrid electric vehicle has a traction motor, a driveline connected to a vehicle wheel, and a controller configured to control traction motor output torque through a region surrounding a vehicle wheel torque reversal to mitigate torque disturbances in the driveline. A control system for a hybrid vehicle includes a traction motor and a controller. The controller is configured to control traction motor output torque through a region surrounding a vehicle wheel torque reversal to mitigate torque disturbances in the driveline.
US09037327B2	Distance to empty calculation method for electric vehicle Disclosed is a Distance to Empty (DTE) calculation method for an electric vehicle, and more particularly, a DTE calculation method for an electric vehicle that provides a more accurate DTE calculation by estimating remaining available energy of an actual battery and using the estimated remaining available energy for calculation. The DTE calculation method includes obtaining a battery's initial available energy, calculating a battery's accumulative consumption energy consumed while driving a current accumulative driving distance, calculating a battery's remaining available energy from the initial available energy and the accumulative consumption energy, calculating a final fuel efficiency corresponding to driving the current accumulative driving distance, and calculating a DTE from the final fuel efficiency and the remaining available energy.
US09037320B1	Unscheduled maintenance disruption severity and flight decision system and method Described herein is an apparatus that includes a disruption severity module and flight recommendation module. The disruption severity module calculates a disruption severity index value associated with an unscheduled maintenance event of an aircraft. The disruption severity index value is calculated based on a plurality of flight operation factors affected by the unscheduled maintenance event. The flight recommendation module recommends one of resolving the unscheduled maintenance event of the aircraft before a subsequent flight of the aircraft or flying the aircraft without resolving the unscheduled maintenance event of the aircraft based on the disruption severity index value.
US09037319B2	System and method for processing and displaying wake turbulence A system and method to display, when within an envelope of an ownship's flight path, a symbol representing wake turbulence from another aircraft based on aircraft type and flight parameters received from the other aircraft, the symbol being formatted to indicate the severity of portions of the wake turbulence. The format is modified periodically in accordance with the aircraft's flight path and a decay rate of the wake turbulence.
US09037317B2	System and method for automatic dependent surveillance collection and analysis A system and method for collecting and analyzing data generated by at least one mobile platform (such as a train, ship, aircraft or automobile). The system includes a source of at least one user input, and a data interface control module that collects at least one type of data from the mobile platform, based on the user input, with the data related to the operation of the mobile platform. The system also comprises an analysis control module that analyzes the data collected by the data interface control module and generates analysis data based on the user input.
US09037312B2	Trailer heading angle using vehicle wheel speed sensors A system and method of calculating a heading angle for a trailer that is being backed by a vehicle. A trailer backup assist control module, in communication with a hitch angle detecting apparatus, receives a hitch angle and determines displacement of left and right vehicle wheels using information supplied by vehicle wheel speed sensors while the vehicle is backing the trailer. A vehicle heading angle is determined using left and right wheel displacement information and a known vehicle track width. A trailer heading angle is then calculated using the vehicle heading angle and the hitch angle.
US09037294B2	Robot cleaner and control method thereof Disclosed herein are a robot cleaner having an improved travel pattern and a control method thereof. The robot cleaner performs cleaning using zigzag travel as a basic cleaning traveling manner, and then performs cleaning using random travel as a finishing cleaning traveling manner so as to clean areas skipped during the zigzag travel. The robot cleaner performs the zigzag travel while maintaining a designated interval with a travel route proceeding to a wall regardless of a direction proceeding to the wall, and employs an improved zigzag travel method to maintain a zigzag travel pattern, if the robot cleaner senses an obstacle during the zigzag travel.
US09037288B2	Method of processing mailpieces with digital models of running mailpieces being generated on an interactive terminal A method of processing mailpieces, in which they are fed in series into a sorting machine comprising a sorting conveyor and sorting outlets, an image of each mailpiece is formed in the machine, processing is applied to the image for automatically recognizing address information for the purpose of automatically directing the mailpiece towards a determined sorting outlet, a digital model of running mailpieces or a “run” is built in a database prior to feeding the mailpieces into the machine, the model being built on the basis of an image of a mailpiece, and being defined by data characterizing the graphical appearance of the mailpiece in the image formed from an interactive acquisition terminal located remote from the machine, and the run model is associated in said database with indications usable by the recognition processing, which indications are also input from said interactive acquisition terminal.
US09037286B2	Each pick A warehousing system for storing and retrieving goods disposed in containers is provided. The system includes a multilevel storage array including an array of storage shelves for holding containers thereon, at least one substantially continuous lift for transporting containers to and from at least one level of the storage array, at least one transport vehicle located on the at least one level and configured to traverse a transport area transporting containers between the at least one continuous lift and container storage locations so that the at least one continuous lift communicates non-deterministically, via the transport vehicle, with storage locations of each of the storage shelves on the at least one level, an infeed transport system linked to the at least one continuous lift, and an order fulfillment station for generating order containers corresponding to customer orders where the order containers are entered onto the storage shelves of the storage array.
US09037281B2	Method and apparatus for condition monitoring of valve In the method and apparatus of the invention, the process point is taken into account when the condition and performance of a control valve are monitored. In the condition monitoring of the valve, process measurements are used in addition to measurements inside the valve in such a manner that the process measurements identify the operating point at which the valve operates, and the measurements inside the valve are observed at these operating points to detect changes and to determine the condition of the valve. According to an aspect of the invention, the variables representing the operating point of an industrial process are considered when changes in the friction load of the valve and/or the load factor of the actuator are observed.
US09037275B2	Playback speed control apparatus and playback speed control method A playback speed control apparatus, which controls play-back speed according to rotation of an operation unit (15) that is rotatable, includes: a rotation speed detection unit (15c) that detects rotation speed of the operation unit; and a control (291) unit that controls the playback speed according to the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed detection unit, in which the control unit either increases or decreases the playback speed according to a recursive pattern of the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed detection unit.
US09037254B2	Methods and systems for semi-automatic adjustment of medical monitoring and treatment Systems and methods are described for adjusting the operation of implantable stimulation devices used to provide medical monitoring and treatment. Several hierarchical algorithms are described which operate according to conditionally obtaining a patient response to an alert signal. In one such strategy semi-automatic therapy adjustment occurs by automatically issuing patient alert messages when selected operations are to occur, and using a patient's response to the alert message that is provided within a selected time limit in order to contingently adjust therapy. Methods are also described for resolving conflicts which may occur when time information and sensed data information each indicate different patient states are occurring. Although treatment of neural and cardiac disorders is emphasized, the techniques can be applied to the monitoring and treatment of any medical disorder with an implanted device.
US09037243B2	Low insertion force electrical connector for implantable medical devices A low-insertion force electrical connector for implantable medical devices includes a housing with a pair of opposing sidewalls each with center openings oriented generally concentrically around a center axis. An inner coil is located in a recess with a coil axis generally co-linear with the center axis of the center openings. The inner coil includes an outer diameter less than a recess diameter, and an inner diameter greater than a center opening diameter. An outer coil is threaded onto the inner coil. The outer coil has an outer diameter less than the recess diameter, and an inner diameter less than the center opening diameter. The outer coil is radially expanded within the recess in response to engagement with contact rings on the implantable medical device, such that the outer diameter of the outer coil is at least equal to the recess diameter.
US09037242B2	System of redundant wires and connectors for picafina DBS and heart pacemaker electrical stimulating device implanted in animals including human animals A system to increase the reliability of the electrical connections between the stimulating electrodes and the battery/controlling electronics of an electrical stimulating device as DBS (Deep Brain Stimulator), heart pacemakers and the like. We disclose a redundant male/female connector and/or a set of redundant wires to improve the reliability of the electrical connections. The redundant male/female connector serves as a backup for a potential loss of electrical continuity due to the adverse effect of body fluids, and the redundant wires serve as a backup for potential loss of electrical continuity due to repetitive muscle movement causing wire movement, stress and breaking. DBS connecting wires, that ran down the neck of the patient, are subjected to repetitive stresses due to neck twisting and therefore at high risk of breaking.
US09037237B2	Algorithm to modulate atrial-ventricular delay and rate response based on autonomic function An implantable medical device and associated method provide atrial pacing and measure an atrial ventricular (AV) delay. An autonomic function index is computed using the AV delay. The autonomic function index may be compiled in a medical report. In some embodiments, the autonomic function index is used to adjust atrial pacing control parameters.
US09037231B2	Cap for an implantable electrical lead assembly A cap for an implantable medical device electrical connector lead assembly and methods of use. A cap for protecting an electrical connector lead assembly of an implantable medical device is disclosed. The cap includes a body defined by a mating surface and a non-mating surface. The mating surface is adapted for electrically insulating engagement with an electrical connector lead assembly of an implantable medical device. The cap includes a body having a mating surface and an electrical network disposed therein. The electrical network includes first and second contacts exposed at the mating surface, a first circuit element, and two conductive pathways connecting the contacts to the circuit element. The body is configured to mate with the electrical connector lead assembly such that each contact conductively engages a corresponding contact of the electrical connector lead assembly when the cap and electrical connector lead assembly are mated.
US09037229B2	Magnetic patch coupling Apparatus is described for facilitating delivery of a substance through skin (70) of a subject. A skin preparation device (50), and a patch assembly (20) that comprises the substance and is magnetically couplable to the skin preparation device, are described. Other embodiments are also described.
US09037228B2	Method and system for detecting electrophysiological changes in pre-cancerous and cancerous tissue Methods and systems for determining a condition of a selected region of epithelial tissue and/or an organ in a body as well as to diagnose disease, susceptibility, premalignancy or cancer and measure response to therapy, introduction of a drug and to assess the margins of a tumor or resection. The methods utilize through the tissue or organ electrical measurements with alternating current using one or more surface or internal electrodes and measuring the electrical response using one or more surface electrodes, preferably in combination with one or more electrodes in direct or indirect contact with epithelium comprising the organ or tissue under test. The methods are also useful in combination with DC measurements on the surface of the organ or tissue under test. Measurement of impedance, admittance, electropotential and dielectric properties is particularly useful, particularly as a function of frequency and position on and in the tissue or organ.
US09037224B1	Apparatus for treating a patient A signal processing method and system combines multi-scale decomposition, such as wavelet, pre-processing together with a compression technique, such as an auto-associative artificial neural network, operating in the multi-scale decomposition domain for signal denoising and extraction. All compressions are performed in the decomposed domain. A reverse decomposition such as an inverse discrete wavelet transform is performed on the combined outputs from all the compression modules to recover a clean signal back in the time domain. A low-cost, non-drug, non-invasive, on-demand therapy braincap system and method are pharmaceutically non-intrusive to the body for the purpose of disease diagnosis, treatment therapy, and direct mind control of external devices and systems. It is based on recognizing abnormal brainwave signatures and intervenes at the earliest moment, using magnetic and/or electric stimulations to reset the brainwaves back to normality. The feedback system is self-regulatory and the treatment stops when the brainwaves return to normal. The braincap contains multiple sensing electrodes and microcoils; the microcoils are pairs of crossed microcoils or 3-axis triple crossed microcoils.
US09037220B2	Imaging device and method A device (1) for use in imaging a subject using both light and gamma rays emanating from the subject, the device including: a first sensor means (2) responsive to light received thereby from the subject to generate first signals (6) for use in forming a first image (10) of the subject; a second sensor means (3) responsive to gamma rays received thereby from the subject to generate second signals (7) for use in forming a second image (11) of the subject and arranged to receive gamma rays from the subject which have passed from the subject through the first sensor means before reaching the second sensor means.
US09037213B2	Method and apparatus to estimate location and orientation of objects during magnetic resonance imaging Tracking based on the gradient fields of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners based on passive operation of the tracking system without any change of the scanner's hardware or mode of operation. To achieve better tracking performance, a technique to create a custom MRI pulse sequence is disclosed. Through this technique any standard pulse sequence of the scanner can be modified to include gradient activations specifically designated for tracking. These tracking gradient activations are added in a way that does not affect the image quality of the native sequence. The scan time may remain the same as with the native sequence or longer due to the additional gradient activations. The tracking system itself can use all the gradient activations (gradient activations for imaging and gradient activations for tracking) or eliminate some of the gradients and lock onto the specific gradient activations that are added to the custom pulse sequence.
US09037212B2	Enablement of quick remote access to CT scans to improve workflow and patient throughput A bi-directional communication system (12) is utilized for communications between a technician at an imaging workstation (18), from which imaging protocols can be conducted and at which diagnostic images can be displayed, and one or more hospital medical professionals, located at remote locations. The technician selects and addresses the proper medical professional by a use of an addressing means (50) at workstation (18). The technician selects images (42) to be sent to the selected medical professional. The images and medical professional's address are formatted (46) into wireless transmission format via transmitter/receiver (44) coupled to the workstation (18). A plurality of remote transmitters/receivers (62) receives wireless transmissions at remote locations. Each wireless transmission is examined (68) for a correct address and further converted (70) into an appropriate format for human-readable display. The selected medical professional reviews the images (42) and other information and releases the patient, who awaits the reviewing medical professional's response in the vicinity of the scanner (16).
US09037207B2	Hemoglobin display and patient treatment The present disclosure describes embodiments of a patient monitoring system and methods that include the measure and display of hemoglobin statistics. In an embodiment, total hemoglobin trending is displayed over a period of time. Statistics can include frequency domain analysis, which may be unique for each patient monitored. The total hemoglobin trending and/or statistics can further be used to help control the treatment of a patient, such as being used to control IV administration.
US09037204B2	Filtered detector array for optical patient sensors The present embodiments relate generally to patient monitoring system and, more particularly, to optical patient monitoring systems. In an embodiment, a physiological sensor includes a broadband emitter configured to emit two or more wavelengths of light into the tissue of a patient. The sensor also includes a charge coupled device (CCD) or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) photodetector array comprising a plurality of photodetectors. Each photodetector in the photodetector array is configured to receive the light from the tissue of the patient and to produce a corresponding output signal. Additionally, the sensor also includes one or more filter layers disposed on the plurality of photodetectors. The filter layers are configured to only allow light of particular wavelengths, polarizations, or both, to be received by each of the plurality of photodetectors.
US09037197B2	Mobile terminal, power transfer system and computer-readable storage medium A mobile terminal may include a plurality of antennas to receive radio waves, a receiver circuit to receive power of the radio waves received by the plurality of antennas using a diversity technique, and a charging unit to charge a rechargeable battery coupled to the mobile terminal by the power of the radio waves received by the receiver circuit.
US09037196B1	Method, terminal and head unit for automatically providing application services using templates The present invention relates to a method for automatically providing an application service by an interaction with a head unit at a terminal. The method includes steps of: (a) the terminal receiving a request for running of a specific application, if the specific application is selected by a user of the head unit from a list including information on one or more runnable applications, which are installed in the terminal, to be interacted with the head unit; and (b) the terminal running the specific application by interacting with a template application run by the head unit.
US09037192B2	Apparatus and method for recognizing external memory card in mobile terminal An apparatus and method for recognizing an external memory in a mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes an external memory manager for recognizing as if an external memory was attached without a separate external memory by defining a built-in memory as a virtual external memory after a booting process.
US09037190B2	Adaptive repeater for improved communication system performance A dynamically tuned repeater system for improved communication system performance is disclosed. The repeater circuit consists of power amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, filters, switches and antennas along with tuning circuits integrated and controlled to provide an optimized system for RF transmission improvement. Dynamic tuning provides the ability to maintain optimized system performance as required by communication link characteristics. Inputs from proximity sensors are used to further optimize system performance. The repeater topology is capable of transmission and reception enhancement at a multitude of frequency bands.
US09037175B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting available radio access possibilities in a communications area A local radio access information transmitter (LRAIT) may be used in a communications area serviced by multiple different radio access technologies (RATs) allocated to different radio resources in different locations in the communications area. Each RAT is associated with RAT radio transceiver(s) for serving UEs in the communications area. The LRAIT is in addition to the RAT transceivers and located near a hotspot service area in the communications area. The LRAIT determines local radio access information (LRAI) including different RATs available in the hotspot service area and frequenc(ies) of operation allocated to each RAT in the hotspot service area, sends a registration message to a wide area radio access information controller, and based on a response therefrom, determines what radio resources to use to transmit the LRAI signals. The LRAIT transmits the LRAI signals for receipt by UEs in the hotspot service area using those radio resources.
US09037168B2	Multiple subscription resource access control The various embodiments include methods for managing how a MSMS communication device that is accessing an arbitrary combination of multiple telephony networks processes paging collisions. The embodiment methods promote improving a subscription's page blocking rate by causing a MSMS communication device to implement a retransmission remedial action for a blocked subscription. In the various embodiments, the MSMS communication device may implement the retransmission remedial action by increasing a blocked subscription's priority during a subsequent retransmission interval to increase the likelihood that the blocked subscription will receive a repeated page message from its mobile network during this retransmission interval. In some embodiments, the blocked subscription's current priority may be based on the number of retransmission intervals that are presently occurring.
US09037165B2	Method and system for location based updates in a communications device The location or changes in location of a communications device may be determined by various means, such as via a satellite navigation system, within the communications device. The location of the communications device may then be used to determine communication standard parameters needed for operation. Different countries may require different parameters for various applications, such as digital video broadcasting (DVB) and/or Bluetooth communication. The communications device may then configure itself to use the appropriate parameters for operation using the determined standards. The configuration information may be stored in the communications device. The communications device may comprise at least one radio wireless communication that may need to be updated. The wireless communication may comprise cellular communication, Internet access, and reception of audio and/or video broadcasts, where the audio/video broadcasts may be analog and/or digital.
US09037158B2	Localized secure user plane location (SUPL) emergency session Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for a Localized Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Emergency Session are presented. In some embodiments, a method for a localized Secure User Plane Location Emergency Session includes, receiving a Secure User Plane Location Initiation Message at a mobile device; determining whether an emergency indicator in the Secure User Plane Location Initiation Message is set to TRUE; determining a Mobile Country Code associated with the radio access network currently used by the mobile device; determining a requirement for an Emergency Secure User Plane Location Session in a jurisdiction associated with the Mobile Country Code; and establishing a Secure User Plane Location Session with a Secure User Plane Location Platform server.
US09037156B2	Real-time spherical correction of map data A method of displaying a map on a wireless communications device, the method comprising obtaining map data for rendering the map to be displayed on the wireless communications device and determining a zoom level of the map. If the zoom level of the map exceeds a predetermined zoom level, corrected map data is generated by applying a fixed spherical correction factor to the map data. If the zoom level of the map does not exceed the predetermined zoom level, the corrected map data is generated by computing a spherical correction factor based on a latitude of the map. The method also includes rendering the corrected map data to display the map on a display of the wireless communications device.
US09037148B2	Apparatus for supporting a mobile station to communicate with two or more networks in a mobile communication system and method thereof An apparatus for supporting a mobile station (MS) to perform a communication using a plurality of networks in a mobile communication system and method thereof are disclosed. According to the present invention, a serving base station (BS) of the MS receives information on at least one heterogeneous network from a BS of each of the at least one heterogeneous network. The serving BS of the MS selects at least one of a heterogeneous network to be allocated to the MS and a channel of the heterogeneous network based on the received information on the at least one heterogeneous network. And, the serving BS of the MS transmits an information on the selected heterogeneous network to the MS.
US09037147B2	Network controlled tethering of wireless devices A method for tethering wireless devices includes assigning, by a wireless communication network access point, a master wireless device as a hotspot to provide communication services for a slave wireless device. The assignment may be based on first channel quality information and second channel quality information. The first channel quality information may be associated with a first communication channel between the master wireless device and the access point. The second channel quality information may be associated with a second communication channel between the master wireless device and the slave wireless device. The method may also include allocating a wireless communication resource to the master wireless device such that the master wireless device is configured as the hotspot. The allocation of the communication resource may be based on a determination that a parameter requirement of the communication resource associated with the master wireless device acting as the hotspot is met.
US09037146B2	Dynamically managing and reconfiguring wireless mesh networks A wireless network with multiple subscriber systems in a lobe pool may operate by determining a state of the wireless network, identifying a new condition, the new condition including a new demand condition or a new network health condition, determining whether the new condition has a threshold impact on operations of the wireless network or component subscriber systems of the wireless network, and if the threshold impact exists, reconfiguring the wireless network to accommodate the new condition.
US09037142B2	Cell planning method for wireless communication systems A method for estimating how best to position a new cell within an existing overloaded cell that is running out of capacity in a wireless network so as to optimize the offloading of capacity from the overloaded cell includes: filtering call records to keep calls made during a selected capacity planning interval calls and performing one or more of sending data to the overloaded cell and receiving data from the overloaded cell; geo-locating the sending and receiving calls; calculating one or more resource utilization values for one or more geo-located sending and receiving calls; and determining coordinates for an optimum new cell location so as to optimize the offloading of capacity from the existing overloaded cell.
US09037138B2	Communications system A method performed by a home base station, the method includes registering with a gateway device, sending the gateway device data identifying whether or not the home base station includes an open access mode or a closed access mode home base station, receiving a request from a mobile communications device, transmitting a registration request for the mobile communications device to the gateway device, and receiving a registration accept message from the gateway device if registration of the mobile communication device is accepted.
US09037135B2	Method for handover of mobile terminal Disclosed herein is a method for handover of a mobile terminal. In the method, a group of mobile terminals for handover is formed by grouping a plurality of mobile terminals. A first terminal of the group scans a target base station. One or more other terminals of the group perform handover to the target base station using the scan information of the first terminal.
US09037134B2	Mobile devices with femto cell functionality Aspects describe communications environments in which femtocell capability is provided to devices within the communications network. A non-femto enabled device and/or a femto enabled device can communicate with a femto enabled device in the same geographical area for femto-enabled peer-to-peer communication. Two non-femto enabled devices can be provided femto functionality through utilization of a femto enabled device, which operates as a hub between the two devices. Other aspects relate to enhanced position determination, adaptive coverage enhancement, local mobile networks, open access femtocells without a backhaul, and local broadcast of media though utilization of femto enabled devices.
US09037133B2	Broadcast based proximity service to mobile device users A message broadcast from a radio frequency transceiver of a cell of a mobile communication network is based on a profile of a proximity service offered to users of mobile devices within the cell coverage area. The message includes information about the proximity service for prompting the users to respond to receive further communication regarding the proximity service. A user operates a mobile device to respond indicating a request to receive further communication regarding the proximity service. In some examples, upon receiving the response, an application server coupled to the network transmits service content as part providing the proximity service to the user. In other examples, if the service profile and a user profile are compatible so as to allow the direct communication, the application server sends instructions to enable direct communication between the mobile device and a proximity service server of the proximity service provider.
US09037130B2	Vehicle-mounted apparatus, method of controlling vehicle-mounted apparatus, and program A vehicle-mounted apparatus is mounted on a vehicle having a keyless entry unit which receives a signal instructing a keyless entry from a mobile terminal and performs a keyless entry process in response to the received signal. The vehicle-mounted apparatus includes; a communication unit which receives control information including manipulation information indicating manipulation content for controlling the vehicle-mounted apparatus and information specifying a mobile terminal, from the mobile terminal; a terminal determination unit which determines whether the mobile terminal which transmitted the control information is the mobile terminal used for the keyless entry; a manipulation acceptance determination unit which determines whether to accept manipulation specified by the manipulation information included in the control information received by the communication unit, according to the determination result of the terminal determination unit; and a processing unit which performs a process according to the determination of the manipulation acceptance determination unit.
US09037126B2	Method and apparatus for controlling response to service notifications in a network environment A method of providing content notifications to devices in a wireless communication system includes obtaining notification information regarding content available to a first group of mobile devices in a wireless network, generating a notification message comprising the notification information and an identifier associated with a second group of mobile devices that is a subset of the first group, and broadcasting the notification message over the network to cause mobile devices of the second group to retrieve the content over the network. The method also includes receiving content notifications in a wireless communication system, including receiving a notification message comprising notification information regarding content available to a first group of mobile devices and an identifier associated with a second group of devices, where the second group is a subset of the first group, and retrieving content from a network in response to being one of the second group of devices.
US09037125B1	Detecting driving with a wearable computing device A wearable computing device is described that detects an indication of movement associated with the wearable computing device when a user of the wearable computing device detected being located within a moving vehicle. Based at least in part on the indication of movement, a determination is made that the user of the wearable computing device is currently driving the moving vehicle. An operation is performed based on the determination that the user of the wearable computing device is currently driving the moving vehicle.
US09037124B1	Wireless device application interaction via external control detection Wireless device application interaction via external control detection comprises identifying a first position of a wireless device and identifying a first change in the wireless device's position. The method may also provide calculating a first distance vector. The method may also perform comparing the first distance vector to a first threshold distance and calculating a second distance vector based on a distance between the second position and a third position and comparing the second distance vector to a second threshold distance, and changing a current operating state of the wireless device to a different operating state if the first distance vector exceeds the first minimum distance and the second distance vector does not exceed the first maximum distance.
US09037118B2	Method of device authentication and application registration in a push communication framework A server system and a mobile device establish a push data framework for communication. The mobile device includes a push client, and runs one or more applications requiring push data communications. The push client transmits a device authentication and application validation request to a push server. Upon the push server successfully authenticating and validating the device and application, the push client receives a session identifier for establishing a persistent communication connection with the push server. Once established, an application server can push data to the mobile device via the persistent communication session. The session identifier remains valid for an extended period of time, and allows the push client to maintain and re-establish push connections with the push server for the duration of the extended period of time.
US09037117B2	Wireless communication terminal A wireless communication terminal includes a communication status measurement element for measuring communication status data representing a communication status of the self terminal at the time of wireless communications; a reference data storage element for storing respective pieces of preset reference data representing communication statuses of a terminal which can be measured at respective locations at the time of wireless communications, in association with respective pieces of location data identifying the respective locations, and a location specifying element for comparing the communication status data measured by the communication status measurement element with the respective pieces of reference data stored in the reference data storage element, and based on the comparison result, specifying a location corresponding to the location data associated with a particular piece of reference data as a location of the self terminal.
US09037111B2	Location aware authentication techniques Location aware authentication techniques are provided. A user pre-registers a mobile device and a geographical location with a location-based authentication service. When the user attempts to access a target resource from the mobile device, a current location for the mobile device is resolved and communicated to the location-based authentication service. If the mobile device is within a geographical range of the pre-registered geographical location, then the mobile device is automatically authenticated for access to the target resource via the location-based authentication service.
US09037108B1	Emergency assistance for mobile communication device user An automated emergency assistance computing system may be configured to receive and store registration information about a mobile communication device user that may need help in connection with an emergency, including information about the type of the emergency. The system may receive an emergency alert from a mobile communication device through a communication network which indicates that a user of the mobile communication device is experiencing an emergency, including information about the location of the emergency. An emergency help request may be issued for help relating to the emergency. The emergency help request may include information about the location of the emergency, about the type of the emergency, and about how to communicate with the automated emergency assistance computing system to obtain continuous real time information relating to the emergency.
US09037101B1	Switching power between power amplifier systems in a remote radio head system A remote radio head system (RRH) transmits first Radio-Frequency-signals (signals) at a first frequency-band (band) and second signals at a second band. The RRH receives and processes first control-data (data) to determine a first duty-cycle (cycle). In response to the first data and based on the first cycle, the RRH switches power between a first power amplifier system (PA) and a second PA and transmits the first signals at the first band through the first PA and transmits the second signals at the second band through the second PA. The RRH receives and processes second data to determine a second cycle. Responding to the second data and based on the second cycle, the RRH switches power between the first PA and the second PA and transmits the first signals at the first band through the first PA and transmits the second signals at the second band through the second PA.
US09037099B2	Techniques to manage channel prediction A system, apparatus, method and article to manage channel prediction for a wireless communication system are described. The apparatus may include a media access control processor to perform channel prediction, and a transceiver to communicate information using the channel prediction. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09037096B2	Reducing insertion loss in LNA bypass mode by using a single-pole-triple-throw switch in a RF front end module A microwave radio frequency (RF) front end module (FEM) having a low noise amplifier (LNA) with a bypass mode uses a single-pole-triple-throw RF switch that reduces insertion loss to about 1 dB and thereby improves RF receiver sensitivity over existing technology two series connected single-pole-double throw RF switches. The single-pole-triple-throw RF switch may be three metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) RF switches that may be arranged with a common source input and isolated independent drain outputs. The RF switches may be single, double or triple gate MOSFET RF switches. The MOSFET RF switches may also be configured as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field effect transistor (FET) RF switches.
US09037091B2	Transmission of channel quality data in wireless communication systems Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, data transmitted from a transmitter is received in a downlink channel, and channel quality data is fed back to the transmitter in a first uplink channel or in a second uplink channel. Channel quality data is feedback at a lower rate on the first uplink channel and channel quality data is feedback at a higher rate on the second uplink channel in the event there is a higher amount of data to be fed back. Link adaptation may be utilized to select a transmission rate on the second uplink channel, wherein the transmission rate is selected based at least in part on a channel condition or a user location.
US09037087B2	Systems and methods for providing one or more functionalities to a wearable computing device with directional antenna Computationally implemented methods and systems include receiving one or more signals through a directional antenna of a wearable computing device, the one or more signals having been transmitted by one or more electronic devices; determining that the one or more electronic devices are within a spatial pod surrounding the wearable computing device based, at least in part, on the one or more signals received by the wearable computing device; and obtaining at least access to one or more functionalities from the one or more electronic devices that were determined to be within the spatial pod of the wearable computing device. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.
US09037085B2	Method for sharing data between devices A method for data sharing between a first device and a second device is disclosed. The method includes steps of the first device detecting whether the second device is within a specific range; at least first one of the first device and the second device exchanging at least one spatial condition information through a communication channel if the second device is within the specific range; at least second one of the first device and the second device verifying whether the at least one spatial condition information matches a predefined condition; and the at least second one of the first device and the second device activating data sharing between the first device and the second device when the at least one spatial condition information matches the predefined condition.
US09037081B2	Communication device and car finder system A car finder system has a portable terminal that receives a preset operation performed thereon for wirelessly transmitting a preset car finder instruction. A communication device of the car finder system receives the preset car finder instruction from the portable device, and repeatedly transmits a preset car finder signal to an in-vehicle device, which is disposed in a vehicle. The in-vehicle device performs an external notification operation when it receives the preset car finder signal. The communication device ends the transmission of the preset car finder signal when a predetermined condition is met.
US09037078B2	Apparatus and methods for power control in satellite communications systems with satellite-linked terrestrial stations A signal power control loop is provided for a link between a terrestrial station and a terminal when the terminal and a satellite are linked via the terrestrial station. The signal power control loop may control transmitted signal power of the terminal and/or the terrestrial station. In some embodiments, the signal power control loop controls transmitted signal power of the terminal and/or the terrestrial station independent of signal power control for a link between the terrestrial station and the satellite.
US09037074B2	Method and system for monitoring and controlling a local collection facility from a remote facility through an IP network A method and system of collecting local television signals includes a local collection facility a plurality of primary receiver circuit modules comprising a first receiver circuit module. The first receiver circuit module receives and demodulates the first channel signal and forms an IP signal. A remote facility is spaced apart from the local collection facility and communicates with the local collection facility through an IP backhaul. A primary decoder within the remote facility is in communication with the IP backhaul and forms a decoded signal from the IP signal. A primary encoder within the remote facility in communication with the primary decoder forms a first encoded signal from the decoded signal. A multiplexer in the remote facility multiplexes the first encoded signal into a multiplexed signal. The multiplexed signal may provide an output signal used for uplinking or other type of distribution.
US09037072B2	Medium loader device and image formation apparatus A medium loader device includes a first medium loader member configured to load a medium, a second medium loader member usable as an extension of the first medium loader member, and a support member configured to support the first medium loader member and the second medium loader member and to form a storage area capable of storing the second medium loader member between the support member and the first medium loader member. The support member includes a holder configured to hold the first medium loader member such that the first medium loader member moves relative to the support member when the second medium loader member is moved from a usage position where the second medium loader member is used as the extension of the first medium loader member to a storage position where the second medium loader member is stored in the storage area.
US09037067B2	Image forming apparatus and process cartridge An image forming apparatus including at least a photoreceptor; and a cleaning blade formed of a strip-shaped elastic blade to contact an edge line to the surface of the photoreceptor, wherein the photoreceptor includes a surface layer comprising a particulate material, and the edge line of the cleaning blade includes a substrate of the elastic blade; a mixed layer having a thickness not less than 1.0 μm, formed of the substrate and at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located at the surface of the substrate; and a surface layer having a thickness not less than 0.1 μm, formed of at least one of an acrylic resin and a methacrylic resin, located on the surface of the substrate.
US09037062B2	Fixing member, heating apparatus and electrophotographic image forming apparatus A fixing member is provided which is excellent in durability and hardly undergoes the peeling of the surface layer even when used in a heating apparatus over a long term. The fixing member is an electrophotographic fixing member including a substrate, an elastic layer, an intermediate layer and a fluororesin-containing surface layer. The elastic layer includes a silicone rubber and sodium ions, and the intermediate layer includes an amino group-containing polysiloxane. The surface layer is formed by forming, on the intermediate layer, a primer layer including a copolymer, to which a phosphate group is bound, of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether), forming, on the primer layer, a coating film including the copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and perfluoro(alkyl vinyl ether) or a coating film including a copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and hexafluoropropylene, and melting the copolymer in the primer layer and the copolymer in the coating layer.
US09037061B2	Fixing apparatus A fixing apparatus includes a back-up member contacting an inner surface of a cylindrical belt; a roller having an elastic layer and contacting an outer surface of the belt, the roller being cooperative with the back-up member to form a fixing nip between the belt and the roller. A sheet carrying a toner image is nipped and fed through the fixing nip, during which the unfixed toner image is heat-fixed thereon by the fixing nip. The back-up member includes a portion contactable with the inner surface and having such a configuration that the belt forms a first curved surface convex toward the roller in an upstream region in the fixing nip with respect to a moving direction of the belt and that the belt forms a second curved surface convex toward the back-up member in a downstream region in the fixing nip with respect to the moving direction.
US09037048B2	Digital printer having an improved liquid developer supply system In a digital printer comprising a developer station using liquid developer, the developer station has an application unit via which liquid developer is transported to a charge image carrier. The supply system adjacent and lateral to the application unit supplies liquid developer to the application unit. A pre-chamber and an electrode segment are provided, the pre-chamber being filled with liquid developer and open towards the application unit. The pre-chamber is open at a top such that a compensation volume of liquid developer with an open surface is created past which the application unit passes. The electrode segment is arranged adjacent to the pre-chamber and to a side of the application unit such that it forms a gap with the application unit through which the liquid developer is directed, the electrode segment being at an electrical potential such that toner of the liquid developer transfers to the application unit in the gap.
US09037042B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes: a transfer unit that is detachably attachable to a housing of the image forming apparatus and includes: a transfer member configured to contact the image carrier; a movable frame that supports the transfer member and configured to rotate around a fulcrum shaft; a driving input member coaxially arranged with the fulcrum shaft and configured to connect to a first driving transmitting member, and a second driving transmitting member supported by the movable frame and configured to transmit a driving force inputted by the driving input member to the transfer member. The image forming apparatus further includes a contact/separation unit configured to press the transfer member against the image carrier and to separate the transfer member from the image carrier by moving the movable frame around the fulcrum shaft while the transfer unit is attached to the image forming apparatus.
US09037041B2	Image forming apparatus and transfer device having a rotatable door A transfer assembly includes a support member having a side wall that extends in such a direction as to intersect a line extending from the rotation axis of a transfer roller and that has a hole through which a support shaft is inserted with some play being present. The hole has such a shape that, at the beginning of a period when a door is rotated from an open state to a closed state and a positioned portion is in contact with a positioning member, gaps are formed between the support shaft and a wall surface of the hole on both sides of the support shaft in a radial direction crossing an arc that is drawn from a center of the arc at the center line of rotation of the door and that passes through the support shaft.
US09037039B2	Electrophotographic image forming apparatus An electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum; a cartridge including a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the cartridge containing a developer for effecting development and including a force receiving portion, wherein the cartridge is mounted to a main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus; and an urging member for urging the cartridge; wherein by mounting the cartridge, the force receiving portion receives a force from the urging member to urge the developing roller to the electrophotographic photosensitive drum.
US09037037B2	Pressing mechanism for a developing cartridge An image forming apparatus includes a main body; a process unit configured to be attached to and removed from the main body, the process unit being configured to integrally hold a plurality of image carriers arranged in a first direction; a plurality of developing cartridges provided in corresponding association with the image carriers, the developing cartridges configured to be attached to and removed from the process unit, each of the developing cartridges including a corresponding developer carrier, each of the developing cartridges being configured to supply developer to a corresponding image carrier; and a pressing mechanism provided in the main body, the pressing mechanism configured to press the developing cartridges, when attached to the process unit, in a direction that the developer carriers contact the image carriers.
US09037034B2	Image forming apparatus having exhaust treatment system An image forming apparatus having; a fusing unit that heats and presses a recording medium with an image transferred thereto, thereby fixing the image thereon; a first duct section in which air that contains emissions generated by the fusing unit flows; an ion generation unit provided away from the first duct section to generate ions; a second duct section in which air that contains the ions generated by the ion generation unit flows; a third duct section connected to the first and second duct sections, such that air flows in from the first and second duct sections, whereby the emissions are charged by the ions; a filter unit provided in the third duct section to trap the charged emissions; and a blowing unit that generates air flows from the connections with the first and second duct sections in the third duct section toward the filter unit.
US09037022B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and transfer method An image forming apparatus includes a transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image onto a recording medium; a power supply unit configured to output one of an alternating-current-based voltage including at least an alternating-current voltage and a direct-current voltage to the transfer unit; and a power supply control unit configured to cause the power supply unit to start switching to the alternating-current-based voltage a first time after the power supply unit stops outputting the direct-current voltage in the case that output of the power supply unit is switched to the alternating-current-based voltage, and cause the power supply unit to start switching to the direct-current voltage a second time after the power supply unit stops outputting the alternating-current-based voltage in the case that output of the power supply unit is switched to the direct-current voltage. The second time is longer than the first time.
US09037021B2	Image forming apparatus including a cleaning-bias controller An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member that bears a toner image; a transfer member that faces the image bearing member, nips a recording medium together with the image bearing member, and allows the recording medium to pass therebetween; a transfer-bias applying unit that applies transfer bias voltage to generate an electric field between the transfer member and the image bearing member; a cleaning member that is disposed in contact with the transfer member and removes toner from the transfer member; a cleaning-bias applying unit that applies cleaning bias voltage between the cleaning member and the transfer member; a transfer-toner-amount estimating unit that estimates an amount of toner to be transferred from the image bearing member to the transfer member when the recording medium does not pass therebetween; and a cleaning-bias controller that controls the cleaning bias voltage in correspondence with the estimated amount of toner.
US09037020B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a toner carrying member for carrying a toner; an image carrying member on which a toner image is formed with the toner; and a plurality of divided electrode portions provided at a position in which the electrode portions oppose the toner carrying member via the image carrying member interposed therebetween. The electrode portions are supplied with a voltage on the basis of image information to move the toner between the toner carrying member and the image carrying member thereby to form the toner image. The electrode portions includes a first electrode portion for forming an image portion and a second electrode portion, adjacent to the first electrode portion, for forming a non-image portion. The image forming apparatus further includes a controller for variably controlling at least one of potential differences \|Vp−Vt\| and \|Vt−V0\| depending on the image information, where a potential of the toner carrying member is Vt, a potential of the first electrode portion is Vp and a potential of the second electrode portion is V0.
US09037017B2	Image forming apparatus capable of controlling density of image and control method therefor An image forming apparatus which reduces downtime by starting image density detection without waiting for identification of the same position on a rotary member. A detection unit detects a surface condition of a rotary member on which a toner image on a photosensitive drum is transferred. An identifying unit matches first data detected by the detection unit on a reference point on the surface of the rotary member and second data detected by the detection unit after obtainment of the first data to identify the reference point. A control unit controls image density based on a detection result obtained by the detection unit on a base of the rotary member corresponding to a range where a measurement image is formed and an obtained detection result on the measurement image by referring to the reference point identified as a reference.
US09037016B2	Apparatus for forming image according to image formation condition An image forming apparatus adjusts a gamma-LUT of a gamma correction circuit in accordance with density data on a measurement image formed on a photosensitive drum. A CPU selects a conversion table in association with the image formation condition such as laser power of a semiconductor laser, fixing temperature of a fixing device, or a charge in a developer. A luminance/density converting portion converts luminance data on the measurement image into density data using the conversion table selected by the CPU. The CPU adjusts a contrast potential and a gamma-LUT using this density data.
US09037012B2	Image forming apparatus A control portion controls a drive of rotation of an image carrier and registers a second index with a first index passing through a transfer position at real time at the time of image formation. Before starting the image formation, the toner image forming portion is controlled to adjust misalignment between the first index and the second index. Accordingly, the second index is formed at a position on the image carrier which is registered with the first index in advance, so that a large amount of control for compensating a large amount of phase misalignment is no longer necessary.
US09037007B2	Image forming apparatus and toner remaining amount control method A dot-count calculation section counts the number of dots that are printed, and calculates an amount of toner consumed in a developing device (toner consumption amount). A toner supply amount calculation section calculates an amount of toner supplied to the developing device by the toner supply mechanism (toner supply amount). A cumulative toner supply amount holding section holds a cumulative toner supply amount. A correction toner supply amount calculation section calculates a used amount of the toner in the toner case (correction toner supply amount), based on the toner consumption amount and the toner supply amount. A cumulative toner supply amount updating section adds the correction toner supply amount and the cumulative toner supply amount, and stores a value resulting from the addition in the cumulative toner supply amount holding section, as a new cumulative toner supply amount.
US09036994B2	Method of optical interconnection of data-processing cores on a chip The invention provides optical interconnects of data-processing cores of multicore chips by means of digital planar holographic microchips. The method comprises delivering “N” laser lights to “N” data-processing cores on the host chip, coding the obtained optical signals by modulating them with the core-generated data, and then delivering the modulated and coded optical signals to a holographic microchip formed on the same substrate of the host chip as the data-processing cores, splitting the modulated and coded optical signals into (N−1)N modulated optical copy signals, delivering the copy signals to all data-processing cores except the one that generates the copy signals, and decoding the data obtained from the output signals delivered to the processing cores by the receivers. The method is efficient in that it allows replacing electrical interconnects between the cores with optical interconnects and can be matched to current semiconductor production technology.
US09036990B2	Redundancy and interoperability in multi-channel optoelectronic devices A multi-channel optoelectronic device is configured to establish a redundant status link with a remote device. The optoelectronic device can transmit N transmit optical signals to the remote device over a plurality of transmit channels and receive N receive optical signals from the remote device over a plurality of receive channels. The optoelectronic device includes one or more spare transmit and receive channels. When used with a remote device having spare transmit and receive channels, each device can establish a status link with the other and use the status link to switch out transmit and/or receive channels to identify and permanently switch out the worst transmit and/or receive channels. Alternately, the device can interoperate with a non-status-link enabled remote device by determining that the remote device is not status-link enabled, transitioning to a low transmit power mode, and transmitting and receiving over a plurality of default transmit and receive channels.
US09036986B2	Heater A heater comprising a housing including an intake aperture and an output aperture. The heater includes a heat exchanger operatively disposed within the housing between the intake aperture and the output aperture. The heat exchanger includes a shell forming a cavity therein, wherein an interior surface of the shell is substantially black in the infrared domain. The heater includes an infrared emission module disposed within the cavity of the heat exchanger and substantially enclosed thereby such that emitted infrared light does not escape therefrom. The infrared emission module includes a first infrared emitter and a second infrared emitter. The heater includes a fan positioned to motivate air into the housing through the intake aperture, across the heat exchanger, and out of the output aperture. The heater also includes a power module functionally coupled to the infrared emission module and the fan and configured to provide operational power thereto.
US09036979B2	Determining a position in media content based on a name information In an embodiment, the playing of an advertisement may be detected by identifying the persons associated with the faces in the advertisement portion of the media content and determining that the identified persons are not actors listed for the media content. In an embodiment, the advertisement may be enhanced with additional content pertaining to the product or service being advertised. In an embodiment, the advertisement may be automatically fast-forwarded, muted, or replaced with an alternate advertisement. In an embodiment, only a non-advertisement portion of the media content may be recorded by skipping over the detected advertisement portion of the media content.
US09036960B2	Photonic via waveguide for pixel arrays Light guiding structures are provided to improve the light coupling between photonic active devices and the top of a metallization layer stack interconnecting these photonic active devices. Each light guiding structure comprises a hole extending between the near surface of the photonic active devices and the top surface of the metallization layer stack, said hole being filled with dielectrics or a combination of dielectrics and metals. Such a light guiding structure removes from the optical path of light rays, the interfaces between the metallization layers, thereby confining light laterally and enabling interconnects with increased thickness and more levels of metal. This results in the suppression of multiple reflections and optical crosstalk. The light guiding structures can have cross-section diagonals with sub-wavelength dimensions can be fabricated after all CMOS process steps, thus having minimal interference and maximal compatibility with CMOS processing.
US09036958B2	Optical component In an optical component, a part of a waveguide type optical device is fixed to a convex portion of a mount. The optical component includes an optical device support base, a pressure member and a pressure support base. The optical device support base is interposed between the mount and the presser member enough to be slidable in a direction parallel to surfaces of the mount and the presser member.
US09036956B2	Method of fabricating a polymer waveguide A method of fabricating a waveguide device is disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate having an elector-interconnection region and a waveguide region and forming a patterned dielectric layer and a patterned redistribution layer (RDL) over the substrate in the electro-interconnection region. The method also includes bonding the patterned RDL to a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) through a bonding stack. A reflecting-mirror trench is formed in the substrate in the waveguide region, and a reflecting layer is formed over a reflecting-mirror region inside the waveguide region. The method further includes forming and patterning a bottom cladding layer in a wave-tunnel region inside the waveguide region and forming and patterning a core layer and a top cladding layer in the waveguide region.
US09036954B2	Optical waveguide structure Embodiments of the invention describe a multi-segment optical waveguide that enables an optical modulator to be low-power and athermal by decreasing the device length needed for a given waveguide length. Embodiments of the invention describe an optical waveguide that is folded onto itself, and thus includes at least two sections. Thus, embodiments of the invention may decrease the device size of a modulator by at least around a factor of two if the device is folded twofold (device size may be further reduced if the modulator is folded threefold, four-fold, five-fold, etc.).Embodiments of the invention further enable the electrode length required to create the desired electro-optic effect for the multi-segment optical waveguide to be reduced. In embodiments of the invention, certain electrodes may be “shared” amongst the different segments of the waveguide, thereby reducing the power requirement and capacitance of a device having a waveguide of a given length.
US09036950B2	Autogenerating video from text A method of converting user-selected printed text to a synthesized image sequence is provided. The method includes capturing a first image of printed text and generating a model information associated with the text.
US09036949B2	Object information derived from object images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
US09036948B2	Image capture and identification system and process A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.
US09036945B2	Medical image handling system and method A medical image handling system includes a monitor for displaying a medical image, an input device for inputting an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and a processor. The processor judges the presence or absence of an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and restricts a change of the medical image in a case where the image reading report is judged as being absent.
US09036943B1	Cloud-based image improvement Approaches are described for managing the processing of image or video data captured by a portable computing device. The device provides a set of images to a remote server executing “in the cloud”. The set of images can include a reference image and at least one other image captured subsequent or prior to the reference. Upon receiving the set of images at the remote server operating, the remote server can process the images to determine a similarity between the reference image and each of the other images. Thereafter, each image having a similarity value above a similarity value threshold can be aligned with the reference image, and the pixel values for corresponding locations in each of the images can be combined to create a processed image. The processed images can be provided to the computing device from the remote server, where the user can decide to accept or discard the image.
US09036929B2	Method and apparatus for high resolution decoding of encoded symbols A method for scanning and decoding encoded symbols comprises processing low resolution image data from a full field of view and/or high resolution image data from one or more windowed segments of the field of view to provide imaging that is easily adaptable to different types of symbols and varying environmental conditions. The scanning method can be switched between the low resolution mode and the high resolution mode automatically based on whether the low resolution data is sufficiently accurate to decode the symbol.
US09036923B2	Age estimation apparatus, age estimation method, and age estimation program Provided are an age estimation apparatus, an age estimation method, and an age estimation program capable of obtaining a recognition result closely matching the result perceived by human. An age estimation apparatus 10 for estimating an age of a person on image data includes a dimension compressor 11 for applying dimension compression to the image data to output low dimensional data; and an identification device 12 for estimating an age of a person on the basis of a learning result using a feature amount contained in the low dimensional data, wherein a parameter used for the dimension compression by the dimension compressor 11 and the feature amount used for age estimation by the identification device 12 are set on the basis of a result of an evaluation of a generalization capability using a weighting function that shows a degree of seriousness of an age estimation error for every age, and learning of the identification device 12 is performed on the basis of the weighting function.
US09036922B2	Image classification program, image classification device, and electronic camera An image classification program that is executed by a computer includes a first processing step of calculating feature values on the basis of the pixel densities of images, a second processing step of performing calculating in a space defined by the feature values, and a third processing step of grouping images that correspond to feature values that have been divided by the clustering.
US09036912B2	Method, system, digital camera and asic for geometric image transformation based on text line searching The present invention provides a method, system and/or a digital camera providing a geometrical transformation of deformed images of documents comprising text, by text line tracking, resulting in an image comprising parallel text lines. The transformed image is provided as an input to an OCR program either running in a computer system or in a processing element comprised in said digital camera.
US09036907B2	Method and apparatus for extracting depth edges from images acquired of scenes by cameras with ring flashes forming hue circles A set of images is acquired of a scene while illuminating the scene with a set of colors with different hues. The set of colors is generated by a set of light sources arranged in a substantial circular manner around a lens of a camera to form a hue circle, wherein each light source emits a different color. A shadow confidence map is generated from the set of images by using hues and saturations of pixels in the set of images. Then, depth edges are extracted from the shadow confidence map.
US09036906B2	Method and apparatus for image segmentation A method and an apparatus for multi-label segmentation of an image are described. In a first step user defined labels are determined for one or more pixels of the image. Then a fraction of the pixels of the image for which no user defined label is determined is pre-initialized. Finally, a cellular automaton-based segmentation of the image is performed using the user defined labels and the pre-initialized pixels.
US09036899B2	Method for quantifying local bone changes A method and system for volumetric quantification of local bone changes includes the steps of loading at least a first and second (cone-beam) computed tomography three dimensional image, registering the first three dimensional image and second three dimensional image to one coordinate system, selecting a region of interest in one of the first three dimensional image or the second three dimensional image. For the first three dimensional image and the second three dimensional image, segmenting the local bone within the region of interest by segmenting voxels related to air and/or soft tissues within the region of interest and attributing these voxels to an outside region, while the volume formed by the remaining volume represent the local bone or the local bone with soft tissue, and calculating of the volume of local bone in the first three dimensional image and the volume of local bone in the second three dimensional image and subtracting the first volume from the second volume and defining the difference as the local bone change or the change in local bone with soft tissue.
US09036878B2	Method for delineation of tissue lesions The present invention relates to a method for estimating a measure of a penumbra size of a penumbra in biological tissue wherein first and second images obtained respectively by perfusion weighted imaging (PWI) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) are analyzed, and wherein the analysis of the first image includes application of a level set method, and the analysis of the second image includes application of a grayscale morphological operation. In a further embodiment of the invention, a connected component labeling algorithm maybe applied on any one of the first and second image. The invention further relates to a system, a computer program product and use of a corresponding method.
US09036866B2	Image-based occupancy sensor An image-based occupancy sensor includes a motion detection module that receives and processes an image signal to generate a motion detection signal, a people detection module that receives the image signal and processes the image signal to generate a people detection signal, a face detection module that receives the image signal and processes the image signal to generate a face detection signal, and a sensor integration module that receives the motion detection signal from the motion detection module, receives the people detection signal from the people detection module, receives the face detection signal from the face detection module, and generates an occupancy signal using the motion detection signal, the people detection signal, and the face detection signal, with the occupancy signal indicating vacancy or occupancy, with an occupancy indication specifying that one or more people are detected within the monitored volume.
US09036862B2	Object information derived from object images Search terms are derived automatically from images captured by a camera equipped cell phone, PDA, or other image capturing device, submitted to a search engine to obtain information of interest, and at least a portion of the resulting information is transmitted back locally to, or nearby, the device that captured the image.
US09036857B2	Garnish double ring for speaker seal An adaptive speaker panel is provided. The speaker panel can have a speaker opening and a pair of concentric sealing ribs proximate to the speaker opening, the pair of sealing ribs having a first sealing rib and a second sealing rib towards a center of the speaker opening from the first sealing rib. The first sealing rib is first sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a first speaker basket and the second sealing rib dimensioned to seal against a second speaker basket that is smaller than the first speaker basket. Also, the first sealing rib and the second sealing rib are operatively arranged such that without modification to the speaker panel the first speaker basket or the second speaker basket can be attached to and sealed against the panel.
US09036849B2	Headset with stowable boom A headset comprises a headband for supporting the headset on a user's head, an earpiece including an audio driver and a microphone boom including a microphone. The microphone boom is rotatable when the headset is located on a user's head from an operative position in which the microphone boom is directed towards the user's mouth to a stowed position in which the microphone boom is at least partially received in a recess defined in the headset.
US09036839B2	Multi-way coaxial loudspeaker with magnetic cylinder A coaxial loudspeaker includes a permanent magnet positioned between a generally coaxially aligned first transducer having an associated permanent magnet and second transducer having an associated permanent magnet. In one embodiment, a magnetic cylinder is positioned between a woofer and a tweeter of a coaxial multi-way loudspeaker. An optional support structure, such as a plastic cylinder, may encompass the permanent magnet to enhance structural characteristics of the assembly. The woofer may include an external ceramic magnet extending around a center pole of the woofer.
US09036834B2	Audio signal processing apparatus An audio signal processing apparatus performs audio signal process composed of a plurality of channels each having parameters used in the audio signal process. The audio signal processing apparatus has a plurality of channel strips, each channel strip being assigned with a channel and being provided with manipulators for adjusting values of the parameters of the assigned channel. There are provided a plurality of storing sections having different priorities relative to each other, each storing section being capable of storing a setting indicative of a channel set to a channel strip for assignment thereto. A changing section changes the settings stored in the storing sections. An assigning section is activated when the setting stored in one of the plurality of the storing sections is changed by the changing section, then refers to all of the storing sections that currently store the settings for a channel strip, and assigns a channel to the channel strip according to the setting stored in a storing section having the highest priority among the storing sections referred to by the assigning section.
US09036833B2	External ear canal voice detection Ear-level full duplex audio communication systems each include one or two ear attachment devices, such as in-the-ear (ITE) or behind-the-ear (BTE) devices, that wirelessly communicates to a remote device such as a computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular phone, a walkie talkie, or a language translator. When used as a hearing aid, such a system allows a hearing impaired individual to communicate with or through the remote device, such as to talk to another person through a cellular phone. When being used as an ear piece wirelessly extended from the remote device, such system allows an individual with normal hearing to privately communicate with or through the remote device without the need of holding the device or wearing any device wired to the remote device. Each ear attachment device includes a voice operated exchange (VOX), housed within the device, to preserve energy and hence, maximize the period between battery replacement or recharges. The VOX also gates various sounds detected by the system to control possible echoes and ringing.
US09036831B2	Amplification system, carrier tracking systems and related methods for use in parametric sound systems A signal processing system for generating an ultrasonic signal from an audio signal comprises a compressor, operable to compress the audio signal, and an equalization circuit, operable to equalize the audio signal. A modulation circuit is operable to combine the audio signal with a carrier signal to produce at least one modulated carrier signal. A voltage detection and control circuit is operable to: detect a voltage of the modulated carrier signal; compare the detected voltage of the modulated carrier signal to a desired voltage; and cause the voltage of the modulated carrier signal to be adjusted if the compared voltage differs by a predetermined amount from the desired voltage.
US09036830B2	Noise gate, sound collection device, and noise removing method A purpose of the invention is to provide a noise gate that can output an audio signal in which only a stationary noise is removed, without degrading an utterance voice of a speaking person. A sound collection device 1 includes an FFT processing unit 11, the noise gate 12, and an IFFT processing unit 13. The sound collection device 1 transforms a collected audio signal NET into a frequency spectrum NE′N by using the FFT processing unit 11. The noise gate 12 estimates a noise spectrum N′N of a stationary noise based on the frequency spectrum NE′N of the audio signal. The noise gate 12 decreases a signal level (a gain) of the audio signal in a case where a signal level ratio of the frequency spectrum NE′N of the audio signal to the noise spectrum N′N is less than a threshold value, and outputs the audio signal. The sound collection device 1 outputs an audio signal CO′T which is generated in such a manner that the IFFT processing unit 13 inversely transforms a frequency spectrum CO′N after removing the stationary noise N′N.
US09036828B2	Method for outputting music information in a vehicle In a method for outputting music information in a vehicle by way of an audio system having loudspeakers in the front area and rear area of the vehicle, the behavior of the vehicle is determined by use of an acceleration sensor responding to longitudinal accelerations. The loudspeakers arranged in the direction of the respective acceleration are at least preferably activated.
US09036823B2	Method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using monaural audio signals The present application provides method and apparatus for a binaural hearing assistance system using a monaural audio signal input. The system, in various examples, provides adjustable delay/phase adjustment and sound level adjustment. Different embodiments are provided for receiving the monaural signal and distributing it to a plurality of hearing assistance devices. Different relaying modes are provided. Special functions are supported, such as telecoil functions. The system also has examples that account for a head-related transfer function in providing advanced sound processing for the wearer. Other examples are provided that are described in the detailed description.
US09036822B1	Methods for managing user information and devices thereof A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and application manager computing device comprises obtaining at least one cryptographic key from a request by a client computing device for a user session. User information corresponding to a user is encrypted or decrypted using the cryptographic key. The request is authenticated based on encryption or decryption of the user information. The cryptographic key is deleted after the completion or termination of the user session.
US09036821B2	Method and system for enhancing cryptographic capabilities of a wireless device using broadcasted random noise A secret stream of bits begins by receiving a public random stream contained in a wireless communication signal at a transmit/receive unit. The public random stream is sampled and specific bits are extracted according to a shared common secret. These extracted bits are used to create a longer secret stream. The shared common secret may be generated using JRNSO techniques, or provided to the transmit/receive units prior to the communication session. Alternatively, one of the transmit/receive unit is assumed to be more powerful than any potential eavesdropper. In this situation, the powerful transmit/receive unit may broadcast and store a public random stream. The weaker transmit/receive unit selects select random bits of the broadcast for creating a key. The weaker transmit/receive unit sends the powerful transmit/receive unit the selected bit numbers, and powerful transmit/receive unit uses the random numbers to produce the key created by the weaker transmit/receive unit.
US09036819B2	Broadcast receiving apparatus and control method thereof The present invention provides a broadcast receiving apparatus that receives a broadcast wave containing multiple channels. The apparatus comprises, among other things, a selecting unit that selects a channel from the broadcast wave; a determination unit that determines, for all channels that can be selected by the selecting unit, whether or not the obtaining unit can obtain an encrypted second-type encryption key that can be decrypted by the decrypting unit using the updated first-type encryption key; and an updating unit that updates the computer program stored in the memory to the updated program in the case where the determination unit has determined that the obtainment is possible for all the channels.
US09036811B1	Dialing a telephone number subject to an autodialer prohibition in a contact center A contact center dialing a telephone number to a destination party, such as a debtor, may discover that the number is subject to a prohibition of being autodialed. In other embodiments, a number that was subject to the prohibition of being autodialed is now discovered to no longer be subject to such prohibition. Various mechanisms may be defined to indicate how such a prohibition associated with the number may be indicated in a dialing list and how various contact center architectures may be used to process the dialing list. In one embodiment, separate sub-systems are used to dial separate dialing lists based on whether the number is to be manually dialed or dialed using an autodialer. In another embodiment, another architecture is used to process an integrated dialing list to determine whether a number is to be manually dialed or autodialed.
US09036794B2	Messaging system and method for providing information to a user device Disclosed is a messaging system that provides additional information to a user device after determining the content of at least some of a message. The messaging system includes a speech to X conversion module which retrieves the additional information based on the content. An input-output module then transmits the message and the additional information to the user device.
US09036791B2	Telephone system having alert module One telephone system embodiment having an alert module includes a base unit and at least one handheld unit. The base unit has a processor in data communication with a telephone network interface, a radio receiver, a first local transmitter, a first local receiver, and a first computer memory having a first program. The handheld unit has a processor in data communication with a second local receiver, a second local transmitter, a microphone, a speaker, and a second computer memory having a second program. At least one of the first and second programs includes instructions for passing signals between a telephone network on one end and the microphone and the speaker on another end. At least one of the first and second programs includes instructions for presenting an emergency warning through the speaker upon receipt of alert data from an emergency broadcast radio transmitter.
US09036775B2	X-ray photography apparatus An X-ray photography apparatus including: a turning arm that supports an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector which are opposed to each other so that the head of a patient can be interposed therebetween, and a moving mechanism that includes a turning part and a moving part. The turning part turns the turning arm about a turning axis with respect to the head. The moving part moves the turning arm relative to the head in a direction perpendicular to the turning axis. The X-ray photography apparatus also includes: an image processor that generates an X-ray image, a photographic region designation part that designates part of a row of teeth along a dental arch as a pseudo intraoral radiography region, and an X-ray forming mechanism that changes the irradiation direction in which the head is irradiated with an X-ray relative to the axial direction of the body axis of the patient.
US09036773B2	Method for X-ray phase contrast and dark-field imaging using an arrangement of gratings in planar geometry An X-ray arrangement is suitable to record absorption, phase contrast, and dark field images of an object. The visibility of low absorbing specimens is improved and required radiation dose is reduced. The assembly includes an X-ray source; two or more gratings; a position-sensitive detector with spatially modulated detection sensitivity; a recorder for recording the images; an evaluator for evaluating the intensities for each pixel to identify the characteristic of the object for each individual pixel as an absorption and/or a differential phase contrast and/or an x-ray scattering dominated pixel. Images are collected by rotating from 0 to n or 2n either the sample or the assembly. The gratings are produced with planar geometry. The X-rays pass through the gratings parallel to the substrate. The grating structures extend along the X-ray path which determines the phase shift. The attenuation of the X-rays caused by the grating structures is no longer given by the thickness, but by the length of the grating structures.
US09036768B2	Method, arrangement, and computer program product for efficient production of tomographic images A method is provided for constructing a tomographic reconstruction through the application of statistical inversion. Unknowns associated with points of a reconstruction grid are represented with components of a vector-valued variable. A next version of the vector-valued variable is repeatedly created by drawing for each component a value from a conditional distribution. The components of a so generated version of the vector-valued variable are used as the tomographic reconstruction. The components are divided into sets, so that components in a set represent unknowns associated with mutually independent points of the reconstruction grid, or into independent collections. For at least two components of a set or at least two collections, the drawing of values from a conditional distribution is performed in parallel in a computer-implemented process.
US09036766B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device which shifts a low-level signal is provided. In an example, a first transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a first wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a second wiring, a second transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to the second wiring, a third transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fourth wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the second transistor, a fourth transistor including a first terminal electrically connected to a fifth wiring, a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor, and a gate electrically connected to a sixth wiring, and a first switch including a first terminal electrically connected to the third wiring and a second terminal electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor are included.
US09036765B2	Method and system for inertial confinement fusion reactions Disclosed is a system for extracting energy from inertial confinement fusion reactions, which includes a central target chamber for receiving fusion target material. A plurality of energy drivers are arranged around the target chamber so as to supply energy to fusion target material in the chamber to initiate an inertial confinement fusion reaction of the material, releasing energy in the forms of fusion plasma and heat. A plurality of structures for extracting energy from the fusion reaction are provided, and comprise devices to extract high voltage DC energy from the fusion plasma, and means to extract thermal energy from the central target chamber. Power to the energy drivers may be supplied from high voltage DC energy extracted from the fusion reactions. The energy drivers may use an apodizing filter to impart a desired shape to the wavefront of the driving energy for causing the fusion reactions, to avoid hydrodynamic instabilities.
US09036760B2	Receiving apparatus and method for detecting the number of bits of the same value in a received bit stream An edge interval measuring block measures a first same-edge interval. A bit number detector detects the number of bits in the first same-edge interval based on reference bit length information and detects a first number of bits in a same-value interval between consecutive bits of the same value by subtracting the number of bits in the known bit stream from the number of bits in the first same-edge interval. The edge interval measuring block then measures a second same-edge interval. The bit number detector detects the number of bits in the second same-edge interval based on the reference bit length information and detects a second number of bits in a bit stream of consecutive bits of the same value opposite to the value in the same-value interval by subtracting the first number of bits from the number of bits in the second same-edge interval.
US09036757B1	Post-cursor locking point adjustment for clock data recovery Embodiments include systems and methods for applying post-cursor locking point adjustment to an at-rate clock data recovery (CDR) system. Some embodiments operate in context of a CDR circuit of a serializer/deserializer (SERDES). In one embodiment, a training routine is used to determine an optimal post-cursor target level. Increasing or decreasing the post-cursor target level can cause the CDR clocking to shift right or left, which can be seen as a shift of the channel impulse response with respect to the CDR sampling locations. In some implementations, the post-cursor can be locked to the determined target level. In other implementations, the determined target level can be compared to a fully-adapted post-cursor to tune adaptations performed by transmitter and/or receiver equalizers.
US09036752B2	Low-delay filtering A method of frequency-domain filtering is provided that includes a plurality of filters, the plurality of filters including at least one constrained filter(s) W=I, I and at least one unconstrained filter(s) W=1,K− The method includes cascading the W k=i,K unconstrained filter(s). A single constraint window C is applied to the cascaded W=i,K unconstrained filter(s). The W=1,I constrained filter(s) are cascaded with the constrained cascaded Wk=1,K unconstrained filter(s) to form a resulting filter Wll=C(W 1{circle around (x)} . . . {circle around (x)} W){circle around (x)} W . . . W. The frequency domain representation of the single constraint window C may be based, at least in part, on a time domain representation of a single constraint window C that has been circularly shifted such that the frequency domain representation of the constraint window matches a property of the frequency domain representation of the cascaded W=1,K unconstrained filters.
US09036732B2	Modeling transmitter and/or transmit observation receiver frequency response and utilization thereof Systems and methods for training, or calibrating, a model of a frequency response of a transmitter and/or a model of a frequency response of a transmit observation receiver coupled to an output of the transmitter are disclosed. In one embodiment, in order to train a model of the frequency response of the transmitter and/or a model of the frequency response of the transmit observation receiver, a nonlinear component is connected between an output of the transmitter and an input of the transmit observation receiver. A combined model for the frequency response of the transmitter, a nonlinear characteristic of the nonlinear component, and the frequency response of the transmit observation receiver is then trained. Preferably, once the combined model is trained, the nonlinear component is disconnected for normal operation of the transmitter and the transmit observation receiver.
US09036731B2	Apparatuses, systems, and methods for reducing spurious emissions resulting from carrier leakage An exemplary apparatus includes a modulator configured to modulate a data signal onto a carrier signal to generate a modulated signal having a transmit frequency within a predefined frequency range adjacent to and within a boundary of an uplink frequency band, a filter configured to at least partially remove a carrier frequency component from the modulated signal to produce a filtered modulated signal, and an antenna configured to transmit the filtered modulated signal.
US09036727B2	Method of generating a codebook A precoding codebook matrix/vector of length 2L is generated by the selection of two matrices/vectors, each from one of a predetermined set of L×L matrices and multiplying each column of one of the matrices/vectors by a complex coefficient.
US09036724B2	Data signal correction circuit, receiver, and data signal correction method A data signal correction circuit includes a channel characteristic calculator unit configured to calculate a channel characteristic estimate value of a received data signal on the basis of a pilot signal, a path detector unit configured to determine a delay quantity of multipath propagation of the received data signal on the basis of the calculated channel characteristic estimate value, and an adaptive filter configured to receive the delay quantity and the channel characteristic estimate value as input items, adjust an input interval of the channel characteristic estimate value along a carrier frequency axis in accordance with the delay quantity, and perform adaptive equalization on the channel characteristic estimate value inputted to the adaptive filter at the adjusted input interval.
US09036718B2	Low speed access to DRAM Embodiments provide access to a memory over a high speed serial link at slower speeds than the high speed serial links regular operation. An embodiment may comprise a memory apparatus with a differential receiver coupled to a protocol recognition circuit, a low speed receiving circuit that has a first receiver coupled with a first input of the differential receiver and a second receiver coupled with a second input of the differential receiver, wherein the low speed receiving circuit is coupled with the protocol recognition circuit, allowing the first and second receivers to access the protocol recognition block at a different frequency than the differential receiver.
US09036715B2	Video coding In a method and apparatus for encoding an input video bitstream to produce an encoded output bitstream, a base stream is enhanced based on enhancement control parameters. At least one picture content parameter is extracted from the enhanced base stream. At least one picture content parameter is extracted from the input video bitstream. The enhanced picture content parameters are compared with the input picture content parameters. An output from the comparison step is received and the enhancement control parameters are calculated so as to minimize the difference between the input picture content parameters and the enhanced picture content parameters. The calculated control parameters are incorporated into the encoded output bitstream.
US09036710B2	Unified transform coefficient encoding and decoding Methods and devices for reconstructing coefficient levels from a bitstream of encoded video data for a coefficient group in a transform unit, using adaptive-threshold-based level coding. Threshold is set based upon level information from one or more previously-reconstructed coefficient groups in the transform unit. Threshold may be maximum number of level flags to decode for the coefficient group. Level information may include number of level flags decoded in previous coefficient groups. Previously-reconstructed coefficient groups may include coefficient group to the right and below the current coefficient group.
US09036706B2	Fractional pixel interpolation filter for video compression In one embodiment, a method for encoding or decoding video content is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of full-pel pixel values. A set of coefficients is determined for an interpolation filter to interpolate a sub-pel pixel value for a motion compensation operation. Different coefficients are assigned to weight the plurality of full-pel pixel values in different operations in the interpolation filter. The sub-pel pixel values from the different operations are determined. Then, the method outputs the interpolated sub-pel pixel value for use in the motion compensation operation.
US09036705B2	Technique for bringing encoded data items into conformity with a scalable coding protocol A technique for making media content in the form of encoded data items decodable by a decoder operating in accordance with a scalable coding protocol that defines two or more media layers is provided. A method implementation of this technique comprises the steps of generating one or more dummy data items that define a first media layer of the scalable coding protocol, and marking the encoded data items as belonging, to a second media layer of the scalable coding protocol.
US09036704B2	Image decoding method using intra prediction mode An image decoding method is provided which includes reconstructing an intra prediction mode group indicator and a prediction mode index of a current block, constructing a first group using valid intra prediction modes of left and top blocks, and determining the intra prediction mode corresponding to the prediction mode index and the intra prediction mode group indicator. Therefore, by causing the first group to include modes having a high possibility of being equal to the prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the valid intra prediction modes of the left and top blocks of the current block and determining the intra prediction mode group indicator and the prediction mode index to be encoded using the first group, it is possible to reduce an amount of information of the intra prediction mode to be encoded.
US09036703B2	Method and apparatus for encoding video, and method and apparatus for decoding video An apparatus of decoding image includes an entropy decoder which extracts information that indicates an intra prediction mode applied to a current block to be decoded, from a bitstream, a reference pixel determining unit which determines one of neighboring pixels adjacent to the current block and filtered neighboring pixels filtered from the neighboring pixels as reference pixels, based on at least one of a size of the current block and an intra prediction mode of the current block, and an intra prediction performing unit which performs intra prediction on the current block using the extracted information and the determined reference pixels.
US09036700B2	Simulcast of stereoviews for 3D TV A three-dimensional (3D) video encoder includes a first encoder, a second encoder, and a multiplexer. The first encoder is configured to encode a base view to form a first independently compressed video stream associated with video content. The second encoder is configured to encode a nonbase view to form a second independently compressed video stream associated with the video content. The multiplexer is configured to multiplex the first and second independently compressed video streams associated with the video content to form a transport stream. The transport stream is operable to be processed to render a 3D video using the base and nonbase views.
US09036694B2	Adaptive QAM transmission scheme to improve performance on an AWGN channel A cable transmitter supports a number of low density parity check (LDPC) coding rates, e.g., ¼, ⅓, ⅖, ½, ⅗, ⅔, ¾, ⅘, ⅚, 8/9 and 9/10; and supports a number of quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) schemes, e.g., 4-QAM, 16-QAM, 64-QAM, 256-QAM, 1024-QAM or higher. For a selected modulation scheme, the cable transmitter selects between using a non-uniform symbol constellation or a uniform symbol constellation as a function of a selected coding rate.
US09036691B2	RF signal generating circuit, and transmitter An RF signal generating circuit that generates, from a digital signal, an RF pulse signal to be radio-transmitted. It includes a polar converter generating an amplitude signal and a phase signal from the digital signal; a signal decomposer receiving the amplitude signal as an input signal, and generates two signals, a pulse width control signal and a residual signal; a delta sigma modulator subjecting the residual signal to delta-sigma modulation; a pulse width modulator subjecting the phase signal to pulse modulation in accordance with the pulse width control signal, and outputting a pulse phase signal; and a mixer that mixes a signal output from the delta sigma modulator and the pulse phase signal to output the RF pulse signal. The signal decomposer generates the pulse width control and residual signals if a product of a fundamental wave component of the pulse phase and residual signals equals the amplitude signal.
US09036681B2	Method, apparatus and computer program for controlling a receiver Linear symbol level equalisation is used to estimate a transmitted symbol vector xn(0) in an nth observation window yn of signals received from multiple users each using a different spreading code. An iterative conjugate gradient algorithm resolves a column vector z that satisfies Az=b, A being a square matrix and b being a column vector. The matrix vector product Apk used in each respective kth iteration of the algorithm is computed using at least one fast transform. The receiver or detector estimates a posterior mean {circumflex over (x)}LMMSE,n(0) from the computed column vector z, then utilises the estimated posterior mean to determine the transmitted symbol vector xn(0). The posterior mean {circumflex over (x)}LMMSE,n(0) may be estimated from matrix A and vector b. Different examples have the square matrix A with an inner or an outer product form; and have the fast transform as a fast Walsh-Hadamard transform and/or a fast (inverse) Fourier transform.
US09036678B2	Light emitting semiconductor device A fiber coupled semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing of such a device are disclosed. The method provides an improved stability of optical coupling during assembly of the device, whereby a higher optical power levels and higher overall efficiency of the fiber coupled device can be achieved. The improvement is achieved by attaching the optical fiber to a vertical mounting surface of a fiber mount. The platform holding the semiconductor chip and the optical fiber can be mounted onto a spacer mounted on a base. The spacer has an area smaller than the area of the platform, for mechanical decoupling of thermally induced deformation of the base from a deformation of the platform of the semiconductor device. Optionally, attaching the fiber mount to a submount of the semiconductor chip further improves thermal stability of the packaged device.
US09036673B2	Semiconductor laser A semiconductor laser includes a semiconductor nanowire of a first conductivity type provided over a substrate, a light emitting layer provided around the semiconductor nanowire and insulated at an upper end and a lower end thereof, a cladding layer of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, the cladding layer being provided at an outer periphery of the light emitting layer, a first electrode electrically coupled to an end portion of the semiconductor nanowire, a second electrode electrically coupled to an outer periphery of the cladding layer, a first reflection mirror provided at a one-end portion side of the semiconductor nanowire, and a second reflection mirror provided at the other end portion side of the semiconductor nanowire.
US09036658B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in communication system An apparatus for transmitting data in a communication system includes: a receiving unit configured to receive connection information of network systems to which a terminal connects; a packet generation unit configured to check the connection information, generate a data packet having a first structure when the terminal connects to a first system, and generate a data packet having a second structure when the terminal connects to a second system; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the data packets to a receiver. The data packet having the first structure includes successive sequence frames, and the data packet having the second structure includes a main frame including the sequence frames, a redundancy frame obtained by delaying the sequence of the sequence frames, and an exclusive OR (XOR) frame of the main frame.
US09036648B2	Message attachment tracking The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for tracking files attached to electronic messages. One process includes operations for receiving a message, the message including information to be displayed by a message reading application, the message including a first indication that a file was attached to the earlier message, wherein the first indication is marked to not be displayed with the information by the message reading application; determining that the file is not attached to the message; sending a request for the file to a user identifier, the user identifier being included in the message and associated with the file or the earlier message or both; and receiving the file.
US09036643B2	Multiple logical channels for use in network devices A method for establishing a virtual channel between network devices is disclosed. In the case of a local network device establishing a virtual channel with a remote network device, a virtual channel request message is sent from the local network device to the remote network device. A virtual channel acknowledgement message and a remote capability list are received and a virtual channel resume message and a local capability list are sent. The virtual channel is then enabled. In the case of a remote network device establishing a virtual channel with a local network device, a virtual channel request message is received from a local network device by a remote network device. A virtual channel acknowledgement message and a remote capability list are sent and a virtual channel resume message and a local capability list are received. The virtual channel is then enabled.
US09036636B1	System and methods for managing network packet broadcasting A network of switches that forwards network packets between end hosts may be controlled by a controller. The controller may maintain information that identifies subsets of the end hosts that are associated with respective broadcast domains. The controller may use network topology information to determine which of the switches are coupled in a forwarding tree formed from network paths between the end hosts of a broadcast domain. The controller may be used to configure the switches with an identifier that identifies which broadcast domain is associated with each subset of end hosts. The controller may configure switches of a given forwarding tree that are coupled to end hosts of an associated broadcast domain to modify broadcast network packets received from the end hosts with the identifier and to forward the modified broadcast network packets along the forwarding tree exclusively to end hosts of the associated broadcast domain.
US09036630B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting data packet of multimedia service using media characteristics A method of transmitting a data packet of a multimedia service is provided. The method includes generating a media characteristic corresponding to a single media content component or aggregated media characteristics corresponding to a plurality of multimedia content components, obtaining information used for generating the data packet from the generated media characteristics or aggregated media characteristics, and generating the data packet based on the obtained information used for generating the data packet and transmitting the generated data packet.
US09036629B2	Switch module Examples included in this disclosure provide, among other things, the receipt of data intended for a destination at a switch of a switch module. In response to the receipt of data, the switch module may determine whether a local port on the switch is a member of a link aggregation group that includes the egress port on second switch. In response to such a determination, the switch module may update the forwarding table of the switch to indicate the local port is an egress port for the destination.
US09036626B2	Method and system for locating a voice over internet protocol (VOIP) device connected to a network A method and system for locating a device connected to a network by determining a current network address for the device and comparing the current network address to a network address in a user profile. If the network addresses match, the device is located based on a physical address associated with the network address in the user profile.
US09036624B2	Method of scheduling transmission in a communication network, corresponding communication node and computer program product Data streams are transmitted from a node towards a receiver in a communication network in the form of data packets for playout via a reproduction buffer at the receiver. The data packets are arranged in a scheduling queue and dropped from the scheduling queue if their sojourn time in the queue exceeds a given drop deadline. The reproduction buffer is emulated at the node in order to determine respective playout values for the data packets which are indicative of expected playout instants for the data packets by the reproduction buffer at the receiver. The drop deadlines are assigned to the data packets as a function of the respective playout values determined via the reproduction buffer as emulated at the node.
US09036623B2	Aggregating endpoint capabilities for a user A method and system for aggregating capabilities from multiple endpoints associated with a user are provided. The system aggregates the capabilities of the endpoints associated with a user into an aggregate view of available modes of communication for reaching the user. Then, the system publishes the aggregate view so that other users who want to send communications to the user will know the modes of communication available for that user. In addition, the system may designate certain modes of communication as preferred or as capable of reaching the user.
US09036622B2	Media negotiation method for IP multimedia link A media negotiation method for an IP multimedia link is used in the process of establishing an IP multimedia link between a first entity and a second entity via an application server (AS) of an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS). AS sends the second entity an invite message, which includes media resource information of the first entity; When AS receives a message with media resource information from the second entity before an answer message is received or after it receives a response message with media resource information from the second entity, AS sends an IMS re-invite message without media source information to the first entity; the AS, after receiving the IMS signaling message with media resource information from the first entity, sends the first entity the media resource information returned by the second entity. The present invention is applicable to an IMS centralized service and may effectively reduce the number of steps and the time required after response for media resource re-negotiation.
US09036613B2	Method and apparatus for operating a wireless PAN network using an overlay protocol that enhances co-existence with a wireless LAN network A computing device is interfaced with other devices in a wireless personal area network (PAN) to enhance co-existence with a wireless local area network (WLAN), wherein the WLAN is characterized by a plurality of nodes intercommunicating for various network devices and the wireless PAN is characterized by lower power transmissions relative to transmissions over the WLAN. The computing device coordinates activity of the wireless PAN as a coordinator for the wireless PAN, including communicating with the wireless PAN devices using a protocol that is an overlay protocol only partially compliant with the protocol used over the WLAN but that enables co-existence. The WLAN can be an 802.11 wireless LAN. WLAN devices preferably can, upon hearing an overlay protocol frame, understand at least enough of the overlay protocol frame to defer use of a common wireless networking medium. If the PAN coordinator is capable of associating with the WLAN, it can be a dual-network device capable of associating with the WLAN and PAN simultaneously. The dual-network device can use a common network module to handle both WLAN and PAN traffic.
US09036595B2	Method for setting subbands in multicarrier communication, and radio communication mobile station apparatus A wireless communication base station apparatus wherein when a frequency scheduling transmission and a frequency diversity transmission are performed in a multicarrier communication at the same time, the adaptive control of a channel for performing the frequency scheduling transmission can be prevented from being complicated. In this apparatus, a modulating part (12) modulates an encoded Dch data to generate Dch data symbols. A modulating part (22) modulates an encoded Lch data to generate Lch data symbols. An assigning part (103) assigns the Dch and Lch data symbols to subcarriers constituting OFDM symbols and outputs them to a multiplexing part (104). At this moment, the assigning part (103) assigns a set of Dch and Lch data symbols to each subcarrier for a respective subband.
US09036589B2	Transmitting data flows via particular connection points accessible via one or more access points A first network device may receive an instruction to transmit a data flow and select a particular second network device based on a selection rule. The particular second network device providing may provide to an external network. The first network device may identify a path to the particular second network device. The particular path may include one or more third network devices that are different from the first network device. The first network device may provide the data flow to the particular second network device via the path to cause the particular second network device to transmit the data flow towards a destination device.
US09036573B2	Multi-carrier modulation with hierarchical resource allocation Methods and systems for communicating in a multi-carrier communication system are disclosed. Radio resources may be organized in at least three hierarchical levels. The hierarchical levels may comprise macroblocks, blocks, and radio resource elements. A macroblock may contain a plurality of blocks and a block may contain a plurality of radio resource elements. The radio resource elements may further correspond to subcarriers in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. An index in a control message may specify a modulation and/or coding scheme (MCS) pattern indicting a MCS for each block within a macroblock. In an embodiment, fewer bits are used by the index to specify a MCS pattern that is used statistically more frequently, and more bits are used by the index to specify a MCS pattern that is used statistically less frequently. Signals may be transmitted over the plurality of macroblocks.
US09036565B2	Radio frame control device, radio communication device, and radio frame control method A radio frame control device comprises a controlling unit, a resource block allocation unit, and a resource block conversion unit. The controlling unit controls a downlink radio frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiple access scheme. The resource block allocation unit allocates resource blocks to a terminal station using any one of a plurality of resource block allocation methods respectively having different restrictions. The resource block conversion unit determines whether or not conversion is possible from allocation information of resource blocks allocated according to a first resource block allocation method into resource block allocation information by a second resource block allocation method. The resource block conversion unit converts the resource block allocation method for the resource block allocation information when the conversion is possible.
US09036564B2	Dynamic assignment of ACK resource in a wireless communication system Techniques for dynamically assigning acknowledgement (ACK) resource to a user equipment (UE) are described. For dynamic scheduling, a scheduling message may be used to send scheduling information for a single transmission of data. For semi-persistent scheduling, a scheduling message may be used to send a semi-persistent assignment for multiple transmissions of data. In an aspect, at least one field of a scheduling message, which is normally used to carry scheduling information for dynamic scheduling, may be re-used to carry an ACK resource assignment for semi-persistent scheduling. In one design, a UE may receive a scheduling message carrying a semi-persistent assignment and may obtain an assignment of ACK resource from the at least one field of the scheduling message. The UE may receive a transmission of data sent in accordance with the semi-persistent assignment, determine ACK information for the transmission of data, and send the ACK information with the ACK resource.
US09036561B2	Dual-homing protection Examples of the present disclosure provide a dual-homing protection method and device. In the dual-homing protection method, a forwarding item synchronizing channel and a data transfer channel are established between two Provider Edge (PE) devices in a dual-homing node, a Pseudo Wire (PW) and a Label Switched Path (LSP) protection group bearing the PW are established between a network side peer PE device and the two PE devices in the dual-homing node, which are taken as a logical device, so as to implement LSP protection within a network. The present disclosure may enable the protection within a network to be independent of access link protection. Subsequently, the management is simple.
US09036559B2	Wireless communication system, wireless transmitting apparatus, wireless receiving apparatus, wireless transmission method, and wireless reception method A mobile station device that includes a receiving unit. The receiving unit of mobile station device receives using at least a first downlink component carrier and a second downlink component carrier which are aggregated, the receiving unit is configured to receive, a first physical downlink control channel for the mobile station device, on the first downlink component carrier, and a second physical downlink control channel for the mobile station device, on the second downlink component carrier, where both a first sequence including at least modulated symbols of the first physical downlink control channel and a second sequence including at least modulated symbols of the second physical downlink control channel are cyclically-shifted by a base station.
US09036557B2	Wireless communication device with both a wireless transceiver and a wireless paging receiver A wireless communication device communicates using a Long Term Evolution (LTE) wireless protocol and a different wireless protocol. The wireless device processes a first user input to direct a wireless transceiver to transmit and receive using the different wireless protocol and to direct a wireless paging receiver receive using the LTE wireless protocol. The transceiver then transmits and receives using the different wireless protocol, and the paging receiver receives pages using the LTE wireless protocol. The device processes a second user input to direct the transceiver to transmit and receive using the LTE wireless protocol, and the transceiver uses the LTE wireless protocol. In some examples, the device also processes the second user input to direct the paging receiver to receive other pages using the different wireless protocol, and the paging receiver receives the other pages using the different wireless protocol.
US09036553B2	Power saving via variable listen intervals in a WLAN A wireless client device is associated with an access point in an association having a value for a listen interval parameter. The wireless client device determines, according to predefined considerations, a different value for the listen interval parameter, and declares the different value for the listen interval parameter in a wireless transmission to the access point. The listen interval parameter specifies a number of beacon intervals that can pass from a time the wireless client device listens for a beacon frame from the access point before the wireless client device listens for a next beacon frame from the access point.
US09036548B2	Apparatuses and methods for controlling access to a radio access network The present disclosure presents apparatuses and methods of accessing a communication network including obtaining extended access barring (EAB) data at a user equipment (UE), wherein the EAB data comprises an EAB uniform delay parameter, computing a uniform distribution parameter, determining an access bar period, wherein the access bar period is based on at least the EAB uniform delay parameter and the uniform distribution parameter, and initiating an access procedure to access the communication network after waiting at least the access bar period. Additionally, apparatuses and methods associated with a network apparatus controlling access to the communication network are also disclosed.
US09036546B2	System and method for device discovery for device-to-device communication in a cellular network An embodiment of a system enables a user equipment to employ a buddy list to initiate a D2D discovery process. The user equipment constructs a buddy list including other user equipments with which the user equipment would desire to communicate employing a D2D communication link. The user equipment transmits the buddy list to a serving base station. The user equipment transmits a request to the serving base station that it desires to communicate over a D2D communication link with a second user equipment that is on the buddy list. The user equipment receives D2D link setup information from the serving base station for the communication link with the second user equipment. The user equipment transmits a beacon signal employing the D2D link setup information.
US09036538B2	Frequency hopping design for single carrier FDMA systems Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate frequency hopping in a single carrier FDMA wireless environment by dynamically altering user offsets with time to obtain interference diversity. A channel tree can be utilized with nodes that are assigned values. User devices can be assigned to such nodes, a path between an assigned node and a root node in the channel tree can be evaluated, and a table lookup can be performed to determine an identity of a subcarrier set to assign to the user device assigned to a given node, as well as a number of subcarriers to be assigned to the user device. Additionally, node values can be dynamically varied during a communication event to alter path values and thus alter subcarrier set assignments.
US09036535B2	Mobile communication method, radio base station, and relay node to avoid interference in a random access procedure A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, by a radio base station DeNB, “RA Response” to a mobile station UE within a “RA Response window” for the mobile station UE when “RA Preamble” is received from the mobile station UE, a step of transmitting, by a relay node RN, a signal to the mobile station UE in a subframe other than an MBSFN subframe, and a step of transmitting, by the radio base station DeNB, “RA Response” to the relay node RN in an MBSFN subframe of a “RA Response window” for the relay node RN when “RA Preamble” is received from the relay node RN.
US09036528B2	Mobile communication system and method for managing terminal paging in the system The present invention relates to a mobile communication system, and to a method for managing terminal paging in the system. According to the present invention, local IDs are each allocated to the respective multiple MTC terminals, and therefore trigger periods can be efficiently managed in a network. Further, the multiple MTC terminals can be grouped using the allocated local IDs, thus achieving advantages of an increased number of MTC terminals which can be managed in the network.
US09036522B2	Low power wireless communication apparatuses and method thereof Provided are low-power wireless communication apparatuses and a method thereof. A hub may receive a beacon signal from a neighboring hub that is within a predetermined area from the hub, and control an operation of a node served by the hub based on information received from the neighboring hub.
US09036520B2	Multiplexing of control and data with varying power offsets in a SC-FDMA system Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate multiplexing of control information and data for common transmission in a localized FDM wireless communication system. Localized FDM transmission of control and data channels can be achieved by, for example, multiplexing control information with data and transmitting the control information and data using resources and transmission schemes specified for transmission of the data. To ensure the reliability of control information multiplexed with data, a power offset can be applied to the control information to provide varying protection levels for the control information based on properties of the data resources into which it is embedded in order to maintain a predetermined signal quality for the control information independent of the data resources.
US09036512B2	Efficient control information transmission method and apparatus for supporting multiple antenna transmission technique The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and provides an efficient control information transmission method and apparatus for supporting a multiple antenna transmission technique. A method is provided for transmitting downlink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) information related to an uplink multiple codeword transmission and includes receiving the uplink multiple codeword transmission, generating HARQ information related to each of the multiple codewords based on a result of decoding each of the multiple codewords, modulating the HARQ information, and transmitting the modulated HARQ information via one or more physical HARQ indicator channels (PHICHs).
US09036507B2	Discovery for fibre channel over ethernet devices Techniques are provided for performing discovery in a Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) network. An FCF discovers other FCoE Forwarders (FCFs) connected to its network segment by transmitting a solicitation message to the multicast MAC address “All-FCF-MACS”. All FCFs receive packets with this multicast MAC address including the solicitation message that announces the presence of the FCF. Each FCF replies with a unicast advertisement message that provides the new FCF with a MAC address of the responding FCF. The FCF builds a list of the FCFs available on its network segment and may then establish a virtual link with one or more of the FCFs through an exchange link parameter (ELP) exchange.
US09036502B2	Method and apparatus for managing interaction between DRX cycles and paging cycles Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate managing interaction between paging and discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles for users operating in a communication system. As described herein, a connected mode user having an associated DRX cycle can modify its schedule for paging reception to minimize unnecessary periods of activity. For example, a user can initially schedule monitoring of paging occasions that coincide with periods of activity associated with the DRX cycle of the user. If such paging occasions are not sufficient to reach a minimum required number of monitored paging occasions, additional paging occasions can be monitored as needed by scheduling additional periods of activity and/or extending periods of activity specified in the DRX cycle. Additionally or alternatively, a network can synchronize a connected mode DRX cycle associated with a user with an idle mode paging cycle for the user, thereby providing power and performance benefits with low complexity.
US09036501B2	Wireless communication device A wireless communication device comprises: a detector configured to detect an interference wave and a frequency of the interference wave, the interference wave causing radio interference in the wireless communication; an interference avoidance controller configured to predict duration where the wireless communication is affected by radio interference due to the interference wave, and configured to issue a command for avoiding the radio interference due to the interference wave when the predicted duration exceeds a threshold time period; and a frequency controller configured to control frequencies used in the wireless communication to exclude the frequency of the interference wave in accordance with the command for avoiding the radio interference issued by the interference avoidance controller.
US09036498B2	Mitigation of false PDCCH detection A method includes receiving in a communication terminal a signal, which is transmitted in multiple links and which includes a control channel transmitted in an assigned sequence of the links. One or more candidate sequences of the links, which are likely to be the assigned sequence, are identified. For at least, one candidate sequence, a verification is made whether the candidate sequence is the assigned sequence, by re-encoding decoded bits of the candidate sequence to produce regenerated symbols and comparing the regenerated symbols to respective received symbols from which the decoded bits were decoded. The control channel is decoded from the candidate sequence in response to verifying that the candidate sequence is the assigned sequence.
US09036490B2	Radio relay apparatus and control method A radio relay apparatus 100 used in a radio communication system in which a radio base station 200 transmits abase station preamble signal at a predetermined timing includes a control unit 130 that controls a service-side radio communication unit 120S that performs radio communication with the radio terminal, the base station preamble signal being a radio signal to be used by a radio terminal to establish synchronization. The service-side radio communication unit 120S transmits a relay station preamble signal at a timing different from the predetermined timing, the relay station preamble signal being a radio signal to be used by the radio terminal to establish synchronization. The control unit 130 controls the service-side radio communication unit 120S so that at the predetermined timing, the service-side radio communication unit 120S transmits a preamble mask signal that is a radio signal to disturb the base station preamble signal.
US09036488B2	Faulty link detection method, apparatus, node, and system A faulty link detection method includes receiving statistical data that is reported by all nodes every preset quantity of packets that carry a program clock reference value. All the nodes collect statistical data starting from a unified program clock reference value. The quantity of packets lost between an upstream node and a downstream node among all the nodes is acquired according to the statistical data. A faulty link is determined according to the quantity of packets lost between the upstream node and the downstream node.
US09036485B2	Method and apparatus for performing client cooperation transmission through a group resource allocation scheme in a wireless access system The present description relates to a method for performing client cooperation transmission through a group resource allocation (GRA) scheme in a wireless access system, comprising the following steps: receiving a group configuration message, including client group information, from a base station, wherein said group configuration message further includes client cooperation-enabled information that indicates whether or not the client group is concerned with the client cooperation transmission; determining whether or not to participate in the client cooperation by means of the client cooperation-enabled information; and transmitting the result of the determination on whether or not to participate in the client cooperation to the base station.
US09036478B2	Securing transmit openings by the requester Techniques for securing transmit opening help enhance the operation of a station that employs the technique. The techniques may facilitate low latency response to a protocol data requester, for instance. The techniques provide ways for the protocol data requester to provide additional time for the protocol data responder to obtain the needed response data for the protocol data requester. One way in which this can be done is by intelligently lengthing the protocol request transmitted by the protocol requester.
US09036476B2	Maintaining load balancing after service application with a network device In general, techniques are described for maintaining load balancing after service application. A network device comprising ingress and egress forwarding components and a service card may implement the techniques. An ingress forwarding component receives a packet and, in response to a determination that the service is to be applied to the packet, updates the packet to include an ingress identifier that identifies the ingress forwarding component, thereafter transmitting the updated packet to the service card. The service card applies the service to the updated packet to generate a serviced packet and transmits the serviced packet to the ingress forwarding component identified by the ingress identifier so as to maintain load balancing of packet flows across the plurality of forwarding components. The ingress forwarding component determines a next hop to which to forward the serviced packet and the egress forwarding component forwards the serviced packet to the determined next hop.
US09036468B1	Flow congestion management Systems, methods, and devices are described for flow congestion management. A series of packets may be received at a routing or other device. A group of active flows may be identified from the received series of packets. A determination may be made that the measured rate associated with the group of active flows exceeds a blocking threshold. Flows to be blocked may be selected using a blocking criteria. Packets associated with the blocked flows may then be discarded, while packets of unblocked flows may be forwarded for distribution. The rate for the group may be monitored, and flows may be selected for unblocking using unblocking criteria.
US09036462B2	Internet group management protocol version three for quality of service support The disclosure includes a method comprising: receiving, by a first network element, a first communication from a client device, wherein the first communication comprises a multicast channel membership query report and QoS data. The disclosure also includes a method comprising: receiving, by a first network element, a first communication from a client device, wherein the first communication comprises a multicast channel membership query report and QoS data. The disclosure also includes an apparatus comprising: a client device connected to a network element and a network via the first network element, wherein the client device is configured to send a multicast channel membership report indicating the client device wishes to receive a multicast channel communication and indicating requested QoS data relating to the multicast channel communication.
US09036454B2	Handheld forestry device A rugged hand-held mobile computing device for a forester to collect and use dendrometric data from trees and tree stands is claimed. The device includes a processor which operates in connection with a memory, a user interface, a GPS receiver, a sound sensor capable of emitting an ultra-sonic pulse and a computer readable code embodied on the memory. The device communicates with a transponder by way of the ultra-sonic pulse emitted by the sound sensor. The transponder also emits an ultra-sonic pulse back to device. The device calculates the distance traveled based on the knowledge of the speed of the pulses. The memory, which also includes basic mapping software, uses the data to update a map in real time with the location of the trees and other information collected.
US09036450B2	Generating an image of a subterranean structure Different values of at least one migration parameter are selected. An imaging technique is applied a plurality of times, where each application of the imaging technique uses a corresponding different one of the different values. Each application of the imaging technique produces a corresponding image of a subterranean structure. An aggregate of the images is computed to produce an output image of the subterranean structure.
US09036443B2	Integrated circuit device A booster circuit is configured, such that: in response to a reading request for reading data from a flash memory, when a voltage of an output terminal detected by a voltage detection circuit is not higher than a voltage, an oscillator outputs a control clock signal of predetermined on time and off time to a transistor of a boost converter to perform switching control of the transistor; and when the voltage detection circuit detects that the voltage of the output terminal reaches a voltage, an oscillator outputs a control clock signal of an on time and an off time input from a selection circuit to a transistor of a boost converter to perform switching control of the transistor.
US09036435B2	Semiconductor apparatus, method for delaying signal thereof, stacked semiconductor memory apparatus, and method for generating signal thereof The semiconductor apparatus includes a reference delay value check unit configured to receive a source signal and delay the source signal to generate a reference delay signal; a process delay value check unit configured to receive the source signal and delay the source signal to generate a process delay signal; and a signal generation unit configured to receive the reference delay signal and the process delay signal, receive an input signal, and variably delay the input signal based on the reference delay signal and the process delay signal to generate an output signal.
US09036432B2	Method for controlling data write operation of a mass storage device A method for controlling data write operation of a mass storage device is provided. The mass storage device has a controller and a memory unit. The method includes connecting the mass storage device to a host device, and receiving a voltage provided from the host device; sensing and monitoring whether the voltage is lower than a first predefined voltage; writing data to the mass storage device with a first frequency when the sensed voltage is higher than the first predefined voltage; and writing data to the mass storage device with a second frequency when the sensed voltage is lower than the first predefined voltage, wherein the second frequency is adjusted by decreasing the first frequency.
US09036430B2	FinFET-based boosting supply voltage circuit and method A memory circuit includes a voltage boosting circuit for generating a voltage that exceeds a voltage supply of the voltage boosting circuit. The voltage boosting circuit includes a first transistor having a first polarity type and a second transistor having a second polarity type opposite the first transistor. The first transistor is a planar transistor, a source of the first transistor being connected with the voltage supply, and a gate of the first transistor receiving a control signal. The second transistor includes a gate formed in at least two planes. A source of the second transistor is connected with the voltage supply, a gate of the second transistor receives the control signal, and a drain of the second transistor is connected with a drain of the first transistor and forms an output of the voltage boosting circuit for generating a boosted supply voltage as a function of the control signal.
US09036429B2	Nonvolatile memory device and operating method thereof A nonvolatile memory device including a memory cell arranged at a region where a word line and a bit line cross each other; a control signal generator configured to be enabled while the nonvolatile memory device operates in a test mode, and generate control signals which are not provided from an external device, based on a reference signal provided from the external device; and a control logic configured to control an operation for the memory cell according to the generated control signals.
US09036424B2	Memory device and method for verifying the same A memory includes a cell string including a plurality of memory cells connected in series, a bit line connected to the cell string, a voltage transfer unit configured to electrically connect the bit line and a sensing node in response to a control signal, and a page buffer configured to sense a voltage of the bit line through the sensing node in a sensing period, wherein the page buffer decides a voltage level of the control signal based on a threshold voltage of the target memory cell, which corresponds to a verification target among the plurality of memory cells in the sensing period.
US09036422B2	Semiconductor memory device and method of operating the same Disclosed are a semiconductor memory device and an operating method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell block including a plurality of memory cells, a voltage providing unit suitable for providing a pass voltage or a read voltage to word lines coupled with the memory cells and a control circuit suitable for controlling the voltage providing unit to adjust a pass voltage applied to the memory cells disposed at one side of a selected memory cell and a pass voltage applied to the memory cells disposed at the other side of the selected memory cell based on an address of a word line of the selected memory cell among the memory cells during a read operation or a verification operation.
US09036417B2	On chip dynamic read level scan and error detection for nonvolatile storage Techniques for efficiently programming non-volatile storage are disclosed. A second page of data may efficiently be programmed into memory cells that already store a first page. Data may be efficiently transferred from single bit cells to multi-bit cells. Memory cells are read using at least two different read levels. The results are compared to determine a count how many memory cells showed a different result between the two reads. If the count is less than a threshold, then data from the memory cells is stored into a set of data latches without attempting to correct for misreads. If the count is not less than the threshold, then data from the memory cells is stored into the set of data latches with attempting to correct for misreads. A programming operation may be performed based on the data stored in the set of data latches.
US09036409B2	Immunity of phase change material to disturb in the amorphous phase Disturb from the reset to the set state may be reduced by creating an amorphous phase that is substantially free of crystal nuclei when programming the reset state in a phase change memory. In some embodiments, this can be achieved by using a current or a voltage to program that exceeds the threshold voltage of the phase change memory element, but does not exceed a safe current voltage which would cause a disturb.
US09036404B2	Methods and apparatus for SRAM cell structure An SRAM cell structure. In one embodiment, a bit cell first level contacts formed at a first and a second CVdd node, a first and a second CVss node, at a bit line node, at a bit line bar node, at a data node and at a data bar node; and second level contacts formed on each of the first level contacts at the first and second CVdd nodes, the first and second CVss nodes, the bit line node and the bit line bar node; wherein the first level contacts formed at the data node and the data bar node do not have a second level contact formed thereon. In another embodiment, a word line is formed and bit lines and a CVdd and a CVss line are formed overlying the SRAM cell and coupled to the corresponding ones of the nodes. Methods are disclosed for forming the cell structure.
US09036403B2	Semiconductor memory devices The semiconductor memory device includes a cell capacitor having a first terminal electrically connected to a storage node and a second terminal electrically connected to an internal node, an internal voltage generator configured to generate an internal voltage signal applied to the internal node in response to a power-up signal, and an initialization element configured to initialize the internal node in response to the power-up signal.
US09036402B2	Arrays of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells An array of vertically stacked tiers of non-volatile cross point memory cells includes a plurality of horizontally oriented word lines within individual tiers of memory cells. A plurality of horizontally oriented global bit lines having local vertical bit line extensions extend through multiple of the tiers. Individual of the memory cells comprise multi-resistive state material received between one of the horizontally oriented word lines and one of the local vertical bit line extensions where such cross, with such ones comprising opposing conductive electrodes of individual memory cells where such cross. A plurality of bit line select circuits individually electrically and physically connects to individual of the local vertical bit line extensions and are configured to supply a voltage potential to an individual of the global horizontal bit lines. Other embodiments and aspects are disclosed.
US09036397B2	Resistive memory array and method for controlling operations of the same A resistive memory and a method for controlling operations of the resistive memory are provided. The resistive memory has a first memory layer, a second memory layer and a medium layer. Each of the first memory layer and the second memory layer is used to store data. The medium layer is formed between the first memory layer and the second memory layer. The method comprises at least a step of measuring a resistance between the first memory layer and the second memory layer, and determining which one of a first state, a second state and a third state is a state of the resistive memory according to the measured resistance. A resistive memory array including an array of the above resistive memory units, word lines and bit lines is also described, wherein the word (bit) lines are coupled to the first (second) memory layers.
US09036396B2	Apparatus and method for detecting reflow process Circuitry and method for detecting occurrence of a reflow process to an embedded storage device are disclosed. A temperature sensing device includes a resistor, a temperature sensor, and a comparator. The first terminal of the resistor is coupled to a voltage source, and the second terminal of the resistor is coupled to both the first terminal of the temperature sensor and the first input of the comparator. The second terminal of the temperature sensor is grounded and the second input of the comparator is coupled to a reference voltage. The resistance state of the temperature sensor changes from a first resistance state to a second resistance state when the temperature surrounding the temperature sensor reaches a threshold. The comparator generates an output based on the resistance changes of the temperature sensor. The generated output may indicate whether a reflow process has occurred to the embedded storage device.
US09036391B2	Arrays of vertically-oriented transistors, memory arrays including vertically-oriented transistors, and memory cells An array includes a plurality of vertically-oriented transistors, rows of access lines, and columns of data/sense lines. Individual of the rows include an access line interconnecting transistors in that row. Individual of the columns include an inner data/sense line elevationally inward of the access lines and which interconnect transistors in that column. An outer data/sense line is elevationally outward of the access lines and electrically couples to the inner data/sense line. Other embodiments are disclosed, including memory arrays and memory cells.
US09036385B2	Power supply, power management device applied to a power supply, and method for performing brown-out protection and overheat protection of a power management device A power supply can provide brown-out protection and overheat protection. The power supply includes a rectifier, a transformer, and a power management device. The rectifier is used for receiving an alternating current voltage. The alternating current voltage has a voltage cycle. The transformer coupled to the rectifier has an inductor coupled to a switch for supplying an output voltage. The power management device is used for controlling the switch to make the inductor save power or release power. The power management device has a multi-functional pin coupled to the rectifier for receiving a detection voltage corresponding to a positive half cycle of the alternating current voltage. The multi-functional pin is also coupled to a thermistor for receiving an overheat protection signal.
US09036360B2	Power casing apparatus of image display module A power casing apparatus of an image display module includes a display panel configured to have a Light-Emitting Diode module disposed in a front thereof; a bus bar unit installed in the rear of the display panel and configured to supply driving power to the LED module and to have a pair of electrode blades disposed on one side thereof; and a power casing unit disposed in the bus bar unit in such a way as to be attached to or detached from the bus bar unit and configured to supply the driving power to the bus bar unit and to have a pair of power supply connectors disposed at positions corresponding to the respective electrode blades on one side.
US09036352B2	Phase change heat sink for transient thermal management A heat dissipating assembly, for dissipating heat, having at least one heat producing component and a heat sink having phase change material conductively coupled to the at least one heat producing component.
US09036348B2	Heat dissipating module A heat dissipating module includes a housing, a first fan and a second fan. The housing has a partition. The first fan is disposed at a side of the partition, and the second fan is disposed at the other side of the partition. The second fan has a plurality of wind deflectors, which are disposed higher than the partition.
US09036345B2	Electronic device and locking mechanism thereof A locking mechanism, adapted for connecting a first member to a second member, is provided. The locking mechanism includes a wedging unit, a locking unit and a pushing element. The wedging unit is disposed on the first member, and includes a hook movable between a wedging position and a separation position. The locking unit is disposed on the second member, and includes a locking element disposed in the second member, wherein the locking element is movable between a locking position and a releasing position. When the pushing element is moved toward a first direction, the pushing element pushes the locking element from the locking position to the releasing position to release the hook, and when the pushing element is moved toward a second direction, the pushing element pushes the hook from the wedging position to the separation position to release the hook.
US09036344B2	Electronic device An electronic device includes a motherboard, a plurality of heating modules arranged on the motherboard, a first electronic module arranged on a front side of the motherboard along a longitudinal direction, a second electronic module stacked above the first electronic module, a wind scooper and a fan module being located on a rear side of the motherboard along the transverse direction and facing the heating modules and the second electronic module. The wind scooper covers the heating modules, and has a partition board to form a lower-layer airflow passage and an upper-layer airflow passage. The wind scooper guides a first airflow from the fan module to flow through the heating modules along the lower-layer airflow passage, and guides a second airflow from the fan module to flow to the second electronic module through the upper-layer airflow passage, without flowing through the heating modules.
US09036343B2	Portable device docking station A molded external expanding apparatus or “docking station” operable with a portable computer device of a type having a display unit having a display screen on an inner surface thereof and a hard shell backing surface opposite thereof and pivotally mounted on a substantially rigid casing having a pair of locating holes adjacent to opposite corners of a substantially planar bottom surface thereof, and an input/output (I/O) connector positioned on a back plane thereof with a pair of positioning apertures provided on opposite sides thereof.
US09036342B2	Storage apparatus and storage controller of storage apparatus Storage apparatus configured to provide an external apparatus with logical storage area as data storage area, the storage apparatus having a physical storage medium configured to generate the logical storage area, and storage controller communicatively coupled to physical storage medium to control data input/output processing between the external apparatus and the logical storage area, wherein the storage controller includes circuit package including circuit board which implements predetermined function of storage controller and a circuit board case to accommodate the circuit board, plurality of cooling fan units that generate cooling air for cooling circuit component mounted on the circuit board of the circuit package, and a chassis having a structure for accommodating the circuit package and the cooling fan units, some of circuit packages are inserted to be accommodated in chassis from opening thereof and are arranged side by side across width direction of chassis.
US09036329B2	Multilayer capacitor and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed herein is a multilayer capacitor comprising: a laminate in which a plurality of first sheets and second sheets are alternately laminated, wherein the first sheets and the second sheets are disposed in a direction perpendicular to a mounting surface; a first inner electrode formed on the first sheets, wherein the first electrode is exposed through upper, lower, and first lateral surfaces of the laminate; a second inner electrode that is formed on the second sheets and has a horizontally symmetrical shape with respect to the first inner electrode; a sealing portion encapsulating the first and second inner electrodes exposed through two lateral surfaces of the laminate; and an external electrode that is electrically connected to the first and second inner electrodes exposed through the upper and lower surfaces of the laminate.
US09036322B2	Apparatus for the absorption, conversion and detection of electromagnetic energy An apparatus for the absorption, conversion and detection of electromagnetic energy without the need for an earth ground or atmosphere. This apparatus has three major parts: a collector stage, a conversion stage, and an emissive stage. The collection stage, an apparatus that can carry electromagnetic energy from the environment external to the apparatus, is connected electrically to the conversion stage, which comprises one or more layers of a material that can carry an electrical charge, disposed among two or more layers of a material that can carry an electrical charge, which layers are in turn connected electrically to components so as to trap the electromagnetic energy in an electromagnetic field and convert it into electrical energy. Finally, the electrical output of the conversion stage is electrically connected to an emissive stage: comprising an amplification circuit, transducing device or circuit capable of utilizing the energy.
US09036316B2	Vehicle safety device A vehicle safety device installed in a hybrid electric vehicle or an electric vehicle is provided to be capable of interrupting a current supplied from a power supply to a load via a supply line. The vehicle safety device includes first interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in an interrupted condition when a temperature of the load reaches a first set temperature and second interrupting mechanism adapted to set the supply line in the interrupted condition such that the supply line cannot be returned to an energized condition when the temperature of the load reaches a second set temperature that is higher than the first set temperature.
US09036304B1	System and methods utilizing dual read sensors A dual-stack read sensor is utilized in a storage device having an actuator arm that positions the read sensor over a rotating storage medium. The dual-stacked read sensor includes a primary read sensor having a first set of read sensor characteristics and a secondary read sensor having a second set of read sensor characteristics that differ from the first set of read sensor characteristics, wherein the secondary read sensor is positioned relative to the primary read sensor to be radially offset from the primary read sensor relative to a data track being read.
US09036303B2	Suspension with divided positive and negative write trace sections, and head gimbal assembly and disk drive unit with the same A suspension includes a positive write trace and a negative write trace. The positive write trace is separated into at least two positive write trace sections located at two different layers respectively, and the negative write trace is separated into at least two negative write trace sections located at two different layers respectively. Each positive write trace section and each negative write trace section are alternately arranged along a longitudinal direction on two different layers, and the positive write trace sections at different layers are connected together via conductive crossovers, and the negative write trace sections are connected together via conductive crossovers. The present invention can obtain balanced propagation time in the stacked trace structure to reduce signal distortion, and obtain widened frequency bandwidth.
US09036300B2	High areal density tape format and head A magnetic recording tape according to one embodiment includes at least about eight data bands, wherein each data band is defined between a pair of adjacent servo tracks, each pair of adjacent servo tracks defining only a single data band therebetween. One of the servo tracks has data encoded therein, the data including data for encryption. A magnetic recording tape according to another embodiment includes a plurality of servo tracks, each servo track comprising a series of magnetically defined bars. An average height of the bars is less than about 50 microns. About eight to about twenty six data bands are present on the tape. A tape supply cartridge according to various embodiments has a magnetic recording tape as described herein.
US09036299B2	Magnetic write head having a recessed high moment portion of the wrap-around shield Approaches to improving hard disk drive far track interference problems include utilizing a wrap-around shield having recessed high magnetic moment layer(s). Embodiments include tapering the high-moment portion away from the air bearing surface (ABS) in the cross-track direction away from the write pole, thereby reducing exposure of high moment layers at the ABS to reduce the risk of unwanted track erasure away from the main pole. Embodiments include positioning the high magnetic moment layers in their entirety away from the ABS, such as with a laminate structure of high magnetic moment and low magnetic moment materials laid down in a direction away from the pole tip trailing edge.
US09036296B2	Multiple writers with reduced crosstalk A system according to one embodiment includes at least two write transducers for writing to a magnetic medium; and a low reluctance path from a first pole of a first of the write transducers to a second pole of a second of the write transducers. In another embodiment, either 1) the first pole of the first write transducer and the second pole of the second write transducer are positioned close enough to each other that a low reluctance path is present from the first pole of the first write transducer to the second pole of the second write transducer, or 2) a magnetic strap extends between the first pole of the first write transducer and the second pole of the second write transducer thereby creating a low reluctance path therebetween.
US09036295B1	Information storage device with a damping insert sheet between a housing bay and a disk drive A novel information storage device is disclosed and claimed. The information storage device includes a device housing with a generally rectangular bay to accommodate a disk drive. The generally rectangular bay includes a base portion and a plurality of side portions. The information storage device further includes a damping insert sheet disposed between the disk drive and the base portion. The damping insert sheet has a plurality of elastomeric cushions, for example with a cushion thickness in the range 0.5 mm to 10 mm, and a spanning sheet, for example having a sheet thickness in the range 0.02 mm to 0.35 mm. Each of the plurality of elastomeric cushions is attached to the spanning sheet. Each of the plurality of elastomeric cushions contacts and is compressed between the generally rectangular bay and the disk drive.
US09036290B2	Head transducer with multiple resistance temperature sensors for head-medium spacing and contact detection A head transducer, configured to interact with a magnetic recording medium, includes a first sensor having a temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) and configured to produce a first sensor signal, and a second sensor having a TCR and configured to produce a second sensor signal. One of the first and second sensors is situated at or near a close point of the head transducer in relation to the magnetic recording medium, and the other of the first and second sensors spaced away from the close point. Circuitry is configured to combine the first and second sensor signals and produce a combined sensor signal indicative of one or both of a change in head-medium spacing and head-medium contact. Each of the sensors may have a TCR with the same sign (positive or negative) or each sensor may have a TCR with a different sign.
US09036288B1	Method and system for reading closely-spaced data tracks A method for reading a track of data may include positioning a read head at an initial position relative to the track of data and obtaining initial track signals, filtering the initial track signals, positioning the read head at an initial subsequent position relative to the track of data and obtaining initial subsequent track signals, and filtering the initial subsequent track signals. In an initial equalization, the filtered initial track signals and the filtered initial subsequent track signals are equalized to obtain equalized track signals. The read head is positioned at a further subsequent position relative to the track of data and further subsequent track signals are obtained The further subsequent track signals are filtered. In a subsequent equalization, previously obtained equalized track signals and the filtered further subsequent track signals are equalized. A storage device operating according to the method may have an equalizer in hardware or firmware.
US09036283B1	Data storage device with selective write to a first storage media or a second storage media A data storage device can include a magnetic rotating disk, a solid state memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a first operational metric which is updated at a first frequency and a second operational metric which is updated at a second frequency different than the first frequency, receive a write command to write data to the magnetic rotating disk, and divert the write command to write data to the solid state memory instead of the magnetic rotating disk when at least one of the first operational metric and the second operational metric indicates that writing data to the magnetic rotating disk may be harmful to the magnetic rotating disk or result in data loss.
US09036278B2	Imaging lens and imaging device An imaging lens consists of a negative first lens, a negative second lens, a third lens of a plano-convex shape having a convex surface directed toward an object side or of a positive meniscus shape having a convex surface directed toward the object side, and a fourth lens of a plano-convex shape having a convex surface directed toward an image side or of a positive meniscus shape having a convex surface directed toward the image side, which are arranged in this order from the object side. Further, the following conditional formula (1) is satisfied: 2.25<νd2/νd3 (1), where νd2: an Abbe number of a material of the second lens for d-line, and νd3: an Abbe number of a material of the third lens for d-line.
US09036276B2	Optical imaging lens set and electronic device comprising the same An optical imaging lens set from an object side toward an image side along an optical axis in order includes: a first lens element having an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its circular periphery, a second lens element having an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of its optical axis, a third lens element having an object-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its optical axis, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power, and a plastic fifth lens element having an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its optical axis.
US09036268B2	Imaging lens An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having negative refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens having negative refractive power; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. Each of the third lens, the fourth lens, the fifth lens, and the sixth lens has refractive power weaker than that of each of the first lens and the second lens.
US09036266B2	Zoom lens for projection and projection-type display apparatus A zoom lens for projection substantially consists of a first lens-group having negative refractive-power, and which is arranged on a most magnification-side, and which is fixed during magnification change, a second lens-group having negative refractive-power, and which is arranged on a reduction-side of the first lens-group, and which is fixed during magnification change, a last lens-group having positive refractive-power, and which is arranged on a most reduction-side, and which is fixed during magnification change, and three lens-groups arranged between the last lens-group and the second lens-group, and which move during magnification change. The zoom lens is configured to be telecentric on a reduction-side, and focusing is performed by moving only the second lens-group. The lens-groups that move during magnification change are substantially a third lens-group having positive refractive-power, a fourth lens-group having positive refractive-power and a fifth lens-group having positive refractive-power, which are arranged in this order form a magnification-side.
US09036264B2	Fluid-filled lenses and their ophthalmic applications A fluid lens assembly including a front rigid lens, a semi-flexible membrane that is adapted to be expanded from a minimum inflation level to a maximum inflation level, and a fluid layer therebetween. The front lens of the fluid lens assembly is configured to have a negative optical power. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly may be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded to the maximum inflation level. In an embodiment, the fluid lens assembly can be configured to have an overall negative optical power when the membrane is expanded between the minimum inflation level and the maximum inflation level.
US09036253B2	Photonic devices based on vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers Vertical cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers for various photonic devices including all optical logic gate devices and oscillators, where such devices can be implemented to achieve various advantages, including Boolean inversion at high speeds, low power, workable noise margins for cascadability because of input output isolation, and easy of integration in large arrays.
US09036240B2	Electronic paper display The disclosure provides an electronic paper display. The electronic paper display includes an electronic paper panel. A light guide plate is disposed on the electronic paper panel. The light guide plate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A conductive pattern structural layer is disposed on the light guide plate. A light source is disposed on a side of the light guide plate. The first surface of the light guide plate is a patterned surface. A light generated by the light source is reflected or scattered to the electronic paper panel by the patterned surface.
US09036237B2	Laser scanner A laser scanner includes an optical source emitting a laser beam; and an optical deflector deflecting the laser beam emitted from the optical source to scan an object with the laser beam deflected thereby, wherein the optical deflector includes a reflecting mirror; a motor rotating the reflecting mirror around an axis of the mirror: a first member fixed on a shaft of the motor, rotating with the shaft and a second member fixed on the axis of the mirror, engaging with the first member when the shaft rotates to rotate with the axis of the mirror.
US09036236B2	Mirror module The invention relates to a mirror module of a Fresnel Solar Collector System with a plurality of mirror elements pivotably mounted on a carrier plate and extending in parallel, which focus the sun light upon a receiver unit mounted above the mirror module in a raised position. The mirror elements are pivotably mounted on the carrier plate at least along longitudinal sections.
US09036235B2	Mechanically balanced optical membrane device for orientation insensitivity An optical membrane device comprises a substrate, at least one support block on a surface of the substrate, and at least one plate. A torsion beam supports the plate above the substrate on the support block. The optical membrane device also includes an optical membrane structure supported by the plate above the substrate and at least one electrode on the substrate underneath the plate. In one implementation, the optical membrane device further comprises a tether for coupling the optical membrane structure to the plate. The tether extends between the optical membrane structure and the plate. In another implementation, the substrate of the optical membrane device has an optical port through the substrate directly below the optical membrane structure. The plate is substantially balanced around the torsion beam to minimize a sensitivity to orientation in a gravitational field.
US09036232B2	Device for scanning an object, method for operating the device and scanning microscope The invention relates to a device for scanning an object comprising a carrier body (10) and a first electromagnetic drive (2). The carrier body (10) is movably mounted in a plane and holds an optical element (12) that focuses an illuminating light beam (19) on a first object plane of the object that is parallel to the plane. The first electromagnetic drive (2) moves the carrier body (10) with the optical element (12) and a focus region (23) of the illuminating light beam (19) within the first object plane.
US09036230B1	Torsional electrostatic combdrive with increased stiffness A torsional electrostatic combdrive with increased stiffness is disclosed. The torsional electrostatic combdrive includes a movable combteeth group, a stationary combteeth group, and a stationary link group. The stiffness of the torsional electrostatic combdrive is increased by coupling the stationary link group to the stationary combteeth group. Advantageously, the present invention promotes reduced gaps of engaging combteeth, increased snap-in voltage of combteeth, and reduced driving voltage of the combdrive.
US09036227B2	Method and apparatus for generating white underbase and generating suitably modified separations for printing on colored background other than white The invention relates to an embedded system and a method to generate a white underbase for printing on a colored background from the given image to be printed automatically without any human intervention or operator's assistance. This invention simplifies the process of printing on colored substrates like garments, packing materials, woods, acrylic sheets, cardboard etc. Along with the simplification of a great amount of productivity increase is achieved in comparison to the existing methods as it eliminates any human intervention.
US09036222B2	Document scanner A document scanner (10) includes an input tray (20) for holding documents (11). An input image capture device (30) captures at least a portion of the images of documents in the input tray. An image processor (65) determines characteristics of documents in the input tray, and the documents are processed based on the characteristics. At least one characteristic is document length (70), or width (80), or position (170), or other characteristics. An ultrasonic zone (160) detects the documents; and the ultrasonic zones are enabled or disabled in at least one location down the document based on at least one characteristic.
US09036219B2	Image processing device and image processing method for preventing image quality deterioration An image processing device includes an image-modification processing unit and an adjustment unit. The image-modification processing unit executes first image-modification processing wherein pixels are inserted to or deleted from a subject image in a first direction or pixels in the subject image are shifted in the first direction and second image modification processing wherein pixels in the subject image are shifted in a second direction. The adjustment unit adjusts a position of a shift-border along which the pixels are shifted in the second image-modification processing on the basis of a position of each step in an image caused in the first image-modification processing.
US09036200B2	Job processing by dividing a job into sub-jobs for rendering and streaming A job processing method includes dividing a job into sub-jobs. Each sub-job is rendered into a device ready format. A message is communicated to a device. The communicating is timed in accordance with a completion of the rendering of a first of the sub-jobs. Following a receipt of a response to the message from the device, the rendered first sub-job is streamed to the device followed by the remainder of the rendered sub jobs.
US09036197B2	Data transfer control apparatus and data transfer control method In order to control transfer to a processing unit of input data containing a plurality of lines stored across a plurality of memory regions including first and second memory regions, a position of a line of target of output data containing a plurality of lines output from the processing unit is specified. A number of lines of input data to be transferred from the first memory region and their addresses are determined, and a number of lines of input data to be transferred from the second memory region and their addresses are determined, based on the specified position of the line of target. Control is performed based on the determination result such that input data for a number of lines may be transferred from the first memory region and input data for a number of lines may be transferred from the second memory region.
US09036196B2	Method for setting a processing condition in an image processing apparatus A processing condition setting device for setting a processing condition in an image processing apparatus comprises a history storage section storing a plurality of previous setting details includes a combination of a plurality of setting conditions in correlation with processing objects, a first display section displaying processing objects stored in history storage section, a candidate selecting section selecting as a setting candidate setting details corresponding to processing object, which is selected from processing objects displayed by first display section, from plurality of previous setting details stored in history storage section, a second display section displaying setting candidates selected on basis of selected processing object by candidate selecting section, and a history updating section storing setting details of process, which is performed in a state where one setting candidate is selected from setting candidates displayed by second display section, in history storage section.
US09036193B2	Image forming apparatus and method of controlling resources in the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a resource management part that manages, as a plurality of resources, image data to be used by a plurality of processes concerning a module in the image forming apparatus or a storage area that stores the image data, and one or more units of hardware; and an exclusive control part that, in a case where at least one resource of the plurality of resources is used, carries out exclusive control of the at least one resource, and stops or finishes exclusive control of the module.
US09036192B2	Image processing systems that establish connections using different communication protocols, data processing apparatuses that establish connections using different communication protocols, and computer-readable media storing instructions for such data processing apparatuses Image processing systems include image processing apparatuses and information processing apparatuses. Image processing apparatuses include image processing devices, which perform image processing for printing print image data, generating scanning image data, or both; and first and second communication devices, which communicate using first and second communication protocols, respectively. Information processing apparatuses include third and fourth communication devices, which communicate using the first and second communication protocols, respectively. First and third communication devices communicate therebetween using the first communication protocol to transmit connection information. Image processing apparatuses, information processing apparatuses, or both determine whether an image transmission condition for transferring the image data between second and fourth communication devices is satisfied. Second and fourth communication devices use connection information to establish communication therebetween using the second communication protocol in response to the determining that the image transmission condition is satisfied and transmit the image data therebetween using the second communication protocol.
US09036185B2	Managing network connections In one embodiment, a message is received at a network-connectable printer, from a first computer system via a first communication protocol. In response to receipt of the message, a connection between the printer and the network is established via a second communication protocol. A print job is received at the printer via the connection. The print job is caused to print at the printer. The connection is terminated after the print job is printed.
US09036182B2	Image processing apparatus that sends image data to external server, control method for image processing apparatus, and storage medium An image processing apparatus that can store a plurality of operations and easily import a template prescribing operations of the image processing apparatus to change GUI definitions. Property information is set which is for setting accompanying information added to image data sent to a server, and has a name part and a value part in which a name and a value, respectively, of the accompanying information are defined. Whether or not information indicative of a second name and information indicative of a second value are included in the value part is determined. When the information indicative of the second name and the information indicative of the second value are included in the value part, the name defined in the name part is converted to the second name, and the value defined in the value part is converted to the second value. The second name and the second value are displayed.
US09036179B2	Management system, management method, and storage medium for managing customer information and network device information A device management system totals print result information for each customer user. The device management system receives a request including customer information from a client terminal, and responds to the client with a redirect URL for causing the client to access an image forming apparatus installed in an environment corresponding to customer information included in the request in order for user authentication of the client terminal. When the image forming apparatus accessed by the client terminal has succeeded the user authentication, the print result information relating to the user is provided to the client terminal.
US09036173B2	Methods and systems to troubleshoot malfunctions in multifunction devices using a wireless handheld device The present specification discloses systems and methods for enabling users to troubleshoot multifunction devices using handheld devices, such as mobile phones. In one embodiment, software executing on the handheld device receives data indicative of an error state in a multifunction device, causes the handheld device to obtain and display an image representative of an area of the multifunction device which would need to be serviced to address the error state, determines instructions for addressing the error state, and causes the handheld device to display the instructions in relation to the image representative of an area of the multifunction device.
US09036169B2	Image forming apparatus supporting Wi-Fi direct and method of activating Wi-Fi direct A multi-function printer (MFP) supporting Wi-Fi Direct includes a print engine to perform a print operation, a first wireless interface to connect the MFP to an access point (AP) of an infrastructured network, a second wireless interface to Wi-Fi Direct connect the MFP to an external wireless terminal, a soft AP to allow the MFP to perform as an AP when the MFP is Wi-Fi Direct connected, a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server unit to allocate an internet protocol (IP) address to the wireless device that is Wi-Fi Direct connected to the MFP, a Wi-Fi Direct connection manager to manage the Wi-Fi Direct connection, and an automatic group owner (AGO) manager activate Wi-Fi direct so as to drive the soft AP and operate the MFP as a group owner (GO) when the MFP receives a Wi-Fi Direct activation request.
US09036162B2	Image sensing and printing device An image sensing and printing digital camera device includes a housing defining a slot for receiving a printed instruction card having printed thereon an array of dots representing a programming script, the housing further storing therein a roll of print media; an area image sensor for sensing an image and generating pixel data representing the image; a linear image sensor for scanning the array of dots on the card and converting the array of dots into a data signal; a microcontroller provided in the housing, the microcontroller for decoding the data signal into the programming script and applying the programming script on the pixel data; and a printing mechanism for printing the pixel data, having applied thereto the programming script, on the roll of print media. The microcontroller integrates on a single chip a VLIW processor, a printhead interface, and an output buffer effecting communication between the VLIW processor and the printhead interface.
US09036161B1	Label edge detection using out-of-plane reflection This disclosure describes an optical method of detecting the presence of pressure-sensitive labels, using the reflective properties of their edges. Labels that are removably attached to a liner are moved through a light beam that is directed across their direction of motion so the light impinges on the labels at a predetermined angle of incidence. The light remains in its plane of incidence when it reflects off all parts of the liner and labels except the labels' edges. Due to the angularity of the labels' edges, the light beam is deflected out of the plane of incidence upon reflection off the edges, thus enabling detection of the label edges by light reflected out of the plane of incidence.
US09036151B2	Optical parameter measuring apparatus and optical parameter measuring method An optical parameter measuring apparatus for measuring optical parameters of an object includes a light source, a polarizing module, a Stokes polarimeter and a calculating module. The light source emits a light which is polarized by the polarizing module and received by the Stokes polarimeter. According to the light information generated by the Stokes polarimeter, Mueller matrixes of linear birefringence, circular birefringence, linear dichroism, circular dichroism and linear/circular depolarization of the object, and Stokes vector established according to the Mueller matrixes, the calculating module calculates the optical parameters.
US09036149B2	Electrochemical sensor with diamond electrodes An electrochemical sensor comprising: a reference electrode (4) formed of an electrically conductive synthetic doped diamond material and configured to be located in electrical contact with a solution (8) to be analysed; a sensing electrode (2) formed of an electrically conductive synthetic doped diamond material and configured to be located in contact with the solution (8) to be analysed; an electrical controller (10) configured to conduct stripping voltammetric measurements by applying a voltage to the sensing electrode (2), to change the applied voltage relative to the reference electrode (4), and to measure an electric current flowing through the sensing electrode (2) thereby generating voltammetry data; and a calibration system configured to provide an in-situ calibration for providing a reference point in the voltammetric data since the potential of the diamond reference electrode is non fixed and floating. Consequently, assigning of peaks (M1, M2, M3) in the voltammetry data to chemical species (M1, M2, M3) is possible, thereby allowing the type and concentration of chemical species in the solution (8) to be determined. The in-situ calibration consists of: 1-using a spectrometer for X-rays, Gamma rays or fluorescence measurements integrated in the sensor, 2-using a known redox couple added to the solution that will provide a reference peak in the voltammetric data, or 3-producing in-situ ionic species at the vicinity of the reference electrode.
US09036144B2	Nano-/micro-droplets for the detection of analytes For a rapid and real-time SERS detection of organic chemicals in the air and the interfaces of air/solids, colloidal silver and/or gold nanoparticles solution is sprayed, in the form of nano-/micro-sized droplets, at the desired target area where the analytes of interest are present, e.g., in the air or onto certain organic/inorganic interfaces.
US09036142B2	Surface features mapping Provided herein is an apparatus, including a photon emitting means for emitting photons onto a surface of an article, a photon detecting means for detecting photons scattered from features in the surface of the article; and a mapping means for mapping the features in the surface of the article, wherein the apparatus is configured to process more than one article every 100 seconds.
US09036140B2	Optical probe system with increased scanning speed An optical probe system having a probe with an optical guide (G) having a distal end. The optical guide (G) is mounted inside a housing (H) so that the distal end is displaceable with respect to the housing (H). A set of actuators (A), e.g. electromagnetic drive coils, can displace the distal end by application of a drive signal (Vx, Vy). A control unit (CU) generates the drive signal (Vx, Vy) so as to provide a scanning frequency which varies according to an amplitude of the drive signal (Vx, Vy). With such probe system it is possible to scan a field of view with a scanning frequency that varies with the scanning radius. Taking into account the maximum allowable drive current, it is possible to increase scanning speed compared to scanning at the mechanical resonance frequency of the optical system, since small radii can be scanned at a high scanning frequency.
US09036136B2	Systems and methods for detecting tape on a document according to a predetermined sequence using line images Systems and methods for detecting tape on a document are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes capturing a first image of a document. The first image is captured while at least a portion of the document is subjected to a first electromagnetic radiation. The method includes capturing a second image of the document. The second image is captured while at least a portion of the document is subjected to a second electromagnetic radiation. The method also includes comparing the first image to the second image to determine whether tape is adhered to the document.
US09036134B2	Multi-mode optical measurement device and method of operation An optical measurement device is provided includes a tracker device configured to emit a first beam of light and receive a portion of the first beam of light reflected off of a target. The first beam of light being emitted from a gimbal location, the tracker device further including an absolute distance meter configured to determine the distance to the target. A scanner device is provided that is configured to emit a second beam of light along a pathway without reversing direction and receive a portion of the second beam of light reflected off an object. The second beam of light being emitted from the gimbal location, the scanner further being configured to determine the distance to the object based at least in part on the speed of light.
US09036132B2	Clamping device, assembly and lithographic projection apparatus A clamping device is constructed and arranged to clamp two parts together. The clamping device includes an aligner constructed and arranged to bring the two parts in an aligned position with respect to each other, a clamp constructed and arranged to maintain the two parts in the aligned position, a disconnect constructed and arranged to guide the two parts away from the aligned position to a disconnected position, and an actuator constructed and arranged to convert an electrical current to kinetic energy. The aligner, the clamp, and the disconnect are constructed and arranged to be driven by the actuator.
US09036131B2	Exposure apparatus and device fabrication method The present invention provides an exposure apparatus including a measurement unit configured to measure a position of the mark on a substrate, and a control unit configured to control an amount of light on a predetermined plane of an optical system included in the measurement unit, wherein an amount of light emitted by a light source is smaller in a non-measurement period in which the position of the mark is not measured than in a measurement period in which the position of the mark is measured, and the control unit sets a transmittance in an optical path between the light source and the predetermined plane to be higher in the non-measurement period than in the measurement period.
US09036120B2	Liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof A liquid crystal display device has a liquid crystal display panel including pixels each having an active device, a pixel electrode, a common electrode and a liquid crystal layer arranged in a dot matrix array. The liquid crystal display panel has a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has the active device, the pixel electrode, the common electrode and a first alignment film. The second substrate has a second alignment film. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are respectively a photo alignment film formed by irradiating a photo decomposition type insulating film with light. The second alignment film has a thickness of at least 10 nm and no greater 50 nm and is thinner than the first alignment film.
US09036119B2	Liquid crystal composition, liquid crystal display device, and method for producing liquid crystal display device Several aspects of the present invention provide a liquid crystal composition capable of shortening the takt time and achieving excellent display qualities, and a liquid crystal display device and a method for producing a liquid crystal display device which use the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition of several aspects of the present invention includes a liquid crystal material and one or more kinds of radical polymerizable monomers, at least one kind of the radical polymerizable monomers being a compound generating radicals through a self-cleavage reaction by exposure to light and having at least two radical polymerizable groups.
US09036118B2	Negative optical compensation assembly and method for preparing the same A method for preparing a negative optical compensation assembly includes: first providing an alignment chamber composed of a vertical alignment substrate and a horizontal alignment substrate and filling into the alignment chamber a liquid crystal mixture comprising a polymerizable discotic liquid crystal, an adjunct alignment agent, and an ultraviolet absorption pigment, and subjecting the vertical alignment substrate to ultraviolet radiation so as to polymerize the polymerizable discotic liquid crystal within the alignment chamber, thereby obtain the negative optical compensation assembly. This method can obtain hybrid alignment of discotic liquid crystal via a simple process, and therefore reduce the complexity for manufacturing the negative optical compensation assembly.
US09036116B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display area in which pixels are arranged, and a terminal portion, a counter substrate disposed opposite to the TFT substrate, a sealing material formed in a periphery to bond the TFT and counter substrates together, and with a liquid crystal layer interposed between an orientation film formed on the TFT substrate and an orientation film formed on the counter substrate. A first, second, or third color filter is formed corresponding to each of the pixels in the display area of the TFT substrate, and an orientation film stopper is formed by an overlapping portion of the first, second, or third color filter at least in an area between the display area and the terminal portion of the TFT substrate so that a profile of the orientation film is defined by the orientation film stopper.
US09036102B2	Image stabilization and shifting in a liquid crystal lens Variable liquid crystal devices for controlling the propagation of light through a liquid crystal layer use a frequency dependent material to dynamically reconfigure effective electrode structures in the device. The frequency of a drive signal that generates an electric field in the device can be varied, and the frequency dependent material has different charge mobilities for the different frequencies. At a low charge mobility, the frequency dependent material has little effect on the existing electrode structures. However, at a high charge mobility, the frequency dependent material appears as an extension of the fixed electrodes, and can be used to change the effective electrode structure and, thereby, the spatial profile of the electric field. This, in turn, changes the optical properties of the liquid crystal, thus allowing the optical device to be frequency controllable.
US09036098B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed is a liquid crystal display (LCD) device that facilitates the display of 3D images. The LCD device comprises a liquid crystal panel an upper substrate for a color filter array, a lower substrate for a TFT array, and a liquid crystal layer between the lower and upper substrates; a guide panel placed on the liquid crystal panel; a bottom cover extended to a height of an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel, the bottom cover covering lateral sides of the liquid crystal panel; a tempered polarizing glass having a plurality of polarizing patterns to circularly polarize light emitted from the liquid crystal panel leftward or rightward, the tempered polarizing glass placed on the upper surfaces of the liquid crystal panel and the bottom cover; and an adhesive layer on the upper surfaces of the liquid crystal panel and the bottom cover.
US09036089B2	Practical temporal consistency for video applications A video sequence having a plurality of frames is received. A feature in a first frame from the plurality of frames and a first position of the feature in the first frame are detected. The position of the feature in a second frame from the plurality of frames is estimated to determine a second position. A displacement vector between the first position and the second position is also computed. A plurality of content characteristics is determined for the first frame and the second frame. The displacement vector is spatially diffused with a spatial filter over a frame from the plurality of frames to generate a spatially diffused displacement vector field. The spatial filter utilizes the plurality of content characteristics. A temporal filter temporally diffuses over a video volume the spatially diffused displacement vector field to generate a spatiotemporal vector field. The temporal filter utilizes the plurality of content characteristics.
US09036076B2	Interchangeable lens, camera body and camera system for transmitting drive condition information at different frequencies An interchangeable lens that is detachably mounted at a camera body includes: a photographic optical system that includes a first drive target member and a second drive target member, and a drive condition information transmission unit that transmits to the camera body first drive condition information to the drive condition of the first drive target member and second drive condition information to the drive condition of the second optical member. The drive condition information transmission unit transmits the first drive condition information with a first frequency and transmits the second drive condition information with a second frequency lower than the first frequency by attaching the second drive condition information to the first drive condition information.
US09036075B2	Image pickup apparatus, method for controlling the same, and storage medium An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to sequentially acquire an imaging signal while a focus lens is moving, a generation unit configured to generate a focus signal by using the imaging signal, and a control unit configured to control movement of the focus lens. The control unit performs a first operation for driving the focus lens in one direction in a range including a first area and a second area which is farther from a peak position of the focus signal than the first area. In the first operation, the control unit sets a focusing speed to a first speed when the focus lens is in the first area. When a predetermined condition is satisfied in the first operation, the control unit sets a focusing speed to a second speed faster than the first speed when the focus lens is in the second area.
US09036074B2	Backside illumination image sensor, manufacturing method thereof and image-capturing device An image sensor includes a first pixel that outputs a focus detection signal, and a second pixel that includes a semiconductor layer and a wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first surface on which light enters, a second surface opposite from the first surface, and a photoelectric conversion unit that converts light to an electric charge and is disposed between the first surface and the second surface. The wiring layer is formed on a side of the second surface of the semiconductor layer and includes a signal output line through which the focus detection signal read out from the first pixel and an image-capturing signal generated according to the electric charge converted at the photoelectric conversion unit are output.
US09036073B2	Imaging apparatus and for controlling an automatic focus (AF) area and an enlargement area in a live view An imaging apparatus enables the user to separately set an AF area and an enlargement area and, when the position of the AF area is changed, eliminates time and effort to change the position of the enlargement area. To achieve this, the imaging apparatus includes an AF area setting unit configured to set an AF area used for AF indicating an area out of the live view image of a subject imaged by an imaging unit, and a control unit configured to change a position of an enlargement area indicating an area to be enlarged in conjunction with a position of the AF area set by the AF area setting unit and configured, in response to an instruction to change the position of the enlargement area, to change the position of the enlargement area without changing the position of the AF area set by the AF area setting unit.
US09036070B2	Displaying of images with lighting on the basis of captured auxiliary images For displaying a stored photographic image, an auxiliary image is captured, and light direction information is determined from the captured auxiliary image. On the basis of the determined light direction information, a lighted image is generated from the stored photographic image. The lighted image is then displayed.
US09036067B2	Solid-state imaging device including a shielding film over a floating diffusion region, fabrication method and electronic apparatus A solid-state imaging device includes a photodetector which is formed on a substrate and is configured to generate signal charge by photoelectric conversion, a floating diffusion configured to receive the signal charge generated by the photodetector, a plurality of MOS transistors including a transfer transistor that transfers the signal charge to the floating diffusion and an amplification transistor that outputs an pixel signal corresponding to a potential of the floating diffusion, a multi-wiring layer which is formed in a layer higher than the substrate and is composed of a plurality of wiring layers electrically connected to the MOS transistors via contact portions, and a light-shielding film that is constituted by a bottom wiring layer disposed in a layer higher than the substrate and lower than the multi-wiring layer.
US09036066B2	Solid-state image pickup device, method of controlling solid-state image pickup device, and image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and outputs signals corresponding to the light quantity incident on each pixel. Each pixel includes: a first pixel that is equipped with a first photoelectric conversion means that converts incident light into an electrical signal to store it; and a second pixel that is equipped with a second photoelectric conversion means that converts incident light into an electrical signal to store it, and a light beam selecting means that selects a light beam that is incident on the second photoelectric conversion means. The solid-state image pickup device includes: a first scanning circuit; and a second scanning circuit. The solid-state image pickup device outputs the electrical signals stored in the first photoelectric conversion means as image signals, and outputs the electrical signals stored in the second photoelectric conversion means as focus signals.
US09036063B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus In the solid-state imaging apparatus, the carrier holding portion is arranged at a position in a first direction from a photoelectric conversion portion, a floating diffusion region is arranged at a position in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction from the carrier holding portion with a transfer portion sandwiched between the floating diffusion region and the carrier holding portion, the carrier holding portion included in the first pixel is arranged between the photoelectric conversion portion included in the first pixel and the photoelectric conversion portion included in the second pixel, the carrier holding portion included in the first pixel is covered with a light shielding portion, and the light shielding portion extends over a part of each of the photoelectric conversion portions included in the first and second pixels.
US09036058B2	Method and system for reducing chromatic aberration A method of processing a polychromatic image is disclosed. The method comprises, for each of at least a portion of the picture elements, assigning to the picture element a new color value for each individual color, and storing the new values in a computer readable medium. The new values are assigned by: processing each of a first and a second colors of the picture element, based, at least in part on first and second colors of peripheral picture elements, to respectively provide a first processed color value and a second processed color value; employing optimization for reducing error and for assigning to the picture element a new color value for each of the first and second colors; and assigning to the picture element a new color value for a third color calculated based, at least in part, on the new color values for the first and second colors.
US09036055B2	Data processing apparatus and method of controlling same In a data processing apparatus having a plurality of card slots in which memory cards are removably inserted, it is determined, with regard to each of the plurality of card slots, whether a memory card that has been inserted into the slot is a wireless card having a wireless communication function. In a case where it is determined that a memory card that has been inserted into a first card slot among the plurality of card slots is the wireless card, the wireless communication function of the wireless card is enabled. In a case where it is determined that a memory card that has been inserted into a card slot other than the first card slot is the wireless card, the wireless communication function of the wireless card is disabled.
US09036054B2	Autofocusing optical imaging device An optical imager includes: an image sensor for capturing images of targets and outputting image signals; a lens for focusing the target on the image sensor as a function of lens position; a memory for storing predetermined lens positions determined from predetermined target sizes; and a controller for determining current target size based on captured images and positioning the lens at a predetermined lens position by correlating current target size with predetermined target sizes.
US09036053B2	Method and system for processing digital images having an association file separate from an image life A portable image capture device, program and method for controlling and managing data captured thereby. A device program residing on the portable image capture device generally associates data processing attributes with image files generated for image data captured by the portable image capture device. In some embodiments, the device program associates data processing attributes related to prompts for pre-defined image data with corresponding image files generated in response to the prompts. The device program, and attribute and prompt data therefor are created on a data processing system and are transferrable therefrom to the portable image capture device.
US09036048B2	Compound camera sensor and related method of processing digital images In one embodiment, a light sensor includes four cell arrays, one for each color of the Bayer pattern, and four lenses each focusing the light coming from the scene to be captured on a respective cell array. The lenses are oriented such that at least a second green image, commonly provided by the fourth cell array, is both horizontally and vertically shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from a first (reference) green image. In a second embodiment, the four lenses are oriented such that the red and blue images are respectively shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the first or reference green image, one horizontally and the other vertically, and the second green image is shifted (spaced) apart by half a pixel pitch from the reference green image both horizontally and vertically.
US09036044B1	Adjusting camera parameters associated with a plurality of images Systems and methods for adjusting a camera parameter associated with a plurality of two-dimensional images are provided. Matched features can be selected as constraints for bundle adjustment using a graph model constructed based on the matched features. The graph model can have a plurality of nodes including a source node, a sink node, a point node for every matched feature, and a pose pair node associated with each pose pair viewing a matched feature. The graph model can include a plurality of edges interconnecting the plurality of nodes in the graph model. Each of these edges can be assigned a capacity and a cost based on various parameters. A flow can be computed through each of the edges of the graph model using, for instance, a minimum-cost maximum-flow algorithm. Matched features can be selected for bundle adjustment based on the flows of the edges in the graph model.
US09036041B2	Stepped ramp signal generator and image sensor using the same A stepped ramp signal generator includes a ramp signal generation unit configured to provide final values of previous stepped ramp signals as initial values of the next stepped ramp signals. The ramp signal generation unit includes a plurality of matching resistors, and a plurality of holders installed between the matching resistors, each holder storing a final value across a previous matching resistor and providing the final value to a next matching resistor.
US09036040B1	Vehicle identification number capture An image processing system may process an image of indicia positioned behind a reflective surface. The indicia may be a vehicle identification number and the reflective surface may be a windshield of a vehicle. The image processing system may receive an initial image of the indicia positioned behind a reflective surface and process the initial image to produce a resulting image. In processing the initial image, the image processing system may identify an interest region of the initial image, where the interest region identifies a portion of the initial image affected by glare caused by the reflective surface, texturize the interest region to account for the glare, and remove a defocusing effect from the initial image to account for blur, reflection, or both, caused by the reflective surface. Then, the image processing system may extract data, such as the vehicle identification number, from the resulting image.
US09036038B2	Information processing apparatus and method for extracting and categorizing postures of human figures An information processing apparatus includes an image pickup unit, an extracting unit, an estimating unit, a categorizing unit, and a recording control unit. The image pickup unit captures an image of a subject. The extracting unit extracts a human figure from the captured image of the subject captured by the image pickup unit. The estimating unit estimates a posture of the human figure extracted by the extracting unit. The categorizing unit categorizes the posture of the human figure estimated by the estimating unit into a previously prepared pose. The recording control unit controls recording of the captured image on the basis of the pose that the posture of the human figure is categorized into by the categorizing unit.
US09036034B2	Image pickup apparatus and image shake correction method A system controller sets an optical correction ratio, which is a distribution ratio in which a shake angle detected by a gyro sensor is distributed to optical shake correction, in accordance with an optical zoom magnification and controls a prism driver to correct the shake angle multiplied by the optical correction ratio by the optical shake correction, and also controls a read controller to correct the rest of the angle by electronic shake correction.
US09036033B2	Digital image processing apparatus and method of estimating global motion of image Provided are a digital image processing apparatus which corrects a position of each of a plurality of template motion vectors of an image frame of a captured image by considering relative positions of neighboring motion vectors respectively similar to each of the template motion vectors, calculates a score of each of the template motion vectors by considering a number of the neighboring motion vectors, and selects a global motion vector representing the image frame based on the score, and a method of estimating a global motion of an image to stabilize the captured image using the global motion.
US09036029B2	Active cloaking with wideband transducers Electro-mechanical transducers are used to actively cloak a targeted object in a way that absorbs incoming waves without reflection, sends them out the opposite side of the target and returns the wave without leaving a shadow behind the target. The present invention pertains to an improvement in the cloaking of an object without requiring the use of special materials for the object itself and allows the use of SONAR and other possible transducer systems that would be covered and rendered ineffective with passive cloaking materials. Other means are also provided for extending the bandwidth as well as increasing the efficiency for cloaking or other transducers.
US09036024B2	Apparatus for optically inspecting electronic circuits An installation of optical inspection of integrated circuits or the like, comprising: a planar conveyor along a first direction of the objects to be analyzed and a photographic system placed above an area of the conveyor and in a fixed position with respect thereto, the photographic system comprising at least one first set of digital cameras each comprising an orthogonal array of pixels, said cameras being aligned in a second direction different from the first one, the cameras being all oriented so that one of the orthogonal directions of their pixel array forms a first angle with the first direction.
US09036023B2	Method and system for monitoring and controlling a glass container forming process The present invention relates to a method and system for monitoring and controlling a glass container forming process. The radiation emitted by each hot glass container is measured with measurement unit immediately after the forming machine. The described method normalizes the measurement from glass container to glass container and thereby removes the effects of overall temperature variations between glass containers, changing ambient conditions, and other variations affecting the measurements, which provides a unique quality reference for each glass container. By reviewing this reference for each produced glass container, the quality of the produced containers can be improved.
US09036019B2	Fall detection and reporting technology Fall detection and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense, in a room of a building, activity associated with a patient falling is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the room based on the monitoring. An image of the room is captured with a camera positioned to include the patient within a field of view of the camera and the captured image of the room is analyzed to detect a state of the patient at a time of capturing the image. A potential fall event for the patient is determined based on the detected state of the patient and a message indicating the potential fall event for the patient is sent based on the determination of the potential fall event for the patient. Techniques are also described for fall detection and reporting using an on-body sensing device.
US09036004B2	Three-dimensional image capture device A 3D image capture device includes: a light transmitting member 2 with polarizing areas and a non-polarizing area; a solid-state image sensor 1 for receiving the light transmitted through the member 2; an imaging section 3 for producing an image on the imaging area 1a of the sensor 1; and an image generating section. The member 2 has n polarizing areas P(1), P(2), . . . and P(n) (where n is an integer and n≧2), each of which transmits only a light ray polarized in a particular direction, and a non-polarizing area P(n+1) that transmits any light ray irrespective of its polarization direction. Those n polarizing areas have mutually different transmission axis directions. The sensor 1 includes a pixel array, divided into pixel blocks each consisting of (n+1) pixels, and a filter array including n polarization filters arranged so as to face n out of the (n+1) pixels and having different transmission axis directions. The image generating section generates images based on the light rays that have entered the n polarizing areas and the non-polarizing area using pixel signals supplied from those pixels.
US09036003B2	Multi-pitching angle suspended 3D display device with 360-degree field of view This invention discloses a multi-pitching angle suspended space 3D display device with 360° FOV, comprising: a transmitted composite deflective diffusing screen, a high speed projector, an image generator, a detecting module and a rotating drive mechanism. The high speed projector projects the composite images of the 3D objects of different pitching angles and horizontal 360° views to the composite deflective diffusing screen that rotates at a high speed. The composite deflective diffusing screen is able to control the vertical deflecting and scattering angles and horizontal diffusing angle for incident rays with different angles, allowing the surrounding viewers at different height levels to see the images corresponding to their viewpoints, making the displayed 3D objects suspended over the composite deflecting scattering screen, of which the position does not change as the height of the viewpoint changes. The multi-pitching angle suspended space 3D display device with 360° FOV allows watching by multiple persons at multiple pitching angles and horizontal 360° FOV in naked eyes, realizing space occlusion, exploration and interaction.
US09035991B2	Collaboration system and method A network apparatus in a collaboration system with a plurality of participants, the apparatus comprising: a processing structure; and a memory including computer program code, wherein the memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processing structure, to cause the network apparatus to at least: present content on a display coupled to the processing structure; select a portion of the display for sharing, the portion having the shared content; simultaneously send said shared content to said display and to an encoder for encoding; automatically discover a network server configured to distribute the shared content with the plurality of participants; couple the apparatus to the network server and transmit the shared content to the network server for distribution to at least one of the plurality of participants, such that the shared content is encoded and decoded, and displayed in real-time.
US09035969B2	Method for multiple projector display using a GPU frame buffer A primary image is transformed into secondary images for projection, via first and second frame buffers and view projection matrixes. To do so, a first image is loaded into the first frame buffer. A calibration data set, including the view projection matrixes, is loaded into an application. The matrixes are operable to divide and transform a primary image into secondary images that can be projected in an overlapping manner onto a projection screen, providing a corrected reconstruction of the primary image. The first image is rendered from the first frame buffer into the second images, by using the application to apply the calibration data set. The second images are loaded into a second frame buffer, which can be coupled to the video projectors.
US09035962B2	Technique to share information among different cache coherency domains A technique to enable information sharing among agents within different cache coherency domains. In one embodiment, a graphics device may use one or more caches used by one or more processing cores to store or read information, which may be accessed by one or more processing cores in a manner that does not affect programming and coherency rules pertaining to the graphics device.
US09035960B2	Technique to share information among different cache coherency domains A technique to enable information sharing among agents within different cache coherency domains. In one embodiment, a graphics device may use one or more caches used by one or more processing cores to store or read information, which may be accessed by one or more processing cores in a manner that does not affect programming and coherency rules pertaining to the graphics device.
US09035955B2	Synchronizing virtual actor's performances to a speaker's voice A system for generating and displaying holographic visual aids associated with a story to an end user of a head-mounted display device while the end user is reading the story or perceiving the story being read aloud is described. The story may be embodied within a reading object (e.g., a book) in which words of the story may be displayed to the end user. The holographic visual aids may include a predefined character animation that is synchronized to a portion of the story corresponding with the character being animated. A reading pace of a portion of the story may be used to control the playback speed of the predefined character animation in real-time such that the character is perceived to be lip-syncing the story being read aloud. In some cases, an existing book without predetermined AR tags may be augmented with holographic visual aids.
US09035946B1	Computer hardware architecture and data structures for triangle binning to support incoherent ray traversal A new hardware architecture defines an indexing and encoding method for accelerating incoherent ray traversal. Accelerating multiple ray traversal may be accomplished by organizing the rays for minimal movement of data, hiding latency due to external memory access, and performing adaptive binning Rays may be binned into coarse grain and fine grain spatial bins, independent of direction.
US09035940B2	Apparatus and associated methods In one or more embodiments described herein, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory having computer program code stored thereon, the computer program code and at least one memory being configured to, when run on the at least one processor, perform detection of physical tilting of a display. The display is configured to provide user visual output associated with at least one running application. The at least one running application also has a virtual keyboard associated therewith provided on the display. The computer program code and at least one memory are also configured to, when run on the at least one processor, provide, in response to detection of said physical tilting of said display, corresponding graphical tilting of an onscreen area of a display to reveal a previously off-screen area of the user visual output associated with the at least one running application.
US09035928B2	Display device and output buffer circuit for driving the same Disclosed herein is a display device including: a plurality of pixel circuits; a power source line connected to corresponding ones of the plurality of pixel circuits; and an output buffer circuit for supplying currents to corresponding ones of the plurality of pixel circuits by alternately applying a first potential applied to a first power source supply terminal, and a second potential applied to a second power source supply terminal to the power source line. The output buffer includes a variable resistance circuit connected to a path between the first power source supply terminal and the power source line, the variable resistance circuit serving to change a resistance value thereof in accordance with a magnitude of a total sum of the currents.
US09035917B2	ASIC controller for light-based sensor A controller for a light-based touch screen including a chip package coupled with a light-based touch screen, emitter driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating a plurality of photoemitters that are outside of the chip package, detector driver circuitry inside the chip package for selectively activating a plurality of photo detectors that are outside of the chip package, detector signal processing circuitry for generating detection signals representing measured amounts of light detected on the plurality of photo detectors, a first plurality of signal conducting pins for connecting the plurality of photoemitters outside the chip package to the emitter driver circuitry inside the chip package, a second plurality of signal conducting pins for connecting the plurality of photo detectors outside the chip package to the detector driver circuitry and to the detector signal processing circuitry inside the chip package, controller circuitry inside the chip package for controlling the emitter driver circuitry and the detector driver circuitry, and at least one input/output pin for communicating with a host processor and for outputting the detection signals generated by the detector signal processing circuitry to the host processor, for the host processor to identify one or more locations on the touch screen that are being touched.
US09035905B2	Apparatus and associated methods An apparatus, the apparatus comprising at least one processor, and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: use a determined user's grip of a portable electronic device as a user input to the portable electronic device to control data streaming functionality provided using the portable electronic device.
US09035902B2	Electronic device and control method thereof An electronic device includes a sensing unit, a charge-and-discharge circuit, and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes a control unit, a detecting unit, a determining unit, and an executing unit. The control unit provides a plurality of periodic pulses to the sensing unit and the charge-and-discharge circuit, such that they are charged and discharged periodically and output a sensing voltage. The sensing unit detects the sensing voltage, and determines a charging time according to the sensing voltage, wherein the charging time is a time at which the sensing voltage reaches a predetermined voltage. The determining unit determines whether to trigger an interrupt request according to the charging time. The executing unit performs a designated application when the interrupt request is received.
US09035899B2	Systems and methods for piezo-based haptic feedback Systems and methods for piezo-based haptic feedback are disclosed. For example, one described apparatus for piezo-based haptic feedback includes a polymer matrix, and a piezoelectric actuator at least partially embedded within the polymer matrix, the piezoelectric actuator configured to output a haptic effect.
US09035898B2	System and methods for raised touch screens A touch sensitive display assembly includes a touch screen and a button array. The touch screen is configured to display one or more input keys. The button array includes one or more buttons corresponding to the one or more input keys. The button array is formed by a substrate attached to a button membrane thereby creating a set of button cavities corresponding to the input keys. The button cavities are configured to be inflated and deflated by a pump coupled to a fluid reservoir. The cavities can be inflated/deflated together, in subsets, and/or individually. In some embodiments, the button array is sandwiched between a touch sensing layer and a display of the touch screen. In other embodiments, the button array can be located either above or below the touch screen.
US09035896B2	Information sharing apparatus and information sharing system A novel information sharing apparatus that comprises an information sharing system, connects multiple sites via a network shares each other's handwriting and screens, and eases handwriting sender's psychological burden. In the information sharing system, a handwriting sender generates stroke after a user inputs coordinates, display the stroke in unsteady state, and sends coordinate information to a handwriting receiver. The handwriting receiver generates stroke based on the coordinate information sent from the handwriting sender, displays the stroke, and returns response information for displaying succeeded to the handwriting sender. After receiving the response information from the handwriting receiver, the handwriting sender changes the displayed stroke from unsteady state to steady state.
US09035894B2	Touch sensing and feedback apparatuses and methods A touch sensing and feedback apparatus comprises a feedback electrode, a reference electrode electrically insulated from the feedback electrode, a signal generator to generate a sensing driving signal and transmit the sensing driving signal to a sensing electrode, and a signal detector coupled to a detecting electrode to detect the sensing driving signal and generate a touch action signal based on the detected sensing driving signal. The signal generator generates a feedback driving signal and transmits the feedback driving signal to the feedback electrode based on the touch action signal, and generates a reference driving signal and transmits the reference driving signal to the reference electrode based on the touch action signal. The reference driving signal maintains the reference electrode electrically-grounded.
US09035891B2	Multi-point touch-sensitive sensor user interface using distinct digit identification For digit identification on a multi-point touch sensitive sensor, an assignment module assigns a digit identity to each digit of at least two digits in contact with a multi-point touch sensitive sensor during a learning phase. The digit identity includes a distinct representation of each digit. A receiving module detects a digit interaction of one or more particular digits of the at least two digits with the multi-point touch-sensitive sensor. A determination module recognizes the assigned digit identity for each particular digit involved in the digit interaction.
US09035889B2	Information processing apparatus and information processing method An information processing apparatus may include a detection unit and a switching unit. The detection unit detects an amount of change in a position of an object of interest per a predetermined time period. The switching unit switches between a first mode for determining a first operation position on a display surface based on the position and direction of an object of interest and a second mode for determining a second operation position on the display surface based on a position where the object of interest is in contact with the display surface using the detected amount of change.
US09035888B1	User input method for mobile station having a touchscreen display A mobile station having a touchscreen display and function key allows users to quickly input data. The mobile station displays key input sectors including displayed representations of data characters for the user to select. Upon touch by the user, the mobile station senses the location of the touch and highlights the displayed representation of the corresponding data character. While the data character is highlighted, the user further activates the mobile station and the mobile station senses the user's selection of the highlighted data character. The mobile station processes data corresponding to the selected data character as the user input data.
US09035885B2	Optical input apparatus An optical input apparatus is provided and includes an input device for providing data and control signals to a computer; and at least one object sensing module disposed on a top of the input device and each including an optical sensor and a light source. The light source is capable of emitting light upward divergently to create a virtual sensing space above.
US09035883B2	Systems and methods for modifying virtual keyboards on a user interface A method and apparatus for modifying virtual keyboards is disclosed. An electronic device displays (705) a first virtual keyboard on a user interface. The electronic device detects (710) a selection of the first virtual keyboard and identifies (715) a user interaction with the first virtual keyboard. The user interaction can be a drag-and-drop resizing, a multiplicative selection of the user interface, or other gestures. After identifying a location associated with the user interaction, the electronic device determines (735, 750, 760) a second virtual keyboard of a different type than the first virtual keyboard based on the location and displays (740, 765) the second virtual keyboard on the user interface.
US09035882B2	Computer input device A computer input device is disclosed which comprised a keyboard having a plurality of keys for entering commands and characters into the computer, the keyboard having a designated surface area overlaying the plurality of keys, at least one of the plurality of keys being located outside of the designated surface area, a touch sensor for detecting one or more touches by one or more objects on the designated surface area of the keyboard, and an input processor configured to switch the keyboard into a mouse mode when the touch sensor having detected the designated surface area being touched by a single object, the input processor configured to switch the keyboard into a keyboard mode when the touch sensor having detected the designated surface area being touched by two or more objects.
US09035880B2	Controlling images at hand-held devices Controlling images at hand-held devices using sensor input, for example, as detected by one or more orientation sensors in a hand-held computing device is described. In various embodiments images are displayed at a hand-held computing device according to orientation sensor readings observed at the device and before user input is received at the images. For example, two or more images with different opacities are superimposed and the opacities differentially varied as the hand-held device is tilted. In another example images are placed in a 3D space which is rotated as the device is tilted. In another example, a video is played either forwards or backwards according to an orientation of the device. In various examples the images are displayed as part of a web page by using a template in the web page to control the display of images according to sensor readings.
US09035874B1	Providing user input to a computing device with an eye closure Various embodiments enable additional content or features to be displayed to a user in response to detecting one eye of the user being closed either as a wink or for a duration of time. In one example, the additional content is graphical overlay, such as a menu containing selectable graphical elements to perform functions related to an application, game, or content, of global navigational features of the computing device in general, or to alternate views, features, or supplemental content for an application or game currently being displayed on a computing device. In one example, the overlay may be displayed only as long as the user keeps one eye closed or, alternatively, the user could wink to display the overlay and provide some other input to remove the overlay.
US09035868B2	Method for driving a light source module and display apparatus for performing the method A method for driving a light source module, the light source module including a plurality of light-emitting blocks, a driving mode of the light-emitting block providing light to a plurality of pixels displaying a unit image is determined by analyzing grayscale values corresponding to the pixels. A second driving signal is applied to the light-emitting block determined to be in a boosting mode, the second driving signal having a level higher than the level of a first driving signal applied to the light-emitting block determined to be in a normal mode.
US09035859B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel and a shutter panel that is provided on the viewer side of the display panel and includes a first liquid crystal element and a second liquid crystal element adjacent to each other. In a first display state, a first light-shielding region and a first light-transmitting region are formed in the shutter panel by the first liquid crystal element, and light from the display panel is emitted through the first light-transmitting region. In a second display state, a second light-shielding region larger than the first light-shielding region and a second light-transmitting region smaller than the first light-transmitting region are formed in the shutter panel by the first liquid crystal element and the second liquid crystal element, and light from the display panel is emitted through the second light-transmitting region.
US09035853B2	Light-emitting device There is provided an EL light-emitting device with less uneven brightness. When a drain current of a plurality of current controlling TFTs is Id, a mobility is μ, a gate capacitance per unit area is Co, a maximum gate voltage is Vgs(max), a channel width is W, a channel length is L, an average value of a threshold voltage is Vth, a deviation from the average value of the threshold voltage is ΔVth, and a difference in emission brightness of a plurality of EL elements is within a range of ±n %, a semiconductor display device is characterized in that A = 2 ⁢ Id μ * C 0 A ( Vgs ( max ) - Vth ) 2 ≦ W L ≦ ( 1 + n 100 - 1 ) 2 * A Δ ⁢ ⁢ Vth 2  Δ ⁢ ⁢ Vth  ≦ ( 1 + n 100 - 1 ) * A * L / W
US09035841B2	Communication electronic device and antenna structure thereof A communication electronic device which comprises a grounding element and a slot antenna is provided. The slot antenna is formed by a feeding element, a first slot, a second slot, and a third slot. The first slot is an open slot, which has an open end at the first side edge and a closed end extended toward the interior of the electrical conductor. The second slot is an open slot, which also has an open end at the first side edge and a closed end extended toward the interior of the electrical conductor. The second slot is substantially parallel to the first slot and is closer than the first slot to the grounding element. The third slot is a closed slot, whose two closed ends are all in the interior of the electrical conductor. The third slot is aligned between the first slot and the second slot.
US09035840B1	Dual-band antenna with grounded patch and coupled feed Methods and systems for radiating electromagnetic energy with a patch antenna structure are described. The patch antenna structure may be formed of a metal member of the user device and is coupled to a ground plane in a first plane and is coupled to a radio frequency (RF) feed) at a portion of the patch antenna structure disposed in a second plane. The patch antenna structure is configured to radiate at an opening between the patch antenna and the ground plane.
US09035839B2	Multi-feed diversity receive system and method Embodiments disclosed herein relate to diversity receive systems and methods. An antenna system may comprise a reflector and a plurality of feed antennas configured to receive a wireless signal from a common source with directional diversity. A receive system may comprise such antenna system in combination with a plurality of receivers and/or demodulators, and in combination with a combiner and/or controller.
US09035834B2	Vehicle antenna An RF antenna system is provided for mounting on a window of a vehicle comprising exterior and interior window mountable portions. The first and second portions include an RF coupling section (4) to inductively couple an RF signal received from antenna (20) and a power coupling section (6) for providing external power to an external amplification portion 52 for amplifying received RF signals. The system includes a further electrical connection (16) to a metallic shim (18) which is magnetically fixed to the roof of the vehicle and electrically connected thereto, whereby the roof provides a ground plane for the antenna, by capacitive coupling of the metallic shim to the vehicle roof.
US09035831B2	Bi-directional magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial (MPEM) substrate for antenna miniaturization A bi-directional antenna includes a plurality of unit cells stacked in two perpendicular planes (Y-X and Z-X planes) to form cube shaped unit cells whereby inductive loops are placed on four faces corresponding to the Y-X and Z-X planes. Each unit cell includes a magnetic permeability enhanced metamaterial. The resulting antenna has the ability to couple magnetic fields oriented in both the X and Y directions with increased permeabilities and can be used to realize a variety of different antenna architectures that do not have their magnetic field confined in a single direction.
US09035823B2	Method for monitoring the state of a fill level measuring device operating according to the radar principle A method for monitoring the state of a fill level measuring device (1) operating according to the radar principle and such a fill level measuring device, wherein the fill level measuring device (1) has at least one transceiver unit (2) for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals, and at least one antenna (3) for guiding, radiating and receiving electromagnetic signals. The antenna (3) has at least one interior space (4), and wherein the antenna (3) has a transmission characteristic with regard to the transmission of electromagnetic signals. Electromagnetic signals are emitted or directed at least partially in the direction of a wall section (5) of the interior space (4) of the antenna (3), the received electromagnetic signals are evaluated with respect to the transmission characteristic of the antenna (3), and the result of the evaluation is compared to at least one stored reference value.
US09035814B2	Feedforward delta-sigma modulator A feedforward delta-sigma modulator includes a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter, a digital-to-analog converter, N integrators, a first adder, a second adder, and an optimization zero generation unit, where N is a positive integer. An output terminal of each integrator of the N integrators is coupled to the successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The digital-to-analog converter is coupled between the first adder and the successive approximation analog-to-digital converter. The first adder is coupled to an input terminal of a first integrator of the N integrator. The second adder is coupled to an input terminal of a Kth integrator of the N integrators, where K is a positive integer. The optimization zero generation unit is coupled between an output terminal of a (K+1)th integrator of the N integrators and the second adder.
US09035813B2	Technique for excess loop delay compensation in delta-sigma modulators A technique for excess loop delay compensation in delta sigma modulator. The delta sigma modulator includes a loop filter. The loop filter receives an analog input signal and an output of a digital to analog converter. A comparator receives an output of the loop filter and generates a digital output signal. A reference select logic unit receives the digital output signal as a feedback and generates one or more switching signals. One or more switches are coupled to the comparator and each switch receives a pre-computed reference voltage. The one or more switches are activated by the one or more switching signals in response to the digital output signal.
US09035811B2	Analog digital data conversion method, analog digital data converter, and analog digital conversion chip The present invention is applicable to the field of communication, and provides an analog digital data conversion method, an analog digital data convertor and an analog digital conversion chip. The method includes: converting multiple groups of analog data to multiple groups of digital data; performing frequency shift on the multiple groups of digital data, wherein the multiple groups of frequency shifted digital data are independently distributed within a first preset bandwidth; filtering the multiple groups of frequency shifted digital data to remove outband information; and distributing without overlap the filtered multiple groups of digital data within a second preset bandwidth. The method substantially reduces pressure of data transmission between the converter and an FPGA or ASIC, and effectively simplifying the design of a multiband receiver.
US09035805B2	System and method for providing a single and dual key press keypad A system and method for receiving character entries in mobile computer devices uses an improved keypad. The keypad uses a dual key press method in which each key of the keypad includes a unique key definition when it alone is pressed. Each of two adjacent keys of the keypad also include a unique key definition when the two adjacent keys are pressed at substantially the same time. A keypad controller receives inputs from the keys and decodes the single key entries and the dual key entries. The keypad occupies a relatively small keypad area while providing full size keys for the user. The keypad also has a mode key that enables a user to change the alphabet mode of the keypad to a numerical mode.
US09035795B2	Method and apparatus for providing public transportation service in a communication system A method and apparatus for providing a public transportation service in a communication system includes transmitting a signal representing an existence of a passenger at a particular stop terminal, and transmitting a signal representing information on a number of vehicles at to the stop terminal for selection by a user.
US09035793B2	Methods and apparatus for monitoring a plurality of worksites Embodiments provide methods for monitoring a plurality of worksites at a facility, the methods including transporting a central monitoring station package to the facility, seating a transport container, stationing worksite monitoring equipment packages at the worksites, connecting communication links from the worksite monitoring equipment packages to central monitoring station equipment, transmitting remote transmissions from worksite monitoring equipment packages to central monitoring station equipment, displaying worksite monitoring information for a monitoring technician, and responding when remote monitoring information received from a worksite meets a response threshold criteria.
US09035790B2	Wireless power transfer electric vehicle supply equipment installation and validation tool A transmit pad inspection device includes a magnetic coupling device, which includes an inductive circuit that is configured to magnetically couple to a primary circuit of a charging device in a transmit pad through an alternating current (AC) magnetic field. The inductive circuit functions as a secondary circuit for a set of magnetically coupled coils. The magnetic coupling device further includes a rectification circuit, and includes a controllable load bank or is configured to be connected to an external controllable load back. The transmit pad inspection device is configured to determine the efficiency of power transfer under various coupling conditions. In addition, the transmit pad inspection device can be configured to measure residual magnetic field and the frequency of the input current, and to determine whether the charging device has been installed properly.
US09035781B2	Apparatus and method for automatically detecting and alerting of gas-out conditions for a gas appliance during operation A gas appliance monitoring apparatus for automatically detecting and alerting to a “gas-out” condition of a gas appliance during operation, and/or for alerting to the presence of prolonged “gas-on” conditions of an appliance. The apparatus utilizes a highly sensitive low loss and low flow gas flow indicator with multiple flow sensors to monitor the gas flow characteristics of the appliance during use. A gas flow analyzer and alarm timing mechanism analyzes the gas flow characteristics and sounds an alarm at the appliance or wirelessly at a remote location upon detection of either of the above conditions. A biasing attraction magnet is incorporated in the fluid flow indicator to offset either the force of gravity or a return spring in low flow/low pressure applications. The piston is sealed for use in high pressure/low flow applications, and provided with a vent hole for residual gas bleed-off upon a stoppage of gas flow.
US09035774B2	Interrogator and system employing the same An interrogator and system employing the same. In one embodiment, the interrogator includes a receiver configured to receive a return signal from a tag and a sensing module configured to provide a time associated with the return signal. The interrogator also includes a processor configured to employ synthetic aperture radar processing on the return signal in accordance with the time to locate a position of the tag.
US09035773B2	Environment monitoring and recording tag with remote sensing capability A tag includes an integrated circuit thereon, including memory, antenna means for RF transmission of data acquired by the integrated circuit, a sensor sensing environmental conditions to which the sensor is subjected, the sensor providing signals based on the environmental conditions to the integrated circuit, a thermistor device of increasing the accuracy of the tag by confining on-board calculation data to a resistance domain and leaving conversion of the data to a temperature domain for an external device once the data is retrieved from the tag's memory.
US09035772B2	Tracking RFID objects with integrated communication link A wireless system (101) includes a plurality of objects (106). The wireless system includes a controller 102 and a radio frequency identification (RFID) read-write (RW) device (103, 104, 105). Each of the objects includes an RFED device (107) and a transceiver (108). An object and methods of tracking objects are also disclosed.
US09035767B2	Analyte monitoring system and methods Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed.
US09035763B2	Processing alarm signals Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing alarm signals are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may be registered with a security system that is installed at a premises. Subsequently, an alarm trigger associated with the security system may be received. Based on receiving the alarm trigger, the location of the mobile device may be determined. A response to the alarm trigger then may be determined based on the location of the mobile device.
US09035762B2	Method and system for locating signal emitters using cross-correlation of received signal strengths A method and system for determining a location of a first device that emits a signal: provide at least three sensors separated and spaced apart from each other; at each of the sensors, receive the signal emitted by the first device; determine the received signals for each of the sensors; determine cross-correlations of the received signals for pairs of the sensors; and determine the location of the first device from the magnitudes of the cross-correlations of the received signals.
US09035757B2	Communication system and communication device A communication system has a first communication device, and a second communication device that conducts wireless communication the first communication device. The first communication device has a first transmitter that transmits a signal to the second communication device while modulating the signal, and a first transmission controller that controls the first transmitter. The second communication device has a first receiver that receives the signal from the first communication device and demodulates the received signal. The first transmission controller performs control so as to change a modulation method in midstream when a predetermined first signal is modulated and transmitted. The first receiver changes a demodulation method according to the change of the modulation method of the first signal in midstream when the first signal is received and demodulated.
US09035745B2	Biometric authentication A tool for determining whether to grant a current person access to a protected resource. A computer receives a plurality of touches performed by a current person on a touch screen. Each touch in the plurality of touches includes a location of the touch on the touch screen and a surface area measurement of the touch screen impacted by the current person. The computer determines whether each touch in the plurality of touches received matches a predetermined touch performed by a person authorized to access the protected resource. If each touch in the set of touches received matches a stored touch performed by a person authorized to access the protected resource the current person will be granted access to the protected resource.
US09035743B2	Song selection based upon axial pen pressure Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs encoded on computer readable media, for determining, using a pressure sensor, pressure data comprising a pressure indication and a time indication. A first mood is determined based upon the pressure data and one or more songs are selected based upon the determined first mood. A playlist is modified based upon the selected one or more songs, wherein the modified playlist comprises the selected one or more songs and the modified playlist is played. Song data, based upon the modified playlist, is wirelessly transmitted to a remote device.
US09035742B2	Electronic compensated pivot control In embodiments of electronic compensated pivot control, a computing device includes a device housing that is integrated with a display device, and the device housing tilts for multiple display positions. Pivotable components pivot in coordination to position the device housing in a display position, and sensors detect positioning inputs that are received to re-position the device housing of the computing device. Actuators are implemented for electronic actuation to limit movement of the pivotable components, and alternatively, to drive the pivotable components to re-position the device housing. A pivot controller is implemented to control the actuators based on sensor data to position the device housing in a display position.
US09035735B2	Coil terminal An object of the present invention is to provide a contact coil terminal having smaller numbers of components and assembling manhours, and thus, higher productivity. For this, there is a coil terminal 153 in which a press-fitting portion is pressed into a press-fitting groove (152c) provided at a corner portion of a flange portion (152a) of a spool (152) with a coil wound therearound, and a lead-out line of the coil is entwined around a coil entwining portion (153a) projected from the flange portion (152a), and the coil entwining portion (153a) is bent and raised. Particularly, the coil entwining portion (153a) extends in an opposite direction of a press-fitting direction of the press-fitting portion so as to be able to be bent and raised, and a lead wire connecting portion (153b) extends laterally to the press-fitting direction so as to be able to be bent and raised.
US09035734B2	Coil component A coil component includes a coil section, an outer package, and a pair of outer electrodes. The outer package is made of magnetic material, embeds the coil section therein, and has a bottom face, a top face provided with cut-out sections, a first lateral face, and a second lateral face. Each of the pair of outer electrodes extends from both ends of the coil section, and is pulled out from the first lateral face, and then is bent toward the bottom face, and yet is bent along the bottom face and the second lateral face, and finally is bent toward the cut-out section of the top face. Recesses are formed on the bottom face at places overlapped with the pair of outer electrodes, and each of the outer electrodes is bent to form a projection protruding inside the corresponding recess.
US09035718B2	Directional coupler A directional coupler includes in a laminate block, a first main line, a first sub-line, a second sub-line, and a second main line sequentially provided in a lamination direction of layers. Further, each of the first main line, the first sub-line, the second sub-line, and the second main line is divided into at least two divided coil conductors. Furthermore, at least two divided ground conductors are provided between the first sub-line and the second sub-line.
US09035712B2	Resonance reducing circuit board A circuit card is provided that includes ground traces that extend from a resistor to a commoning bar, where a resultant electrical length between the resistor and the commoning bar and is configured to reduce energy carried on the ground terminals that could otherwise result in cross-talk. In an embodiment, the ground trace may be configured in a meandering manner. In another embodiment, the ground trace may be split and joined by an inductor.
US09035711B2	ASK modulator and transmitter having the same A modulator which has a first terminal to receive a carrier signal, a second terminal to receive a first control signal to control a frequency band of the carrier signal and a third terminal to receive a second control signal to control a modulation depth of the carrier signal.
US09035702B2	Microwave semiconductor amplifier A microwave semiconductor amplifier includes a semiconductor amplifier element, an input matching circuit and an output matching circuit. The semiconductor amplifying element includes an input electrode and an output electrode and has a capacitive output impedance. The input matching circuit is connected to the input electrode. The output matching circuit includes a bonding wire and a first transmission line. The bonding wire includes first and second end portions. The first end portion is connected to the output electrode. The second end portion is connected to one end portion of the first transmission line. A fundamental impedance and a second harmonic impedance seen toward the external load change toward the one end portion. The second harmonic impedance at the one end portion has an inductive reactance. The output matching circuit matches the capacitive output impedance of the semiconductor amplifying element to the fundamental impedance of the external load.
US09035694B2	Circuit for generating reference voltage Provided is a circuit for generating a reference voltage. The circuit includes a band gap circuit generating a first current having a size that increases in proportion to an absolute temperature and a second current having a size that decreases in proportion to the absolute temperature, and outputting a reference voltage based on the first current and the second current; a mirroring circuit mirroring a sum of the first current and the second current and outputting a mirroring voltage that is in proportion to the sum of the first current and the second current; and a start-up circuit receiving the mirroring voltage from the mirroring circuit and providing a driving current for generating the first current or the second current to the band gap circuit until a time when the first current starts to be generated in the band gap circuit.
US09035681B2	Switch controller, switch control method, and power supply device comprising the switch controller The present invention relates to a switch controller, a switch control method, and a power supply using the switch controller.A switch controller controls switching operation of a power switch and receives a sense voltage of a sense resistor to which a drain current flowing in the power switch flows. The switch controller generates a sum signal using the sense voltage and a ramp signal having a cycle that is the same as a switching cycle of the power switch. The switch controller determines short-circuit of the sense resistor by detecting slope variation of the sum signal.
US09035680B2	Comparator and analog-to-digital converter Embodiments of the present invention provide a comparator and an analog-to-digital converter. A sampling module, a pre-amplifying module, and a coupling module in the comparator obtain a third differential voltage signal according to a positive input signal and a negative reference signal, and obtain a fourth differential voltage signal according to a negative input signal and a positive reference signal. A latch that is in the comparator and formed by a first P-type field effect transistor, a second P-type field effect transistor, a third field effect transistor, a fourth field effect transistor, a first switch, and a second switch is directly cross-coupled through gates, and directly collects the third differential voltage signal and the fourth differential voltage signal to the gates, so as to drive the latch to start positive feedback.
US09035668B2	Touch testing system and touch testing method thereof A touch testing system for a capacitive touch device and a method thereof are provided. The system includes a test fixture, at least one magnetization component, at least one magnetic induction component and a driving unit. The fixture is disposed on the touch device and has at least one chute on a position corresponding to the touching area. The magnetization component is disposed on the fixture and enabled by a driving signal to produce a magnetic force. The magnetic induction component is slidably disposed in the chute and inducts the magnetic force to slide along the chute, such that the sensing unit produces a touch testing information. The driving unit is coupled to the magnetization component and the sensing unit, provides the driving signal to enable the magnetization component and receives the touch testing information to feed back a testing result on the capacitive touch device accordingly.
US09035667B2	Automatic testing equipment, automatic testing system and method for controlling automatic testing thereof An automatic testing equipment, an automatic testing system, an a method for controlling automatic testing thereof are disclosed. The automatic testing equipment is used for receiving a control signal to test a durability of a connecting port of a device under test (DUT). The automatic testing equipment includes a testing platform, a testing unit, and a power control unit. The testing platform is used for disposing the DUT. The testing unit includes a main body, an assembly unit, and a height adjustment unit. The assembly unit is used for assembling a test connector. The height adjustment unit is connected with the main body and works with the assembly unit to adjust a height of the assembly unit. The power control unit drives the testing unit to test the connecting port via the test connector after receiving the control signal.
US09035659B2	Apparatus and method for measuring the dissipation factor of an insulator An apparatus (1) for measuring the loss factor of an insulator (2) for medium or high voltages, equipped with a tap adapter (3) forming a point for picking up an electrical signal (4), comprises a reference capacitor (9) having a first electrode (10), which can be connected to the tap adapter (3), and a second electrode (11); a first voltage detection module (12) operatively connected to the first electrode (10) of the reference capacitor (9) for detecting a signal representative of the voltage applied to the reference capacitor (9); a generator module connected to the first electrode (10) of the reference capacitor (9) in order to inject a direct electric current into the insulator.
US09035654B2	Mechanically flexible magnetic resonance coil with opening conductor structures The present embodiments relate to a local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system, the local coil including an antenna element that includes a releasable connection to form an opening.
US09035648B2	Magnetic sensor characterization Apparatuses, methods and systems of a magnetic sensor self-characterizing its magnetic properties are disclosed. One embodiment of the magnetic sensor apparatus includes a magnetic sensor and a current source for applying a current to the magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor apparatus further includes control circuitry configured to control the current source, and characterize a magnetic property of the magnetic sensor based on the applied current. One method of a magnetic sensor self-characterizing its magnetic properties includes applying, by the magnetic sensor, an electrical signal, and characterizing a magnetic property of the magnetic sensor based on the applied electrical signal.
US09035647B2	Encoder An encoder is configured for detection of rotational movement of a rotatable shaft in relation to a part of a machine, and a method is provided for generating a reference signal by an encoder.
US09035646B2	Portable terminal device and position detection method used therein A portable terminal device is disclosed that includes a movable part having a display part; an arm part supporting the movable part so that the movable part is rotatable at least ±90° with reference to a rotation center position around a rotation center; and a position detection part detecting the position of the movable part relative to the arm part. The position detection part includes magnets, magnetic sensors detecting the magnetic fields thereof, and a calculation part determining the position of the movable part based on sensor outputs. The magnets are provided in one of the arm part and the movable part so as to be 90° apart from each other around the rotation center. The magnetic sensors are provided in the other one of the arm part and the movable part so as to oppose the corresponding magnets when the movable part is positioned at the rotation center position.
US09035644B2	Stimulus responsive nanoparticles Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and systems related to stimulus responsive nanoparticles. In one embodiment includes a stimulus responsive nanoparticle system, the system includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a plurality of elongated electro-responsive nanoparticles dispersed between the first and second electrodes, the plurality of electro-responsive nanorods configured to respond to an electric field established between the first and second electrodes.
US09035643B2	Electric current detector and core component used therefor In an electric current detector according to the present invention, an annular core 2 having a magnetic gap G and a Hall element 41 which is located in the magnetic gap of the core 2 and detects a magnitude of an electric current passing through the core 2 are arranged in an outer case 1. Here, in the core 2, a mold resin portion 3 which covers a surface of the core 2 over part of an overall length along a magnetic path thereof is molded at one or a plurality of portions along the magnetic path to configure an integral core component, the core component being fixed into the outer case 1 in a state where a surface of the mold resin portion 3 makes contact with an inner surface of the outer case 1.
US09035640B2	High efficient control circuit for buck-boost converters and control method thereof A controller used in a buck-boost converter includes a clock generator, an error amplifying circuit, a comparing circuit, a proportional sampling circuit, a logic circuit, a pulse width increasing circuit, first and second driving circuits. Based on a clock signal generated by the clock generator, the proportional sampling circuit samples the difference between a current sensing signal and a compensation signal generated by the error amplifying circuit, and generates a proportional sampling signal. The pulse width increasing circuit generates a sum control signal based on the proportional sampling signal and a logic control signal generated by the logic circuit, wherein a modulation value adjusted by the proportional sampling signal is added to the pulse width of the logic control signal to generate the pulse width of the sum control signal. The first and second driving circuits generate driving signals based on the sum control signal and the logic control signal.
US09035638B2	DC/DC converter arrangement and method for DC/DC conversion A DC/DC converter arrangement includes an input terminal to receive a supply voltage, an output terminal to provide an output voltage and a switching arrangement, including a coil and at least two switches to provide a Buck-Boost conversion. The arrangement further includes a current detection circuit which is coupled to the switching arrangement for sensing a coil current and a comparator, including a first input which is coupled to the output terminal and a second input which is coupled to an output of the current detection circuit. An output of the comparator is coupled to the switching arrangement. Furthermore, the arrangement includes a ramp generator which is coupled to the first or the second input of the comparator.
US09035637B1	Systems and methods for controlling power converters A power conversion system has a power converter configured to receive an input voltage signal, convert the input voltage to an output voltage signal, and provide the output voltage signal to a load and a closed loop compensator configured to receive the output voltage signal and a reference voltage signal, the closed loop compensator configured to transmit an error signal indicative of a difference between the output voltage signal and the reference voltage signal. The power conversion system further has a pulse with modulator configured to receive the error signal and modulate a control signal with the error signal to control the output voltage signal, the pulse width modulator configured to transmit the control signal to the power converter and logic configured to receive the error signal and control the closed loop compensator based upon the error signal. A controller observes the error signal characterstics such as peak-to-peak values, frequency and phase and adjust the closed loop controller variables and other power converter system variables in order to improve the dynamic performance and improve stability.
US09035633B1	Switching power converter control A method of operating a switching power converter may include determining an average value of a measured parameter for substantially each switching cycle, and adjusting a control parameter during substantially each switching cycle in response to a corresponding one of the average values. In one embodiment, the control parameter comprises a switch duty cycle, and the measured parameter comprises an output current. Determining the average value of the measured parameter may include obtaining a first sample of the measured parameter during a switching cycle, and calculating the average value of the measured parameter during the switching cycle in response to the first sample.
US09035629B2	Voltage regulator with different inverting gain stages A voltage regulator includes a regulating transistor and a control circuit. The regulating transistor has a first current electrode for providing a regulated voltage, a second current electrode, and a control electrode. The control circuit has an output coupled to the control electrode of the regulating transistor, and an input coupled to the first current electrode of the regulating transistor. The control circuit includes a first inverting gain stage having a first load element, and a second inverting gain stage having a second load element. One of the first or second load elements is characterized as being a diode and the other of the first or second load elements is biased by a bias circuit.
US09035625B2	Common cascode routing bus for high-efficiency DC-to-DC conversion Embodiments for at least one method and apparatus of generating a regulated voltage are disclosed. One method includes generating the regulated voltage through controlled closing and opening of a series switch element and shunt switch element. This method includes closing the series switch element during a first period, the series switch element comprising a plurality of series switch elements segments. The method includes applying a switching gate voltage to gates of series switching transistors of a subset of the plurality of series switch elements segments of the series switch element, wherein only the series switching transistors of the subset of the plurality of series switch elements segments of the series switch element turn on, while series protection transistor of more than the subset of the plurality of series switch elements segments of the series switch element turn on. The shunt switch element during is closed during a second period.
US09035622B2	Charging device with battery management system for rechargeable battery A charging device with a battery management system which remains a rechargeable battery in full capacity during standby after being fully charged is disclosed. The charging device includes a charging module, electrically connected to a power source, for charging the rechargeable battery; a voltage detecting module, for detecting a voltage of the rechargeable battery; and a determination module, for instructing the charging module to charge the rechargeable battery with a supplementary current, when the voltage of the rechargeable battery detected by the voltage detecting module reduces to a first predetermined voltage, until the voltage of the rechargeable battery reaches a second predetermined voltage. A reduction of the voltage of the rechargeable battery is due to self-discharge of the rechargeable battery during standby after being fully charged.
US09035620B2	Battery protecting circuit, battery protecting device, and battery pack A disclosed battery protecting circuit includes a battery protecting IC powered by a voltage of a secondary battery; another battery protecting IC powered by a voltage of another secondary battery connected to the secondary battery in series; and a constant voltage output unit which receives a maximum voltage obtained by adding voltages of the secondary battery and the other secondary battery in series and outputs a constant voltage upon receipt of a control signal from an output terminal of the battery protecting IC or the other battery protecting IC.
US09035618B2	Battery pack and method of controlling the same A battery pack, and a method of controlling the battery pack are disclosed. The battery pack detects consumption current when a load is not turned on, and shuts off power when a load is turned off or in stand-by mode, thereby preventing consumption current of the load from flowing.
US09035614B2	Assembled battery charging method, charging control circuit, and power supply system A method for charging an assembled battery including series circuits connected in parallel, each of the series circuits including series-connected lead storage batteries, using a single charger is provided. The method includes: a first step of obtaining a first index value, corresponding to a resistance value of a first series circuit with a correlative relationship, the first series circuit having a lowest resistance value; a second step of obtaining a second index value corresponding to a resistance value of a second series circuit with a correlative relationship, the second series circuit having a highest resistance value; a third step of performing normal charging, in which the assembled battery is charged with a first amount of charge corresponding to the first index value; and a fourth step of performing refresh charging, in which the assembled battery is charged with a second amount of charge corresponding to the second index value.
US09035611B2	Battery system for vehicle A battery system for a vehicle is provided with discharge circuits (R1, 129A through 129D, 128A through 128D) that discharge battery cells (BC1 through BC4) via measurement lines of those battery cells (BC1 through BC4). A control circuit transmits to an integrated circuit (3A) a first discharge command that causes discharge of the odd numbered battery cells (BC1 and BC3) of a cell group (GB1), a first transmission command that causes transmission to the control circuit of the terminal voltages of only the odd numbered battery cells (BC1 and BC3) measured during execution of the first discharge command, a second discharge command that causes discharge of the even numbered battery cells (BC2 and BC4) of the cell group (GB1), and a second transmission command that causes transmission to the control circuit of the terminal voltages of only the even numbered battery cells (BC2 and BC4) measured during execution of the second discharge command; and, based on the these various terminal voltages transmitted from the integrated circuit (3A), the control circuit diagnoses abnormalities in the system that includes the battery cells, the measurement lines, and the discharge circuits.
US09035609B1	Hot swap control in uninterruptible power supply Aspects relate generally to hot swap control in uninterruptible power supply units for systems requiring backup power. A unit may include a pair of MOSFET switches configured as a bidirectional switch for battery charging and discharging current control. This configuration allows the unit to limit inrush current when the unit is connected to a DC power bus of a power system and also allows the unit to eliminate any current flow when it is disconnected. Upon insertion and extraction of the unit, the MOSFET switches are disabled to prevent any disturbances on the DC power bus. Hot swapping in the unit ensures that the overall power system, including the unit and the DC bus, operates reliably.
US09035607B2	Vehicle charging stations and methods for use in charging an electrically powered vehicle Vehicle charging stations and methods for use in charging an electrically powered vehicle are disclosed. One example vehicle charging station includes a power source and a charging device coupled to the power source. The charging device is configured to control a charging process between the power source and an electrically powered vehicle, transmit, via at least one network, a first electronic message to a user, and receive, via the at least one network, a second electronic message from the user. The first electronic message includes at least one condition related to at least one of the charging process and the electrically power vehicle. The second electronic message includes a user command related to the at least one condition.
US09035603B2	Wireless charging circuit, wireless charging system and semiconductor device To satisfy the NFC communication standard in wireless charging with a shared antenna, used for NFC communication.A power supply unit includes a voltage step-down circuit 331, a charge control circuit 332, and a communication controller power supply circuit 333. The voltage step-down circuit includes a switching regulator 200, and a selection circuit 206 and 208 which can select an output path PT1 of the switching regulator and a bypass path PT2 of the switching regulator. The voltage step-down circuit includes a selection control circuit 207. The selection control circuit supplies voltage to the communication controller power supply circuit via the bypass path at the time of activating the communication controller. Since the output voltage of the series regulator stabilizes in a shorter time than the switching regulator, it becomes possible to keep the time from when RF power rises to when initial communication becomes possible, within standards.
US09035598B2	Electrical charging/discharging control apparatus, electric-power management apparatus, electric-power management method and electric-power management system Disclosed herein is an electrical-charging/discharging control apparatus composing an electric-power accumulation facility in conjunction with an electric-power accumulation battery and including: a communication section configured to receive a command to carry out either of electrical charging and discharging operations on the electric-power accumulation battery from an electric-power management apparatus for managing the electrical charging and discharging operations carried out on the electric-power accumulation battery; a control section configured to control the electrical charging and discharging operations carried out on the electric-power accumulation battery on the basis of the command; and a power conditioner for supplying electric power from an electric-power network to the electric-power accumulation battery and transferring electric power accumulated in the electric-power accumulation battery to the electric-power network in accordance with control carried out by the control section.
US09035595B2	Integral electric power/compact construction equipment system A system and method for charging a rechargeable battery for a vehicle are disclosed. The system may comprise an electrical generation apparatus that is a source of electric charge, a mobile unit to transport a vehicle, and a tie down having an input end and an output end. The tie down may be configured to releasably secure the vehicle to the mobile unit and to provide electrical charge generated by the electrical generation apparatus to the battery.
US09035578B2	System for coupling at least one DC source to a controllable energy store and associated operating method The invention relates to a system for coupling at least one DC source (9) to a controllable energy store (2), which is used for controlling and supplying electrical energy to an n-phase electric machine (1), where n≧1. In this case, the controllable energy store (2) has n parallel energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3), which are connectable firstly to a reference rail (T−) and secondly to in each case one phase (U, V, W) of the electric machine (1). An intermediate circuit (10) is connectable on the output side via a controllable coupling circuit (12) to the energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3) of the controllable energy store (2) and on the input side to the at least one DC source (9). An associated operating method provides for a current flow from the at least one DC source (9) into the energy supply branches (3-1, 3-2, 3-3) of the controllable energy store (2) or the phases (U, V, W) of the electric machine (1) to be controlled with the aid of the controllable coupling circuit (12).
US09035573B2	Power supply device A power supply device containing a first board, a second board, an enclosure into which the first board and the second board are installed, a power supply unit which supplies power to an external load, a control circuit unit for controlling output current and/or output voltage from the power supply unit to the external load, the control circuit unit being embedded on the first board, a memory which stores control information, the memory being utilized in the control circuit unit for controlling the output current and/or the output voltage from the power supply unit, and an interface unit which is capable of receiving the control information from an external device and transmitting the control information to the memory, the interface unit being embedded on the second board which is physically separated from the first board.
US09035565B2	Adaptive power factor correction for a lighting load circuit The invention relates to a method for operation of an actively clocked PFC circuit with a directly or indirectly connected load circuit at the output of the PFC circuit, wherein the load circuit has a lighting means, in particular one or more LEDs, wherein the PFC circuit is supplied at least with a measurement signal which reflects the power consumption of the load circuit or with an external control signal which indicates the power consumption, and a control circuit adjusts the mode of operation of the PFC circuit continuously or preferably in two or more steps, depending on the control signal or measurement signal.
US09035552B2	Method and device for transporting vacuum arc plasma The proposed method allows forming cathode arc plasma flows for high quality coatings. The plasma flows are transported in a plasma-optical system by means of a transport magnetic field generated by electromagnetic coils, super-positioning a constant magnetic field and additional variable magnetic fields deflecting the plasma flows from internal surfaces of the system's elements. In a device for implementing the proposed method, an arc power supply is connected to an anode via a coil, surrounding the anode. In a linear embodiment of the system, an electrically conductive tube section inside the anode is connected to one end of the deflection coil. The other end is connected to the positive terminal of power supply. In the system's non-linear embodiment, additional magnetic fields are established using two additional electromagnetic coils, surrounding the anode and a nonlinear part respectively. The method and device allow for a significantly reduction of losses of macroparticle-free plasma.
US09035548B2	Electron emission element, electron emission device, charge device, image forming device, electron radiation curing device, light-emitting device, image display device, blower device, cooling device, and manufacturing method for electron emission element An electron emission element (1) includes an electrode substrate (2) and a thin film electrode (3), and emits electrons from the thin film electrode (3) by voltage application across the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). An electron accelerating layer (4) containing at least insulating fine particles (5) is provided between the electrode substrate (2) and the thin film electrode (3). The electrode substrate (2) has a convexoconcave surface. The thin film electrode (3) has openings (6) above convex parts of the electrode substrate (2).
US09035542B2	Driving IC-incorporated fluorescent display device In a driving IC-incorporated fluorescent display device, a filament end-supporting member including a structure which has a short distance between a filament and an anode substrate and is not compromised to shielding effect of the driving IC is provided. An end portion of the filament is sandwiched between a tabular support which is attached to a tabular portion of a retainer plate and a ribbon, and the ribbon is fixed to the support by spot welding. The support consists of a slit. The filament is opposed to the slit and extends to longitudinal direction of the slit. The opposite side of the filament of the slit is closed by the retainer plate.
US09035539B2	Piezoelectric vibrating piece, piezoelectric vibrator, oscillator, electronic apparatus and radio controlled timepiece A piezoelectric vibrating piece is provided including: a pair of vibrating arm sections; a base section which is provided between the pair of vibrating arm sections; and connecting sections which connect base end sections of the pair of vibrating arm sections and a base end section of the base section, in which the vibrating arm sections have bending points and the vibrating arm sections extend in a direction away from the base section from the base end sections of the vibrating arm sections to the bending points, and the vibrating arm sections extend along the base section from the bending points to leading end sections of the vibrating arm sections.
US09035538B2	Piezoelectric vibrating piece and piezoelectric device A piezoelectric vibrating piece includes an excitation unit in a rectangular shape, a framing portion, a connecting portion, and a protrusion. The excitation unit includes a pair of excitation electrodes on the pair of principal surfaces, a first side that extends in a first direction, and a second side that extends in a second direction. The second side is longer than the first side. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The connecting portion connects the first side of the excitation unit to the framing portion. The connecting portion is thinner than the framing portion. The protrusion protrudes in the thickness direction in at least one of the connecting portion and a region between the connecting portion and the excitation electrode. The length of the protrusion in the first direction is equal to or longer than a length of the connecting portion in the first direction.
US09035533B2	Paste and polymer transducer including coating film formed from same as electrolyte film or electrode films Paste which is prepared by any solid concentration and is excellent in terms of handleability, applicability, and storage stability; an electrolyte film or electrode film which is an even and highly flexible coating film formed in a desired thickness from the paste through a few repetitions of an application/drying step; and a polymer transducer which can be industrially and economically produced and shows excellent performance. The paste comprises: a solid polyelectrolyte (A) consisting of a block copolymer containing; a polymer block (a-1) which is represented by chemical formula (1) and a polymer block (a-2) which has substantially no ionic group and is rubbery at room temperature; an organic solvent (B) having a boiling point at 150° C. or higher; and non-dissociable particles (C) which are insoluble in the organic solvent (B) and have a major-axis length of 1-100 μm and an aspect ratio of 5 or less. The polymer transducer comprises an electrolyte film and a pair of electrode films between which the electrolyte film is sandwiched, wherein the electrolyte film or the pair of electrode films has been formed by drying and solidifying the paste into a film shape.
US09035526B2	Compressed motor winding In one possible implementation, a method for forming a motor winding is provided which includes compressing a Litz wire to form a compacted Litz wire and forming the winding with the compacted Litz wire. In one possible embodiment, a motor winding is provided that has a high density multi-conductor wire bundle comprises of compacted Litz wire.
US09035523B2	Coil for an electric machine and method for producing a coil The invention relates to a coil (1), in particular for an electric machine, in particular a transformator or an electromechanical converter, in particular an electric motor, for guiding an electric current for producing a magnetic field. Said coil consists of individual windings (2) that are essentially embodied as a flat body thus obtaining a tightly packed structure when the windings (2) are superimposed, and respectively, each winding (2) comprises at least one circulating conductor path with the exception of at least one electric interruption on one side. Said conductor path of a winding (2) comprises, on one point, an electroconductive connection with a conductor path of an adjacent winding (2). The windings (2) are incidentally, essentially electrically isolated to each other.
US09035518B2	Bearing device for supporting rotatable shaft of electric motor A radial bearing is received in and is fixed to a bearing receiving portion of a yoke housing, which includes large and small diameter parts, to rotatably support a rotatable shaft. A thrust ball and a thrust plate are received in the bearing receiving portion on an axial side of the radial bearing, which is opposite from the rotatable shaft. The large diameter part receives and holds the radial bearing. The small diameter part holds the thrust ball. The thrust plate is held by an axial end area of the small diameter part.
US09035516B2	Hydrodynamic bearing assembly and motor including the same There are provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly and a motor including the same. The hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft and including a first circulation hole formed therein, the first circulation hole penetrating between an inner peripheral surface thereof and an outer peripheral surface thereof; a sleeve housing into which the sleeve is inserted; and a second circulation hole formed between the outer peripheral surface of the sleeve and an inner peripheral surface of the sleeve housing to be in communication with the first circulation hole, wherein an upper portion of the second circulation hole has a larger diameter than a lower portion thereof in an axial direction.
US09035501B2	System and method for providing simple feedback signals indicating if more or less power is required during inductive power transmission An inductive power outlet for providing power to an electric load via an inductive power receiver includes at least one primary inductive coil wired to a power supply via a driver configured to provide a driving voltage across the primary inductive coil such that a secondary voltage is induced in a secondary inductive coil associated with the inductive power receiver. The driver may include a controller configured to receive feedback control signals from the inductive power receiver indicating if more or less power is required. The controller may be further configured to adjust the driving voltage according to the control signals.
US09035496B2	Power control system and controlling method thereof A power control system includes a rechargeable battery, the rechargeable battery including a first battery unit and including a second battery unit connected to a first terminal of the first battery unit at a first node, a switching unit, the switching unit including a first switch connected to a second terminal of the first battery unit and including a second switch connected to the first node, and a control unit, the control unit being configured to generate and transmit switch control signals respectively corresponding to the first switch and the second switch, and being configured to control a voltage of the rechargeable battery such that the voltage is maintained in a threshold range of a predetermined rated voltage.
US09035485B2	Power conditioner for feeding system A power conditioner for a feeding system which stabilizes a load of active power is provided. A power conditioner for a feeding system comprises a first AC-DC and DC-AC converter for performing conversion between AC power and DC power; and a nickel-metal hydride battery disposed between and connected to a high-voltage cable at DC side of the first AC-DC and DC-AC converter and a low-voltage cable at the DC side of the first AC-DC and DC-AC converter.
US09035480B2	Wind turbine and method for operating a wind turbine A method is employed for operating a wind turbine. Electrical energy is produced by means of a generator and is fed into an electrical power network. The electrical energy is fed to the secondary side of a transformer at a low voltage and is output on the primary side of the transformer at a higher voltage. The potential on the primary side of the transformer is undefined. In the method, a measured value of the voltage between the primary side of the transformer and the earth potential is first recorded. The measured value is compared with a predefined limit value. The electrical energy produced by the generator is changed if the measured value exceeds the limit value. A wind turbine is designed to carry out the method. Faults in the medium voltage network can be reacted to without an additional star point on the primary side of the transformer being required.
US09035473B2	Circuit device and method of manufacturing the same Provided are a thin circuit device with show-through of thin metal wires prevented and a method of manufacturing the circuit device. A circuit device mainly includes: a substrate including a first substrate and second substrates; pads formed respectively on upper surfaces of the second substrates; a semiconductor element fixed on an upper surface of the first substrate; thin metal wires each connecting the semiconductor elements and a corresponding one of the pads; and a sealing resin with which the semiconductor element and the thin metal wires are covered, and which thereby seals the circuit device with the semiconductor element and the thin metal wires disposed therein. Furthermore, filler particles located in the uppermost portion of the sealing resin are covered with a resin material constituting the sealing resin.
US09035465B2	Forming semiconductor chip connections Various embodiments include semiconductor structures. In one embodiment, the semiconductor structure includes a chip having a body having a polyhedron shape with a pair of opposing sides; and a solder member extending along a side that extends between the pair of opposing sides of the polyhedron shape.
US09035462B2	Airgap-containing interconnect structure with patternable low-k material and method of fabricating An interconnect structure is provided that includes at least one patterned and cured low-k dielectric material located on a surface of a patterned inorganic antireflective coating that is located atop a substrate. The inorganic antireflective coating comprises atoms of M, C and H wherein M is at least one of Si, Ge, B, Sn, Fe, Ta, Ti, Ni, Hf and La. The at least one cured and patterned low-k dielectric material and the patterned inorganic antireflective coating have conductively filled regions embedded therein and the at least one cured and patterned low-k dielectric material has at least one airgap located adjacent, but not directly in contact with the conductively filled regions.
US09035460B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same To provide a technique adopting a TSV technique, capable of improving manufacturing yield and reliability of semiconductor devices. By partitioning a connection pad-forming region into a plurality of regions and by forming, respectively, connection pads 17 having a relatively small planar area, spaced apart from an adjacent connection pad 17 in each of partitioned regions, dishing generated in the connection pad 17 is lightened. In addition, by not forming a through hole 23 for forming a through electrode 27 in an interlayer insulating film 9 covering a semiconductor element, intrusion of H2O, a metal ion such as Na+ or K+, etc. into an element-forming region from the through hole, via the interlayer insulating film is prevented.
US09035451B2	Wafer level sealing methods with different vacuum levels for MEMS sensors The present disclosure relates to a method of forming a plurality of MEMs device having a plurality of cavities with different pressures on a wafer package system, and an associated apparatus. In some embodiments, the method is performed by providing a work-piece having a plurality of microelectromechanical system (MEMs) devices. A cap wafer is bonded onto the work-piece in a first ambient environment having a first pressure. The bonding forms a plurality of cavities abutting the plurality of MEMs devices, which are held at the first pressure. One or more openings are formed in one or more of the plurality of cavities leading to a gas flow path that could be held at a pressure level different from the first pressure. The one or more openings in the one or more of the plurality of cavities are then sealed in a different ambient environment having a different pressure, thereby causing the one or more of the plurality of cavities to be held at the different pressure.
US09035444B2	Semiconductor device having penetration electrodes penetrating through semiconductor chip Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device that includes: a first circuit formed on a chip having a main surface; first to nth penetration electrodes penetrating through the chip, where n is an integer more than 1; first to nth main terminals arranged on the main surface of the chip and vertically aligned with the first to nth penetration electrodes, respectively, each of kth main terminal being electrically connected to k+1th penetration electrode, where k is an integer more than 0 and smaller than n, and the nth main terminal being electrically connected to the first penetration electrode; a sub-terminal arranged on the main surface of the chip; and a selection circuit electrically connected to predetermined one of the first to nth main terminals, the sub-terminal, and the first circuit, wherein the selection circuit connects the first circuit to one of the predetermined main terminal and the sub-terminal.
US09035431B2	Dense finFET SRAM A method for fabricating the device includes patterning a first structure and a second structure on a semiconductor device. A first angled ion implantation is applied to the second structure such that the first structure is protected and a second angled ion implantation is applied to the first structure such that the second structure is protected, wherein exposed portions of the first and second structures have an altered rate of oxidation. Oxidation is performed to form thicker or thinner oxide portions on the exposed portions of the first and second structures relative to unexposed portions of the first and second structures. Oxide portions are removed to an underlying layer of the first and second structures. The first and second structures are removed. Spacers are formed about a periphery of remaining oxide portions. The remaining oxide portions are removed. A layer below the spacers is patterned to form integrated circuit features.
US09035427B2	Metal-semiconductor convergence electric circuit devices and electric circuit systems using the same Provided are metal-semiconductor convergence electric circuit devices. The device includes a semiconductor device, a metal resistor exhibiting resistance increased with an increase in temperature thereof, and an interconnection line connecting the semiconductor device with the metal resistor in series and having a resistance lower than that of the metal resistor. The semiconductor device is configured to exhibit resistance decreased with an increase in temperature thereof and compensate the resistance increase of the metal resistor.
US09035422B2	Multilayer high voltage isolation barrier in an integrated circuit A semiconductor package is provided that has a transformer formed within a multilayer dielectric laminate substrate. The transformer has a first inductor coil formed in one or more dielectric laminate layers of the substrate, a second inductor coil formed in one or more dielectric laminate layers of the substrate, and an isolation barrier comprising two or more dielectric laminate layers of the multilayer substrate positioned between the first inductor coil and the second inductor coil. The transformer may be mounted on a lead frame along with one or more integrated circuits and molded into a packaged isolation device.
US09035420B2	Organic light emitting device, display apparatus and illumination apparatus comprising the organic light emitting device, and method for preparing the same The present invention relates to an organic light emitting device and a method for preparing the same. An organic light emitting device according to the present invention comprises an organic light emitting unit having a structure in which a substrate, a first electrode, an organic material layer, and a second electrode are sequentially laminated, wherein the organic light emitting device comprises an auxiliary electrode and a fuse pattern; and the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode are electrically connected to each other through the fuse pattern.
US09035417B2	Parasitic inductance reduction for multilayered board layout designs with semiconductor devices A highly efficient, single sided circuit board layout design providing magnetic field self-cancellation and reduced parasitic inductance independent of board thickness. The low profile power loop extends through active and passive devices on the top layer of the circuit board, with vias connecting the power loop to a return path in an inner layer of the board. The magnetic effect of the portion of the power loop on the top layer is reduced by locating the inner layer return path directly underneath the power loop path on the top layer.
US09035411B2	Semiconductor device Improvement of signal integrity, a size reduction of a device, and the like are realized. A semiconductor integrated circuit section 11 and an optical wiring section 21 are electrically connected to each other by a connection section 31 provided between a face of the semiconductor integrated circuit section 11 and a face of the optical wiring section 21 facing each other. An electrical wiring 23 is provided in an optical wiring section 21. The electrical wiring 23 of the optical wiring section 21 functions as a global wiring electrically connecting between a plurality of circuit blocks CB provided in the semiconductor integrated circuit section 11.
US09035404B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a multilayer wiring layer formed over the substrate, an MTJ (Magnetic Tunnel Junction) element formed in an insulating layer located lower than an uppermost wiring layer in the multilayer wiring layer, a wiring formed in a wiring layer immediately above the MTJ element and coupled to the MTJ element, and a shield conductor region provided in the wiring or a wiring layer immediately above the wiring, and covering an entirety of the MTJ element in a plan view.
US09035403B2	Spin-torque magnetoresistive structures Magnetoresistive structures, devices, memories, and methods for forming the same are presented. For example, a magnetoresistive structure includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a first nonmagnetic spacer layer proximate to the first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer proximate to the first nonmagnetic spacer layer, and a first antiferromagnetic layer proximate to the second ferromagnetic layer. For example, the first ferromagnetic layer may comprise a first pinned ferromagnetic layer, the second ferromagnetic layer may comprise a free ferromagnetic layer, and the first antiferromagnetic layer may comprise a free antiferromagnetic layer.
US09035399B2	Structure for facilitating the simultaneous silicidation of a polysilicon gate and source/drain of a semiconductor device A method of simultaneously siliciding a polysilicon gate and source/drain of a semiconductor device, and related device. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising forming a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate (the gate stack comprising a first polysilicon layer, a first nitride layer, and a second polysilicon layer), forming a second nitride layer over an active region in the semiconductor substrate adjacent to the gate stack, performing a chemical mechanical polishing that stops on the first nitride layer and on the second nitride layer, removing the first nitride layer and the second nitride layer, and performing a simultaneous silicidation of the first polysilicon layer and the active region.
US09035395B2	Semiconductor devices comprising getter layers and methods of making and using the same Semiconductor devices comprising a getter material are described. The getter material can be located in or over the active region of the device and/or in or over a termination region of the device. The getter material can be a conductive or an insulating material. The getter material can be present as a continuous or discontinuous film. The device can be a SiC semiconductor device such as a SiC vertical MOSFET. Methods of making the devices are also described.
US09035387B2	Multi-gate device Embodiments of an apparatus and methods for improving multi-gate device performance are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09035385B2	Method for fabricating thin-film semiconductor device and thin-film semiconductor device A thin-film semiconductor device having two thin-film transistors, wherein each of the two thin-film transistors includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulating film; a semiconductor layer; a channel protection layer; an intrinsic semiconductor layer; a contact layer in contact with a portion of sides of the channel region; a source electrode on the contact layer; and a drain electrode opposite to the source electrode on the contact layer, wherein the contact layer of one of the two thin-film transistors has a conductivity type different from a conductivity type of the contact layer of the other of the two thin-film transistors.
US09035372B2	Nonvolatile memory device, fabrication method thereof and memory system comprising the same A nonvolatile memory device includes (i) a semiconductor substrate, (ii) a channel formed over the substrate and extending in a first direction, (iii) a first NAND string arranged over a lower portion of a sidewall of the channel, (iv) a second NAND string arranged over an upper portion of the sidewall of the channel, and (v) an erasing conductive layer provided between the first and the second NAND strings and coupled to the sidewall of the channel.
US09035368B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device including first and second semiconductor pillars formed on a surface of a semiconductor substrate and aligning in a first direction; a first interconnect extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction and provided between the first and second semiconductor pillars; and a first contact pad located over the first interconnect, the first contact pad being in contact with and electrically connected to the first semiconductor pillar at a side surface thereof, while being electrically isolated from the second semiconductor pillar.
US09035367B2	Method for manufacturing inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cells A method of fabricating both a multijunction solar cell and an inverted metamorphic multijunction solar cell in a single process using a MOCVD reactor by forming a first multijunction solar cell on a semiconductor substrate; forming a release layer over the first solar cell; forming an inverted metamorphic second solar cell over the release layer; and etching the release layer so as to separate the multijunction first solar cell and the inverted metamorphic second solar cell.
US09035359B2	Semiconductor chip including region including linear-shaped conductive structures forming gate electrodes and having electrical connection areas arranged relative to inner region between transistors of different types and associated methods A first linear-shaped conductive structure (LCS) forms gate electrodes (GE's) of a first transistor of a first transistor type and a first transistor of a second transistor type. A second LCS forms a GE of a second transistor of the first transistor type. A third LCS forms a GE of a second transistor of the second transistor type. A fourth LCS forms a GE of a third transistor of the first transistor type. A fifth LCS forms a GE of a third transistor of the second transistor type. A sixth LCS forms a GE of a fourth transistor of the first transistor type and a fourth transistor of the second transistor type. Transistors of the first transistor type are collectively separated from transistors of the second transistor type by an inner region. The second, third, fourth, and fifth LCS's have respective electrical connection areas arranged relative to the inner region.
US09035347B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate; a first electrode formed on the substrate, where the first electrode is a cathode, an electron injection layer formed to contact an upper surface of the first electrode and including Mg, an intermediate layer formed on the electron injection layer and including an organic emission layer, and a second electrode which is formed on the intermediate layer and is an anode.
US09035346B2	Light source module The light source module includes a circuit board adapted to be placed on a mounting base of a light source holding member, and a power feeding attachment to supply power to a semiconductor light emitting device, the circuit board including a board part on which the semiconductor light emitting device is mounted, and a conductive circuit formed on a surface of the board part and having a pair of terminal parts and a light source connection part to connect the pair of terminal parts and the semiconductor light emitting device, the power feeding attachment including an electrically-insulating portion and an conductive portion partially embedded in the electrically-insulating portion, the power feeding attachment being adapted to be attached to the light source holding member such that the electrically-insulating portion presses at least a portion of the circuit board against the mounting base.
US09035341B2	Semiconductor light emitting device with wiring unit arrangement A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor laminate disposed on the substrate and divided to a plurality of light emitting cells with an isolation region, and a wiring unit electrically connecting the plurality of light emitting cells. A region of lateral surfaces of each of the light emitting cells in which the wiring unit is disposed has a slope gentler than slopes of other regions of the lateral surfaces of each of the light emitting cells.
US09035336B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device has an active layer, a first semiconductor layer of first conductive type, an overflow prevention layer disposed between the active layer and the first semiconductor layer, which is doped with impurities of first conductive type and which prevents overflow of electrons or holes, a second semiconductor layer of first conductive type disposed at least one of between the active layer and the overflow prevention layer and between the overflow prevention layer and the first semiconductor layer, and an impurity diffusion prevention layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the active layer, which has a band gap smaller than those of the overflow prevention layer, the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer and which prevents diffusion of impurities of first conductive type.
US09035334B2	Method and apparatus for fabricating phosphor-coated LED dies The present disclosure involves a method of packaging a light-emitting diode (LED). According to the method, a group of metal pads and a group of LEDs are provided. The group of LEDs is attached to the group of metal pads, for example through a bonding process. After the LEDs are attached to the metal pads, each LED is spaced apart from adjacent LEDs. Also according to the method, a phosphor film is coated around the group of LEDs collectively. The phosphor film is coated on top and side surfaces of each LED and between adjacent LEDs. A dicing process is then performed to slice through portions of the phosphor film located between adjacent LEDs. The dicing process divides the group of LEDs into a plurality of individual phosphor-coated LEDs.
US09035333B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes an LED chip, which includes an n-type semiconductor layer, active layer, and p-type semiconductor layer stacked on a substrate. The LED chip further includes an anode electrode connected to the p-type semiconductor, and a cathode connected to the n-type semiconductor. The anode and cathode electrodes face a case with the LED chip mounted thereon. The case includes a base member including front and rear surfaces, and wirings including a front surface layer having anode and cathode pads formed at the front surface, a rear surface layer having anode and cathode mounting electrodes formed at the rear surface, an anode through wiring connecting the anode pad and the anode mounting electrode and passing through a portion of the base member, and a cathode through wirings connecting the cathode pad and the cathode mounting electrode and passing through a portion of the base member.
US09035331B2	System for thermal control of red LED(s) chips A light emitting diode assembly includes a first light emitting diode disposed on a first substrate and a second light emitting diode disposed on a second substrate that is disposed substantially adjacent to the first substrate. The second light emitting diode has a higher rate of performance degradation over time due to temperature than the first light emitting diode. A heat sink is thermally coupled to the first substrate and an electrical cooling circuit is thermally coupled to the second substrate. The electrical cooling circuit is configured to reduce a temperature of the second substrate when the electrical cooling circuit is electrically energized.
US09035325B2	Light emitting device package and lighting system A light emitting device (LED) package includes a submount and a light emitting chip. The submount has a chip region and a supporting region over which the chip is mounted, and an encapsulating material and fluorescent material are formed over the chip. The coverage area of encapsulating and fluorescent materials is substantially coextensive with the chip or chip region, and a first area between an edge of the chip region and an edge of the supporting region is greater than a second area between the edge of the chip region and the chip.
US09035324B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device may include a semiconductor light emitting diode which may include a first nitride semiconductor layer doped as an n-type, a second nitride semiconductor layer doped as a p-type, and a first active layer provided between the first and second nitride semiconductor layers, and a nano light emitting diode array in which a plurality of nano light emitting diodes may be arranged on the semiconductor light emitting diode so as to be separated from each other.
US09035321B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device There is provided a semiconductor device including an ohmic junction layer which is excellent in surface flatness and uniformity of composition in an interface with a semiconductor substrate and thus can give a sufficiently high adhesiveness with a Schottky junction layer. Such a semiconductor device includes an n type SiC semiconductor substrate (1), a cathode electrode (5) that comes into ohmic contact with a main surface (1b) of one side of the SiC semiconductor substrate (1), a first semiconductor region (6a) that is made of p type SiC formed in a main surface (1a) of the other side of the SiC semiconductor substrate (1), a second semiconductor region (6b) that is made of an n type SiC formed in the main surface (1a) of the other side, an ohmic junction layer (7) that comes into ohmic contact with the first semiconductor region (1a), and a Schottky junction layer (8) that comes into Schottky contact with the second semiconductor region (6b), wherein a root mean square roughness for a surface of the ohmic junction layer (7) is 20 nm or less.
US09035317B2	Pixel structure, display panel and method for fabricating pixel structure A pixel structure disposed on a substrate is provided. The pixel structure includes a gate electrode, a first gate insulation layer, a pixel electrode, a second gate insulation layer, a channel layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and a common electrode. The gate electrode is disposed on the substrate and covered by the first gate insulation layer. The pixel electrode is disposed on the first gate insulation layer and covered by the second gate insulation layer. The pixel electrode is located between the first and the second gate insulation layers. The second gate insulation layer has a first contact opening exposing a portion of the pixel electrode. The channel layer is disposed on the second gate insulation layer. The drain electrode electrically connected to the pixel electrode. The source electrode is disposed on the second gate insulation layer. The common electrode is disposed on the second gate insulation layer.
US09035316B2	Device comprising EL element electrically connected to P-channel transistor A multi-layered gate electrode of a crystalline TFT is constructed as a clad structure formed by deposition of a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode and a third gate electrode, to thereby to enhance the thermal resistance of the gate electrode. Additionally, an n-channel TFT is formed by selective doping to form a low-concentration impunty region which adjoins a channel forming region, and a sub-region overlapped by the gate electrode and a sub-region not overlapped by the gate electrode, to also mitigate a high electric field near the drain of the TFT and to simultaneously prevent the OFF current of the TFT from increasing.
US09035315B2	Semiconductor device, display device, and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A purpose of the present invention is to reduce the driving voltage of a semiconductor device that includes an n-type TFT and a p-type TFT. Disclosed is a semiconductor device in which an n-channel type first thin film transistor (100) and a p-channel type second thin film transistor (200) are provided on the plane of a substrate (1). A first semiconductor layer (11) of the first thin film transistor (100) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11), and an slanted portion, which is sandwiched by the side face and the lower surface of the first semiconductor layer (11). A second semiconductor layer (20) has a main portion, which is sandwiched between the upper surface and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20), and a slanted portion, which is sandwiched between the side face and the lower surface of the second semiconductor layer (20). The inclination angle of the side face of the second semiconductor layer (20) relative to the plane of the substrate (1) is larger than the inclination angle of the side face of the first semiconductor layer (11) relative to the plane of the substrate (1).
US09035312B2	TFT array substrate and fabrication method thereof A TFT array substrate is provided. The TFT array substrate includes a gate electrode connected to a gate line; a source electrode connected to a data line, the data line crossing the gate line to define a pixel region; a drain electrode facing the source electrode with a channel interposed therebetween; a semiconductor layer forming the channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode; a channel passivation layer formed on the channel to protect the semiconductor layer; a pixel electrode disposed in the pixel region to contact with the drain electrode; a storage capacitor including the pixel electrode extending over the gate line to form a storage area on a gate insulating layer on which a semiconductor layer pattern and a metal layer pattern are stacked; a gate pad extending from the gate line; and a data pad connected to the data line.
US09035311B2	Organic light emitting diode display device and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The OLED display device includes a substrate having a thin film transistor region and a capacitor region, a buffer layer disposed on the substrate, a gate insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a lower capacitor electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer in the capacitor region, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the substrate, and an upper capacitor electrode disposed on the interlayer insulating layer and facing the lower capacitor electrode, wherein regions of each of the buffer layer, the gate insulating layer, the interlayer insulating layer, the lower capacitor electrode, and the upper capacitor electrode have surfaces in which protrusions having the same shape as grain boundaries of the semiconductor layer are formed. The resultant capacitor has an increased surface area, and therefore, an increased capacitance.
US09035309B2	3D CMOS image sensors, sensor systems including the same A three-dimensional (3D) CMOS image sensor (CIS) that sufficiently absorbs incident infrared-rays (IRs) and includes an infrared-ray (IR) receiving unit formed in a thin epitaxial film, thereby being easily manufactured using a conventional CIS process, a sensor system including the 3D CIS, and a method of manufacturing the 3D CIS, the 3D CIS including an IR receiving part absorbing IRs incident thereto by repetitive reflection to produce electron-hole pairs (EHPs); and an electrode part formed on the IR receiving part and collecting electrons produced by applying a predetermined voltage thereto.
US09035305B2	Semiconductor device Reducing hydrogen concentration in a channel formation region of an oxide semiconductor is important in stabilizing threshold voltage of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor and improving reliability. Hence, hydrogen is attracted from the oxide semiconductor and trapped in a region of an insulating film which overlaps with a source region and a drain region of the oxide semiconductor. Impurities such as argon, nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, or boron are added to the region of the insulating film which overlaps with the source region and the drain region of the oxide semiconductor, thereby generating a defect. Hydrogen in the oxide semiconductor is attracted to the defect in the insulating film. The defect in the insulating film is stabilized by the presence of hydrogen.
US09035299B2	Semiconductor device and method for producing same A TFT substrate (10A), which is semiconductor device of the present invention, has a first substrate (11), and a plurality of TFTs supported by the first substrate (11). Each TFT has an oxide semiconductor layer (22A) supported by the first substrate (11), an insulating layer (32A) formed on the oxide semiconductor layer (22A), a first electrode (12A) formed on the insulating layer (32A), and a second electrode (14A) and a third electrode (13A) connected to the oxide semiconductor layer (22A). The second electrode (14A) and the third electrode (13A) are formed of an oxide conductive layer in which the same oxide semiconductor film as the oxide semiconductor layer (22A) is given a reduced resistance.
US09035297B2	Thin-film transistor and zinc oxide-based sputtering target for the same A thin-film transistor includes a metal electrode and a zinc oxide-based barrier film that blocks a material from diffusing out of the metal electrode. The zinc oxide-based barrier film is made of zinc oxide doped with indium oxide, the content of the indium oxide ranging, by weight, 1 to 50 percent of the zinc oxide-based barrier film. A zinc oxide-based sputtering target for deposition of a barrier film of a thin-film transistor is made of zinc oxide doped with indium oxide, the content of the indium oxide ranging, by weight, 1 to 50 percent of the zinc oxide-based sputtering target.
US09035291B2	Organic light emitting diode device and manufacturing method thereof An organic light emitting diode device can have an enhanced thin film encapsulation layer for preventing moisture from permeating from the outside. The thin film encapsulation layer can have a multilayered structure in which one or more inorganic layers and one or more organic layers are alternately laminated. A barrier can be formed outside of a portion of the substrate on which the organic light emitting diode is formed. The organic layers of the thin film encapsulation layer can be formed inside an area defined by the barrier.
US09035290B2	Organic light emitting diode display device An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate including a plurality of organic light emitting elements; an adhesive member on at least a portion of an upper surface of the substrate; a flexible circuit board adhered to the upper surface of the adhesive member and having a portion bent to be mounted to a lower surface of the substrate; and a light blocking member at the upper surface of the substrate, wherein the light blocking member is laterally offset from the adhesive member.
US09035288B2	Organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting display An organic light emitting diode includes a first electrode including a reflective metal layer of a light-reflective metal, an upper transparent conductive layer on the reflective metal layer, and an amorphous oxide layer on the upper transparent conductive layer, an organic emission layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the organic emission layer.
US09035285B2	Display device and organic light emitting diode display A display device includes a substrate, a display unit formed on the substrate, a sealing substrate bonded to the substrate by a bonding layer surrounding the display unit, the sealing substrate comprising a complex member and an insulating member, wherein the complex member has a resin matrix and a plurality of carbon fibers and the insulator is connected to an edge of the complex member and comprises a penetration hole, a metal layer disposed at one side of the sealing substrate wherein the one side faces the substrate, and a conductive connection unit filling in the penetration hole and contacting the metal layer. The complex member and the insulator may be coupled by tongue and groovecoupling along a thickness direction of the sealing substrate where the protrusion-groove coupling structure is top-to-bottom symmetric and the insulator may have a thickness identical to that of the complex member.
US09035281B2	Graphene device and method of fabricating a graphene device In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a device comprising one or more porous graphene layers, the or each graphene porous layer comprising a multiplicity of pores. The device may form at least part of a flexible and/or stretchable, and or transparent electronic device.
US09035276B2	Stackable non-volatile resistive switching memory device A memory device includes a first plurality of memory cells arranged in a first crossbar array, a first thickness of dielectric material overlying the first plurality of memory cells, and a second plurality of memory cells arranged in a second crossbar array overlying the first thickness of dielectric material. The memory device further includes a second thickness of dielectric material overlying the second plurality of memory cells. In a specific embodiment, the memory device further includes a Nth thickness of dielectric material overlying an Nth plurality of memory cells, where N is an integer ranging from 3 to 8.
US09035275B2	Three dimensional memory array adjacent to trench sidewalls A self-aligning stacked memory cell array structure and method for fabricating such structure. The memory cell array includes a stack of memory cells disposed adjacent to opposing sides of a conductive line that is formed within a trench. The memory cells are stacked such that the memory element surface of each memory cell forms a portion of the sidewall of the conductive line. The conductive line is formed within the trench such that electrical contact is made across the entire memory element surface of each memory cell. Such structure and method for making such structure is a self-aligning process that does not require the use of any additional masks.
US09035272B2	Nanoparticle-based memristor structure A memristor structure has two electrodes sandwiching an insulating region, and includes a nanoparticle providing a conducting path between the two electrodes, wherein either the insulating region comprises an inorganic material and nanoparticle comprises a solid nanoparticle or a core/shell nanoparticle or the insulating region comprises an inorganic or organic material and the nanoparticle comprises a core/shell nanoparticle.
US09035270B2	Universal mount A mount for mounting an ultraviolet (UV) lamp assembly or other device to a duct wall of an HVAC system. The mount may have a base having a first side and a second side, an aperture extending through the base from the first side to the second side, one or more first mounting features, and one or more second mounting features. To secure a UV lamp assembly to the base, the mount may have a socket allowing at least a portion of the UV lamp to extend through the aperture of the base. To secure the first side of the mount to the duct wall, the first mounting features receives connectors. To secure the second side of the mount to the duct wall, the second mounting features receive connectors. A recess between the second mounting features may facilitate connecting connectors to a duct wall without the duct wall interfering with the secured UV lamp assembly.
US09035267B2	In-line photoluminescence imaging of semiconductor devices Methods and systems are presented for acquiring photoluminescence images (2) of silicon solar cells and wafers (4) as they progress along a manufacturing line (36). In preferred embodiments the images are acquired while maintaining motion of the samples. In certain embodiments photoluminescence is generated with short pulse, high intensity excitation, (8) for instance by a flash lamp (50) while in other embodiments images are acquired in line scanning fashion. The photoluminescence images can be analysed to obtain information on average or spatially resolved values of one or more sample properties such as minority carrier diffusion length, minority carrier lifetime, dislocation defects, impurities and shunts, or information on the incidence or growth of cracks in a sample.
US09035266B2	Dosimeter and method for determining an energy dose of a pulsed radiation field The invention concerns a dosimeter for the determination of an absorbed dose (D) of a radiation field (26), the dosimeter having a dosimeter probe (12), which has (a) a sensor (14), which has a sensor volume that emits electrical charges (Q) when exposed to ionizing radiation, (b) a cable (18) for the transmission of the charges (Q) and (c) an evaluation unit (20), which is designed for the capture of a physical quantity (U), which corresponds to the emitted electrical charge (Q), which is characterized by the fact that the evaluation unit (20) is arranged for (d) the detection of a interval cycle of the radiation field (26), (e) the recording of a measurement number of measurements of a physical quantity (U) corresponding to the electrical charge, which is always read at the same time relative to the interval cycle, so that an initial raw measured value (U1) and at least one second raw measured value (U2) are obtained per interval, and (f) the calculation of a measured value (D) from the at-least two raw measured values (U1, U2) which is unambiguously related to the absorbed dose (D) deposited in the sensor volume.
US09035265B2	Radiation imaging apparatus, method for driving the same and radiation imaging system A radiation imaging apparatus, comprising a sensor array configured to output a signal in accordance with irradiated radiation, a driving unit configured to output a signal from the sensor array by driving the sensor array, a detecting unit configured to detect irradiated radiation, a control unit configured to control the driving unit to perform first readout to read out a signal corresponding to charge accumulated in the sensor array from the sensor array and perform second readout to further read out a signal from the sensor array at least in a case where the first readout has started during irradiation of radiation, and a processing unit configured to correct the signal obtained by the first readout based on the signal obtained by the second readout.
US09035264B2	X-ray detector and heat dissipating method An X-ray detector and a heat dissipating method are provided. The heat dissipating method comprises providing an optical sensing panel over an internal support of the X-ray detector and providing a digital printed circuit board directly on a back cover, so that there is a gap between the digital printed circuit board and the optical sensing panel that is fixed by the internal support. The X-ray detector comprises an optical sensing panel bonded to the outer side of an internal support; and a digital printed circuit board bonded to the inner side of a back cover, wherein there is a gap between the digital printed circuit board and the optical sensing panel that is fixed by the internal support.
US09035261B2	Reflector having adaptive reflectivity for radiation detection Systems, devices, processes, and algorithms for adapting and/or adjusting a reflectivity of a reflector in a radiation detector. The reflectivity can be changed by a reflectivity control signal that is generated based on an estimated count rate of events so as to adjust a probability of a photosensor detecting light resulting from the event via, for example, a scintillation event. By adjusting the probability, an energy resolution of the radiation detector can be optimized. The reflectivity of a reflector can be changed by changing a state of a thin film, a liquid crystal layer, or a suspended magnetic particle layer.
US09035255B2	Calibration of a level gauge system A method of calibrating a level gauge system using electromagnetic signals to determine a filling level of a product in a tank. The level gauge system comprises a real time sampler for sampling a reflection signal with a sampling period between consecutive samples. The method comprises the steps of: receiving timing signals from a wireless communication network; generating time stamp signals based on the timing signals; registering a number of the sampling periods between a first time stamp signal and a second time stamp signal; and determining the sampling period based on the registered number of sampling periods and a time between the first time stamp signal and the second time stamp signal. Various embodiments of the present invention provide for high accurate determination of the filling level in a tank without the need for a temperature stable and highly accurate clock reference in the level gauge system.
US09035249B1	Multi-beam system for high throughput EBI A scanning charged particle beam device configured to image a specimen is described. The scanning charged particle beam device includes a source of charged particles, a condenser lens for influencing the charged particles, an aperture plate having at least two aperture openings to generate at least two primary beamlets of charged particles, at least two deflectors, wherein the at least two deflectors are multi-pole deflectors, a multi-pole deflector with an order of poles of 8 or higher, an objective lens, wherein the objective lens is a retarding field compound lens, a beam separator configured to separate the at least two primary beamlets from at least two signal beamlets, a beam bender, or a deflector or a mirror configured to deflect the at least two signal beamlets, wherein the beam bender is a hemispherical beam bender or beam bender having at least two curved electrodes, and at least two detector elements.
US09035247B2	Method for operating a particle beam device and/or for analyzing an object in a particle beam device A method for operating a particle beam device and/or for analyzing an object in a particle beam device are provided. For example, the particle beam device is an electron beam device, an ion beam device, or a combination device having an electron beam device and an ion beam device. In various embodiments, the method steps of a so-called stereoscopy method and a multi-detector method may be combined with one another in such a manner that simple and rapid analysis of the object is made possible.
US09035246B2	Ion guide with orthogonal sampling A mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising a RF ion guide wherein in a mode of operation a continuous, quasi-continuous or pulsed beam of ions is orthogonally sampled from the ion guide and wherein the continuous, quasi-continuous or pulsed beam of ions is not axially trapped or otherwise axially confined within the RF ion guide. The ion guide is maintained, in use, at a pressure selected from the group consisting of: (i) 0.0001-0.001 mbar; (ii) 0.001-0.01 mbar; (iii) 0.01-0.1 mbar; (iv) 0.1-1 mbar; (v) 1-10 mbar; (vi) 10-100 mbar; and (vii) >100 mbar.
US09035245B2	Device for mass selective determination of an ion A device for mass selective determination of at least one ion or of a plurality of ions is used, for example, in a measuring apparatus having an ion trap. The ion trap has a ring electrode having a first opening. A first electrode is arranged at the first opening. Furthermore, an amplifier for providing a radio-frequency storage signal for the ion trap and a first transformer are provided, said first transformer being connected to the amplifier and the first electrode in such a way that the radio-frequency storage signal is coupled into the first electrode via the first transformer.
US09035243B2	Method and a device for early detection of fires A method and device for early detection of fires is based on the detection of volatile thermolysis products which are characteristic of the material to be monitored, ambient air being aspirated from an area to be monitored with respect to fire and being ionized, the ionized gas flow being channeled through an electromagnetic field, the resulting field strength of which modifying the trajectories of the ions in their temporal and spatial dependence with a parameter set in such a manner that positive and/or negative ions of the ionized gas are forced onto pre-determined trajectories and are detected for generating a fire alarm. Accordingly, fires can be detected quickly and reliably in the earliest possible phase before their full development so that taking or initiating follow-up actions can occur particularly quickly and at an early stage.
US09035242B2	Instrument for sizing nanoparticles and a component therefor An improved nanoparticle sizing apparatus comprised of a unipolar charger operatively coupled to a radial differential mobility analyzer in combination with a condensation particle counter and powered by a power source such as a battery or solar cell, thereby providing a portable sizing device.
US09035237B2	Systems and methods using tunable differential gravimeter Systems and methods are provided for determining a property, e.g., density, of a geological formation based on Einstein's theory of gravitation. A gravitational potential difference is determined between two positions of the geological formation by measuring a frequency shift of radiation travelling from a source to an absorber of a differential gravimeter. The differential gravimeter can be a part of a downhole tool. The gravitational potential difference determined can be used to determine the property of the geological formation.
US09035235B2	Method for reducing interference and crosstalk in double optical tweezers using a single laser source, and apparatus using the same Experimental studies of single molecule mechanics require high force sensitivity and low drift, which can be achieved with optical tweezers through an optical tweezers apparatus for force measurements. A CW infrared laser beam is split by polarization and focused by a high numerical aperture objective to create two traps. The same laser is used to form both traps and to measure the force by back focal plane interferometry. Although the two beams entering the microscope are designed to exhibit orthogonal polarization, interference and a significant parasitic force signal occur. Comparing the experimental results with a ray optics model, the interference patterns are caused by the rotation of polarization on microscope lens surfaces and slides. Two methods for reducing the crosstalk are directed to polarization rectification by passing through the microscope twice and frequency shifting of one of the split laser beams.
US09035233B2	Accessory mounting system for mounting an electronic device at a windshield of a vehicle An accessory mounting system for mounting an electronic device at a windshield of a vehicle includes a bracket. The bracket is configured to mount at an interior surface of the vehicle windshield. The bracket includes an attaching structure configured to attach the bracket at the interior surface of the vehicle windshield. The bracket may include a support frame coupled to an attaching structure and to an adjustable support of an interior rearview mirror assembly. The support frame may have a set off portion set off from the interior surface of the windshield to accommodate an electronic device between the windshield and the set off portion.
US09035226B1	Control system with regenerative heat system An exoatmospheric vehicle uses a control system that includes a thrust system to provide thrust to control flight of the vehicle. A regenerative heat system is used to preheat portions of the thrust system, prior to their use in control of the vehicle. The heat for preheating may be generated by consumption of a fuel of the vehicle, such as a monopropellant fuel. The fuel may be used to power a pump (among other possibilities), to pressurize the fuel for use by thrusters of the thrust system. The preheated portions of the thrust system may include one or more catalytic beds of the thrust system, which may be preheated using exhaust gasses from the pump. The preheating may reduce the response time of the thrusters that have their catalytic beds preheated. Other thrusters of the thrust system may not be preheated at all before operation.
US09035224B2	Cooking apparatus and control method thereof Disclosed is a cooking apparatus including a cooking chamber to receive materials to be cooked therein, a microwave-heating unit to radiate microwaves to the cooking chamber, a convection-heating unit to supply hot air to the cooking chamber, a grill-heating unit to supply radiant heat to the cooking chamber, a crusty plate configured to be heated by the microwaves, an input unit to receive a user fry-cooking command, and a control unit. When the user fry-cooking command is input, the control unit performs a microwave-heating stage of activating at least one of the convection-heating unit and the grill-heating unit and activating the microwave-heating unit, and performs a slim fry stage of activating the grill-heating unit and the convection-heating unit without activating the microwave-heating unit. Accordingly, the cooking apparatus achieves the fry-cooking process using the microwaves, radiant heat and convection heat without dipping the materials to be cooked in oil.
US09035223B2	Induction heat cooking device An induction heat cooking device is provided that finishes preheating in a short time and maintains the temperature obtained at the finish of the preheating. The induction heat cooking device includes a heating coil for heating a cooking container by induction, an inverter circuit for providing a high frequency current to the heating coil, an operation unit including an operation mode setting unit for setting an operation mode of the inverter circuit, an infrared sensor for detecting an infrared light that is emitted from a bottom surface of the cooking container, a control unit for controlling an output of the inverter circuit based on an output of the infrared sensor and a setting inputted to the operation unit, and a notification unit.
US09035211B2	Gas blast interrupter A gas-insulated circuit interrupter is disclosed, the interrupter having an improved design for quenching electrical arcs. The interrupter includes a first contact and a second contact configured to alternatively connect to and disconnect from the first contact. One or both of the contacts are at least partially contained in an arcing chamber. The arcing chamber includes the point at which the contacts connect during current-carrying operation of the interrupter. The arcing chamber is at least partially surrounded by a heating chamber for accommodating a quenching gas. A channel connects the heating chamber and the arcing chamber and is positioned to direct the quenching gas toward the first contact and the second contact arcing area. One or more valves direct gas from the arcing chamber to the heating chamber when the interrupter is operated to interrupt a current.
US09035208B2	Control module with redundant switches A control module includes a housing, a continuous cover supported by the housing, and a plurality of switches positioned within the housing in selective mechanical engagement with the continuous cover. Each of the plurality of switches is electrically configured to be capable of independently triggering a particular function when the continuous cover is moved relative to the housing.
US09035207B2	Button device and electronic equipment using the same A button device has a circuit board, a tact switch having a pressed surface, a light source, and a resilient button capable of sliding relative to the circuit board. The resilient button includes a pressed portion having a projection surface and a light guide column connected to the pressed portion and directing light toward the projection surface. The light guide column includes a light receiving surface facing the light source with a certain distance apart and a touchable portion apart from the pressed surface with a certain distance used for touching the tact switch.
US09035206B2	Electric switch An embodiment relates to an electric switch, particularly an electric circuit-breaker, including a rotor housing that can be turned to an ON and an OFF position and at least one electric contact arm that is mounted rotatably in the rotor housing and can be swiveled jointly with as well as relatively to it. A display element is included that is coupled indirectly or directly to the rotor housing and which in one display position indicates the ON position of the rotor housing and in another display position indicates the OFF position of the rotor housing.
US09035202B2	Touch detecting function display apparatus, driving circuit, driving method of touch detecting function display apparatus and electronic equipment A touch detecting function display apparatus includes a plurality of common driving electrodes, a display element performing display, a touch detection element detecting an external approaching object, and a scanning driving unit performing first scanning driving for sequentially applying a display driving signal to the plurality of common driving electrodes in a time division manner and second scanning driving for sequentially applying a touch detection driving signal to the plurality of common driving electrodes in a time division manner, wherein the scanning driving unit performs the second scanning driving at a scanning speed higher than that of the first scanning driving, and applies the display driving signal to an overlapping common driving electrode when the common driving electrode selected as a target of the first scanning driving overlaps with the common driving electrode selected as a target of the second scanning driving.
US09035195B2	Circuit board having tie bar buried therein and method of fabricating the same Provided is a circuit board having a tie bar buried therein. The circuit board includes a dielectric stack, at least a first tie bar, at least a first gold finger and at least a first microvia. The dielectric stack includes a first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer is located on the second dielectric layer. The dielectric stack includes a wireline region and a gold finger region. The first tie bar is buried in the gold finger region between the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The at least a first gold finger is located in the gold finger region on the first dielectric layer. The first microvia is located in the gold finger region in the first dielectric layer, and electrically connects the first gold finger to the first tie bar.
US09035192B2	Anisotropic conductive adhesive composite and film, and circuit connecting structure including the same An anisotropic conductive adhesive composite and film include a binder and conductive particles dispersed in the binder. The conductive particles include a copper core particle and a metal coating layer coated on a surface of the corresponding copper core particle.
US09035191B2	Printed circuit board and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed herein are a printed circuit board, including: a substrate having a patterned circuit layer on one surface thereof; and a resist pattern having a pattern corresponding to the circuit layer and covering the circuit layer so as to close the circuit layer, wherein a width of the resist pattern covering an upper portion of the circuit layer is the same as that of the resist pattern covering a lower portion of the circuit layer, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US09035190B2	Flexible circuit board and display device The present invention has an object of obtaining excellent anti-noise performance and a high level of flexibility in a flexible circuit board. A flexible circuit board 13 according to the present invention has a flexible insulating base material 21, a plurality of wiring patterns 22 formed at prescribed intervals on one surface 21a of the insulating base material 21, and a conductive layer 23 formed on the other surface 21b of the insulating base material 21. The conductive layer 23 is disposed so as to overlap first wiring patterns 22A, which is a select set among the plurality of wiring patterns 22, and does not overlap all of the wiring patterns 22.
US09035188B2	Electro-conductive multifilament yarn and electro-conductive brush An electro-conductive multifilament yarn for an electro-conductive brush that includes an electro-conductive fiber containing a synthetic fiber and a carbon nanotube covering a surface of the fiber. The synthetic fiber may have a single-filament fineness of not more than 30 dtex. The synthetic fiber may have 3 to 6 elongated recesses or grooves extending in a longitudinal direction thereof and have a multi-leaves or cross-section.
US09035175B2	Multi-gang adjustable electrical box An electrical box assembly includes an electrical box having a removable partition plate that can be positioned between the ends of the electrical box or at the end of the electrical box when two or more of the electrical boxes are ganged together. The electrical box can include a mounting bracket having a body portion attached to a wall of the box for supporting the box during use. A support member is coupled to the mounting bracket and is extendable to a length to contact the opposing wall. The mounting and the support member are independently adjustable with respect to the box.
US09035172B2	Crack resistant solar cell modules A crack resistant solar cell module includes a protective package mounted on a frame. The protective package includes a polyolefin encapsulant that protectively encapsulates solar cells. The polyolefin has less than five weight percent of oxygen and nitrogen in the backbone or side chain. In other words, the combined weight percent of oxygen and nitrogen in any location in the molecular structure of the polyolefin is less than five. The polyolefin also has a complex viscosity less than 10,000 Pa second at 90° C. as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) before any thermal processing of the polyolefin. The protective package includes a top cover, the encapsulant, and a backsheet. The solar cell module allows for shipping, installation, and maintenance with less risk of developing cracks on the surfaces of the solar cells.
US09035168B2	Support for solar energy collectors A solar energy collection system can include support devices made with bearings formed from sheet material. These bearings can be optionally formed so as to provide tool-less connections to their associated bearing housings. The bearings can be formed with an open configuration allowing a shaft to be inserted into an open bite of the bearing. Optionally, the bearing can be made from an ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene plastic material. Additionally, two open-type bearing assemblies can be mounted axially offset and opposed to one another.
US09035163B1	System and method for targeting content based on identified audio and multimedia The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that recognize audio queries and select related information to return in response to recognition of the audio queries. The technology disclosed facilitates easy designation of aggregate user experience categories and custom audio references to be recognized. It facilitates linking and return of selected information in response to recognition of audio queries that match the designated aggregate user experience categories or custom audio references to be recognized.
US09035162B2	Synthetic multi-string musical instrument with score coded performance effect cues and/or chord sounding gesture capture A synthetic multi-string musical instrument captures a stream of expressive gestures indicated on a multi-touch sensitive display for note/chord soundings and associated performance effects and embellishments. Visual cues in accord with a musical score may be revealed/advanced at a current performance tempo, but it is the user's gestures that actually drive the audible performance rendering via digital synthesis. Opportunities for user expression (or variance from score) include onset and duration of note soundings, tempo changes, as well as uncued string bend effects, vibrato, etc. Gesturing mechanism are provide to allow user musicians to sound chords without having to register precisely accurate multi-touch screen contacts. This can be especially helpful for mobile phone, media player and game controller embodiments, where there is generally limited real-estate to display six (6) or more strings, and user fingers are generally too fat to precisely contact such strings.
US09035158B1	Maize inbred PH1TDJ A novel maize variety designated PH1TDJ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1TDJ with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1TDJ through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1TDJ or a locus conversion of PH1TDJ with another maize variety.
US09035155B2	Variety corn line KDL6289 The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated KDL6289, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line KDL6289 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line KDL6289, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line KDL6289, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09035153B1	Maize inbred PH1KAP A novel maize variety designated PH1KAP and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1KAP with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1KAP through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1KAP or a locus conversion of PH1KAP with another maize variety.
US09035150B1	Maize inbred PH1KHH A novel maize variety designated PH1KHH and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1KHH with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1KHH through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1KHH or a locus conversion of PH1KHH with another maize variety.
US09035144B2	Variety corn line DC4016YD The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated DC4016YD, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line DC4016YD with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line DC4016YD, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line DC4016YD, and plants produced according to these methods.
US09035143B1	Maize variety hybrid X80B470 A novel maize variety designated X80B470 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X80B470 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80B470 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X80B470, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80B470. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80B470.
US09035139B2	Soybean variety 01046169 The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01046169. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01046169. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01046169 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01046169 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09035128B2	Hybrid light chain mice Genetically modified mice are provided that express human λ variable (hVλ) sequences, including mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse λ light chain locus, mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse κ light chain locus, and mice that express hVλ sequences from a transgene or an episome wherein the hVλ sequence is linked to a mouse constant sequence. Mice are provided that are a source of somatically mutated human λ variable sequences useful for making antigen-binding proteins. Compositions and methods for making antigen-binding proteins that comprise human λ variable sequences, including human antibodies, are provided.
US09035126B2	Fluid management device with fluid transport element for use within a body A fluid management device for use in a mammalian body has at least one fluid transport element capable of interfacing with a mammalian body element to provide a substantially uninterrupted fluid conduit. The fluid conduit provides a fluid path between at least one fluid transport element and the storage element. A distal portion of the at least one fluid transport element is capable of extending away from the fluid storage element, and the at least one fluid transport element has a Wing Stiffness of less than about 10 gf.
US09035124B2	Fluid management device with fluid transport element for use within a body A fluid management device for use in a mammalian body has at least one fluid transport element capable of interfacing with a mammalian body element to provide a substantially uninterrupted fluid conduit. The fluid conduit provides a fluid path between at least one fluid transport element and the storage element. A distal portion of the at least one fluid transport element is capable of extending away from the fluid storage element, and the at least one fluid transport element has a Wing Stiffness of less than about 10 gf.
US09035120B2	Use of phosphorus modified molecular sieves in conversion of organics to olefins A method of making light olefins in a combined XTO (organics to olefins) and OCP (olefins cracking) process, from an oxygen-containing, halogenide-containing, or sulphur-containing organic feedstock contacted with a catalyst in a first reactor to convert the feedstock into a reactor effluent comprising light olefins and a heavy hydrocarbon fraction; separating the light olefins from the heavy hydrocarbon fraction, then contacting the heavy hydrocarbon fraction in a second reactor with a catalyst to convert a portion of the heavy hydrocarbons into light olefins; wherein the catalyst is a zeolite selected among a H+ or NH4+—form of MFI, MEL, FER, MOR, or clinoptilolite; modifying the zeolite by adding from 0.05 to 7 wt % of phosphorous to the zeolite, and an optional washing and/or drying in either order, then calcination. In an embodiment, the initial zeolite Si:Al atomic ratio of at least one catalyst is 100 or less.
US09035111B2	Method for producing fluorinated organic compounds A method for producing fluorinated organic compounds, including hydrofluoropropenes, which preferably comprises converting at least one compound of formula (I): CF3(—CX2X2)nCX1═H2 (I) to at least one compound of formula (II): CF3(CX2X2)nCX1═H2 (II), where X1 is Cl, Br or I, each X2 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, Cl, F, Br or J, and n is 0, 1, or 2.
US09035109B2	Process for production of hexamethylenediamine from carbohydrate-containing materials and intermediates therefor Processes are disclosed for the conversion of a carbohydrate source to hexamethylenediamine (HMDA) and to intermediates useful for the production of hexamethylenediamine and other industrial chemicals. HMDA is produced by direct reduction of a furfural substrate to 1,6-hexanediol in the presence of hydrogen and a heterogeneous reduction catalyst comprising Pt or by indirect reduction of a furfural substrate to 1,6-hexanediol wherein 1,2,6-hexanetriol is produced by reduction of the furfural substrate in the presence of hydrogen and a catalyst comprising Pt and 1,2,6-hexanediol is then converted by hydrogenation in the presence of a catalyst comprising Pt to 1,6 hexanediol, each process then proceeding to the production of HMDA by known routes, such as amination of the 1,6 hexanediol. Catalysts useful for the direct and indirect production of 1,6-hexanediol are also disclosed.
US09035102B2	Hydrolysis of the residues obtained in the production of isophorone to recover isophorone and acetone A process for preparing isophorone (3,5,5-trimethyl-2-cyclohexen-1-one) is provided wherein distillation vapors from the work-up of product fractions are recycled to earlier stages of operation of the process.
US09035099B2	Process for making ethoxylated amine compounds An improved process for making ethoxylated amine compounds such as ethanolamines. The improvement comprises the addition of an acid to the amine compound prior to the addition of ethylene oxide to a reactor wherein the ethoxylated amine compound is prepared. The improvement reduces the concentration of undesirable glycol ether and/or vinyl ether ethoxylate byproducts which may contribute to undesirable properties, such as color and foaming, of the ethoxylated amine compounds.
US09035095B2	Processes for producing succinic acid Provided are processes for producing high-purity succinic acid from a succinic-acid-containing liquid through crystallization.
US09035093B2	Methods for production of high concentration of arginine bicarbonate solution at high pressure Methods of producing arginine bicarbonate solutions in very high concentrations including reacting an arginine slurry containing a first portion of arginine with a source of carbon dioxide gas at elevated pressure and temperature, adding subsequent portions of arginine to the resulting solution and further reacting with compressed carbon dioxide until a final solution containing in excess of 50% by weight are provided which include preparing an arginine solution by subjecting an arginine water slurry to elevated pressure and temperature and reacting the arginine solution with a source of carbon dioxide gas to form a solution comprising arginine and bicarbonate anion and recovering arginine bicarbonate from the solution.
US09035090B2	Process and apparatus for slurry separation of aromatic carboxylic acid In a process for removing aromatic carboxylic acid from a slurry thereof in solvent, the slurry is split into sub streams and each of said sub streams is supplied to a respective rotary pressure filter such that the sub stream pass through the filters in parallel. Gas is passed through the rotary pressure filters in series in an open-loop arrangement.
US09035078B2	Preparation of nitrile compounds The invention relates to novel nitrile compounds according to formula I and II: (I) Formula I wherein: X=—CH3 or —C≡N, (II) Formula II wherein: X=—CH3 or —C≡N, each Y is independently chosen from —OH or RC(0)0-, each R is independently chosen from a C1-21 alkyl group. The invention also relates to processes for the preparation of nitrile compounds according to formula I and II and to uses of the nitrile compounds.
US09035074B2	Pyrrolo[2,3-D]pyrimidine derivatives Described herein are pyrrolo{2,3-d}pyrimidine derivatives, their use as Janus Kinase (JAK) inhibitors, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US09035072B2	Process of producing cycloalkylcarboxamido-indole compounds The present invention features processes for preparing compounds, such as (R)-1-(2,2-difluorobenzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-N-(1-(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-6-fluoro-2-(1-hydroxy-2-methylpropan-2-yl)-1H-indol-5-yl)cyclopropanecarboxamide (Compound 1), useful for treating CFTR mediated diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
US09035071B2	Compounds acting at multiple prostaglandin receptors giving a general anti-inflammatory response The present invention provides a compound that is represented by the following general formula wherein R1, R2, R4, R5, R6, R7, X, W, X and Y are as defined in the specification. The compounds may be administered to treat DP1, FP, EP1, TP and/or EP4 receptor mediated diseases or conditions.
US09035069B2	Azole derivative, method for producing same, intermediate compound, and agricultural or horticultural chemical agent and industrial material protecting agent Provided is an azole derivative superior in disease-controlling activity contained as an active ingredient in agricultural or horticultural chemical agents.The azole derivative according to the present invention is represented by the following General Formula (I): (in Formula (I), R1 represents an unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6-alkyl group; R2 represents a carbonyl group-containing functional group, wherein the carbon atom in the carbonyl group is bound to the carbon atom in the cyclopentane ring substituted with R1 and to a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, R3, OR3, or NR3R4; R3 and R4 each represent a C1-C6-alkyl group, a C2-C6-alkenyl group, or a C2-C6-alkynyl group; Y represents a halogen atom, a C1-C4-alkyl group, a C1-C4-haloalkyl group, a C1-C4-alkoxy group, a C1-C4-haloalkoxy group, a phenyl group, a cyano group, or a nitro group; m is 0 to 5; and A represents a nitrogen atom or a methine group).

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