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US09060861B2	Annuloplasty ring system An annuloplasty ring system for repairing an atrioventricular cardiac valve includes an external support ring (2), an inner adjustable ring (4), a sliding pushing element (6) mounted between the external and inner rings (2, 4), and actuating element designed to control the pushing element (6). The pushing element (6) is designed, when actuated by the actuating element, to slide between the external ring (2) and the inner ring (4) and to press on the inner ring (4) by using the external ring (2) as a support, in such a way that a precise part of the inner ring (4) is deformed without modifying the perimeter of the inner ring (4).
US09060856B2	Transcatheter heart valves A prosthetic heart valve comprises a biological tissue valve and a collapsible and expandable support frame having a longitudinal axis. The frame comprises an outflow circumferential structure defining an outflow end of the frame and consisting essentially of a single row of diamond-shaded expandable cells. The frame also comprises three V-shaped structures spaced apart from the outflow circumferential structure and three struts longitudinally aligned with the longitudinal axis of the frame. The three struts are configured to facilitate mounting the biological tissue valve to the frame and interconnect the outflow circumferential structure to the three V-shaped structures. The frame also includes three undulating structures, each of the three undulating structures interconnecting respective adjacent V-shaped structures of the three V-shaped structures. The prosthetic heart valve is configured to be collapsed for introduction into a patient using a catheter and to be expanded for deployment at an implantation site.
US09060855B2	Prosthetic valve In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a valve prosthesis for attachment to a native valve complex of a subject. The prosthesis is configured to assume a compressed delivery state and an uncompressed implantation state. The prosthesis includes a support frame, which is shaped so as to define an upstream inlet having upstream-most portions that are tapered in an upstream direction toward a central longitudinal axis of the prosthesis when the prosthesis assumes the compressed delivery state, and a flexible prosthetic heart valve component, coupled to the support frame. Other embodiments are also described.
US09060853B2	Stent and stent-graft designs The present embodiments provide stents and stent-grafts for use in medical procedures. In one embodiment, a stent comprises a series of proximal apices, a series of distal apices, and at least one imaging element. A first suture bore is disposed in a surface of the stent at a location distal to the imaging element, and is adapted to receive a suture for coupling a portion of the stent to a graft material. A distal region of the stent, including the series of distal apices and the first suture bore, overlaps with the graft material, while a proximal region of the stent, including the series of proximal apices and at least one barb, is disposed proximally beyond the graft material. In an alternative embodiment, a stent-graft comprises a graft, a first stent and a second stent, in which a series of proximal apices of the first stent are each disposed distal to the proximal end of the graft, and a series of proximal apices of the second stent are each disposed proximally beyond the proximal end of the graft.
US09060852B2	Method for making a flexible stent-graft A method of making a stent-graft is provided. The method includes mounting a stent on a mandrel so that the stent is stretched when it is on the mandrel. A graft layer is then adhered to the stent while it is mounted on the mandrel. When the stent-graft is removed from the mandrel, the stent contracts and the graft layer becomes partially wrinkled when the stent is in its expanded relaxed state.
US09060850B2	Method and system for making an apparatus for individualized area-specific skin treatments for a subject A temperature controlled cosmetic treatment facial mask with area-specific treatments of the present invention includes a substantially planar mask body which is formed with cut-outs for a person's eyes, nose, and mouth. The mask may include a number of large and small area treatment zones in combination with asymmetrical treatment zones suitable for treatment of specific and localized skin conditions. The treatments zones are coated with skin treatments, such as compounds, lotions, gels, and the like as are known in the facial treatment, cosmetics, spa and medical industry. The mask may include a self-heating or cooling substrate to provide temperature control to the face mask and each mask may include heating areas, cooling areas, or both. A system is also provided that includes an imaging device that feeds its output to a central computer system having an image analyzer, CPU, memory and Look Up Table, and face map for determining specific treatment requirements for the particular patient. An output from the central computer system is provided to a treatment deposition device which deposits various treatments onto an intermediate membrane layer to generate a custom temperature controlled facial mask with area-specific treatments for that particular patient.
US09060847B2	Optical hydrogel material with photosensitizer and method for modifying the refractive index A method for modifying the refractive index of an optical, hydrogel polymeric material. The method comprises irradiating predetermined regions of an optical, polymeric material with a laser to form refractive structures. To facilitate the formation of the refractive structures the optical, hydrogel polymeric material comprises a photosensitizer. The presence of the photosensitizer permits one to set a scan rate to a value that is at least fifty times greater than a scan rate without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provides similar refractive structures in terms of the observed change in refractive index. Alternatively, the photosensitizer in the polymeric material permits one to set an average laser power to a value that is at least two times less than an average laser power without the photosensitizer in the material, yet provide similar refractive structures.
US09060839B2	Methods and systems for treatment of prolapse Described are implants, tools, and related methods, for use in pelvic surgery to treat conditions such as prolapse, including embodiments of methods that involve a tissue path above the arcus tendineus.
US09060838B2	Tissue supported implantable device An implant configured to treat prolapse of a pelvic organ includes a support member and an extension portion projecting from the support member. The extension portion has a barbed fixation means provided thereon for anchoring the extension portion into pelvic paravaginal tissue. The barbed fixation means allow bi-directional adjustment of the barbed fixation means relative to the tissue, and when suitably located, the barbed fixation means engage the tissue. The support member comprises a mesh material having a mass density of less than 50 g/m2.
US09060837B2	Patterned sling implant and method Embodiments of elongate pelvic implants and methods for treating pelvic conditions, such as incontinence, are provided. The implants can include a tissue support portion, one or more extension portions and one or more anchors. The implant is constructed as a unitary sling implant. The implant can be constructed or formed in a generally elongate shape to provide a lattice support structure of repeated cells.
US09060836B2	Patterned implant and method A unitary or homogeneous patterned implant is provided. The implant is constructed of patterned cells formed by way of a molding, die casting, laser etching, laser cutting, extruding, and the like. Portions of the implant can be formed into sinusoid or other waveform strut members to control and promote elongation, expansion or contraction along single or multiple axes. As such, controlled and designated stress, tension and compression distribution is promoted across specific or localized areas of the implant.
US09060835B2	Conformationally-stabilized intraluminal device for medical applications The invention relates to devices that are stabilized at an intraluminal residence site in the gastrointestinal tract by their conformation, including dimensions of length and curvature. The device as a whole corresponds to the conformation of the residence site; more particularly, the curved or angled portions correspond to the curved or angled portions of the residence site and do not conform to an immediately proximal or distal site. In some embodiments, the conformationally stabilized device may effect a change in the residence site shape that contributes to stability of the device. Some embodiments are directed toward curbing appetite and/or reducing food intake, other embodiments may be directed toward other therapeutic ends. Some embodiments of the device are designed to reside wholly in the duodenum; others reside principally within the duodenum but extend proximally into the gastric antrum, while other embodiments are designed to reside elsewhere within the gastrointestinal tract.
US09060833B2	Method of preparing flavored function specific toothpick A flavored toothpick and a method for preparing such, the product exhibiting improved capacity for delivering flavor and additives to the user, among other advantages. The toothpick may be prepared by pretreating the wooden substrate to increase porosity and decrease hardness. The toothpick is then immersed in a solution containing an additive, a masking agent, and a sweeting agent, where the toothpick absorbs the solution. Alternatively, the toothpick may be placed with the solution in a sealed chamber under vacuum pressure to infuse the toothpick with the additive solution and any desired flavoring.
US09060828B2	Ultrasonic tip for an apicoectomy, and method for manufacturing same The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an ultrasonic tip for an apicoectomy, such that the tip has a shape suitable for the shape of a tooth root, comprising the steps of: forming a feedstock by mixing a metal powder including stainless steel with a binder; injecting the feedstock to form an injection-molded part having a plurality of projections integrally formed on the surface thereof; performing debinding to remove the binder from the injection-molded part; sintering the injection-molded part; and performing annealing to increase the ductility and facilitate the bending of the sintered part.
US09060825B2	Instrument for compression and distraction A spinal stabilization system, method, and a surgical kit having a surgical extender apparatus for implanting a surgical screw are disclosed. The extender includes a housing having a distal end and a proximal end, a hollow interior passageway disposed between the distal end and the proximal end, a channel disposed along an exterior surface of the housing at least partially between the distal end and the proximal end and configured to at least partially expose the hollow interior passageway, an interior locking mechanism disposed on an interior surface of the housing and substantially adjacent the proximal end, wherein the interior locking mechanism is configured to allow attachment of at least one surgical tool, and at least one flexible member disposed substantially adjacent the distal end. The housing is configured to accommodate placement of a surgical screw implant. The surgical screw implant is secured to the housing using a mating feature in the surgical screw implant. The at least one flexible member is configured to retain the surgical screw implant. The mating feature is configured to control axial movement of the surgical screw implant.
US09060823B2	Fracture fixation systems having intramedullary support Orthopedic fracture repair implants, systems and methods are disclosed. Implants include one or more biocompatible sleeves and struts. The implants, systems and methods are applied to bone fractures, such as segmentation fractures.
US09060803B2	Method and apparatus for tissue grafting and copying Exemplary embodiments of apparatus and method for obtaining one or more portions of biological tissue (“micrografts”) to form grafts are provided. For example, a hollow tube can be inserted into tissue at a donor site, and a pin provided within the tube can facilitate controlled removal of the micrograft from the tube. Micrografts can be harvested and directly implanted into an overlying biocompatible matrix through coordinated motion of the tube and pin. A needle can be provided around the tube to facilitate a direct implantation of a micrograft into a remote recipient site or matrix. The exemplary apparatus can include a plurality of such tubes and pins for simultaneous harvesting and/or implanting of a plurality of micrografts. The harvested micrografts can have a small dimension, e.g., less than about 1 mm, which can promote healing of the donor site and/or viability of the harvested tissue.
US09060797B2	Method of preparing a femur and tibia in knee arthroplasty A method of preparing a femur and tibia in surgery on a knee joint using a navigation system and a robotic system. The navigation system tracks movement of the femur and tibia during the surgery. The robotic system includes a cutting tool for cutting away material from the femur and tibia. Femoral and tibial implants on installed on the femur and tibia.
US09060792B2	Manipulator for an instrument for minimally invasive surgery, and a positioning aid for positioning such an instrument A manipulator for an instrument for minimally invasive surgery, having at a proximal end a handle for operating the instrument, and wherein the instrument is removably placed at a distal end, and wherein a parallelogram construction is provided between the proximal end and the distal end for guaranteeing an unambiguous positional relationship between the handle and the instrument, wherein the parallelogram construction is coupled with a system of bars for controlling the position of the parallelogram construction, the bars of the system of bars being connected to the parallelogram construction as well as to each other by means of cardan joints.
US09060789B2	Method and apparatus for preparing and fusion of small joints An embodiment includes a system for preparing fusion of joints, such as joints in the toes or fingers of an animal such as a human. The system may include one or more of complementary ball and socket joint reamers. A reamer may be separable from an intramedullary fixation rod. The rod may include channels to prevent rotation of the rod once implanted in bone. Other embodiments are discussed herein.
US09060781B2	Methods, systems, and devices relating to surgical end effectors The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various dual end effector devices that have more than one end effector.
US09060778B2	Intermittent short circuit detection on a multi-electrode catheter A method and system for detecting a short circuit during a radiofrequency ablation procedure. The method includes measuring an impedance of a pair of electrodes coupled to a treatment assembly of a medical device. Radiofrequency ablation energy is transmitted between the pair of electrodes. The transmission of radiofrequency ablation energy between the pair of electrodes is terminated when after a predetermined period of time the measured impedance in either of the electrodes in the pair of electrodes is below a predetermined threshold impedance value. An alert is generated indicating a short circuit between the pair of electrodes.
US09060773B2	Occlusive implant delivery devices and associated methods The various embodiments simplify the delivery of an occlusive implant to a hollow anatomical structure, such as a fallopian tube. For example, the delivery devices don't need to be retracted manually to deploy the implant. When the devices are activated, stored energy or a powered drive member induces movement of the various components. The operator need only position the distal ends of the devices at the treatment site and then commence deployment by, for example, flipping a switch or changing the position of an activation button. The present embodiments thus increase the efficacy of occlusion procedures by reducing the likelihood of operator error.
US09060761B2	Catheter-focused magnetic field induced renal nerve ablation A flexible catheter includes a magnetically permeable element provided at its distal end. The magnetically permeable element is configured for placement within the renal artery. External coils, positionable on anterior and posterior portions of a patient in proximity to the renal artery, are coupled to a generator which energizes the external coils to create a high-frequency oscillating magnetic field in body tissue between the external coils including the renal artery and perivascular renal nerve tissue. The magnetically permeable element serves to concentrate the magnetic field in a region near the renal artery. The concentrated magnetic field induces high frequency electric current sufficient to ablate the perivascular renal nerve tissue proximate the renal artery. A cooling arrangement can be provided at the catheter's distal end and configured to provide cooling to the renal artery during ablation of the perivascular renal nerve tissue.
US09060760B2	Tissue removal system A tissue removal device includes an outer tubular member coupled to a housing and a having a tissue resection window, an inner tubular member slidably disposed within the outer tubular member, a tissue trap having a sealed interior in fluid communication with a vacuum chamber, an open proximal end of the inner tubular member being disposed within the tissue trap interior, and an actuator moveably coupled to the housing and operatively connected to a movable piston in the vacuum chamber, such that movement of the actuator relative to the housing generates a vacuum in the tissue trap.
US09060753B2	Sampling system A sampling system comprises a mailing package; a cell sampling device comprising a flexible shaft having a handle at one end, wherein the shaft is configured to allow an individual to self collect a cell sample from mucous tissue, and a sample collecting element removably connectable with the other end of the shaft and operable to collect a cell sample from mucous tissue of an individual; and a sealable unit, wherein the unit is configured to store the sample collecting element having a cell sample thereon configured to receive the remaining components of the system for delivery to a user.
US09060752B2	Methods and devices for aseptic irrigation, urine sampling, and flow control of urine from a catheterized bladder A urinary catheter connector system having a housing; a catheter connector port supported by the housing and configured to attach to a urinary catheter; a urine exit port supported by the housing and configured to connect to a urine collection device; an irrigation port supported by the housing and configured to receive an irrigation syringe; a channel in the housing fluidly connecting the catheter connector port, the urine exit port and the irrigation port; and a valve supported by the housing and adapted to cooperate with the irrigation syringe to shut off flow of fluid and air to the urine exit port when the irrigation syringe is inserted and allow for flow of fluid and air to the urine exit port when the irrigation syringe is removed. The invention also includes methods of using the system.
US09060751B2	Surgical closure systems and methods A device for closing an opening in a tissue includes a closure body, a fastening element, and a capture strip coupleable to the closure body such that the capture strip is moveable from a first position to a second position relative to the closure body, the capture strip including a receptacle configured to receive the fastening element when the capture strip is in the first position such that movement of the capture strip from the first position to the second position causes the fastening element to urge the closure body toward the tissue.
US09060742B2	Transcutaneous analyte sensor The present invention relates generally to systems and methods for measuring an analyte in a host. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for transcutaneous measurement of glucose in a host.
US09060741B2	Mobile X-ray device, control method for X-ray irradiation, and control program for mobile X-ray device Provided is an X-ray device which can perform X-ray imaging without an object being subjected to ineffective exposure even when the X-ray imaging is interrupted by the occurrence of an error. The X-ray device is provided with an X-ray generator, an operation panel configured to set an imaging condition, an X-ray irradiation control unit configured to control X-ray irradiation in accordance with the imaging condition, an error detecting unit, configured to, during the X-ray irradiation, detect the occurrence of an error by which the X-ray irradiation should be interrupted, an irradiation interrupting unit configured to interrupt the X-ray irradiation when the occurrence of the error is detected, and a recovery unit configured to resume the X-ray irradiation for ensuring the X-ray amount defined by the imaging condition.
US09060730B2	Method and kit for quantifying risk predictor A method and a kit for quantification of at least one predictor promoting at least one multifactorial disease, intended for use in assessment of the risk for developing or progression of the at least one multifactorial disease for a subject are disclosed. The kit comprises a plurality of reservoir units (320), each reservoir unit (320) being arranged to releasably retain a skin irritation agent adapted to provoke an unspecific inflammatory response of skin. The kit comprises an estimation unit adapted to estimate a quantification of the at least one predictor on basis of an assessment of the at least one predictor performed by a user on basis of an assessment of the degree of severity of the inflammatory response to the skin irritation agent at each of a plurality of skin sites according to a predetermined inflammatory response criteria performed by the user and relative impact of the at least one predictor on the progress of the at least one multifactorial disease.
US09060720B1	Tissue oximeter intraoperative sensor An oximeter tool includes a base with one or more sensor structures to make measurements, a handle, and a spring connected between the handle and the base. A user can hold the handle while measurements are made and the spring permits the handle to flex relative to the one or more sensor structures.
US09060719B2	Method and apparatus for providing data processing and control in a medical communication system Methods and apparatus for providing data processing and control for use in a medical communication system are provided.
US09060711B2	Automated detection of uveitis using optical coherence tomography Systems and methods for automatically detecting, classifying and quantifying clumps indicative of inflammation in the eye using optical coherence tomography images are described. Clump detection relies on both intensity and geometric thresholding. Applications of the invention include improved diagnosis, classification and monitoring of inflammatory disease.
US09060708B2	Multi-mode communication ingestible event markers and systems, and methods of using the same Aspects of the invention include multi-mode communication ingestible event marker devices. Ingestible event marker devices of the invention include an ingestible component comprising a conductive communication module and at least one additional non-conductive communication module. The non-conductive communication module may be integrated with the ingestible component or at least a portion or all of the non-conductive communication module may be associated with a packaging component of the ingestible event marker device. Additional aspects of the invention include systems that include the devices and one or more receivers, as well as methods of using the same.
US09060706B2	Capsule medical device A capsule medical device includes: a casing having a capsule shape; a plurality of batteries, each having a first face, a second face, a first electrode and a second electrode; and a short-circuit prevention member, wherein the short-circuit prevention member includes an insulating member having an annular shape, covering the portion of the second electrode, and formed with an aperture from which the first electrode is exposed, an outer diameter of the annular shape is smaller than an inner diameter of the casing, and larger than an outer diameter of the battery, and a diameter of the aperture is larger than a diameter of the first electrode, and smaller than a diameter of the portion of the second electrode.
US09060704B2	Method and device for wavelength shifted imaging A micro-camera catheter device is disclosed comprising at least one light source disposed on a distal end of a catheter. The light source is capable of propagating a predetermined wavelength of light with a wavelength between approximately 1000 nanometers and approximately 2000 nanometers onto a target. The device further comprises a lens system disposed on the distal end of the catheter, said lens system configured to receive light reflected from the target. The device further comprises a non-linear optical media disposed behind the lens system configured to modify the light reflected from the target. The device also comprises a silicon-based solid state imaging device disposed behind the non-linear optical media configured to receive light from the non-linear optical media.
US09060703B2	Neurophysiological dry sensor Preferably, an embodiment of a sensor assembly includes at least a sensor probe assembly providing a plurality of conductive pins, a compressible electrically conductive member in electrical communication with the sensor probe assembly, and a signal processing circuit in electrical communication with the compressible electrically conductive member. Preferably, the sensor assembly of the preferred embodiment further includes at least a housing confining said sensor probe assembly, compressible electrically conductive member, and signal processing circuit to form said sensor assembly.
US09060697B2	Blood pressure meter cuff A blood pressure meter cuff includes an air bladder that receives a supply of air in order to compress a radial artery and an ulnar artery, and a cuff band for fixing the air bladder to a wrist including the radial artery and the ulnar artery. The air bladder has a wide portion that is arranged on the radial artery and the ulnar artery, and first and second narrow portions that are continuous with the wide portion and are narrower than the wide portion. The edges of the first and second narrow portions that are continuous with the edges of the wide portion are shaped as straight lines that are inclined with respect to the width direction.
US09060689B2	Apparatus, method and system for performing phase-resolved optical frequency domain imaging Apparatus, system and method are provided which utilize signals received from a reference and a sample. In particular, a radiation is provided which includes at least one first electro-magnetic radiation directed to the sample and at least one second electro-magnetic radiation directed to the reference. A frequency of the radiation varies over time. An interference can be detected between at least one third radiation associated with the first radiation and at least one fourth radiation associated with the second radiation. It is possible to obtain a particular signal associated with at least one phase of at least one frequency component of the interference, and compare the particular signal to at least one particular information. Further, it is possible to receive at least one portion of the radiation and provide a further radiation, such that the particular signal can be calibrated based on the further signal.
US09060684B2	Observation device, observation program, and observation system An observation device (1) is provided with: a general observation unit (10) for observing sample cells by observing an entire container (C) containing the cells and a culture solution; and a magnification observation unit (20) for magnifying a region within the container (C) and observing the cells, the general observation unit (10) and the magnification observation unit (20) each individually having lighting for illuminating the cells with light, and an optical system for observing the cells. The general observation unit (10) and the magnification observation unit (20) are thereby each provided with an individual optical system and lighting, making it possible to configure an appropriate observation unit for use both when the cells are observed by observing the entire container (C) and when a part within the container (C) is magnified and the cells are observed.
US09060683B2	Mobile wireless appliance A wireless system for a person includes a wearable appliance with an accelerometer; a wireless device in communication with the wearable appliance; and a remote computer coupled to the wireless device to provide information to an authorized remote user.
US09060676B2	Scope warming device with whitening element A warming device (30) for warming the lens portion (2) of an optical instrument (1), such as a laparoscope, to a temperature above ambient to prevent lens fogging comprising: a double walled cylindrical tube (3) having an internal wall (3b), and an external wall (3a), an upper surface and an open distal portion (7) with a central cavity (4) therebetween; a protrusion (9) extending from said upper surface, sized and shaped to receive the lens portion; a circular cap (5) sized to attach to said distal portion of said double walled cylindrical tube; and, a heating element (15) enclosed within said central cavity and thermally coupled to said insulation layer.
US09060673B2	System and method for displaying portions of in-vivo images A method and a system for displaying portions of in vivo images such as pathological or anatomical landmark portions of images, may include receiving a stream of in vivo images captured in a body lumen, and selecting relevant image portions such as suspected pathological image portions from the stream, based on one or more predetermined criteria. A spatial arrangement of the image portions may be determined, and the selected image portions may be resized to an appropriate size, and displayed in a rectangular or hexagonal array layout according to the determined spatial arrangement, such that rows and columns of selected image portions are adjacent to each other.
US09060672B2	Coregistering images of needle biopsies using multiple weighted landmarks A method for coregistering images involves defining middle paths through image objects depicting tissue slices of needle biopsies. First landmarks are defined on a first middle path through a first image object in a first digital image of a first tissue slice, and second landmarks are defined on a second middle path through a second image object of a second digital image of a second tissue slice. Individual first landmarks are associated with individual second landmarks. A first pixel in the first object is coregistered with a second pixel in the second object using multiple first and second landmarks. The first image is displayed in a first frame on a graphical user interface, and the second image is displayed in a second frame such that the first pixel is centered in the first frame, the second pixel is centered in the second frame, and the images have the same orientations.
US09060671B2	Systems and methods to gather and analyze electroencephalographic data Example devices are disclosed herein that include a first elongated band coupled to a first housing to be located on a first side of a head of a subject and a second housing to be located near a second side of the head of the subject, the first elongated band comprising a first set of electrodes. The example device also includes a second elongated band coupled to the first housing and to the second housing, the second elongated band comprising a second set of electrodes. In addition, the device includes a third elongated band coupled to the first housing and to the second housing, the third elongated band comprising a third set of electrodes.
US09060670B1	Real time three-dimensional heat-induced echo-strain imaging for monitoring high-intensity acoustic ablation produced by conformal interstitial and external directional ultrasound therapy applicators Three dimensional heat-induced echo-strain imaging is a potentially useful tool for monitoring the formation of thermal lesions during ablative therapy. Heat-induced echo-strain, known as thermal strain, is due to the changes in the speed of propagating ultrasound signals and to tissue expansion during heat deposition. This paper presents a complete system for targeting and intraoperative monitoring of thermal ablation by high intensity focused acoustic applicators. A special software interface has been developed to enable motor motion control of 3D mechanical probes and rapid acquisition of 3D-RF data (ultrasound raw data after the beam-forming unit). Ex-vivo phantom and tissue studies were performed in a controlled laboratory environment. While B-mode ultrasound does not clearly identify the development of either necrotic lesions or the deposited thermal dose, the proposed 3D echo-strain imaging can visualize these changes, demonstrating agreement with temperature sensor readings and gross-pathology. Current results also demonstrate feasibility for real-time computation through a parallelized implementation for the algorithm used. Typically, 125 frames per volume can be processed in less than a second. Motion compensation can account for a shift within frames due to either tissue movement or positional error in the US 3D imaging probe.
US09060659B2	Cleaning vehicle and cantilever system of the cleaning vehicle A cleaning vehicle includes a vehicle body, a cantilever system, and a cleaning apparatus. The cantilever system includes a rotary table fixed on the vehicle body, a first cantilever pivotably mounted on the rotary table, and a second cantilever pivotably connected to the first cantilever. The cleaning apparatus is fixed to one end of the second cantilever opposite to the first cantilever. The cantilever system further includes a first adjusting pole, a second adjusting pole, and a third adjusting pole, for adjusting the position and the angle of the cleaning apparatus.
US09060655B2	Dispenser for hand sanitizer In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a sanitizer dispenser may include a dispenser intake, a diaphragm pump including a diaphragm and a pump chamber, a dispenser outlet, a first one-way valve having an intake in fluid communication with the dispenser intake and an output in fluid communication with the pump chamber, a second one-way valve having an intake in fluid communication with the pump chamber and an outlet in fluid communication with the dispenser outlet, and a push plate including an outer surface and configured to press an outer surface of the diaphragm when the push plate is pressed.
US09060648B2	Energy saving manager for beverage preparation devices An electrically powered device for preparing beverages, in particular hot beverages, that includes means for conditioning a liquid to prepare one or more batches of beverage after such a beverage preparation device has been switched on; and a power management arrangement for shutting down the beverage preparation device automatically.
US09060644B2	System and method for the thermal treatment of a product, particularly a food item Systems and methods for thermal treatment of packed product(s), e.g, food items, using electric current, which includes providing interconnected electrodes to facilitate the flow of electric current through the products in series, parallel, or any other combination, thus efficiently heating the products in a controlled manner.
US09060638B2	Reactor for a high performance integral nixtamal product A process and reactor used for the depth thermal treatment in maize for producing High Performance Integral Nixtamal, a process for treating maize under conditions different from known ones and by which a new product can be manufactured which has been called High Performance Integral Nixtamal.
US09060632B2	Biodegradable toys and methods of making same The present disclosure, in one embodiment, relates to a biodegradable mailbox that includes a receptacle. The receptacle has a post attachment integral with the receptacle. The mailbox also includes a post, the post having a first end and a second end, the first end being securely insertable into the post attachment of the receptacle. The mailbox also includes a base into which the second end of the post is securely inserted. The mailbox is comprised of cardboard and contains no glue.
US09060621B2	Corner latching play yard A foldable structure includes: an upper assembly forming an upper portion of the structure; a base assembly forming a lower portion of the structure; a centrally-located hub assembly operatively connected to the base assembly; and a post extending from each corner of the upper assembly to a corner of the base assembly. The upper assembly includes a plurality of arm assemblies. At least one latching mechanism is provided at each corner of the upper assembly extending from an upper portion of at least one of the posts to a portion of at least one of the arm assemblies.
US09060617B2	Mattress with different firmness zones A mattress has a perimeter rail having a head end, a foot end, and two sides, each having an inner surface, and at least two substantially parallel rectilinear sections. Each section comprises an array of springs whose tension is selected to provide a predetermined firmness for that section. Each adjacent pair of sections is urged into a spaced-apart relationship by a spacing means, where each spacing means comprises a flexible spacer. The flexible spacer restricts or substantially eliminates the translation of movements between the sections of the mattress, while avoiding the use of uncomfortable separation means.
US09060616B2	Coated springs and mattress made thereof The invention describes a coated spring for mattresses that comprises a helical compression spring and a wrapping in the form of a bag containing the spring, wherein the bag containing the spring is injected with a polymeric reaction mixture, which after reacting or curing produces a polymeric foam, preferably of flexible polyurethane up to a desired volume in order to cause the spring to change its flexion or compression properties, as well as the method for its manufacturing and its use in the manufacturing of mattresses of different kinds.
US09060596B2	Illuminated flashing toothbrush and method of use A toothbrush can include a handle and a head. At least one bristle can be attached to the head. The toothbrush can also have an illumination member, an illumination circuit and an activation device. A pliant base on the handle can be used to activate the activation device to initiate the illumination circuit.
US09060595B2	Performance regulation for a personal care appliance The compensating/performance regulation system includes a power skin brush having a handle, an oscillating brushhead workpiece and a drive system, wherein the brushhead workpiece has an RFID tag. An RFID reader is provided in the handle and is responsive to the RFID tag moving past the reader to produce an indication of use of the brushhead. A microprocessor calculates a value of actual use from the RFID information and uses stored information to determine the decline in performance from the calculated use. A compensating change in drive frequency or duty cycle of the drive signal is then determined by the microprocessor from stored information and transmitted to the drive system to maintain performance of the appliance.
US09060593B2	Toothbrush The invention relates to a toothbrush having a head area comprising cleaning elements, a grip area, and a neck area, which connects the head and the grip areas to each other, wherein the toothbrush is configured having a first component made of plastic, and at least one further second component made of plastic, wherein the first component has a relief structure that is covered by the second component. The relief structure comprises high regions having the shortest distance to the outer surface of the second component, and low regions having the greatest distance to the outer surface of the second component, and the relief structure has intermediate regions adjacent to the high and low regions, the distance to the outer surface of the second component of the intermediate regions being between that of the high and low regions.
US09060591B1	Two-position handle A handle for displaying and manually holding an advertising sign includes a C-shaped member having two opposing channels, a front side with a slot, a rear side, and two opposing ends. A handle terminates at each of two opposing ends with a T-shaped retention member that is slidably retained within the two opposing channels. The handle further includes a central portion situated in front of the C-shaped member. A pair of end caps each adapted for fixing with one of the ends of the C-shaped member is included, at least one of which includes a first fastener. A second fastener such as two-sided tape is fixed with the rear side of the C-shaped member. With the second fastener fixed with the sign, the handle may be pulled outwardly for holding the sign, or retracted to allow suspension of the sign from a wall, or the like, at the first fastener.
US09060574B2	Cap structure having an inner surface concave feature and zipper head assembly structure using the same A cap structure includes a cap body and an elastic piece. The cap body has at least two first inner concave grooves corresponding to each other, at least two first retaining blocks corresponding to each other and respectively extended outwardly from the at least two first inner concave grooves, and at least two first outer concave grooves corresponding to each other and respectively adjacent to the at least two first retaining blocks. The at least two first inner concave grooves are disposed on the inner surface of the cap body, and the at least two first outer concave grooves are disposed on the outer surface of the cap body. The elastic piece is disposed on the inner surface of the cap body, and the at least two first retaining blocks contact the elastic piece for retaining the elastic piece.
US09060567B2	Article of footwear with tensile structure An article of footwear includes an upper having a first area and a second area. The footwear also includes a sole structure that is coupled to the upper. The sole structure includes a bladder that contains a fluid. Moreover, the footwear includes a tensile structure that is coupled to the first area of the upper, that extends through the sole structure, and that is coupled to the second area of the upper. The tensile structure is operably coupled to the bladder. The tensile structure is operable to flex the bladder due to an increase in tension in the tensile structure.
US09060557B2	Safety helmet, in particular for cyclists A safety helmet, in particular for cyclists, includes a self-contained portable semi-shell helmet (H), on which an integral part (1) enclosing the chin and the occiput/neck area can be fixed in a detachable way. The semi-shell helmet (H) is equipped as a self-contained helmet with a chin strap fastening and all that belongs to known helmets, This hence enables, depending on the intended use, only to wear the upper helmet part or the assembled integral helmet.
US09060551B2	Dynamic materials integrated into articles for adjustable physical dimensional characteristics Aspects of the present invention relate to systems and methods for providing adjustable permeability in articles of apparel. For example, in response to a human's body heat, a dynamic material may change shape to allow additional permeability in an article of clothing. Similarly, in response to the presence of moisture, an article of clothing may close a vent to prevent the introduction of rain into an internal portion of the article. The shape changing material may change shape that merely affects a feature formed by the shape changing material. Additionally, it is contemplated that the shape changing material may change shape that affects a geometric structure of the article as a whole.
US09060546B2	Smoking article with a restrictor A smoking article filter includes a flow restrictor and a cavity downstream of the flow restrictor. The flow restrictor includes an orifice or flow channel for directing smoke into the cavity. The filter is attached to the tobacco rod with tipping paper and includes an air-admissible ventilating zone at a location downstream of the restrictor.
US09060534B2	Method for drying rice The invention relates to a method for drying rice, in which, during the drying process, the grains of rice pass through surface states which have various pairs of values of temperature (T) of the surface and moisture (U) of the surface, the surface of the grains of rice remaining in a viscoelastic state during the drying process, and in which, in a diagram comprising temperature (T) of the surface of the grains of rice and moisture (U) of the surface, a) the temperature (Tv) of the surface of the grains of rice lies no more than 40° C. above the temperature (Tg) on the glass transition curve of the rice at the point of the same moisture of the surface and/or b) the moisture (Uv) of the surface of the grains of rice lies no more than 20% above the moisture on the glass transition curve of the rice at the point of the same temperature of the surface.
US09060517B2	Nitrogenated heterocyclic compound and agricultural or horticultural fungicide An agricultural or horticultural fungicide contains as an active ingredient thereof at least one compound selected from the group consisting of nitrogenated heterocyclic compounds represented by formula (I) (wherein, R represents a group represented by CR1R2R3 or a cyano group, R1 to R3 represent hydrogen atoms, alkyl groups or hydroxyl groups, or the like, X1 represents a halogeno group or the like, m represents an integer of 0 to 5, X2 represents a halogeno group or the like, n represents an integer of 0 to 3, B represents a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, D represents a 5- to 7-membered hydrocarbon ring, and A1 to A4 represent carbon atoms or nitrogen atoms, provided that A1 to A4 do not all represent carbon atoms when B represents a carbon atom) and salts thereof.
US09060515B2	Heterocyclic urea compounds The present invention provides a compound of the following formula, racemates, enantiomers and salts thereof. Also provided is the use of these compounds as antibacterials, compositions comprising them and processes for their manufacture.
US09060514B2	Efficacy-enhancing agent composition for agricultural chemicals The present invention provides the efficacy-enhancing agent composition for agricultural chemicals containing (A) the sorbitan fatty acid ester surfactant, (B) the rosin-oxyalkylene adduct surfactant or a specified quaternary ammonium salt surfactant, and (C) a specified glycol ether solvent.
US09060509B2	Thermal packaging system for blood and organs The present invention is an apparatus, method and system to thermally package an item having at least one container (100) substantially filled with an alcohol, wherein said alcohol undergoes a phase change.
US09060501B2	Fishing sinker Disclosed is a lead-free fishing sinker and a method of manufacturing. The sinkers are constructed from a combination of colored grout and a countertop mix having a superplasticizer additive. The mixture is about 60% colored grout and 40% countertop mix having a super plasticizer additive. A liquid mixture includes a 50/50 mixture of water and latex additive to be added to the dry mixture. Steel pellets are placed within the admixture before placement into a cold mold to form any size or shape fishing sinker. The fishing sinkers can be made of most any shape and include a receptacle for holding simulator skirts or dry chum pellets.
US09060491B1	Soybean cultivar 39242052 A soybean cultivar designated 39242052 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 39242052, to the plants of soybean cultivar 39242052, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 39242052, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 39242052. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 39242052. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 39242052, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 39242052 with another soybean cultivar.
US09060488B1	Soybean cultivar 33351113 A soybean cultivar designated 33351113 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 33351113, to the plants of soybean cultivar 33351113, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 33351113, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 33351113. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 33351113. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 33351113, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 33351113 with another soybean cultivar.
US09060486B1	Soybean cultivar 35460534 A soybean cultivar designated 35460534 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 35460534, to the plants of soybean cultivar 35460534, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 35460534, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 35460534. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 35460534. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 35460534, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 35460534 with another soybean cultivar.
US09060466B2	Water/carbonate stripping for CO2 capture adsorber regeneration and CO2 delivery to photoautotrophs The invention provides systems and methods for the delivery of carbon to photoautotrophs. The invention utilizes low energy regeneration of adsorbent for CO2 capture and provides for effective CO2 loading into liquids useful for photoautotroph growth and/or production of photosynthetic products, such as biofuels, via photoautotrophic culture media. The inventive system comprises a fluid/membrane/fluid contactor that provides selective transfer of molecular CO2 via a dense (non-porous) membrane from a carbonate-based CO2 snipping solution to a culture medium where the CO2 is consumed by a photoautotroph for the production of biofuels, biofuel precursors or other commercial products.
US09066459B2	Manufacturing method of multilayer printed wiring board A manufacturing method of a multilayer printed wiring board in which a copper foil with carrier foil consists of at least four layers, a copper foil layer/a release layer/a heat-resistant metal layer/a carrier foil is used; a supporting substrate is manufactured by laminating an insulating layer constituting material to the surface of the carrier foil constituting the copper foil with carrier foil; a supporting substrate with build-up wiring layer is manufactured by forming a build-up wiring layer on the surface of the copper foil layer constituting the copper foil with carrier foil in the supporting substrate; the resulted supporting substrate with build-up wiring layer is separated at the release layer to manufacture a multilayered laminate; the resulted multilayered laminate is processed a necessary procedures to manufacture a multilayer printed wiring board.
US09066457B2	Semiconductor device, method of manufacturing the same, and method of manufacturing wiring board A semiconductor device includes: a solder bump including a barrier metal layer formed on an electrode pad portion of a substrate, and a solder layer formed at a central portion of an upper surface of the barrier metal layer so as to have a smaller outer diameter than that of the barrier metal layer.
US09066449B2	Air filtration and visual barrier for enclosure with front-to-back airflow An enclosure has a perforated front door with a replaceable filter, and a perforated rear side allowing air to flow through the enclosure. The enclosure also has mounting brackets for heat generating elements, such as line cards or other rack mounted electronics. A fan draws air through the perforated front door, though the filter, and across the heat generating elements. Side brushes are disposed on a side wall near the front of the enclosure, which allow any cables attached to the heat generating elements to exit the enclosure. The front door is removable, opening up one side of the side brushes and allowing the cables to slide in the side brushes while still connected to the heat generating elements.
US09066446B1	Thermal extraction architecture for camera heads, inspection systems, and other devices and systems Thermal extraction architectures for heat-generating electronic devices such as cameras or lights are disclosed. An electronic device such as a camera head may include a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) within the housing, and a thermal extraction element positioned between the housing and PCB to transfer heat from the PCB to the housing and external environment.
US09066443B2	Overlay circuit structure for interconnecting light emitting semiconductors A system and method for packaging light emitting semiconductors (LESs) is disclosed. An LES device is provided that includes a heatsink and an array of LES chips mounted on the heatsink and electrically connected thereto, with each LES chip comprising connection pads and a light emitting area configured to emit light therefrom responsive to a received electrical power. The LES device also includes a flexible interconnect structure positioned on and electrically connected to each LES chip to provide for controlLES operation of the array of LES chips, with the flexible interconnect structure further including a flexible dielectric film configured to conform to a shape of the heatsink and a metal interconnect structure formed on the flexible dielectric film and that extends through vias formed in the flexible dielectric film so as to be electrically connected to the connection pads of the LES chips.
US09066434B2	Circuit board capable of preventing contact of a gold finger and solder A circuit board includes a substrate whereon a sunken portion is formed. The circuit board further includes a gold finger structure disposed inside the sunken portion. A height difference is formed between a top surface of the gold finger structure and a surface of the substrate substantially.
US09066431B2	Method for manufacturing printed circuit board with patterned electrically conductive layer therein visible This disclosure relates to a printed circuit board comprising a light-pervious insulation layer, a patterned electrically conductive layer and a light-pervious overlay. The patterned electrically conductive layer includes a first black oxide layer, a copper layer and a second black oxide layer. The copper layer includes two opposite surfaces and a plurality of inner surfaces interconnecting the two opposite surfaces of the copper layer. The first black oxide layer is formed on one of the surfaces, and the second black oxide layer is formed on the other surface and the inner surfaces. The patterned electrically conductive layer is arranged on the light-pervious insulation layer. The light-pervious overlay is arranged on the second black oxide layer. A method for manufacturing the printed circuit board is also provided in this disclosure.
US09066427B2	Conductive layer of touch screen A conductive layer of a touch screen is disclosed including a mesh made of metal wire. The conductive layer includes a sensing area and a wiring area electrically connected to the sensing area, the sensing area includes at least one of the first sensing patterns and at least one of the second sensing patterns, the first sensing pattern and the second sensing pattern are adjacent and electrically insulated from each other, mesh cells in each first sensing pattern are mutually connected, mesh cells in each second sensing pattern are mutually connected. The wiring area includes a plurality of wiring clusters which are mutually insulated, each wiring cluster is formed by interconnecting a column of mesh cells, and one end of each wiring cluster is electrically connected to one of the second sensing patterns. The conductive layer having a structure of metal mesh can be manufactured by imprinting process. Comparing to the conventional technology with ITO film as conductive layer, the imprinting has advantages of one step formation of the mesh, simplified process and high yield rate. In addition, the material cost is greatly reduced using metal instead of ITO, since no etching process is used, the conductive material will not be wasted.
US09066423B2	Electrical junction box An electrical junction box includes a box body in which electrical parts are mounted and that has a water draining hole provided at a bottom wall part of the box body and a waterproof wall that is provided inside the box body along a periphery of an opening of the water draining hole. The waterproof wall includes a spherical cover wall part standing from the periphery of the water draining hole to cover the water draining hole with an inner spherical surface, and a draining opening part formed at a portion of the spherical cover wall part to allow water exist in the box body to drain to the outside of the box body through the water draining hole.
US09066421B1	Holding apparatus for retaining a generally flat-shaped item, such as a hand-held electronic device A holding apparatus capable of embracing a generally flat-shaped item, such as a smartphone, computer tablet or the like, said holding apparatus comprising one or more pairs of opposing V-shaped clamping surfaces capable of providing a self-adjusting, permanent grip of the sides of the item regardless of the item being static, vibrating, or touched by a user's finger or other external object. The V-shaped clamping surfaces can be arranged on two or more sides of the device. For instance, opposing V-shaped clamping surfaces can be arranged to clamp the left and right sides of a four-sided quadrangular device, and additional opposing surfaces can be arranged perpendicularly to grip the top and bottom sides of the device, providing a very effective and robust grip that minimizes the risk of the item being dropped and damaged.
US09066414B2	Display device A display device in the present invention includes a display panel which is provided with a display screen, a T-substrate which is arranged in a predetermined range narrower than the display panel at the back side of the display panel, first flexible printed circuit substrates which extend downward from the upper end of the display panel and are connected to the T-substrate, and second flexible printed circuit substrates which extend upward from the lower end of the display panel and are connected to the T-substrate in order to achieve more reduction in thickness when the display panel and the circuit substrate are arranged together.
US09066411B2	Dimmer system and method An exemplary embodiment of the invention, a dimmer system and a dimming method employed thereby, is described. The dimmer system communicates AC power having alternating AC current half-cycles to a gas discharge lamp for energizing the gas discharge lamp. The AC current half-cycles being communicated to the gas discharge lamp is switchable between a first waveform and a second waveform of different amplitudes. By varying the point whereat the switching occurs, illumination intensity of the gas discharge lamp is varied to thereby effect stepless dimming of the gas discharge lamp.
US09066409B2	Method for manufacturing a flexible display device The present invention relates to the display technology field and provides a method for manufacturing a flexible display device, wherein an adhesion layer having a rough surface is formed at the juncture of a releasing layer and a carrier substrate before a flexible substrate is formed on the carrier substrate. The technical solution of the present invention can improve the qualified rate of the flexible display device.
US09066408B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of testing the same Provided is an organic light emitting display device including: a display unit including a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the pixels including an organic light emitting diode; and a test circuit configured to apply a first signal and a second signal to the display unit and to receive a third signal from the display unit. The test circuit is configured to determine whether or not the display unit is in a normal state based on a voltage level of the third signal when the first and second signals have a first level.
US09066407B2	Power source unit for LED lamps, and LED lamp system A dedicated power source for LED lamps capable of reliably detecting attachment of an LED lamp is provided.A dedicated power source has a DC power source portion, and includes a lighting circuit which receives power supplied from the DC power source portion and light-controls an LED lamp including an LED element and a detection resistor connected in parallel to the LED element and an attachment detecting portion for detecting attachment of the LED lamp based on a voltage level changing in accordance with attachment/detachment of the detection resistor by attachment/detachment of the LED lamp.
US09066388B2	Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor that controls a current to be supplied to a light-emitting element from a power supply line, an element continuity portion that electrically connects the drive transistor with the light-emitting element, an initializing transistor that is turned ON to diode-connect the drive transistor, and a connecting portion that electrically connects the drive transistor with the initializing transistor. The power supply line includes a first portion extending in a predetermined direction. The element continuity portion and the connecting portion are formed from the same layer as that of the power supply line and are located on one side along the width of the first portion across the drive transistor.
US09066381B2	System and method for low level dimming The present disclosure is directed to an inexpensive yet intelligent solution for dimming light devices to low level intensities in which the common lighting systems generally have difficulties maintaining stability and flicker-free operation. The systems and method described herein enable a lighting system to utilize a dimmer to dim one or more lighting devices to low level intensities without introducing flickering or inconsistent operation of the lights. More specifically, the systems and methods described herein enable a dimmer to dim lights to anywhere between 0% and 5% of maximum brightness, while ensuring that the lights operate at these levels consistently, smoothly and without any visible flickering.
US09066376B2	Locking gate device A locking gate device suitable for selectively blocking the flow of fluid and/or articles through a pair of openings defined by two spaced-apart members is provided. The spaced-apart members may be opposing walls or flanges of two adjacent processing chambers or vessels in a pressurized heating system. The locking gate device includes a gate assembly that is movable within a gate-receiving space defined between opposed sealing surfaces of the spaced-apart members. The gate assembly comprises a pair of sealing plates and a drive member shiftable relative to the sealing plates. As the drive member is shifted between a retracted position and an extended position, a pair of bearings disposed between the sealing plates and the drive member forces the sealing plates outwardly to contact the sealing surfaces of the spaced-apart members. This substantially blocks the flow-through openings defined by one or both sealing surfaces and restricts flow therethrough.
US09066375B2	Vented susceptor structure A microwave heating construct comprises a first panel and a second panel, each comprising a microwave energy interactive material. The panels are partially joined to one another in an opposed, facing relationship such that an unjoined area is defined between the first panel and the second panel. The unjoined area is in communication with an open peripheral edge of the construct. The first panel includes an aperture in communication. With the unjoined area between the first panel and the second panel.
US09066372B2	Heating cooking device A heating cooking device includes a temperature sensing element that contacts a bottom surface of a top plate directly or indirectly and measures a temperature of the top plate, a spring portion one end side of which is supported by a heater unit and the other end side of which presses the temperature sensing element against the top plate, and a spring that presses the heater unit toward the top plate. An elastic force n1 with which the spring portion presses the temperature sensing element against the top plate is smaller than an elastic force n2 with which the spring presses the heater unit toward the top plate.
US09066367B2	Macro-femto inter-cell interference mitigation A method for managing signal interference is provided. The method comprising receiving a signal, wherein the signal comprises at least an interfering reference signal from an interfering network interface and a serving reference signal from a serving network interface, and wherein the interfering signal interferes with the serving signal; identifying a power level and offset of the interfering reference signal and a power level and offset of the serving reference signal; comparing the interfering power level and offset to the serving power level and offset to form a comparison; and performing a corrective action based on the comparison.
US09066363B2	Methods and apparatus for mitigating interference between co-located collaborating radios Methods and apparatus are provided for mitigating interference between spectrally distinct wireless communication networks employing co-located, collaborating radios. A first base station is in a first network and communicates with a first radio within a first frequency range, and a second base station is in a second network and communicates with a second radio in a second frequency range. The first and second radios are geographically co-located, for example, within a public safety vehicle. The first radio determines a maximum level of interference it will accept based on current operational parameters, and communicates a corresponding threshold value to the second radio through a data link. The second radio sends a request to its base station to employ interim scheduling constraints governing uplink transmissions from the second radio, to thereby limit out of band emissions received by the first radio to a range that is less than the threshold interference level.
US09066360B2	Channel quality information feedback techniques for a wireless system Channel quality information feedback techniques for a wireless system are described. An apparatus may comprise a base station having base station logic to determine a channel quality indicator feedback dimension value representing a number of resource blocks for an orthogonal frequency division multiple access system to be measured by a subscriber station based on a matching ratio value, and a transceiver to send the channel quality indicator feedback dimension value to the subscriber station. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09066355B2	Central wireless network selection and monitoring for mobile client terminals A method of selecting a wireless network for a plurality of mobile client terminals. The method comprises monitoring at least one network selection parameter of each of a plurality of wireless networks in a plurality of different geographical areas, identifying a group of the plurality of wireless networks which are available for providing a network service to a first of a plurality of mobile client terminals in one of the plurality of different geographical areas, selecting at least one member of the group according to respective the at least one network selection parameter, and sending a network message instructing the first mobile client terminal to establish automatically a connection via the at least one member.
US09066352B2	Wireless network connection method of electronic device and electronic device thereof A wireless network connection method of an electronic device is provided. The electronic device has an access point (AP) mode and a station (ST) mode. When the electronic device starts a wireless network connection function, the electronic device is switched to the ST mode. Electronic devices in the AP mode are searched within a nearby area. If no electronic device in the AP mode is found, the electronic device is switched to the AP mode to automatically connect to a wireless network, and wireless network services are provided to other electronic devices in the ST mode in the nearby area. If electronic devices in the AP mode are found, the weights of the electronic devices are respectively calculated to set one of the electronic devices as a primary AP, and the electronic devices other than the primary AP are allowed to connect to the wireless network through the primary AP.
US09066345B2	Communicating with two nodes with overlapping frames A first wireless node may determine that a first reserved retransmission frame overlaps with a second reserved transmission frame and a second reserved retransmission frame and that the second reserved transmission frame overlaps with a first reserved transmission frame and the first reserved retransmission frame. The first reserved transmission frame and the first reserved retransmission frame may be reserved for wireless communication with a first master node, and the second reserved transmission frame and the second reserved retransmission frame are reserved for wireless communication with a second master node. The wireless node may also process and acknowledge data received from the first master node during the first reserved transmission frame based on the determining, ignore data sent by the second master node during the second reserved transmission frame based on the determining, and process and acknowledge data received from the second master node during the second reserved retransmission frame.
US09066341B2	Adaptive uplink/downlink timeslot assignment in a hybrid wireless time division multiple access/code division multiple access communication system A method and apparatus for adaptive uplink/downlink resource assignment may include determining uplink interference associated with each of several uplink resources. The method and apparatus may produce an uplink list with values for the uplink resources. The values may include one value indicating high interference and another value indicating low interference. The method and apparatus may compare a downlink power level to a threshold for each of the downlink resources and produce a downlink list indicating which of the downlink resources have a downlink power level which exceeds the threshold. Also, the method and apparatus may send the uplink list and downlink list. Further, the method and apparatus may receive an uplink list and a downlink list from each of several neighboring wireless network devices. The method and apparatus may assign uplink and downlink resources to a user equipment based on the uplink and downlink lists received.
US09066333B2	Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of data streams in digital video broadcasting systems A method for mapping of one or more logical channels onto a radio frequency channel in a communication system is provided. The method includes determining a logical channel type from a plurality of logical channel types, and mapping at least one logical frame of the determined logical channel type to at least one physical frame on at least one Radio Frequency (RF) channel based on the determined logical channel type.
US09066328B2	Method and apparatus for supporting dynamic and distributed mobility management A method and apparatus are described for supporting dynamic and distributed mobility management (DMM). A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may attach to a first distributed gateway (D-GW), and configure a first Internet protocol (IP) address based on a prefix locally provided by the first D-GW. The WTRU may move and attach to a second D-GW while carrying out an on-going communication session with a correspondent node (CN). The WTRU may configure a second IP address based on a prefix provided by the second D-GW. The WTRU may use the first IP address for carrying out the on-going session and use the second IP address for a new communication session.
US09066320B2	Method to bootstrap into a frequency agile ad hoc network of radios that use a non-deterministic frequency pattern A method to facilitate late entry of a late entrant node into an ad-hoc radio network involves accessing from a memory at the late entrant node an initial frequency hopping sequence for the ad-hoc radio network. The late entrant node uses at least the initial frequency hopping sequence to determine a first frequency to monitor during a communication epoch corresponding to one of the frequency hops. The late entrant node thereafter monitors the first frequency to detect the presence of a beacon signal transmitted by a participating node of the network. Subsequently, the late entrant node determines a second frequency included in the current hopping sequence of the network based on information contained in the beacon signal.
US09066319B2	Method of sensing in a radio system employing opportunistic spectrum access In a radio system where wireless nodes are in contact, the wireless nodes are enabled to exchange information with adjacent nodes. In addition, distant nodes out of range for direct communication can be communicated with by forwarding data over multiple hops. The wireless nodes are configured to perform sensing of at least one radio resource. A node can be adapted to combine the sensing measurement data into a sensing result, such as an estimate of the probability of whether the resource is free or not. The sensing performed in a node is distributed to at least one other wireless node. Each wireless node can, therefore, access sensing information from at least one other wireless node located in the vicinity of the wireless node. Based on the collective information from at least one other node, a wireless node can make an improved decision if a particular radio resource is free to use or not.
US09066316B2	Diagnostic monitoring by a wireless device Techniques for monitoring radio and network conditions to improve performance for a wireless device are described. A diagnostic monitoring module may receive diagnostic messages from a modem via a diagnostic interface at the wireless device. The module may process (e.g., parse) the diagnostic messages to obtain network status information indicative of the status of a radio network. The module may provide the network status information to an application for use to control communication with the radio network. The module may also process the diagnostic messages to obtain diagnostic information indicative of the performance of a radio connection or a data session or both for the wireless device. The module may send the diagnostic information to a network server for network monitoring, debugging, etc.
US09066314B2	Notifying a wireless communication system about previously registered wireless communication systems Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods that notify a current wireless communication network about a previous wireless communication network. In a particular embodiment, a wireless device wirelessly registers with a first wireless communication system to obtain first registration data. The wireless device stores the first registration data and wirelessly communicates over the first wireless communication system. The communications are then terminated with the first wireless communication system. After terminating the wireless communications with the first wireless communication system, the wireless device wirelessly registers with a second wireless communication system to obtain second registration data and stores the second registration data. The wireless device transfers the first registration data to the second wireless communication system and receives user information from the second wireless communication system. The second wireless communication system used the first registration data to retrieve the user information from the first wireless communication system.
US09066310B2	Non-visual representation of a current gauge value of an electronic device on a continuum A quantity that falls within a defined continuum defined by first and second end points of a gauge is communicated. Non-visual notifications indicate where on the continuum a current gauge value associated with a function of an electronic device resides relative to at least one end point of the first and second end points of the continuum. The non-visual notifications include a non-visual notification of the at least one end point of the continuum and a non-visual notification of the current gauge value.
US09066309B2	Method and apparatus for reducing successive pre-registration attempts by access terminals An access terminal pre-registers with a second access network via a first access network to ensure a quick handover in the future. Frequent pre-registration attempts are avoided by implementing a hysteresis timer that restricts when a pre-registration process can be initiated. The hysteresis timer is started when pre-registration is initiated by the access terminal. No new pre-registration attempts are permitted if the hysteresis timer has not expired. An abort condition can cause the hysteresis timer to be aborted early, and a new pre-registration can be initiated. Access points in the first access network may be grouped into one or more pre-registration zones. If the access terminal moves from a first access point to a second access point, a new pre-registration is skipped if the first and second access points have the same pre-registration zone or the second access point is aware of the pre-registration zone for the first access point.
US09066281B2	Method, device, and system for transmitting packet switched services A method, a device, and a system for transmitting Packet Switched (PS) services are provided. The method includes: receiving an Activate Packet Data Protocol (PDP) Context Request message of PS services sent by a User Equipment (UE), in which the Activate PDP Context Request message carries an Access Point Name (APN) for identifying a first service network or a second service network (s201); establishing a corresponding transmission channel according to the APN (s202); and transmitting the PS services to the corresponding service network through the established transmission channel (s203). Through the method and the device, different networks are selected to transmit the PS services according to the APN for identifying different networks in the Activate PDP Context Request message of PS services sent from the UE, thereby implementing distribution of the PS services.
US09066279B2	System acquisition at a mobile device Methods, systems, and devices are described for system acquisition at a mobile device. A scan list including a plurality of entries may be stored at the mobile device. Each entry may include at least one connection parameter for connecting to a cellular system associated with the entry. A connection may be established with a target cellular system at the mobile device. A connection time with the target cellular system may be measured at the mobile device. A time-based entry including at least one connection parameter for the target cellular system may be added to the scan list based at least in part on the measured connection time with the target cellular system. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09066261B2	Methods and apparatus for managing radio measurements during discontinuous reception Methods and apparatus for managing radio measurements during discontinuous reception. In one exemplary embodiment, the distribution of Long Term Evolution (LTE) DRX measurements is staggered or distributed across multiple DRX cycles (which may be contiguous or non-contiguous) so as to reduce the transceiver activity and power consumption. The exemplary UE in one implementation only performs a subset of measurements during each DRX cycle. By staggering or distributing cell measurements over multiple DRX cycles, the UE can improve power consumption, while still conforming to measurement requirements.
US09066236B2	System and method for cloning a Wi-Fi access point Systems and methods for cloning a Wi-Fi access point. A determination is made by a network monitoring device to transition communications between a Wi-Fi device and a first access point (AP) to a second AP. The SSID and the security configuration information, and, optionally, network address translation (NAT) information of the first access point are acquired and provided to a second AP. The second AP instantiates the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information. The networking monitoring device directs the first AP to cease using the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information in response to receipt of confirmation that the second AP has instantiated the SSID and the security configuration information and, optionally, the NAT information of the first AP.
US09066233B2	Remote unlocking of telecommunication device functionality Techniques are described herein for deciding whether to unlock functionality of a telecommunication device based on one or more policies. A policy engine remote from the telecommunication device may receive, via a user interface associated with the policy engine, a request to unlock the functionality. The policy engine may then decide whether to unlock the functionality and, in response to deciding to unlock the functionality, may cause transmission of instructions to the telecommunication device to unlock the functionality.
US09066226B2	Initialization of embedded secure elements There is described a method for initializing a secure element (112, 122, 212, 222) for use with a host unit (121, 221), the method comprising (a) storing a set of initial keys and a master key in a memory of a secure element (112, 122, 212, 222), (b) providing an identifier of a host (121, 221) unit associated with the secure element, (c) generating a modified set of keys based on the initial set of keys, the master key and the identifier of the host unit, and (d) storing the modified set of keys in the memory of the secure element. There is also described a secure element (112, 122, 212, 222) adapted for being embedded into a host unit (121, 221). Furthermore, there is described a system for initializing a secure element, a computer program and a computer program product.
US09066225B2	Network selection scheme Technologies are generally described for a network selection scheme for an electronic device. In some examples, a method performed under control of an electronic device may include searching one or more communication networks available for the electronic device; determining types of the searched communication networks; determining a type of data traffic to be transmitted over at least one of the searched communication networks; and determining at least one of the communication networks to be used for the data traffic based at least in part on the determined types of the communication networks and the determined type of the data traffic.
US09066223B2	Methods and systems for algorithmically balancing cost and performance of cellular data connections in multipurpose communications gateways Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for algorithmically balancing cost and performance of cellular data connections in multipurpose communications gateways and other cellular enabled devices. A preferred mode of operation is determined. The preferred mode of operation can be selected from a plurality of modes of operation, each one being-sensitive to cost, coverage, or bandwidth considerations, or any combination thereof. Balancing logic receives information from a multipurpose communications gateway or other cellular device and algorithmically balances cost and performance considerations based on the preferred mode of operation and the received information. The balancing logic can cause the communications gateway or other cellular device to automatically switch telecommunications carriers, plans, and/or cellular networks to achieve enhanced performance and reduced costs.
US09066215B2	Speech/multimedia mode switching technique in a wireless communications network A technique is provided for use by a user terminal or mobile services switching center (MSC) for responding to a request to switch an on-going call from speech mode to multimedia mode within a wireless communication network configured to automatically disconnect a call if a requested mode switch is not confirmed within a predetermined period of time specified by a call drop timer. In one example, the terminal or MSC activates an automatic response timer upon receipt of a request from a user to switch an on-going call from speech to multimedia, with the timer set shorter than the call drop timer. The user receiving the request is then prompted to accept or decline the request. If no response is received before expiration of the automatic response timer, the terminal or MSC automatically declines the request on behalf of the user so that the call drop timer does not expire.
US09066213B2	Node for short message context A node for use in a cellular system, arranged to establish a context for a User Equipment, UE, for the message types of Short Message Service, SMS, Small Data and Trigger Information. The node is arranged to establish the context when the UE performs an Initial Attach to the cellular system and indicates support for at least one said message types. The node is arranged to have two modes available for the context, those modes being a Currently Serving mode and a Forwarding mode, when in the Currently Serving mode, messages are delivered to the UE, and, when in the Forwarding mode, messages are forwarded to a node that is in the Currently Serving mode at the moment.
US09066212B2	Offloading call processing and call hosting for a small group call to a client device The disclosure relates to hosting a group call at a wireless user device. An embodiment receives, by the wireless user device, registration information for a plurality of client devices, receives, by the wireless user device, a call request for a call among two or more of the plurality of client devices, sets up, by the wireless user device, the call among the two or more client devices, receives, by the wireless user device, a media stream, and transmits, by the wireless user device, the media stream to at least one of the two or more client devices.
US09066210B2	Method and apparatus for automatic mobile communications restriction Methods and related systems monitor a mobile communications device to determine if it is in a moving vehicle. If the device is determined to be in a moving vehicle, a database is accessed. The database contains information on locally imposed restrictions on usage of mobile communications devices while driving. The obtained information is used to impose appropriate communication restrictions on the mobile device. As long as the mobile communications device continues to be in the moving vehicle, its geographical location is monitored and, if it is determined that the device has entered a new geographical location, the database is again accessed and the restrictions are modified accordingly.
US09066208B1	Method and system for wayfinding at a venue A system and method for wayfinding at a venue is disclosed herein. The system includes a mobile communication device and a venue. The mobile communication device includes an application for wayfinding at the venue and a plurality of sensors. The mobile communication device is configured to track a path of the mobile communication device from the first fixed geographical location utilizing a plurality of sensors of the mobile communication device.
US09066204B2	Method for transmitting and displaying images Images are transmitted from a server through a cellular network and displayed on a mobile phone. After a predefined time of non-use or via input of a user command, the mobile phone is switched into an inactive mode. When an activating operation is performed, the phone is switched from inactive into locked active mode. An unlocking operation switches the phone from locked active into unlocked active mode. User input is accepted only in unlocked active mode. The server selects a number of images and transmits them to the mobile phone. One of the transmitted images is selected and kept available for display, during locked active mode, the selected image is displayed. A count indicates how many times an image has been displayed, and the count value for each image is transmitted from the mobile phone to the server.
US09066201B1	Correlating media types of emergency communication requests Systems, methods, and software for correlating media types of emergency communication requests in wireless communication networks are provided herein. In one example, a method of operating a wireless communication system which routes communications between user devices and emergency service providers is provided. The method includes monitoring communication requests for emergency communication sessions between the user devices and service nodes of the emergency service providers to determine which media types of the communication requests are supported by the service nodes receiving the communication requests, identifying geographic locations of the user devices for the communication requests, identifying the service nodes receiving the communication requests, and creating a data structure correlating the geographic locations of the user devices and identifiers of the service nodes to the media types supported by the service nodes.
US09066189B2	Non-pressure sensitive implantable microphone An implantable microphone is described for use in hearing prosthesis systems. A cylindrical microphone housing has opposing circular cylinder ends and an interior volume containing an incompressible housing liquid. At least one housing membrane is on one of the cylinder ends and is in contact with the housing liquid and moveable in response to an acoustic signal outside the housing. An acoustic-electric transducer is coupled to the housing membrane for converting movement of the housing membrane into a corresponding electrical microphone signal.
US09066184B2	Acoustic sensor and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating an acoustic sensor according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: forming an acoustic sensor unit by forming a lower electrode on an upper portion of a substrate, forming etching holes on the lower electrode, forming a sacrifice layer on an upper portion of the lower electrode, and coupling a diaphragm to an upper portion of the sacrifice layer; coupling a lower portion of the substrate of the acoustic sensor unit to a printed circuit board on which a sound pressure input hole is formed so as to expose the lower portion of the substrate of the acoustic sensor unit to the outside through the sound pressure input hole; attaching a cover covering the acoustic sensor unit on the printed circuit board; etching the substrate of the acoustic sensor unit to form an acoustic chamber; and removing the sacrifice layer.
US09066183B2	Piezoelectric speaker A piezoelectric speaker includes: a diaphragm which includes a substrate and a plurality of piezoelectric elements arranged on the substrate; and a frame for supporting the substrate at an outer peripheral portion thereof. The plural piezoelectric elements include first piezoelectric elements each having a first number of layers, and second piezoelectric elements each having a second number of layers, the first number of layers being larger than the second number of layers. Moreover, the second piezoelectric elements may be arranged farther from the center of the substrate than the first piezoelectric elements.
US09066178B2	Audio processing apparatus A pre-out terminal that outputs a left outside audio signal can be fixed and an increase of the number of DACs is prevented. In the case that a surround back left audio signal SBL and a left outside audio signal LW are included, the signal SBL is amplified and output to a surround back left SP terminal 14a through a switch S13a. The signal LW is amplified and output to a left outside SP terminal 14b through a switch S13c. The signal LW is supplied from a DAC 11b to a left outside pre-out terminal 11d through a switch S11c. At this point, in order to supply the signal LW to the left outside pre-out terminal 11d, a DAC 11c is not used, but the DAC 11b is used. Accordingly, the DAC 11c can be used for another signal (ex., ZONE2) to decrease the number of DACs.
US09066169B2	System and method for enhancing speech intelligibility using companion microphones with position sensors Systems and methods for enhancing speech intelligibility using a companion microphone system can include microphones, a position sensor and a microcontroller. In certain embodiments, the position sensor is configured to generate position data corresponding to a position of the companion microphone system. In various embodiments, the microphones and the position sensor include a fixed relationship in three-dimensional space. In certain embodiments, the microcontroller is configured to receive the position data from the position sensor and select one or more of the microphones to receive an audio input based on the received position data.
US09066167B2	Method and device for personalized voice operated control An earpiece (100) and a method (300) personalized voice operable control can include capturing (302) an ambient sound from an Ambient Sound Microphone (111) to produce an electronic ambient signal (426), delivering (304) audio content (402) to an ear canal (131) by way of an Ear Canal Receiver (125) to produce an acoustic audio content (404) and capturing (306) in the ear canal an internal sound (402) from an Ear Canal Microphone (123) to produce an electronic internal signal (410). The electronic internal signal includes an echo of the acoustic audio content and a spoken voice generated by a wearer of the earpiece. The Method also includes detecting (312) the spoken voice in the electronic internal signal in the presence of the echo, and controlling (314) a voice operation of the earpiece when the spoken voice is detected.
US09066165B2	Gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) system and point-to-point protocol over Ethernet (PPPOE) configuration method implemented thereby The disclosure discloses a Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPOE) configuration method for a Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) system. The method comprises: an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) instructing an Optical Network Unit (ONU) to create or delete a PPPoE management object instance and associate the PPPoE management object instance with an IP host config data management object instance; and the ONU creating the PPPoE management object instance according to the creation instruction from the OLT, and turning on a PPPoE function switch in the IP host config data management object instance; or the ONU deleting the PPPoE management object instance according to the deletion instruction from the OLT, and turning of the PPPoE function switch in the IP host config data management object instance. The disclosure also discloses a GPON system. With the disclosure, the problem that the existing GPON system cannot support accessing in a manner of PPPoE dial-up is solved, and the PPPoE scenario requirements are met.
US09066151B2	Expanded media content access systems and methods In one of many possible embodiments, an exemplary method includes an expansion media content processing device receiving media content in a format not supported by a set-top box to which the expansion media content processing device is communicatively connected by a local communication link, converting the media content from the format not supported by the set-top box to a format supported by the set-top box, and providing the media content in the format supported by the set-top box to the set-top box by way of the local communication link. In some examples, the method further includes the set-top box receiving and using the media content in the format supported by the set-top box to provide the media content to an output device for presentation.
US09066150B2	User interface for entertainment systems Methods and apparatus for providing a search interface for an electronic device including a tuner configured to tune the electronic device to receive scheduled programming content. A search query is received and one or more data sources including information about media content are searched based, at least in part, on the search query. The results of the search are presented on a user interface using a time-based axis and a time-independent axis.
US09066148B2	System and method for displaying and searching multimedia events scheduling information Disclosed are computer implemented method, systems, and non-transitory media for presenting information representing a plurality of time-bounded events in (i) a first grid and (ii) a second grid. The first grid has a first size and represents a first set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. The second grid has a second size smaller than the first size. The second grid represents a second set of time-bounded events in the plurality of time-bounded events. This second set of time-bounded events includes a greater number of time-bounded events than the first set of time-bounded events.
US09066146B2	Electronic device and method for providing information related to broadcast viewing An electronic device and a method for providing view information are disclosed. A controller controls a request for broadcast rank to a relay server. A network interface receives a display page transmitted as a response to the request for broadcast rank. A display displays the received display page. The display page includes at least one feed associated with a real-time broadcast program and one of the at least one feed includes the number of users who view an associated real-time broadcast program.
US09066145B2	Commenting correlated to temporal point of video data Commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content is enabled by a computer system. An apparatus detects a time that input of user comment data is received during playback of audio/video content on an electronic display device. The apparatus determines a temporal point relative to the playback of the audio/video content correlated to the user comment data, based on the time. The apparatus transmits the user comment data correlated to identifiers for the audio-video content and the temporal point to a computer server. The server may configure the video data for publishing on a website so that the comment data is displayed for a limited period based on the temporal point. Users may thereby conveniently record audio or textual comments that are output during subsequent play of the audio/video content, for sharing with friends and others.
US09066135B2	System and method for generating a second screen experience using video subtitle data Second screen content for a display of an electronic device is generated and displayed in coordination with video content displayed on a display of another electronic device. The generation of the second screen content includes identifying keywords from subtitle data for the video content and identifying links to media content that relate to one or more of the keywords.
US09066134B2	Apparatus of processing an image and a method of processing thereof The disclosure is disclosed an apparatus of processing an image and a method thereof. According to the present invention, the method of transmitting a broadcast signal for a 3-dimensional, 3D, service, the method may include encoding video data for a 3D service into a stream and transmitting a broadcast signal including the encoded stream and service information for signaling the 3D service, wherein the service information comprises a first descriptor includes first information for specifying that a type of the stream is a video stream and second information for specifying a type of a component included in the video stream is a 3D video component, and wherein the first and second information including values for indicating presence and attribute of subtitles of the 3D service.
US09066130B1	Standardizing video content for use in generating an advertising overlay Methods and system for displaying a click-to-buy overlay for an item on a video in a video hosting site. The item is matched to the video according to video metadata and/or rules selected by the video rights holder. If the uploader is not the video rights holder, the video rights holder can choose to monetize the video by selecting Click-to-Buy metadata and/or rules. A viewer of the video can choose between multiple retailers for an item offered in the overlay. The viewer can further navigate between multiple overlays associated with the video while the video is playing.
US09066128B2	Interactive television program guide with selectable languages An interactive television program guide is provided. The interactive television program guide provides a user with the opportunity to select a language for playing television programming and displaying program guide text. Television program audio in the desired language may be obtained from a SAP or digital audio track and played in the selected language. Television related information in the desired language may be obtained from a digital track. If television program audio or related information is not provided in the selected language, the program guide may use a default language. The program guide may coordinate program guide display screen text with languages available for television programs when the programs are broadcast to users.
US09066123B2	System for monetizing resources accessible to a mobile device server A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium operating in a mobile device server. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium can include computer instructions to execute a web server application in the mobile device server. The web server application can be operable cause the mobile device server to detect a media resource center while roaming in a communication zone of the media resource center, transmit a pairing key to the media resource center, and receive from the media resource center authorization to pair with one or more resources selected by the media resource center according to the pairing key. In one embodiment a billing system can be operable to determine whether to apply a monetary charge to a subscriber account based on the pairing key. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09066110B2	Parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding Methods and apparatus for parsing friendly and error resilient merge flag coding in video coding are provided. In some methods, in contrast to merging candidate list size dependent coding of the merge flag in the prior art, a merge flag is always encoded in the encoded bit stream for each inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) that is not encoded using skip mode. In some methods, in contrast to the prior art that allowed the merging candidate list to be empty, one or more zero motion vector merging candidates formatted according to the prediction type of the slice containing a PU are added to the merging candidate list if needed to ensure that the list is not empty and/or to ensure that the list contains a maximum number of merging candidates.
US09066107B2	Methods for encoding and decoding sequence implementing a motion compensation, corresponding encoding and decoding devices, signal and computer programs A method is provided for encoding an image sequence, including the step of dividing a reference image into blocks and a prediction step that includes the following steps: determining monitoring vectors associated with a common image and dividing the same into sub-blocks defining a first partition; determining monitoring vectors associated with an image to be compensated and dividing the same into sub-blocks defining a first partition obtaining a common partitioning into basic sub-blocks; determining first and second sets of monitoring vectors for the basic sub-blocks; movement-compensating a sub-block of the image to be compensated towards a sub-block of the common image.
US09066089B2	Stereoscopic image display device and stereoscopic image display method A 3D tablet includes: a parallax image display unit which displays a stereoscopic image including a right-eye image and a left-eye image, between which there is parallax; a parallax barrier display unit which displays a parallax barrier having a stripe pattern and superimposed on the parallax image display unit to show the right-eye image and the left-eye image to a right and left eye of a user, respectively; a user position detection unit which obtains an orientation of the user relative to the parallax image display unit; a direction calculation and control unit which substantially collimates a longitudinal direction of the stripe pattern of the parallax barrier with the orientation of the user; and a parallax image generation unit which generates and displays, using the parallax image display unit, the stereoscopic image in which there is parallax in a direction substantially perpendicular to the orientation of the user.
US09066087B2	Depth mapping using time-coded illumination A method for depth mapping includes illuminating an object with a time-coded pattern and capturing images of the time-coded pattern on the object using a matrix of detector elements. The time-coded pattern in the captured images is decoded using processing circuitry embedded in each of the detector elements so as to generate respective digital shift values, which are converted into depth coordinates.
US09066083B2	Single lens 2D/3D digital camera A single-lens 2D/3D camera has a light valve placed in relationship to a lens module to control the light beam received by the lens module for forming an image on an image sensor. The light valve has a light valve area positioned in a path of the light beam. The light valve has two or more clearable sections such that only one section is made clear to allow part of the light beam to pass through. By separately making clear different sections on the light valve, a number of images as viewed through slightly different angles can be captured. The clearable sections include a right section and a left section so that the captured images can be used to produce 3D pictures or displays. The clearable sections also include a middle section so that the camera can be used as a 2D camera.
US09066073B2	Error resilient rate distortion optimization for image and video encoding Error resilient rate distortion optimization (ERRDO) is used for transmitting high quality images and video over constrained bandwidth networks, e.g., in streaming applications. Transmitting high quality images and video by reducing computational complexity is described.
US09066072B2	Systems and methods for calibrating image sensors Systems and methods are provided for calibrating image sensors. In some embodiments, a processing module of an image system can automatically perform a self-calibration process after a production unit of an image sensor has been integrated into an end product system. For example, the processing module can calibrate a production unit based on one or more reference pixels of the production unit, where the one or more reference pixels have minimal color filtration. In some embodiments, the processing module may perform local calibrations by correcting specifically for spatial variations in a color filter array (“CFA”). In some embodiments, the processing module can perform global calibrations by correcting for optical density variations in the CFA. In some embodiments, a processing module can determine whether the cause of production variations is related to production variations of a CFA or production variations of an infrared (“IR”) cutoff filter.
US09066069B2	Method of removing jagging of stereoscopic image and stereoscopic image display device using the same This document relates to a method of removing jagging of a stereoscopic image and a stereoscopic image display device using the same. The method comprises: detecting left edges and right edges by analyzing left-eye image data and right-eye image data; replacing the left-eye image data on a kth line with the left-eye image data on a (k−1)th line in response to a first absolute value of a difference between a number of the left edges on the (k−1)th line and the kth line being equal to or more than a edge number threshold value; and replacing the right-eye image data on the kth line with the right-eye image data on the (k−1)th line in response to a second absolute value of a difference between a number of the right-eye edge data on the (k−1)th line and the kth line being equal to or more than the edge number threshold value.
US09066068B2	Intra-prediction mode selection while encoding a picture An apparatus having a memory and a circuit is disclosed. The memory may be configured to store a picture being encoded. The circuit may be configured to calculate a plurality of first arrays directly from a plurality of neighboring samples around a current block of the picture. Each first array generally represents a respective one of a plurality of intra-prediction modes. Each first array may be spatially smaller than the current block. The circuit may also be configured to calculate a second array from a plurality of current samples in the current block. The second array may spatially match the first arrays. The circuit may be further configured to generate a plurality of scores of the intra-prediction modes by comparing the first arrays with the second array and select a given one of the intra-prediction modes corresponding to a lowest of the scores to encode the current block.
US09066057B2	Image forming apparatus processing file according to index information and method thereof An image forming apparatus includes: an image processing unit; a display part which displays a plurality of files; an input part which receives at least one index information with respect to at least one of the files; a storing part which stores the files and the received index information together; and a control part which classifies the files according to the received index information, and controls the image processing unit to process files which includes a selected index information.
US09066053B1	Image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus Provided is an image reading apparatus, including an update unit that updates a color correction coefficient of an image read signal of an image read by a reading unit using a color reference surface provided with an achromatic color reference surface and a chromatic color reference surface, a first detection unit that detects existence of dust based on read information of the achromatic color reference surface, a second detection unit that detects existence of the dust based on the read information of the chromatic color reference surface, and a third detection unit that detects a type of an optical component onto which the dust is attached according to a detection result of the first detection unit and the second detection unit.
US09066051B2	Luminous printing A method and a device are disclosed for luminous printing of an original image using fluorescent ink or other fluorescent display pigments. In some embodiments, the original image is separated into multiple layers, including at least a brightness layer and an inverse brightness (or darkness) layer, by applying extracted brightness data and inverse brightness data, to the original image, respectively. Each of the layers is associated with a set of corresponding printing channels. The sets of printing channels are applied by a printing device to print the original image on a print medium, such as paper, mylar, fabric, and other print surfaces. Multiple visual effects may be realized using the aforementioned process, including fluorescent images that are only visible under UV (Ultra Violet) or black light, images with high-fidelity colors under daylight and dark conditions, and shadow effects such as depth illusion.
US09066042B2	Terminal device and control method thereof A first terminal device and a video display control method are described. The first terminal device includes at least two tuners configured to receive and decode a video; a first display unit configured to display video or image; a first communication unit configured to communicate with a second terminal device; and a first processing unit configured to control the at least two tuners, the first display unit and the first communication unit. The first processing unit chooses one of the at least two tuners as a primary tuner, and displays a first video of the primary tuner on the first display unit, and the first processing unit sets the other tuner of the at least two tuners as slave tuner, and transmits a video of the slave tuner to the second terminal device through the first communication unit so as to be displayed by the second terminal device.
US09066038B2	Image processing and scanning apparatus identifying points having maximum density along a scanning direction so that binding position of input image is identified An image processing apparatus includes a local maximum point identifying unit, a distribution deriving unit, and a binding position identifying unit. The local maximum point identifying unit is configured to identify positions of local maximum points of densities along a first scanning direction in an input image of a book. The distribution deriving unit is configured to derive a distribution in the first scanning direction of the number of the local maximum point obtained along a second scanning direction perpendicular to the first scanning direction. The binding position identifying unit is configured to identify a binding position in the input image of the book on the basis of a position of a peak in the distribution.
US09066035B2	Semiconductor device including photosensor and transistor having oxide semiconductor active layer An object is to achieve low-power consumption by reducing the off-state current of a transistor in a photosensor. A semiconductor device including a photosensor having a photodiode, a first transistor, and a second transistor; and a read control circuit including a read control transistor, in which the photodiode has a function of supplying charge based on incident light to a gate of the first transistor; the first transistor has a function of storing charge supplied to its gate and converting the charge stored into an output signal; the second transistor has a function of controlling reading of the output signal; the read control transistor functions as a resistor converting the output signal into a voltage signal; and semiconductor layers of the first transistor, the second transistor, and the read control transistor are formed using an oxide semiconductor.
US09066034B2	Image processing apparatus, method and program with different pixel aperture characteristics When the super-resolution processing is performed, loss of signal occurs due to the aperture effect, and adversely affects the image quality. In order to improve the image quality by suppressing the occurrence of loss of signal, a pixel aperture characteristic provided for some of image capturing units differs from a pixel aperture characteristic provided for the other image capturing units, and a plurality of digital images are captured by these image capturing units and are synthesized thereafter.
US09066032B2	Imaging apparatus comprising image sensor array having shared global shutter circuitry There is set forth herein in one embodiment an image sensor array including a global shutter shared by first and second pixels. The global shutter can include a charge storage area having an associated shield for reducing charge build up on the charge storage area attributable to incident light rays. There is set forth herein in one embodiment an imaging apparatus having one or more configuration. The one or more configuration can include one or more of a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has unbinned pixel values, a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has binned pixel values corresponding to an M×N, M>=2, N>=2 arrangement of pixel values, and a configuration wherein a frame read out from an image sensor array has binned pixel values corresponding to a 1×N, N>=2 arrangement of pixel values.
US09066010B2	Photographing apparatus, photographing method and medium recording photographing control program A photographing apparatus includes an image pickup unit that acquires a plurality of picked-up images by picking up images of a subject from mutually different viewpoints, an image comparison section that determines a specific part which is specific in the picked-up images and a part other than the specific part, and an image generating section that generates a special image by performing image processing differently for the specific part and for the part other than the specific part.
US09066008B2	Display control apparatus and method for controlling the same A display control apparatus includes a display control unit configured to display an image in a display region of a display unit in a first display mode for displaying a whole of the image in a state where an area of a part of the image, the area being a processing area of predetermined processing, is identifiable, and in a second display mode for displaying the processing area of the image zoomed according to the display region, and a control unit configured to change, in the first display mode, the processing area by a first movement amount in response to receiving a changing operation, and to change, in the second display mode, the processing area by a second movement amount that is smaller than the first movement amount in response to receiving the changing operation.
US09066006B2	Image photographing device and control method thereof Disclosed herein are an image photographing device that includes a display unit displaying a preview image and a control method thereof. The image photographing device includes a judgment unit that judges whether or not lens blind has occurred and a photographing control unit that executes photographing after a predetermined time following an input of a photographing execution command has elapsed, if the judgment unit judges that lens blind has occurred. Even if a user shields a lens by his/her hand during a process of touching the screen of the display unit or pressing a photographing button to execute photographing, photographing is executed after the user's hand has moved out of the visual field of the lens, and thus an image desired by the user may be obtained without disturbance due to lens blind.
US09065993B1	Fixed focus camera with lateral sharpness transfer A lens includes a depth of field (“DOF”) range and a macro range. The macro range is distinct and separate from the DOF range. The macro range is a near field relative to the DOF range. The DOF range provides a first field of view (“FOV”) while the macro range provides a second FOV that is smaller than the first FOV within the DOF range. The lens transfers sharpness from a peripheral viewing region within the macro range into a central viewing region within the macro range.
US09065991B2	Methods of adjustment free manufacture of focus free camera modules Methods are provided for wafer scale manufacturing camera modules without adjustment components to compensate for assembly errors and optical errors incurred within manufacturing tolerances. Camera modules are assembled in wafer arrays from arrays of image sensors, arrays of lens structures and arrays of optical trim elements. At least one of the arrays is a wafer. Lens structures are configured to provide less optical power than necessary to focus an image at infinity on image sensors without trim elements. A test performed during the wafer scale assembly of camera modules, after at least the sensor array and the lens structure array assembled, determines optical errors by identifying optical distortions and aberrations quantified in terms of optical power, astigmatism, coma, optical axis shift and optical axis reorientation deficiencies. Corresponding trim elements are configured to counteract distortions and aberrations prior to singulating useful camera modules from the array.
US09065989B2	Image pickup apparatus having image pickup device An image pickup apparatus which is capable of fixing an image pickup device compactly and with high strength. A wiring substrate has an image pickup device mounted thereon. A fixing member is fixed on the image pickup device. The fixing member is provided with an abutment surface that comes into abutment with the image pickup device, an opening from which a light-incident surface of the image pickup device is exposed, and a wall portion that faces a side surface of the image pickup device. An adhesive is filled in a space formed between the side surface of the image pickup device and the wall portion.
US09065986B2	Imaging apparatus and imaging system The present invention provides an imaging apparatus capable of monitoring a plurality of monitored sites in a switching manner by a single surveillance camera and an imaging system. Provided are: an imager for imaging an object scene image so as to produce imaging data; a cutout processor for cutting out one portion of the imaging data so as to create a plurality of cutout image data; and an outputter for sequentially outputting the plurality of cutout image data to the external apparatus at a predetermined output interval.
US09065982B2	Reconfigurable surveillance apparatus and associated method An apparatus includes a housing; a plurality of cameras in the housing, each of the cameras being configured to capture image data of a portion of a scene external to the housing; an attitude detector for detecting an orientation of the housing; and a transmitter disposed within the housing, the transmitter being configured to transmit the image data and an orientation signal to a station disposed remotely from the scene. A method of using the apparatus is also provided.
US09065971B2	Video and audio tagging for active speaker detection A videoconferencing system is described that is configured to select an active speaker while avoiding erroneously selecting a microphone or camera that is picking up audio or video from a connected remote signal. A determination is made whether an audio signal is above a threshold level. If so, then a determination is made as to whether a tag is present in that audio signal. If so, that signal is ignored. If not, a camera is directed toward the sound source identified by the audio signal. A determination is made whether a tag is present in the video signal from that camera. If so, the camera is redirected. If not, local tag(s) are inserted into the audio signal and/or the video signal. The tagged signal(s) are transmitted. Thus, system will ignore sound or video that has an embedded tag from another videoconferencing system.
US09065969B2	Scalable web real-time communications (WebRTC) media engines, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media Scalable Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) media engines, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method for providing a scalable WebRTC media engine comprises instantiating one or more virtual WebRTC agents, each corresponding to one or more of a plurality of WebRTC clients. The method further comprises establishing a plurality of WebRTC interactive flows, each connecting one of the one or more virtual WebRTC agents with the corresponding one or more of the plurality of WebRTC clients. The method also comprises receiving contents of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows as input from the one or more virtual WebRTC agents, and synthesizing the contents of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows. The method additionally comprises directing the synthesized contents as output to one of more of the plurality of WebRTC interactive flows via the corresponding one or more virtual WebRTC agents.
US09065967B2	Method and apparatus for providing device angle image correction An approach for providing device angle image correction. An image (e.g., still or moving) of a subject is captured via a camera of a mobile device. One or more geometrics parameters associated with the subject are determined in relation to the mobile device. One or more camera parameters for the mobile device are also determined. An image correction scheme is applied to the image based on the camera parameters and the geometrics parameters to output a modified image.
US09065960B2	System for non-uniformly illuminating an original and capturing an image therof An imaging device having an imaging unit for illuminating and capturing an original positioned on the imaging surface. The imaging surface is illuminated by an illumination system including a plurality of light sources that non-uniformly illuminates the imaging surface such that the corner areas of imaging surface is illuminated more than the non-corner areas of the imaging surface. In one embodiment the light sources are arranged around the perimeter of the imaging surface. In an alternate embodiment the light sources are located outside the field of view of a lens of the image capturing unit.
US09065956B2	Information processing apparatus and control method for information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus includes a plurality of processing units configured to perform different types of processing, a power supply unit configured to supply power to any of the processing units, a job storage unit configured to store a first job, a second job, which is received after the first job, and a third job, which is received after the second job, and a control unit configured to perform control, if the second job is not executable and the third job is executable in a power state to be shifted for executing the first job, to execute the third job after the first job and to execute the second job after the third job.
US09065955B2	Power supply control apparatus, image processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and power supply control method A power supply control apparatus includes a transition unit, a detector, a first image capturing unit, a command unit, a second image capturing unit, and an identity recognition unit. The transition unit makes a control target enter a power supply state or a power shutoff state. The detector detects a moving object while the control target is in the power shutoff state. The first image capturing unit captures images of a specific area at the time when the detector detects a moving object. The command unit commands the transition unit to make the control target enter the power supply state in a case where it is determined that the moving object is approaching the control target. The second image capturing unit captures a characteristic image of the moving object that is approaching the control target. The identity recognition unit performs identity recognition in accordance with the characteristic image.
US09065941B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling the same An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk unit, a control unit configured to output an instruction to retract a head of the hard disk unit, a monitoring unit configured to monitor a state of the control unit and output, in a case where the monitoring unit determines that the control unit cannot issue the instruction, an instruction to retract the head of the hard disk unit, and a hard disk controller configured to receive the instruction from the control unit or the monitoring unit and to issue a command for retracting the head of the hard disk unit to the hard disk unit. The hard disk unit retracts the head of the hard disk unit in a case where the hard disk unit receives the command.
US09065940B2	Print apparatus including image read apparatus-side communicating section When a start button of a scanner is operated in a state where a communication connection has been established with the scanner, then image data generated by the scanner by reading a document is acquired, a run mode is set from a plurality of operating modes including a copy mode and a transfer mode, and a process corresponding to the set run mode is executed on the acquired image data. This makes it possible to realize a plurality of functions of a printer in response to a single start button of a scanner.
US09065929B2	Hearing aid detection A hearing aid compatible portable electronic audio device is configured to automatically determine whether or not the device is being used by a hearing impaired user who is wearing a hearing aid, and select a mode of operation based on this determination. The device includes a proximity sensor and a magnetic field sensor. The proximity sensor is used to detect a change in distance of the device to the user's ear. The magnetic field sensor is used to detect a change in magnetic field caused by the device moving relative to the hearing aid. The device selects between a normal audio mode of operation and a hearing aid compatible mode of operation based on both the change in detected distance and the change in detected magnetic field. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09065927B2	Method and system for providing context based multimedia intercom services An approach is provided for performing context based multi-modal intercom sessions. A control signal to invoke an intercom service between two or more communication devices is received. Context information associated with one or more of the communication devices is determined. An intercom mode communication session among the communication devices is established. The context information is used to customize the intercom service for one or more of the communication devices.
US09065922B2	System and method for providing low battery notifications on mobile devices A system and method are provided for providing notifications related to the battery level of a mobile device. Upon detecting a low battery state, a low battery update may be sent to a presence server to enable the low battery update to be provided to one or more contacts associated with the mobile device. The one or more contacts may then update their UI to reflect a change in presence status and may provided alerts upon detecting that the mobile device has been recharged.
US09065921B2	Retractable storage system for handheld electronic device A retractable storage system for handheld electronic device has one or more storage chambers to house a retraction mechanism and/or a battery. At least one accessory station structured on the housing member of the device has an aperture for arresting, dispensing and/or charging at least one accessory item, such as a wireless earbud or e-cigarette. The retraction mechanism retrieves and dispense the stored accessory item through the accessory station.
US09065920B2	Method and apparatus pertaining to presenting incoming-call identifiers A control circuit determines a contact number as corresponds to an incoming call, accesses a contacts list to identify at least one contact identifier as corresponds to that contact number, and then makes a corresponding decision and/or takes a corresponding action regarding the display of more than one contact identifier as corresponds to the contact number and/or a numeric representation of how many contact identifiers correspond to the contact number. This can comprise simultaneously displaying at least two contact identifiers as correspond to the incoming contact number. These multiple identifiers can be displayed in a predetermined order. For example, earlier-entered contact identifiers may be presented ahead of later-entered contact identifiers. By another approach, the foregoing can comprise displaying only one of the candidate contact identifiers along with a numeric representation of how many contact identifiers correspond to the contact number.
US09065914B2	System and method of providing generated speech via a network A system and method of operating an automatic speech recognition application over an Internet Protocol network is disclosed. The ASR application communicates over a packet network such as an Internet Protocol network or a wireless network. A grammar for recognizing received speech from a user over the IP network is selected from a plurality of grammars according to a user-selected application. A server receives information representing speech over the IP network, performs speech recognition using the selected grammar, and returns information based upon the recognized speech. Sub-grammars may be included within the grammar to recognize speech from sub-portions of a dialog with the user.
US09065910B2	Integrating telephony and voice mail routing A data processing system comprises call processing logic comprising a voice mail subsystem, or a call management subsystem configured to process voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls, or both a voice mail subsystem and a call management subsystem; service advertisement logic coupled to the call processing logic and operable to send one or more service advertisement messages by unicast to a remote peer data processing system that is also configured with compatible service advertisement logic, wherein the remote peer data processing system is located in a different LAN segment than the data processing system; and each service advertisement message comprises one or more network addresses associated with the call processing logic, and one or more data sets each comprising an identifier value, a first value that indicates that the identifier value is associated with a telephone extension, and a second value that indicates that the identifier value is associated with a voice mailbox.
US09065907B2	History management apparatus, history management method and history management program A history management apparatus that includes: an acquisition part that acquires a fragment data set indicating an action of a switchboard to a call, and an execution time of the action; a history generation part that generates a historical data set indicating a history of response states of an agent to one call, from a plurality of fragment data sets acquired; an image generation part that generates data of a display image indicating the history of response states of the agent to the one call, based on the historical data set; and a display control part that causes the display image to be displayed on a display unit.
US09065905B2	Methods and apparatus to provide a network-based caller identification service in a voice over internet protocol network Methods and apparatus to provide a network-based caller identification (CID) service in a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) network are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving a session initiation protocol (SIP) communication session initiation request message comprising an early-media indicator, disabling a ringtone generator, sending a SIP ringing message containing a session descriptor in response to the early-media indicator, receiving a ringtone based on the session descriptor, and presenting the ringtone to alert a user of a requested communication session.
US09065904B1	Method and apparatus of providing data service mobility A method and apparatus of accessing a data service in a wireless communications network is disclosed. An example may include receiving a call identifying an application accessed by a mobile station, and verifying whether the accessed application is installed on the mobile station. The example may further include transferring a notification message to the mobile station based on the accessed application.
US09065897B2	System and method for blocking unauthorized outgoing call on a communication network The various embodiments herein provide a system and method for blocking unauthorized outgoing calls made by an unauthorized user. The system is programmed by the user to block any attempt made to call an unauthorized number. Incase of a landline system, the system is connected to a telephone line that powers up the unit from the landline and blocks any unauthorized outgoing calls. The system is programmed to inhibit dialing any prefixes or any individual numbers. The system disconnects the phone line from the network and does not allow continuation of dialing when the prefix or the dialing number matches with the unauthorized dialing list/database.
US09065896B2	Method and system for sampling rate mismatch correction of transmitting and receiving terminals Disclosed in the invention is a method and system for sampling rate mismatch correction of transmitting and receiving terminals, which can obtain a high-precision sampling rate mismatch in real time, carry out sampling rate correction on transmitting and receiving terminal signals, and send the transmitting terminal signal and the receiving terminal signal that have the same sampling rate after corrected to an echo cancellation system to carry out echo cancellation. The present invention can improve the quality of echo cancellation, simplify the computation and reduce the cost. The method for sampling rate mismatch correction of transmitting and receiving terminals provided in the embodiments of the invention comprises: calculating a transfer function of a receiving terminal signal relative to a transmitting terminal signal at each sampling timing according to the transmitting and receiving terminal signals; obtaining a transmission time delay of the transmitting and receiving terminals at each sampling timing using the transfer function; obtaining a sampling rate mismatch of the transmitting and receiving terminals at each sampling timing by means of parameter fitting using the transmission time delay and the linear relationship between the transmission time delay and the sampling rate mismatch; and adjusting the sampling rate of the transmitting terminal signal or the receiving terminal signal at each sampling timing according to the sampling rate mismatch.
US09065893B2	Credit card form factor secure mobile computer and methods A communication device is provided and includes a first major surface including a display and a mixed array. The mixed array includes at least two different types of array units and occupies an area coinciding with, in plan view as viewed perpendicular to the major surface, at least substantially the entire major surface.
US09065876B2	User input back channel from a wireless sink device to a wireless source device for multi-touch gesture wireless displays As part of a communication session, a wireless source device can transmit audio and video data to a wireless sink device, and the wireless sink device can transmit user input data received at the wireless sink device back to the wireless source device. In this manner, a user of the wireless sink device can control the wireless source device and control the content that is being transmitted from the wireless source device to the wireless sink device. The input data received at the wireless sink device can be a multi-touch gesture.
US09065874B2	Persistent network resource and virtual area associations for realtime collaboration Apparatus and methods relating to persistent network resource and virtual area associations for realtime collaboration include managing and displaying an object associated with a virtual area that supports establishment of respective presences of communicants operating respective client network nodes. Examples of the object include an object that has one or more user-modifiable property fields and an object that is associated with screen sharing functionality of the client network node.
US09065873B2	Reduction of chaining in conference sessions Techniques are provided for adding a participant at an end point device to an ongoing conference session. An ongoing conference session is established, where the conference session includes a communication between a plurality of endpoint devices, and a bridging device facilitates a connection between at least some of the endpoint devices engaging in the conference session. At least one communication message is provided from the bridging device to a communications manager device associated with the conference session, where the at least one communication message provides identification information associated with the bridging device and the conference session. The ongoing conference session is extended to an additional participant's endpoint device, where the additional endpoint device is connected with the ongoing conference session utilizing the bridging device and based upon the conference session information obtained from the at least one communication message.
US09065872B1	Sharing service management Techniques are described for sharing service management on a computing system. The computing system includes a display device and one or more processors. The processors are configured to determine, based on a context associated with an object, a plurality of weighted probabilities including a respective weighted probability for each sharing service from a plurality of sharing services, wherein the context includes at least one of a characteristic of the object and a respective characteristic of at least a portion of sharing services from the plurality of sharing services, select, based on the respective weighted probabilities, a subset of sharing services, output, for display at the display device, an indication of each sharing service from the subset of sharing services, receive an indication of a user input corresponding to a selection of one of the subset of sharing services, and transmit, using the selected sharing service, an indication of the object.
US09065869B2	Social network device memberships and applications A social device including capabilities for participating in a social network group via a social infrastructure. Various functions and resources of the social device are accessible by members of the social network group. Likewise, the social device may be configured to access services and other resources of the social network group. The social device may participate in the social network group through an autonomous, automated or member-triggered process. In one embodiment, the social device functions as a social gateway to communicatively couple a child node and a social network group. The social gateway may comprise a set top box or mobile communication device, and the child node may be a human user that interacts with the social gateway through a user interface. In a further embodiment, the social gateway may concurrently operate as a child device that communicates with a social network group through another social device.
US09065868B2	System and method for sharing data in a group of mobile devices A method and system are provided for sharing data amongst a group of a plurality of mobile devices without requiring a database or server to centrally store the shared data. The shared data is instead stored by each group member individually while controlling the manner in which the shared data is updated. To manage such updates, the shared data is atomized such that individual databases in the shared data are separated or otherwise delineated into one or more records, each record having associated therewith, a value. To maintain a common copy of the shared data at each device, any update is sent to all group members using an intermediate message exchange service that is capable of transmitting a sent message to more than one recipient if necessary. In this way, the updates are multicast to the group. To manage the content of the shared data, each update comprises one or more changes to a current copy of a corresponding record.
US09065867B2	Systems and method to discover clients associated with local domain name server using sampling A system includes an analyzer module, a content request data collection module, and a domain name server. The content request data collection module is configured to receive a content request sent to a tracking address, collect content request information about the content request, and provide the content request information to the analyzer module. The domain name server is configured to receive an address request from a local domain name server for a cache server address, provide a tracking address to the local domain name server, collect address request information about the address request, and provide the address request information to the analyzer module. The analyzer module is configured to receive the address request information and the content request information, and determine properties of clients served by the local domain name server based on the address request information and the content request information.
US09065864B2	Method and system for transmitting a network-initiated message to a mobile device A method for execution by a network element of a communications network. The method comprises receiving from a first network entity a first communication that includes at least (i) a network-initiated message generated by a server-side portion of an application that also has a corresponding client-side portion and (ii) a first application identifier associated with the application. The method further comprises consulting a database based at least on the first application identifier in an attempt to identify a second application identifier associated with the application; and releasing to a second network entity a second communication that includes at least (i) the network-initiated message and (ii) either the second application identifier, if the attempt was successful, or the first application identifier, if the attempt was unsuccessful.
US09065859B1	Server side disambiguation of ambiguous statistics Tracking data communications are received for single properties that include ambiguous event statistics. The event statistics are disambiguated by an analytics processing system by identifying account and visitor identifier pairs from account identifiers and visitor identifiers in the tracking data communications. For each account and visitor identifier pair, ambiguous event statistics are ordered by the corresponding event times and disambiguated.
US09065853B2	Method and device for storing online data A method and device for reserving an online data storage space involving receiving a storage request containing a set of parameters including at least one parameter corresponding to a quality of service for storage, analyzing the set of parameters, creating, and sending to online data storage units, a reservation request corresponding to the set of parameters, receiving at least one reply to the reservation request corning from the online data storage units, selecting, among the replies received, an online storage unit as a function of all the parameters defined in the storage request, creating a reservation key enabling access to the selected storage space, sending the reservation key and the selected storage space address.
US09065846B2	Analyzing data gathered through different protocols A security analysis of data received on a mobile communications device includes gathering information about the data through at least two of multiple network interfaces, each of the at least two network interfaces having different protocols. Based upon the gathering, a first protocol is assigned to the data received from a first of the at least two network interfaces. A second protocol is assigned to the data received from a second of the at least two network interfaces. A common security analysis is performed on at least a part of the data received from each of the first and second network interfaces to determine whether the data received by the mobile communications device is safe or malicious.
US09065839B2	Minimally buffered data transfers between nodes in a data communications network Methods, apparatus, and products for minimally buffered data transfers between nodes in a data communications network are disclosed that include: receiving, by a messaging module on an origin node, a storage identifier, a origin data type, and a target data type, the storage identifier specifying application storage containing data, the origin data type describing a data subset contained in the origin application storage, the target data type describing an arrangement of the data subset in application storage on a target node; creating, by the messaging module, origin metadata describing the origin data type; selecting, by the messaging module from the origin application storage in dependence upon the origin metadata and the storage identifier, the data subset; and transmitting, by the messaging module to the target node, the selected data subset for storing in the target application storage in dependence upon the target data type without temporarily buffering the data subset.
US09065832B2	Method and apparatus for automated network connectivity for managed application components within a cloud Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method performed by an application manager for automatically establishing a network connection between components of an application within a distributed cloud, the method including: establishing application components in the distributed cloud; selecting a first application component; identifying network characteristics from the network policy file associated with the first application component; determining a network connection between the first application component and a second application component according to the network characteristics associated with the first application component; associating the network connection with the first application component; and establishing the network connection between the first and second application components.
US09065830B2	Network recording and speech analytics system and method A system and method for network recording and speech analytics wherein a recording system receives media exchanged between first and second communication devices during a telephony call. The media is received by the recording system over a wide area network. The recording system bridges a media path between the first and second communication devices, and replicates media exchanged in the media path for storing the replicated media in a mass storage device. The recording system further captures metadata associated with the call, and stores the captured metadata in association with the stored media. The stored media and metadata may then be provided to a requesting device over the wide area network. The recording system may also be configured to analyze the call recording along with the associated metadata for detecting key words or phrases and/or triggering actionable events.
US09065822B2	Authenticating devices for communications A controller for a communications device having a memory storing data specifying user instructions; and a communications controller arranged for receiving a request of a preformed format for the data from a second device and in response to the request transmitting the data to the second device. The user instructions are arranged for use by a user on the first device to authenticate the second device with the first device.
US09065813B2	Adapter device for coupling an industrial field instrument to an industrial wireless network and related system and method A method includes coupling an adapter device to a field instrument in an industrial control system to provide a wireless communication capability to the field instrument. The method also includes converting, by the adapter device, information from a first protocol native to the field instrument into a second protocol native to a wireless network. The method further includes transmitting the information to at least one other device over the wireless network.
US09065811B2	Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for communicating content files based on destination priority A method for communicating content files based on destination priority includes processing a content file to determine a plurality of destination sites to which the content file is to be transmitted, assigning priority levels to the plurality of destination sites, allocating a plurality of bandwidth portions on a communication link to the plurality of destination sites, respectively, based on the priority levels assigned to the plurality of destination sites, and transmitting the content file to the plurality of destination sites using the plurality of bandwidth portions allocated to the plurality of destination on the communication link, respectively.
US09065806B2	Internet based security information interaction apparatus and method The present invention discloses a device and method for security information interaction. The device for security information interaction includes: an interface circuit, configured to connect the device for security information interaction to an internet terminal; an information input unit, configured to allow user to input security information; a secure encryption/decryption unit, configured to store and process the security information; an information reader, configured to read information data from an external information carrier; wherein the secure encryption/decryption unit processes the security information in connection with the information data, and complete a business function on the secure channel through the interaction with the security information processing server. The device and method for security information interaction disclosed in the present invention improves the flexibility and efficiency of the information processing system, enhances the security of the information processing system, and extending new applications of an external information carrier in an open network environment.
US09065799B2	Method and apparatus for cyber security Aspects of the disclosure provide a network interface device for use in an electronic device. The network interface device includes multiple systems and can be configured to perform multiple levels of security functions. In an example, the network interface device includes a first system and a second system. The first system includes a first interface configured to couple the first system with a host system of the electronic device, a second interface configured to couple the first system with an external electronic device, and first integrated circuits configured to monitor and filter traffic flowing between the external electronic device and the host system of the electronic device. The second system includes second integrated circuits. The network interface device also includes a communication channel between the first system and the second system. The second system is configured to send control information to and receive status information from the first system via the communication channel.
US09065793B2	Rendering web content using pre-caching A first resource is provided on a user device, the first resource including a plurality of links to other resources. At least one, but not all of the plurality of links are selected for pre-caching, and at least a portion of a second resource located by the first link is automatically cached. At least the portion of the second resource is provided in response to a designated triggering event.
US09065788B2	Method, device and system for voice communication A method is performed at a computer server for enabling voice communication between two terminals through IM service. Upon receiving a message from a remote computer, the message including an IM identifier of a callee terminal user and a mobile device identifier of the terminal, the computer system updates an entry for the callee terminal user in a database. Upon receiving a request from a caller terminal user at a caller terminal to start voice communication with the callee terminal user, the computer server identifies the entry that includes the IM identifier of the callee terminal user and sends a voice communication request to a service control point (SCP) in a switched telephone network. The SCP then returns an IP address and a port number of the callee terminal and launches a call request against the callee terminal. The computer server establishes a voice communication channel between the two terminals.
US09065787B2	Method for supervising a chat connection A method for supervising a chat connection between at least two terminals is provided. The method includes verification of first conditions, including a camera at each terminal is operated, video streams of each camera are live streams, and/or each video stream contains images of a live person. The connection is allowed if all of the first conditions are met and if one second condition is met. A second condition can include one first subset of the persons is identified as belonging to one defined restricted group and an identity of a second subset of the persons is determined at least on the basis of facial and/or body features and the identified second person is classified as an allowed exception. The method also includes a pre-defined reaction if any of the first conditions and/or all of the second conditions are not met.
US09065782B2	Method and apparatus for controlling information element switch The disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for controlling information element switch. The method comprises the following steps: a switch board determines that it has received a link request information element from each ingress line card, wherein the link request information element carries the request time stamp information; the switch board performs link allocation according to each request time stamp information, wherein the link is the link connecting the switch board with each egress line card; and each ingress line card transmits a data information element according to the result of the link allocation. With the disclosure, the problems of time delay and jitter in an information element switch process are solved, the input end flow of the switch board can also be controlled, and the requirement for the egress line card cache and difficulty in data packet recombination are reduced.
US09065776B2	Addressable node unit and method for addressing An addressable node unit includes connections for at least two lines via which the node unit can be addressed. The connections are connected to a circuit which evaluates an addressing signal. The node unit includes at least one power source which is supplyable with power via at least one of the lines. A switch is provided in the path between the evaluating circuit and the corresponding line connection, the switch being opened after an addressing process so that the power supply of the evaluating circuit is ensured by the at least one power source after the addressing.
US09065770B2	Traffic item impairment emulation An impairment unit, method, and machine readable storage media for emulating network impairments. A first network interface may receive network traffic including a plurality of received packets. A classifier may determine an impairment class of each received packet based on test information contained within a payload portion of each received packet, the impairment class of each received packet being one of a plurality of impairment classes, each impairment class uniquely associated with a corresponding one of a plurality of impairment profiles. An impairment engine may impair each of the plurality of impairment classes in accordance with the corresponding impairment profile to provide impaired network traffic. A second network interface may transmit the impaired network traffic to the network.
US09065763B2	Transmission of data over a low-bandwidth communication channel Disclosed herein are various systems and methods that may improve the transmission of data over low-bandwidth communication channels in an electric power delivery system. Devices communicating across a low-bandwidth communication channel may implement several approaches, according to various embodiments disclosed herein, to reduce the data transmitted across the low-bandwidth communication channel and to prioritize the transmission of time-sensitive and/or more important information with respect to other data. Various embodiments disclosed herein may inspect packets to be transmitted across a low-bandwidth communication channel in order to identify high priority data. High priority data may be time-sensitive information, and accordingly, transmission of such data may be prioritized over other data in order to reduce transmission latency of the higher priority data.
US09065758B2	Ring network protection method, network node and ring network A ring network protection method is disclosed. When a fault occurs in a ring network, a first node selects a protection tunnel according to a fault condition of a pre-established protection tunnel. Services are switched to the selected protection tunnel. A protection switching request is sent on the selected protection tunnel and another end node is informed of the selected protection tunnel to switch the services to the selected protection tunnel.
US09065754B2	Client based congestion control mechanism The invention concerns a method of notifying control information to a congestion control mechanism in charge of controlling data segments sending rate of a server towards a client. The control information includes loss events where a loss event corresponds to one or more data segments lost. The method comprises a step of receiving data segments into a reception buffer at the client, a step of detecting loss events from the received data segments and a step of notifying the congestion control mechanism with a number of loss events that is dependent on the number of detected loss events and a measure of criticality related to the reception of the data segments by the client. The measure of criticality can be derived from the filling level of the reception buffer, the reception of data segments being in a critical state when the reception buffer is experiencing overflow or underflow conditions.
US09065743B2	Determining connectivity in a failed network The disclosed technology, in one embodiment, involves a method that improves the execution speed of graph algorithms that are commonly used by network service providers for network analysis and/or design. The disclosed technology can be used to provide significant efficiency improvements when applied to networks that are separated into several isolated fragments (“fragmented networks”) due to severe damage that may be caused by either natural disaster (such as hurricanes or earthquakes), or planned adversary attacks. In one embodiment of the disclosed technology, a graph algorithm, that is used to determine a characteristic of the network, is not applied directly to the whole network/graph. Instead, the graph algorithm is applied to isolated network/graph fragments that are identified, for example, by using a fragment discovery algorithm. The graph algorithm is then applied to one or more relevant fragments. The results may be combined to obtain a network wide result.
US09065739B2	Method and apparatus for providing end-to-end quality of service (QoS) An approach is provided for supporting end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) control. A QoS profile identifier is generated that maps to a QoS parameter. The identifier is transmitted over the radio communication system to an end station, wherein the end station determines the QoS parameter based on the received identifier. The approach also provides an alert mechanism in which the end station transmits an alert message upon detecting a deviation from the QoS parameter.
US09065731B2	Ensure upstream channel quality measurement stability in an upstream channel bonding system using T4 timeout multiplier A method and computing device for maintaining the stability of the upstream channel quality measurements in an upstream channel bonded system. The method configures a cable modem, that communicates using bonded channels, to periodically exchange ranging messages on the bonded channels, where a bonded channel ranging interval determines a period for the exchange. The method also monitors a signal quality metric for a monitored channel of the bonded channels by periodically retrieving a quality measurement for the monitored channel, a period between each retrieval determined by a channel quality monitoring interval. The method sends an invite ranging message to the cable modem before retrieval of the quality measurement for the monitored channel, and retrieves the quality measurement for the monitored channel. The method bases the signal quality metric for the monitored channel on the quality measurement.
US09065719B2	Method, apparatus and communication unit A method, an apparatus and a communication unit for generating precoding feedback information in a multiple frequency radio transmission system are disclosed. A rank for precoding matrices, wherein the rank is constant over the multiple frequencies, is selected and a plurality of precoding matrices having the selected rank are selected. A different precoding matrix is selected for each frequency subset of the multiple frequencies.
US09065710B1	Interference identification for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based systems Disclosed are various embodiments that are directed towards distinguishing between various types of interference in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. According to some embodiments, the system receives a set of symbols encoded in a predetermined subcarrier activation pattern according to an OFDM protocol. The system may determine a plurality of time averaged interference values, each time averaged interference value corresponding to a respective subcarrier index expressed in the set of symbols. Then, the system may separate frequency-based interference from time-based interference according to the plurality of time averaged interference values.
US09065707B2	Polarization-independent LCOS device Described herein is an optical phase modulator (20) including a liquid crystal element (22), disposed between a pair of opposing electrodes (24) and (26). The electrodes (24, 26) are electrically driven for supplying an electric potential V across the liquid crystal element (22) to drive the liquid crystals within element (22) in a predetermined configuration. Electrode (26) includes a grid of individually drivable pixel regions (28), at least some of which include a sub-wavelength grating structure that provides an anisotropic refractive index profile in orthogonal lateral dimensions, thereby creating an effective material form birefringence. Light incident through liquid crystal element (22) and onto electrode (26) is reflected and experiences a relative phase difference of 180° between its constituent orthogonal polarization components, thereby rotating each polarization component into the orthogonal orientation upon reflection.
US09065701B2	Enhanced serialization mechanism The present disclosure discloses a method and network device for an enhanced serialization mechanism. Specifically, the disclosed system receives a plurality of packets from a plurality of transport layer flows corresponding to a security association. Also, the system designates one processor of a plurality of processors to be associated with the security association. Moreover, the system assigns a sequence number to each packet, and transmits the plurality of packets from the plurality of transport layer flows such that packets within the same transport layer flow are transmitted in order of their sequence numbers. However, at least two packets from two different transport layer flows may be transmitted out of incremental order of their sequence number.
US09065699B2	Methods and systems for a distributed radio communications network The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for providing a distributed radio communications network. Each of a first gateway and a second gateway may separately receive modulated signals comprising at least a portion of data from a first node of a plurality of geographically-dispersed nodes. The modulated signals may be wirelessly transmitted as radio frequency (RF) signals from the first node, the data gathered or generated by the first node at a first location. A server may receive the modulated signals from the first gateway and the second gateway. As configured by software-defined radio (SDR) software, the server may perform processing of the separately received modulated signals to recover the data. The processing may include demodulation of the modulated signals.
US09065681B2	Parking and un-parking of conversations in multiple modalities A park request is received from a first computing system. The park request is a request to park a conversation between a user of the first computing system and a user of a second computing system. The park request conforms to a protocol that supports parking and unparking of conversations having a first modality and conversations having a second modality. Furthermore, an unpark request is received from a third computing system. The unpark request is a request to unpark the conversation. Referral information is sent to the third computing system. The referral information enables the third computing system to establish a communication session to carry the conversation.
US09065674B2	Multiple slimbus controllers for slimbus components Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for controlling components connected to and/or otherwise associated with a data bus are presented. According to one or more aspects of the disclosure, a plurality of processing devices having data bus management capability and at least one data bus associated with the plurality of processing devices may be identified. Subsequently, an inter-processor communication (IPC) layer for communication between the plurality of processing devices and the at least one data bus may be established over a messaging layer utilized by the at least one data bus. At least one component associated with the at least one data bus may then be controlled via the IPC layer using at least one of the plurality of processing devices.
US09065667B2	Viewing data as part of a video conference The integration of data and video conference data allows presentations to be given more effectively and people to write down things which are hard to deliver using speech alone, for example mathematical formulae. Often when giving a presentation though it can be advantageous to be able to interact not only with a person verbally but also on a written level, for example a user may wish to draw on slides being used in a presentation to illustrate a point. At present only one user can transmit this type of data to the participants at any one time and only to participants having an H.239 compatible endpoint. The presentation invention enables multiple users to interact using written rather than spoken means without having to pass permission to transmit written data from one participant to another.
US09065666B2	System and method of multi-media conferencing between universal plug and play (UPnP) enabled telephony devices and wireless area network (WAN) devices A system and method of multi-media conferencing between Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) telephony devices and Wide Area Network (WAN) devices is provided. The method includes initiating a multi-media conferencing session with WAN devices by at least one telephony control point (TCP) in an UPnP telephony based home network via a session request. The session request includes session information, media capabilities of a telephony client device (TC) associated with the at least one TCP, a list of WAN devices or a conference group identifier associated with one or more WAN devices, and a subject of the multi-media conferencing session. The method further includes establishing the multi-media conferencing session between the TC and the WAN devices by a telephony server (TS) in the UPnP telephony based home network based on the session request.
US09065664B2	Providing an announcement for a multiparty communication session Providing an announcement for a multiparty communication session involves establishing a communication session between at least two endpoints. A request to add an added endpoint to the communication session is received. A procedure to provide an announcement to the endpoints of the communication session is initiated. The announcement is played in response to determining a status of a media path of the added endpoint, and is provided from a rendering of a participant identifier associated with the added endpoint.
US09065651B2	Apparatus and method for automatic repeat request with reduced resource allocation overhead in a wireless VoIP communication system A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering (511), resource allocations (530), continuation resources (540) for HARQ, and an ordering pattern (513). If a mobile station requires retransmission it will access the resources indicated by the continuation resources field (54) in order to receive data. The HARQ blocks may be assigned to a mobile station based upon an index (601) which may correspond to the mobile station vocoder rate. Further, HARQ subgroups may be defined to associate subgroups of mobile stations with specific HARQ transmission opportunities on the super-frame and allocated by a rotating bitmap.
US09065643B2	System and method for account identifier obfuscation A method is disclosed. The method includes generating an obfuscated portion using a dynamic cryptogram unique to a transaction, where the dynamic cryptogram is determined using a uniquely derived key. The method also includes replacing a middle portion of the account identifier with the obfuscated portion to form an obfuscated account identifier.
US09065636B2	Data encryption system and method An improved method for data encryption has been developed. The method includes storing data, multiple prime numbers and random numbers within an electronic memory storage device. Next, calculating a public number using the multiple prime numbers and providing a public number to a recipient apparatus that has knowledge of the multiple prime numbers. The method then encrypts the stored data with a randomly generated key and deletes the randomly generated key after use. Next, the method calculates a common shared secret between the sender and recipient using the prime numbers, a recipient public number and the second random number. The sender and recipient calculate parameters using a key equation based on the randomly generated key and random numbers and a common shared secret. Finally, the recipient calculates the randomly generated key for decryption using the common shared secret, one of the prime numbers, the parameters and the simultaneous equations for decryption of the data.
US09065635B2	Information processing apparatus, IC chip, and information processing method There is provided an information processing apparatus including an encrypted-ID generation section which encrypts a unique ID to generate an encrypted ID, the unique ID being set as an ID unique to the information processing apparatus, a communication section which sends the encrypted ID as ID information to be sent to another apparatus, an individualization code holding section which holds, in advance, an individualization code capable of being generated by decrypting the ID information in the other apparatus, and an access key generation section which generates an access key used for authentication with the other apparatus based on the individualization code held by the individualization code holding section.
US09065633B2	Wireless communication apparatus for setting frequency band for wireless communications using encryption key information to predetermined frequency band A controller receives first or second equipment identifier from a first wireless communication apparatus, by using one wireless communication circuit of the third and fourth wireless communication circuit. When the one wireless communication circuit is the fourth wireless communication circuit, the controller sets an encryption key information for wireless communications with the first wireless communication apparatus, to encryption key information including an equipment identifier that does not coincide with a received equipment identifier among the received plurality of encryption key information, and controls the third wireless communication circuit to transmit and receive encrypted transmission data to and from the first wireless communication apparatus by using key data included in set encryption key information.
US09065632B2	Message authentication using a universal hash function computed with carryless multiplication A method for authenticating a message by a wireless device is described. The wireless device obtains the input message. The wireless device generates a keystream. The wireless device computes a message authentication code using the keystream and a universal hash function. The universal hash function is computed using carryless multiplication.
US09065631B2	Integrated cryptographic module providing confidentiality and integrity An integrated cryptographic apparatus providing confidentiality and integrity includes an integrated cryptographic module including confidentiality and integrity. Further, the integrated cryptographic apparatus includes a hash function unit for detecting whether a message is modified by using the integrated cryptographic module. Furthermore, the integrated cryptographic apparatus includes a block cipher unit for constructing a data encryption algorithm by using the integrated cryptographic module.
US09065630B1	Systems and methods for detecting secondary synchronization signals in a wireless communication system Systems and methods are provided for detecting a received synchronization signal. The method includes receiving, at a receiver, a signal from a transmitter, where one or more portions of the received signal include the received synchronization signal. The method includes processing the one or more portions of the received signal to obtain a differential signal, and processing the differential signal and a plurality of candidate differential synchronization signals to obtain a plurality of cross-correlation signals. Each candidate differential synchronization signal is associated with one cross-correlation signal. The method includes selecting, based at least in part on the plurality of cross-correlation signals, one of the candidate differential synchronization signals, and detecting the received synchronization signal based at least in part on (i) the one or more portions of the received signal, and (ii) a frequency offset value obtained from the cross-correlation signal associated with the selected candidate differential synchronization signal.
US09065624B2	Method and apparatus for determining a cooperative terminal According to the disclosure of the present description, a method in which a base station determines a cooperative terminal is provided. The method comprises: a step of receiving status information from one or more terminals from among terminals that can cooperate with the base station in cooperative transmission; a step of determining, on the basis of the status information and upon receipt of a cooperative communication request from one terminal from among the cooperative terminals, a terminal which will cooperate with a terminal that has requested a cooperation; and a step of notifying the cooperative terminal of the terminal that has requested a cooperation.
US09065614B2	Method and apparatus using cell-specific and common pilot subcarriers in multi-carrier, multi-cell wireless communication networks A multi-carrier cellular wireless network (400) employs base stations (404) that transmit two different groups of pilot subcarriers: (1) cell-specific pilot subcarriers, which are used by a receiver to extract information unique to each individual cell (402), and (2) common pilots subcarriers, which are designed to possess a set of characteristics common to all the base stations (404) of the system. The design criteria and transmission formats of the cell-specific and common pilot subcarriers are specified to enable a receiver to perform different system functions. The methods and processes can be extended to other systems, such as those with multiple antennas in an individual sector and those where some subcarriers bear common network/system information.
US09065603B2	Method and apparatus for controlling the total overhead used to transmit channel state information in a wireless network An amount of total overhead allocated by a wireless system for transmitting channel state information by a plurality of mobile stations serviced by the wireless system can be controlled by allocating a reporting interval, reporting size and subset of subcarriers to each of the mobile stations for use by the mobile stations in reporting channel state information on the subcarriers included in the subset allocated to the respective mobile stations. At least one of the reporting interval, reporting size and subset of subcarriers allocated to one or more of the mobile stations is modified as a function of the number of mobile stations reporting channel state information so that the total overhead allocated for transmitting the channel state information on all of the subcarriers remains generally constant regardless of the number of mobile stations reporting channel state information.
US09065593B2	Securing speech recognition data Methods and apparatus for reducing security vulnerabilities in a client/server speech recognition system including one or more client computers and one or more server computers connected via a network. Decryption of sensitive information, such as medical dictation information, is performed on designated servers to limit the attack surface of unencrypted data. Management of encryption and decryption keys to restrict the storage and/or use of decryption keys on the server side of the client/server speech recognition system, while maintaining encrypted data on the server side is also described.
US09065591B2	Methods and apparatus for polarization diversity with portable devices via wavefront muxing techniques A novel terrestrial wireless communications technique for terrestrial portable terminals including hand-held mobile devices and fixed wireless instruments, utilizing a spoke-and-hub communications system, having a plurality of individual hubs and/or base-stations all in communications with the portable terminals. The portable terminals and the hubs are assigned to use incompatible polarity formats in terms of circularly polarity (CP) and linearly polarity (LP). In forward links, a signal processed by the LP ground telecommunications hubs is radiated through multiple antennas with various LP polarities to an individual CP user simultaneously. The multiple paths are organized via assignments of a plurality of polarities, frequency slots, and directions by wavefront multiplexing/demultiplexing techniques such that the same communications assets including frequency spectrum may be re-used by other users. The same polarity diversity methods can be extended to peer-to-peer communications.
US09065588B1	Communications system having remotely managed and configured optical network unit An optical network unit includes a central office interface configured to connect to a central office local loop and customer premises and provide a central office source service. A switch and a switch device is connected to the switch and has at least one service port to provide a local source service. A relay switch is connected to the at least one service port and the central office interface. A processor is connected to the switch and relay switch and configured to receive a command message and in response switch into either the central office interface and provide the central office source service or switch into the service port and provide the local source service.
US09065587B2	Optical multiplexing using laser arrays An optical data system and method are disclosed. The system can be an integrated optical data transmission system that includes an array of lasers that are modulated by a plurality of modulation signals to provide a plurality of sets of optical data signals. Each of the optical data signals in each of the plurality of sets can have a distinct wavelength. The system can also include a wavelength division multiplexing system to combine each of the plurality of sets of optical data signals to generate a plurality of multi-channel optical data signals that are transmitted via a respective plurality of optical transmission media.
US09065584B2	Method and apparatus for adjusting rise-over-thermal threshold Methods and apparatuses are provided that include adaptively configuring a rise-over-thermal (RoT) threshold at a base station to improve communications with one or more devices while mitigating interference to one or more other base stations. A potential device pathloss to the macrocell can be computed based on a measured pathloss thereto applied with a coverage area of the low power base station to emulate a worst-case device, one or more received measurement reports, and/or the like. The RoT threshold can be computed based at least in part on the pathloss and/or a maximum interference level at the macrocell. In addition, the RoT threshold can be adapted based on a reverse link attenuation level.
US09065569B2	Mobile device output test setting A method and a wireless communication device including a housing, at least one user interface element to receive a user input, a transmitter to transmit a wireless communication signal; and a processor in the housing. The processor being enabled to detect a first signal; switch, in response to detecting the first signal, the transmitter from a first transmission mode to a second transmission mode, at least one of a transmit power and a transmit frequency associated with the second transmission mode being selectively set by a user via the user interface element; receive a second signal, the second signal including an indication of a value selected by the user; and set, in response to receiving the second signal, the at least one of transmit power and transmit frequency associated with the second transmission mode to the value selected by the user.
US09065559B2	System for testing and calibrating core engine radio frequency (RF) circuit card assemblies A system for testing and calibrating communications equipment or modules. A processor is configured to perform a test or calibration procedure on a communications unit under test (UUT) in response to commands entered by an operator. Test and measurement instruments arranged to be responsive to the computer include a power supply for activating selected portions of signal paths in the UUT, one or more signal generators, and one or more instruments for measuring output signals produced by the UUT in response to the test signals. The UUT has switches and terminals for inputting test signals from and returning output signals to the instruments, and an adapter is connected between the processor and the UUT. When performing a calibration procedure, the adapter operates the switches and connects the terminals on the UUT to the test and measurement instruments under the control of the processor.
US09065549B2	Correlation calculating method, satellite signal capturing method, and correlation calculating circuit A correlation calculating method of correlating a received code signal obtained by demodulating a received signal, which is a signal obtained by receiving a positioning satellite signal, with a replica code signal is provided which includes: correlating values of the replica code signal in a chip period with values of the received code signal at first to n-th arrival times obtained by varying an arrival time of the chip period by 1/n chip (where n is an integer equal to or greater than 2); and acquiring a correlation calculation result at a 1/n chip interval by synthesizing the correlation calculation results.
US09065548B2	Chirp communications A method of communicating a data chirp signal from a transmitter to a receiver, the data chirp signal including a sequence of symbols, each symbol encoding a first symbol value and a second symbol value such that the data chirp signal includes a first symbol value sequence and a second symbol value sequence, the first and second symbol values being encoded via different properties of the symbol, the first symbol value sequence being selected from values in a primary predetermined sequence and a secondary predetermined sequence, the method including: selecting consecutive values of the first symbol value sequence from values in consecutive sequence positions of the primary predetermined sequence and the secondary predetermined sequence; encoding first data in the chirp signal via the selected first symbol value sequence; encoding second data in the chirp signal via the second symbol value sequence; and transmitting the data chirp signal to the receiver.
US09065543B2	Power line carrier transmission apparatus and communication system A power line carrier transmission apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is a power line carrier transmission apparatus that transmits a transmission symbol via a transmission path. The transmission apparatus includes a frequency/time interleave unit that interleaves the transmission symbol, an OFDM modulation unit that OFDM-modulates the interleaved transmission symbol, a time-domain repeated transmission unit that repeatedly transmits the transmission symbol, which is modulated by the OFDM modulation unit, M times (M is an integer larger than 1) in a time domain.
US09065536B2	Method and apparatus for reducing electromagnetic waves in mobile device A method and an apparatus for reducing electromagnetic waves in a mobile device are provided. According to the method, in a mobile device having the first and second modules with different functions, the apparatus operates the first module at the first operating frequency. If there is a request for operating the second module while the first module is operated, the apparatus changes the first operating frequency to a second operating frequency which is different from the first operating frequency, and operates the first module at the second operating frequency. The apparatus reduces a total magnitude of electromagnetic waves caused by a simultaneous operation of two or more modules, thereby enhancing the quality of the mobile device and minimizing any undesirable impact upon the human body.
US09065535B2	Adaptive antenna selection The present disclosure is directed to adaptive antenna selection. In general, devices consistent with the present disclosure may be configured to adapt their antenna configuration to sensed device conditions. In one embodiment, an example device may comprise a communication module, a plurality of antennas, at least one sensor and an antenna selection module. The communication module may be configured to send and receive information via at least wireless communication. The plurality of antennas may be configured to conduct the wireless communication, while the sensors may be configured to sense device conditions. The antenna selection module may be configured to cause at least one antenna in the plurality of antennas to be coupled to the communication module based on the device conditions.
US09065530B2	Calibration method and system for estimating a path difference of a target signal transmitted by a spacecraft or aircraft A method and system for estimating a path difference between two paths followed by a target signal transmitted by a spacecraft or aircraft to a first receiving antenna and a second receiving antenna of a receiving base, respectively. A useful-phase difference is measured between signals corresponding to the target signal received on the first receiving antenna and second receiving antenna. The path difference is estimated on the basis of the measurements of the useful-phase difference. A calibration signal is transmitted to the receiving base and a calibration phase difference between signals corresponding to the calibration signal received on the first receiving antenna and second receiving antenna is measured. Variations are compensated in the measurements of the calibration-phase difference relative to the measurements of the useful-phase difference.
US09065529B2	Method for characterizing a transmitting antenna of a satellite in orbit and associated system A method for characterizing a transmitting antenna of a satellite in orbit comprising a payload comprising signal amplification means, includes: configuring the said amplification means to generate thermal noise at the input of the transmitting antenna; acquiring, by means of a ground station, the signal transmitted by the transmitting antenna on the downlink of the satellite over a predetermined time period; during the said predetermined time period, controlling the said satellite in orbit in order to impart on it an angular bias of predetermined variation and recording this variation; correlating the measurement of the signal transmitted on the downlink and the variation of angular bias of the satellite in order to derive therefrom the gain variations of the transmitting antenna as a function of the angular bias of the satellite.
US09065520B2	Transmission method and related base station The invention relates to transmission from a base station to a receiver, the base station comprising first radiating means arranged for transmitting according to an antenna pattern with respect to the receiver and further comprising second radiating means arranged for transmitting according to the same antenna pattern as the first radiating means with respect to the receiver, the transmissions of the first and second radiating means being time shifted by a determined duration.
US09065517B2	Implementing blind tuning in hybrid MIMO RF beamforming systems A system and a method for applying a blind tuning process to M antennas coupled via N beamformers to a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiving system having N channels, wherein M>N, are provided herein. The method includes the following steps: Periodically measuring channel fading rate at a baseband level to determine the number of antennas L out of K antennas connected to each one of the beamformers, to be combined at each one of the N beamformers; assigning the antennas to the subset L according to some criteria such as best quality indicator; repeatedly applying a tuning process to L antennas in each one of the N beamformers.
US09065516B2	Low complexity maximum likelihood detection of concatenated space codes for wireless applications Good transmission characteristics are achieved in the presence of fading with a transmitter that employs a trellis coder followed by a block coder. Correspondingly, the receiver comprises a Viterbi decoder followed by a block decoder. Advantageously, the block coder and decoder employ time-space diversity coding which, illustratively, employs two transmitter antennas and one receiver antenna.
US09065512B2	Antenna configuration for co-operative beamforming The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, the network comprising at least a first cell and a second cell including respectively a first primary station having a first antenna array dedicated to the first cell and a second primary station having a second antenna array dedicated to the second cell, for communicating with a plurality of secondary stations, the method comprising the step of (a) providing with a co-operative beamforming transmission from the first and second primary stations to at least one first secondary station, wherein step (a) includes (a1) the first secondary station signaling at least one channel matrix to at least one of the first and second primary stations, and (a2) the first and second primary stations applying a precoding matrix across both the first antenna array and the second antenna array, and wherein the precoding matrix comprises a first vector for the first cell and a second vector for the second cell, the precoding matrix being based on the at least one channel matrix.
US09065506B2	High-frequency switch module A low pass filter connected between an individual port of a switch device and a high-frequency switch module attenuates the second harmonic and the third harmonic of a transmission signal input to a first transmission signal input terminal. Further, the inductances/capacitances of inductors and capacitors defining the low pass filter are set such that the phase of a harmonic signal generated by a power amplifier is different by 180° from the phase of a harmonic signal produced as a result of the low pass filter shifting the phase of a harmonic signal generated due to distortion in a switch device, in an end portion on the first transmission signal input terminal side.
US09065504B2	Transmitter front end with programmable notch filter and methods for use therewith A radio transmitter front end for use in a radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes at least one amplifier stage operable to generate a transmit signal in response to an upconverted signal. A feedback generator is operable to generate a transmit feedback signal in response to the transmit signal. A control signal generator is operable to generate at least one filter control signal in response to the transmit feedback signal. A notch filter is operable to filter out of band noise while passing in-band frequencies to the at least one amplifier stage, under control of the at least one filter control signal.
US09065500B2	Beamforming for non-collaborative, space division multiple access systems A wireless communication system non-collaborative, multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) space division multiple access (SDMA) system determines subscriber station combining and weighting vectors that yield a high average signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR). Each subscriber station independently transmits information to a base station that allows the base station to determine a weight vector wi for each subscriber station using the determined combining vector of the subscriber station. The ith combining vector corresponds to a right singular vector corresponding to a maximum singular value of a channel matrix between a base station and the ith subscriber station. Each subscriber station transmits signals using a weight vector vi, which corresponds to a left singular vector corresponding to a maximum singular value of a channel matrix between the ith subscriber station and the base station. The base station uses the weight vector wi to determine the signal transmitted by the ith subscriber station.
US09065485B1	Method and apparatus for interleaving using stored initial value An interleaver and method for interleaving are provided, where initialization values are pre-calculated and stored in memory. In one implementation, the method of interleaving includes: calculating in advance an initial value of at least one parameter for use by logic circuitry to initialize interleaving operation; storing the initial value of the at least one parameter as a stored initial value of the at least one parameter; and using the stored initial value of the at least one parameter with the logic circuitry to generate interleaved order positions for the set of data items. In one implementation, the interleaver includes: logic circuitry for generating interleaved order positions for the set of data items and memory coupled to the logic circuitry for holding an initial value of at least one parameter for use by the logic circuitry to initialize interleaving operation.
US09065484B2	Systems and methods for efficient low density parity check (LDPC) decoding A method for low density parity code decoding according to one embodiment includes sequentially processing groups of variable node (vnode) values associated with a codeword using a plurality of vnode logic modules and outputting updated vnode values; storing the vnode values and updated vnode values in a vnode memory; sequentially processing groups of cnode values using a plurality of check node (cnode) logic modules and outputting updated vnode values; storing the (mode values and updated (mode values in a mode memory; and checking the codeword using the updated vnode values and the updated mode values.
US09065482B1	Circuit for forward error correction encoding of data blocks Approaches are disclosed for encoding N symbols of a sequence in parallel using an R parity symbol encoding algorithm. A first symbol matrix is added to a first parity matrix over a finite field to produce a first intermediate matrix. The first intermediate matrix is multiplied by at least a first coefficient matrix and a second coefficient matrix over the finite field to produce a second intermediate matrix. A second symbol matrix is multiplied by at least the second coefficient matrix to produce a third intermediate matrix. The second and third intermediate matrices are added to produce a revised parity matrix.
US09065480B1	Digital-to-analog converter apparatus having a reconfigurable resistor-capacitor circuit A digital-to-analog converter apparatus includes a digital-to-analog converter, a resistor-capacitor circuit, a quantizer and a controller. The resistor-capacitor circuit includes an operational amplifier, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, a first resistor, a second resistor, a first switch and a second switch. The digital-to-analog converter may generate a plurality of currents. The quantizer may generate a plurality of offset values. The controller may control coupling of the plurality of currents to the operational amplifier.
US09065479B2	Digital to analog converter with an intra-string switching network In an example, a multistring DAC is described and includes at least two DAC stages. Each DAC stage includes a string of impedance elements and a switching network. In one configuration, the multi-string DAC is configured to use the voltage change at terminals of a first string separately to the voltage drop across a first switching network that couples the first and second strings to provide an analog output in response to a digital input to the DAC.
US09065475B2	Sin-Cos sensor arrangement, integrated circuit and method therefor A Sin-Cos sensor arrangement comprises a Sin-Cos sensor operably coupled to signal processing logic via a hardware interface. The hardware interface is arranged to provide the signal processing logic with analog sine and cosine waveforms indicative of fine position data and binary counterparts of the analog sine and cosine waveforms (Phase_A and Phase_B) indicative of rough position data. The signal processing logic is arranged to determine a position and speed of the Sin-Cos sensor by compensating for inaccuracies between analog sine and cosine waveforms and their binary counterparts. In this manner, a fully software-based solution provides a fast, efficient and high accuracy position and speed estimation based on the processing of the analog sine and cosine signals and the digital representation thereof of the Sin-Cos sensor.
US09065470B2	Low power analog to digital converter Described is an analog to digital converter (ADC) which comprises: a sigma-delta modulator to receive an analog signal, the sigma-delta modulator operable to perform chopping to cancel common-mode noise; and one or more counters coupled to the sigma-delta modulator to generate a digital code representative of the analog signal.
US09065464B2	Phase adjustment scheme for time-interleaved ADCS Methods and apparatuses are described for versatile phase adjustment schemes comprising multi-layered clock skew correction with variable range and resolution to improve performance for a variety of ADC architectures, including TI-ADCs. Multi-stage phase alignment corrects misalignment in multiple stages at start-up and continuously or periodically during operation to reduce static sources of misalignment caused by design and fabrication and dynamic sources of misalignment caused by operational variations (e.g., voltage, temperature). Multi-path phase alignment corrects misalignment in the data path (e.g., analog path) and the clock path (e.g., digital path, analog path, CMOS path, CML path, or any combination thereof) for distributed alignment. Multi-lane phase alignment corrects misalignment in multiple time-interleaved signal lanes. Multi-resolution phase alignment corrects misalignment at three or more levels of resolution (e.g., coarse, fine and ultra-fine). Multi-type phase alignment corrects misalignment using different techniques (e.g., controlled current, resistance, capacitance) in a suitable path.
US09065453B2	Signal distribution networks and related methods A signal distribution network has segments that each have a buffer circuit, a transmission line coupled to the buffer circuit, an inductor coupled to the buffer circuit through the transmission line, and a variable capacitance circuit coupled to the inductor and coupled to the buffer circuit through the transmission line. A capacitance of the variable capacitance circuit is set to determine a phase and an amplitude of a signal transmitted through the transmission line. A signal distribution network can include a phase detector, a loop filter circuit, and a resonant delay circuit. The phase detector compares a phase of a first periodic signal to a phase of a second periodic signal. The resonant delay circuit has a variable impedance circuit having an impedance that varies based on changes in an output signal of the loop filter circuit.
US09065448B2	Capacitive switch having high accuracy There is provided a capacitive switch including a drive circuit, a detection circuit, a reference circuit and an identification unit. The drive circuit inputs identical drive signals to the detection circuit and the reference circuit. The detection circuit detects a touch according to a capacitance variation. The detection circuit outputs a first signal when the touch is not detected and outputs a second signal when the touch is detected. The reference circuit is a replica of the detection circuit and configured to output the first signal. The identification unit identifies a phase shift between the second signal of the detection circuit and the first signal of the reference circuit.
US09065436B2	Method and system for compensating mode conversion over a communications channel A circuit can compensate for intra pair skew or mode conversion in a channel by applying a second or corrective mode conversion effect that counters the channel's mode conversion. The circuit can process the common mode signal with a frequency dependent filter prior to injection back into the differential mode. The circuit can implement the reverse mode conversion with passive circuits using integrated resistors and metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) switches. In certain embodiments, such actions can proceed effectively without necessarily consuming active power.
US09065433B2	Capacitor charging circuit with low sub-threshold transistor leakage current A capacitor charging circuit has input, output and control nodes, first and second series connected primary FETs, and first and second leakage current reduction FETs. All of the FETs have their gates coupled to the control node. The first primary FET is coupled between the input and output nodes, and the second primary FET is coupled between the output node and a leakage current reduction node. The first leakage current reduction FET is coupled between a supply line and the leakage current reduction node, and the second leakage current reduction FET is coupled between the leakage current reduction node and ground. When a control signal at the control node is low, the first primary FET and the first leakage current reduction FET are conductive, and the second primary FET and the second leakage current reduction FET are non-conductive, which eliminates sub-threshold leakage current flowing through the second primary FET.
US09065432B2	Device for processing a signal delivered by a radiation detector A device that processes a signal delivered by a radiation detector includes a circuit that delivers a voltage pulse whose amplitude is proportional to a charge detected by the radiation detector. The device also includes an analog to digital converter to digitize the voltage pulse at a given sampling frequency and delivers a corresponding digital signal to a processing circuit. The processing circuit reads the digital signal, computes a temporal variation rate of the digital signal and captures the digital signal when the temporal variation reaches a threshold.
US09065416B2	Methods and systems for controlling the volume of infotainment units of vehicles A method for controlling a volume of an infotainment unit of a vehicle having an engine having a stop/start capability during operation of the vehicle includes the steps of obtaining information pertaining to a condition of the engine, and controlling the volume based at least in part upon the condition.
US09065414B2	Automatic volume reduction Systems and methods of controlling output volume in mobile devices may include an apparatus having logic to detect a limited power delivery condition of a battery of a mobile platform. The logic may also transmit a hardware alert to an audio controller of the mobile platform in response to the limited power delivery condition, wherein the hardware alert is to instruct the audio controller to conduct a speaker volume reduction to an audible level. In one example, the logic enables the use of one or more high power speakers such as stereo integrated hands free speakers in the mobile device.
US09065409B2	Method and arrangement for processing of audio signals Method and arrangement in an audio handling entity, for damping of dominant frequencies in a time segment of an audio signal. A time segment of an audio signal is obtained, and an estimate of the spectral density or “spectrum” of the time segment is derived. An approximation of the estimate is derived by smoothing the estimate, and a frequency mask is derived by inverting the approximation. Frequencies comprised in the audio time segment are then damped based on the frequency mask. The method and arrangement involves no multi-band filtering or selection of attack and release times.
US09065406B2	Continuous variable gain amplifier A continuous variable gain amplifier includes an attenuator network, a boost network, a first amplifying network, and a second amplifying network, where the attenuator network generates first differential output signals according to an input signal and sends the first differential output signals to the first amplifying network and the second amplifying network; the first amplifying network and the second amplifying network receive one output of the first differential output signals each, and generate a first final output signal and a second final output signal respectively according to an externally input control voltage; and the boost network receives the first final output signal and the second final output signal, generates second differential output signals, and sends a first output and a second output of the second differential output signals to the first amplifying network and the second amplifying network, respectively.
US09065405B2	Compensating for non-linear capacitance effects in a power amplifier In one implementation, a power amplifier may include a gain device to receive an input signal and to output an amplified signal, and a compensation device coupled to the gain device to compensate for a change in a capacitance of the gain device occurring due to a change in the input signal. The power amplifier may be formed using a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process.
US09065403B2	Running-linked sound producing device A running-linked sound generation unit includes an order sound data generation unit, a random sound data generation unit, and a synthesis unit. The order sound data generation unit generates order sound data by changing the tone of basic order sound data according to a motor rotation speed of a vehicle. The random sound data generation unit generates random sound data by changing the volume of basic random sound data according to a motor rotation speed and an accelerator command value of a vehicle, without changing the tone of the basic random sound data. The synthesis unit generates synthetic sound data by combining synthesized order sound data and random sound data.
US09065402B2	Apparatus and method for amplifying a signal from a transmitter The subject matter discloses a method of amplifying a signal, the method comprising receiving a command to start transmission, gradually increasing a value of an enable signal used to amplify the transmission and intermittently transmitting the value of the enable signal to an enable transistor used to allow amplifying a transmitted signal.
US09065395B2	Speaker control system A speaker control system includes a speaker; an audio amplifier electrically connected to the speaker and used for driving the speaker, the audio amplifier having a shutdown pin and a reference voltage input pin; a switch circuit, a first end of the switch circuit being electrically connected to the shutdown pin and a second end of the switch circuit being connected to the reference voltage input pin; and a processor electrically connected to the shutdown pin and the first end, when the processor outputs a first voltage signal, the audio amplifier being enabled and the reference voltage input pin being kept at a reference voltage, when the processor outputs a second voltage signal, the audio amplifier being disabled and the switch circuit switching the reference voltage input pin from the reference voltage to a low voltage level.
US09065393B2	Power amplifier, radio-frequency power amplification device, and amplification control method The present invention allows amplification with low distortion and high efficiency.A power amplifier of the present invention comprises signal conversion means which generates a digital signal and an analog signal from an input signal that is an amplification target based on a signal generation parameter, a switching amplifier which amplifies the digital signal, a linear amplifier which amplifies the analog signal, and DC level detection means which detect a DC level of at least one of the signal amplified by the linear amplifier and the amplified signal and output a detection result to the signal conversion means, wherein the signal conversion means adjust the signal generation parameter so that the DC level inputted by the DC level detection means is virtually equal to zero.
US09065382B2	Circuits and methods for increasing output frequency of an LC oscillator Disclosed are circuits and methods for increasing an output frequency of an inductance-capacitance (LC) oscillator. In some embodiments, the LC oscillator can be implemented as a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) having differential outputs. When the VCO is implemented on a die, wirebond connections from the outputs to a ground results in an effective inductance that impacts a maximum frequency associated with the VCO. An electrical connection such as a wirebond between the differential outputs yields a reduction in the effective inductance thereby increasing the maximum frequency. In some embodiments, the wirebond between the differential outputs can be configured so that its contribution to mutual inductance is reduced or substantially nil.
US09065380B2	Method for calculating motor constant of permanent magnet type synchronous motor and motor constant calculating device A method for calculating a motor constant of a permanent magnet type synchronous motor according to the present invention includes: a voltage applying step of applying a voltage obtained by compositing a DC component and an AC component to a permanent magnet type synchronous motor while varying a frequency of the AC component; a current detecting step of detecting a motor current flowing according to the applied voltage; a phase difference calculating step of calculating a difference in phase between the AC component of the applied voltage and an AC component of the motor current; and a motor constant calculating step of calculating a motor constant of the permanent magnet type synchronous motor. In addition, in the motor constant calculating step, the motor constant is calculated based on the applied voltage and the motor current when the difference in phase becomes nearly 45 degrees.
US09065370B2	Wind power generation device Provided is a wind power generation apparatus to which general purpose inverters are applicable. An inverter in a constant-voltage mode is used. While a wind power generator is generating electricity, switching circuits are turned on and off at a controlled duty cycles to intermittently short-circuit an armature winding, boosting the voltage and controlling the rotational speed of a windmill rotating blade, with the result that the voltage applied to the inverter is made constant. At the activation, in order to prevent an excessive voltage from being generated while an inverter is changing from the stand-by state to the activated state, ON/OFF control of a switching circuit is performed to switch between the output voltage of a rectifier and the voltage generated at a resistor, with the result that the voltage is controlled and maintained at an appropriate value.
US09065369B2	Motor driving device and vacuum pump A motor driving device comprises an inverter, a first arithmetic section, a driving command generating section and a PWM signal generating section. The first arithmetic section calculates a rotational speed and a magnetic pole electrical angle of a motor rotor based on information about a motor phase voltage and information about a motor phase current. The first arithmetic section includes a counter electromotive voltage arithmetic section, a converting section, a second arithmetic section, a third arithmetic section, and a fourth arithmetic section. The first arithmetic section outputs a sum of the magnetic pole phase error and the integrated value as the magnetic pole electrical angle.
US09065364B2	Motor control device An object is to provide a specific achievement means for achieving reliable failure determination in a control system in a motor control device.The motor control device includes motor drive means for supplying a motor current to a motor; motor current detection means for detecting the motor current; and a controller to which a motor current detection value from the motor current detection means is input, and which outputs a drive signal to the motor drive means, in which the controller includes voltage control means for controlling a voltage applied to the motor; power supply voltage detection means; means for limiting the maximum value (%) of a drive duty ratio in a PWM circuit to a smaller value, upon determining power supply voltage drop; and failure determination means for determining a failure in a case of an abnormal motor current value.
US09065354B2	Multi-stage power inverter for power bus communication An inverter for converting an input direct current (DC) waveform from a DC source to an output alternating current (AC) waveform for delivery to an AC grid includes an input converter, an output converter, an input controller, and an output controller. The input controller is configured to control the operation of the input converter, and the output controller is configured to control the operation of the output controller. The input and output controllers are electrically isolated from each other and may be incapable of direct communications between each other. In some embodiments, the input and output controllers may communicate with each other via the input and output converters.
US09065348B2	Isolated switching mode power supply and the method thereof An isolated switching mode power supply, having: a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding and a third winding; a current limit comparator configured to provide a current limit signal based on the current sense signal and the peak current signal; a logic circuit configured to provide a logic control signal based on the frequency control signal and the current limit signal; a startup control circuit configured to generate a startup control signal based on the current sense signal; a load detecting circuit configured to provide a load detecting signal based on the second feedback signal and the switching signal; and a selector configured to provide the logic control signal or the startup control signal based on the load detecting signal.
US09065345B2	Transformerless inverter comprising a DC/DC converter A transformerless inverter that serves to feed electricity from a DC current source into an AC power grid, has an inverter bridge and a DC/DC converter connected upstream of the inverter bridge. The DC/DC converter converts an input DC voltage that is present between two input lines of the inverter into a DC link voltage present between two input lines of the inverter bridge. The inverter bridge converts the DC link voltage present at the input lines thereof into an output AC voltage. The DC/DC converter includes at least one resonant circuit that has a resonance inductance and a resonance capacitance and is connected on its input side via at least two clocked switches to one of the two input lines of the inverter or an intermediate potential line carrying a potential in between. The input lines of the inverter and the input lines of the inverter bridge are galvanically isolated from one another by a capacitive method. The resonant circuit may be undivided and is connected alternately to the two input lines of the inverter bridge.
US09065325B2	Control circuits for power converters A control circuit for controlling one or more power switches of a power converter includes a voltage control loop and a current control loop. The control circuit is configured to generate a current reference for the current control loop using the voltage control loop and an AC reference signal. The control circuit is configured to operate in at least a first mode in which a parameter of the voltage control loop is sampled only at every other zero crossing of the AC reference signal and the sampled parameter is used to generate the current reference for the current control loop. The power converter may be an AC-DC converter or a DC-AC converter (i.e., inverter). Alternatively, the voltage control loop may be sampled at every zero crossing of the AC reference signal, and/or more frequently during transient load conditions.
US09065324B2	Electronic device with PVT delay compensation and related method An electronic device includes a first circuit, and a delay circuit electrically connected to the first circuit. The delay circuit includes a resistor, a capacitor, and a process, voltage or temperature (PVT) compensation circuit electrically connected to the capacitor.
US09065322B2	Inverter device An inverter device including a plurality of switching elements that convert electric power between DC power and AC power, a base plate that includes a surface on which the switching elements are placed, AC terminals through which AC power is input and output to and from an external device and which are electrically connected to the switching elements, and a capacitor that smoothes DC power. The AC terminals are disposed to protrude from the base plate perpendicular to the surface in a first reference direction. The capacitor is disposed in a rectangular area so that long sides of the rectangle are parallel to the first reference direction in plan view, and is set adjacent to a base disposition area, in which the base plate and the AC terminals are disposed in a second reference direction that is a direction perpendicular to the first reference direction.
US09065321B2	Isolated dynamic current converters Isolated Dynamic-Current (“Dyna-C”) converters are converters that convert incoming 3-phase AC or DC power to a mix of DC and AC power via an isolation link. In various embodiments, the isolation link is a high-frequency isolation transformer. Isolated Dyna-C converters may provide a high-frequency galvanic isolation and are able to convert three-phase AC power to three-phase AC power, or three-phase AC power to DC and vice versa. The topology is minimal and the costs are low. Isolated Dyna-C converters provide fast current responses and keep the losses low by using a simplified two-stage conversion and providing a magnetizing current that is dynamically controllable and tailored to the load. An isolated Dyna-C converter may synthesize currents at its input or output ports with an arbitrary phase that is relative to the grid or load voltages, thereby enabling a full independent control over the active and reactive power at its ports.
US09065318B2	Rotor core and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a rotor core includes a first process of punching out punched holes 22, 23 forming outlines of keys 13, 14 in a thin metal strip 18, the holes 22, 23 including inside areas 25 located inside a shaft hole 12 and outside areas 26 continuous from the areas 25 and located outside the hole 12; a second process of punching out the hole 12 including recesses 35, 36 to avoid the keys 13, 14 and communicating with the holes 22, 23; and a third process of punching out an outline of a core sheet 11 having the hole 12 and laminating the sheets 11. Thereby, a shaft hole having keys is formed precisely, a thickness deviation of core sheets is eliminated, and a rotor core having homogeneous magnetism is provided.
US09065314B2	Rotor of buried magnet-type electric motor, motor and machine tool having the rotor A rotor (10) of a buried magnet-type electric motor, wherein the magnetic poles thereof are each constituted by two rows of magnets (M1, M2) of the same pole, wherein a core portion (12) between magnet slots of the same pole is arranged between the magnet slots (31, 32) in which the two rows of magnets are arranged, and wherein, of the edges constituting said magnet slots, the portions connecting the edges (31a, 32a) on the inner side in the radial direction to the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole, have curved portions (41, 42) that connect a curve of a small curvature to a curve of a large curvature starting from the edges on the inner side in the radial direction and heading toward the outer edges of the core portion between the magnet slots of the same pole.
US09065313B2	Centrifugal heat dissipation device and motor using same A centrifugal heat dissipation device and a motor using same are disclosed. The centrifugal heat dissipation device includes a main body having a shaft hole, a heat-absorption zone and a heat-transfer zone. The heat-transfer zone has a radially outer side connected to the heat-absorption zone and a radially inner side connected to the shaft hole. The shaft hole axially extends through the main body for receiving a shaft of a motor therein. A centrifugal force generated by the rotating shaft and accordingly, the heat dissipation device enables enhanced vapor-liquid circulation of a working fluid in the heat dissipation device, so that heat generated by the operating motor is absorbed by the centrifugal heat dissipation device and transferred to the shaft for guiding out of the motor, allowing the motor to have largely upgraded heat dissipation performance.
US09065306B2	Oxide superconducting coil, oxide-superconducting-coil assembly, and rotating machine The invention offers a superconducting coil, which is an oxide superconducting coil 10 that has the shape of a saddle formed by winding an oxide superconducting wire 11 in the shape of a racetrack and that has a curved portion 10b and a linear portion 10a connected to the curved portion 10b. At least in the central portion of the linear portion 10a, an upper end 10d is positioned at the inner-circumference side in comparison with a lower end 10e. Having the foregoing configuration, the superconducting coil formed of an oxide super-conducting wire can suppress the reduction in its electrical property caused by the lines of magnetic flux when used in a rotating machine such as a motor. The invention also offers a superconducting-coil assembly formed by using the foregoing superconducting coils and a rotating machine incorporating the foregoing superconducting coil (superconducting-coil assembly).
US09065305B2	Engine-generator without flywheel A system, in one embodiment, may include a welding generator having a rotor and a stator, an engine coupled to the generator wherein the rotor comprises a mass configured to provide a substantial amount of inertia to smooth operation of the engine. A system, in another embodiment, may include an engine and an electromechanical device coupled to the engine, wherein the electromechanical device comprises a rotor having a mass effective to absorb energy from the engine during firing portions and return energy to the engine during non-firing portions of a cycle of the engine. A method is provided for removing a flywheel that substantially provides inertia to an engine of a welding system and providing inertia to smooth operation of the engine without or independent of the flywheel. Another method is provided that includes substantially providing inertia to an engine via a rotor of a generator.
US09065302B2	Wireless power feeding system A wireless power feeding system includes a power feeding device and a power receiving device. The power feeding device includes a first resonance coil connected to a high-frequency power source through a first matching circuit, and a first control circuit connected to the first matching circuit and a first transmitter-receiver circuit. The power receiving device includes a second resonance coil configured to be in magnetic resonance with the first resonance coil, and a second control circuit connected to a load, a second matching circuit, and a second transmitter-receiver circuit.
US09065299B2	Converter for HVDC transmission and reactive power compensation A power electronic converter for use in high voltage direct current power transmission and reactive power compensation comprises a plurality of switching elements interconnecting in use a DC network and one or more AC networks, the plurality of switching elements being controllable in use to facilitate power conversion between the AC and DC networks, wherein in use, the plurality of switching elements are controllable to form one or more short circuits within the power electronic converter so as to define one or more primary current flow paths, the or each primary current flow path including a respective one of the AC networks and the power electronic converter and bypassing the DC network.
US09065298B2	Photovoltaic system having power-increment-aided incremental-conductance maximum power point tracking controller using variable-frequency and constant-duty control and method thereof The configurations of photovoltaic system and methods thereof are provided. The proposed photovoltaic system includes a PI-INC MPPT controller using a variable-frequency constant-duty (VFCD) control and guided by an Ipv-Vpv curve and a Ppv-Vpv curve.
US09065296B2	Battery pack, method of measuring voltage of the battery pack, and energy storage system including the battery pack A battery system including: a battery, which includes at least one battery cell; a division circuit configured to receive a first voltage of the battery, generate a second voltage from the first voltage, and output the second voltage; an isolation circuit coupled between the battery and the division circuit, the isolation circuit being configured to electrically isolate the battery from the division circuit according to a control signal; and a battery management system coupled to the division circuit. The battery management system includes an isolation circuit control unit configured to generate the control signal; and a measuring unit configured to measure the second voltage.
US09065288B2	Current compensation module, charging apparatus, and charging apparatus controlling method A current compensation module, a charging apparatus, and a charging apparatus controlling method are disclosed. The current compensation module is used for controlling an outputted charging current in order to charge a battery module. The current compensation module includes a transition unit, a proportional controlling unit, and an integral controlling unit. The transition unit allows an internal signal of the current compensation module increasing from a first voltage. When the internal signal attains to a second voltage, the proportional controlling unit will output a proportional controlling signal to adjust the charging current. When the charging current attains to a rated output current, the integral controlling unit incorporates with the proportional controlling unit to output a proportional-integral controlling signal in order to control and adjust the charging current for the battery module, and to suppress the output overshoot current of the charging apparatus.
US09065279B2	Charging time estimation device and charging time estimation method A charging time estimation device includes a cell temperature information acquisition unit, a cell capacity information acquisition unit, a current value information acquisition unit, a deterioration state information acquisition unit, a basic estimated value calculation unit, and a charging-required time calculation unit. The charging-required time calculation unit performs correction on a basic estimated value of a constant current charging time and a basic estimated value of a constant voltage charging time by using current value information and deterioration state information, and calculates, as a charging-required time, the sum of the basic estimated value of the constant current charging time after the correction and the basic estimated value of the constant voltage charging time after the correction.
US09065277B1	Battery backup system for uninterrupted power supply Methods and systems supply uninterrupted power to a load using a backup battery module. A driver circuit connects the load and the backup battery module such that the operational range of the load voltage is narrower than the operational range of the battery voltage. Different charging and discharging paths of the driver circuit may be used to limit the DC bus voltage to values lower than the battery voltage. The proposed systems and methods can increase power efficiency and decrease the cost of power supply and conversion operations.
US09065274B2	Connection apparatus circuit and high voltage surge protection method thereof A connection apparatus circuit includes an isolation transformer, an impedance matching network, a high-voltage capacitor and a first high-voltage surge protector. The isolation transformer has a first coil and a second coil, wherein the first coil has a first terminal, a second terminal and a center tap. The impedance matching network is coupled between the center tap and a relay terminal. The high-voltage capacitor is coupled between the relay terminal and a ground terminal. The first high-voltage surge protector is coupled between the relay terminal and the ground terminal. When a high-voltage surge exceeds a default value between the first terminal or the second terminal and the ground terminal, the first high-voltage surge protector is conducted to clamp current on the impedance matching network.
US09065266B2	Reduction of inrush current due to voltage sags by an isolating current limiter Various systems and methods are provided for minimizing an inrush current to a load after a voltage sag in a power voltage. In one embodiment, a method is provided comprising the steps of applying a power voltage to a load, and detecting a sag in the power voltage during steady-state operation of the load. The method includes the steps of adding an impedance to the load upon detection of the sag in the power voltage, and removing the impedance from the load when the power voltage has reached a predefined point in the power voltage cycle after the power voltage has returned to a nominal voltage.
US09065258B2	Switch for solid insulated switchgear A switch according to the invention comprises a enclosure that is solid insulated and includes an electric power source side bushing portion, an electric load side bushing portion, and an accommodation body portion having air filled therein; a main circuit switch installed, for each pole, and having a vacuum interrupter that switches an electric power circuit by receiving a switching driving force from a common actuator; and an earth switch installed including a first fixed contactor to be earthed; a second fixed contactor electrically connected to the electric power source side connection conductor; and a movable blade connected to the common actuator, and movable to a first position for contacting the first fixed contactor and to a second position for contacting the second fixed contactor, by the switching driving force from the common actuator.
US09065253B2	Strain modulated nanostructures for optoelectronic devices and associated systems and methods Strain modulated nanostructures for optoelectronic devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A semiconductor laser in accordance with one embodiment of the disclosure, for example, comprises an active region having a nanowire structure formed from a semiconductor material. The nanowire structure of the semiconductor material has a bandgap that is indirect in a first strain state. The laser further includes a straining unit coupled to the active region. The straining unit is configured to modulate the nanowire structure such that the nanowire structure reaches a second strain state in which the bandgap becomes direct or substantially direct and, in operation, emits photons upon electron-hole recombination.
US09065243B2	Optical amplifier The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention is a phase sensitive amplifier that uses the optical mixing using a nonlinear optical effect to amplify the signal light. The phase sensitive amplifier according to the present invention includes: the first second-order nonlinear optical element; and the second second-order nonlinear optical element. The first second-order nonlinear optical element causes the fundamental wave light to generate second harmonic light used as pump light and separates only the second harmonic light. The second second-order nonlinear optical element includes a multiplexer to multiplex the signal light with the second harmonic light and spectrally separates only the amplified signal light. The multiplexed signal light and second harmonic light are used subjected to parametric amplification.
US09065238B2	Macro channel water-cooled heat-sink for diode-laser bars A water-cooled heat-sink for a diode-laser bar includes a copper-cooling-unit having an integral mount thereon for the diode-laser bar. The copper-cooling-unit is attached to a steel base-unit. The base-unit and the cooling-unit are cooperatively configured such that at least one cooling-channel is formed in the cooling-unit by the attachment of the base-unit to the cooling-unit. The cooling-channel is positioned to cool the mount when cooling-water flows through the cooling-channel.
US09065233B2	Terminal connection structure and method of manufacturing the same A wire crimping section (11) of a terminal (10) comprises a base section (13) upon which a conductor (1) of a wire (W) is arranged; and a pair of caulking sections (14) that is formed in extension from the base section (13), and that is caulked so as to crimp the conductor (1). A friction-agitation connection section (20), which is formed by making the conductor (1), the base section (13), and the pair of caulking sections (14) into a state of integrated plastic flow, is provided on the wire crimping section (11).
US09065223B2	Telecommunications device The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications jack including a housing having a port for receiving a plug. The jack also includes a plurality of contact springs adapted to make electrical contact with the plug when the plug is inserted into the port of the housing, and a plurality of wire termination contacts for terminating wires to the jack. The jack further includes a circuit board that electrically connects the contact springs to the wire termination contacts. The circuit board includes a multi-zone crosstalk compensation arrangement for reducing crosstalk at the jack.
US09065220B2	Electrical connector An electrical connector (100) includes an insulative housing (1) with a plurality of contacts (11) received therein, a plurality of soldering members (12) connect the contacts (11) and protrude beyond the bottom of the insulative housing (1), and a position member (2) surrounds the insulative housing (1) and moves downwardly relative to the insulative housing (1), the insulative housing (1) includes an upper block (1010) and a lower block (1021) protruded outwardly, the position member (2) includes a body portion (20) and a soldering portion (21), the upper block (1010) locates under the body portion (20) and the lower block (1021) locates on the upper side of the body portion (20), when the soldering members (12) and the soldering portion (21) are put in a same plane, there is a space between the body portion (20) and the lower block (1021).
US09065219B2	Connector having a detection switch including a spring portion and detection terminal for detecting insertion of a mating connector A connector has a shell and a detection terminal. The shell is formed with a spring portion, which has a front end of a fixed end and extends rearwards. The spring portion includes a pressed portion and a contact portion. The pressed portion is pressed by a mating connector upon insertion of the mating connector into the connector along a front-rear direction. The contact portion is movable in a predetermined direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction. The shell and the detection terminal distinct and separated from the shell form a detection switch. A state of the detection switch is changed due to the movement of the contact portion in the predetermined direction when the pressed portion is pressed by the mating connector, so that the insertion of the mating connector is detected.
US09065218B2	Making contact in a force-optimized manner between electrical loads and printed circuit boards A contact adapter for making contact in a force-optimized manner between an electrical load and a printed circuit board includes an electrically conductive contact element and an electrically non-conductive support structure. The electrically conductive contact element is configured to make an electrical contact between the printed circuit board and the electrical load. The support structure has a first supporting surface, which is configured to bear against a carrier plate of the printed circuit board. In this case, the contact element is integrated into the support structure in such a way that a first force exerted on the contact element by the electrical load is transferable to the carrier plate of the printed circuit board via the first supporting surface.
US09065208B2	Method for unlatching an electronic module A method for removing an electronic module from a base where the module includes a latch extractor assembly and a stiff shift member with latch arms outside the module body and follower arms inside the module body. An extractor engages the follower arms to move the shift member laterally and move the latch arms out of engagement with the base to free the module for removal from the base.
US09065206B2	Connector and method for the production thereof A Sub-D connector has a base sheet, to which a plug connector is fastened, and positioning journals for positioning on a printed circuit board and lateral fastening openings for receiving fastening screws or fastening pins, wherein the base sheet comprises lateral tabs which are bent twice essentially at a right angle and surround a plug connector housing at the edges. In the state where the tabs are bent twice, the fastening openings on the front and rear side of the connector are covered by the tabs and the positioning journals are arranged on the part of the tabs which is bent once.
US09065202B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly includes a connecting body and a protecting cover mounted to the connecting body. The connecting body includes a first limiting portion and a second limiting portion. The connecting body is configured to accommodate multiple connecting lines. A first limiting hole and a first limiting slot are defined in the first limiting portion. A second limiting hole and a second limiting slot are defined in the second limiting portion. The protecting cover includes two flanges and two limiting brackets. An accommodating space is defined in the protecting cover. The flanges resist against the first limiting portion and the second limiting portion. The limiting brackets are locked in the first limiting hole and the second limiting hole. The flanges are received in the first limiting slot and the second limiting slot. The number of connecting lines extend to an outside of the protecting cover from the accommodating space.
US09065199B2	Connector with entrance restricting portions in a receptacle to prevent damage to tabs in the receptacle Entrance restricting portions (30, 31, 32) project in a receptacle (100) and are arranged in a width direction at each of opposite sides of a plurality of tabs (20, 21) in a height direction. Drop-in spaces (3A-3E) are formed at an inner side of the entrance restricting portions (30, 31) and (32) adjacently arranged at the substantially opposite sides of the tabs (20, 21). When a spherical surface of a spherical body (201) inserted into the receptacle (10) contacts the front ends of a plurality of entrance restricting portions (30, 31, 32), a top (202) on a central axis of the spherical body (201) is offset from the tabs (20, 21).
US09065193B2	Variable plug of a connector A variable plug of a connector has a modular construction and includes a base module with cable connection and plug contacts. Depending on the desired total number of contacts of the plug, one or more add-on modules having additional plug contacts can be mechanically and electrically connected with the base module.
US09065188B2	Electrical connection The invention relates to an electrical connection having at least one plug contact element (10) and a connection wire (1) which is connected to the plug contact element (10), wherein the connection between the at least one plug contact element (10) and the connection wire (1) is established by means of at least one force-fitting connection (12, 13) which is in the form, in particular, of a crimped connection. According to the invention, provision is made for the force-fitting connection (13) to additionally be provided with a cohesive connection (15) or a soldered connection.
US09065186B2	Microwave coaxial connector, intended notably to link two printed circuit boards together The present invention relates to a novel microwave coaxial connector that allows for a board-to-board connection over a very short distance, typically less than or equal to 2 mm, with relatively high tolerances in relative value terms but low tolerances in absolute value terms, typically equal to 0.2 mm, and at the same time ensuring a good electrical contact between all the tracks of the printed circuits to be connected.
US09065171B2	Antenna support bracket A method and apparatus comprising a planar member and a number of support members. The planar member may be configured to be attached to an airframe of an aircraft. The number of support members may be configured to connect the number of antennas to the planar member.
US09065159B2	System and method of altering temperature of an electrical energy storage device or an electrochemical energy generation device using microchannels A method is generally described which includes altering temperature. The method includes providing a housing having an external surface and an internal surface. The method also includes coupling at least one component within the housing. At least one component is configured to generate electrical energy in combination with other components, chemicals, or materials residing within the housing. Further, the method includes forming a plurality of microchannels coupled to at least one of the internal surface of the housing or at least one internal components. Further still, the method includes providing a thermal sink coupled to the microchannels. The thermal sink is configured to transfer heat energy to or from the microchannels. Yet further still, the method includes flowing a fluid through the microchannels and the thermal sink.
US09065153B2	Electrode plate, electrode assembly and manufacturing method of electrode plate An electrode plate, an electrode assembly and a manufacturing method of the electrode plate to prevent an internal electrical short occurring between electrode plates by forming a ceramic layer wrapping a current collector plate and an active material layer. The electrode plate includes a current collector plate having a first face and a second face opposite to the first face, an active material layer formed on at least one of the first face and the second face of the current collector plate, and a ceramic layer wrapping the current collector plate and the active material layer.
US09065150B2	Electrolyte material, and battery material and secondary battery using said electrolyte material The present invention provides a stable electrolyte material that provides high safety, exhibits favorable ionic conductivity not only at room temperature but also in the low temperature range at or below room temperature, has excellent reduction resistance, and can be suitably used as a material of a lithium ion cell. The electrolyte material includes, as essential components, a specific polymer having an ether bond in a side chain thereof, and a specific electrolyte salt.
US09065148B2	Negative electrode active material for lithium ion secondary battery and method for producing the same A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery contains a lithium titanium complex oxide having a composition expressed as Li4Ti5-xMnxO12 (where 0
US09065146B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte and lithium secondary battery employing the same The invention relates to a nonaqueous electrolyte which comprises a nonaqueous organic solvent and a lithium salt dissolved therein, wherein the nonaqueous organic solvent contains at least one compound selected from the group consisting of acid anhydrides and carbonic esters having an unsaturated bond, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of sulfonic compounds and fluorine-containing aromatic compounds having 9 carbon atoms or less; and a lithium secondary battery employing the same.
US09065118B1	Thermal battery with polymer-based construction A thin, flexible, porous polymer composite film useful as a separator for a molten-salt thermal battery having a lower temperature electrolyte melt formulation 150-250° C. typical of molten alkyl nitrate/nitrite comprises 5-50 weight percent of electrically non-conductive ceramic comprising a thermoplastic in the range of 50-95 weight percent. The high-surface-area ceramic is comprised of MgO (preferred), Al2O3, AlSiO2, BN, AlN, or a mixture of two or more of the foregoing; and providing a porous network having a porosity of not less than 30 percent by volume. Likewise, the electrodes can be manufactured with polymer-bonded particulates of porous ceramic such as MgO. Cells for thermal batteries are fabricated in the uncharged state, e.g., Carbon/lithiated metal oxide. Additionally, a polymer-based thermal battery construction can free design from the rigid stacked-pellet battery design. Alternatively, a porous ceramic composite film of MgO coated non-conductive ceramic fibers may be used as a separator.
US09065109B2	Method for preparing a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix and a filler consisting in ion exchange inorganic particles The invention relates to a method for preparing a composite material comprising a polymeric matrix and a filler consisting in ion exchange inorganic particles, comprising a step for synthesis in situ of said particles within the polymeric matrix.
US09065104B2	Process for manufacturing elementary electrochemical cells for energy- or hydrogen-producing electrochemical systems, in particular of SOFC and HTE type The invention relates to a process for manufacturing at least one elementary electrochemical cell comprising a first and a second electrode between which an electrolyte is intercalated, said first and second electrodes and said electrolyte being in the form of layers, which process is characterized in that it comprises: a) producing at least one structure comprising a layer of a powder of a first electrode material and a layer of a powder of a second electrode material between which a layer of a powder of an electrolyte material is intercalated; and b) simultaneously sintering all the powder layers by an electric field sintering. Applications: manufacture of energy- or hydrogen-producing electrochemical systems, in particular solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) or high temperature electrolysers cells (HTEs).
US09065096B2	Fuel cell stack A fuel cell stack includes a plurality of unit cells, bypass resistors, and connective resistors. The unit cells are connected in series and/or in parallel. The connected resistors are disposed between the unit cells connected in series and disconnected by heat due to resistance at a small current value in comparison to an current collector. The bypass resistors are connected in parallel to the unit cells or the unit cells connected in parallel.
US09065090B2	Fuel battery A membrane electrode assembly (15) formed by a solid electrolyte membrane (16) and electrode catalyst layers (17, 18) is interposed between a pair of frames (13, 14). Gas diffusion layers (19, 20) are laminated onto the surface of the electrode catalyst layers (17, 18). A first gas passage forming member (21) is laminated onto the surface of the gas diffusion layer (19) while a second gas passage forming member (22) is laminated onto the surface of the gas diffusion layer (20). Separators (23, 24) contact surfaces of the frame (13, 14) and the first and second gas passage forming member (21, 22). A plurality of first and second straight grooves (21c, 21d) are formed on the first gas passage forming member (21), such that the widths (w1, w2) differ from each other, and cross-sectional areas of the paths for the first and second gas passages (T1, T2) differ from each other.
US09065075B1	Organic light emitting display device and fabricating method thereof An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes: an insulating substrate; a first electrode on the insulating substrate; a second electrode on the first electrode; a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole common layer between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer; an electron common layer between the second electrode and the light-emitting layer; and a scattering layer on the insulating substrate and having a non-planar surface, wherein the scattering layer includes at least one of benzene, naphthalene, anthracene, tetracene, pentacene, amine, benzidine, biphenyl, carbazole, pyridine, bipyridine, imidazole, phenanthroline, phenylborane, pyrimidine, or triazine, and the base material of the scattering layer includes a substituent including at least one of a benzoyl group, a carboxyl group, an aminophenoxyl group, a tricabonate group, or a styryl group.
US09065062B2	Cross-linkable iridium complexes and organic light-emitting devices using the same Organic devices comprising an organic layer, wherein the organic layer is non-electroluminescent and comprises a cross-linked metal complex. The cross-linked metal complex may be formed by cross-linking a cross-linkable iridium complex, which comprises a set of ligands coordinated to a central iridium atom. One or more of the ligands have attached thereon, one or more polymerizable groups that are able to polymerize with other molecules to form intermolecular covalent bonds. In some cases, the organic layer may also comprise a dopant. Also provided are a method of making an organic light-emitting device, an iridium complex, and an organic-light emitting device using certain iridium complexes.
US09065052B2	Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same Discussed is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a substrate in which red, green, and blue pixel areas are defined, a first electrode and a first hole transporting layer that are formed on the substrate, first to third emission common layers formed in each of the pixel areas on the first hole transporting layer, and an electron transporting layer and a second electrode that are formed on the third emission common layer. Accordingly, color mixture is prevented, limitations due to a defective mask are overcome, a process is simplified, and the manufacturing cost is saved.
US09065050B2	Methods for forming lead zirconate titanate nanoparticles Methods for forming lead zirconate titanate (PZT) nanoparticles are provided. The PZT nanoparticles are formed from a precursor solution, comprising a source of lead, a source of titanium, a source of zirconium, and a mineralizer, that undergoes a hydro thermal process. The size and morphology of the PZT nanoparticles are controlled, in part, by the heating schedule used during the hydro thermal process.
US09065043B1	Tunnel magnetoresistance read head with narrow shield-to-shield spacing A tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) read sensor having a tabbed AFM layer and an extended pinned layer and methods for making the same are provided. The TMR read sensor has an AFM layer recessed from the air bearing surface, providing a reduced shield-to-shield distance.
US09065040B2	Controlling composition of multiple oxides in resistive switching layers using atomic layer deposition A method of fabricating a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) cell may include forming a set of nanolaminate structures over an electrode, such that each structure includes at least one first element oxide layer and at least one second element oxide layer. The overall set is operable as a resistive switching layer in a ReRAM cell. In this set, an average atomic ratio of the first element to the second element is different in at least two nanolaminate structures. This ratio may be less in nanolaminate structures that are closer to electrodes than in the middle nanolaminate structures. Alternatively, this ratio may increase from one end of the set to another. The first element may be less electronegative than the second elements. The first element may be hafnium, while the second element may be one of zirconium, aluminum, titanium, tantalum, or silicon.
US09065039B2	Magnetic tunneling junction devices, memories, electronic systems, and memory systems, and methods of fabricating the same Provided is a magnetic tunneling junction device including a fixed magnetic structure; a free magnetic structure; and a tunnel barrier between the fixed magnetic structure and the free magnetic structure, at least one of the fixed magnetic structure and the free magnetic structure including a perpendicular magnetization preserving layer, a magnetic layer between the perpendicular magnetization preserving layer and the tunnel barrier, and a perpendicular magnetization inducing layer between the perpendicular magnetization preserving layer and the magnetic layer.
US09065023B2	Light emitting device and manufacturing method for the same The present invention provides a light emitting device, which includes a light emitting diode (LED) chip, a wavelength conversion plate including a fluorescent substance and disposed on a light output surface side of the LED chip, and a sub heat radiation path formed to radiate heat of the wavelength conversion plate. The sub heat radiation path includes a transparent heat-conductive film provided on a surface of the wavelength conversion plate, a heat radiator provided in the vicinity of the LED chip, and a thermal connection member that thermally connects the transparent heat-conductive film to the heat radiator.
US09065022B2	Light emitting apparatus The present invention relates to a light emitting apparatus comprising at least one light emitting device and a support mechanism. The light emitting device includes a transparent substrate which light can pass through; at least one LED chip emitting light omni-directionally is disposed on one surface of the substrate, and the light emitted by the LED chip will penetrate into the substrate and at least partially emerge from another surface of the substrate. The support mechanism is coupled to the light emitting device; a first angle is formed between the substrate and the support mechanism. According to the present invention, the light emitting apparatus using LED chips can provide sufficient lighting intensity and uniform lighting performance.
US09065021B2	Display device A space between a lower substrate and an upper substrate including an organic EL light-emitting layer which includes a display region for displaying an image is filled by a dam material which is applied to enclose an exterior edge of the display region and a filling material which is dripped into the interior side of the dam material. The dam material is an epoxy resin with a comparatively high viscosity before hardening and the filling material is an epoxy resin with a comparatively low viscosity before hardening. A substrate concave part is formed between the display region on a surface of the lower substrate and a coating region of the dam material.
US09065019B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device according to the embodiment includes a light emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer disposed under the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer disposed under the active layer. A first electrode is disposed under the light emitting structure and is electrically connected to the first conductive semiconductor layer, and a second electrode is disposed under the light emitting structure and is electrically connected to the second conductive semiconductor layer. A first contact portion is disposed through the light emitting structure and includes a first region electrically connected to the first electrode and a second region making contact with a top surface of the first conductive semiconductor layer.
US09065013B2	System and method for energy recovery The present disclosure relates to an energy recovery system for a vehicle. The vehicle includes a plurality of heat sources generating waste heat. The energy recovery system includes at least one thermoelectric module interfaced with each of the plurality of heat sources. Further, the waste heat provides a high temperature heat source for each of the thermoelectric modules. A low temperature heat source is interfaced with each of the thermoelectric modules. A temperature difference between the high temperature heat source and low temperature heat source produces a thermoelectric power. A controller is configured to monitor the thermoelectric power generated by each of the thermoelectric modules. The controller is further configured to optimize a utilization of the thermoelectric power generated by each of the thermoelectric modules.
US09065006B2	Lateral photovoltaic device for near field use A device, method and process of fabricating an interdigitated multicell thermo-photo-voltaic component that is particularly efficient for generating electrical energy from photons in the red and near-infrared spectrum received from a heat source in the near field. Where the absorbing region is germanium, the device is capable of generating electrical energy by absorbing photon energy in the greater than 0.67 electron volt range corresponding to radiation in the infrared and near-infrared spectrum. Use of germanium semiconductor material provides a good match for converting energy from a low temperature heat source. The side that is opposite the photon receiving side of the device includes metal interconnections and dielectric material which provide an excellent back surface reflector for recycling below band photons back to the emitter. Multiple cells may be fabricated and interconnected as a monolithic large scale array for improved performance.
US09064993B2	Photoelectric conversion device and method of manufacturing photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device includes a light-absorbing layer including a compound semiconductor capable of photoelectric conversion, the compound semiconductor containing a group Ib element including Cu, a group IIIb element and a group VIb element; and a semiconductor layer on one surface-side of the light-absorbing layer, the semiconductor layer having a plane orientation different from that of the light-absorbing layer, the semiconductor layer containing a group Ib element including Cu, at least one element selected from Cd, Zn and In, and a group VIb element. The photoelectric conversion device includes a region in which Cu content decreases from the light-absorbing layer to the semiconductor layer across a junction interface.
US09064984B2	Semiconductor devices and methods for forming patterned radiation blocking on a semiconductor device Several embodiments for semiconductor devices and methods for forming semiconductor devices are disclosed herein. One embodiment is directed to a method for manufacturing a microelectronic imager having a die including an image sensor, an integrated circuit electrically coupled to the image sensor, and electrical connectors electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. The method can comprise covering the electrical connectors with a radiation blocking layer and forming apertures aligned with the electrical connectors through a layer of photo-resist on the radiation blocking layer. The radiation blocking layer is not photoreactive such that it cannot be patterned using radiation. The method further includes etching openings in the radiation blocking layer through the apertures of the photo-resist layer.
US09064982B2	Thin-film encapsulated infrared sensor A method of fabricating a bolometer infrared sensor includes depositing a first sacrificial layer on a surface of a substrate over a sensor region, and forming an absorber structure for the infrared sensor on top of the first sacrificial layer. A second sacrificial layer is deposited on top of the absorber structure. An encapsulating thin film is then deposited on top of the second sacrificial layer. Vent holes are formed in the encapsulating thin film. The first and the second sacrificial layers are removed below the encapsulating thin film to release the absorber structure and form a cavity above the sensing region that extends down to the substrate in which the absorber structure is located via the vent holes. The vent holes are then closed in a vacuum environment to seal the absorber structure within the cavity.
US09064981B2	Differential optical receiver for avalanche photodiode and SiPM A device and method to protect an APD or SiPM optical receiver against photodetector voltage supply variation is presented. A differential trans-impedance amplifier includes one input connected to the photodetector and the other input connected to a high voltage supply variation sensing device. The sensing element includes a circuit replicating the impedance of the photodetector.
US09064969B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same According to an embodiment, in a method of fabricating a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device, second trenches penetrating the first and second conductive layers above the first trenches are formed to reach the stack, and a second insulating layer is formed on the second trenches and the first insulating layer so as to fill the second trenches. A part of the second insulating layer in a first region extending in a direction orthogonal to a direction that the first and second semiconductor pillars extend in a plane parallel to the back gate layer is removed while a part of the second insulating layer in a second region adjacent to the first region is left. The first sacrificial layer is selectively removed, and the first conductive layers and second conductive layers exposed in the first and second trenches are silicidized.
US09064968B2	Non-volatile memory device and operation and fabricating methods thereof Provided is a non-volatile memory device having a zigzag body wiring. First word lines and second word lines are disposed on a substrate, arranged periodically and extended along a first direction. First inter-poly dielectric films are disposed on the substrate and respectively beneath the first word lines. Second inter-poly dielectric films are disposed on the substrate and respectively beneath the second word lines, wherein the first inter-poly dielectric films are thinner than the second inter-poly dielectric films. A floating gate is disposed between the substrate and each of the first and second inter-poly dielectric films. A tunnel oxide film is disposed between the substrate and each of the floating gates. Bit lines are disposed above the first and second word lines and extended along a second direction different from the first direction.
US09064967B2	Semiconductor element, semiconductor device, and method for manufacturing the same The semiconductor element includes an oxide semiconductor layer on an insulating surface; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer over the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer over the oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer. The source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer have sidewalls which are in contact with a top surface of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09064965B2	Zinc oxide-based thin film transistor biosensors with high sensitivity and selectivity This application discloses ZnO film transistor-based immunosensors (ZnO-bioTFT), 2T biosensor arrays formed from two integrated ZnO-bioTFTs, 1T1R-based nonvolatile memory (NVM) arrays formed from ZnO-bioTFT (T) integrated with ZnO-based resistive switches (R), as well as integrated bioTFT (IBTFT) sensor systems formed from 2T biosensor arrays and 1T1R NVM arrays. Through biofunctionalization, these biosensors can perform immunosensing with high sensitivity and selectivity, and therefore have a wide range of applications, for example, in detecting target biomolecules or small molecules, and potential application in cancer diagnosis and treatment.
US09064961B2	Integrated circuits including epitaxially grown strain-inducing fills doped with boron for improved robustness from delimination and methods for fabricating the same Integrated circuits and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In one example, a method for fabricating an integrated circuit includes forming a cavity in a semiconductor region laterally adjacent to a gate electrode structure. An EPI strain-inducing fill is deposited into the cavity. The EPI strain-inducing fill includes a main SiGe layer and a Si cap that overlies the main SiGe layer. The EPI strain-inducing fill is doped with boron and has a first peak boron content in an upper portion of the EPI strain-inducing fill of about 2.5 times or greater than an average boron content in an intermediate portion of the main SiGe layer.
US09064956B2	Semiconductor device having buried gate, method of fabricating the same, and module and system having the same A semiconductor device includes junction regions formed in upper portions of both sidewalls of a trench formed in a semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode buried in the trench and having a stepped upper surface, and a second gate electrode formed on the first gate electrode to overlap a junction region.
US09064949B2	Electronic device including a tapered trench and a conductive structure therein An electronic device can include a semiconductor layer, and a trench extending into the semiconductor layer and having a tapered shape. In an embodiment, the trench includes a wider portion and a narrower portion. The electronic device can include a doped semiconductor region that extends to a narrower portion of the trench and has a dopant concentration greater than a dopant concentration of the semiconductor layer. In another embodiment, the electronic device can include a conductive structure within a relatively narrower portion of the trench, and a conductive electrode within a relatively wider portion of the trench. In another embodiment, a process of forming the electronic device can include forming a sacrificial plug and may allow insulating layers of different thicknesses to be formed within the trench.
US09064942B2	Nanowire capacitor for bidirectional operation A method of fabricating an electronic device includes the following steps. At least one first set and at least one second set of nanowires and pads are etched in an SOI layer of an SOI wafer. A first gate stack is formed that surrounds at least a portion of each of the first set of nanowires that serves as a channel region of a capacitor device. A second gate stack is formed that surrounds at least a portion of each of the second set of nanowires that serves as a channel region of a FET device. Source and drain regions of the FET device are selectively doped. A first silicide is formed on the source and drain regions of the capacitor device that extends at least to an edge of the first gate stack. A second silicide is formed on the source and drain regions of the FET device.
US09064940B2	Through-silicon via with low-K dielectric liner A semiconductor substrate having a through-silicon via with an air gap interposed between the through-silicon via and the semiconductor substrate is provided. An opening is formed partially through the semiconductor substrate. The opening is first lined with a first liner and then the opening is filled with a conductive material. A backside of the semiconductor substrate is thinned to expose the first liner, which is subsequently removed and a second liner formed with a low-k or extra low-k dielectric is formed in its place.
US09064931B2	Semiconductor structure having contact plug and metal gate transistor and method of making the same The present invention provides a semiconductor structure including at least a contact plug. The structure includes a substrate, a transistor, a first ILD layer, a second ILD layer and a first contact plug. The transistor is disposed on the substrate and includes a gate and a source/drain region. The first ILD layer is disposed on the transistor and levels with a top surface of the gate. The second ILD layer is disposed on the first ILD layer. The first contact plug is disposed in the first ILD layer and the second ILD layer and includes a first trench portion and a first via portion, wherein a boundary of the first trench portion and a first via portion is higher than the top surface of the gate. The present invention further provides a method of making the same.
US09064929B2	Method for reducing the thickness of an SOI layer There is disclosed a method for manufacturing an SOI wafer comprising: a step of implanting at least one of a hydrogen ion and a rare gas ion into a donor wafer to form an ion implanted layer; a step of bonding an ion implanted surface of the donor wafer to a handle wafer; a step of delaminating the donor wafer at the ion implanted layer to reduce a film thickness of the donor wafer, thereby providing an SOI layer; and a step of etching the SOI layer to reduce a thickness of the SOI layer, wherein the etching step includes: a stage of performing rough etching as wet etching; a stage of measuring a film thickness distribution of the SOI layer after the rough etching; and a stage of performing precise etching as dry etching based on the measured film thickness distribution of the SOI layer. There can be provided A method for manufacturing an SOI wafer having high film thickness uniformity of an SOI layer with excellent productivity.
US09064926B2	Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device including dummy regions and dummy wirings There is provided a technique for improving the flatness at the surface of members embedded in a plurality of recesses without resulting in an increase in the time required for the manufacturing processes. According to this technique, the dummy patterns can be placed up to the area near the boundary BL between the element forming region DA and dummy region FA by placing the first dummy pattern DP1 of relatively wider area and the second dummy pattern DP2 of relatively small area in the dummy region FA. Thereby, the flatness of the surface of the silicon oxide film embedded within the isolation groove can be improved over the entire part of the dummy region FA. Moreover, an increase of the mask data can be controlled when the first dummy patterns DP1 occupy a relatively wide region among the dummy region FA.
US09064925B2	Power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device is disclosed with layers of different conductivity types between an emitter electrode on an emitter side and a collector electrode on a collector side. The device can include a drift layer, a first base layer in direct electrical contact to the emitter electrode, a first source region embedded into the first base layer which contacts the emitter electrode and has a higher doping concentration than the drift layer, a first gate electrode in a same plane and lateral to the first base layer, a second base layer in the same plane and lateral to the first base layer, a second gate electrode on top of the emitter side, and a second source region electrically insulated from the second base layer, the second source region and the drift layer by a second insulating layer.
US09064923B2	Bipolar semiconductor component with a fully depletable channel zone A bipolar semiconductor component includes a semiconductor body having first and second substantially parallel main surfaces and at least one load pn junction, a first metallization on the first surface, a second metallization on the second surface, and a current path running in the semiconductor body from the first metallization to the second metallization only through n-doped zones, including between first and second p-doped zones which are in contact with the first metallization and spaced apart from one another by an n-doped channel zone through which the current path runs. A space charge region forms in the semiconductor body between the first and second p-doped zones to fully deplete the n-doped channel zone between the first and second p-doped zones and therefore prevent current flow between the first and second metallizations along the current path when a positive voltage is applied between the second metallization and the first metallization.
US09064921B2	Inactive gas introducing facility and inactive gas introducing method An inactive gas introducing facility includes an introducing device for introducing inactive gas to the inside of a container stored in a storage section of a storage shelf with discharging gas present inside the container to the inside of a storage space partitioned from the outside and a controller for controlling operation of the introducing device. In a normal stop mode, the controller controls the operation of the introducing device to stop feeding of inactive gas to the container in response to detection of an opened state of an inspection door. And, in a stop nullification mode, the controller controls the operation of the introducing device to continue feeding of inactive gas to the container even in response to detection of the opened state of the inspection door.
US09064919B2	Industrial robot An industrial robot including a first arm which has a first arm portion, and a second arm portion supported by the first arm portion. The industrial robot also includes a second arm which has a third arm portion and a fourth arm portion supported by the third arm portion. The first arm and the second arm can be expanded/retracted independently. A turning center of the first arm portion and a turning center of the third arm portion are placed coaxially. The first arm and the second arm are constructed so as to be almost line-symmetric with respect to an imaginary line under the condition that the first arm and the second arm are retracted. The first arm portion, the third arm portion, the second arm portion, and the fourth arm portion are placed in this order in a vertical direction.
US09064909B2	Method of processing a semiconductor substrate in a plasma processing apparatus A showerhead electrode for a plasma processing apparatus includes an interface gel between facing surfaces of an electrode plate and a backing plate. The interface gel maintains thermal conductivity during lateral displacements generated during temperature cycling due to mismatch in coefficients of thermal expansion. The interface gel comprises, for example, a silicone based composite filled with aluminum oxide microspheres. The interface gel can conform to irregularly shaped features and maximize surface contact area between mating surfaces. The interface gel can be pre-applied to a consumable upper electrode.
US09064904B2	MOS P-N junction Schottky diode device and method for manufacturing the same A MOS P-N junction Schottky diode device includes a substrate having a first conductivity type, a field oxide structure defining a trench structure, a gate structure formed in the trench structure and a doped region having a second conductivity type adjacent to the gate structure in the substrate. An ohmic contact and a Schottky contact are formed at different sides of the gate structure. The method for manufacturing such diode device includes several ion-implanting steps to form several doped sub-regions with different implantation depths to constitute the doped regions. The formed MOS P-N junction Schottky diode device has low forward voltage drop, low reverse leakage current, fast reverse recovery time and high reverse voltage tolerance.
US09064900B2	FinFET method comprising high-K dielectric The present disclosure provides for semiconductor device structures and methods for forming semiconductor device structures, wherein a field-inducing structure is provided lower than an active portion of a fin along a height dimension of that fin, the height dimension extending in parallel to a normal direction of a semiconductor substrate surface in which the fin is formed. The field-inducing structure hereby implements a permanent field effect below the active portion. The active portion of the fin is to be understood as a portion of the fin covered by a gate dielectric.
US09064898B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, a metal oxide film for preventing electrification which is in contact with the oxide semiconductor film and covers a source electrode and a drain electrode is formed. Then, oxygen is introduced (added) to the oxide semiconductor film through the metal oxide film and heat treatment is performed. Through these steps of oxygen introduction and heat treatment, impurities such as hydrogen, moisture, a hydroxyl group, or hydride are intentionally removed from the oxide semiconductor film, so that the oxide semiconductor film is highly purified. Further, by providing the metal oxide film, generation of a parasitic channel on a back channel side of the oxide semiconductor film can be prevented in the transistor.
US09064891B2	Gate encapsulation achieved by single-step deposition When forming spacer structures enclosing a gate electrode structure of a transistor, a common problem is given by the thickness variation of the spacer structure obtained as a result of a first deposition process performed in a first chamber and a second, subsequent process performed in a second chamber. The present disclosure provides a method for forming spacers of a well-defined thickness. The method relies on a single deposition step performed by means of an atomic layer deposition. The deposition is performed in two stages performed at different temperatures.
US09064889B2	Semiconductor device with epitaxial semiconductor layer for source/drain on substrate, and method of manufacturing the same To improve performance of a semiconductor device. Over a semiconductor substrate, a gate electrode is formed via a first insulating film for a gate insulating film, and a second insulating film extends from over a side wall of the gate electrode to over the semiconductor substrate. Over the semiconductor substrate in a part exposed from the second insulating film, a semiconductor layer, which is an epitaxial layer for source/drain, is formed. The second insulating film has a part extending over the side wall of the gate electrode and a part extending over the semiconductor substrate, and a part of the semiconductor layer lies over the second insulating film in the part extending over the semiconductor substrate.
US09064884B2	Semiconductor device having aligned side surfaces An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a novel structure with a high degree of integration. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer having a channel formation region, a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to the channel formation region, a gate electrode overlapping with the channel formation region, and a gate insulating layer between the channel formation region and the gate electrode. A portion of a side surface of the semiconductor layer having the channel formation region and a portion of a side surface of the source electrode or the drain electrode are substantially aligned with each other when seen from a planar direction.
US09064881B2	Protecting flip-chip package using pre-applied fillet A die has a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and sidewalls includes a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is closer to the first surface than the second portion. A fillet contacts the first portion of sidewalls of the die and encircles the die. A work piece is bonded to the die through solder bumps, with the second surface facing the work piece. A first underfill is filled a gap between the die and the work piece, wherein the first underfill contacts the fillet, and wherein the first underfill and the fillet are formed of different materials.
US09064875B2	Semiconductor structure and method for making same Embodiments relate to a method for making a semiconductor structure, the method comprising: forming a seed layer in direct contact with a dielectric material; forming a masking layer over the seed layer; patterning the masking layer to expose the seed layer; forming a fill layer over the exposed seed layer; and causing the seed layer to react with the dielectric layer to form a barrier layer between the fill layer and the dielectric layer.
US09064872B2	Semiconductor interconnect structures Techniques are disclosed that enable improved shorting margin between unlanded conductive interconnect features and neighboring conductive features. In some embodiments, an etch may be applied to an insulator layer having one or more conductive features therein, such that the insulator layer is recessed below the top of the conductive features and the edges of the conductive features are rounded or otherwise softened. A conformal etch stop layer may then be deposited over the conductive features and the insulator material. A second insulator layer may be deposited above the conformal etch stop layer, and an interconnect feature may pass through the second insulator layer and the conformal etch stop layer to connect with the rounded portion of one of the conductive features. In some embodiments, the interconnect feature is an unlanded via and the unlanded portion of the via may or may not penetrate through the conformal barrier layer.
US09064868B2	Advanced faraday shield for a semiconductor device One illustrative device disclosed herein includes a transistor comprising a gate electrode and a drain region formed in a semiconducting substrate, an isolation structure formed in the substrate, wherein the isolation structure is laterally positioned between the gate electrode and the drain region, and a Faraday shield that is positioned laterally between the gate electrode and the drain region and above the isolation structure, wherein the Faraday shield has a long axis that is oriented substantially vertically relative to an upper surface of the substrate.
US09064866B2	High-k dielectrics with gold nano-particles A metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) structure having a high dielectric constant gate insulator layer containing gold (Au) nano-particles is presented with methods for forming the layer with high step coverage of underlying topography, high surface smoothness, and uniform thickness. The transistor may form part of a logic device, a memory device, a persistent memory device, a capacitor, as well as other devices and systems. The insulator layer may be formed using atomic layer deposition (ALD) to reduce the overall device thermal exposure. The insulator layer may be formed of a metal oxide, a metal oxycarbide, a semiconductor oxide, or semiconductor oxide oxycarbide, and the gold nano-particles in insulator layer increase the work function of the insulator layer and affect the tunneling current and the threshold voltage of the transistor.
US09064862B2	Semiconductor chips having a dual-layered structure, packages having the same, and methods of fabricating the semiconductor chips and the packages Dual-layered structural semiconductor chips are provided. The semiconductor chip includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip bonded to the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip includes a first substrate having a first bottom surface. The second semiconductor chip includes a second substrate having a second bottom surface. The first bottom surface directly contacts the second bottom surface. The related packages and the related methods are also provided.
US09064856B1	Flip-chip LED component built therein with a zener chip In the Flip-Chip type LED component built therein with a Zener chip: a Flip-Chip LED chip and a Flip-Chip Zener straddle respectively over and beneath two electrode pins, wherein the Flip-Chip Zener is covered with insulating material to form a base and the Flip-Chip LED chip is covered with a transparent package to thereby form an integral Flip-Chip LED component, hence not only the Flip-Chip LED component can be protected in use, but also can largely simplify the production process and reduce the cost of production.
US09064854B2	Semiconductor device with gate stack structure A semiconductor device includes a first conductive layer, a first intermediate structure over the first conductive layer, a second intermediate structure over the first intermediate structure, and a second conductive layer over the second intermediate structure. The first intermediate structure includes a metal silicide layer and a nitrogen containing metal layer. The second intermediate structure includes at least a nitrogen containing metal silicide layer.
US09064849B2	3D integrated circuit structure, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same The present invention discloses a semiconductor device. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a diffusion stop layer formed on the substrate, an SOI layer formed on the diffusion stop layer, an MOSFET transistor formed on the SOI layer, and a TSV formed in a manner of penetrating through the substrate, the diffusion stop layer, the SOI layer, and a layer where the MOSFET transistor is located; and an interconnect structure connecting the MOSFET transistor and the TSV.
US09064848B2	ARC residue-free etching Antireflective residues during pattern transfer and consequential short circuiting are eliminated by employing an underlying sacrificial layer to ensure complete removal of the antireflective layer. Embodiments include forming a hard mask layer over a conductive layer, e.g., a silicon substrate, forming the sacrificial layer over the hard mask layer, forming an optical dispersive layer over the sacrificial layer, forming a silicon anti-reflective coating layer over the optical dispersive layer, forming a photoresist layer over the silicon anti-reflective coating layer, where the photoresist layer defines a pattern, etching to transfer the pattern to the hard mask layer, and stripping at least the optical dispersive layer and the sacrificial layer.
US09064846B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a base plate having an upper surface on which the semiconductor element is mounted, a cooling fin disposed on a lower surface of the base plate, a jacket disposed in a sealing manner on the lower surface of the base plate, the jacket surrounding the cooling fin, and a header partition wall formed separately from the jacket and fixed to the jacket on the lower side of the cooling fin in the jacket, the header partition wall forming a header and a flow path for causing a refrigerant flow to the cooling fin.
US09064843B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a gate electrode formed on the substrate on a gate insulation film. The semiconductor device also includes a source diffusion layer and a drain diffusion layer which are formed on the substrate where the gate electrode is sandwiched between the source diffusion layer and the drain diffusion layer, one or more source contacts formed on the source diffusion layer; and one or more drain contacts formed on the drain diffusion layer. At least one of the source contacts and the drain contacts includes a first contact region having a first size and a second contact region having a second size larger than the first size on the same source diffusion layer or on the same drain diffusion layer.
US09064841B2	Metal-oxide-metal capacitor apparatus with a via-hole region A metal-oxide-metal capacitor comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, a plurality of first fingers and a plurality of second fingers. Each first finger and its corresponding second finger are in parallel and separated by a low k dielectric material. A via-hole region is employed to enclose the metal-oxide-metal capacitor so as to remove the moisture stored in the low k dielectric material.
US09064840B2	Insulated gate bipolar transistors including current suppressing layers An insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) includes a first conductivity type substrate and a second conductivity type drift layer on the substrate. The second conductivity type is opposite the first conductivity type. The IGBT further includes a current suppressing layer on the drift layer. The current suppressing layer has the second conductivity type and has a doping concentration that is larger than a doping concentration of the drift layer. A first conductivity type well region is in the current suppressing layer. The well region has a junction depth that is less than a thickness of the current suppressing layer, and the current suppressing layer extends laterally beneath the well region. A second conductivity type emitter region is in the well region.
US09064818B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an insulating circuit substrate mounted with at least one semiconductor element; a resin case having a bottom surface portion attached with the insulating circuit substrate and a side surface portion enclosing a periphery of the bottom surface portion; a lead molded integrally with the resin case and provided on a periphery of the insulating circuit substrate to be positioned on a surface of the bottom surface portion inside the resin case, the lead partially extending from inside the resin case to outside the resin case; and a sealing resin filled inside the resin case. A depressed portion is formed on two sides of the lead along a peripheral edge of the bottom surface portion inside the resin case.
US09064806B1	Soft and conditionable chemical mechanical polishing pad with window A chemical mechanical polishing pad is provided having a polishing layer; and a window incorporated into the polishing layer; wherein the polishing layer comprises a reaction product of ingredients, including: a polishing layer prepolymer and a polishing layer curative system; wherein the polishing layer curative system includes a polishing layer amine initiated polyol curative, a polishing layer high molecular weight polyol curative and a polishing layer difunctional curative; and, wherein the window comprises a reaction product of ingredients, including: a window prepolymer and a window curative system; wherein the window curative system includes a window difunctional curative, a window amine initiated polyol curative and a window high molecular weight polyol curative; and, wherein the polishing layer exhibits a density of ≧0.6 g/cm3; a Shore D hardness of 5 to 40; an elongation to break of 100 to 450%; and, a cut rate of 25 to 150 μm/hr.
US09064795B2	Technique for processing a substrate Techniques for processing a substrate are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for processing a substrate, the method comprising: ionizing first material and second material in an ion source chamber of an ion source, the first material being boron (B) containing material, the second material being one of phosphorous (P) containing material and arsenic (As) containing material; generating first ions containing B and second ions containing one of P and As; and extracting the first and second ions from the ion source chamber and directing the first and second ions toward the substrate.
US09064794B2	Integrated circuit including vertical diode An integrated circuit includes a substrate including isolation regions, a first conductive line formed in the substrate between isolation regions, and a vertical diode formed in the substrate. The integrated circuit includes a contact coupled to the vertical diode and a memory element coupled to the contact. The first conductive line provides a portion of the vertical diode.
US09064792B2	Semiconductor storage device A memory includes a semiconductor substrate. Magnetic tunnel junction elements are provided above the semiconductor substrate. Each of the magnetic tunnel junction elements stores data by a change in a resistance state, and the data is rewritable by a current. Cell transistors are provided on the semiconductor substrate. Each of the cell transistors is in a conductive state when the current is applied to the corresponding magnetic tunnel junction element. Gate electrodes are included in the respective cell transistors. Each of the gate electrodes controls the conductive state of the corresponding cell transistor. In active areas, the cell transistors are provided, and the active areas extend in an extending direction of intersecting the gate electrodes at an angle of (90-atan(⅓)) degrees.
US09064786B2	Dual three-dimensional (3D) resistor and methods of forming Various embodiments include dual three-dimensional (3D) resistor structures and methods of forming such structures. In some embodiments, a dual 3D resistor structure includes: a dielectric layer having a first set of trenches extending in a first direction through the dielectric layer; and a second set of trenches overlayed on the first set of trenches, the second set of trenches extending in a second direction through the dielectric layer, the second set of trenches and the first set of trenches forming at least one dual 3D trench; and a resistor material overlying the dielectric layer and at least partially filling the at least one dual 3D trench along the first direction and the second direction.
US09064784B1	Ball grid array package with laser vias and methods for making the same A packaged IC having laser vias and methods for making the same. The packaged IC includes a die having bond pads thereon, wire bonds contacting the bond pads, and a substrate configured to electrically connect the wire bonds and external package connectors. The substrate includes mechanical vias through the substrate layers and laser vias in an uppermost substrate layer. Each laser via is closer to the die than the mechanical vias that do not overlap or are not covered by the die. The method includes routing traces on uppermost and lowermost layers, the traces electrically connecting wire bonds and external package connectors, forming mechanical vias through all layers of the substrate, forming laser vias in the uppermost substrate layer, and electrically connecting each wire bond to one trace on the uppermost substrate layer.
US09064782B2	Wiring structure, droplet discharge head, and droplet discharge apparatus A droplet discharge head includes: a vibrating plate on which first and second terminals are formed; a reservoir forming substrate bonded to the vibrating plate and including a first inclined surface as a side surface on which a first wiring electrically connected to the first terminal is formed and that is inclined to a plate surface; and a wiring substrate bonded to the vibrating plate and including a second inclined surface as a side surface on which a second wiring electrically connected to the second terminal is formed and that is inclined to a plate surface along the first inclined surface.
US09064775B2	Gallium nitride semiconductor structures with compositionally-graded transition layer The invention provides semiconductor materials including a gallium nitride material layer formed on a silicon substrate and methods to form the semiconductor materials. The semiconductor materials include a transition layer formed between the silicon substrate and the gallium nitride material layer. The transition layer is compositionally-graded to lower stresses in the gallium nitride material layer which can result from differences in thermal expansion rates between the gallium nitride material and the substrate. The lowering of stresses in the gallium nitride material layer reduces the tendency of cracks to form. Thus, the invention enables the production of semiconductor materials including gallium nitride material layers having few or no cracks. The semiconductor materials may be used in a number of microelectronic and optical applications.
US09064769B2	Image sensor with hybrid heterostructure An image sensor architecture for an active pixel sensor array are separated and arranged vertically in at least two different layers in a hybrid chip structure. The top layer includes the photodiode and amplifier circuitry for each pixel. A bottom includes the pixel circuit components and any digital circuitry required for signal processing. By forming the top layer in a process optimized for forming low-noise pixels, the pixel performance can be greatly improved. In addition, since the digital circuitry is now separated from the imaging circuitry, it can be formed using a process which has been optimized for circuit speed and manufacturing cost. By combining the two layers into a stacked structure, the top layer (and any intermediate layer(s)) acts to optically shield the lower layer, thereby allowing charge to be stored and shielded without the need for a mechanical shutter.
US09064765B2	Handheld imaging apparatus for, and method of, imaging targets using a high performance, compact scan engine An apparatus for, and a method of, electro-optically reading a target by image capture, employ a scan engine in a handheld housing having a tilted handle. A single tilted printed circuit board (PCB) in the handle has front and rear surfaces that respectively face toward and away from the target during reading. An optical assembly having a pair of fold mirrors is mounted on the rear surface, for receiving return light from the target through an aperture in the PCB along the horizontal, and for directing the return light along an internal folded optical path. An imaging lens assembly is mounted between the fold mirrors and has an imaging axis that extends generally parallel to the PCB. The imaging lens assembly projects the return light onto a solid-state, two-dimensional, image sensor to enable the return light to be detected over a field of view, and to generate an electrical signal indicative of the detected return light.
US09064763B2	Solid-state imaging element, solid-state imaging device, imaging apparatus, and method of manufacturing polarizing element The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging element which is able to provide the solid-state imaging element having a polarizing element having a simple configuration and structure based on a wire grid polarizer technique, a solid-state imaging device, an imaging apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a polarizing element. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of solid-state imaging elements 41 each including a photoelectric conversion element 61 and a polarizing element 70 formed on the light incident side of the photoelectric conversion element 61. The solid-state imaging device includes two or more kinds of polarizing elements 70 having different polarization orientations. Each polarizing element has a stacked structure in which a stripe-shaped reflecting layer 71, an insulating layer 72 formed on the reflecting layer 71, and a light absorption layer 73 made up of a plurality of segments 73′ formed on the insulating layer 72 in a separated state are stacked in that order from the photoelectric conversion element side.
US09064756B2	Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof A thin film transistor array panel includes: a substrate including a display area and a drive region in which a driving chip for transmitting a driving signal to the pixels is located; a gate line in the display area; a storage electrode line; a gate driving pad coupled to the driving chip; a gate insulating layer; a first semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer and overlapped with a gate electrode protruding from the gate line; a second semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulating layer and overlapped with a sustain electrode protruding from the storage electrode line; a data line crossing the gate line in an insulated manner and a drain electrode separated from the data line; and a pixel electrode coupled to the drain electrode, and the drain electrode comprises a drain bar facing the source electrode, and a drain extender overlapped with the second semiconductor layer.
US09064752B2	Array substrate for liquid crystal display having gate line, gate electrode and data pattern in at least two trenches and method of fabricating the same An array substrate includes: a trench having a depth from a surface of a substrate; a gate line, a gate electrode and a data pattern filling the respective trenches, wherein the data pattern is between the adjacent gate lines; a gate insulating layer on the gate line, the gate electrode and the data pattern, substantially flat over the substrate, and including contact holes that expose both ends of the data pattern, respectively; a data connection portion on the gate insulating layer and contacting the adjacent data patterns through the contact holes; a source electrode extending from the data connection portion, and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode; a passivation layer on the source and drain electrodes and including a drain contact hole exposing the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and contacting the drain electrode through the drain contact hole.
US09064744B2	Structure and method to realize conformal doping in deep trench applications The specification and drawings present a new method, ASIC and computer/software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) are presented for realizing conformal doping in embedded deep trench applications in the ASIC. A common SOI substrate with intrinsic or low dopant concentration is used for manufacturing such ASICs comprising a logic area having MOSFETs utilizing, for example, ultra thin body and box technology and an eDRAM area having deep trench capacitors with the conformal doping.
US09064743B2	Flexible, stretchable electronic devices Fabrication methods are disclosed that facilitate the production of electronic structures that are both flexible and stretchable to conform to non-planar (e.g. curved) surfaces without suffering functional damage due to excessive strain. Electronic structures including CMOS devices are provided that can be stretched or squeezed within acceptable limits without failing or breaking. The methods disclosed herein further facilitate the production of flexible, stretchable electronic structures having multiple levels of intra-chip connectors. Such connectors are formed through deposition and photolithographic patterning (back end of the line processing) and can be released following transfer of the electronic structures to flexible substrates.
US09064738B2	Methods of forming junction termination extension edge terminations for high power semiconductor devices and related semiconductor devices Methods of forming a power semiconductor device having an edge termination are provided in which the power semiconductor device that has a drift region of a first conductivity type is formed on a substrate. A junction termination extension is formed on the substrate adjacent the power semiconductor device, the junction termination extension including a plurality of junction termination zones that are doped with dopants having a second conductivity type. The junction termination zones have different effective doping concentrations. A dopant activation process is performed to activate at least some of the dopants in the junction termination zones. An electrical characteristic of the power semiconductor device is measured. Then, the junction termination extension is etched in order to reduce the effective doping concentration within the junction termination extension.
US09064734B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate including an active region and a field region, first gate structures disposed on the active region, first air gaps disposed between the first gate structures, second gate structures disposed on the field region, second air gaps disposed between the second gate structures, and an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first gate structures, the first air gaps, the second gate structures, and the second air gaps. A lowermost level of the second air gaps is lower than a lowermost level of the first gate structures.
US09064729B2	Junction-less transistors and fabrication method thereof A method is provided for fabricating a junction-less transistor. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a dielectric layer; and forming a semiconductor layer including a first heavily doped layer formed on the dielectric layer, a lightly doped layer formed on the first heavily doped layer and a second heavily doped layer formed on the lightly doped layer. The method also includes etching the semiconductor layer and the dielectric layer to form trenches to expose side surfaces of a portion of the semiconductor layer and a portion of the dielectric layer; and removing the portion of the dielectric layer between the adjacent trenches to form a chamber. Further, the method includes forming a gate structure around the portion of the semiconductor layer between the adjacent trenches; and forming a source region and a drain region in the semiconductor layer at both sides of the gate structure.
US09064709B2	High breakdown voltage III-N depletion mode MOS capacitors III-N high voltage MOS capacitors and System on Chip (SoC) solutions integrating at least one III-N MOS capacitor capable of high breakdown voltages (BV) to implement high voltage and/or high power circuits. Breakdown voltages over 4V may be achieved avoiding any need to series couple capacitors in an RFIC and/or PMIC. In embodiments, depletion mode III-N capacitors including a GaN layer in which a two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is formed at threshold voltages below 0V are monolithically integrated with group IV transistor architectures, such as planar and non-planar silicon CMOS transistor technologies. In embodiments, silicon substrates are etched to provide a (111) epitaxial growth surface over which a GaN layer and III-N barrier layer are formed. In embodiments, a high-K dielectric layer is deposited, and capacitor terminal contacts are made to the 2DEG and over the dielectric layer.
US09064699B2	Methods of forming semiconductor patterns including reduced dislocation defects and devices formed using such methods Methods of forming semiconductor patterns including reduced dislocation defects and devices formed using such methods are provided. The methods may include forming an oxide layer on a substrate and forming a recess in the oxide layer and the substrate. The methods may further include forming an epitaxially grown semiconductor pattern in the recess that contacts a sidewall of the substrate at an interface between the oxide layer and the substrate and defines an upper surface of a void in the recess in the substrate.
US09064697B2	Trap rich layer formation techniques for semiconductor devices A trap rich layer for an integrated circuit chip is formed by chemical etching and/or laser texturing of a surface of a semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, a trap rich layer is formed by a technique selected from the group of techniques consisting of laser texturing, chemical etch, irradiation, nanocavity formation, porous Si-etch, semi-insulating polysilicon, thermal stress relief and mechanical texturing. Additionally, combinations of two or more of these techniques may be used to form a trap rich layer.
US09064696B2	Apparatus for manufacturing compound semiconductor, method for manufacturing compound semiconductor, and compound semiconductor Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a compound semiconductor, which forms a compound semiconductor layer using a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition method. The apparatus is characterized in that: the apparatus is provided with a reaction container, a holder, which is disposed in the reaction container and has placed thereon a subject, on which the layer is to be formed, the subject having facing up the subject surface where the layer is to be formed, and a raw material supply port, through which the raw material gas of the compound semiconductor is supplied to the inside of the reaction container from the outside; the holder is in contact with the lower surface of the subject, the contact being inside of the outer circumferential portion of the subject to the center of the upper surface of the holder; and that the holder has a supporting portion, which supports the subject such that a predetermined interval is maintained between the upper surface of the holder and the lower surface of the subject. In the manufacture of the compound semiconductor using the MOCVD method, temperature distribution on the substrate surface to be deposited with a compound semiconductor crystal, and deviation of in-plane averaged light emission wavelength from a target value are suppressed using the apparatus.
US09064693B2	Deposition of thin film dielectrics and light emitting nano-layer structures Deposition of thin film dielectrics, and in particular for chemical vapor deposition of nano-layer structures comprising multiple layers of dielectrics, such as, silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, silicon oxynitride, and/or other silicon compatible dielectrics includes post-deposition surface treatment of deposited layers with a metal or semiconductor source gas, e.g., a silicon source gas. Deposition of silicon containing dielectrics comprises silane-based chemistry for deposition of doped or undoped dielectric layers, and surface treatment of deposited dielectric layers with silane. Surface treatment provides dielectric layers with improved layer-to-layer uniformity and lateral continuity, and substantially atomically flat dielectric layers suitable for multilayer structures for electroluminescent light emitting structures, e.g., active layers containing rare earth containing luminescent centers. Doped or undoped dielectric thin films or nano-layer dielectric structures may also be provided for other semiconductor devices.
US09064690B2	Method for forming Cu wiring A Cu wiring forming method forms Cu wiring in a recess of a predetermined pattern including a trench formed in an insulating film on a substrate surface. The method includes: forming a barrier film at least on a surface of the recess; forming a Cu film by PVD to fill the recess with the Cu film; forming an additional layer on the Cu film; polishing an entire surface by CMP to form the Cu wiring in the recess; forming a metal cap including a manganese oxide film on an entire surface including the insulating film and the Cu wiring of the substrate after performing the CMP polishing; and forming a dielectric cap on the metal cap.
US09064687B2	Substrate carrier having drip edge configurations Substrate carrier can have drainage area leading the liquid away from the substrates, so that liquid droplet can be channeled away from the substrate area. The drainage area can include tilted lines and surfaces toward the ground away from the substrates. The carrier can further have drainage area leading the liquid to an end of the carrier, which then can be channeled to the ground without being free fall to the ground.
US09064685B2	Semiconductor substrate and method of forming A method of forming a semiconductive substrate material for an electronic device including forming a plurality of semiconductive layers on a substrate during a continuous growth process in a reaction chamber, wherein during the continuous growth process, a release layer is formed between a base layer and an epitaxial layer by altering at least one growth process parameter during the continuous growth process. The method also including separating the plurality of semiconductive layers from the substrate.
US09064673B2	Workpiece carrier A workpiece carrier comprises a first plate having a first outer diameter, a first inner diameter, and a first recess extending a first distance from the first inner diameter toward the first outer diameter. The workpiece carrier further comprises a second plate having a second outer diameter, a second inner diameter, and a second recess extending a second distance from the second inner diameter toward the second outer diameter. A plurality of mating features associated with the first plate and second plate are configured to selectively fix a position of a first workpiece between the first plate and second plate within the first recess and second recess.
US09064671B2	Method and apparatus for generating electron beams Various embodiments of the present invention relate to a plasma electron source apparatus. The apparatus comprises a cathode discharge chamber in which a plasma is generated, an exit hole provided in said cathode discharge chamber from which electrons from the plasma are extracted by an accelerating field provided between said cathode discharge chamber and an anode, at least one plasma confinement device, and a switching mechanism for switching the at least one plasma confinement device between a first value allowing for electron extraction from the plasma and a second value prohibiting electron extraction from the plasma. Associated methods are also provided.
US09064670B2	Electron emission device and X-ray generator including the same An electron emission device includes a cathode electrode; a mesh-shaped gate electrode spaced apart from the cathode electrode; a plurality of gate spacers between the cathode electrode and the gate electrode; and a plurality of electron emission sources between the cathode electrode and the gate electrode, and alternating with the plurality of gate spacers.
US09064668B2	Non-evaporable getter alloys reactivable after exposure to reactive gases Getter materials are described. The getter materials have non-evaporable getter alloys in their powder form having high gas sorption efficiency, particularly for hydrogen, carbon oxide and nitrogen, which after having lost their functionality in consequence of the exposure to reactive gases at a first temperature, can then be reactivated through a thermal treatment at a temperature between 400° C. and 600° C. The alloy powders have as compositional elements titanium and silicon and at least one additional metallic element selected among vanadium, iron and aluminum and have an atomic percentage composition of the elements which can vary within the following ranges: 1. Titanium from 60 to 85 atomic percentage; 2. Silicon from 1 to 20 atomic percentage; and 3. The sum of vanadium, iron and aluminum from 10 to 30 atomic percentage.
US09064665B2	Electromagnetic relay An electromagnetic relay is provided with an armature which is pulled by an electromagnet and a card which transmits operation of the armature to the moving electrode plate. The armature includes an engagement part which engages with the card. The card includes a pedestal part which extends from the card body, a deforming part which extends from the card body and can elastically deform, and a tab which sticks out toward the pedestal part. The deforming part has a first part which extends from the card body and a second part which extends bent from the first part. The engagement part is sandwiched between the pedestal part and the second part. The ends in the width direction of the surface which the tab contacts when the engagement part is pushed between the pedestal part and the tab are formed with inclined parts.
US09064664B2	Contact device Provided is a contact device in which all of three movable contacts can be securely brought into contact with fixed contacts. The contact device includes a fixed terminal 37 that has a fixed contact 35, a movable terminal 28 that moves toward and away from the fixed terminal 37 and has three movable contacts 31a, 31b, and 31c that are brought into contact with the fixed contact 35, and a pressing spring 33 that presses the movable terminal 28 and brings the movable contacts 31a, 31b, and 31c into contact with the fixed contacts 35 at a predetermined pressing force. The point of application of the pressing spring 33 is located in a triangle formed by internal tangents of the three movable contacts.
US09064663B2	Operation input device An operation input device system and method are provided. The operation input device includes a touch pad having an operation plate on a surface of which an operation surface is formed. The touch pad is configured to sense an object in contact with or in proximity to the operation surface to receive input corresponding to a position of the sensed object. A hole portion provided to penetrate through the operation plate and a protrusion member inserted into the hole portion. The operation input device also includes a drive mechanism provided on a back surface side of the operation plate and configured to cause an advancing/retracting operation of the protrusion member along a direction intersecting the operation surface between a first state in which a distal end portion of the protrusion member is above the operation surface and a second state in which the distal end portion is not above the operation surface.
US09064661B2	Systems and methods for determining actuation duration of a relay An example system for determining the actuation duration of a relay can include a relay, a current-sensing device, and a controller. The relay can have an actuation coil, and armature, and a first and second contact. The current-sensing device can measure a current through the actuation coil. The controller can actuate the relay. The controller can also receive from the current-sensing device a plurality of measurement values for the current through the actuation coil. The controller can determine an actuation duration based on a local minimum value for the plurality of measurement values. The actuation duration can correspond to a duration of a movement of an armature of the relay from the first contact of the relay to the second contact of the relay. An actuation delay of the relay can be calculated based on the zero-crossing time of an input voltage value and the actuation duration.
US09064660B2	Remote controlled interactive power switch A remote controlled interactive power switch includes a first coil for controlling a switch contact to be closed by suction, a self-locked device for locking the switch contact to keep conducting state by mechanical self-locking, a second coil for controlling the self-locked device to be disengaged and a power supply control circuit. The power supply control circuit is connected with an interactive control module which includes a remote controlled interactive connecting unit, an interactive monitoring unit, a switch-on signal producing unit and a turn-off signal producing unit. The present invention can simplify the complex control circuit and thoroughly resolve the technical requirements of the power switch with high make-break capacity. Additionally, the present invention produces consumption only when starting the on-off switch, and after starting and under normal operation, the pulse magnetic energy coil keeps an inactivity state, no consumption, no heat and no noise.
US09064658B2	Switching apparatus for an electrical switching device A switching apparatus for an electrical switching device is disclosed, in particular an electrical circuit breaker, for safeguarding at least two poles. A tripping element is included for each pole, supported moveably between a rest position and a tripping position. A common switching frame, movable between a pre-tension position and a switching position, is actively connected for force transmission to frame sections of the at least two tripping elements for the movement of the switching frame into the switching position upon movement of the tripping element into the tripping position. At least one spring element is embodied to apply force to the frame sections of the at least two tripping elements in the direction of the rest position of the at least two tripping elements.
US09064657B2	Switching unit for an electrical switching device A switching unit for an electrical switching device, in particular for an electrical power circuit breaker, is disclosed and includes a breaker mechanism with an operating lever and a switching mechanism which can be actuated by the operating lever. In at least one embodiment, at least one breaker assembly board is included, onto which the breaker mechanism is fixed. The at least one breaker assembly board includes at least one positioning lug which is designed for positioning the switching unit in a housing of the electrical switching device.
US09064651B2	Keyswitch A keyswitch includes a casing, a key cap and a support device rotatably disposed between the key cap and the casing. One of the casing and the key cap has a first magnetic area and the support device has a second magnetic area corresponding to the first magnetic area. When the key cap is not pressed, a magnetic attraction force between the first and second magnetic areas keeps the key cap at a non-pressed position. When the key cap is pressed by an external force such that the second magnetic area moves away from the first magnetic area, the key cap moves from the non-pressed position toward the pressed position. When the external force is removed, the second magnetic area moves toward the first magnetic area due to the magnetic attraction force such that the key cap moves from the pressed position toward the non-pressed position.
US09064635B2	Dielectric ceramic material and multilayer ceramic capacitor using the same A dielectric ceramic material comprises a primary component of barium titanate (BaTiO3) and at least one additive component. The additive component has a mole percentage from 1% to 50% and is selected from the group consisting of lithium tantalite [lithium tantalate (LiTaO3)], barium cerate (BaCeO3), sodium metaniobate [sodium niobate (NaNbO3)] and the combinations thereof.
US09064633B2	Method for synthesizing quaternary ammonium systems A method for preparing a spiro quaternary ammonium system and electrolytes containing spiro quaternary ammonium cations, comprising a synthesizing step wherein a spiro ammonium system is formed in a medium that can serve as both the reaction solvent and as an electrolyte solvent. A one-solution method of making a non-aqueous electrolyte composition that comprises at least one of a spiro quaternary ammonium compound of the following formula:
US09064630B2	Integrated high frequency rotary transformer and resolver for traction motor An integrated rotary transformer and resolver and a motor including an integrated rotary transformer and resolver is provided. The integrated rotary transformer and resolver may include, but is not limited to, a stator having an outer surface and a plurality of slots disposed along the outer surface, a plurality of sensing coils, the plurality of sensing coils disposed in at least some of the plurality of slots, a rotor having a surface varying from a first predetermined thickness to a second predetermined thickness, and a controller electrically coupled to the plurality of sensing coils and configured to determine a position of the rotor based upon a voltage induced in each of the coils due to a relative thickness of the rotor opposed to the respective sensing coil.
US09064617B2	Electrically conductive rubber composition, developing roller, and image forming apparatus The electrically conductive rubber composition contains a rubber component including an SBR, an epichlorohydrin rubber and a CR, and the proportion of the SBR is 40 to 80 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. The rubber composition further contains 1.0 to 1.5 parts by mass of a sulfur crosslinking agent, 0.2 to 0.6 parts by mass of a thiourea accelerating agent, 0.1 to 0.5 parts by mass of a thiuram accelerating agent, and 1.0 to 2.0 parts by mass of a thiazole accelerating agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.
US09064616B2	Conductive paste A conductive paste includes a conductive powder containing at least one of copper and nickel as a main component, a glass frit, and an organic vehicle, wherein the glass frit is a tellurium-based glass frit that essentially does not contain any lead component and contains tellurium as a network former in an amount of 35 to 70 mol % in terms of oxide, the tellurium-based glass frit containing silver as an essential component. The above conductive paste can provide favorable characteristics and favorably be used in the formation of light-receiving surface electrodes of a solar cell element even when the conductive paste includes one or more of copper and nickel as its conductive component.
US09064615B2	Sulfide solid electrolyte material The main object of the present invention is to provide a sulfide solid electrolyte material with less hydrogen sulfide generation amount. The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem by providing a sulfide solid electrolyte material obtained by using a raw material composition containing Li2S and sulfide of an element of the fourteenth family or the fifteenth family, characterized by not substantially containing cross-linking sulfur and Li2S.
US09064613B2	Corrosion resistant electrical conductor An electrical conductor has a metal substrate. A seal layer is provided exterior of the metal substrate. A nickel layer is provided exterior of the seal layer. The seal layer is a non-nickel based metal. Optionally, the seal layer may be tin based. Optionally, the seal layer may create intermetallic interface layers with the nickel layer and the metal substrate. Optionally, the electrical conductor may constitute a contact configured for mating with at least one of a printed circuit board or another mating contact.
US09064606B2	Memory interface supporting both ECC and per-byte data masking A memory and a method of storing data in a memory are provided. The memory comprises a memory block comprising data bits and additional bits. The memory includes logic which, when receiving a first command, writes data into the data bits of the memory block, wherein the data is masked according to a first input. The logic, in response to a second command, writes data into the data bits of the memory block and writes a second input into the additional bits of the memory block.
US09064604B2	Timing logic for memory array Among other things, techniques and systems are provided for devising a schedule for performing read/write operations on a memory cell. A control signal is provided to timing logic. Using one or more properties of the control signal, such as a voltage property, the timing logic is configured to adjust a time window during which at least one of a read operation or a write operation is performed within a cycle. In this way, the timing logic affects a dynamic switch between an early-read operation, a late-read operation, an early-write operation, a late-write operation, a read-then-write operation, and a write-then-read operation between cycles. In some embodiments, the memory cell for which the schedule is devised is an SRAM cell, such as a six-transistor SRAM cell.
US09064602B2	Implementing memory device with sub-bank architecture A method, system and memory controller are provided for implementing memory devices with sub-bank architecture in a computer system. An array is divided into sub-blocks having odd bit lines and even bit lines. The sub-blocks are alternated with rows of sense amplifiers; wherein a particular row of sense amplifiers connects only to odd bit lines and a next row of sense amplifiers connects only to even bit lines. More than one word line for a sub-block is allowed to be active at the same time, where a first active word line will select memory cells connected to even bit lines and a second active word line will select memory cells connected to odd bit lines.
US09064578B2	Enable/disable of memory chunks during memory access Chunks of memory cells in a memory array are enabled to be accessed and then one or more of the chunks are disabled from being accessed. In one such apparatus, an array includes chunks of memory cells and a chunk selector circuit coupled to each chunk to enable the memory cells in the respective chunk to be accessed.
US09064577B2	Apparatuses and methods to control body potential in memory operations Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a memory cell string including memory cells located in different levels of the apparatus and a data line coupled to the memory cell string. The memory cell string includes a pillar body associated with the memory cells. At least one of such apparatus can include a module configured to store information in a memory cell among memory cells and/or to determine a value of information stored in a memory cell among memory cells. The module can also be configured to apply a voltage having a positive value to the data line and/or a source to control a potential of the body.
US09064576B2	Apparatuses and methods for transposing select gates Apparatuses and methods for transposing select gates, such as in a computing system and/or memory device, are provided. One example apparatus can include a group of memory cells and select gates electrically coupled to the group of memory cells. The select gates are arranged such that a pair of select gates are adjacent to each other along a first portion of each of the pair of select gates and are non-adjacent along a second portion of each of the pair of select gates.
US09064573B2	Writing method of variable resistance non-volatile memory element and variable resistance non-volatile memory device A writing method of a variable resistance non-volatile memory element comprises determining, in a first determination step, whether or not a resistance state of the variable resistance non-volatile memory element does not switch to a first resistance state and remains in a second resistance state, when a pulse of a second voltage is applied to the variable resistance non-volatile memory element; and when it is determined that the resistance state of the variable resistance non-volatile memory element does not switch to the first resistance state and remains in the second resistance state in the first determination step, applying, in a recovery step, at least once to the variable-resistance non-volatile memory element a recovery voltage pulse set composed of two pulses which are a first recovery voltage pulse which has the same polarity as that of the first voltage and a second recovery voltage pulse which has the same polarity as that of the second voltage, has a greater amplitude than the second voltage, and is applied subsequently to the first recovery voltage pulse.
US09064554B2	Data input/output circuit and semiconductor memory device including the same A data input/output circuit includes a precharge voltage supply unit configured to supply a precharge voltage driven by a first internal voltage in a standby state, and supply the precharge voltage driven by a second internal voltage when an active operation is performed; and a precharge unit configured to receive the precharge voltage, precharge a first input/output line and a first inverted input/output line to a level of the first internal voltage in the standby state, and precharge the first input/output line and the first inverted input/output line by the second internal voltage when the active operation is performed.
US09064548B2	Method for reading a third-dimensional embedded re-writeable non-volatile memory and registers A non-volatile register includes register logic connected with first and second ends of a memory element. The register logic is positioned below the memory element. The memory element may be a two-terminal memory element configured to store data as a plurality of conductivity profiles that can be non-destructively determined by applying a read voltage across the two terminals. New data can be written to the two-terminal memory element by applying a write voltage of a predetermined magnitude and/or polarity across the two terminals. The two-terminal memory element retains stored data in the absence of power. A reference element including a structure that is identical or substantially identical to the two-terminal memory element may be used to generate a reference signal for comparisons during read operations.
US09064539B1	Systems and methods for timing control in a data processing system The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for synchronizing operations in a data storage system.
US09064538B2	Method and system for generating at least one of: comic strips and storyboards from videos A method, a system, and a computer program product code for generating a series of still images from an input video file are provided. The series of still images may include, but are not limited to, a comic strip and a storyboard. The method includes extracting audio and visual frames from the video file. Thereafter, basic units of the video file are identified. The basic units are exposition (beginning), conflict (middle), and resolution (end). Thereafter, key frames are extracted from the basic units based on at least one of audio frames, visual frames, and a combination of the visual frames and the audio frames. Then, the extracted key frames are manipulated to output a series of still images. Subsequently, narration in the form of audio or text is attached to the still images to generate at least one of comic strips and storyboards.
US09064535B2	Randomly accessible visual information recording medium and recording method, and reproducing device and reproducing method Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened.
US09064529B2	Spindle motor and disk drive apparatus A spindle motor includes a recording disk and a clamper. A cylindrical portion includes a first screw portion positioned in an outer circumferential portion of the cylindrical portion. The clamper includes an annular raised portion configured to be fitted in a through hole of the recording disk. An inner circumferential portion of the clamper includes a second screw portion configured to be screwed to the first screw portion. At least a portion of the second screw portion is positioned in an inner circumferential portion of the annular raised portion. Each of the first screw portion and the second screw portion includes at least one of a screw groove and a screw thread. An axial position of at least a portion of the second screw portion overlaps with an axial position of the recording disk.
US09064524B2	Playback apparatus and playback control means A playback apparatus adapted to play back a content includes a first input unit via which to input a first content to be played back from a first apparatus, a second input unit via which to input a second content to be played back, and a storage unit adapted to store a specified playback start time. If time measured by a clock unit indicates that a predetermined time before the specified playback start time has been reached, a control unit controls a requesting unit to request the first apparatus to input the first content to be played back. If it is determined that the inputting of the first content from the first apparatus is not successfully completed by the specified playback start time, the control unit controls the playback operation so as to play back the second content input via the second content input unit.
US09064512B2	Methods and devices for controlling asymmetry in a magnetic reader In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor having a first and second electrode positioned at a first side of the MR sensor and a third electrode positioned at a second side of the MR sensor opposite the first side. In certain embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second electrodes coupled to an MR sensor and positioned at a first side of the MR sensor. The first and second electrodes are spaced apart from each other and are positioned over an area of the MR sensor that has a positive or negative asymmetry.
US09064510B1	Suspension assembly, head suspension assembly and disk device with the same According to one embodiment, a suspension assembly includes a support plate including a distal end portion, a trace member attached to the support plate, an elastic supporting member made from a distal end portion of the trace member and configured to support a head, and an actuation element expandable/contractible in the longitudinal direction of the trace member, at least a part of a bottom of which is adhered to a seating surface formed from a cover insulating layer of the trace member.
US09064506B2	Writable information recording and reproducing apparatus According to one embodiment, an information recording and reproducing apparatus including, a focus control module, an objective lens control module, a calculation module, and a tracking control module. If, detection the recording marks line, to focus a laser light of a second wavelength to the recording layer through an objective lens and to operation a recording layer tracking control using a tracking error signal taken out from a second reflected light and a laser light of a first wavelength to a track groove through the objective lens and to operation a guide layer tracking control to control the objective lens using a tracking error signal taken out from a first reflected light.
US09064493B2	Detecting potential significant errors in speech recognition results In some embodiments, the recognition results produced by a speech processing system (which may include a top recognition result and one or more alternative recognition results) based on an analysis of a speech input, are evaluated for indications of potential significant errors. In some embodiments, the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether a meaning of any of the alternative recognition results differs from a meaning of the top recognition result in a manner that is significant for the domain. In some embodiments, one or more of the recognition results may be evaluated to determine whether the result(s) include one or more words or phrases that, when included in a result, would change a meaning of the result in a manner that would be significant for the domain.
US09064480B2	Methods and systems for an object-oriented arrangement of musical ideas An electronic device and a method for playing a plurality of audio objects is provided. The method includes displaying the plurality of audio objects on a display, each audio object being displayed at a location having a horizontal component and a vertical component, wherein the location of each audio object is changeable by a user.
US09064471B2	Display device for vehicle A display device for a vehicle includes a liquid crystal panel, a light source, and a controller. The liquid crystal panel includes a particular display pixel and a normal display pixel. The controller controls the ratio of the gradation value of the normal display pixel to a set gradation value of the normal display pixel as a gradation ratio of the normal display pixel. At the same time, it controls the ratio of the gradation value of the particular display pixel to a set gradation value of the particular display pixel as a gradation ratio of the particular display pixel. Further, the controller sets first and second modes as a control mode, the first mode in which the light source emits light, and the second mode in which the light source emits light with brightness lower than in the first mode. In the first mode, the controller sets the gradation ratio of the normal display pixel and the gradation ratio of the particular display pixel at a particular time to a maximum ratio. In the second mode, the controller executes a gradation processing to make the gradation ratio of the particular display pixel at a particular time higher than the gradation ratio of the normal display pixel.
US09064469B2	Method for driving liquid crystal display device In a first subframe period, light sources of a first region and a third region emit lights at the same time; light sources of a second region and a fourth region emit no light at the same time, in which light emission of different colors is performed in the first region and the third region. In a second subframe period, light sources of the second region and the fourth region emit lights at the same time; light sources of the first region and the third region emit no light at the same time, in which light emission of different colors is performed in the second region and the fourth region. The first region and the third region are separated from each other with the second region interposed therebetween; and the second region and the fourth region are separated from each other with the third region interposed therebetween.
US09064459B2	Display apparatus and brightness adjusting method thereof A display apparatus and a brightness adjusting method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a panel unit which displays an image signal, a backlight unit which provides a light to the panel unit to visualize the image signal, a luminance value regulator which calculates representative values to be applied for adjusting a brightness of a plurality of partial areas of the backlight unit corresponding to the input image signal, a contrast enhancer which compensates for a brightness of the image signal compromised by the representative value through a contrast enhancement, and a pixel value compensator which compensates for pixel values of the image signal compensated using the contrast enhancement. Accordingly, the contrast ratio of the entire image can be enhanced by compensating for the brightness loss of the image signal caused from the brightness adjustment of the luminous element, and the image quality can be more finely improved.
US09064454B2	Display device and method of driving the same A display device and a method of driving the same, in which the display device includes: a light-emitting element; a first capacitor connected between first and second contact points; a driving transistor that has a control terminal connected to the second contact point, an input terminal connected to a driving voltage, and an output terminal connected to the light-emitting element; a first switching transistor connected between a data voltage or a sustain voltage and the first contact point; a second switching transistor connected between the second contact point and the output terminal of the driving transistor; and a third switching transistor connected between a reference current source and the output terminal of the driving transistor.
US09064451B2	Organic light emitting diode display having photodiodes Systems, methods, and devices are provided in which photodetectors disposed throughout a display are used to control the display brightness. The photodetectors are to be used for ambient light sensing, proximity sensing, or to compensate for aging OLEDs. In some embodiments, photodiodes are fabricated with OLEDs during the TFT fabrication process. In some embodiments, the photodetectors may be disposed throughout the display in zones containing OLEDs. The photodetectors are used to control the display brightness and color for the OLEDs in areas around each photodetector based on ambient light, aging, and/or nearby objects. A controller makes driving strength adjustments to the OLEDs in each zone independent of other zones. Photodetectors disposed throughout the display may improve proximity sensing and provide additional functionality to the device.
US09064443B2	Projection apparatus, projection method, and storage medium storing program, for reducing energy consumption by shortening color mixing period A projection apparatus includes a light source with light emitting devices of a plurality of colors, a drive unit configured to drive the light emitting devices of the plurality of colors so as to orderly emit single-color light and mixed-color light, an input unit configured to input an image signal, a projection unit configured to form and emit an optical image corresponding to an image signal input by the input unit, using the single-color light and the mixed-color light, and a control unit configured to emit the mixed-color light in a part of a light emission period of the mixed-color light and switch off the light emitting devices during a rest of the part of the light emission period, based on the image signal input by the input unit.
US09064437B2	Memory based semaphores Memory-based semaphore are described that are useful for synchronizing operations between different processing engines. In one example, operations include executing a context at a producer engine, the executing including updating a memory register, and sending a signal from the producer engine to a consumer engine that the memory register has been updated, the signal including a Context ID to identify a context to be executed by the consumer engine to update the register.
US09064420B2	Augmented reality heads up display (HUD) for yield to pedestrian safety cues An augmented reality driver system, device, and method safely guide a vehicle driver to yield to pedestrians. A vehicle navigator determines a turn lane based upon proximity to a vehicle. A target sensor detects a pedestrian entering the turn lane and to determine a crosswalk path across the turn lane. An augmented reality controller three dimensionally maps a forward view including the pedestrian, and spatially overlays an augmented reality display on the volumetric heads up display for a driver of the vehicle by projecting a yielding indication adjacent to the crosswalk path.
US09064419B2	Driver condition assessment device A driver condition determination device determines whether a driver of a host vehicle has degraded consciousness. A main component for distribution of an accelerating operation condition with respect to proximity when tailgating a preceding vehicle is analyzed (S16), all data is origin-shifted (S18), and the accelerating operation condition of the driver when the driver has consciousness is created as a normal traveling model (S20). The likelihood of the accelerating operation condition, a likelihood average, a likelihood variance, and a likelihood threshold value are calculated (S22 to S26), and it is determined whether the likelihood of a current driving operation is lower than the likelihood threshold value (S28). When the likelihood is lower than the likelihood threshold value, the driver is determined as being in degraded consciousness. Since the likelihood threshold value is calculated for determination on the basis of data when the driver has consciousness, an erroneous determination of degraded consciousness due to difference in driver operation characteristics is suppressed.
US09064418B2	Vehicle-mounted environment recognition apparatus and vehicle-mounted environment recognition system A vehicle-mounted environment recognition apparatus including a simple pattern matching unit which extracts an object candidate from an image acquired from a vehicle-mounted image capturing apparatus by using a pattern shape stored in advance and outputs a position of the object candidate, an area change amount prediction unit which calculates a change amount prediction of the extracted object candidate on the basis of an object change amount prediction calculation method set differently for each area of a plurality of areas obtained by dividing the acquired image, detected vehicle behavior information, and an inputted position of the object candidate, and outputs a predicted position of an object, and a tracking unit which tracks the object on the basis of an inputted predicted position of the object.
US09064406B1	Portable and persistent vehicle surveillance system A method and apparatus for monitoring vehicles. The vehicles are monitored using a sensor unit. The sensor unit comprises a housing, a camera system, a wireless communications system, and a controller associated with the housing. The camera system has a field of view and is configured to generate images. The wireless communications system is configured to transmit wireless signals. The controller is configured to detect a number of vehicles in the images, generate information for the number of vehicles, and send the information in the wireless signals. The information for the number of vehicles is sent to a remote location.
US09064403B2	Method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door A method of controlling access to an area accessible by persons, particularly to a space closed by a door, utilizes at least two communications units for transmitting and receiving an identification code and an access code. The identification code is transmitted at a predetermined first transmission power from a first communications unit to at least one second communications unit. The second communications unit checks the identification code and transmits an acknowledgement code at a second transmission power, which is lower than the first transmission power, from the second communications unit to the first communications unit if the check of the identification code was successful. The first communications unit transmits an access code to the second communications unit. After a successful check of the access code by the second communications unit the access is freed.
US09064402B2	Electrical fault detection device for a waterborne structure and method therefor A device for indicating the presence of an electrical fault for a waterborne structure includes a current tap electrically coupleable to an electrically conductive frame member of the waterborne structure and a grounding member configured for placement in water adjacent to the waterborne structure. An indicator is electrically coupled to the current tap so that an electrical charge supplied to the conductive frame member may be transmitted through the current tap and to the indicator. The indicator is electrically coupled to the grounding member to form a circuit.
US09064399B2	Information processing device, information processing method, and program There is provided an information processing device including a characteristic detection unit that detects a characteristic of a battery and a characteristic of an operating device that operates using electric power obtained from the battery, a symbol setting unit that sets one symbol on which information corresponding to the detected characteristics is reflected, and a display control unit that causes the set symbol to be displayed.
US09064392B2	Method and system for awareness detection A method may include receiving sensor data, the sensor data including at least one of sound or light; comparing, when the sensor data includes sound, the received sound with sound information included in one or more media files; comparing, when the sensor data includes light, the received light with one or more particular conditions; determining, based on comparing at least one of the received sound or the received light, if alert information should be provided, the alert information indicating a dangerous situation; and providing, when the alert information should be provided, the alert information indicating the dangerous situation.
US09064390B1	System and method for a novelty mood sensing sharing device The present disclosure pertains to a mood sensing sharing device, suitable for decorative jewelry, which enables the sharing of an included mood stone's indicated emotions over a communications network.
US09064387B2	Sound to haptic effect conversion system using waveform A haptic conversion system is provided that intercepts frames of audio data, such as a digital audio signal, converts the frames into a haptic signal, and plays the created haptic signal through an actuator to produce haptic effects. The haptic signal is based on a maximum value of each audio data frame, which defines a magnitude of the haptic signal. The haptic signal is applied to the actuator configured to receive the haptic signal, where the actuator utilizes the haptic signal to generate the one or more haptic effects.
US09064385B2	Method and apparatus to generate haptic feedback from video content analysis The disclosure relates to generating haptic feedback based on video content analysis, sensor information that includes one or more measurements of motion of one or more objects on a video, and/or sensor information that includes one or more measurements of motion of one or more image capture devices. The video content analysis may include image processing of the video. The system may identify one or more events based on the image processing and cause a haptic feedback based on the one or more events. The haptic feedback may vary based on an estimated acceleration of an object of a scene of the video, wherein the estimated acceleration is based on the image processing. The estimated acceleration may be made more accurate at high speeds using the sensor information and an estimated acceleration based on the sensor information may be made more accurate at lower speeds based on the image processing.
US09064378B2	Degressive bonus system Embodiments of the invention include a mystery degressive bonus system. Instead of a bonus that increases its value as the likelihood of winning the bonus increases, embodiments of the invention disconnect the likelihood of winning a mystery bonus from the amount awarded for triggering the mystery bonus. In some embodiments as the likelihood of winning the mystery bonus increases, the award for winning the mystery bonus decreases. Some embodiments include a minimum value for winning the mystery bonus. Additional embodiments are directed to an indicator system to show to the player a present amount of the mystery bonus award as well as the likelihood of winning the award. Further embodiments include a gaming device that includes a bonus game in which the amount awarded to the player decreases over time.
US09064373B2	Storing information from a verification device and accessing the information from a gaming device to verify that the gaming device is communicating with a server A system includes a server, which provides activities and possibly other services to a player through a mobile gaming device. To verify that the mobile gaming device is communicating with the server, information received from a verification device is stored. Thereafter, in response to a request from the mobile gaming device, the stored information is determined and sent to the mobile gaming device via the server.
US09064372B2	Wagering game with simulated mechanical reels having an overlying image display A gaming machine for playing a wagering game includes a housing having a display region. A first image display device for simulating mechanical reels of a slot machine in the display region includes a curved surface that approximates the radius of curvature of a mechanical reel. The curved surface displays first video images that include a plurality of symbols indicating a randomly selected outcome of the wagering game. A second image display device displays second video images spatially separated from and overlaying the first video images within the display region. The second video images include indicia related to the wagering game.
US09064370B1	Method for conducting a sports technology reality television show A method for conducting a reality sports television show, where the method includes providing a cast, wherein the cast comprises a plurality of sports players that remain undrafted by a professional sports league, broadcasting a plurality of private lives of the cast, broadcasting the cast playing at least one sports game, wherein the sports game comprises a game without timeouts and huddles, and wherein on-field communication between the cast is accomplished by using a means for improving in-game communications, wherein said means includes at least one player transceiver for transmitting and receiving audio or visual communications to and from players, coaches, referees, or television production members, and at least one coach transceiver for transmitting and receiving audio or visual communications to and from players, coaches, referees, or television production members.
US09064356B2	System of stacked devices A method of implementing use cases includes associating a use case with each of a plurality of devices capable of being used or accessed by a user. The method also includes providing a plurality of stackable blades, each providing a standard physical interface and being configured to implement a solution to the use case associated with each of the plurality of devices. The method further includes stacking the plurality of stackable blades to form an interconnected stack. Each of the plurality of stackable blades are coupled using the standard physical interface. The method also includes executing a first purpose corresponding to a first use case and executing a second purpose corresponding to a second use case. Embodiments provide an electronic ecosystem featuring ubiquitous connectivity in which a standard contact array in each component of the ecosystem assures interoperability between heterogeneous devices.
US09064350B2	Methods of providing graphics data and displaying A method of providing graphics data, comprising generating a first set of data vectors specifying geometrical characteristics of a graphical object in a first digital picture, generating a second set of data vectors specifying geometrical characteristics of the graphical object in a second digital picture to be displayed after the first digital picture, generating a parameter set comprising information specifying intermediate geometrical characteristics of the graphical object based on the geometrical characteristics of the graphical object in the first digital picture, and of the graphical object in the second digital picture, wherein the intermediate geometrical characteristics are geometrical characteristics of the graphical object in at least one third digital picture to be displayed after the first digital picture and before the second digital picture, and generating at least one data file comprising the first set of data vectors, the second set of data vectors and the parameter set.
US09064349B2	Computer-implemented image composition method and apparatus using the same A computer-implemented image composition method and apparatus, wherein, after a user selects a base image from a plurality of sequential images, and specifies an area to be modified, the content of the specified area in the base image is replaced with the content of a corresponding area in the remaining images one by one, and the base image after the replacement is output for a user's previewing and determination. It is possible to improve the quality of the images sequentially captured by applying the present disclosure.
US09064345B2	Compressing data representing computer animated hair Data representing animated hair in a computer generated imagery (CGI) scene may be compressed by treating hair data as arrays of parameters. Hair data parameters may include control vertices, hair color, hair radius, and the like. A principal component analysis (PCA) may be performed on the arrays of hair data. PCA may yield new basis vectors, varying in length, with the largest basis vector corresponding to a new dimension with the largest variance in hair data. The hair data may be quantized based on the varying lengths of new basis vectors. The number of bits allocated for quantizing each new dimension corresponding to each new basis vector may be determined based on the relative lengths of new basis vectors, with more bits allocated to dimensions corresponding to longer basis vectors. The quantized hair data may be bit-packed and then compressed using lossless entropy encoding.
US09064344B2	Image transformation systems and methods Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable medium are provided that cause a two dimensional image to appear three dimensional and also create a dynamic or animated illustrated images. The systems, methods, apparatuses and computer readable mediums implement displacement maps in a number of novel ways in conjunction with among other software, facial feature recognition software to recognize the areas of the face and allow the users to then customize those areas that are recognized. Furthermore, the created displacement maps are used to create all of the dynamic effects of an image in motion.
US09064337B2	Method, system and apparatus for rendering a map with adaptive textures for map features Methods, systems and apparatus are described to render a map with adaptive textures for map features. Embodiments may for a portion of map data, such as a map tile, including a feature of a given feature type specify a level-of-detail texture. A level-of-detail texture may be one of a plurality of level-of-detail textures for a given feature type ordered according to level-of-detail. Embodiments may then provide the specified level-of-detail texture with a mipmap chain to a rendering unit to render the map data. At the lowest level of the mipmap chain may be the specified level-of-detail texture. At the next lowest level of the mipmap chain may be a portion of the level-of-detail texture adjacent to the specified level-of-detail texture in the ordered plurality of level-of-detail textures for the feature type.
US09064336B2	Multiple texture compositing A machine readable storage media containing executable program instructions which when executed cause a digital processing system to set a plurality of operands and operators. A plurality of texture maps are sent to a processor for texture compositing. Operands are selected for a texture operation. A first logic is used wherein if the circulation of blend stages is equal to a number of blend stages, then a color saturation is performed, and a second logic that if the circulation number of blend stages does not equal the number of blend stages then at least one operand is selected for another texture compositing operation.
US09064335B2	System, method, device and computer-readable medium recording information processing program for superimposing information An example system includes an information processing device, which includes: an arrangement item including a first marker; an arrangement region providing object which provides an arrangement region and includes a plurality of second markers; and an information processing device including: an imaging processing unit to generate a captured image with an imaging device; a positional relationship judgment unit to judge a positional relationship between the first marker of the arrangement item and at least one of the second markers, from a captured image which includes the first marker of the arrangement item and at least one of the plurality of second markers of the arrangement region providing object; an information superimposition unit to superimpose predetermined information based on the positional relationship, onto the captured image; and a display processing unit to cause a display device to display the captured image on which the predetermined information is superimposed.
US09064317B2	Detection of near-field camera obstruction A method (100) is provided for detecting an obstruction within a field of view of a camera (12) from an image (200) captured by the camera (12). The method (100) includes: analyzing the image (200) by applying edge detection (104) to the image (200), identifying (108) regions of the image (200) lacking edge content and comparing (112) a size of the identified regions to a threshold; and determining if there is an obstruction based upon a result of said comparison.
US09064314B2	Robust automatic determination and location of MacBeth color checker charts A MacBeth color checker chart automatic detection system includes an imaging unit that provides an image and a processing unit that applies an edge detection operation to the image and performs a flood-fill operation on the image to provide a flood-filled image. Additionally, the MacBeth color checker chart automatic detection system includes a testing unit that tests the flood-filled image to provide a modified flood-fill image, wherein a set of heuristic tests are employed to automatically determine quantity and location of MacBeth color checker charts. Generally, the set of heuristic tests are employed to automatically reject regions that are unlikely to belong to a MacBeth color checker chart and to cluster the remaining regions that are likely to belong to a Macbeth color checker chart. A MacBeth color checker chart automatic detection method is also provided.
US09064312B2	Augmented reality using projector-camera enabled devices An augmented reality scene may be registered onto an arbitrary surface. A camera may capture an image of the arbitrary surface. The camera may analyze the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. In some embodiments, a processing computing device may analyze data captured by the camera and an adjacent camera to reconstruct the surface geometry of the arbitrary surface. A scene may be registered to a three dimensional coordinate system corresponding to the arbitrary surface. A projector may project the scene onto the arbitrary surface according to the registration so that the scene may not display as being distorted.
US09064303B2	Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method configured to correct specific region data based on benchmark slice In multi-slice imaging of a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus based on a non-Cartesian sampling method in which an overlap portion is generated in k space, stable body movement correction is realized at high speed. In order to do so, the rotation and translation of an object is detected for each specific region (in the case of a hybrid radial method, each blade) using a most characteristic slice in the imaging region, and the detected body movement is used for body movement correction of the specific region in all slices. The slice used for correction may be determined using a mathematical analysis result, such as correlation. In addition, data collection and correction processing may be performed in parallel.
US09064301B2	Method and apparatus for compressing imaging data of whole blood sample analyses A method and apparatus for analyzing white blood cells (WBCs) within a whole blood sample quiescently residing within a chamber is provided. The chamber is defined by at least one transparent panel, and the whole blood sample includes at least one colorant operable to differentially identify at least one WBC type from another WBC type within the sample. The method includes the steps of: a) creating at least one image of the sample quiescently residing within the chamber; b) identifying portions of the sample image, with each portion representing a single WBC; c) compressing the sample image portions using a first compression algorithm; and d) one of compressing a remainder of the sample image not included in the portions using a second compression algorithm, or discarding the remainder.
US09064300B2	Method and system for automatic determination of coronory supply regions A method and system for automatically associating coronary arteries with regions of the myocardium to which the arteries supply blood is described. The method uses three dimensional image data of a patient, and an axial image slice is used to identify candidate locations of the aorta. Candidate aorta centroid locations are evaluated to eliminate spurious identifications, and the identified aorta is used to locate the left ventricle of the heart with respect thereto. Arteries of the coronary artery tree may be located by segmentation of contrasted images, and the individual arteries may be identified by skeletonization of the segmented arteries. The skeletonized arteries are projected onto an image of the patient heart, and may be associated with specific regions of the myocardium.
US09064299B2	Filters and functions using exponential decay The technology described in this document relates to filters and functions that are based on exponential decay functions. In one aspect, the technology is embodied in a method that includes using a computing device to compute a first function as a combination of (i) an exponential decay function, a decay factor for which is chosen based on a Gaussian function, and (ii) at least a second function that is obtained by one or more convolution operations on the decay function. The first function provides an approximation of at least a portion of the Gaussian function.
US09064295B2	Enhanced video encoding using depth information The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for enhancing video encoding using depth information. An exemplary method comprises: determining, using a computing device, depth information associated with a first object in an image; determining, based on the depth information, that the first object is an object in focus; determining, based on the object in focus, a more important segment of an image; determining a first bit rate for encoding the more important segment of the image; and encoding the more important segment using the first bit rate.
US09064294B2	Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus processes encoded data obtained by encoding image data for each of line blocks obtained by dividing an image. The image processing apparatus includes: a body-partition generating unit configured to generate body partitions of a file with a predetermined format for each piece of encoded data for one of the line blocks, the body partitions containing the encoded data; and a partition merging unit configured to merge the body partitions generated by the body-partition generating unit, a header partition containing header information, and a footer partition containing footer information to thereby generate the file.
US09064287B2	Computer implemented methods and apparatus for providing group-related social network information Disclosed are computer implemented methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable media for providing information to an information feed associated with a group of an online social network. In some implementations, a network communication including a group address and data is received at a computing device. The group address is encoded to include a first identifier associating the network communication with a first user and a second identifier associating the network communication with the group. The group address is decoded to obtain the first identifier and the second identifier. At least a portion of the data in the network communication is provided as an information update to the information feed associated with the group, and the information update is included in the information feed for display on a display device.
US09064282B1	Live auctioning system and methods An auctioning method is conducted using an interactive auction host system. The method includes providing access for auction participants to a live auction for one or more auctioned lots of products or services that is conducted and overseen by an auction administrator at an auction host location. At least some of the access to the live auction is provided to remote auction participants through an auction host system of the auction host system. Data is transmitted substantially in real time from the auction host system, which may include auction-related data and at least one of video and audio feeds of the live auction through a network to one or more remote auction participants located at a remote participant interface. Information provided from the remote auction participants through the remote participant interface is provided and received by auction host system. At least one of various other actions are performed.
US09064279B1	System for cosmetics matching based on skin tone A system allows people to more easily find products matching their skin tone. A kiosk at a retail store or other location can assist customers in determining what products are right for them and then purchase them from the retailer. The kiosk can include a scanning device is used to scan one or more spots of a person's skin. For example, three different spots can be scanned. The scan determines a skin-tone identifier for the person's skin. This skin-tone identifier is used by a software program (e.g., executing on a tablet computer) to determine and output a listing of products that are appropriate for the person's skin tone.
US09064278B2	System for managing, storing and providing shared digital content to users in a user relationship defined group in a multi-platform environment A system for managing, storing and providing shared digital content to a group of users in a multi-platform environment, comprising a cloud storage component configured to store digital content items that are shared by members in a user relationship defined group, and a cloud service component configured to provide one of the digital content items to a first platform for a first member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the first platform and to a second platform for a second member of the user relationship defined group in a format suitable for the second platform, wherein the first platform and the second platform are different platforms.
US09064277B2	Method and server systems for facilitating comparison shopping with geographically-specific, real-time product inventory information Consistent with some embodiments of the invention, a web-based comparison shopping and marketplace service enables a user to search for and/or browse products of interest, and then obtain geographically-relevant, real-time product availability and pricing information for a product of interest that is offered by one or more physical retail stores. Additionally, with some embodiments, the service enables a user to conclude a purchase transaction for a product that is located at a retail store, and then provides the user with driving directions from the user's location to the retail store.
US09064271B2	Content display system A portable device includes solid-state memory, an Ethernet and/or wireless network connection, and an HDMI. The portable device receives content guide data from a first server and displays a content guide on a display. In response to a user's selection of a content item, the portable device requests the content item over the Internet from a second server. The portable device receives the content item, stores the content item in solid-state memory, generates display signals that represent the content item, and sends the display signals to a display. The second server may match the content item with relevant advertisements based on keywords associated with the content item and the advertisements. The second server may send selected advertisement URLs to the portable device. Using the URLs, the portable device may obtain the advertisements over the Internet and cause the display to display the advertisements in conjunction with the content item.

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