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US07965936B2	4D light field cameras A camera acquires a 4D light field of a scene. The camera includes a lens and sensor. A mask is arranged in a straight optical path between the lens and the sensor. The mask including an attenuation pattern to spatially modulate the 4D light field acquired of the scene by the sensor. The pattern has a low spatial frequency when the mask is arranged near the lens, and a high spatial frequency when the mask is arranged near the sensor.
US07965923B2	Systems and methods for indexing and searching digital video content The present invention relates to systems and methods for indexing digital video content maintained on a storage media item. The method of the present invention comprises extracting caption and subtitle content from one or more video object (“VOB”) files maintained on the storage media item. The extracted caption and subtitle content are segmented into one or more segments and video and audio content corresponding to the one or more segments are extracted. Descriptions of the video and audio content corresponding to the segmented caption and subtitle content are generated. The captions, subtitles, descriptions, and corresponding video and audio content associated with the one or more segments of the one or more VOB files are indexed.
US07965922B2	Information processing device, information recording medium manufacturing device, information recording medium, methods thereof, and computer program An information processing device for executing reproduction processing of content recorded in an information recording medium, includes: a data processing unit for acquiring content codes including a program or application information to be applied to the recording content of the information recording medium, and executing data processing in accordance with the acquired content codes; wherein the data processing unit is configured so as to execute the verification processing of a digital signature which allows tampering verification of the entire content codes included in a content code file storing the content codes, and as the verification result, execute data processing in accordance with the content codes on the condition that validity of the content code file has been confirmed.
US07965917B2	Illuminating apparatus and surface inspection system using illuminating apparatus At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an illuminating apparatus, configured to uniformly illuminate a surface of an object, and includes a light-guiding member configured to guide light emitted from a source to a surface to be illuminated, and a reflecting member disposed between the light-guiding member and the surface to be illuminated. The reflecting member includes a pair of reflection surfaces disposed so as to face each other in a long side direction of the surface to be illuminated, and reflects light emitted from the light-guiding member in directions having directional components parallel to a short side direction of the surface to be illuminated toward the surface to be illuminated.
US07965914B2	Critically coupled microring resonator and method A microring resonator and methods critically couple a microring waveguide to an adjacent bus waveguide. A method of determining parameters of a critically coupled microring resonator includes modeling a coupled portion of the microring resonator as a U-shaped waveguide spaced apart from a straight waveguide by a gap and selecting a straight waveguide width and a gap size to optimize an output coupling ratio between the U-shaped waveguide and the straight waveguide. A method of producing the microring resonator includes using the determined parameters to produce, and a critically coupled microring resonator includes, a ring-shaped or microring waveguide spaced from the bus waveguide by a gap.
US07965909B2	Fibre-optic surveillance system A fiber-optic surveillance system (10) includes a fiber-optic sensor (15) comprising a serial array (15) of fiber-optic point-sensors (16), successive point-sensors being linked by a distributed fiber-optic sensor (18). The system allows the location of intruder events along the sensor to be determined, and provides a reduction in the incidence of false-alarms compared to prior art systems.
US07965907B2	Medical image handling system and method A medical image handling system includes a monitor for displaying a medical image, an input device for inputting an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and a processor. The processor judges the presence or absence of an image reading report corresponding to the medical image displayed on the monitor, and restricts a change of the medical image in a case where the image reading report is judged as being absent.
US07965905B2	Device, method and system for automatic stabilization of a series of retinal images Some embodiments of the present invention may relate to a device and a method of enabling the stabilization of a series of retinal angiography images to provide a coherent serial display, the method comprising: locally matching a pair of overlapping images, said locally matching includes at least providing a best offset vector for the images, wherein the best offset vector is provided based upon a matching of features from overlapping portions of the images; globally matching at least a triplet of matching pairs of images, wherein pairs of globally matching images include locally matching pairs whose best offset vector sum is substantially zero; choosing a key image; and aligning all the remaining images to the key image.
US07965902B1	Large-scale image processing using mass parallelization techniques Assets of raw geo-located imagery can be divided into tiles and coverage masks can be generated for each tile. For each tile, fragments of pixels from coverage masks of neighboring tiles can be extracted and tagged. The fragments can be sorted and stored in a data structure so that fragments having the same tag can be grouped together in the data structure. The fragments can be used to feather the coverage mask of the tile to produce a blend mask. Multi-resolution imagery and mask pyramids can be generated by extracting fragments from tiles and minified (e.g., down-sampled). The minified fragments can be tagged (e.g., by ancestor tile name), sorted and stored in a data structure, so that fragments having like tags can be stored together in the data structure. The fragments can be assembled into fully minified tiles for each level in the pyramid. Input tiles in a first projection are re-projected into a second projection using techniques that minimize distortion in the re-projected imagery.
US07965898B2	Accelerating video decoding using multiple processors A system and method for decoding high definition video content using multiple processors reduces the likelihood of dropping video frames. Each of the multiple processors produces and stores a portion of a decoded video frame in its dedicated frame buffer. A region of a reference frame that is needed to produce a first portion of a decoded video frame, but that is not stored in the frame buffer coupled to the processor that will decode the first portion, is copied to the frame buffer. The size of the region needed may vary based on a maximum possible motion vector offset. The size of the region that is copied may be dynamic and based on a maximum motion vector offset for each particular reference frame.
US07965896B2	Method and apparatus for encoding image A value of a selection parameter is sequentially set from among a plurality of parameters included in a modeling equation to derive a quantization matrix. A value of each of the parameters is sequentially derived based on a code amount and an encoding distortion obtained from an encoding using a quantization matrix generated from an updated parameter set.
US07965894B2	Method for detecting alterations in printed document using image comparison analyses A document alteration detection method compares a target image with an original image using a two-step process. In the first step, the original and target images are divided into connected image components and their centroids are obtained, and the centroids of the image components in the original and target images are compared. Each centroid in the target image that is not in the original image is deemed to represent an addition, and each centroid in the original image that is not in the target image is deemed to represent a deletion. In the second step, sub-images containing the image components corresponding to each pair of matching centroids in the original and target images are compared to detect any alterations.
US07965889B2	Imaging apparatus, imaging method, program and recording medium An image processing apparatus has an enlargement processing function of displaying an image on an image display unit at a designated enlargement magnification, and a color conversion processing function of changing a designated conversion source color to a conversion destination color. This image processing apparatus determines at least one of the conversion source color and conversion destination color by acquiring color information from a predetermined area in the displayed image. Upon determining one of the conversion source color and conversion destination color, control according to the enlargement magnification of the enlargement processing function is made so as to assure an amount, which is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, of color information included in the predetermined area.
US07965888B2	Digital video camera non-integer-ratio bayer domain scaler An apparatus having a buffer and a circuit is disclosed. The buffer may be configured to receive a digital image. The digital image generally has (i) a Bayer color representation and (ii) two initial dimensions in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction respectively. The circuit may be configured to generate a resample image in a signal by down-sampling the digital image in the Bayer color representation such that (i) the resample image has two resample dimensions, (ii) at least one of the resample dimensions is smaller than a respective at least one of the initial dimensions and (iii) the respective at least one initial dimension is a non-integer multiple of the at least one resample dimension.
US07965887B2	Method of pattern location using color image data Machine vision tools are applied to color images using methods that utilize an optimized spectrum of the color information. Such methods include full color normalized correlation techniques and methods to convert color images to greyscale using weighting factors that maximize color contrast in a corresponding greyscale image.
US07965884B2	System and method for testing LEDs on a motherboard An exemplary method and system for testing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) uses a camera module to take two bulb images of transparent bulbs connected to each of the LEDs. A first bulb image is captured when the LEDs are set in a power-on state, and a second bulb image is captured when the LEDs are set in a power-off state. The method divides each of the two bulb images into small pictures, and calculates an average pixel value of each of the small pictures. After calculating a first difference of each of the small pictures between the average pixel value and a first predetermined value, and a second difference of each of the small pictures between the average pixel value and a second predetermined value, the method ascertains a present state of each of the LEDs by comparing the two differences.
US07965883B2	Image inspection method and image inspection apparatus employing the same The method comprises a first step (S1 in FIG. 1) of obtaining a transmission image, a second step (S2) of applying a quadratic differential filter to the transmission image, thereby to emphasize a part of large luminance change as a quadratic differential filter image, a third step (S3) of binarizing the quadratic differential filter image with a predetermined threshold value, and then storing the resulting binarized image, a fourth step (S4) of binarizing the transmission image with another predetermined threshold value, and then storing the resulting binarized image, a fifth step (S5) of performing the measurement of binary feature quantities for the binarized image stored at the third step (S3) and the binarized image stored at the fourth step (S4), and a sixth step (S6) of deciding the quality of the object to-be-inspected from the binary feature quantities.
US07965880B2	Lumen tracking in computed tomographic images A lumen tracking method and system automatically extracts a colon from CT image data by locating landmarks in the image data, based on known anatomic features or other predictable features. If the colon is segmented, the method and system may use the landmarks to evaluate candidate segments for inclusion in the extracted colon.
US07965879B2	System and method for detecting stripe artifacts in MIP rendered images A method for efficiently rendering a chessboard artifact free Maximum intensity projection (MIP) image is disclosed is disclosed. MIP is a widely used volumetric rendering technology in medical diagnostic imaging. When a volume dataset containing wideband noise is rendered using MIP, the resultant MIP image can show chessboard or stripe like artifacts. A method is disclosed for automatically detecting stripe artifacts present in the MIP rendered images and to determine whether suitable mitigation algorithms need to be applied during rendering. This automatic detection method eliminates the need for human review of images to determine whether mitigation is required, and thus speeds the overall process.
US07965877B2	Fingerprint sensing device using pulse processing A fingerprint sensing device that measures the capacitance between an array of electrode plates and finger skin using pulse processing, in which pulse width rather than voltage level, is used for capacitance measurement and digital signal conversion. A pulse, the width of which is compared and adjusted with that of a reference pulse, is generated when voltage at sensing electrodes in discharging is compared with a reference voltage. The comparison results are then digitalized in a grade image sensor or output directly in a binary image sensor. The sensor can communicate with a CPU using serial communication, parallel communication, or memory map scheme. Since no A/D is used, there is no extra time and hardware cost for the conversion from analog signals to digital signals. Due to the pulse processing nature, the circuits can be configured insensitive to the change or fluctuation in voltage supply. This feature enables the sensing device work with a variety of voltages, and thus it can be better used in portable, battery powered or passive devices.
US07965859B2	Lighting control of a user environment via a display device A system and method for controlling lighting conditions in a user environment in the context of an image capture device are disclosed. An inner frame area and an outer frame area adjust certain lighting conditions in the user environment in response to certain lighting conditions detected by the image capture device. The frame areas may be dynamically controlled as to affect the brightness and/or color of the particular user environment.
US07965858B2	Data processing apparatus and method An encoding data processing apparatus configured to parse a compression encoded bit stream to identify frames of a video image, and to determine for image frame areas of the compression encoded bit stream providing spare data capacity as a result of the fixed data portion not being completely filled with macroblocks; to first check within the macroblocks whether an additional amount of data required to represent the entire visible watermark can be accommodated in a memory space formed by the spare data capacity of the image frame; and after it has been determined that the additional data for representing the entire visible watermark can be accommodated within the spare data capacity, to change selected macroblocks of the image frame to represent the visible watermark; to generate a bit pattern representing the macroblocks in the original image frame which have changed to represent the visible watermark; and to insert all the additional data into the areas providing the spare data capacity of the fixed data portions of the image frame.
US07965854B2	Band-limited adaptive feedback canceller for hearing aids An improved method for adaptively cancelling acoustic feedback in hearing aids and other audio amplification devices. Feedback cancellation is limited to a frequency band that encompasses all unstable frequencies. By limiting the bandwidth of the feedback cancellation signal, the distortion due to the adaptive filter is minimized and limited only to the unstable feedback regions. A relatively simple signal processing algorithm is used to produce highly effective results with minimal signal distortion.
US07965848B2	Reduced number of channels decoding An intermediate channel representation of a multi-channel signal can be reconstructed highly efficient and with high fidelity, when upmix parameters for upmixing a transmitted downmix signal to the intermediate channel representation are derived that allow for an upmix using the same upmixing algorithms as within the multi-channel reconstruction. This can be achieved when a parameter re-calculator is used to derive the upmix parameters that takes into account also parameters having information on channels that are not included in the intermediate channel representation.
US07965845B2	System and methods for efficient authentication of medical wireless ad hoc network nodes A medical ad hoc wireless network (10) is deployed in a healthcare medical facility surrounding individual patients and including wireless nodes (A, B, . . . , Z). Before deployment, each node (A, B, . . . , Z) is pre-initialized with a public key certificate (22) and offers a trust and symmetric key distribution service (32). In joining the ad hoc network (10), a node (B) authenticates and registers to one randomly self-chosen node (A) by using certified public keys (20). Such node (A) becomes Trusted Portal (TPA) of the node (B). The node (B) dynamically registers to a new self-chosen TP node when its old TP node leaves the ad hoc network (10). The network (10) supports symmetric key authentication between nodes registered to the same TP node. Additionally, it supports symmetric key authentication between nodes registered to different TP nodes.
US07965841B2	Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing data, and computer product A bit string having a predetermined length is added to a head of a data string. The data string to which the bit string is added is compressed to produce a compressed data string. A head part is taken off from the compressed data string. The head part includes from a head position of the compressed data string to a predetermined position of the bit string compressed at the compressing. The head part and a latter part of the compressed data are output separately.
US07965840B2	Data transmission and reception method and data transmission and reception device A method of transmitting and receiving data in which cipher-transmission of digital information data for which forbidden codes including timing identification codes are predetermined can be carried out with enciphered digital information data without containing undesirable forbidden code. Digital information data contained in word sequence data which also contain time reference code data composed of the timing identification codes are subjected to enciphering process without producing the forbidden code to produce the enciphered digital information data which do not contain any forbidden code. Enciphered word sequence data are constituted with the enciphered digital information data and the time reference code data to be transmitted.
US07965838B2	Watermark generating circuit and related method thereof A watermark generating circuit includes: a first computing circuit, for generating a second reference signal according to a computing parameter, an input data and a first reference signal; a second computing circuit, coupled to the first computing circuit, for generating at least one selecting signal to determine an embedding location for a watermark according to the second reference signal; and a register, coupled to the first computing circuit, for registering the second reference signal to transmit the registered second reference signal to the first computing circuit for updating the first reference signal, and for generating the watermark according to the second reference signal.
US07965836B2	Data cipher processors Data cipher processors, advanced encryption standard (AES) cipher system, and AES cipher methods using a masking method perform round operations using a round key, a plain text, a cipher text, and masking data. Some of the round operations are implemented over a composite Galois Field GF(•). Original data and predetermined masking data are processed according to a predetermined rule. Sub-byte transformation operations used in the cipher method and system may include an affine transformation, an inverse affine transformation, an isomorphic transformation, and an inverse isomorphic transformation which are linear transformations, and an inverse transformation that is a non-linear transformation.
US07965834B2	Method and system for clear signal capture A method and system for clear signal capture comprehend several individual aspects that address specific problems in improved ways. In addition, the method and system also comprehend a hands-free implementation that is a practical solution to a very complex problem. Individual aspects comprehended related to echo and noise reduction, and divergence control.
US07965832B2	Connection manager for integrating legacy telephony environments and IP networks In a telephony call management system, a method of distributing calls among a plurality of packet-based load balancing resources can include receiving over a telephony channel a call request specifying call information, comparing the call information with selection criteria to select one of the plurality of packet-based load balancing resources, and querying the selected packet-based load balancing resource to resolve the call request. A response from the selected packet-based load balancing resource can be received which indicates whether the call request can be resolved.
US07965831B2	Telephone control device, telephone control method, telephone control program, telephone terminal, telephone calling method, telephone calling program and telephone control system The present invention realizes a telephone system which enables calling with ease from an outside line to a desired extension telephone terminal in an extension telephone network having a plurality of representative numbers. The telephone control device connected to a plurality of telephone terminals and a plurality of telephone exchange devices, includes a designation accepting unit which accepts designation of a calling destination telephone number from a telephone terminal, a connection setting unit which selects a telephone exchange device from the plurality of telephone exchange devices based on a calling destination telephone number accepted by the designation accepting unit to execute connection setting at the selected telephone exchange device so as to connect a call from a telephone terminal which designates the calling destination telephone number to the calling destination telephone number, and a telephone number information transmission unit which transmits telephone number information of a telephone exchange device selected by the connection setting unit to a telephone terminal which designates a calling destination telephone number.
US07965830B2	Network element and method of mapping address information The invention concerns a network element (4) for a telecommunication network (1) and a method of mapping address information according to a network numbering plan of the telecommunication network (1) to service access codes or network element addresses. The network element (4) receives address information according to the network numbering plan of the telecommunication network (1) and extracts a search key from the received address information. It provides a memory (42) with a data structure for representing, retrieving and modifying translation information mapping address information according to the network numbering plan to service access codes or network element addresses. The data structure has a tree structure with nodes and leaves operatively chained together wherein at least one of the nodes holds information nominating which part of the search key will be used to determine the branching of the respective node. The network element (4) applies the search key on the data structure of the memory by a key walk logic searching the key structure, the key walk logic extracts the part of the search key nominated by the respective node and determines the branching of the node by means of the extracted part of the search key.
US07965829B2	Subscriber alterable call transfer service A method and system are provided for implementing a call transfer service over a telephone network, a subscription for the call transfer service being alterable by a call transfer service subscriber, and includes a subscriber graphic user interface through which the subscriber may provide call transfer service information. A telephone network node such as a platform may further be provided, the platform in communication with the subscriber graphic user interface, and including a memory device that stores call transfer service information for use in implementing the call transfer service. The platform further includes a call transfer service controller coupled with the memory device, that communicates with the subscriber graphic user interface, and that receives call transfer service information, and updates the subscriber's call transfer service subscription responsive to information received at the graphic user interface.
US07965825B1	Methods and systems for transferring voice messages and faxes over a network Processes and systems for transferring communication messages, such as fax and voice messages, between a computer and a terminal are disclosed. For example, a fax message intended for a user is received at a call processing system. A voice message intended for the user is received at the call processing system. An initial portion of the fax message and the voice message are transferred to a user terminal. The user can view the initial portion of the fax message and listed in the initial portion of the voice message using the user terminal. At least a second portion of the fax message is downloaded to the user terminal in a trickle mode, and at least a second portion of the voice message is downloaded to the user terminal in a trickle mode.
US07965824B2	Selectable audio and mixed background sound for voice messaging system Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business by selectably mixing one or more sound files with a telephone caller's voice message, either as background for that message or embedded within the message. Or, the mixing may occur within a telephone conversation between parties. The disclosed techniques enable alleviating some of the problems that result from distance communication (as contrasted to face-to-face communication). In particular, context information (such as emotional context) can be provided through appropriate use of background sound and/or embedded audio files. The disclosed techniques may also make communication through voice mail exchange more enjoyable and/or increase its productivity.
US07965822B2	Telephony dialing using speech recognition A system and method of dialing a telephone number included in a voice mail or telephone conversation, including recognizing a telephone number present in the speech received by a telephone apparatus from a stored message, an automated voice response system, or a live conversation is described. The system interprets a user-spoken command to select a recently received telephone number and formulate a dialing sequence to connect the user to the selected telephone number. The associated voice mail, automated response or live conversation may be placed on hold, disconnected, or conferenced with the number selected.
US07965821B2	Method, system and apparatus for controlling a voice recorder According to an embodiment on the present invention, a method for controlling a voice recorder is disclosed. The voice recorder is for recording a voice session between an origination device and a destination device. The method can be conveniently executed at a computing apparatus coupled to the origination device and to the voice recorder. The method comprises receiving at least one of a user identifier associated with a user of the origination device and a destination identifier associated with the destination device. The method further comprises generating a voice recording trigger using at least one of data associated with the user identifier and data associated with the destination identifier. The voice recording trigger is then transmitted to the voice recorder to enable the voice recorder to control recording of the voice session between the origination device and the destination device.
US07965819B2	Device for limiting field on which radiation is irradiated An irradiation field limiting device includes a plurality of aperture leaves arranged in a thickness direction, a flexible linear member secured to a thick portion of the aperture leaf, a driver section which drives the linear member a specific amount, and the like. One end of the linear member is secured to an aperture leaf through a connection section tangentially to the outer arc of the aperture leaf, and the other end is connected with a slider provided in a driver section. The slider is connected with a driving source through a connection portion and moves along an axial direction of a drive shaft inserted into a base accompanying rotation of the drive shaft. A load accompanying the movement of the slider is directly transmitted to the linear member, and the aperture leaf is driven a specific amount due to the load.
US07965815B2	Device and method for processing and presentation of x-ray images In a device and method for processing and presenting x-ray images, an x-ray image of a subject is acquired with an x-ray acquisition cone simultaneously with the acquisition of an optical exposure of the examination subject with an optical acquisition cone that is congruent with the x-ray acquisition cone. The subject in the optical exposure is subjected to segmentation and/or edge extraction, and the extracted optical exposure and the x-ray image are additively combined so that the subject edges from the optical exposure are inserted into the x-ray image.
US07965814B2	X-ray device An X-ray device which is especially applicable to the X-ray imaging for child at the age of 0-3 is provided. The X-ray device can use the X-ray tube (10) which uses the molybdenum target or rhodium target (12) to produce the soft X-ray by the tube voltage between 25 and 50 kV. The synchronous-exposing equipment contained in the X-ray device may identify the still status and the breath, pulse status suitable for exposure of the child, automatically select the optimal exposing time so that it can acquire a clear X-ray image through only one X-ray exposure, thus prevent the human body from the needless X-ray radiation caused by the multiple X-ray exposures, and also improve the service efficiency of the equipment.
US07965810B2	Device and method for identifying occlusions A method of identifying one or more occlusions in vasculature located in a region of interest, includes extracting vasculature from the region of interest; identifying a subject geometry of the extracted vasculature; and comparing the subject geometry to a predetermined geometry to identify a blockage. A device for identifying one or more occlusions in vasculature located in a region of interest is also presented.
US07965806B2	Target system for the handling of a Cu-64 solid, liquid or gasseous target The present invention provides a system and method for a system for accommodating a solid target in an accelerator. The system and method includes a target changer having at least one port for accommodating the solid target, an insert for receiving the solid target in the target changer, a piston for providing a vacuum and a cooling system for the solid target, a cylinder for displacing the piston in one of three positions; and a bracket for securing the insert, piston and cylinder to the target changer.
US07965804B2	Method of link word synchronization A method for word synchronization can be applied to asynchronous devices including SERDES devices connected across serial lines. A state transition methodology characterizes the state of the device based on control characters received consistently across the serial lines and channels the system to a state of word synchronization. Loss of synchronization and transmission errors lead to a re-establishment of synchronization.
US07965802B2	Clock data restoring device The clock data restoration device 1 is a device which restores a clock signal and data on the basis of an input digital signal and comprises an equalizer section 10, a sampler section 20, a clock generation section 30, an equalizer control section 40, and a phase monitor section 50. As a result of the loop processing of the equalizer section 10, the sampler section 20, and the equalizer control section 40, a control of a level adjustment amount of the digital signal by the equalizer section 10 is carried out. However, the control is stopped by the phase monitor section 50 when the phase difference between the clock signal CK and the digital signal is greater than a predetermined value. As a result, a clock signal and data can be restored more accurately.
US07965800B2	Clock recovery apparatus A clock recovery apparatus for generating a recovery clock from received data may include, but is not limited to, first and second oscillators. The first oscillator generates a first signal having a first frequency. The first signal synchronizes with the received data when the received data has a first level. The second oscillator is connected in series to the first oscillator. The second oscillator generates a second signal as the recovery clock when the first signal has a second level. The second signal has a second frequency. The second signal synchronizes with the first signal.
US07965796B2	Channel estimation in a radio receiver A channel estimation method suitable for use in a CDMA communications system employs a high order interpolation using four interpolation points per slot. Four FIR interpolation filters (18-21) produce a channel estimate for each quarter of a slot by weighting the summed pilots of four slots by amounts related to pre-computed polynomial co-efficients. The invention has been shown wot mobiles and has the advantage of low computional complexity.
US07965791B2	Transmitting apparatus with bit arrangement method A method of transmitting data including controlling generation of bit sequences to adjust an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a first data block, which is obtained by encoding first data, to be closer to an occupation rate occupied with predetermined bits included in a second data block, which is obtained by encoding second data. With regard to first bit positions of the predetermined bits, the first bit positions being distinguished from second bit positions based on an error tolerance resulting from a correspondence to a signal point on a phase plane. Wherein a sum of a number of the predetermined bits included in the first data block and the predetermined bits included in the second data block is less than a total number of the first bit positions. Also including performing multi-level modulation for transmission based on the generated bit sequences.
US07965790B2	Log-antilog circuit and method for producing an up-converted and amplified transmission signal According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for producing an up-converted and amplified transmission signal comprises performing a logarithmic transformation of an input transmission signal to form a logarithmically transformed transmission signal, adding the logarithmically transformed transmission signal to a logarithmic local oscillator signal to form a sum signal, and performing an antilogarithmic transformation of the sum signal to produce the up-converted and amplified transmission signal. In one embodiment, a log-antilog circuit for producing an up-converted and an amplified transmission signal comprises a transmission log block configured to receive an input transmission signal and to provide a logarithmically transformed transmission signal as a transmission log block output, and an antilog block coupled to the transmission log block. The antilog block is configured to receive a sum signal of the transmission log block output and a logarithmic local oscillator signal.
US07965789B2	Reverse link power control for an OFDMA system Techniques for performing power control of multiple channels sent using multiple radio technologies are described. The transmit power of a reference channel, sent using a first radio technology (e.g., CDMA), is adjusted to achieve a target level of performance (e.g., a target erasure rate) for the reference channel. The transmit power of a data channel, sent using a second radio technology (e.g., OFDMA), is adjusted based on the transmit power of the reference channel. In one power control scheme, a reference power spectral density (PSD) level is determined based on the transmit power of the reference channel. A transmit PSD delta for the data channel is adjusted based on interference estimates. A transmit PSD of the data channel is determined based on the reference PSD level and the transmit PSD delta. The transmit power of the data channel is then set to achieve the transmit PSD for the data channel.
US07965780B2	Determination of pre-coding matrix indicators for spatial multiplexing in a mobile communications system A pre-coding matrix is determined in an OFDMA, multiple transmit antenna communication system having a number of sub-carriers grouped into a number, M, of resource blocks. This involves determining a frequency selectivity of a channel through which received signals have propagated. A number N of selected resource blocks is then determined as a function of the frequency selectivity the N selected resource blocks being those for which pre-coding matrices will be determined, wherein N
US07965779B2	Low power, wavelet-based spike detector A multi-scale spike detector for performing multi-resolution spike detections of a signal is provided. The spike detector includes a gamma filter having cascaded low-pass filters. The cascaded filters collectively provide different cutoff frequencies, each of the filters having a respective output. One of the filters has an input, at which the signal is received. The spike detector further includes combining circuitry that combines at least some of the respective outputs of the cascaded filters. The differences formed from this combining provide a waveform representation of the input signal. The waveform representation consists essentially of spikes that occur in the signal.
US07965778B2	Digital broadcasting system and method of processing data in digital broadcasting system A digital broadcasting system and a data processing method are disclosed. A receiving system of the digital broadcasting system includes a receiving unit, an SI handler, and a decoding unit. The receiving unit receives broadcast signals including mobile service data and main service data. Herein, the mobile service data may configure a data group, and the data group may include a signaling information region in some of a plurality of data regions. Also, the signaling information region may include TPC signaling data and FIC signaling data. The SI handler acquires channel configuration information of the mobile service data from the broadcast signal using pre-decided IP access information, and extracts encoding format information for each IP stream component within a corresponding virtual channel service RTP-packetized and received from the acquired channel configuration information. The decoding unit decodes the mobile service data of the corresponding IP stream component based upon the extracted encoding format information.
US07965773B1	Macroblock cache A video processing apparatus and methodology use a combination of a processor and a video decoding hardware block to decode video data by using a reference block cache memory to perform motion compensation decode operations in the video decoding hardware block. To improve the cache hit rate, each memory access for required reference block(s) is used to fetch one or more additional reference blocks which can be used to improve the cache hit rate with future motion compensation operations. Speculative fetch control logic selects the additional reference blocks by using a frequency history table to accumulate compared motion vector information for a current motion compensation block with motion vector information from previously processed motion compensation blocks.
US07965769B2	Audiovisual data decoding method The present invention relates to a method of decoding audiovisual data allowing to process, on the basis of an improved syntactic language, distincts elements of a scene as objects for which individual animations, particular interactions user/elements, and specific relations between said elements and the defined animations and/or interactions can be provided, said description being organized in a hierarchical tree also comprising transversal connections provided both for embedding bidimensional and/or tridimensional objects in each other and optionally controlling the rendering of scenes from various view points, while maintaining a control of all related actions both in the embedded objects and/or scenes and in the original ones.
US07965768B2	Video signal encoding apparatus and computer readable medium with quantization control The present invention provides an image coding apparatus and an image coding program that execute quantization control so that a generating bit is made close to a target bit. The image coding apparatus according to the present invention includes a generated bit measurement unit, a target bit setting unit, a residual bit computing unit for computing a residual value between the generated bit and the target bit, a remaining video buffer capacity measurement unit, and a quantization parameter computing unit for computing a quantization parameter to set the same to the quantization unit. The quantization parameter computing unit computes a quantization parameter for next image data to be encoded on the basis of at least one of the residual value computed and the remaining video buffer capacity measured.
US07965767B2	Two-dimensional filtering architecture A first filtering module filters actual pixel values in a first direction (e.g., vertically), and a second filtering module filters interpolated pixel values received from the first filtering module in a second direction (e.g., horizontally). Also, a third filtering module filters actual pixels in the second direction. A computation module is coupled to the first, second and, third filtering modules. The computation module generates quarter-sample interpolated pixel values. These values are based on combinations of pixel values selected from actual pixel values and interpolated pixel values received from the first, second and, third filtering modules.
US07965765B2	Adjustment method, circuit, receiver circuit and transmission equipment of waveform equalization coefficient In an adjustment method of waveform equalization coefficient, one of jitter and amplitude is measured only in a case of an arbitrary signal sequence and a waveform equalization coefficient is adjusted. Particularly, using a signal of received signals other than a 010 signal or a 101 signal, code inversion time is measured. Since the code inversion time in a case where such signals are used becomes steeper in comparison with that in the conventional technique, adjustment time of the waveform equalization coefficient can be reduced.
US07965759B2	Synchronization codes for wireless communication Techniques for supporting synchronization in wireless communication are described. A Node B generates a primary synchronization code (PSC) having a length of L chips based on a first inner sequence and a first outer sequence, where L is less than 256. The Node B also generates a sequence of secondary synchronization codes (SSCs) based on a second inner sequence and a second outer sequence, with each SSC having a length of L chips. L may be equal to 64, and the PSC and SSCs may have lengths of 64 chips. The Node B sends the PSC in each slot of each frame and sends the sequence of SSCs in each frame, one SSC in each slot. A user equipment (UE) detects for the PSC and then detects for the sequence of SSCs using slot timing from the PSC detection. The UE may perform PSC detection using correlation results for the SSCs.
US07965756B2	Optical element for gas laser and gas laser apparatus using the same At least either of the light entering plane or the light exiting plane is parallel to the (111) crystal face of the CaF2 crystal and the laser beam entering from the entering plane passes through the plane located between the [111] axis and the first azimuth axis in the locus of rotation of the [001] axis around the [111] axis and including the [111] axis and the first azimuth axis, the plane located between the [111] axis and the second azimuth axis in the locus of rotation of the [010] axis around the [111] axis and including the [111] axis and the second azimuth axis or the plane located between the [111] axis and the third azimuth axis in the locus of rotation of the [100] axis around the [111] axis and including the [111] axis and the third azimuth axis and exits from the exiting plane.
US07965755B2	Surface-emitting laser Provided is a high-output surface-emitting laser capable of reducing effects on reflectance of an upper reflection mirror in a single transverse mode. The surface-emitting laser includes plural semiconductor layers, laminated on a substrate, which includes a lower semiconductor multilayer reflection mirror, an active layer, and an upper semiconductor multilayer reflection mirror, wherein the lower or upper semiconductor multilayer reflection mirror includes a first semiconductor layer having a two-dimensional photonic crystal structure comprised of a high and low refractive index portions which are arranged in a direction parallel to the substrate, and wherein a second semiconductor layer laminated on the first semiconductor layer includes a microhole which reaches the low refractive index portion, the cross section of the microhole in the direction parallel to the substrate being smaller than the cross section of the low refractive index portion formed in the first semiconductor layer.
US07965753B2	Monolithic semiconductor laser An infrared element (10a) which includes at least a light emitting layer forming portion (9a) composed of, for example, a first conductivity type cladding layer (2a), an active layer (3a), and a second conductivity type cladding layer (4a) for emitting infrared light, is formed on a semiconductor substrate (1), and a red element (10b) which includes at least a light emitting layer forming portion (9b) composed of, for example, a first conductivity type cladding layer (2b), an active layer (3b), and a second conductivity type cladding layer (4b) for emitting red light, is formed on the same semiconductor substrate (1). And their second conductivity type cladding layers (4a and 4b) are made of the same material. As a result, forming process of their ridge portions may be communized and both of the elements can be formed respectively, with a window structure capable of high output operation.
US07965752B1	Native green laser semiconductor devices A semiconductor laser device operable to emit light having a desired wavelength in the green spectral range. The semiconductor laser device may include a pumping source and a laser structure including a substrate, a first cladding layer, and one or more active region layers. The one or more active region layers include a number of quantum wells having a spontaneous emission peak wavelength that is greater than about 520 nm at a reference pumping power density. The pumping source is configured to pump each quantum well at a pumping power density such that a stimulated emission peak of each quantum well is within the green spectral range, and the number of quantum wells within the one or more active region layers is such that a net optical gain of the quantum wells is greater than a net optical loss coefficient at the desired wavelength in the green spectral range.
US07965750B2	Semiconductor light emitting device A semiconductor light emitting device includes a first-conductivity-type first multilayer film reflecting mirror, and a second-conductivity-type second multilayer film reflecting mirror; a cavity layer; and a first conductive section, a second conductive section, and a third conductive section. The cavity layer has a stacked configuration including a first-conductivity-type or undoped first cladding layer, an undoped first active layer, a second-conductivity-type or undoped second cladding layer, a second-conductivity-type first contact layer, a first-conductivity-type second contact layer, a first-conductivity-type or undoped third cladding layer, an undoped second active layer, and a second-conductivity-type or undoped fourth cladding layer. The first conductive section is electrically connected to the first multilayer film reflecting mirror, the second conductive section is electrically connected to the second multilayer film reflecting mirror, and the third conductive section is electrically connected to the first contact layer and the second contact layer.
US07965748B2	Laser pump cavity A laser pump cavity includes a heat sink holder with a central through hole, a plurality of slot portions, and a plurality of single emitters. The single emitter includes a heat sink and a single core disposed on the heat sink. The slot portions are uniformly spaced and surround the through hole. The single emitters are connected end to end, thereby forming at least one single emitter array. The at least one single emitter array is disposed in corresponding slot portions with each single core facing the through hole.
US07965744B2	Transmission system with apparatus for transmitting and receiving audio data auxiliary data A transmission system includes a transmission apparatus and a receiving apparatus for repeatedly transmitting and receiving a frame with plural time slots at a constant frequency, in which digital audio data of plural channels and auxiliary data required to playback the digital audio data are transmitted using previously allocated time slots. A multiplexer is provided for multiplexing, assuming an area made up of previously allocated time slots that are included in respective frames amounting to a number of a multiple of n as block data when the predetermined encryption unit is n bytes. The digital audio data and the auxiliary data are allocated as the block data wherein the auxiliary data is allocated to the time slots that are located at the same positions of respective plural frames within the block data, and the digital audio data is allocated in the time slots that are located at the same position in the respective frames amounting to the number of a multiple of n in the block data. An encryptor encrypts at least the digital audio data from the multiplexed block data in the predetermined encryption unit and a communication unit transmits the data encrypted in the encryptor, wherein the receiving apparatus decodes the encrypted data transmitted from the transmission apparatus.
US07965743B2	Method and system for the blind determination of frequency hopping system characteristics and synchronization thereto A method and system for achieving synchronization at a local site to a wireless communication system transmitting data in a plurality of data packets distributed among a plurality of frequencies alternating in a sequence determined in accordance with at least two characteristics of said remote site by blindly determining at least one of said two characteristics are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of recording a plurality of occurrences of a selected one of the plurality of frequencies, determining the at least one first characteristic from at least one of the data packets, determining locally the at least one second characteristic wherein the determined at least one first characteristic and the at least one second characteristic match the selected frequency at each of the recorded detected occurrences, determining a time period for determining the first and second characteristics; and adjusting the at least one second characteristic by the time period.
US07965735B2	Local area network of serial intelligent cells A serial intelligent cell (SIC) and a connection topology for local area networks using Electrically-conducting media. A local area network can be configured from a plurality of SIC's interconnected so that all communications between two adjacent SIC's is both point-to-point and bidirectional. Each SIC can be connected to one or more other SIC's to allow redundant communication paths. Communications in different areas of a SIC network are independent of one another, so that, unlike current bus topology and star topology, there is no fundamental limit on the size or extent of a SIC network. Each SIC can optionally be connected to one or more data terminals, computers, telephones, sensors, actuators, etc., to facilitate interconnectivity among such devices. Networks according to the present invention can be configured for a variety of applications, including a local telephone system, remote computer bus extender, multiplexers, PABX/PBX functionality, security systems, and local broadcasting services. The network can use dedicated wiring, as well as existing wiring as the in-house telephone or electrical wiring.
US07965733B2	Systems and methods to detect and avoid collisions in channel sense multiple access communications with multipacket reception Methods and systems to perform collision detection (CD) in a communication network are disclosed. Methods and systems over multipacket reception (MPR)-capable physical layers are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the method for transmitting information in a network includes the steps of initiating transmission over a communication channel, monitoring a feedback channel, modifying transmission parameters for the transmission over the communication channel (where modifying includes stopping transmission and adjusting transmission parameters), if a feedback transmission is detected while monitoring the feedback channel, a duration of the feedback transmission being smaller than duration of the transmission over the communication channel, and determining whether transmission was successful, if transmission continues after modifying transmission parameters. Other embodiments of methods for transmitting and receiving information, as well as systems that implement the methods, are also disclosed.
US07965728B2	Buffer for driving capacitive load A buffer circuit buffers incoming signals, from a local oscillator generator to a mixing circuit and has a push-pull circuit having two inputs, a first being coupled to a first incoming signal, and a second of the inputs being coupled to one of the buffered versions of the incoming signals, having a phase related to that of the first incoming signal. By coupling a second input to a buffered version rather than to the incoming signal, the load presented to the preceding circuit can be halved, while maintaining reduced power consumption. By using as a second input, a signal which is phase related to the first incoming signal, the normal operation of the push-pull circuit can be maintained. The incoming signals from the LO generator can be differential IQ signals and the buffered version of the further incoming signal be in phase with the first incoming signal.
US07965725B2	Hyper-ring-on-chip (HyRoC) architecture A network-on-chip interconnects an array of integrated circuit resources. The network-on-chip includes at least one vertical communications ring per column of the array and at least one horizontal communications ring per row of the array. A network interface is associated with each resource of the array and operates to interface the communications rings with each other and the resource with the communications rings. A ring hop is provided at each network interface and for each communications ring thereat. Each ring hop functions as an add/drop multiplexer with respect to inserting packets onto the associated communications ring and extracting packets from the associated communications ring. Packets are communicated over the vertical/horizontal rings using a logical transport channel that flows in a cyclic manner through the communications ring without interruption. A back pressure mechanism allows the ring hops on a given communications ring to address overflow conditions on that ring, and a request mechanism allows the ring hops on a given communications ring to request use of that ring to carry a packet communication.
US07965722B2	Communication of active data flows between a transport modem termination system and cable transport modems Multiplexing of information from a plurality of information flows into fixed-length packets such as, but not limited to, MPEG packets allows efficient utilization of bandwidth and also can be used to reduce transmission latency. In addition, utilizing MPEG packets and transport streams for octet multiplexing allows the packets carrying octet-multiplexed data to easily be integrated with other MPEG packets for other services that are commonly found in cable transmission networks of all coax, hybrid fiber coax, and/or all fiber. The multiplexing/demultiplexing of octets using MPEG packets generally is described by mappings that specify the use of octets in MPEG packets. Changes to allocations in a map generally should be propagated in a way that reliably ensures that both the transmitter and receiver have a consistent view of the octet mappings.
US07965716B2	Extended VLAN classification A bridge and method are described herein that translate at least a portion of a port VID (VLAN identifier) for an incoming tagged frame to form a relay VID for a corresponding relay tagged frame by using a VID mask table, a VID filter table, and a VID rule table. In an additional embodiment, the bridge and method also implement a port VLAN membership technique to ensure that an ingress port associated with the port VID is a member of the current VLAN.
US07965715B2	Relay device and relay device controlling method In the first power mode: each packet processor of the second group maintains own operating mode in a first operating mode of relatively low power consumption; and the distributor selects the handling packet processor from the first group for the first priority, and selects the handling packet processor from at least one group excluding the second group for the second priority.In the second power mode: each packet processor of the second group maintains the own operating mode in a second operating mode of relatively high power consumption; and the distributor selects the handling packet processor from the first group for the first priority, and selects the handling packet processor from at least one group including the second group for the second priority.
US07965714B2	Method and system for offloading network processing The invention relates to a method for processing a packet. The method includes receiving the packet by a physical network interface, determining a target virtual network interface card (VNIC) using the destination address and a virtual switching table (VST), transferring the packet to a receive ring (RR) associated with the target VNIC, wherein the RR is located on the NEM, determining, by the target VNIC, that the packet is in the RR, determining, by the target VNIC, that the packet is to be processed using an offload engine, transferring the packet to offload memory located on an offload computer, wherein the offload computer is operatively connected to the NEM via the chassis interconnect and wherein the offload engine is executing on the offload computer, processing the packet by the offload engine to obtain a processed packet, and transferring the processed packet to a target computer memory using the chassis interconnect.
US07965712B2	Methods and apparatus for enabling communication between network elements that operate at different bit rates A method for enabling network elements (NEs) operating at a bit rate R1 to communicate with NEs operating at a bit rate R2 is described. A ratio of R2 to R1 is represented by a ratio M:N, M and N are positive integers, and M>N. The method includes providing a number M×K of the NEs operating at a bit rate R1, each of the M×K NEs including a communication interface communicating at the bit rate R1, where K is a positive integer, providing a number N×K of transceivers operating at the bit rate R2, each of the N×K transceivers including an M:N electrical interface which enables translation between bit rates whose ratio is represented by the ratio M:N, bypassing the communication interfaces of the M×K NEs by interconnecting electrical lanes of the M×K NEs with the M:N electrical interfaces of the N×K transceivers, and using at least one of the N×K transceivers for communicating data between at least one of the M×K NEs interconnected with the at least one of the N×K transceivers and at least one of the NEs operating at the bit rate R2. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US07965709B2	Bridge forwarding method and apparatus A bridge forwarding method comprises: receiving a frame from an input port, obtaining the input VLAN ID and a destination MAC address of the frame; determining an output port and an output VLAN ID of the frame, and forwarding the frame according to the output port and the output VLAN ID. A bridge forwarding apparatus includes at least one output port used for receiving a frame from more than one VALN, at least one output port used for transmitting the frame to more than one VALN and a forwarding unit, the forwarding unit obtains the input VLAN ID and the destination MAC address in the frame, determines the output port and the output VLAN ID of the frame, and outputs the frame to the corresponding output port. The method and the apparatus of this invention can realize the bridge forwarding of the Ethernet frames between multiple VLANs.
US07965707B2	Adaptable communication profiles in telephone networks A system and method are provided for providing multiple aliases and associated policy profiles for a user of a VoIP communication system. The user configures a multitude of aliases by the user wishes to be contacted, and associates with each alias a policy stored at a user terminal. The aliases are stored within the network so as to be associated with contact information for the user terminal. A proxy processes call requests by determining the contact information associated with an alias entered by a caller, and forwards the call request to the user terminal associated with the contact information. The user terminal determines the alias used by the caller, and processes the connection request in accordance with the policy. The invention allows users to add and delete aliases in order to effect temporary and private contact information. Calls can be handled depending on which alias was used by a caller, rather than on an identification of the device used by the caller. The proxy may also store proxy policies in association with the aliases and process call requests accordingly, such as billing a call request to a customer account specified by the proxy policy corresponding to the alias entered by a caller.
US07965705B2	Fast and fair arbitration on a data link Embodiments of a circuit, a buffered crosspoint switch that includes the circuit and a computer system that includes the switch are described. In this circuit and switch, deep crosspoint buffers are replaced with smaller distributed buffers. This modification reduces the cost of the switch and improves the scaling properties of the architecture.
US07965704B2	Method and apparatus for handling IMS terminal's call request including request for real-time service received over IMS domain by CSI terminal A method and apparatus for processing an IMS terminal's call request for real-time service and non-real-time service received over an IMS domain in a CSI terminal. When deciding to use a CS call for real-time service and an IMS session for non-real-time service, the CSI terminal sends an IMS session response for the non-real-time service. In the mean time, the CSI terminal generates a CS call request for the real-time service and sends the CS call request to an AS in an IMS domain. The AS sends the CS call request in association with the IMS session response to the IMS terminal, thereby completing a call setup. For the association, the AS sends its MSISDN to the CSI terminal and identifies from the MSISDN included in the CS call request and the IMS session response that the two messages are related to the IMS terminal's call request.
US07965698B2	Method for preventing unnecessary retransmission due to delayed transmission in wireless network and communication device using the same A method for reducing unnecessary retransmissions due to transmission delays in a wireless network environment, comprising: measuring a packet inter-arrival time with respect to a received data packet; transmitting an acknowledgement packet corresponding to the data packet received at the packet inter-arrival time in excess of a first threshold time when the measured packet inter-arrival time exceeds the first threshold time; and suspending transmission of an acknowledgement packet corresponding to a new data packet when a data packet received after having transmitted the acknowledgement packet is the new data packet that has not previously been received.
US07965695B2	Method and apparatus for routing a packet in mobile IP system The system includes a mobile node (101) communicating with a correspondent node (102), a home agent node (131) managing the mobile node (101), a proxy node (121) being located closer to the mobile node (101) than the home agent node (131) and relaying the packets from the mobile node (101) to the home agent node (131), and a routing manager (141) managing a route of the packets. The proxy node (121) detects a trigger of a packet route optimization and notifies the routing manager (141). The proxy node (121) establishes the optimized routing path according to a command received from the routing manager (141) and routes the packets through the established routing path using a secure method.
US07965694B2	Wireless packet communications system and method An access point in a wireless packet communication system is disclosed. The access point has an antenna for receiving IP data encoded according to a wireless IP communication protocol. The access point also has a combiner having an input coupled to said antenna and having first and second outputs. The access point further has a first decoder for receiving encoded IP data on a first channel at a first output of said combiner. The access point also has a second decoder for receiving encoded IP data on a second channel at a second output of said combiner. The access point further has a router for receiving unencoded IP data from said first decoder at a first input, and receiving unencoded IP data from said second decoder at a second input, said router having a single output for passing unencoded IP data from said first decoder and said second decoder.
US07965691B2	Network time reservation cancellation Methods and systems that support, for example, canceling or trimming reservations of a shared communication medium are described. In one embodiment, a method that adapts a network time reservation in a communication network may include, for example, one or more of the following: transmitting a preamble field; transmitting a legacy signal field; transmitting at least one paired field, each paired field comprising a signal field and a protocol data unit; and generating an interframe gap.
US07965682B2	WAP push over cell broadcast A system provides push services and information to mobile stations via broadcast messages. The broadcast messages are made on predetermined cell broadcast channels, which are associated with an inbox on the mobile stations. Contained within the messages are Uniform Resource Locators (URL) that, when accessed, provide multimedia and other rich content to the mobile station. The system allows wireless carriers to provide features such as Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) push operations via cell broadcast to many mobile stations in a geographic area without the need to individually address messages to the mobile stations.
US07965675B2	System and method for detecting an unlicensed mobile alliance (UMA) service in GSM wireless communication networks Techniques are provided for scanning for access points with a wireless communication device including a baseband processor and a WLAN processor. A data download command which defines a preferred network list can be sent from the baseband processor to the WLAN processor. In addition, a first scan command can be sent from the baseband processor which triggers the WLAN processor to independently begin periodically scanning a number channels.
US07965673B2	System and method for multi-link communication in home network A client in a home entertainment network can communicate with other components, including the server, over both a wired and a wireless link, with the particular path being selected based a component preference, and/or a bandwidth capability, and/or an occupancy ratio. Both links may be simultaneously used.
US07965664B2	Apparatus and method for integrating wireless field devices with a wired protocol in a process control system An apparatus is provided for facilitating integration of a wireless field device (such as a wireless sensor or actuator) and a wired protocol that is used in a process control system. The apparatus supports a wireless field device protocol for communicating with the wireless field device. The apparatus also supports a wired field device protocol for communicating with other components of the process control system over a network. The apparatus could map a wireless application model associated with the wireless field device protocol to a wired application model associated with the wired field device protocol. The apparatus could actually support multiple mappings from the wireless application model to wired application models associated with multiple wired field device protocols. As particular examples, the wired field device protocol(s) could include the HART, Foundation Fieldbus, Profibus, and/or Modbus protocols. The network could represent an Ethernet network or a serial network.
US07965660B2	Conference where mixing is time controlled by a rendering device A telecommunications terminal hosts a conference mixer adapted to enable an at least audio conference between a first conference peer and at least two further conference peers. The conference mixer includes for each of the at least two further conference peers, a respective first data buffer configured to buffer portions of at least an audio data stream received from the respective conference peer; a first audio data stream portions mixer fed by the first data buffers and configured to: a) get audio data stream portions buffered in the first data buffers; b) mix the audio data stream portions from the first data buffers to produce a first mixed audio data portion; and c) feed the first mixed audio data portion to a rendering device of the telecommunications terminal, wherein the first audio data stream portions mixer is configured to perform operations a), b) and c) upon receipt of a notification from the rendering device indicating that the rendering device is ready to render a new mixed audio data portion.
US07965657B2	Sounding reference signal cell specific sub-frame configuration A method of wireless communication including a plurality of fixed basestations and a plurality of mobile user equipment with each basestation transmitting to any user equipment within a corresponding cell a sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration indicating sub-frames when sounding is permitted. Each user equipment recognizes the sounding reference signal sub-frame configuration and sounds only at permitted sub-frames. Differing cells may have differing sounding reference signal sub-frame configurations. There are numerous manners to encode the transmitted information.
US07965656B1	Building multipoint pseudo wires using a multipoint label distribution protocol (MLDP) A method, apparatus and computer program product for building multipoint Pseudo Wires (PWs) using Multicast Label Distribution Protocol (MLDP) is presented. A multipoint PW leaf identifier (mTAI) is configured on one or more Layer 2 (L2) leaf interface(s) of a multipoint PW. A multipoint PW root identifier identifying the root of the multipoint PW is also configured and an opaque value is computed, the opaque value used in MLDP label mapping messages that will flow upstream towards a the root of the multipoint PW. The opaque value is computed from the multipoint leaf identifier and the multipoint root identifier. The PE leaf routers direct MLDP label mapping to the root PE router via a core network.
US07965650B2	Method and system for quality monitoring of media over internet protocol (MOIP) In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an internet protocol (IP) packet including encoded media content. A media-quality-value is calculated based on a value of at least one parameter associated with the IP packet and based on a quality equation. The quality equation includes at least one parameter and at least one constant that are defined so that media-quality-values calculated using the quality equation substantially correlate with subjective quality measurements.
US07965649B2	Apparatus and method for feedback of subcarrier quality estimation in an OFDM/OFDMA system A method for subcarrier quality estimation in a wireless network is disclosed. The method comprises analyzing characteristics of at least some of the subcarriers of a first signal, creating feedback data based on the analyzed characteristics, wherein the quantity of the feedback data is less than the quantity of all of a plurality of measured signal-to-interference and noise power ratio (SINR) values of each subcarrier of the first signal, and transmitting the feedback data.
US07965644B2	Estimating available bandwidth and enhancing narrow link bandwidth estimations in telecommunications networks using existing user traffic Without using additional probing packets, estimates of the narrow link bandwidth and available bandwidth of a network path are computed based on existing traffic. The network can be of different types such as a wireless battlefield network context or a wired or wireless commercial network environment. “Fast packets”, i.e. those packets which do not experience any queuing delay in the network, are identified. Fast packets are identified to resolve end-to-end packet delay into its constituent components (deterministic, transmission and queuing delays), estimate path utilization and eliminate the uncertainty (false alarms) that causes the prior art method to lose its effectiveness. An estimation algorithm computes end-to-end transmission delay and end-to-end deterministic delay of fast packets traveling along a path in a network. Examples of deterministic delay include satellite propagation delays and clock effects. Then, based on the results of the fast packet identifying algorithm, two logic branches are followed. A first branch calculates utilization and a second branch calculates narrow link bandwidth. The narrow link bandwidth is determined from the packet pair dispersion. The available bandwidth is obtained from the narrow link bandwidth and the utilization. Estimation of available bandwidth for an end-to-end network path allows traffic sources to judiciously regulate the volume of application traffic injected into the network.
US07965643B1	Method and apparatus for using histograms to produce data summaries A system and method are provided for summarizing dynamic data from distributed sources through the use of histograms. In particular, the method comprises receiving a first data signal at a first location, determining a first array sketch of the first data signal, and constructing a first output histogram from the first array sketch and a first robust histogram via a first hybrid histogram. Array sketches of a number of data signals may be calculated, and added to yield a single vector sum. The histogram is constructed from the vector sum. In that way, the vector sum may be analyzed without revealing the individual data signals that form the basis of the sum.
US07965640B2	Radio communication method and radio base station apparatus based on variable TTI length control A controlling method and a radio base station apparatus capable of variably determining a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) length in accordance with a communication environment of a mobile terminal is disclosed. The radio base station apparatus includes a receiving section receiving information via an uplink channel; and a scheduler variably determining a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) length for any one of an uplink shared channel and a downlink shared channel or both based on at least any of a moving speed of a mobile terminal, location of the mobile terminal in a cell, a provided throughput value, and a number of retransmissions obtained from the received information. Preferably, the scheduler includes a TTI length allocation table describing relationships between parameter values and the corresponding TTI length, the parameters being used for estimating the location and/or the moving speed of the mobile terminal.
US07965639B2	Dynamic adaptation of MAC-layer retransmission value The number of audio/visual packets that are sent over a wireless channel of a wireless network and that are effectively lost at a client application is reduced by determining the number of packets that were effectively lost during a measurement period and by selecting at a server application a MAC-layer retransmission value that is based on the number of packets that are effectively lost during a measurement period. The number of packets that were effectively lost during the measurement period includes a total number of packets that were never received by the client application during the measurement period and a total number of packets that arrived after a corresponding deadline for a packet during the measurement period.
US07965637B1	Network proxy with asymmetric connection connectivity Techniques are described in which a network device waits differing amounts of time for different network sockets before beginning processes to determine whether respective network connections from the network sockets have failed. An intermediate device may create a network socket for a network connection having a keep-alive wait time option set to a keep-alive wait time associated with a class of the network connection. If an amount of time specified by the keep-alive option of the socket passes after a last successful communication on the network connection, the socket may begin a process to determine whether the network connection has failed. If the intermediate device determines that the network connection has failed, the intermediate device may terminate the connection to free resources on the intermediate device allocated to the network connection.
US07965636B2	Loadbalancing network traffic across multiple remote inspection devices Methods of balancing network packet traffic among multiple checking functionalities (CFs) are described. A network has at least one client operatively connected to at least one source switch and multiple available CFs operatively connected to at least one destination switch. Each available CF has predetermined, but possibly different inspection capabilities. A source switch receiving packets from a client inspects each packet and can optionally choose an available CF having at least the minimum necessary inspection capabilities to inspect the particular packet, and tunnel the packet to the chosen CF.
US07965631B2	Methods and systems for load-adaptive backoff for WiMAX ranging Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide an adaptive technique to determine size of a ranging back-off window according to a load of ranging channel. By applying an adaptive increase of the back-off window size, a probability of collision between ranging codes within a same transmission opportunity can be alleviated, and the ranging channel load can be decreased more efficiently than in the case of a standard non-adaptive back-off procedure.
US07965629B2	System and method providing overload control in next generation networks A system, method and node for overload control in a network. The method includes the steps of receiving an incoming offer by a node, filtering the offer by an in-throttle to determine if the offer is permitted to be processed by the node prior to processing by the node, processing a permitted offer, and sending the processed offer to a designated target. After processing the permitted offer by the node, the offer may be further filtered prior to sending the offer to the designated target.
US07965623B1	LAN switch with rapid fault recovery One embodiment disclosed relates to a method of fault recovery by a switch in a local area network. A link failure is detected at a port of the switch. In response to the link failure detection, a MAC address table of the switch is cleared. Clearing the address table causes a discovery process to fill the table to begin immediately. In addition, a link on another port of the switch may be dropped to propagate the link failure.
US07965622B2	Automatic problem isolation for multi-layer network failures A method and apparatus includes automatically correlating indicators already generated by network components to detect and isolate failures that are caused by or related to network components operating on different layers of the open system interconnect (OSI) model. Failure indicators that persist for longer than a specified time window are automatically detected and correlated with one another based on a topology table. The method uses indicators already generated by the network components, obviating the need for software that typically resides on and consumes valuable processing time of network components.
US07965615B2	Probe storage device scanner chip having a multi-layer media support table A probe storage device includes a base plate having a main body provided with a substantially planar surface, and a scanner chip body. The scanner chip body extends across the base plate. The scanner chip body includes first and second substantially parallel planar surfaces that collectively define an outer peripheral edge portion. The scanner chip body further includes at least a mechanical ground portion fixedly mounted to the base plate, a suspension portion, and a scan table base portion. The scan table base portion is selectively movable relative to the mechanical ground portion. The probe storage device further includes a scan table platform. The scan table platform includes first and second parallel substantially planar surfaces. The scan table platform extends across, is offset relative to, and mechanically linked with the scan table base portion so as to form a composite multi-layered support table for the media.
US07965614B2	Wear resistant data storage device An apparatus including a transducer having a plurality of polymer strands attached thereto and/or a storage media having a plurality of polymer strands attached thereto. When the apparatus includes both the transducer and the storage media, the plurality of polymer strands attached to the transducer may be positioned to interact with the plurality of polymer strands attached to the storage media. The transducer may be a probe for a data storage device. The storage media may be a ferroelectric storage media.
US07965612B2	Optical head, and information recording-and-regeneration apparatus An optical head that is restrained from becoming larger, even if it is used for an optical-information recording medium that includes a plurality of information recording layers. In this optical head, a collimating lens is formed by a concave lens disposed on the side of a light source and a convex lens disposed on the side of an objective lens. A collimating-lens actuator moves the convex lens in a direction where a spherical aberration is cancelled which is generated according to the thickness of a light transmission layer up to an information recording layer of the optical-information recording medium. An aperture stop is provided on the side of the collimating lens with respect to the objective lens, and the aperture stop is located near the focal position of the convex lens on the side of the objective lens.
US07965609B2	Optical pickup device and optical recording medium information reproduction device The present invention provides an optical pickup device and optical recording medium information reproduction device that are capable of reproducing information that is recorded on a plurality of kinds of optical discs having different track pitches. With the present invention, an optical pickup device generates a main beam and sub beams that are made up from pairs of semi sub beams, such that the distance in the radial direction between center positions of a pair of semi sub spots on an optical disc where a pair of semi sub beams are formed is an odd multiple of half the track pitch of the optical disc, and the distance in the radial direction between center positions of semi sub spots that correspond to another pair of sub semi sub beams is an odd multiple of half the track pitch of another optical disc.
US07965606B2	Information recording method and information recording apparatus To provide a new recording method and recording apparatus with respect to an optical recording medium, the recording method and recording apparatus being able to deal with a high density of an optical recording medium of recent years. Recording of a recording track and a prepit is carried out by sequentially deflecting a single beam.
US07965594B2	Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus When recording/reproducing an optical disc having a recording layer of multi-layer structure, an unwanted optical beam reflected from a recording layer other than a target layer for recording/reproduction is incident on a photodetector to cause an unwanted disturbance component to leak to a detection signal, giving rise to a degradation in the quality of a tracking control signal. In an optical pickup apparatus, for suppression of the degradation, an optical element is mounted having a diffraction area for diffracting part of the optical beam and light receiving planes for sub-optical beams are provided each of which has a light shielding zone or dead zone of a predetermined width on its central sectioning line.
US07965593B2	Information recording medium, integrated circuit, recording/playback apparatus, computer program, and information recording/playback method An optical disk 101 in which information is recorded on a groove track, and an optical disk 107 in which information is recorded on a land track. The optical disk 101 has a control data area 102, and a data recording area 103 in which user data is recorded. The optical disk 107 has a control data area 108, and a data recording area 109 in which user data is recorded. A code for indicating the groove track or the land track onto which a tracking servo control is to be executed is provided both in the control data area 102 of the optical disk 101, and in the control data area 108 of the optical disk 107.
US07965590B2	Optical disc apparatus and offset adjustment method thereof An optical disc apparatus includes a laser diode for emitting a laser light, a beam splitter for dividing the laser light into a main beam and sub beam, a main photodetector for detecting the main beam to output a main push-pull signal, a sub photodetector for detecting the sub beam to output a sub push-pull signal, and a subtracter for calculating the main and sub push-pull signals to output a differential push-pull signal, in which an amplification degree of the sub push-pull signal is adjusted so that a DC offset on the differential push-pull signal is adjusted, even in the case where a laser intensity is varied.
US07965587B2	Record reproducing system, record reproducing method and record reproducing program A recording and reproduction system includes a recording system and a reproduction system. The reproduction system reproduces (simultaneous reproduction) data of content while the data is being recorded by the recording system. The recording system records information on recording process to a management area as management data. The reproduction system reads the management data to control reproduction.
US07965585B2	Ringing mechanism A ringing mechanism includes a power source (10) for driving rakes (18) and a gear (12) connecting the power source (10) to a regulation member (14), characterised in that the rakes (18) are kinetically connected to the power source (10) through a differential (20) provided in the gear (12).
US07965581B2	System with controller and memory According to the system of the present invention, data (DQ) signals are outputted/received between a controller 100 and a memory 200 based on a data strobe signal sent out from the controller 100. The data strobe signal is independently and completely separated from a clock signal. The data strobe signal has a frequency different from a clock signal. Therefore, the memory 200 is not required to generate a read data strobe signal from the clock signal nor to send the read data strobe signal in synchronization with the clock signal.
US07965574B2	Table lookup voltage compensation for memory cells Systems and methods of regulating voltage at a memory cell are disclosed. An address for the memory cell is determined. Table lookups based on the address are performed. The table lookups yield voltage compensation parameters that can be used to set voltages on the terminals (e.g., source and drain) of the memory cell.
US07965566B2	Circuit and method for controlling local data line in semiconductor memory device The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device, and more particularly, to a circuit and method for controlling local data lines, which can reduce loading on local data lines LIO. The circuit and method for controlling local data lines in accordance with the present invention is characterized by having different line loading of local data lines depending on positions of cell mats. In addition, local data lines between arrays are connected by a switch. Accordingly, the switch is turned on/off by address information about cell mat arrays, thereby preventing unnecessary line loading of local data lines to completely remove unnecessary loading. Moreover, the present invention reduces line loading, thereby improving data processing speed.
US07965562B2	Predictive programming in non-volatile memory In a nonvolatile memory having an array of memory cells, wherein the memory cells are individually programmable to one of a range of threshold voltage levels, there is provided a predictive programming mode in which a predetermined function predicts what programming voltage level needs to be applied in order to program a given memory cell to a given target threshold voltage level. In this way, no verify operation needs to be performed, thereby greatly improving the performance of the programming operation. In a preferred embodiment, the predetermined function is linear and is calibrated for each memory cell under programming by one or more checkpoints. The checkpoint is an actual programming voltage that programs the memory cell in question to a verified designated threshold voltage level.
US07965561B2	Row selector occupying a reduced device area for semiconductor memory devices A memory device having a plurality of memory cells grouped in at least two memory sectors is disclosed. A first decoding circuit operable to receive address codes of the plurality of memory cells and to generate a plurality of decoding and selecting signals in response to the address codes. A plurality of second decoding circuits are coupled to the first decoding circuit and operable to generate driving signals for the memory cell address signal lines based at least in part on the plurality of decoding and selecting signals. A voltage shifting circuit is operable to generate a shift in the voltage of the plurality of decoding and selecting signals for generating a plurality of shifted voltage decoding and selecting signals and to provide the shifted decoding and selecting signals to the plurality of second decoding signals for generating the drive signals.
US07965559B2	Systems and methods for improved floating-gate transistor programming The present invention describes systems and methods for improving the programming of floating-gate transistors. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a floating-gate transistor programming system including an array of floating-gate transistors and a measuring circuit comprising a logarithmic transimpedance amplifier and an analog-to-digital converter. Furthermore, the floating-gate transistor programming system includes an injecting circuit comprising a digital-to-analog converter, wherein the pulsing circuit can inject charge into each of the floating-gate transistors and the measuring circuit can measure a present charge value in one of the plurality of floating-gate transistors.
US07965550B2	Multi-level cell access buffer with dual function An access buffer, such as page buffer, for writing to non-volatile memory, such as Flash, using a two-stage MLC (multi-level cell) operation is provided. The access buffer has a first latch for temporarily storing the data to be written. A second latch is provided for reading data from the memory as part of the two-stage write operation. The second latch has an inverter that participates in the latching function when reading from the memory. The same inverter is used to produce a complement of an input signal being written to the first latch with the result that a double ended input is used to write to the first latch.
US07965549B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device and method of operating same A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a memory cell array. In the memory cell array, first memory cells of floating gate type are mixed with second memory cells of floating gate type. The second memory cell is sandwiched between the first memory cells. The first memory cells of floating gate type are configured to store m-level data, where m is a natural number of 2 or more. The second memory cells of floating gate type is configured to store n-level data, where n is a natural number greater than m.
US07965547B2	Arrangement and method for controlling a micromechanical element The invention concerns an arrangement for controlling a non-volatile memory arrangement for a circuit comprising: a micromechanical element coupled to a substrate; the micromechanical element being responsive to deflection means arranged on the substrate to control the movement of the micromechanical element between one or more stable states. In addition, the invention concerns a method for controlling a non-volatile memory device arrangement comprising: applying one or more signals to a deflection means for moving a micromechanical element between one or more stable states. To enhance the efficacy of the invention there is further provided a shorting circuit for use in the non-volatile memory arrangement.
US07965543B2	Method for reducing current density in a magnetoelectronic device A method for reducing spin-torque current density needed to switch a magnetoelectronic device (200, 300, 400), includes applying (602) a voltage bias having a predetermined polarity to the magnetoelectronic device (200, 300, 400) that creates a spin-polarized current with spin torque transfer to a synthetic antiferromagnet free layer (206), applying (604) a magnetic field having a predetermined direction to the magnetoelectronic device (200, 300, 400), removing (606) the applied magnetic field; and removing (608) the voltage bias subsequent to removing (606) the applied magnetic field, wherein the polarity of the voltage bias and the direction of the magnetic field leave the synthetic antiferromagnet free layer (206) in a predetermined magnetic state after the voltage bias is removed.
US07965541B2	Non-volatile single-event upset tolerant latch circuit A non-volatile single-event upset (SEU) tolerant latch is disclosed. The non-volatile SEU tolerant latch includes a first and second inverters connected to each other in a cross-coupled manner. The gates of transistors within the first inverter are connected to the drains of transistors within the second inverter via a first feedback resistor. Similarly, the gates of transistors within the second inverter are connected to the drains of transistors within the first inverter via a second feedback resistor. The non-volatile SEU tolerant latch also includes a pair of chalcogenide memory elements connected to the inverters for storing information.
US07965537B2	Phase change memory with finite annular conductive path A phase change memory device and a method for programming the same. The method includes determining a maximum possible resistance for the memory cells in the phase change memory device. The method includes determining a high resistance state for the memory cells in the phase change memory device. The method includes receiving a request to program a target memory cell in the phase change memory device to the high resistance state. The method also includes resetting the target memory cell in the phase change memory device to the high resistance state such that the high resistance state of the target memory cell is of less resistance than the maximum possible resistance. In one embodiment of the invention, the high resistance state for the memory cells in the phase change memory device is at least 10% less than the maximum possible resistance.
US07965536B2	Ferroelectric memory device According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a ferroelectric memory device including: a cell unit including: a first select transistor having a first source, a first drain, and a first gate, one of the first source and the first drain being connected to a bit line; and a memory cell unit having a plurality of first memory cells, each of the first memory cells including a first ferroelectric capacitor and a first memory transistor; and a ferroelectric memory fuse including: a second select transistor having a second source, a second drain, and a second gate connected to a second select line, one of the second source and the second drain being connected to one end of the bit line; and a memory fuse unit having a plurality of second memory cells, each of the second memory cells including a second ferroelectric capacitor and a second memory transistor.
US07965535B2	Electrode master for ferroelectric recording and method for recording on ferroelectric recording medium An electrode master for ferroelectric recording records information on a ferroelectric recording medium in which the direction of polarization of a ferroelectric material has been unified in one direction by applying a voltage thereto, based on the direction of polarization of the ferroelectric material, by applying voltage pulses to the ferroelectric recording medium. The electrode master includes an electroconductive base material; a plurality of electrode convexes provided on a surface of the electroconductive base material so as to correspond to information to be recorded on the ferroelectric recording medium; and an electrode terminal conducted to each of the electrode convexes and provided on the electroconductive base material.
US07965534B2	Memory device, data recording method and IC tag A memory device of the present invention is characterized by a memory device for storing information by making use of molecular alignment of a liquid crystal compound in a liquid crystalline state formed by spot irradiation with a laser beam to carry out a selective heat treatment on an electroconductive liquid crystal semiconductor material layer containing a liquid crystal compound, comprising: a first electrode group including a plurality of linear electrodes which are parallel to each other; an electroconductive liquid crystal semiconductor material layer formed in such a manner that the layer covers the first electrode group, the layer containing a liquid crystal compound having a long linear conjugate structural moiety and exhibiting a smectic phase as a liquid crystal phase; and a second electrode group formed on the electroconductive liquid crystal semiconductor material layer and including a plurality of linear transparent electrodes being parallel to each other and extend in a direction intersecting with the first electrode group.
US07965532B2	Enhanced performance memory systems and methods Digital memory devices and systems, including memory systems and methods for operating such memory systems are disclosed. In the embodiments, a memory system may include a processor and a memory controller communicatively coupled to the processor. A memory bus communicates with at least two memory units through the memory bus. At least one divider unit may be interposed between the memory bus and the at least two memory units that is configured to approximately equally divide levels of received signals while matching an impedance of the memory bus to an impedance of the memory units.
US07965527B2	Temperature protection device for electronic converters and related method A device for protecting an electronic converter, e.g. for halogen lamps, includes a comparator having an output as well as non-inverting and inverting inputs for receiving a first input signal indicative of the load applied to the converter and a second input signal indicative of the temperature of the converter. The comparator is in a non-inverting Schmitt-trigger configuration having an input-output characteristic with hysteresis. Consequently, the output is switched from a first value to a second value to switch off the electronic converter as the first input signal exceeds a first threshold value. The output is switched back from the second value to the first value to restart the electronic converter when the first input signal falls below a second threshold value. The second threshold value is lower than the first threshold value, and both threshold values are a function of the signal indicative of the temperature of the converter.
US07965526B2	Self powered supply for power converter switch driver Self-powered supplies with on-board diagnostics are presented for powering a power converter switch driver with power obtained from an associated snubber circuit, including a first converter stage with a full bridge rectifier with a crowbar circuit creating a first DC bus and a second stage with an isolated DC to DC converter, and on-board diagnostics to indicate snubber failures and abnormal conditions of the self-powered supply.
US07965523B2	Switching power supply device In a switching power supply device, a first switch element, which defines a main switch element of a DC-DC converter, and a third switch element, which defines a switch element of a power-factor correcting circuit, are controlled such that turn-on timings are synchronized while on-period control is independently performed to thereby prevent an increase in switching frequency and prevent noise by eliminating intermittent oscillation. Thus, it is possible to prevent intermittent oscillation control due to an increase in switching frequency of the first switch element under a light load state or a no load state. This eliminates problems of the frequency of intermittent oscillation that falls within an audible frequency range causing noise and increasing ripple voltage.
US07965515B2	Heat radiating structure for electronic module and electronic device having the same A heat radiating structure for an electronic module and an electronic device having the same structure thereon. The heat radiating structure is formed at the bottom of the electronic module to release the generated heat from the electronic module, and includes an impact absorber, which absorbs impact transferred from the outside. A heat radiating sheet is formed with a plurality of the multi-layered heat conductive sheets and is in contact with the bottom of the electronic module by covering the outside of the impact absorber.
US07965514B2	Assemblies and methods for dissipating heat from handheld electronic devices According to various aspects of the present disclosure, exemplary embodiments include assemblies and methods for dissipating heat from an electronic device by a thermally-conducting heat path to the external casing via one or more portions of an electromagnetic interference shield and/or thermal interface material disposed around the device's battery or other power source. In an exemplary embodiment, a shield (or portions thereof) may be disposed about or define a battery area such that heat may be transferred to the external casing by a thermally-conductive heat path generally around the battery area through or along the shield. In another exemplary embodiment, a thermal interface material (or portions thereof) may be disposed about or define a battery area such that heat may be transferred to the external casing by a thermally-conductive heat path generally around the battery area through or along the thermal interface material.
US07965510B2	Power conversion apparatus and power module A power conversion apparatus includes a power module, four corners of which are fastened to a cooling jacket from its front surface by a front surface side fastening apparatus that includes nuts which are screwed with bolts projecting from the rear face of the cooling jacket to fasten the power module. An AC terminal of the power module, a DC positive electrode terminal connection portion, and a DC negative electrode terminal are arranged on the top surface of the cooling jacket facing the bolts.
US07965509B2	High performance dual-in-line memory (DIMM) array liquid cooling assembly and method A method and associated assembly for cooling electronic heat generating components of a computer including dual-in-line memory (DIMM) array(s) is provided. The assembly comprises a cooling component having a plate with a first and a second (reverse) side, thermally coupling to the heat generating components including the DIMM array(s). The first plate side has a coolant conduit connected at one end to a supply manifold via flexible tubing and at another end to a return manifold via another flexible tubing such that when coolant is supplied, the coolant circulates from the supply manifold to the return manifold by passing through said first plate's conduit.
US07965508B2	Cooling device for electronic component and power converter equipped with the same A cooling device for cooling an electronic component (semiconductor module) includes a cooling tube adapted to be disposed in contact with the electronic component and having an internal coolant flow channel for the passage therethrough of a cooling medium, and a high-pressure tube disposed adjacent to a surface of the cooling tube that faces away from the electronic component, the high-pressure tube having a hollow interior that can be filled with a high-pressure fluid having a pressure higher than that of the cooling medium. An electric power conversion device comprised of a plurality of semiconductor modules and the cooling device as means for cooling the semiconductor modules is also disclosed.
US07965504B2	Embedded computer chassis with redundant fan trays An embedded computer chassis may include a midplane having a first side and second side substantially opposite each other, where the midplane is suitably adapted to receive at least one computer card in each of the first side and the second side. Embedded computer chassis may further include a cooling region suitably adapted to cool the at least one computer card, where at least a portion of the cooling region is suitably adapted to receive a first fan tray and a second fan tray, where the first fan tray is suitably adapted to couple to the first side of the midplane, and where the second fan tray is suitably adapted to couple to the second side of the midplane. The first fan tray and the second fan tray are substantially redundant for removing the heat generated by the at least one computer card.
US07965503B2	Fan and storage device mounting assembly for elecronic device A fan [36] and storage device [37] mounting assembly [1] for an electronic device comprises a base [2] having opposing front [4] and rear [5] walls. The rear wall [5] has a plurality of ventilation openings [11] provided therein. A support [16] has a fan [36] mount [32] arranged adjacent to the front wall [4] and substantially perpendicular thereto and a storage device [37] receiving opening [20] arranged between the fan mount [32] and the ventilation openings [11].
US07965500B1	System, method and apparatus for using overmolded dampeners to absorb shock and vibration A computer chassis has overmolded dampeners for absorbing shock and vibration. Electronic components are hard mounted to points inside the computer chassis. Overmolded dampeners are affixed to corners, surfaces and sides of the laptop such that shock and vibration are absorbed by the dampeners before the shock or vibration can damage the electronic components. Affixing dampeners to portions of the chassis may provide shock and vibration protection with minimal weight.
US07965499B2	Computer case A computer case including a body, a first rear window, a blocking panel, and a plurality of exchangeable modules is provided. The body has a containing opening. The first rear window is assembled to the body and is located within the containing opening, and the first rear window has a module opening and a blocking panel opening. One of the exchangeable modules is assembled to the first rear window. The blocking panel is assembled to the first rear window and is located within the blocking panel opening, and the blocking panel has a plurality of connector openings.
US07965494B1	Combined ballast apparatus The combined ballast apparatus provides dual function, as both slave ballast and emergency battery ballast, without the expense of a dual installation of ballast onto or into a light fixture. The apparatus is further designed for best efficiency in mounting and in service and removal. The mount holes and quick clips provide for installation to existing fixtures without the need for screwdrivers, for example. The quick connects allow the apparatus to be quickly plugged and unplugged from a light fixture, without having to strip wires and use wire nuts or the like. If equipped with the apparatus and needing a ballast change, the fixture is serviced in a matter of perhaps ¼ to ⅓ the time previously required, without the litter.
US07965492B2	Metal capacitor and manufacturing method thereof A metal capacitor with improved electric conductivity includes a metal member having a through-hole forming portion where a plurality of through-holes are formed, an electrode withdrawing portion formed on the through-hole forming portion, and a sealing portion. The metal capacitor includes a metal oxide layer being formed on the metal member and a main electrode layer formed on the metal oxide layer that is formed on the through-hole forming portion of the metal member, to fill the plurality of through-holes. The metal capacitor further includes an insulating layer formed on the main electrode layer and the metal member to externally expose the electrode withdrawing portion of the metal member.
US07965488B2	Methods of removing aerosols from the atmosphere An antenna is disclosed to efficiently ionize the atmosphere for the purpose of reducing the aerosol counts, and therefore the number of poluted particles in suspension in the atmosphere, by deposition to ground. The antenna includes peripheral nodes and a central node. Each of the peripheral nodes is connected to adjacent peripheral nodes through peripheral spokes. The peripheral nodes are also connected to the central node through radial spokes. Electric power is applied to the peripheral spokes and the radial spokes causing the antenna to charge the atmosphere through the emission of ions. The antenna minimizes an attenuation factor that reduces ionization efficiency and reduces the land requirements for its installation.
US07965487B2	Neutralization apparatus having minute electrode ion generation element A neutralization apparatus comprising an ion generation element employing a novel, high efficiency discharge system capable of generating high concentration ions with a low ozone concentration. In the neutralization apparatus, the ion generation element is a minute electrode ion generation element consisting of a discharge electrode and an induction electrode having minute protrusions arranged in one direction on a plane, and a thin dielectric film sandwiched between them. The ion generation element is constituted of a set of a minute electrode ion generation element for generating positive ions and a minute electrode ion generation element for generating negative ions, characterized in that at least one or more ion generating elements are disposed so that the plane including each discharge electrode is parallel with the direction of gas flow and discharge electrodes are arranged perpendicularly to the direction of gas flow, and balanced control of positive and negative ions can be carried out at a position on the downstream side of gas flow by regulating a voltage applied to the discharge electrode of the ion generation element.
US07965486B2	Arc flash detection system An arc flash detection system includes a sensor for determining and responding to the presence of an arc flash condition in electrical equipment by detecting a pressure rise, rate of pressure rise and/or ultraviolet radiation characteristic of an arc flash, and generating a signal in response thereto; and processing means responsive to said signal for operating a protective system to de-energize the electrical equipment within a period of time of sufficiently short duration to prevent a pressure wave from the arc flash from causing unacceptable darn age to equipment or personnel.
US07965485B2	Circuit protection device for photovoltaic systems A circuit protection device for protecting a photovoltaic (PV) system from an overcurrent condition. The circuit protection device includes a first electrode electrically connectable to a first line of an electrical circuit, a second electrode electrically connectable to a second line of the electrical circuit. A first thermal element, second thermal element and an overload assembly define a first conductive path between the first and second electrodes. A bypass shunt defines a second conductive path between the first and second electrodes. The overload assembly electrically connects the first thermal element to the second thermal element, and is moveable between a closed position and an open position (i.e., overload condition). A low melt temperature solder electrically connects the overload assembly to the second thermal element. The low melt temperature solder softens and melts as the temperature increases in response to an overcurrent condition. Consequently, overload assembly moves from the closed position to the open position, thereby opening the first conductive path between the first and second electrodes. Residual follow-on current flows through bypass shunt via the second conductive path until the bypass shunt melts.
US07965484B2	Device for protecting a speed controller against overcurrent The invention relates to a speed controller comprising: a rectifier module (12) for generating a direct voltage on a power bus (10, 11) from an alternating voltage available on an electrical power-supply network (A); a bus capacitor (Cb) connected between a positive line and a negative line of the power bus; and an inverter module (13) powered by the power bus and controlled to deliver an alternating voltage to an electrical load (2); a protection device (14) for protecting the controller against overcurrents linked with voltage variations on the electrical power-supply network (A).
US07965483B2	Electronic trip unit of a circuit breaker An electronic trip unit which includes a processing unit and a comparator circuit. The processing unit receives an input voltage, and a reset signal to reset the electronic trip unit, and generates a trip signal when sensed current of the electronic trip unit exceeds a predetermined threshold. The comparator circuit includes a first comparator which receives the trip signal from the processing unit and compares the trip signal with a predetermined reference voltage determined based on the reset signal, and a second comparator which compares a voltage generated by a power supply with the predetermined reference voltage. The comparator circuit determines whether the trip signal is for a valid trip event based comparison results of the first comparator and the second comparator.
US07965482B2	ESD protection circuit and semiconductor device This disclosure concerns an ESD protection including logic gates connected between a first power input and a second power input, a second potential of the second power input lower than the first potential of the first power input, wherein in the logic gates, an output of the logic gate at a front stage are connected to an input of the logic gate at a rear stage, if a protection potential between the first and the second potentials is applied to a node connecting the output to the input when the logic gates respond to an ESD surge, a breakthrough current is carried to the logic gates from the first potential toward the second potential, and if the first and the second potentials are applied to the first power input and the second power input, logic values of the logic gates are kept in a constant state.
US07965480B2	Electrostatic discharge protection circuit A network device comprises an interface coupling an electronic device to a differential pair of signal lines, and an integrated active common mode suppression and electrostatic discharge protection circuit coupled to the interface in parallel to differential signal lines of the electronic device.
US07965476B2	Current producing circuit, current producing method, and electronic device A current producing circuit includes a first current source that applies a first current, the first current being changed at a first rate with respect to a temperature, a second current source that applies a second current, the second current being changed at a second rate with respect to the temperature, the second rate being different from the first rate, a third current source that applies a third current, the third current being changed at a third rate with respect to the temperature, a first differential output unit that supplies a first differential current based on a difference between the first current and the second current, and a computing unit that adds or subtracts the first differential current to or from the third current.
US07965468B2	Magnetic racetrack memory device including write-back loop A magnetic racetrack memory device includes; a magnetic track having a plurality of magnetic domains partitioned by at least one magnetic domain wall, a current source applying current to the magnetic track sufficient to move the at least one magnetic domain wall and the plurality of magnetic domains along the magnetic track, a writing device disposed at a first location along the magnetic track and storing write data to the magnetic domains, a reading device disposed at a second location along the magnetic track and retrieving read data from the magnetic domains, and a write-back loop connecting the reading device and the writing device and communicating read data obtained by the reading device to the writing device.
US07965465B2	Techniques for storing shingle blocks in a cache memory using a data storage device A data storage apparatus includes a data storage medium, a write element, a non-volatile cache memory circuit, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to record data on the data storage medium in groups of overlapping tracks using the write element. The controller circuit is configured to store a shingle block of data from a subset of the overlapping tracks in the non-volatile cache memory circuit, while at least a portion of the data in the shingle block of data is updated.
US07965463B2	Recording multiple codeword sets during latency period Writing data to magnetic tape is performed by receiving data from a host, establishing sub data sets, computing C1 and C2 ECC, forming Codeword Quad sets, writing a beginning Data Set Separator to a magnetic tape, writing a plurality of contiguous instances of the CQ Set to the magnetic tape and writing a closing DSS. The number of instances of each Codeword Pair is increased, thereby allowing the benefits of writing short tape records and improving reading reliability while reducing susceptibility to mis-tracking errors and large defects, and while reducing the negative impact on data reliability. Otherwise unused latency times are utilizing and therefore no performance penalty is incurred.
US07965458B2	Clutching jig A clutching jig used to disengage a lens socket and a lens component which has a base glued on a printed circuit board (PCB) and is fixed in the lens socket by a plurality of buckling pieces of the lens socket abutting on the lens component. The clutching jig defines a base plate. The base plate has an inserting hole at a middle portion thereof. A side of the base plate has a portion surrounding the inserting hole extended perpendicular to the base plate to form a plurality of inserting slices, enclosing a chamber for receiving the lens component. The inserting slices are adapted to insert into a gap between the lens component and the lens socket for pressing the buckling pieces away from the lens component, with distal ends of the inserting slices extending inwards beyond a junction of the base and the PCB.
US07965457B2	Vibratory driving device A vibratory driving device 1 comprising a shaft-like driving member 7, a electromechanical transducer 6 which can incline the driving member 7 and which can also displace the driving member 7 in the axial direction of the driving member, a movable member 8 which slidably engages on the driving member 7, a driving circuit 3 which can apply to the electromechanical transducer 6 a periodical frictional driving voltage to displace slidingly the movable member with respect to the driving member and an inclination driving voltage inclining the driving member, a waveform determiner 4 which determines a rising condition of a voltage or a current of the electromechanical transducer 6 when the inclination driving voltage is applied, and a position estimator which estimates a position of the movable member 8 based on the rising condition of a voltage or a current.
US07965454B2	Imaging lens and small-size image pickup apparatus using the same There are provided an imaging lens, which is capable of promoting high definition and miniaturization of a small-size image pickup apparatus, and the small-size image pickup apparatus using the same. A aperture diaphragm S is arranged between a first lens L1 and a second lens L2 so that the first lens L1 is configured to be displaced into the orthogonal direction to the optical axis. Even when an error sensitivity of a lens is large, a stable high resolution can be secured by performing a lens alignment by displacing the first lens L1 into the orthogonal direction to the optical axis at the time of assembling, and thereby a high definition image can be obtained.
US07965451B2	Zoom lens and electronic imaging apparatus using the same A zoom lens includes, in order from the object side, a first lens unit with negative power, a second lens unit with positive power, a third lens unit with positive power, and a fourth lens unit. When the magnification of the zoom lens is changed in the range from a wide-angle position to a telephoto position, spacing between the first lens unit and the second lens unit is narrowed and spacing between the second lens unit and the third lens unit is widened. An aperture stop moved integrally with the second lens unit is interposed between the most image-side lens element of the first lens unit and the most image-side lens element of the second lens unit. The first lens unit has, in order from the object side, a negative lens element and a positive lens element and satisfies the following conditions: 0.15<φ1MF/φ1MR<1.0 −3.0<φ1PF/φ1PR<−1.0 where φ1MF is the power of the object-side surface of the negative lens element, φ1MR is the power of the image-side surface of the negative lens element, φ1PF is the power of the object-side surface of the positive lens element, and φ1PR is the power of the image-side surface of the positive lens element.
US07965447B2	Optical substrate and method of making An optical surface substrate. The optical substrate features a three-dimensional surface. The optical substrate is defined by a first surface structure function modulated by a second surface structure function, the first surface structure function producing at least one specular component from a first input beam of light. The second surface structure function has a geometry with at least pseudo-random characteristics to modulate the first surface structure function such that the surface of the optical substrate produces specular and diffuse light from the first input beam of light. The optical substrate is suitable for use in a variety of applications, including brightness enhancement and projection devices.
US07965446B2	Structure for pattern formation, method for pattern formation, and application thereof A structure for pattern formation adapted for optically forming a pattern, characterized by comprising: a photocatalyst-containing layer provided on a substrate, the photocatalyst-containing layer containing a material of which the wettability is variable through photocatalytic action upon pattern-wise exposure.
US07965441B2	Optical film with super low retardation and polarizing plate containing the same An optical film with super low retardation, including metal oxide nano-particles dispersed in a transparent resin having a three-dimensional crosslinking structure. The optical film has about 0-2 nm in-plane retardation (Ro) and almost zero out-of-plane retardation (Rth). The optical film can replace conventional triacetyl cellulose (TAC) as a polarizer protective film to improve black-white contrast and color shift on liquid crystal displays at wide viewing angles.
US07965439B2	Scanning device and scanning type optical apparatus A scanning device includes: an optical element in which a refractive index distribution changes according to the intensity of an electric field generated therein such that an incident laser beam is scanned; first and second electrodes provided on two opposite surfaces of the optical element; and a control unit that controls a voltage applied to at least one of the first and second electrodes such that the electric field is generated in one direction and the other direction opposite to the one direction with time in the optical element.
US07965438B2	Display method and display device The invention provides a display method for displaying an image by deposition of metal fine particles. The display method includes at least depositing metal fine particles, from an electrolytic solution that has at least a metal ion of the metal particles and that is provided between a pair of substrates having at least one translucent substrate, onto a surface of any one of the pair of substrates by imparting one stimulus. A concentration of the metal ion of the metal fine particles in the electrolytic solution after imparting the stimulus is about 200 mmol/l or less. The invention further provides a display device which uses the display method.
US07965437B2	Integrated high efficiency multi-stage acousto-optic modulator An acousto-optic modulator for a Q-switch (300) for a laser includes a monolithic acousto-optic (a-o) medium (311), a series of at least two acoustic transducers (321, 322), bonded spaced apart on the a-o medium, which emit first and second columnar acoustic beams (331, 332). These interact sequentially with an incident optical beam (Light) passing through the modulator. The transducers are oriented so that an optical ray (342) diffracted from the first acoustic column region enters the second acoustic column region at an angle outside the “acceptance angle” of the second acoustical column, i.e. outside the range of incidence angles for which the diffraction efficiency is significant, whereas the remaining light in the zeroth order will undergo further diffraction at the second acoustic column region. This arrangement significantly reduces the amount of light diffracted by the first beam being diffracted back into the zeroth order by the second acoustic beam. The second acoustic beam is arranged to diffract any light remaining in the zeroth order after passing through the first acoustic beam region. In this way the efficiency of the modulator for Q-switching operation is increased. Bragg angle; Raman-Nath diffraction, Debye-Sears-Ratio.
US07965434B2	Display element This invention provides a display element comprising an electrolyte between opposed electrodes. The electrolyte contains silver, or a compound containing silver. The opposed electrodes are driven and operated so that silver is dissolved and precipitated. The display element is characterized in that this electrolyte satisfies the following requirements a to c: a. a cyclic carboxylic acid ester having a dielectric constant of not less than 30 and not more than 50 is contained as an organic solvent; b. formula (1) is satisfied: 0<[x]/[Ag]≦0.1 (1) wherein [x] represents the total molar concentration (mol/kg) of halogen ions or halogen atoms contained in halide molecules; and [Ag] represents a total molar concentration (mol/kg) of silver or a compound containing silver; and c. the concentration of silver or a compound containing silver in an organic solvent is not less than 0.2 mmol/g and not more than 0.5 mmol/g.
US07965433B2	Bias controller The present invention relates to a bias controller for a dual output electro-optic modulator and a method for controlling the bias of a dual output electro-optic modulator. The invention further comprises an optical commutator switch with a plurality of dual-output electro-optic modulators interconnected in a tiered arrangement, and control means for deriving measurements of optical power from each of the modulators. The optical commutator is further used for determining respective bias control signals to achieve and maintain operation of the modulators substantially at their quadrature bias points, and further for generating said respective bias control signals for applying them to the respective modulators.
US07965427B2	Color processing apparatus and its method When a whole input gamut is mapped into an output gamut, even a gamut range which is not used in practice is mapped into the output gamut. This causes a saturation drop or tone loss. In order to solve this problem, image data obtained by the first device is input and an obtaining condition of the input image data is obtained. On the basis of the obtaining condition, the first gamut information of the input image data is obtained from a table showing the relationship between the output gamut of the first device and the obtaining condition. On the basis of the first gamut information and the second gamut information which indicates the gamut of the second device, the input image data is mapped into the gamut indicated by the second gamut information.
US07965424B2	Scanner apparatus with automatic document feeder swivelled to accommodate different users and installations The present invention provides a scanner apparatus provided with both a flatbed-type mechanism and an ADF-type mechanism. The ADF mechanism can be set at an arbitrary position with an arbitrary orientation for use, whereby convenience for the user is improved while ensuring freedom with regard to the setting place of the apparatus. Further, the scanner apparatus is made such that reading with the ADF unit and reading with the flatbed unit can be performed simultaneously. A movable coupling mechanism is provided at a joint portion between the ADF mechanism and the flatbed mechanism. The movable coupling mechanism does not fix the position and orientation of the ADF mechanism and enables the ADF mechanism to be freely moved and rotated. With this movable coupling mechanism, the ADF mechanism can be disposed at either of the left and right ends of the paper-pressing board of the flatbed unit or at an arbitrarily position in consideration of convenience for a user and the setting place of the apparatus. Further, the orientation of the shooter of the ADF mechanism can be freely changed.
US07965419B2	Image processing device and printing apparatus for performing bidirectional printing This invention provides a printing apparatus that performs printing on a print medium. The printing apparatus includes: a dot data generator that performs a halftone process on image data, wherein the print image is formed by mutually combining print pixels belonging to each of a plurality of pixel position groups for which a physical difference is assumed at a formation of dots by the print image generator, in a common print area, and the halftone process is configured to determine the status of dot formation on each of the print pixels on an assumption of the physical difference.
US07965417B2	Tone correction table generation method and apparatus There is provided a method of generating a tone correction table used to correct tone characteristics of image data of each component color in a color image forming apparatus, comprising the steps of outputting color patch images of each component color for respective tone levels corresponding to a plurality of different image data values, acquiring colorimetric values including brightness values, chromatic values, and reflection spectra of respective patches by measuring colors of the output color patch images, analyzing characteristics of the calorimetric values for respective tone levels based on the calorimetric values of the color patch images, selecting a tone correction table generation method according to the characteristics obtained in the analysis step, and generating a tone correction table to have tone characteristics as target characteristics according to the selected tone correction table generation method.
US07965415B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product An image reading unit acquires image data by reading a document, skin is detected from the image data, and skin processing is performed according to a detection result of detection of the skin. The image data is then corrected to have a predetermined data characteristic, and a second skin processing is performed on the image data based on a skin detection result. An image processing is conducted on the image data according to output characteristic, and then stored in a memory or a hard disk drive so as to be output as appropriate.
US07965414B2	Systems and methods for detecting image quality defects An approach for detecting and correcting printing system print quality defects is disclosed that allows defects to be corrected based on an analysis of image data collected over time, across many separate images, under a wide variety of system status and environmental conditions to allow detection of print quality defects that would otherwise be undetectable. The approach supports the detection and correction of defects related to colorant appearance effects that are correlated to colorant interactions. Techniques are described by which allow image data to be efficiently collected and stored to support a wide range of defect processing techniques. Defect processing may be performed in parallel with print job operations using spare processor CPU cycles and/or may be performed off-line by either the printing system processor or a separate defect processing system. Detected print quality defects may be corrected for using one or more interpolation techniques.
US07965409B2	Methods and systems for rendering and printing reverse fine features A method and system are proposed in which a moving window based operator is applied to a page of a PDL document that has been decomposed, and the objects within the page flattened and rasterized. The window moves along the raster scan line, and processes rasterized data within the window, detecting any color-to-white or white-to-color interface (edge). The white rasterized portion is then dilated outward across the interface into the color portion, the dilated amount being based on a size of a reverse fine line and/or small text font character to be reproduced. A size of the fine line and/or small text font object is determined and if below a threshold, object dilation may be given effect. A dilation amount may increase as the object size decreases until the size reaches a lower threshold at and beyond which a maximum dilation amount may be applied.
US07965408B2	Medical data recording system A medical data recording method includes receiving medical data information in DICOM format through a software module and parsing patient identification information and study information from the received medical data information. The parsed patient identification information and parsed study information is stored. Print information for an autoloader control software has selected fields obtained from the stored parsed patient identification information and the stored parsed study information. DICOM images and other files are recorded on a recording media. The label is automatically printed using selected fields from the stored parsed patient identification information and the stored parsed study information on the recording media to label the recording media.
US07965405B2	Image forming apparatus using changeable threshold value for memory allocation An image forming apparatus includes a storing section that has a common storage area, the common storage area having a plurality of areas that are coexisting in the common storage area in accordance with a threshold value and are used to generate and store a plurality of pieces of data that have different formats based on electronic data; a language format discriminating section to discriminate a description language format of the electronic data; and a control section to change the threshold value based on the description language format discriminated by the language format discriminating section.
US07965403B2	Image forming apparatus, management information processing terminal, and status information management system When an inquiry of a device state is received at a first communication port from an information processing terminals, a corresponding printer determines whether a second communication port that is communicably connected to the information processing terminal is present besides the first communication port, and if the second communication port is present, determines whether the first communication port is a communication port of the highest priority among the communication ports currently connected to the communicable terminals, and if the second communication port is not present or the first communication port is the communication port of the highest priority, makes the status information expressing the operation state of the device be sent from the first communication port to the information processing terminal that inquired the device state.
US07965400B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing system, computer readable medium, and image processing method An image processing apparatus includes a job execution unit, a log generation unit, a log storage unit, a feature amount extraction unit and a replacement unit. The job execution unit executes a processing job of image data. Te log generation unit generates image log information for identifying the executed processing job and identifying the processed image data. The log storage unit stores the generated image log information. The feature amount extraction unit extracts a feature amount of the image data identified by the image log information. The identity determination unit compares feature amounts extracted from pieces of the image data identified by pieces of the image log information, to determine identity among the image data. The replacement unit replaces information to identify a piece of the image data, which are determined to be identical, with information to identify another piece of the image data.
US07965399B2	Image processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, and information output method In a composite machine provided with a copy mode and a print mode, an operation history of each operation mode is accurately timed and log information concerning an electric power of the composite machine for processing various jobs such as the copy mode and the print mode is prepared based on a timed value.
US07965398B2	Character rendering device, display device, and printing device There is disclosed a character rendering device capable of rendering characters at a higher speed. The character rendering device includes an internal storage unit including plural storage areas; a first bus connected through an external bus to an external storage unit storing character shape data sets, each expressing a shape of a character; a second bus connected to the internal storage unit; a controller that specifies one of the plural storage areas; a first rendering unit connected to the first and second buses, that renders a character shape of a character based on one of the character shape data sets supplied through the external bus and the first bus, and writes through the second bus the rendered character shape into one of the storage areas specified by the controller; a second rendering unit connected to the second bus, reads through the second bus, each time when writing of a character shape into one of the plural storage areas is completed by the first rendering unit, the character shape from one of the plural storage areas, and renders a character based on the read character shape; and a transfer unit that transfers the character rendered by the second rendering unit.
US07965395B2	Optical axis orientation measuring device, optical axis orientation measuring method, spherical surface wave device manufacturing device, and spherical surface wave device manufacturing method The optical axis orientation measuring device according to the present invention is a reflective optical axis orientation measuring device for a spherical member made from a single crystal of an optically uniaxial crystal having birefringence, comprising: illuminating means for illuminating the spherical member through a polarizer; and isogyre observing means for observing the isogyre that is structured by the light that is reflected from the bottom surface of the spherical member and emitted from the spherical member through an analyzer that has a cross-nicol relationship with the polarizer.
US07965394B2	Method and apparatus for identifying dynamic characteristics of a vibratory object A method and apparatus for identifying dynamic characteristics of a vibratory object is provided in the present invention, in which a series of dynamic interference images of the vibratory object is acquired through a frequency sweeping procedure and a two-dimensional image scanning procedure. Thereafter, the acquired images are processed for obtaining the corresponding differential fringe density index by signal processing technique of band-pass filtering method so as to further identify the dynamic characteristics of the vibratory object.
US07965385B2	Installation for candling eggs and optoelectronic system for examining under radiation such an installation The invention relates to a system applicable to an installation for candling eggs, to determine the presence of fertilized eggs in the cells of the egg crate grid moving on a conveyor. Row by row, the analyzing device synchronously monitors the light emission on the eggs of the row and detection of the attenuated light of emerging beams. The monitoring includes at least two close cycles of light emission. During the first cycle, which is of short duration to avoid causing glare of the detectors of the detecting device, the coordinates of possible empty cells in a row are determined and stored. During the second cycle, which is of longer duration, the coordinates of fertilized eggs of the row are determined and stored. The egg candling installation advantageously also marks the eggs, depending in particular on whether they are fertilized or not.
US07965382B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-exposure patterning In some aspects, a reticle is provided for use in forming a patterned region on a substrate using a multi-pattern, multi-exposure process. The reticle includes (a) a first pattern for the multi-pattern, multi-exposure process formed on a first region of the reticle; and (b) a second pattern for the multi-pattern, multi-exposure process formed on a second region of the reticle that is offset from first region of the reticle. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US07965381B2	Self-aligned, sub-wavelength optical lithography Embodiments of the invention provide a method and an apparatus for performing self-aligned, sub-wavelength optical lithography. One embodiment provides a region of photoresist above a conductive surface having a plurality of periodically arrayed openings extending therethrough. At least a portion of the region of photoresist is then exposed to a light, wherein the intensity of the light is less than the intensity required to cure the photoresist. In so doing, at least one self-aligned, sub-wavelength location in at least one location of the region of photoresist is cured.
US07965380B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method Lithographic apparatus using an array of individually controllable elements in which a fraction of the intensity of the beam of radiation patterned by the array of individually controllable elements is diverted to an image sensor for verifying the quality of the image generated.
US07965372B2	Apparatus for removing photoresist film A photoresist film removing apparatus includes a reacting chamber, an ozonizer producing a gas supplied to the reacting chamber, and an exhaust system that exhausts the gas from the reacting chamber. A source of a photoresist film-remover is located opposite a stage carrying a substrate covered with photoresist. Photoresist film-remover and the gas are supplied to the substrate through apertures. An electric field may be generated between the source of the photoresist film-remover and the substrate. Alternatively, a centrally located feed tube supplies only one of the gas and the photoresist film-remover through a single aperture and a reservoir discharges the other through apertures. The reservoir surrounds and is sealed to the feed tube. The apparatus may include a container holding a liquid photoresist film-remover and a mixture of the gas and remover is supplied from outside the reacting chamber to the substrate.
US07965369B2	Display device A display device is provided which comprises a first conductive layer in which a first electrode film is formed, a first insulating layer provided over the first conductive layer, a second conductive layer provided over the first insulating layer and in which a second electrode film is formed at a position different, in plane, from the first electrode film, and a second insulating layer provided over the second conductive layer. Over a surface of the second insulating layer, a recess having, in its inside, a first region in which the first electrode film is exposed, a second region in which the second electrode film is exposed, and a third region which connects the first region and the second region is formed, and a conductive film is formed at least in the first through the third regions.
US07965366B2	Flexible printed circuit board with alignment marks in particular positions An exemplary flexible printed circuit board (2) includes a substrate (221), a plurality of connecting fingers (225, 227) and at least one alignment mark (229). The connecting fingers and the at least one alignment mark are located on a surface of the substrate. The at least one alignment mark is disposed between two of the connecting fingers.
US07965363B2	Vertically-aligned (VA) liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device including a common electrode on a first substrate, a pixel electrode on a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The device also include first and second alignment control structures formed, respectively, on the first and second substrates, for regulating azimuths of orientations of the liquid crystal when a voltage is applied thereto. The first and second alignment control structures each include a first line portion (extending in a first direction) and a second line portion (extending in a second direction, which is different from the first direction). The pixel electrode includes an edge extending in a direction different from both the first and second directions.
US07965359B2	Self-compensating, quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal device Self-compensating, quasi-homeotropic liquid crystal devices (100, 200, 300, 400) overcome the contrast reducing effects of smaller pretilt angles. The devices exhibit extremely high contrast ratio but at the same time suppress fringe field-induced disclination lines in high pixel density and small pixel size quasi-homeotropic displays. The surface pretilt (520, 540) and cell twist (570) angles are set at values that, in combination, contribute to establishing a cuspate singularity in the contrast ratio for normally incident light in response to a drive signal switching the liquid crystal device to the OFF director field state that provides nearly 0% optical efficiency. The OFF director field state corresponds to a subthreshold drive level that provides for the liquid crystal device self-compensation for in plane optical retardation. Setting the cell gap (“d”) to provide substantially 100% optical efficiency in response to a value of the drive signal switching the liquid crystal device to the ON director field state achieves optimal dynamic range for the liquid crystal device.
US07965353B2	Color filter with perpendicular optical retardation and liquid crystal display device A color filter comprising a substrate, a red pixel, green pixel and blue pixel, each being disposed on the substrate, wherein a perpendicular optical retardation RRth of the red pixel, a perpendicular optical retardation GRth of the green pixel, and a perpendicular optical retardation BRth of the blue pixel satisfy the following formulas (1) and (2): \|(RRth−BRth)\|−\|(GRth−BRth)\|≧0 (1) \|(RRth−BRth)\|−\|(RRth−GRth)\|≧0 (2) wherein RRth, GRth and BRth represent, respectively, a product of a thickness [nm] of a pixel and a value obtained by subtracting a value of thickness-wise refractive index from an average value of an in-plane refractive index of each of these pixels.
US07965351B2	Planar light source, display device and method for manufacturing the same Light-emitting elements are divided into chromaticity groups on the basis of their chromaticity. In a planar light source, light-emitting elements selected from two of the chromaticity groups are alternately provided in a longitudinal direction and in a transverse direction, respectively. The two chromaticity groups are substantially equally away from a target chromaticity in directions reverse to each other. Further, pairs of two of the light-emitting elements belonging to the two chromaticity groups which are separated from each other, are provided so that distances d2 at which two of the light-emitting elements in each of the pairs are provided are less than distances d1 at which the pairs are provided.
US07965350B2	Backlight for liquid crystal display device A backlight for a liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of point light sources 1 arranged linearly, a light guide plate 3 having a light incident surface 3a, a reflection surface 3b and a light emitting surface 3c for emitting the light reflected by the reflection surface 3b. A light scattering pattern 31 is formed on the reflection surface 3b. A light control pattern 32 is formed on the reflection surface 3b at almost entire portions except for the light scattering pattern 31 is formed for reflecting the light introduced and for outputting from the light emitting surface 3c. A pattern less area is formed on the reflection surface 3b at a boundary portion between the light scattering pattern 31 and the light control pattern 32.
US07965346B2	Liquid crystal module having a pair of lamp frames A liquid crystal module includes a frame, a light reflecting sheet, a cold cathode tube, an optical sheet, a liquid crystal panel, a bezel, a pair of lamp frames and a restriction component. The frame includes top, bottom, left and right side plates, and a base plate disposed on a lower side of the top, bottom, left and right side plates. The pair of lamp frames is fixedly attached along the left and right side plates of the frame in an interior of the frame. The restriction component is provided between each of the lamp frames and each of the top and bottom side plates to prevent the lamp frames from rotating around a longitudinal axis of the lamp frames with respect to the frame.
US07965345B2	Liquid crystal display A pixel electrode and a direction control electrode capacitively coupled to the pixel electrode are provided in a pixel. A pixel thin film transistor is connected to a gate line, a data line, and the pixel electrode. A direction control electrode thin film transistor is connected to a previous gate line, a previous data lines or a next data line, and the direction control electrode. The gate lines are supplied with scanning signals, and each scanning signal includes first and second pulses in a frame. The first pulse of a scanning signal is synchronized with the second pulse of a previous scanning signal.
US07965344B2	Flat panel display with pivot mechanism An exemplary flat panel display (2) includes a housing (251 and 255) with a pair of joint members (256 and 257), a display panel (253) accommodating in the housing, a base (21) with a supporting member (210), and a pivot mechanism (23) connecting the supporting member and the joint members. The joint members are integrally formed with the housing, whereby the display panel is pivotable relative to the base. With this configuration, the integrated joint members provide the flat panel display with a simple structure, relatively easy assembly, and reduced cost.
US07965338B2	Media player audio video synchronization Techniques for evaluating media player performance are described. A particular implementation supplies media to a media player where the media includes a video component which has a waveform that alternates between a first video state and a second video state, and an audio component which has a waveform that alternates between a first audio state and a second audio state. In the supplied media the audio and video components are temporally synchronized in transition between respective first and second states. The process further analyzes corresponding output from the media player to determine an extent to which the audio and video components are temporally unsynchronized.
US07965333B2	Method for noise correction for a flat-panel detector For noise correction in connection with a flat-panel x-ray detector (2), noise signals of a dark area (6) are checked for deviations exceeding a specified threshold (g) which, if any are present, will be taken into consideration separately for calculating the correction factor derived from the noise signal. Image artifacts due, for example, to high-contrast objects such as, for instance, cardiac pacemakers or metallic implants, in the x-ray image will be avoided through this measure.
US07965328B2	CMOS solid-state image pickup apparatus utilizing selectable accumulation time results Basically, en electronic shutter function of a CMOS solid-state image pickup apparatus is implemented by a rolling shutter of which exposure timing sequentially shifts between pixel rows. The exposure period for one pixel row is from a time point when readout of the pixel row is started to a time point when next readout of the pixel row is started. Thus, in order to achieve exposure similar to that of a global shutter with the same exposure period applied to all of the pixel rows, there is set a blank period where no pixel signal is read out from any one of the pixel rows, and an LED is illuminated over a predetermined portion within the blank period. In this way, the CMOS solid-state image pickup apparatus having a rolling shutter function can achieve similar exposure to a global shutter.
US07965319B2	Image signal processing system An image signal processing apparatus that includes a data path portion for processing a raw image signal and merging and concentrating with non-linear filtering portion. The apparatus also includes a color space transformation portion, geometry transformation portion, linear filtering portion and gain adjustment portion to output a processed signal. The apparatus also includes control and judgment portion for receiving the raw image and the processed signal from the data path portion and generating a plurality of adjustment signals for the non-linear filtering portion.
US07965317B2	System and method for implementation motion-driven multi-shot image stabilization An improved system and method for capturing an image using a camera or a camera module. In the present invention, the number of image shots taken, as well as the integration time of each image shot, are controlled based upon knowledge about the existence or absence of camera motion. Whenever a motion is detected above a predetermined motion threshold, the integration phase of the current image shot ends, and the integration of the next image shot begins. The present invention therefore adapts to the actual camera motion during exposure. If there is no camera motion, a single, long exposed image shot is captured. If there is camera motion, the total exposure time is divided between multiple shots in accordance with the degree of camera motion.
US07965313B2	Airport security system An airport security system includes a scanner scanning and time stamping an article of identification of an individual passing into a secure terminal area. The system further includes security cameras generating respective video signals of overlapping zones of coverage of the secure terminal area. The video signals are recorded and received in a controller generating a seamless video signal therefrom. Reversing of the seamless video signal allows visual tracking of a security breach in the secure terminal area from the time of breach identification scan and time stamp. Faster than real time forwarding of the seamless video signal allows tracking of the security breach from the time stamp to the breacher's present location within the secure terminal area.
US07965305B2	Color display system with improved apparent resolution A full color display system comprised of: a) a display which is formed from a two-dimensional array of three or more differently colored light-emitting elements arranged in a repeating pattern forming a first number of full-color two-dimensional groups of light-emitting elements, each full-color group of light-emitting elements being formed by more than one luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements, wherein the display has a peak white luminance and each luma-chroma sub-group comprising at least one distinct high-luminance light-emitting element having a peak output luminance value that is 40 percent or greater of the peak white luminance of the display device; and b) a processor for providing a signal to drive the display by receiving a three-or-more color input image signal, which specifies three-or-more color image values at each of a two-dimensional number of sampled addressable spatial locations within an image to be displayed; wherein the processor dynamically forms re-sampling functions for image spatial locations derived from the input image signal and corresponding to the spatial location of each luma-chroma sub-group in the display array based on an analysis of the spatial content of the three-or-more color input image signal and the display array repeating pattern, and applying the re-sampling functions to the three-or-more color input image signal to render a signal for driving each light-emitting element within each corresponding luma-chroma sub-group of light-emitting elements.
US07965301B1	Color conversion preserving global and local image characteristics A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for color conversion of a digital image. The digital image comprises a source set of pixels. A perceptual distance may be determined between the source set of pixels and a respective destination set of pixels for each of a plurality of rendering intents. A rendering intent corresponding to the smallest perceptual distance may be selected automatically. The source set of pixels may be converted to an output set of pixels using the selected rendering intent.
US07965295B2	Mixture model for motion lines in a virtual reality environment Improved human-like realism of computer opponents in racing or motion-related games is provided by using a mixture model to determine a dynamically prescribed racing line that the AI driver is to follow for a given segment of the race track. This dynamically prescribed racing line may vary from segment to segment and lap to lap, roughly following an ideal line with some variation. As such, the AI driver does not appear to statically follow the ideal line perfectly throughout the race. Instead, within each segment of the course, the AI driver's path may smoothly follow a probabilistically-determined racing line defined relative to at least one prescribed racing line.
US07965294B1	Key frame animation with path-based motion Techniques that give animators the direct control they are accustomed to with key frame animation, while providing for path-based motion. A key frame animation-based interface is used to achieve path-based motion.
US07965293B2	Image processing device, image processing method, and image processing program for reconstructing data Device, method and computer program capable of obtaining from image data document data readable and effectively adherable in a region of definite form without waste. According to the device, method and computer program, a document block containing a specific image such as a headline and a body text is extracted from among image data to be processed, character code is recognized from a character image of the specific image within the document block, the document block is reconstructed in a specific shape, and character code data corresponding to the recognized character code is laid out within the reconstructed document block.
US07965291B1	Isosurface extraction utilizing a graphics processing unit A graphics system utilizes a graphics processing unit to implement marching tetrahedra extraction of an isosurface. In one embodiment locations of tetrahedral grids are represented as groups of four vertices for processing in the graphics processing unit.
US07965285B2	Display substrate and display device having the same A display substrate includes source lines, gate lines, an output pad part, a fan-out part and a first voltage line part. The source lines are in a display area. The gate lines cross the source lines. The output pad part is in a peripheral area surrounding the display area and is electrically connected to output terminals of a driving chip. The fan-out part is electrically connected between the output pad part and the source lines. The first voltage line part is inclined with respect to a central line of a chip area in which the driving chip is mounted toward opposite sides of the chip area to cross the fan-out part. Therefore, the line reactance of the fan-out part is decreased and the uniformity of the line resistance of the fan-out part is increased to improve image display quality.
US07965284B2	Projector, projection display system, and corresponding method and recording medium A method includes sending image related working status information representing image-related working status of a projector that projects images, to a client over a network in response to a request to provide the image-related working status of the projector. The image-related working status is related to display characteristic of the projected image. The method includes controlling the image-related working status of the projector based on the control information received from the client over the network in response to the sent image-related working status information. The image-related working status information is sent to the client with screen information from which the client can display a user interface that includes the image-related working status information.
US07965282B2	Operation device for vehicle An operation device for a vehicle is provided that enables switching over of a plurality of operation menu display screens and switching over of a plurality of function display screens for in-vehicle equipment displayed on a monitor by tilting of an operating knob (30) in eight directions, pivoting of the operating knob (30) around its axis, and operation of a main switch (31) and a sub switch (32) provided on the operating knob (30). In this process, since the operating knob (30) is not pivoted around its axis without limit but it is restricted so that pivoting is possible only in a predetermined angle range, it is not necessary to change the grip on the operating knob (30) when pivoting the operating knob (30), the burden on the wrist is lessened, and the operability is improved. Moreover, since the main switch (31) and the sub switch (32) are provided on the operating knob (20), they can be operated without detaching the hand from the operating knob (30), thus further improving the operability.
US07965280B2	Wait mode pen-touch detection and method for touch screen controller A touch screen controller (1A) includes circuitry (2B) for generating a pen touch detection signal (PENTOUCH) having a first level if a touch point (Q) of a touch screen assembly (30,31) including first (30) and second (31) resistive screens is detected, and generating a second level of the pen touch detection signal if a touch point is not detected. A controller (41A) includes circuitry (58A) that generates an interrupt signal (IRQ) to be sent to a host processor (3) in response to the first level of the pen touch detection signal and for resetting the interrupt signal (IRQ) in response to the second level of the pen touch detection signal if the second level is received before a convert command is received from the host processor. The interrupt signal (IRQ) represents an interrupt service request for a convert command from the host processor (3). Resetting of the interrupt signal (IRQ) has the effect of canceling the interrupt service request.
US07965277B2	Optical navigation system and method of controlling the light output power of the system An optical navigation system and method of controlling the light output power of the system uses an optical feedback system to control the driving signal being applied to a light source of the optical navigation system.
US07965274B2	Display apparatus using electrophoretic element A display apparatus is disclosed that includes two opposing substrates, an electrophoretic element arranged between the substrates; pixel electrodes that are arranged on one of the substrates and are divided into pixel groups including at least a first pixel group and a second pixel group, a common electrode that is arranged on the other substrate, and a control unit that controls frame display operations of the pixel groups. The control unit controls the first pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying a frame and then controls the second pixel group to start frame display operations for displaying another frame before the frame display operations of the first pixel group are completed.
US07965273B2	Buffer and organic light emitting display using the buffer The present invention provides a buffer and an organic light emitting display that employs the buffer. The buffer is installed in a scan driver or a data driver, which generates scan signals and data signals, respectively, to drive the organic light emitting display. The buffer of the present invention is configured of p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistors, and therefore the scan driver or data driver that includes the buffer can be mounted on a display panel. Various arrangements of the PMOS transistors are proposed for the buffer of the present invention. The buffer of the present invention effectively prevents leakage current that could be generated in the circuit of the buffer.
US07965269B2	Active matrix type display apparatus A display apparatus including pixel circuits arranged in the row and column direction to form a display portion, the pixel circuit including a capacitor which holds an electric signal representing information, a driving transistor, a control terminal of which is connected to one end of the capacitor and which outputs driving current according to information held in the capacitor, a light emitting element which emits light with brightness according to current output from the driving transistor, and a switching element which opens and closes a current path from the driving transistor to the light emitting element, wherein a time period during which the switching element closes the current path is set to be the longest in the pixel circuit at the center of the display portion and to be gradually shorter according to the distance to the end side of the display portion.
US07965265B2	Organic light emitting display device and driving method thereof An organic light emitting display device including: an optical sensor for generating an optical sensor signal corresponding to brightness of ambient light; a first luminance control unit for providing a first luminance control signal (Vc1) for controlling a pulse width of a light emission control signal in accordance with the optical sensor signal; a second luminance control unit for providing a second luminance control signal (Vc2) for controlling the pulse width of the light emission control signal in accordance with data of one frame of the image; and a comparator/selector for comparing the first luminance control signal with the second luminance control signal and for selecting one of the first luminance control signal or the second luminance control signal for output to a scan driver.
US07965258B2	Slide-out information display Slide-out and roll-up information displays and methods supply enlarged viewing areas. A slide-out information display device includes stacked display segments wherein each of the display segments except one is at least partially covered by the others. Separable bezel segments support the display segments, the stacked display segments being uncovered when the bezel segments are separated from a collapsed configuration to an un-collapsed configuration for use by a user. A roll-up display device includes flexible display membranes. Scrolling assemblies in the roll-up display include rotatably mounted scrolling assembly mechanisms for rolling up the flexible display membranes. Some scrolling assemblies are movable and can be extended beyond the housing members. At least one display membrane being covered by at least one other display membrane when the movable scrolling assemblies are not extended, and the covered display membranes being uncovered when the movable scrolling assemblies are extended.
US07965256B2	Segmented antenna reflector An antenna reflector provided with a plurality of segments, each of the segments provided with a plurality of end faces positioned along surfaces of the segments. The end faces of adjacent segments arranged in lateral and radial pairs, the lateral and radial pairs coupled together. At least one of the end faces of the radial pairs and of the lateral pairs extending proud of the respective surfaces, whereby when the radial pairs and the lateral pairs are connected, the adjacent segments contact one another only via the radial and lateral pairs.
US07965243B2	Antenna assembly having substrate used for holding radiating element thereon An antenna assembly includes a base (3) and an antenna (2) disposed on the base. The antenna includes a radiating element (21) with top and bottom surfaces thereof, and the bottom surface of the radiating element abuts against and is surface mounted on the base. An arm (311) is located above the top surface of the radiating element so as to prevent the radiating element from tilting upwards excessively, and most of the radiating element is exposed outside the arm.
US07965241B2	Device for coupling between a plasma antenna and a power signal generator The present invention relates to a device for coupling between a plasma column serving as an antenna and an electric power signal generator, associated with a laser. This device comprises at least two conducting electrodes, each pierced with a hole, these holes being coaxial, the electrodes being connected on the one hand to a high voltage direct current source and on the other hand to power signal alternating current source, the laser(s) being placed do that its (their) beam arrives along the axis of said holes of the electrodes.
US07965240B2	Dual-band planar inverted-F antenna An improved and more compact structure of a built-in antenna for handheld terminals, improving radiation pattern and efficiency. Provided is a planar inverted-F antenna having a radiation part having an inductive radiation portion and a parasitic radiation portion which are spaced in a certain distance apart from a ground surface, a power-supply part horizontally spaced apart from the ground surface and for directly supplying currents to the connected inductive radiation portion, and connection parts for connecting the radiation portions to the ground. The planar inverted-F antenna has an inductive antenna portion and a parasitic antenna portion, thereby reducing its volume compared to the conventional inverted-F antenna. Complicated manufacturing and processing procedures are simplified by connecting the power-supplying part and a PCB.
US07965238B2	Wide band antenna common to a plurality of frequencies An antenna common to a plurality of frequencies in which a wide band of a UWB system can be covered while suppressing interference with other systems. The antenna comprises a plurality of element part conductors, coupling conductors for coupling them electrically, and a feeder for coupling one element part conductor electrically with a feeder part capable of feeding to that element part conductor, wherein respective element part conductors are concatenated sequentially by the coupling conductors. The element part conductor has a shape substantially symmetric to a line connecting the coupling conductors or the parts coupled with the feeder. Each coupling conductor is arranged substantially linearly and the plane part of each planar conductor is arranged substantially vertically.
US07965236B2	Apparatus and method for measuring moving distance in mobile communication system An apparatus and a method for measuring a moving distance in a mobile communication terminal. A Doppler frequency over a time interval for measuring a moving speed of the Doppler frequency is measured or calculated. The moving speed is calculated. The moving distance is calculated using the moving speed and the time interval.
US07965227B2	Aircraft tracking using low cost tagging as a discriminator A simplified multilateration and ADS-B Surveillance System is used, to perform tagging for the FAA Low Cost Ground Surveillance program. This system may also be used as the foundation for a full multilateration system, if a customer wants to upgrade. The present invention uses just one active transmitter/receiver unit as opposed to multiple passive receivers. The present invention captures UF 5 and DF 5 data, thus providing Mode A identification, which then acts as the key to obtaining the call sign from a data fusion packages—thus making it an affordable and marketable product for small to medium-sized airports.
US07965224B2	Running control system for vehicle A running control system having a radar device that detects a distance between a subject vehicle and a preceding vehicle. When a vehicle speed sensor detects the subject vehicle has stopped, a transmission output controller sets a transmission output of the radar device to a stopping time transmission output lower than a running time transmission output. When the radar device detects an increase in the distance between the subject vehicle and the preceding vehicle while the subject vehicle is stopped, or when the distance between the subject vehicle and the preceding vehicle detected by the radar device while the subject vehicle has stopped is longer than a predetermined value, a notifying device notifies an occupant of the subject vehicle that following running control is possible.
US07965217B2	Apparatus and method for pipelined analog to digital conversion Apparatus and methods for pipelined analog-to-digital conversion are disclosed. In some embodiments, a pipelined analog-to-digital converter includes a control and correction circuit; and a plurality of MDAC stages. At least one of the MDAC stages includes: an MDAC input to receive an analog input voltage; and a dual latch flash ADC comprising one or more dual latch comparators. At least one of the dual latch comparators includes: a pre-amplifier having an input coupled to the MDAC input, and an output; a demultiplexer having an input coupled to the output of the pre-amplifier, a first output, and a second output; a first latch having an input coupled to the first output of the demultiplexer, wherein the first latch may generate a first digital signal; and a second latch having an input coupled to the second output of the demultiplexer, wherein the second latch may generate a second digital signal.
US07965216B1	Compressed sensing analog-to-digital converter A system for analog-to-digital signal conversion featuring compressed sensing analog-to-digital converter systems. An analog signal is connected to a time encoder having a pulse frequency. The analog signal frequency is higher than the pulse frequency. The time encoder is configured to generate an excitation vector including a plurality of projection values of the analog signal into a plurality of testing basis functions, and a plurality of known basis functions. The output of the time encoder is connected to an input of a pulse domain demultiplexer, and the pulse domain demultiplexer is connected to the pulse-to-asynchronous digital converter in a predetermined sequence. The pulse-to-asynchronous digital converter is connected to the asynchronous-digital-to-synchronous digital converter in a predetermined sequence. The asynchronous-digital-to-synchronous digital converter is connected a digital signal processor configured to output an estimate of the analog signal. Methods to make the foregoing structure are also described.
US07965214B2	System and method of changing a PWM power spectrum In a particular embodiment, a circuit device includes a pulse edge control circuit to receive at least one pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal from a PWM source. The pulse edge control circuit is adapted to selectively apply a phase shift operation to the at least one PWM signal at integer submultiples of a frame repetition rate to produce at least one modulated PWM signal having a changed power spectrum. The pulse edge control circuit provides the at least one modulated PWM signal to at least one output of the pulse edge control circuit.
US07965213B1	Element-selecting method capable of reducing toggle rate of digital to analog converter and module thereof An element-selecting method is utilized for selecting the converting elements of the DAC to perform the digital-to-analog conversion. The element-selecting method first determines whether the selected times of the converting elements are all equal or not. When the selected times of the converting elements are all equal, the element-selecting method determines a shifting-step according to the input signal and the number of the converting elements; otherwise, the element-selecting method determines the shifting-step to be a predetermined value. The element-selecting method then selects a converting element from the DAC by means of separating the converting element from a last selected converting element by the shifting-step. In this way, the error accumulated because of the mismatch of the converting elements is eliminated, and the toggle rate of the DAC is reduced. Hence, the glitch and the dynamic errors of the DAC are reduced, improving the performance of the DAC.
US07965211B1	High power DAC power amplifier A power amplifier architecture includes a plurality of non-linear optically driven power amplifier modules. The plurality of non-linear optically driven power amplifier modules are selectively connectable utilizing a programmable algorithm for combining at least two modules of the plurality of non-linear optically driven power amplifier modules in a time sequence yielding a piecewise approximation of a continuous waveform. The power amplifier architecture further includes at least one RF drive selectively connected to at least one of the plurality of non-linear optically driven power amplifier modules via an optical signal link generating a separate drive signal for each of the plurality of non-linear optically driven power amplifier modules.
US07965210B2	Control closed-loop device and sigma-delta modulator A closed loop slaving device is provided for slaving a first component, the slaving device including a second component having a multiplicative noise. A compensation noise is added to the input signal of the slaving device, the compensation noise being substantially equal to the input signal of the slaving device multiplied by the multiplicative noise of the second component. A sigma-delta modulator is also provided to convert an analog input signal into a digital output signal by use of an analog-to-digital converter slaved in the closed loop slaving device.
US07965209B2	A/D conversion circuit and A/D conversion method An A/D (analog-to-digital) conversion circuit includes an input signal selecting circuit configured to output voltage signals of different signal levels in response to control signals in an adjustment mode before A/D conversion of an analog signal in a practical mode; an A/D converter configured to perform A/D conversion on the voltage signals in response to an adjustment sampling clock signal in the adjustment mode to output adjustment conversion values; and a sampling timing adjusting circuit configured to delay a reference sampling clock signal based on a delay value selected in response to a selection signal in the adjustment mode to output the adjustment sampling clock signal to the A/D converter. An operation circuit is configured to set the adjustment mode, output the control signals to the input signal selecting circuit, and the selection signal to the sampling timing adjusting circuit, such that the adjustment conversion values are obtained at each of different delay values, determine an optimal parameter from parameters corresponding to the obtained adjustment conversion values, and set the practical mode to output the selection signal corresponding to the optimal parameter to the sampling timing adjusting circuit.
US07965204B2	Portable radio remote control transmitter The invention relates to a portable radio remote control transmitter with a splash-proof and dust-tight housing, which accommodates a control unit and comprises an operator control panel with a number of buttons for entering control commands. In order to develop the radio remote control transmitter in such a way that the risk of erroneous operation is reduced, it is proposed according to the invention that at least one button has an associated illuminating element for illuminating the button.
US07965203B2	Video quality estimation apparatus, method, and program In estimating subjective video quality corresponding to main parameters (121/221) which are input as an input coding bit rate (121B/221B) representing the number of coding bit rates per unit time and an input frame rate (121A/221A) representing the number of frames per unit time of an audiovisual medium, an estimation model specifying unit specifies, on the basis of the input coding bit rate (121B/input frame rate (221A)), an estimation model (122/222) representing the relationship between subjective video quality and the frame rate (/coding bit rate) of the audiovisual medium. Subjective video quality corresponding to the input frame rate (121A/input coding bit rate 221B) is estimated by using the specified estimation model (122/222) and output as an estimation value (123/223).
US07965202B1	System, system, module, and method for presenting an abbreviated pathway on an aircraft display unit A present novel and non-trivial system, module, and method for presenting an abbreviated pathway on a tactical display unit. A processor generates an image data set representative of a pathway and a three-dimensional perspective scene outside the aircraft using terrain data, first location highlighter data, and second location highlighter data, where the first location highlighter data corresponds to the active flight path and second location highlighter data corresponds to a subsequent flight path. After being presented to a display system, an image represented in the image data set is presented on a tactical display unit, whereby an abbreviated pathway appears superimposed against the three-dimensional perspective scene outside the aircraft, where location highlighters are used for the depiction of the pathway comprising of at least one enhanced boundary of the active path, the second waypoint, the third waypoint, and the flight path formed between the second and third waypoints.
US07965200B2	Indicating system for security of spaces in an aircraft A method and apparatus for managing security of areas in an aircraft. The method is provided for managing aircraft security. A set of sensors associated with a set of secured areas is monitored for an indication of a compromised space within a cabin of the aircraft. In response to receiving a signal from a sensor in the set of sensors identifying a breach, an area for the breach in the cabin is identified to form an identified area. A visual indication device associated with the identified area is identified to form an identified visual indication device. A presentation of an alert on the identified visual indication device is initiated.
US07965196B2	Devices for use by deaf and/or blind people A device for use by a deafblind person is disclosed. The device comprises a first key for manually inputting a series of words in the form of a code, a second key for manually inputting an action to be performed by the device, a third key for manually inputting a user preference, and a fourth key for manually inputting communication instructions. The device further has an internal processor programmed to carry out communication functions and search and guide functions. The device has various safety and security functions for pedestrians or persons in transit. In a preferred embodiment, the device comprises an electronic cane known as an eCane. Also disclosed is a system for allowing a deafblind person to enjoy television programs.
US07965192B2	Photo sensitive device A photosensitive device for warning an individual that the interior light level on one side of the window is greater than the light level on the outside of the window includes first and second photo sensors, a comparator circuit and/or a logic circuit and an alarm. The device may also include a timer, an amplifier and rheostat as well as a visual indicator that remains in a on condition after an audible sound is turned off. A reset circuit is used to turn off the visual indicator. A method for accomplishing the same is also described.
US07965189B2	Radio frequency identification architecture A radio frequency identification (RFID) architecture is described. RFID tags are interrogated by a reader, which may be located in a network of readers. The reader transmits symbols to the tags. Tags respond to the interrogations with symbols that each represent one or more bits of data. An RFID tag includes an antenna pad, a receiver, a state machine, and a modulator. The receiver is coupled to the antenna pad. The receiver receives a symbol from the antenna pad and outputs a received signal. The state machine is configured to determine a response symbol from the received signal and an operating state of the tag. The modulator is coupled to the antenna pad. The modulator is configured to backscatter modulate the received symbol with the response symbol. The modulator is configured to output the backscatter modulated symbol to the antenna pad.
US07965187B2	System for locating and describing A system includes a tag associated with an item wirelessly transmitting data; a network device receiving the data and determining a location of the item; and a mobile unit receiving the location of the item from the network device. The mobile unit further receives the data from the tag and outputs a description of the item based on the data.
US07965186B2	Passive RFID elements having visual indicators There are provided components, connectors, receptacles, cables, and systems wherein passive RFID functionality is incorporated. Also provided are passive RFID elements in general. The passive RFID elements power visual indicators based on receipt of external RF signals. Passive energy storage devices may be employed to provide electrical energy to the visual indicators. The passive energy storage devices may be charged by the external RF signals. The visual indicators may operate continuously or according to a predetermined flashing pattern.
US07965181B2	System and method for asset tracking and monitoring using antenna diversity A system and method for asset tracking and monitoring using antenna diversity. Antenna diversity ensures that the mobile terminal maintains good visibility of a satellite throughout the transport route. In one example, a first antenna is mounted on a first side of an asset transporter (e.g., flatbed trailer) and a second antenna is mounted on a second side of the asset transporter. A selector/combiner in the mobile terminal enables multiple antennas to be leveraged in the satellite communication process.
US07965173B2	Method system for simplified identification of an object using a transponder The invention relates to a method of providing a transponder for marking an object, the transponder having a storage means for storing a unique, preferably worldwide unique, number with a predetermined number n of digits, the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of worldwide unique numbers that are available for marking; defining a section of n consecutive digits from the n digits for information storage, m being smaller than or equal to n; providing a number which represents information that is intuitively human recognizable and usable and associated with the object, the number having not more than m digits; checking whether the provided number is contained within the section of m consecutive digits in the worldwide unique numbers of the set of available worldwide unique numbers; if the provided number is contained in one or more worldwide unique numbers, selecting the serial number or respectively one worldwide unique number of the more worldwide unique numbers; providing a transponder with the selected worldwide unique number, and removing the selected worldwide unique number from the set of available serial numbers. The invention further relates to a method of identifying an object, and to a system for marking an object.
US07965169B2	Surface mounted chip resistor with flexible leads A chip resistor having first and second opposite ends includes a rigid insulated substrate having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface, a first electrically conductive termination pad and a second electrically conductive termination pad, both termination pads on the top surface of the rigid insulated substrate, a layer of resistive material between the first and second electrically conductive termination pads, and a first and a second flexible lead, each made of an electrically conductive metal with a solder enhancing coating. The first flexible lead attached and electrically connected to the first electrically conductive termination pad and the second flexible lead attached and electrically connected to the second electrically conductive termination pad. Each of the flexible leads has a plurality of lead sections facilitating bending around the end of the chip resistor.
US07965167B2	Inductive conductivity sensor A conductivity sensor for measuring conductivity of a medium surrounding the conductivity sensor includes a first toroidal coil bounding a medium-receiving passageway and serving for inducing an electrical current in the medium, and a second toroidal coil also bounding the passageway and serving for registering a magnetic field produced by the electrical current. At least one of the toroidal coils has a plurality of first conductor segments, which extend in a plane of a multi-ply circuit board, a plurality of second conductor segments, which extend in a second plane of the circuit board, and a plurality of through-contacts, which connect the first conductor segments with the second conductor segments, wherein the first conductor segments, the second conductor segments and the through-contacts form, together, the windings of a toroidal coil.
US07965164B2	Multi-output transformer In accordance with the present invention, a multi-output transformer includes a primary bobbin provided with one primary winding unit with one input terminal and one ground terminal; a secondary bobbin provided with n(n: positive integer) number of secondary winding units with two output terminals respectively; a primary coil wound around the one primary winding unit; secondary coils wound around each of the n secondary winding units; and a pair of cores inserted into insertion holes formed inside the primary bobbin and the secondary bobbin respectively to separate the primary bobbin and the secondary bobbin.
US07965160B2	Magnetic assembly for magnetically actuated control devices A magnetically actuated apparatus, which enlarges, extends and makes continuous magnetic fields used by magnetically controlled devices, such as a magnetic reed switch for use in physical security monitoring systems is shown. Apparatus includes a sensor and a magnetic actuator for use with a movable closure member. The sensor is mounted into to a fixed support member that is arranged for displacement relative to a second movable support member. The sensor has a pair of contacts that are connectable to an electronic circuit. The contacts form a switch that is actuated by the magnetic actuator. The magnetic actuator comprises a unique elongated magnet with specific polarity or a plurality of aligned, alike permanent magnets that are mountable to the second support member. The aligned magnets have like magnetic fields that align one another and combine to form an effective magnetic actuation field that has a given magnitude and a given direction that is greater that the magnitude and direction than any one of the magnets. The elongated magnet has a specific pole for a given distance as its controlling means. The effective magnetic actuation field increases the distance in which the movable support member is displaceable relative to the fixed support member without changing the electric condition of the sensor. The present invention creates a magnetic apparatus, having a wider and controllable gap and break point distance not found in the present art.
US07965152B2	Attenuator with a control circuit An attenuator system comprises an attenuator and a control circuit for controlling the attenuation of the attenuator. In one embodiment, the attenuator comprises two diodes or two diode connected transistors, and the control circuit comprises two transistors as the only active devices. In another embodiment, the control circuit comprises another transistor in a shut down circuit.
US07965151B2	Pulse width modulator with two-way integrator A pulse width modulator (PWM) includes a driver and a two-way integrator. The driver is coupled to output a first and a subsequent period of a PWM signal. Both the first and the subsequent periods include the PWM signal changing between first and second states. The two-way integrator is coupled to integrate an input current and coupled to generate a duty ratio signal in response to integrating the input current. The driver determines a duty factor of both the first and the subsequent periods by setting the PWM signal to the second state in response to the duty ratio signal. The two-way integrator includes a capacitor that integrates the input current during the first period by charging the capacitor and integrates the input current during the subsequent period by discharging the capacitor.
US07965148B2	Atomic frequency clock systems and methods One embodiment of the invention includes an atomic clock system including an alkali beam cell and an interrogation system configured to generate an optical pump beam and at least one optical probe beam that illuminate a detection chamber of the beam cell to pump evaporated alkali metal atoms. An optical detection system can provide a microwave signal to the detection chamber and can measure an intensity of the optical pump beam to determine a transition frequency corresponding to optimum photon absorption of the evaporated alkali metal atoms. A photodetection system can measure an intensity of the at least one optical probe beam and to generate an intensity signal that is provided to the optical detection system to substantially cancel Doppler broadening of the transition frequency resulting from non-orthogonal planar movement of the evaporated alkali metal atoms relative to the optical pump beam and the at least one optical probe beam.
US07965147B2	Physics package design for a cold atom primary frequency standard A physic package for an atomic clock comprising: a block made of optical glass, a glass ceramic material or another suitable material that includes a plurality of faces on its exterior and a plurality of angled borings that serve as a vacuum chamber cavity, light paths and measurement bores; mirrors fixedly attached using a vacuum tight seal to the exterior of the block at certain locations where two light paths intersect; optically clear windows fixedly attached using a vacuum tight seal to the block's exterior over openings of the measurement bores and at one location where two light paths intersect; and fill tubes fixedly attached using a vacuum tight seal to the exterior of the block over the ends of the vacuum chamber cavity. This physics package design makes possible atomic clocks having reduced size and power consumption and capable of maintaining an ultra-high vacuum without active pumping.
US07965145B2	Voltage-controlled oscillator circuit including level shifter A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit includes a level shifter, and a semiconductor device includes the VCO circuit. The VCO circuit includes an input voltage receiver, a current mirror, and a frequency oscillator. The input voltage receiver receives a first voltage input to the VCO circuit so as to generate a first current. The current mirror copies the first current so as to generate a second current. The frequency oscillator oscillates in response to the second current. The input voltage receiver includes a level shifter and a first current generator. The level shifter shifts a voltage level of the first voltage to a voltage level of a second voltage. The first current generator generates the first current corresponding to the second voltage.
US07965143B2	Digital phase detector and phase-locked loop A digital phase detector is provided that can be easily implemented in gate array or FPGA, to accurately quantize a phase difference of two clocks and convert to a digital value without using delay elements. The digital phase detector includes: a multiplier for, when two clocks have frequencies close to an integer ratio, receiving a first clock and multiplying by M/N; F/F for latching a second clock by an output clock of the multiplier; a differential circuit for differentiating an output of the F/F; a counter for receiving the output clock of the multiplier; a latch circuit for holding an output of the counter according to an output of the differential circuit; a first adder for adding an output of the latch circuit; a second adder for subtracting an output of the first adder from a fixed value; and an accumulator for sequentially integrating an output of the second adder.
US07965137B2	Class-D amplifier A class-D power amplifier according to the present invention includes: a pulse width modulation circuit which modulates an analog signal into low-level and high-level binary signals; and a detection circuit which turns off operation of a circuit connected with a back stage of the pulse modulation circuit if the high level or the low level of the binary signal output from the pulse width modulation circuit is maintained for a predetermined time.
US07965135B2	Charge sampling filter circuit and charge sampling method To provide a charge sampling filter circuit and a charge sampling method.A charge sampling filter circuit includes a first capacitor that samples an input signal, and in which at least a portion of electric charge stored in the first capacitor by sampling is output to a second capacitor that is connectable with the first capacitor. The charge sampling filter circuit is characterized by including a switching portion that switches a circuit mode including a sampling mode that causes the first capacitor to sample the input signal, and an output mode that causes the first capacitor and the second capacitor to be connected. A capacitance value of the first capacitor in the output mode is set to be lower than the capacitance value in the sampling mode.
US07965127B2	Drive circuit for a power switch component A drive circuit for a power switch component.
US07965126B2	Bridge circuits and their components A half bridge is described with at least one transistor having a channel that is capable in a first mode of operation of blocking a substantial voltage in at least one direction, in a second mode of operation of conducting substantial current in one direction through the channel and in a third mode of operation of conducting substantial current in an opposite direction through the channel. The half bridge can have two circuits with such a transistor.
US07965125B2	Current drive circuit A current drive circuit allows for a reduction in chip size and prevents an output current from decreasing. The current drive circuit has an output terminal connected to a first resistor. The first resistor is connected to a second resistor and the drain of a first transistor. The gate of the first transistor is connected to the gate of a second transistor, a grounded first current source, and the source of a third transistor. A second current source and the third transistor are connected to a power supply line. The second current source is connected to the gate of the third transistor, the drain of a fourth transistor, the drain of a fifth transistor, and a second resistor. When the voltage decreases, the on resistance of the fourth transistor increases, the fifth transistor is then connected in series to the second transistor, which increases the gate voltage of the first transistor.
US07965124B1	Switched-capacitor circuit relating to summing and integration algorithms A switched-capacitor (SC) circuit relating to summing and integration algorithms is provided. The SC circuit submitted by the present invention benefits from better closed-loop bandwidth performance because of combining positive and negative feedback loops of a high gain amplifier. In addition, the SC circuit submitted by the present invention not only provides differential output signal obtained by a summing (or integration) algorithm of input voltage signals and reference voltage signals and forward drives such differential output signal to a next stage SC circuit, but also provides flexible and accurate coefficient design for every individual input and reference voltage signals in the said algorithm. Besides, if the circuit manner of alternate resetting is disabled or removed, the SC summing circuit submitted by the present invention can serve as an SC integration circuit.
US07965119B2	Device and method for handling metastable signals A method and device for managing metastable signals. The device includes: a first latch and a second latch, a multiple switching point circuit, connected between an output node of the first latch and an input node of the second latch, wherein the multiple switching point circuit includes at least one pull up transistor and at least one pull down transistor that are selectively activated in response to a feedback signal provided from the second latch and in response to a an output signal of the first latch such as to define at least a low switching point that is lower than a high switching point of the multiple-switching point circuit; wherein a switching point of an inverter within the first latch is between the high and low switching points.
US07965117B2	Charge pump for phase locked loop A charge pump includes a charge pump core circuit having a first current source transistor, a second current source transistor and an output terminal (64), and a replica bias circuit. The replica bias circuit has a first reference current source transistor, a second reference current source transistor and a reference node corresponding to the output terminal of the charge pump core circuit. The reference node is connected to gates of the second current source transistor and the second reference current source transistor. A first input of a regulator circuit is connected to the output terminal of the charge pump core circuit. A second input of the regulator circuit is connected to the reference node of the replica bias circuit. An output of the regulator circuit (54) is connected to gates of the first current source transistor and the first reference current source transistor.
US07965116B2	Timing adjustment circuit, solid-state image pickup element, and camera system A timing adjustment circuit includes at least one data line; a phase synchronization circuit that includes a plurality of oscillation delay elements which oscillate an oscillation signal, and that is configured to oscillate the oscillation signal by synchronizing a phase of a feedback clock with a phase of a reference clock; at least one delay circuit that includes a delay element which is disposed on the data line and which is equivalent to one of the plurality of oscillation delay elements, and that is configured to delay data which is to be transmitted on the data line; and a delay adjustment unit configured to adjust an amount of delay of the delay element of the delay circuit in accordance with a signal associated with oscillation of the phase synchronization circuit.
US07965113B2	System for detecting a reset condition in an electronic circuit There is disclosed a system for detecting the assertion of a reset signal. A plurality of circuit elements is configurable by a reset signal to output a string of data values in a predetermined pattern. A comparator receives the string of data values and determines whether the string of data values matches the predetermined pattern. If so, the comparator generates an output signal indicative of a reset. In one embodiment, the output signal of the comparator can be used to automatically trigger a reset if the reset signal has not been asserted.
US07965110B2	Sampler blocker protected against switching parasites The invention relates to sample-and hold modules, and notably those which are intended to be placed upstream of an analog-digital converter. The sample-and-hold module conventionally comprises a differential pair of transistors, a follower transistor and a storage capacitor. The follower transistor is turned on during a sampling phase by the application of an emitter current by means of a first current switch and can be disabled during a hold phase by the application of a disabling voltage to its base. The sample-and-hold module operates according to the invention with a hold phase beginning at the same time as the end of a sampling phase and terminating before the start of a new sampling phase. Switching spikes are thus avoided at the transition between the end of a hold phase and the start of a new sampling phase.
US07965101B2	Combined processing and non-volatile memory unit array A reconfigurable logic device comprises an array of tiles interconnected through a routing network, each tile comprises both a processing unit including volatile configuration memory and a Random Access Memory unit.
US07965100B1	Transmitter with internal compensation for variance in differential data line impedance In at least some embodiments, an electronic device includes a first data endpoint and differential data transceiver coupled to the first data endpoint. The differential transceiver provides a communication interface between the first data endpoint and a second data endpoint. The differential transceiver compensates for variations in a series impedance and/or a parallel impedance for a differential data line between the differential transceiver and the second data endpoint.
US07965097B2	Test circuit, wafer, measuring apparatus, measuring method, device manufacturing method and display apparatus There is provided a wafer on which a plurality of electronic devices and circuits under test are to be formed, where each circuit under test includes a plurality of transistors under measurement provided in electrically parallel, a selecting section which sequentially selects the respective transistors under measurement, and an output section which sequentially outputs the source voltages of the transistors under measurement sequentially selected by the selecting section.
US07965094B2	Packaged die heater A heater for heating packaged die for burn-in and heat testing is described. The heater may be a ceramic-type heater with a metal filament. The heater may be incorporated into the integrated circuit package as an additional ceramic layer of the package, or may be an external heater placed in contact with the package to heat the die. Many different types of integrated circuit packages may be accommodated. The method provides increased energy efficiency for heating the die while reducing temperature stresses on testing equipment. The method allows the use of multiple heaters to heat die to different temperatures. Faulty die may be heated to weaken die attach material to facilitate removal of the die. The heater filament or a separate temperature thermistor located in the package may be used to accurately measure die temperature.
US07965091B2	Test plate for electronic handler A gap set device for an electronic component handler is provided. The electronic component handler includes a test module operative to load, test and unload electronic components. The electronic components are received in test pockets provided on a test plate. The test pockets include at least one corner relief to improve loading efficiency.
US07965090B2	Method for identifying connected device and electronic device using the same A method for identifying connected devices and an electronic device using the method are disclosed. When the connected device is connected to the electronic device, a type of the connected device is identified based on the voltage change according to a change of current flowing in therebetween, and then a corresponding function is performed based on the identified type.
US07965089B2	Chemical impedance detectors for fluid analyzers A chemical impedance detector having several electrodes situated on or across a dielectric layer of a substrate. The electrodes may be across or covered with a thin film polymer. Each electrode may have a set of finger-like electrodes. Each set of finger-like electrodes may be intermeshed, but not in contact, with another set of finger-like electrodes. The thin-film polymer may have a low dielectric constant and a high porous surface area. The chemical impedance detector may be incorporated in a micro fluid analyzer system.
US07965088B2	Method for determining the type of connection of at least two electrical devices and system comprising several electric devices The invention relates to a method for determining the type of connection of at least two electric devices (5) whereby each device comprises a similar connector arrangement. The aim of the invention is to increase the reliability during the starting up process and during the operation of a system which comprises several electric units (5). According to the invention, a first device (5) modifies the voltage on the connector arrangement (11) and the modified voltage is determined as a first voltage, such that a second device (5) determines a second voltage on at least the connector arrangement (11) and determines whether an electric connection exists or not between the connector arrangements (11) of the devices (5) by comparing the determined comparison of the voltages.
US07965085B2	Differential-mode current sensor Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed, including a ground-fault sensor that has a plurality of conductors each disposed one inside of another except for an outer conductor and a field sensor configured to sense an electric field, a magnetic field, or both. In some embodiments, the field sensor is disposed adjacent the outer conductor.
US07965082B2	Magnetic resonance radio frequency system and operating method therefor In a method for processing radio frequency signals of a magnetic resonance imaging system in which the coil portion of the magnetic resonance imaging system includes a body coil and a local coil, radio frequency signals are supplied to the body coil, and these radio frequency signals are coupled to said local coil, and transmitted by said local coil into a region to be examined. A corresponding radio frequency system has a local coil and a body coil, with power coupling between the local coil and the body coil; during the phase for transmitting the radio frequency signals. The body coil serves to couple the radio frequency signals to be transmitted to the local coil, and the local coil serves to transmit the coupled radio frequency signals to a region to be examined. This method and system allow the transmitting function of the local coil to be achieved without having a coil plug on a patient bed to provide a radio frequency signal transmitting channel.
US07965081B2	Arrangement and support device for attaching local coils in a magnetic resonance apparatus An arrangement and a support device for attaching local coils to a patient for a magnetic resonance examination includes at least one local coil that is designed to acquire magnetic resonance signals and a support device. The support device is designed to accommodate the at least one local coil and to attach the at least one local coil on the patient. The support device is designed as a gas-filled cushion that changes its shape dependent on the gas pressure therein. The gas-filled cushion has a device for changing the gas pressure, such when a gas pressure change occurs the local antenna is pressed on the patient due to the resulting change in shape of the cushion.
US07965076B2	Magnetic field orientation sensor A magnetic angle sensor 100 comprises a bulk substrate; a circular well 101 provided upon the bulk substrate; an even numbered plurality of electrodes 102a-102x spaced at regular intervals in a ring formation over the circular well; and a pair of biasing electrodes for selectively applying a progressive succession of differently directed bias currents 104 to and/or using the said ring of electrodes 102 to provide a succession of Hall potentials indicative of the relative magnitude of successive differently oriented magnetic field components B in the plane of the magnetic angle sensor 100. The sensor 100 operates cyclically and the full progressive succession cycle involves applying and/or using each electrode 102 in the ring at least once for applying a bias current and/or sensing a Hall potential. In such a manner, the full cycle comprises the progressive succession of the axis of measurement of the sensor 100 through a complete rotation within the plane of the sensor. By monitoring the phase of the generated signal or monitoring the zero crossings of the generated signal the orientation of the magnetic field coin the plane of the sensor can be determined.
US07965071B2	DC-DC boost converter A DC-DC boost converter is provided that generally maintains discontinuous mode operation in a generally efficient manner. To accomplish this, a clamp generator, comparator, logic gates, a flip-flop, and counter are employed. These components generally operate together to determine if an over-limit condition has taken place, so that the ON time of the boost converters' switch can be varied accordingly.
US07965070B2	Switching power supply with slope compensation circuit and added slope circuit A current-mode switching power supply is provided, in which there is no unstable operation arising from the fact that signals to generate PWM signals are minute, even when a load is light and a switching frequency is high. In a switching power supply of this invention, an added slope signal is superposed in an early stage of a rise of a current detection signal, so that a combined signal Vsig is caused to reach a certain magnitude even when the load is light and the switching frequency is high, and consequently an output FB of an error amplifier ERRAMP which is balanced with the combined signal is also increased. By this means, even in a current mode, it is possible to eliminate unstable operation arising from the fact that the feedback signal FB which is the output of the error amplifier ERRAMP and the combined signal Vsig are minute.
US07965058B2	Charging and power supply for mobile devices Charging and power supply for mobile devices is disclosed. A USB-compliant charging and power supply circuit includes switch-mode battery charging circuitry for receiving power from an external power source and for supplying output power through an output node to an electronic system of an electronic communication device and a battery. Battery isolation circuitry includes a semiconductor switch connecting the output node to the battery. The battery isolation circuitry senses voltage at the output node and variably restricts current to the battery when the voltage is below a minimum voltage value by operationally controlling the semiconductor switch as current passes through it. During variable current restriction the electronic system is supplied required power with said battery being supplied any additional available power.
US07965056B2	Control apparatus of power conversion system The invention provides a control apparatus of a power conversion system for driving an induction motor via a VVVF inverter, wherein the AC voltage generated by the inverter is increased so as to expand the high-speed side property of the induction motor, to thereby improve the performance during power running and regenerative braking. In the present system, a DC power supply source having a power storage system with a capacity capable of processing the current flowing into or out of the inverter is inserted in series to the ground side of the input of the inverter, and the output voltage thereof is controlled from zero in a continuous manner to be added to the trolley voltage, which is then applied to the inverter.
US07965053B2	Measurement of speed and direction of coasting permanent magnet synchronous motor A method for determining the speed of rotation of an unpowered, coasting electric motor, driven, when powered, by an electronic inverter, and without activating switches of the inverter. The steps include determining an electrical frequency of a back emf signal generated at a terminal of the motor or switching node of the inverter when the motor is coasting and determining the mechanical motor frequency and thus speed of rotation by dividing the electrical frequency by the number of motor pole pairs.
US07965052B2	Motor driving system and method for starting a motor A method and system is provided for starting a motor which is useful, among other things, is useful for motors under unknown or variable load/inertia conditions. If a first attempt to start the motor using a first frequency ramp-up rate fails, a subsequent start attempt may be performed at a decreased frequency ramp-up rate. Iteration may be performed until starting of the motor is successfully achieved.
US07965047B2	Fluorescent lamp driving circuit A fluorescent lamp driving circuit is provided. The fluorescent lamp driving circuit collects a pulse-width-modulation and a MOS switch in a single package. The pulse-width-modulation for driving multiple lamps only needs two pins to achieve feedback control and protection control. Thereby the pins required by the pulse-width-modulation are decreased substantially, and the electronic elements needed for feedback and protection control are also reduced, and the overall circuit design is simplified.
US07965046B2	Full-bridge and half-bridge compatible driver timing schedule for direct drive backlight system A driver circuit or controller flexibly drives either a half-bridge or a full-bridge switching network in a backlight inverter without modification, redundant circuitry or additional components. The driver circuit includes four outputs to provide four respective driving signals that establish a periodic timing sequence using a zero-voltage switching technique for semiconductor switches in the switching network.
US07965043B2	Inner coating of lamp vessels, such as discharge vessels of gas discharge lamps The invention relates to a discharge vessel of a quartz glass for discharge lamps with a diffusion barrier inner layer of silicon oxide, which as a single layer is applied and/or is generated on the inner surface as well as to a method for generating and/or applying such a diffusion barrier inner layer and to the use of such a discharge vessel.
US07965031B2	White-emitting LED having a defined color temperature LED with a low color temperature up to 3500 K, comprising a blue-emitting LED with two phosphors in front of it, a first phosphor from the class of the oxynitridosilicates, having a cation M, which is doped with divalent Europium, and has the empirical formula M(1-c)Si2O2N2:Dc, with M=Sr, or M=Sr(1-x-y)BayCax with x+y<0.5 being used, the oxynitridosilicate completely or predominantly comprising the high-temperature-stable modification HT, and a second phosphor from the class of the nitridosilicates of formula (Ca,Sr)2Si5N8:Eu.
US07965026B2	Lamp with IR suppressing composite A lamp includes a filament for emitting light. The filament includes an emissive substrate which emits radiation when an electric current is applied. The substrate includes a doped surface and a coating layer supported on the doped surface. The coating layer includes at least one of a carbonitride and a boride.
US07965024B2	Electron emission device and method of manufacturing the same An electron emission device includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a second electrode electrically insulated from the first electrode, a first insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electron emission source hole in the first insulating layer and the second electrode to expose the first electrode, and an electron emission source having a first electron emission material layer on the first electrode in the electron emission source hole and a second electron emission material layer on the first electron emission material layer.
US07965020B2	Piezoelectric ceramic and piezoelectric element A piezoelectric ceramic which has a large value of coercive electric field and, in addition, which can be fired at low temperatures of 950° C. or lower, is provided. It has a composition represented by Pbx-a-dBiaM3d{M1b(M21/3Nb2/3)yZr1-b-y-zTiz}O3 where M1 and M2 represent, independently, at least one of Ni and Zn, and M3 represents at least one of Ba and Sr, 0.05≦a≦0.15, 0
US07965017B2	Thin film piezoelectric resonator and method for manufacturing the same A thin film piezoelectric resonator suppresses deterioration of impedance at antiresonant frequency and has a high Q value. The thin film piezoelectric resonator is provided with a semiconductor substrate (8); an insulating layer (6) formed on the semiconductor substrate (8) in contact with the surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a piezoelectric resonator stack (14) formed above the insulating layer and having a lower electrode (10), a piezoelectric layer (2) and an upper electrode (12) in this order from the insulating layer side. An oscillation space (4) is formed corresponding to an oscillation region where the lower electrode (10) and the upper electrode (12) of the piezoelectric resonator stack (14) overlap each other in the thickness direction. The fixed charge density in the insulating layer (6) is 1×1011 cm−2 or less. At the time of manufacturing the thin film piezoelectric resonator, the insulating layer is formed in contact with the semiconductor substrate and then, heat treatment at 300° C. or higher is performed under non-oxygenated atmosphere.
US07965010B2	Linear motor with patterned magnet arrays An armature for a linear motor is described. The armature includes a first of a pair of magnetic structures comprising a first plurality of maglettes each having a magnetic polarity vector; an angle between two adjacent magnetic polarity vectors in the first plurality of maglettes having a first magnitude; and a second of the pair of magnetic structures comprising a second plurality of maglettes each having a magnetic polarity vector; an angle between two adjacent magnetic polarity vectors in the second plurality of maglettes having a second magnitude, the first plurality of maglettes including a first outer maglette that is adjacent to a second outer maglette of the second plurality of maglettes, an angle between the magnetic polarity vectors of the first and second outer maglettes having a third magnitude that is different than at least one of the first and the second magnitudes.
US07965009B2	Motor rotor and manufacturing method thereof A motor rotor has a resin-impregnated thread layer formed by winding a thread of a reinforced fiber material around a permanent magnet layer with a gap between an outer peripheral surface of the thread layer and an inner peripheral surface of a cylindrical body, and impregnating the thread layer with a curable resin. A subsequent thread layer is formed by leading a continuous thread into an annular passage through thread passing recesses, winding the continuous thread around a bottom portion of the passage, and impregnating the subsequent thread layer with a curable resin. A curable resin is injected into the gap between the outer peripheral surfaces of the thread layer and the subsequent thread layer and the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical body through resin injection passages and/or the thread passing recesses before heating and curing.
US07965007B2	Three dimensional motor generator system A universal three dimensional motor generator system is provided with magnets and permanent magnetic and/or electromagnetic windings on rotors and stator for compounding and multiplying the order of voltage or potential to or from a machine. Three rotating rotors mechanically interconnected through gears and coils are strategically positioned within a housing that allows the multiple input and/or output of single and/or three phases A/C, D/C or in combination. When input power is supplied to rotor one, rotor two and rotor three start rotating along with rotor one due to gear arrangement to generate/produce power which is fed back to rotor one. This generated/produced power can/will be utilize to supplement the input power to maintain the synchronous speed across the designed load or combined to increase the output rating of machine. The system allows multiple wiring configurations allowing each section of a rotor and stator configuration to operate independently or separately as a motor or generator, or in combination.
US07965004B2	Electric motor An electric motor has a stator (12) as well as a rotor (14) rotatable about a rotation axis (85) and a sensor magnet (82) having an even number of sensor poles (71, 72, 73, 74). The sensor magnet (82) is configured to generate a magnetic flux having a magnetic flux density that changes sinusoidally with respect to the rotation angle. Two analog rotor position sensors (460, 465) are arranged on a support structure (468) at a distance from one another such that, during operation, they generate two sinusoidal signals (B_S1, B_S2) having a phase shift of 90° to each other. A signal generator (90) serves to generate at least one pulse-shaped signal (A, B) from the two sinusoidal rotor position signals (B_S1, B_S2) that are phase-shifted by 90°. The instantaneous rotation speed can be accurately determined from this pulse-shaped signal.
US07964999B2	Voice coil motor module A shell for housing a voice coil motor (VCM) includes a casing and a cover. The casing defines a rectangular opening and two opening respectively in two opposite edges of the rectangular opening. The casing extends a pair of stripping strips into each opening and towards each other. The cover correspondingly defines two grooves. The cover covers the rectangular opening and each pair of gripping strip is bent into a corresponding groove to grip the cover.
US07964997B2	Lighting apparatus A lighting apparatus comprises a power unit, a fan unit, a charging unit, a light source unit and a control unit. The power unit receives power from an external power source. The fan unit is rotated using the power supplied from the power unit. The charging unit stores power generated from rotation of the fan unit. The light source unit generates light. The light source unit employs an LED as a light source. The control unit connects the light source unit to the charging unit when power level of the charging unit is greater than a specified level, and the control unit connects the light source unit to the power unit when the power level of the charging unit is lower than the specified level. Therefore, power consumed by the lighting apparatus is reduced and vibration resistance of the lighting apparatus is improved.
US07964996B2	Systems and methods for protecting peripheral devices from surges The present invention discloses methods for protecting a peripheral device in a computing system from electrical surge currents, the method including the steps of: providing a controller operationally connected to a host system; and reversibly conductively connecting, via the controller, wires of the device to the host system. Preferably, the device is connected to the host system via a connector. Preferably, the device is hard-wired to the host system. Preferably, at least some wires of the device are isolated from the host system via a mechanical contactor. Preferably, at least some wires of the device are isolated from the host system via an optical isolator. Preferably, the method further includes the step of: charging a switching battery when the device is disconnected from the host system. Most preferably, the method further includes the step of: powering the device using the battery when the device is connected to the host system.
US07964993B2	Network devices with solid state transformer and class AB output stage for active EMI suppression and termination of open-drain transmit drivers of a physical device Embodiments disclosed herein describe a network device including a class AB common mode suppression (CMS) circuit coupled in parallel between a line voltage source and a physical layer (PHY) device that provides active EMI suppression and Phy device termination. A network connector is coupled to provide the line voltage source to the class AB CMS circuit. The class AB CMS circuit provides current to the PHY device, terminates open-drain transmit drivers of the PHY device and suppresses common mode noise thereby minimizing electromagnetic interference. In other embodiments, the class AB CMS circuit is coupled in parallel between the network connector and a physical layer (PHY) device. The class AB CMS circuit suppresses common mode noise, and terminates open-drain transmit drivers of the PHY device, thereby minimizing electromagnetic interference.
US07964988B2	Lighting controller of lighting device for vehicle A lighting controller of a lighting device for a vehicle includes a switching regulator for supplying a driving current to first to Nth (N is an integer of one or more) semiconductor light sources; first to Nth current driving portions; and a control portion. The first to Nth current driving portions include first to Nth current detecting portions connected in series to the semiconductor light sources and serving to detect the driving current respectively, first to Nth switching portions connected to positive electrode sides of the semiconductor light sources respectively, and first to Nth comparing portions for transmitting a comparing output corresponding to a result of a comparison, which is obtained by comparing values of the driving currents detected by the current detecting portions with a predetermined threshold respectively. The first to Nth current driving portions serve to carry out operations of the switching portions corresponding to the comparing output respectively. The control portion includes first to Nth first voltage drop detecting portions for detecting voltages on output sides of the comparing portions and transmitting first to Nth first detection results, and first to Nth second voltage drop detecting portions for detecting voltages on positive electrode sides of the semiconductor light sources and transmitting first to Nth second detection results respectively. The control portion controls the first to Nth current driving portions corresponding to the first to Nth first detection results and the first to Nth second detection results respectively.
US07964987B2	Light emitting apparatus A light emitting apparatus includes a light source block with semiconductor light sources connected in series to each other. A resistor is connected in parallel with one or more of the semiconductor light sources and is connected to two detecting target portions in portions linked to respective electrodes of the semiconductor light sources. A ground fault detecting circuit is connected to one of the two detecting target portions disposed on a ground potential side. The light source block has one of its terminals connected to a power supply and its other terminal grounded. By detecting a change in the voltage through the ground fault detecting circuit, a ground fault can be detected.
US07964985B2	Power supply control device and method of detecting abnormality of relay When an ignition key is turn ON, an ECU drives a bidirectional DC/DC converter to charge a capacitor to a voltage Vth1. The ECU turns on a first relay only and diagnoses whether or not a second relay, which is off, is welded, based on a change in a voltage VL at that time. After the diagnosis on welding, the ECU turns on the second relay, and the capacitor is charged to a voltage level of a main power storage device.
US07964982B2	Axial in-line turbomachine A turbomachine has a housing defining an axis and having an axially outwardly directed first end wall. A shaft rotatable about the axis inside the housing has a first end projecting axially from the housing. An electric rotor is provided on the shaft, and an electric stator is provided on the housing juxtaposed with the electric rotor. A radial impeller fixed on the first shaft end outside the housing has an inner face directed axially toward the housing end wall. A magnetic bearing half is fixed on the housing end wall immediately adjacent and directed at the impeller inner face.
US07964981B2	Solar and wind energy converter A system for converting wind and solar energy for use with an electrical generator, the system includes a wind powered subsystem including: a rotor for receiving wind to generate mechanical energy; and a first shaft for providing a permanent mechanical coupling between the rotor and the electrical generator for transferring the generated mechanical energy to the electrical generator; a solar powered subsystem including: a solar collector for receiving solar energy to generate thermal energy; a thermo-mechanical engine coupled to the solar collector for converting the generated thermal energy into mechanical energy; and a second shaft mechanically coupled to the thermo-mechanical engine; and an interconnection subsystem for selecting between coupling the second shaft to the first shaft for combining the mechanical energy generated by the wind and solar powered subsystems to be transferred to the electrical generator, and decoupling the second shaft from the first shaft.
US07964976B2	Layered chip package and method of manufacturing same A layered chip package includes a main body including a plurality of layer portions, and wiring disposed on a side surface of the main body. The plurality of layer portions include at least one layer portion of a first type and at least one layer portion of a second type. The layer portions of the first and second types each include a semiconductor chip. The layer portion of the first type further includes a plurality of electrodes each connected to the semiconductor chip and each having an end face located at the side surface of the main body on which the wiring is disposed, whereas the layer portion of the second type does not include any electrode connected to the semiconductor chip and having an end face located at the side surface of the main body on which the wiring is disposed. The wiring is connected to the end face of each of the plurality of electrodes.
US07964972B2	Semiconductor device providing a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor in one through hole and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device 100 is provided with a multiplex through plug 111 that fills an opening extending through the silicon substrate 101. The multiplex through plugs 111 comprises a column-shaped and solid first through electrode 103, a first insulating film 105 that covers the cylindrical face of the first through electrode 103, a second through electrode 107 that covers the cylindrical face of the first insulating film 105 and a second insulating film 109 that covers the cylindrical face of the second through electrode 107, and these have a common central axis. The upper cross sections of the first insulating film 105, the second through electrode 107 and the second insulating film 109 are annular-shaped.
US07964952B2	Stacked semiconductor package assembly having hollowed substrate A stackable package substrate has an opening shaped and dimensioned to accommodate but not contact a mold cap of a package upon which the stackable package is to be mounted. On the die attach surface, the frame substrate accommodates a die attach margin adjacent at the edge of the opening; and a row of wire bond sites arranged along at an outer frame edge, for electrical interconnection. The frame substrate accommodates z-interconnect ball pads arranged to align with corresponding z-interconnect pads on the substrate of a package. A stackable package has a frame substrate. A stacked package assembly includes a second package mounted on a first package using peripheral solder ball z-interconnect, in which the first package includes a die enclosed by a mold cap and in which the second package includes one die mounted on the frame substrate.
US07964949B2	Tenon-and-mortise packaging structure A tenon-and-mortise packaging structure including a carrier and a chip is provided. The carrier has a top surface and a lower surface opposite to the top surface. The top surface forms at least one tenon projection, and the lower surface forms a mortise slot corresponding to the tenon projection in shape, size, and position, so that two carriers can be stacked on and jointed to each other by coupling the tenon projection to the corresponding mortise slot. The tenon projection and the mortise slot have conduction portions, respectively. When the tenon projection and the mortise slot are engaged with each other, the conduction portions are electrically connected with each other. At least one chip is embedded in the carrier. The chip has an active surface and a back side respectively and electrically connected with the top and the lower surfaces of the carrier.
US07964948B2	Chip stack, chip stack package, and method of forming chip stack and chip stack package A chip stack may include a first chip and a second chip stacked on the first chip. Each of the first and second chips may include a substrate having an active surface and an inactive surface opposite to the active surface; an internal circuit in the active surface; an I/O chip pad on the active surface and connected to the internal circuit through an I/O buffer; and a I/O connection pad connected to the I/O chip pad through the I/O buffer by a circuit wiring. A redistributed I/O chip pad layer may be on the active surface of the first chip, the redistributed I/O chip pad layer redistributing the I/O chip pad. The I/O connection pads of the first chip and the second chip may be electrically connected to each other by an electrical connecting part.
US07964944B2	System on package of a mobile RFID interrogator The present invention is to implement a SOP of a mobile RFID interrogator. The substrate has external connection terminal patterns on a first surface of a substrate and circuit wiring patterns on a second surface of the substrate. a high frequency front-end part, a power amplifier IC, an analog-digital signal processing chip and the like are mounted on the second surface. The high frequency front-end part is to transmit and receive a RFID signal. The power amplifier IC is to output an amplified high frequency transmission signal to the high frequency front-end part. The analog-digital signal processing chip is to output a high frequency transmission signal to the power amplifier IC and process the RFID signal received through the high frequency front-end part, a mold resin is to cover the second surface and components mounted on the second surface for electrical insulation from outside and physical protection from outside.
US07964940B2	Chip package with asymmetric molding A chip package with asymmetric molding including a lead frame, a chip, an adhesive layer, bonding wires and an encapsulant, is provided. The lead frame includes a frame body and at least a turbulent plate. The frame body has inner lead portions and outer lead portions. The turbulent plate is bended upwards to form a bulge portion and the first end of the turbulent plate is connected to the frame body. The chip is fixed under the inner lead portions and the turbulent plate is located at one side of the chip. The adhesive layer is disposed between the chip and the inner lead portions, and the bonding wires are electrically connected between the chip and the corresponding inner lead portions, respectively. The encapsulant encapsulates at least the chip, the bonding wires, the inner lead portions, the adhesive layer and the turbulent plate.
US07964939B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same A semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor chip; a first frame; a solder layer which bonds the solder bonding metal layer of the semiconductor chip and the first frame; and a second frame bonded to the rear face of the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first metal layer provided on a major surface of the semiconductor substrate and forming a Schottky junction with the semiconductor substrate; a second metal layer provided on the first metal layer and primarily composed of aluminum; a third metal layer provided on the second metal layer and primarily composed of molybdenum or titanium; and a solder bonding metal layer provided on the third metal layer and including at least a fourth metal layer which is primarily composed of nickel, iron or cobalt.
US07964937B2	Multilayer dielectric substrate and semiconductor package A multilayer dielectric substrate that mounts a semiconductor device in a cavity formed on a substrate. The multilayer dielectric substrate includes an opening formed in a surface-layer grounding conductor on the substrate in the cavity, and an impedance transformer, with a length of about ¼ of an in-substrate effective wavelength of a signal wave, electrically connected through the opening to the cavity. The multilayer dielectric substrate further includes a short-circuited end dielectric transmission line with a length of about ¼ of the in-substrate effective wavelength of the signal wave, a coupling opening formed on an inner-layer grounding conductor in a connecting section of the impedance transformer and the dielectric transmission line, and a resistor formed in the coupling opening.
US07964931B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device 1 includes a square substrate 2, first RESURF structures 3 in the shape of planar stripes on an element area 10 of a main surface of the substrate 2, a transistor T arranged between the first RESURF structures 3, a first high withstand voltage section 11 constituted by second RESURF structures 3a in the shape of planar strips on a periphery of the main surface of the substrate 2, and a second high withstand voltage section 12 constituted by third RESURF structures 3b which are symmetrically arranged at corners of the substrate 2 with respect to a diagonal line D of the main surface of the substrate 2.
US07964929B2	Method and apparatus providing imager pixels with shared pixel components The disclosed embodiments employ shared pixel component architectures that arrange the shared pixel components for a group of pixels within different pixels of the group.
US07964927B2	Semiconductor device and method for strain controlled optical absorption A semiconductor device which has controlled optical absorption includes a substrate, and a semiconductor layer supported by the substrate. The semiconductor has variable optical absorption at a predetermined optical frequency in relationship to a bandgap of the semiconductor layer. Also included is a strain application structure coupled to the semiconductor layer to create a strain in the semiconductor layer to change the semiconductor bandgap.
US07964926B2	Image sensing devices including image sensor chips, image sensor package modules employing the image sensing devices, electronic products employing the image sensor package modules, and methods of fabricating the same An image sensor package includes an image sensor chip, a handling substrate mounted on a front side of the image sensor chip and a through electrode disposed on a backside of the image sensor chip. The through electrode extends into the image sensor chip. Moreover, the image sensor chip includes a semiconductor substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region, a photoelectric transformation section disposed in the semiconductor substrate of the pixel region and a dielectric layer disposed on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer has a step region so that a top surface of the dielectric layer in the pixel region is lower than that of the dielectric layer in the peripheral circuit region. The image sensor chip further includes a conductive pad disposed on the dielectric layer in the peripheral circuit region and is electrically connected to the through electrode.
US07964912B2	High-voltage vertical transistor with a varied width silicon pillar In one embodiment, a vertical HVFET includes a pillar of semiconductor material a pillar of semiconductor material arranged in a loop layout having at least two substantially parallel and substantially linear fillet sections each having a first width, and at least two rounded sections, the rounded sections having a second width narrower than the first width, a source region of a first conductivity type being disposed at or near a top surface of the pillar, and a body region of a second conductivity type being disposed in the pillar beneath the source region. First and second dielectric regions are respectively disposed on opposite sides of the pillar, the first dielectric region being laterally surrounded by the pillar, and the second dielectric region laterally surrounding the pillar. First and second field plates are respectively disposed in the first and second dielectric regions.
US07964910B2	Planar field effect transistor structure having an angled crystallographic etch-defined source/drain recess and a method of forming the transistor structure Disclosed is a transistor that incorporates epitaxially deposited source/drain semiconductor films and a method for forming the transistor. A crystallographic etch is used to form recesses between a channel region and trench isolation regions in a silicon substrate. Each recess has a first side, having a first profile, adjacent to the channel region and a second side, having a second profile, adjacent to a trench isolation region. The crystallographic etch ensures that the second profile is angled so that all of the exposed recess surfaces comprise silicon. Thus, the recesses can be filled by epitaxial deposition without divot formation. Additional process steps can be used to ensure that the first side of the recess is formed with a different profile that enhances the desired stress in the channel region.
US07964909B2	Scalable high density non-volatile memory cells in a contactless memory array A plurality of mesas are formed in the substrate. Each pair of mesas forms a trench. A plurality of diffusion areas are formed in the substrate. A mesa diffusion area is formed in each mesa top and a trench diffusion area is formed under each trench. A vertical, non-volatile memory cell is formed on each sidewall of the trench. Each memory cell is comprised of a fixed threshold element located vertically between a pair of non-volatile gate insulator stacks. In one embodiment, each gate insulator stack is comprised of a tunnel insulator formed over the sidewall, a deep trapping layer, and a charge blocking layer. In another embodiment, an injector silicon rich nitride layer is formed between the deep trapping layer and the charge blocking layer.
US07964897B2	Direct contact to area efficient body tie process flow A process flow for fabricating shallow trench isolation (STI) devices with direct body tie contacts is provided. The process flow follows steps similar to standard STI fabrication methods except that in one of the etching steps, body tie contacts are etched through the nitride layer and STI oxide layer, directly to the body tie. This process flow provides a direct body tie contact to mitigate floating body effects but also eliminates hysteresis and transient upset effects common in non-direct body tie contact configurations, without the critical alignment requirements and critical dimension control of the layout.
US07964896B2	Buried channel MOSFET using III-V compound semiconductors and high k gate dielectrics A semiconductor-containing heterostructure including, from bottom to top, a III-V compound semiconductor buffer layer, a III-V compound semiconductor channel layer, a III-V compound semiconductor barrier layer, and an optional, yet preferred, III-V compound semiconductor cap layer is provided. The barrier layer may be doped, or preferably undoped. The III-V compound semiconductor buffer layer and the III-V compound semiconductor barrier layer are comprised of materials that have a wider band gap than that of the III-V compound semiconductor channel layer. Since wide band gap materials are used for the buffer and barrier layer and a narrow band gap material is used for the channel layer, carriers are confined to the channel layer under certain gate bias range. The inventive heterostructure can be employed as a buried channel structure in a field effect transistor.
US07964894B2	Integrated circuit system employing stress memorization transfer An integrated circuit system that includes: a substrate including a source/drain region defined by a spacer; a gate over the substrate; a gate dielectric between the gate and the substrate; a recrystallized region within the gate and the source/drain region; and a channel exhibiting the characteristics of stress memorization.
US07964893B2	Forming ESD diodes and BJTs using FinFET compatible processes A method of forming an electrostatic discharging (ESD) device includes forming a first and a second semiconductor fin over a substrate and adjacent to each other; epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on the first and the second semiconductor fins, wherein a first portion of the semiconductor material grown from the first semiconductor fin joins a second portion of the semiconductor material grown from the second semiconductor fin; and implanting a first end and a second end of the semiconductor material and first end portions of the first and the second semiconductor fins to form a first and a second implant region, respectively. A P-N junction is formed between the first end and the second end of the semiconductor material. The P-N junction is a junction of an ESD diode, or a junction in an NPN or a PNP BJT.
US07964887B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a transparent substrate having first and second surfaces, a semiconductor layer provided on the first surface, a first light emission layer provided on the semiconductor layer and emitting first ultraviolet light including a wavelength corresponding to an energy larger than a forbidden bandwidth of a semiconductor of the semiconductor layer, a second light emission layer provided between the first light emission layer and the semiconductor layer, absorbing the first ultraviolet light emitted from the first light emission layer, and emitting second ultraviolet light including a wavelength corresponding to an energy smaller than the forbidden bandwidth of the semiconductor of the semiconductor layer, and first and second electrodes provided to apply electric power to the first light emission layer.
US07964886B2	Light emitting diode A light-emitting diode includes a substrate having a main surface, a light-emitting diode device arranged on the main surface, a translucent sealing resin portion sealing the light-emitting diode device so that the light-emitting diode device is implemented as an independent convex portion projecting from the main surface, and a reflector arranged on the main surface so as to surround an outer perimeter of the sealing resin portion with an inclined surface at a distance from the outer perimeter.
US07964882B2	Nitride semiconductor-based light emitting devices A nitride semiconductor-based light emitting device is provided. The nitride semiconductor-based light emitting device is formed of a nitride semiconductor having a wurtzite lattice structure with the Ga face. The device has a substrate, a buffer layer, a first p-type contact layer, a second p-type contact layer, a first hole diffusion layer, a second hole diffusion layer, a light emitting active region, a second electron diffusion layer, a first electron diffusion layer, a second n-type contact layer and a first n-type contact layer, which are sequentially stacked. Such a structure may effectively employ quasi-two-dimensional free electron and free hole gases formed at heterojunction interfaces due to the spontaneous polarization and the piezoelectric polarization in the wurtzite lattice structure with the Ga face, and thus enhances the emission uniformity and emission efficiency of the light emitting device.
US07964880B2	Light emitting element with a plurality of cells bonded, method of manufacturing the same, and light emitting device using the same The present invention relates to a light emitting element with arrayed cells, a method of manufacturing the same, and a light emitting device using the same. The present invention provides a light emitting element including a light emitting cell block with a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series or parallel on a single substrate, and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein each of the plurality of light emitting cells includes an N-type semiconductor layer and a P-type semiconductor layer, and the N-type semiconductor layer of one light emitting cell is electrically connected to the P-type semiconductor layer of another adjacent light emitting cell. Further, the present invention provides a light emitting device including a light emitting element with a plurality of light emitting cells connected in series. Accordingly, it is possible to simplify a manufacturing process of a light emitting device for illumination capable of being used with a household AC power source, to decrease a fraction defective occurring in manufacturing a light emitting device for illumination, and to mass-produce the light emitting device for illumination. Further, there is an advantage in that DC driving efficiency can be enhanced in an AC operation by installing a predetermined rectifying circuit outside the light emitting element.
US07964879B2	Display device mounted with read function and electric appliance According to the present invention, a material having a light-shielding property is used for a bank layer surrounding the edge of a light-emitting element. Accordingly, light which is not reflected by an object to be read out can be prevented from entering an image pick-up element, and information on the object to be read out can be correctly read out. The display device mounted with a read function according to the present invention includes a thin film transistor and an image pick-up element over a substrate having an insulating surface, an insulating layer covering a thin film transistor and an image pick-up element, a light-emitting element provided over the insulating layer, and a bank layer having a light-shielding property surrounding the edge of the light-emitting element. The bank layer has an opening portion in a position overlapping with the image pick-up element.
US07964876B2	Display device By applying an AC pulse to a gate of a transistor which easily deteriorates, a shift in threshold voltage of the transistor is suppressed. However, in a case where amorphous silicon is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor, the occurrence of a shift in threshold voltage naturally becomes a problem for a transistor which constitutes a part of circuit that generates an AC pulse. A shift in threshold voltage of a transistor which easily deteriorates and a shift in threshold voltage of a turned-on transistor are suppressed by signal input to a gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates through the turned-on transistor. In other words, a structure for applying an AC pulse to a gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates through a transistor to a gate electrode of which a high potential (VDD) is applied, is included.
US07964874B2	Semiconductor device having a protective circuit A semiconductor display device with an interlayer insulating film in which surface levelness is ensured with a limited film formation time, heat treatment for removing moisture does not take long, and moisture in the interlayer insulating film is prevented from escaping into a film or electrode adjacent to the interlayer insulating film. A TFT is formed and then a nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating film that transmits less moisture compared to organic resin film is formed so as to cover the TFT. Next, organic resin including photosensitive acrylic resin is applied and an opening is formed by partially exposing the organic resin film to light. The organic resin film where the opening is formed, is then covered with a nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating film which transmits less moisture than organic resin film does. Thereafter, the gate insulating film and the two layers of the nitrogen-containing inorganic insulating films are partially etched away in the opening of the organic resin film to expose the active layer of the TFT.
US07964873B2	Thin film transistor array panel and manufacturing method thereof A thin film transistor array panel is provided, which includes: a substrate; a first polysilicon member that is formed on the substrate and includes an intrinsic region, at least one first extrinsic region, and at least one second extrinsic region disposed between the intrinsic region and the at least one first extrinsic region and having an impurity concentration lower than the at least one first extrinsic region; a first insulator formed on the first polysilicon member and having an edge substantially coinciding with a boundary between the at least one first extrinsic region and the at least one second extrinsic region; and a first electrode formed on the first• insulator and having an edge substantially coinciding with a boundary between the intrinsic region and the at least one second extrinsic region.
US07964868B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed is a semiconductor light-emitting device wherein a pn junction is formed by forming, as a p-type layer (11), a semiconductor thin film which is composed of a ZnO compound doped with nitrogen on an n-type ZnO bulk single crystal substrate (10) whose resistance is lowered by being doped with donor impurities. It is preferable to form the p-type layer (11) on a zinc atom containing surface of the n-type ZnO bulk single crystal substrate (10).
US07964864B2	Light-emitting element and light-emitting device It is an object of the present invention to provide a light-emitting element having a layer containing a light-emitting material and a transparent conductive film between a pair of electrodes, in which electric erosion of the transparent conductive film and metal can be prevented, and also to provide a light-emitting device using the light-emitting element. According to one feature of the invention, a light-emitting element includes a first layer 102 containing a light-emitting material, a second layer 103 containing a material having a donor level, a third layer 104 including a transparent conductive film, and a fourth layer 105 containing a hole-transporting medium between a first electrode 101 and a second electrode 106, in which the first layer 102, the second layer 103, the third layer 104, the fourth layer 105, and the second electrode 106 are provided sequentially, in which the second electrode 106 has a layer containing metal.
US07964863B2	Memory cell having a side electrode contact Memory cells are described along with methods for manufacturing. A memory cell as described herein includes a bottom electrode, a memory element and a side electrode. The bottom electrode contacts the memory element at a first contact surface on the bottom of the memory element. The side electrode contacts the memory element at a second contact surface on the side of the memory element, where the second contact surface on the side faces laterally relative to the first contact surface on the bottom.
US07964857B2	Plasma source of directed beams and application thereof to microlithography A method for generating radiation in a range of desired wavelengths in a direction of emission is provided. According to the method, initial radiation is produced by a radiation source, the wavelengths thereof including the desired range, and the initial radiation is filtered in such a way as to substantially eliminate the initial radiation beams having a wavelength outside the desired range. The inventive method is characterized in that the filtering is carried out by setting up a controlled distribution of the refractive index of the beams in a control region through which the initial radiation passes, in such a way as to selectively deviate the beams of the initial radiation according to the wavelength thereof and to recover the beams having desired wavelengths. The invention also relates to an associated device.
US07964856B2	Ion implanting apparatus In an ion implanting apparatus 10 including a separation slit 20 which receives an ion beam 1 having passed through a mass-separation electromagnet 17 and allows a desired type of ion to selectively pass therethrough, the separation slit 20 is operable to vary a shape of a gap through which the ion beam 1 passes. In addition, the ion implanting apparatus 10 includes a variable slit 30 which is disposed between an extraction electrode system 15 and the mass-separation electromagnet 17 so as to form a gap through which the ion beam 1 passes and is operable to vary a shape of the gap so as to shield a part of the ion beam 1 extracted from the ion source 12. The ion implanting apparatus 10 may include both or one of the separation slit 20 and the variable slit 30.
US07964850B2	Radiation detection apparatus A scintillation camera includes a scintillation material which is capable of converting high-energy radiation incident thereon and having a wavelength of X-ray radiation or shorter into optical radiation, at least one position-sensitive detector capable of detecting the optical radiation, and at least one bundle of light guides which is located in front of the detector, characterized in that the bundle of light guides is located between the detector and the scintillation material. As a result of the scintillation material being provided as a separate unit, optionally including non-scintillating light guides, selection of the materials of each of the two parts can be optimized. Thus, for example, the scintillation material is no longer hygroscopic or subject to restrictions because of the need to grow it in parallel bundles.
US07964844B2	Sample inspection apparatus The invention avoids charge up when creating a focus map for an electron beam apparatus for inspecting a sample. An auto-focus (AF) control apparatus controls to drive an actuator for moving a focus lens of an optical microscope while acquiring a contrast signal from the optical microscope for each of focus measurement points on a surface of a sample under control of a PC device, to automatically focus on the surface of the sample. The control apparatus detects a focus value of the optical microscope corresponding to a position (height) of the sample surface in an optical axis direction. The PC device receives the detected focus value, and converts the focus value into a voltage to be applied to an electrostatic lens of the electron beam device during actual sample inspection, and stores the converted value.
US07964843B2	Three-dimensional molecular imaging by infrared laser ablation electrospray ionization mass spectrometry The field of the invention is atmospheric pressure mass spectrometry (MS), and more specifically a process and apparatus which combine infrared laser ablation with electrospray ionization (ESI).
US07964842B2	Evaluation of frequency mass spectra The invention relates to the evaluation of mass spectra from mass spectrometers in which ions are excited to mass-specific oscillating or orbiting motions, and the ion motion is recorded as a time signal. The invention provides methods to detect parameter drift that occurs during the recording of a time signal in such a “frequency mass spectrometer” by analyzing the instantaneous frequency or the phase spectrum of a frequency component, and provides a method to correct for influence of the frequency drift on the mass spectrum correspondingly. In one embodiment a Fourier transformation converts a measured time signal into a frequency spectrum and examines the phase spectrum of a frequency component to establish whether this phase spectrum deviates from the phase spectrum of a harmonic time signal. The phase spectrum of a harmonic time signal is either linear or constant. In another embodiment the time domain signal is processed using a Short Time Fourier Transformation function to determine an instantaneous frequency, which can be used to correct the parameter drift, yielding a corrected time signal. From the corrected time signal a mass spectrum with better mass resolution can be derived, as can be seen from corrected mass signal profile compared with uncorrected mass signal profile.
US07964837B2	Photovoltaic inverter interface device, system, and method A photovoltaic system, method and apparatus are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, the system includes a first and second inputs adapted to couple to a first and second rails of a photovoltaic array; an inverter configured to convert DC power from the photovoltaic array to AC power; and an interface portion coupled to the first and second inputs and the inverter, the interface portion configured to isolate at least one of the first and second inputs from the inverter and to modulate an application of a voltage from the photovoltaic array to the inverter so as to increase a load on the photovoltaic array and to reduce the voltage applied from the photovoltaic array to the inverter.
US07964836B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device includes a light receiving section (LRS) comprising pixels. The LRS is divided into division regions; a charge transferring section (CTS) transferring charges accumulated in the LRS; an accumulation control electrode provided between the LRS and the CTS transfers charge accumulated in the LRS to the CTS responsive to an accumulation control signal; a monitoring sensor group comprising monitoring sensors respectively provided for the division regions, outputting sensor outputs of the monitoring sensors corresponding to charges amounts of the division regions; a charge detecting circuit outputting a charge detection signal indicating that a predetermined charge quantity is accumulated in at least one of the division regions, based on the sensor outputs from the monitoring sensor group; and a signal control circuit outputting the accumulation control signal in response to the charge detection signal. The charge detecting circuit comprises division region charge detecting sections for the monitoring sensors.
US07964835B2	Digital cameras with direct luminance and chrominance detection Digital camera systems and methods are described that provide a color digital camera with direct luminance detection. The luminance signals are obtained directly from a broadband image sensor channel without interpolation of RGB data. The chrominance signals are obtained from one or more additional image sensor channels comprising red and/or blue color band detection capability. The red and blue signals are directly combined with the luminance image sensor channel signals. The digital camera generates and outputs an image in YCrCb color space by directly combining outputs of the broadband, red and blue sensors.
US07964831B2	Remote control device for a target designator from an attack module, attack module and designator implementing such device The invention relates to a remote control device from an attack module flying over a target, module of the projectile or sub-projectile, missile or attack drone type, for a target designator positioned on a terrain of operations, comprising means to emit a remote control signal that are arranged in the attack module and at least one receiver means for the remote control signal that are integral with the designator and are associated with means to activate the start-up of the designator, wherein the emitter means incorporate at least one light source oriented so as to illuminate the terrain and in that the receiver means incorporate a detector for the radiation emitted by the light source or sources.
US07964830B2	Large cross-section interceptor vehicle and method A vehicle may include a vehicle body maneuverable onto a near collision course with a target and a plurality of inflatable ballutes which, when inflated, extend generally radially from the vehicle body. A controller may cause the ballutes to be inflated prior to an anticipated time of collision with the target. A plurality of explosive charges may be attached to at least some of the ballutes. A detonation controller may be coupled to the controller and to the plurality of explosive charges.
US07964829B2	Apparatus and method for making bag assembly An apparatus for forming a bag assembly includes opposing die members. Each die member has a perimeter-welding portion for forming a perimeter-weld of the bag assembly and a tube-welding portion for forming a tube-weld of the bag. During operation, first the perimeter-welding and tube-welding portions weld the bag assembly simultaneously, then the perimeter-welding portions are moved to increase the distance between them. When the perimeter-welding portions are moved apart, welding by the perimeter-welding portions is generally suspended while welding by the tube-welding portions may continue.
US07964825B2	Method for the attachment of an electrical lead wire on a surface element, as well as a heating element, especially for a plastic-spraying device An apparatus and methods for attaching electrical leads (22, 24) to a heating layer (16) of a heater are provided. An attachment material (50) is thermally sprayed over cords (32) of the electrical leads (22, 24), which are in contact with the heating layer (16) over a contact area (20). The attachment material (50) and the heating layer 16 are further thermally sprayed with a layer (52), which is an isolating material. The thermal sprayed connection between the electrical leads (22, 24) and the heating layer (16) thus provides more intimate contact and an improved electrical connection.
US07964821B2	Window with de-icing feature and method A window such as a vehicle window (e.g., windshield) has a de-icing feature. In certain example embodiments, a conductive structure is provided on an interior surface of a substrate of the window, AC tuned to an ice removal frequency is caused to run through the conductive structure, and fields generated by the AC passing through the conductive structure propagate through the substrate to an exterior surface of the window and can be absorbed by ice thereby causing the ice to melt and/or be removed from the window.
US07964818B2	Method and apparatus for photomask etching A method of fabricating yttria parts is provided herein. In one embodiment, the method includes sintering a yttria sample, machining the sintered sample to form a part, and annealing the part in a three-stage process that includes heating the part at a predetermined heating rate, maintaining the part at a constant annealing temperature, and cooling the part at a predetermined cooling rate.
US07964815B2	Push-button switch In a lateral pushing type push-button switch, a pair of guiding portions against which an actuating portion that is projected from a pressing portion of an operating member into a housing is buttable are disposed in a cover which is attached to an upper portion of the housing. The switch has a second actuating member which is formed in continuously with a peripheral portion that is accommodated in a peripheral side portion of the housing, and which is projected into the housing to be opposed to the actuating portion. When the operating member is pressed in a lateral direction, the actuating portion and the second actuating member are downward displaced to depress movable contacts to be contacted with stationary contacts.
US07964814B2	Push-push switch with movable terminal A push-push switch includes a housing having a space, a plurality of stationary terminals received in the housing, a button assembled to the housing, a movable terminal assembled to the button, and a spring member located between the housing and the button. The space has a first post defining a protrusion thereon. The stationary terminal defines a contacting portion extending onto a surface of the first post and a soldering portion extending out of the housing. The movable terminal further defines a downwardly-extending contact arm and a downwardly-extending felt-generated spring arm extending from a planar base portion thereof while at different positions. The contact arm is established electrically connection with the contacting portion of the stationary terminal when the button is depressed, and the felt-generated spring arm is engaged with the protrusion of the first post in the meantime.
US07964811B2	Moisture-proof push-button switch module A moisture-proof push-button switch module includes a first casing unit, a second casing unit, a first movable structure, and a push structure. The first casing unit has a first outer moisture-proof structure disposed around its outer side. The first casing unit has a first receiving room, a second receiving room, and an opening communicating between the second receiving room and the external environment. The second casing unit is mated with the first casing unit. The second casing unit has a second outer moisture-proof structure and a first moisture block, and the first outer moisture-proof structure and the second outer moisture-proof structure are mated with each other. The first movable structure has a first movable element mated with the first moisture block. The push structure passes through the opening in order to selectably push the first movable element.
US07964810B2	Electrically conducting contact and method for production thereof A contact element for the intermittent contacting of conductor tracks on a circuit board, in particular, for flexible touchpads, for example for flexible input devices in the automobile industry, is made from a metal foam. The metal foam may be at least partly infiltrated by an elastomeric material which can also be the material of construction of the touchpad. The contact element has a very reliable construction which is particularly suitable for high voltage application. A method for production of the contact element, touchpads/input devices with such contact pads and the use of the contact pads is also provided.
US07964805B2	Medicine weighing device that changes between an inspection mode and a weighing mode whenever a removable program storage device is attached or removed A medicine weighing device that includes, not only a weighing function, but also an inspection function. The medicine weighing device has a compact structure capable of displaying a weighed value and an inspection result on the same screen, and which can execute inspection according to the input state of weighing conditions. Accordingly, the medicine weighing device is structured to include, in a device main body 1, a weighing device (2) for weighing medicine to be dispensed, a display device (3) for displaying a weighed value and weighing conditions, an input device (3) for inputting the weighing conditions, a storage device (11) for storing an inspection program and medicine data, and a control mechanism (5) for calculating a recommended dose by executing the inspection program stored in the storage medium (11) based only on the weighing conditions which can be inputted by the input device among the weighing conditions, and displaying the calculated recommended dose and the weight of the medicine weighed by the weighing device (2) on the display (3).
US07964803B2	Magnetic shield structure having openings and a magnetic material frame therefor A magnetic shield structure having openings, the structure comprising a plurality of similar magnetic blind bodies 2, each blind body 2 having an imaginary blind core plane F and a plurality of magnetic material slats 1 being spaced from each other by a distance d required for magnetic shielding, each slat 1 intersecting the blind core plane F at a longitudinal central axis C thereof, the longitudinal central axes of the slats are oriented substantially in parallel to each other on the blind core plane F. The blind bodies 2a, 2b are coupled in a row by serially coupling each slat 1 in each blind body 2a to a corresponding slat 1 of adjacent blind body 2b through overlapping or abutting of slat terminal portions, whereby the blind core planes Fa, Fb of the blind bodies 2a, 2b are so coupled as to define a successive magnetic shield plane, and spaces d between adjacent slats 1 in each blind body 2a, 2b form openings in the magnetic shield structure. Preferably, three or more magnetic blind bodies 2 are coupled in a row so as to form a closed magnetic path. The blind bodies 2a, 2b may be stacked side by side in such a manner that the blind core plane Fa, Fb are parallel to each other and orientation of the slat central axes in each blind body 2a, 2b being selected so as to optimize attenuation of magnetic field across the magnetic shield structure.
US07964798B2	Electrical high field/high voltage unit and method of manufacturing same A high field/high voltage unit comprising at least one electrical component (4) and a solid insulating material (20) in the form of a first and a second piece part (10, 11) which form, in particular, hard foam half bodies and a method of manufacturing same is disclosed. The piece parts (10, 11) each have an inner structure comprising a plurality of preformed cavities (3) in which electrical components (4) are fixed. After assembly, the piece parts (10, 11) form a closed casing of the high field/high voltage unit so that no extra steel vessel is necessary. Conductive paths (5, 6) for the interconnection of the components are integrated into the insulating material (20) using for example an insert technology. Since several functions can thus be integrated into the solid insulating material (20), a simple solution for assembling and disassembling an oil/gas filled high field/high voltage unit like a high voltage generator for an X-ray tube is realized.
US07964796B2	Protector In a protector, made of resin molding, through which a group of electric wires is penetrated, a branch-wire branching portion is projected slantly from a trough-shaped protector body along a direction in which the branch wires are wired, and the branch-wire branching portion has a bottom wall and one side wall and is sectionally L-shaped, and an auxiliary wall for tape-winding use is projected from an outer surface of the one side wall of the branch-wire branching portion with the auxiliary wall for tape-winding use forming an angle in a range of 90 degrees±20 degrees to the protector body.In the above-described construction, with branch wires inserted through the branch-wire branching portion, a tape is wound round peripheral surfaces of the branch wires, a peripheral surface of the branch-wire branching portion, and a periphery of the auxiliary wall for tape-winding use to fix the branch wires to the branch-wire branching portion.
US07964793B2	Fiber distribution hub with dual swing frames The present disclosure relates to a telecommunications distribution cabinet having a cabinet housing in which a first swing frame and a second swing frame are pivotably mounted.
US07964787B2	Hybrid solar power generator A hybrid means for producing and storing power derived from a photovoltaic source through pneumatic, mechanical and chemical means utilizing pressure tanks, air turbines and batteries. To regulate the device a plurality of control and routing devices are utilized to redistribute additional energy to an appropriate chemical or pressurized means for storing potential energy for later use.
US07964786B2	Solar battery module, installation structure for solar battery module, roof with power generating function of the installation structure, and method of installing solar battery module A solar battery module capable of assuring the fluid-tight structure of the roof panels adjacent to each other in lateral direction, realizing a weathering between the modules, eliminating a process for providing a seal member between the ends of the modules adjacent to each other, and facilitating an assembly operation, wherein a recessed part extending from the ridge side to the eaves side of the solar battery module is formed at lateral one end thereof, a projected part in the shape of coming into the recessed part is formed at the other end, and a waterproof means for suppressing the rain water invaded onto the upper surface of the projected part from circulating to the lower surface thereof is installed on the projected part in the state of being inserted into the corresponding recessed part of the solar battery module disposed adjacently to the side.
US07964785B2	Heating apparatus comprising a thermoelectric module Disclosed is a thermoelectric module (100) which rests against a housing (12) via an elastic connection (26, 40, 42). Alternatively or additionally, a mechanical connection is provided with a heat-insulating material (50) between a housing (12) and a heat exchanger (26). Furthermore, a heat conducting medium is alternatively or additionally provided between the thermoelectric module (100) and the first housing and/or between the thermoelectric module (100) and a heat exchanger (26).
US07964783B2	System and method for evolving music tracks Systems and methods of evolving music tracks are disclosed. One example method providing a plurality of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). Each of the ANNs uses a time signature input. The method also includes producing a rhythm from each of the plurality of ANNs. The method also includes evolving a next generation of ANNs based upon a user selection of one of the plurality of rhythms and upon the previous generation of ANNs. An example system includes a plurality of Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs). Each of the CPPNs uses a time signature input to produce a rhythm. The system also includes logic configured to receive a selection of one or more of the CPPN, and logic configured to generate at least one evolved CPPN based upon the selection.
US07964782B2	Method for operating cue point on lighting ring of digital multimedia audio player A method for operating cue points on a lighting ring of a digital multimedia audio player is revealed. A lighting ring for showing data related to digital music playing now is disposed around a turntable of a multimedia audio player. The lighting ring is arranged with a plurality of visual markers at important cue points by DJs for producing special sound effects while one of the cue point markers is set at a position that matches DJs' operation way and this is the position of an active cue point. Thereby during operation of the multimedia audio player, the obvious markers at the cue points allow DJs to operate the device easily and conveniently. Moreover, the active cue point can be set and adjusted according to different operation ways of DJs. Thus the present invention provides DJs with an intuitive reminder and convenient operation on the vision and the operational control.
US07964777B2	Soybean cultivar 7629164 A soybean cultivar designated 7629164 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7629164, to the plants of soybean 7629164, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7629164 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7629164 with itself or with another soybean variety. 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. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7629164, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7629164 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 the cultivar 7629164 with another soybean cultivar.
US07964765B2	Styrene monomer process based on oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene using CO2 as a soft oxidant Processes are provided for the production of styrene monomer by oxidative dehydrogenation of EB using CO2 as a soft oxidant. Carbon dioxide is used as the reaction diluent in one or more dehydrogenation reactors and to supply the heat required for the endothermic reaction of EB to styrene monomer. In the dehydrogenation reactors, two parallel reactions for styrene monomer formation occur simultaneously: (1) direct EB dehydrogenation to styrene monomer over a catalyst using heat provided by the carbon dioxide, and (2) oxidative dehydrogenation of EB with carbon dioxide to form styrene monomer.
US07964758B2	Process for production of 2-(substituted phenyl)-3,3,3-trifluoropropene compound There is provided a novel process for production of a 2-(substituted phenyl) -3,3,3-trifluoropropene. Disclosed is a process for production of a 2-(substituted phenyl)-3,3,3-trifluoropropene compound represented by the formula (7) or a salt thereof The process comprises reacting a compound represented by the formula (1) (X is an alkyl group, etc.) with a compound represented by the formula (2) (Y is a halogen atom, etc.) in the presence of a catalyst represented by the formula (3) (M is an ion of a metal belonging to Group 10 on the elementary periodic table which has an oxidation state number of 1 to 8; G is a unidentate or multidentate ligand; L is a phosphine compound represented by the formula (4) which is bound to the center metal M or is a carbene selected from those represented by the formulae (5) and (6), provided that L's may be same as or different from one another when a is 2 to 5; A represents a univalently or multivalently charged anion; b represents an integer of 1 to 3; a represents an integer of 1 to 5·b; c represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 4·b; and n represents an integer of 1 to 6).
US07964754B2	Diimmonium salt and near infrared ray absorption film containing the same Disclosed are a diimmonium salt and a near infrared ray absorption film including the same which is used for blocking the near infrared ray. The diimmonium salt for a near infrared ray absorption film is represented by Formula 1 of the specification, wherein, n is an integer of 1 or 2, R1 to R8 are independently a substituted or unsubstituted linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl group, the substituent for the alkyl group is selected from the group consisting of a cyano group, a nitro group, a carboxyl group, a sulfone group, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a C1 -C8 alkoxy, alkoxyalkoxy, acyloxy, or alkylamino group, and C6-C18 aryl or aryloxy group, and X is a substituted fluoro alkyl phosphate anion represented by Formula 2 of the specification, wherein, x is an integer of 0 or 1, y is an integer of 1, 2 or 3, z is an integer of 6-y, and R9 to R13 are independently a hydrogen atom (H) or a fluorine atom (F).
US07964750B2	Method for synthesizing 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or a derivative thereof A method for synthesizing 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or its derivatives has a step of introducing 6-chloro-6H-dibenz[c,e][1,2]oxaphosphorin or its derivative, an acid compound and water into a reacting chamber to form an organic layer having 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or its derivative and an aqueous layer. Because the acid compound is from an external source and has a catalyzing effect, employing the method can prevent side reaction from occurring and increase yield of 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide or its derivative. Furthermore, the method is a one-pot operation of hydrolysis, dehydration and cyclization, so the method does not require purification of intermediates. Therefore, the method is time- and cost-saving and requires less organic solvent, resulting in less pollution to the environment.
US07964747B2	Poly(silsesquioxane) spherical particle containing ultraviolet light-absorbing group and manufacturing method thereof The present invention relates to a polysilsesquioxane spherical particle containing a ultraviolet light (UV) absorbing group, and manufacturing method thereof, characterized in that a preferred embodiment of the present invention comprises (i) preparing a silsesquioxane precursor containing the UV-absorbing group; and (ii) reacting the silsesquioxane precursor prepared in the step (i) with aminoalkylalkoxy silane compound or its oligomer under a solvent by means of a catalyst or a catalyst and co-polymerization precursor to prepare a polysilsesquioxane spherical particle containing a UV-absorbing group. The present invention provides the polysilsesquioxane spherical particle having a good physical property and a good UV-absorbing efficiency as cosmetic additive, and a simple and economical method of manufacturing the spherical particle.
US07964743B2	Catalyst for asymmetric synthesis, ligand for use therein, and process for producing optically active compound through asymmetric synthesis reaction using them Compounds represented by the following general formula (1a) or (1b). A complex comprising a center metal of rhodium and a compound represented by the following general formula (1a) or (1b) as a ligand. A catalyst for optically active beta-substituted carbonyl compound synthesis and catalyst for asymmetric 1, 2 addition reaction being composed of the complex. A method of production of an optically active beta-aryl compound from an alpha, beta-unsaturated compound and an aryl-boronic acid derivative and method of production of an optically active aryl alcohol compound from an aldehyde compound and aryl boronic acid derivatives using the catalyst. A complex comprising a center metal of palladium and a compound represented by the following general formula (1a) or (1b) as a ligand. A catalyst for asymmetric allylic substitution reaction being composed of the complex. A method of production of an optically active dialkyl (1,3-disubstituted propeny)malonate compound from a 1,3-disubstituted ally acetate compound and a dialkyl malonate and method of production of an optically active allylamine compound from a 1,3-disubstituted ally acetate compound and an amine compound. The compounds have not only the versatility of being usable in the synthesis of wide-ranging optically active aryl compounds but also the selectivity and reactivity permitting synthesis with high yield within a short period of time under industrially advantageous mild conditions.
US07964731B2	Isotopically marked quinoline derivatives as adenosin A3 receptor ligands The invention relates to adenozin A3 receptor ligands labeled with iodine isotops of mass number 125, within those favorably to antagonists and their isomers, to the experimental materials containing them, to a process for the preparation of the compounds of the general formula (I) and their isomers, to the new intermediates of the general formula (II) and to the preparation thereof.
US07964728B2	Azaindole derivatives with a combination of partial nicotinic acetyl-choline receptor agonism and dopamine reuptake inhibition Azaindole derivatives of formula (I): wherein the symbols have the meanings given in the specification, are described. These compounds have a combination of partial nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonism and dopamine reuptake inhibition. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, to methods for preparing them, methods for preparing novel intermediates useful for their synthesis, methods for preparing compositions, and uses of such compounds and compositions, for example, their use in administering them to patients to achieve a therapeutic effect in disorders in which nicotinic receptors and/or dopamine transporters are involved, or that can be treated via manipulation of those receptors.
US07964727B2	Quinolonecarboxylic acid compounds having 5-HT4 receptor agonistic activity This invention provides a compound of the formula (I): wherein Het represents a heterocyclic group having one nitrogen atom, to which B binds directly, and from 4 to 7 carbon atoms, and said heterocyclic group being unsubstituted or substituted by 1 to 4 substituents independently selected from the group consisting of substituents α1; A represents an alkylene group having from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; B represents a covalent bond or an alkylene group having from 1 to 5 carbon atoms; R1 represents an isopropyl group, a n-propyl group or a cyclopentyl group; R2 represents a methyl group, a fluorine atom or a chlorine atom; R3 independently represents (i) an oxo group, a hydroxy group, an amino group, an alkylamino group or a carboxyl group; (ii) a cycloalkyl group having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms, and said cycloalkyl group being substituted by 1 to 5 substituents, or (iii) a heterocyclic group having from 3 to 8 atoms, and said heterocyclic group being unsubstituted or substituted by 1 to 5 substituents, and n is 1, 2 or 3, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds have 5-HT4 receptor agonistic activity, and thus are useful for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, non-ulcer dyspepsia, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome or the like in mammalian, especially humans.
US07964724B2	Chiral cis-imidazolines and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts and esters thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, Y1, Y2 and R are described herein inhibit the interaction of MDM2 protein with a p53-like peptide and hence have anti proliferative activity.
US07964717B2	RNAi probes targeting cancer-related proteins RNAi sequences that are useful as therapeutics in the treatment of cancers of various types, including prostate cancer, sarcomas such as osteosarcoma, renal cell carcinoma, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, anaplastic large cell lymphoma and melanoma; and Alzheimer's disease. These sequences target clusterin, IGFBP-5, IGFBP-2, both IGFBP-2 and -5 simultaneously, Mitf, and B-raf. The invention further provides for the use of these RNAi sequences in the treatment of cancers of various types, including prostate cancer, sarcomas such as osteosarcoma, renal cell carcinoma, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, anaplastic large cell lymphoma and melanoma; and Alzheimer's disease, and a method of treating such conditions through the administration of the RNA molecules with RNAi activity to an individual, including a human individual in need of such treatment.
US07964716B2	Fluorescent primer system for detection of nucleic acids (Q priming) The present invention is directed to a self-quenching primer comprising; a fluorophore that can be quenched by guanine; an oligonucleotide sequence that forms a hairpin; an oligonucleotide that is a target specific sequence and; use in amplification reactions, particularly in polymerase chain reactions, during which the fluorophore is released thereby emitting fluorescence.
US07964715B2	Promoter sequences and the use thereof The promoter region and various fragments thereof for the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) ribonucleotide reductase small subunit (R2) are disclosed. Nucleic acids and host cells that contain the promoter sequences are also disclosed. Further disclosed are various methods involving the use of these sequences.
US07964714B2	Gene expression suppression agents A method is provided for making gene suppression agents to be used in eukaryotic cells by using a recombinant DNA construct containing at least one transcriptional unit compromising a transcriptional promoter, a template sequence for making a RNA molecule, and a transcriptional terminator. Mechanisms of the RNA mediated gene suppression include, but are not limited to, RNA interferences (RNAi). The use of the agents as tools for biomedical research as well as medicinal products is also disclosed.
US07964713B2	Nucleic acid molecules encoding thymic stromal lympopoietin receptor proteins and a process for producing the encoded polypeptides thereof The present invention provides Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Receptor (TSLPR) polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. The invention also provides selective binding agents, vectors, host cells, and methods for producing TSLPR polypeptides. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods for the diagnosis, treatment, amelioration, and/or prevention of diseases, disorders, and conditions associated with TSLPR polypeptides.
US07964711B2	Compositions comprising polynucleotides encoding TACI-immunoglobulin fusion proteins and methods for producing the same Molecules that interfere with the binding of a tumor necrosis factor receptor with its ligand, such as a soluble receptor, have proven usefulness in both basic research and as therapeutics. The present invention provides improved soluble transmembrane activator and calcium modulator and cyclophilin ligand-interactor (TACI) receptors.
US07964710B2	EML4-ALK fusion gene The present inventors found that a fusion gene present in some cancer patients is an oncogene. The present invention relates to a polypeptide as a novel fusion protein, a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the polynucleotide, a transformed cell comprising the vector, a method for detecting the fusion protein or polynucleotide, a method for screening a therapeutic agent for cancer, and a method for treating cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene. Further, the present invention relates kit, primer set, and probe useful in the detection of cancer that is shown to be positive for the fusion gene.
US07964708B2	Anti-TSG101 antibodies and their uses for treatment of viral infections The present invention provides antibodies that bind to the C-terminal region of TSG101. The invention also provides methods of using the TSG101 antibodies for the treatment of viral infections, including HIV and Ebola virus infection.
US07964703B2	DCRS5 polypeptides Nucleic acids encoding mammalian, e.g., primate, receptors, purified receptor proteins and fragments thereof. Antibodies, both polyclonal and monoclonal, are also provided. Methods of using the compositions for both diagnostic and therapeutic utilities are described.
US07964702B2	Phalloidin derivatives and methods for their synthesis The invention provides a cyclomonomer having actin-binding activity. The cyclomonomer is of utility for the study of the molecular biology of actin polymerization. The cyclomonomer is also useful for the study of and treatment of the toxic effects of Amanita sp. poisoning.
US07964688B2	Chelating compound, and method of use of, poly(1-octadecyl-butanedioate) and the corresponding acid, poly(1-octadecyl-butanedioic acid) A Chelating agent comprising a polymer backbone. The polymer backbone has a plurality of carbon atoms. There are two carboxylate groups or carboxylic acid groups per repeating unit being coupled to separate carbon atoms of the backbone.
US07964687B2	Oxylamino group-containing compound and polymer An oxylamino group-containing compound represented by the following formula: R1—B-A-B—R2, wherein R1 represents a polymerizable group, R2 represents an oxylamino group-containing group or an oxylamino derivative-containing group, B represents an ester linkage or an amide linkage, and A represents an optionally substituted alkylene group having 2 to 12 carbon atoms.
US07964685B2	Polymerizable composition A polymerizable composition is obtained by mixing a metathesis polymerization catalyst including benzylidene(1,3-dimethyl-4-imidazolidin-2-ylidene)(tricyclohexylphosphine)ruthenium dichloride, a cycloolefin monomer such as 2-norbornene or tetracyclo[6.2.1.13,6.02,7]dodec-4-ene, a chain transfer agent such as allyl methacrylate, and hollow particles such as Shirasu balloons. A crosslinkable resin composite is obtained by coating or impregnating the polymerizable composition onto or into a support medium, and carrying out bulk polymerization of the polymerizable composition. A crosslinked resin composite is obtained by crosslinking the crosslinkable resin composite.
US07964680B2	Method for polymerizing cyclic olefin having polar functional group, olefin polymer produced thereby, optical anisotropic film comprising the same, and catalyst composition for polymerizing the cyclic olefin Disclosed is a method of producing a cyclic olefin polymer having a polar functional group, an olefin polymer produced by using the method, an optical anisotropic film including the olefin polymer, and a catalyst composition for producing the cyclic olefin polymer. In the olefin polymerization method and the catalyst composition for polymerization, since deactivation of the catalyst due to polar functional groups of monomers is capable of being suppressed, it is possible to produce polyolefins having a high molecular weight at high polymerization yield during polyolefin polymerization. Furthermore, the cyclic olefin having the polar functional groups has excellent polymerization reactivity and the activity of the catalyst composition including the same is maintained under a variable polymerization condition. Accordingly, the present invention is very useful for a mass-production process.
US07964677B2	Method of changing between incompatible polymerization catalysts in a gas-phase fluidized-bed reactor Method of changing from a polymerization using a first catalyst to a polymerization using a second catalyst which is incompatible with the first catalyst in a gas-phase reactor, which comprises the steps a) stopping of the polymerization reaction using the first catalyst, b) flushing of the reactor under polymerization conditions with at least one deactivating agent comprising a volatile constituent and a nonvolatile constituent in a weight ratio of from 0.1 to 1000, c) introduction of the second catalyst into the reactor and d) continuation of the polymerization using the second catalyst.
US07964676B2	Crosslinkable sulfonated copolymer and fuel cell including polymeric composition of the same A sulfonated copolymer including a crosslinking functional group and a fuel cell including a polymeric composition of the same are provided. The sulfonated copolymer including a crosslinking functional group can remarkably reduce methanol crossover and maintain superior dimensional stability and ionic conductivity by reducing swelling.
US07964673B2	Proton-conducting polymer A proton-conducting polymer comprises a main chain and a plurality of branched side chains extending radially therefrom. The branched side chains are each bonded to a proton-conducting salt at the end. In the proton-conducting polymer, the salts can be circumscribed by a virtual circle having a center on the cross-sectional center of the main chain such that a radial direction of the virtual circle is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the main chain. Thus, the proton-conducting polymer has a substantially cylindrical structure, and the salts are located on the peripheral wall of the substantially cylindrical structure. Protons are transferred between the adjacent salts, so that a conduction channel is formed on the peripheral wall of the cylindrical structure.
US07964672B2	High strength thermoplastic elastomers with high filler loading A high strength thermoplastic vulcanizate (TPV) composition is provided. The TPV includes a dispersed rubber component, a polyolefinic thermoplastic resin component, a propylene copolymer and mineral filler present in the amount of 20 wt % to 70 wt % based on total of the thermoplastic vulcanizate composition. Preferably, the propylene copolymer has 60 wt % or more units derived from propylene; includes isotactically arranged propylene derived sequences; and has a heat of fusion less than 45 J/g. Preferably, the mineral filler is halogen free and flame retardant. The high strength TPV can be useful for making a variety of articles for electrical, construction, automotive, and consumer applications, including fuel cell.
US07964670B2	Film comprising an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer and its use in medical or hygienic applications The present invention relates to a film comprising a composition of an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer and a thermoplastic elastomer. The thermoplastic elastomer is for example a styrene or a polyolefin based thermoplastic elastomer. Preferably the thermoplastic elastomer is a polyolefin based thermoplastic elastomer comprising a polyolefin and a rubber in which the rubber is dynamically vulcanized by the use of a curing agent. The ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer has a density from about 0.88 to about 0.91 g/cm3 and comprises from 90-65 parts by weight ethylene and from 10-35 parts by weight of an alpha-olefin having from 3 to 8 carbon atoms. The film comprises a composition with from 35-80 parts by weight of the ethylene/alpha-olef in copolymer and 65-20 parts by weight of the dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomer wherein said parts by weight are based upon 100 parts by weight of the ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer and the thermoplastic elastomer. The invention further relates to the use of the film in diapers, bandages, gloves, surgical drapes, hospital linens, diaper waistbands, site panel composites and site tabs.
US07964664B2	Gel with wide distribution of Mw in mid-block A gelatinous elastomer comprising an A-B-A triblock copolymer and a plasticizer useful, for example, in casting fine-detail molds at a low processing temperature. The gelatinous elastomer comprises copolymer molecules having a molecular weights generally evenly distributed across a range of molecular weights rather than having a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution centered about a single molecular weight. The A-B-A triblock copolymer may include SEBS, SEEPS, or other triblock copolymers. The plasticizer may include mineral oil or other plasticizing fluids.
US07964659B2	Antireflection coating composition To provide an antireflection coating composition having a low surface tension and excellent coating properties and capable of forming an antireflection film with a low refractive index, without use of PFOS nor PFOA having 7 or more carbon atoms.An antireflection coating composition which contains a fluorinated surfactant (A) containing a compound (A1) represented by the following formula (I), a water-soluble polymer (B) and an aqueous medium (C): R1—O—(R2—O)n—R3—X1 (I) wherein R1 is a linear or branched perfluoroalkyl group of which the terminal fluorine atom may be substituted by a hydrogen atom or a chlorine atom, each of R2 and R3 which are independent of each other, is a linear or branched perfluoroalkylene group, provided that the total number of carbon atoms in R1, R2 and R3 is at most 5, n is 0 or an integer of at least 1, X1 is —COOH or —C(CF2Z1)(CF2Z2)OH, which may form a salt, and each of Z1 and Z2 is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, a chlorine atom or a trifluoromethyl group.
US07964657B2	Polymeric dispersions and applications thereof The present invention provides methods of conducting emulsion polymerizations and dispersion resulting therefrom. The present invention additionally provides substrates coated or treated with polymeric dispersions.
US07964656B2	Method of improving carbon black dispersion in rubber compositions A method for forming a vulcanizable composition of matter, the method comprising providing a polymer cement or latex comprising at least one rubber, adding at least one processing aid to the cement or latex to form a modified rubber cement or latex, isolating the rubber and at least one processing aid to form a premix, and mixing the premix with carbon black.
US07964654B2	Photoacid generators for the synthesis of oligo-DNA in a polymer matrix Compounds represented by the following structural formulas can be used as photoacid generators: Such compounds are useful, for example, in fabricating arrays of polymers.
US07964653B2	Polyol composition for two-component curable abrasive foam, composition for two-component curable abrasive foam, abrasive foam, and method for producing abrasive foam A polyol composition contains a polyaminochlorophenylmethane mixture (A) and a polyol (B), in which the component (A) is uniformly dissolved in the component (A) in a weight ratio of 30/70 to 60/40. The component (A) includes 50 to 70% by weight of a specific binuclear polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound, 20 to 40% by weight of a specific trinuclear polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound and 5 to 10% by weight of a specific tetranuclear or higher polyaminochlorophenylmethane compound. The polyol composition exhibits excellent miscibility and dissolution stability, is liquid and enables molding of a foamed article for abrasive in a simple two-component mixing casting machine. According to the present invention, water serving as a foaming agent can be added to the polyol composition containing MBOCA, and the composition for a two-component curable abrasive foam can be held to a temperature equal to or lower than the boiling point of water, thus avoiding water from evaporating upon molding. The resulting abrasive foam has a uniform density distribution and exhibits excellent mechanical properties. A method for satisfactorily producing such an abrasive foam is also provided.
US07964652B2	Expandable polyethylene resin particle and method for production thereof Disclosed is a method for production of an expandable polyethylene resin particle having a foaming agent impregnated therein, which comprises polymerizing a styrene monomer or a monomer mixture containing a styrene monomer onto a nuclear particle comprising an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and a linear low-density polyethylene.
US07964650B2	Carbonyl-functionalized thiophene compounds and related device structures Carbonyl-functionalized oligo/polythiophene compounds, and related semiconductor components and related device structures.
US07964648B2	Methods for concomitant administration of colchicine and a second active agent Methods for concomitant administration of colchicine together with one or more second active agents, e.g., ketoconazole and ritonavir, are disclosed. Such methods reduce the dangers commonly associated with such concomitant administration and provide additional benefits. Methods of notifying health care practitioners and patients regarding appropriate dosing for concomitant administration of colchicine together with second active agents are also provided.
US07964642B2	Vanilloid TRPV1 receptor antagonists The invention relates to compounds of formula (I), wherein R, R1, R2, X and n are as defined in the description, and their use for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of inflammatory states.
US07964635B2	Amidoacetonitrile derivatives The invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) wherein X, Y and W have the significances given in claim 1 and optionally the enantiomers thereof. The active ingredients have advantageous pesticidal properties. They are especially suitable for controlling parasites in and on warm-blooded animals.
US07964634B2	Therapeutic compounds Compounds having a structure are disclosed herein. Compositions, methods, and medicaments related to the therapeutic use of these compounds are also disclosed.
US07964630B2	Topical application agents against mimic and age-related wrinkles The compounds of formula (I) wherein X represents a bond or NH—CH(C═O)—(CH2)3+n—NH—R5, n represents 0, 1 or 2, R1, R4 and R5—independently from each other—represent hydrogen, possibly substituted C1-C6-alkyl, amidino or tetra-C1-C6-alkylamidinium, R2 represents hydrogen or possibly substituted C1-C6-alkyl or R1 and R2 together with the residue to which they are bound represent a 5- to 7-membered, saturated ring, R3 represents C1-C12-alkoxy, C1-C12-alkylamino, possibly substituted aryl-C1-C6-alkylamino, possibly substituted heteroaryl-C1-C6-alkylamino, possibly substituted aryl-C1-C6-alkoxy or possibly substituted heteroaryl-C1-C6-alkoxy, and R6 represents hydrogen or, when n is 1, also amino or together with R1 and the residue to which R6 and R1 are bound a 5- to 7-membered, saturated ring, as well as their physiologically acceptable salts are new. They can be manufactured according to common methods and processed to topically applicable compositions that are appropriate for treating mimic and age-related wrinkles in human skin.
US07964629B2	Inhibitors of isoprenylcysteine carboxyl methyltransferase The present invention relates, in general, to isoprenylcysteine carboxyl methyltransferase (Icmt) and, in particular, to inhibitors of Icmt and to methods of disease treatment using same.
US07964627B2	Amino arylsulfonamide compounds and their use as 5-HT6 ligands The present invention relates to novel amino arylsulfonamide compounds of the formula (I), their derivatives, their stereoisomers, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions containing them: The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of above said novel compounds, their derivatives, their stereoisomers, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions containing them. The compounds of the invention are useful in the treatment of various disorders that are related to 5-HT6 receptor functions. Specifically, the compounds of this invention are also useful in the treatment of various CNS disorders, hematological disorders, eating disorders, obesity, anxiety, depression, diseases associated with pain, respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular diseases and cancer.
US07964618B2	Chemical compounds Compounds of formula (I): wherein variable groups are defined within; their use in the inhibition of 11βHSD1, processes for making them and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are described.
US07964615B2	Derivatives of 4-(2-amino-1-hydroxyethyl)phenol as agonists of the β2 adrenergic receptor A compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, solvate or stereoisomer thereof wherein R1 is a group chosen from —CH2OH and —NHC(O)H; R2 is a hydrogen atom or R1 together with R2 form the group —NH—C(O)—CH═CH—, wherein the nitrogen atom is bound to the carbon atom in the phenyl ring holding R1 and the carbon atom is bound to the carbon atom in the phenyl ring holding R2; R3 is chosen from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom and groups chosen from —SO—R5, —SO2—R5, —NH—CO—NH2, —CO—NH2, hydantoino, C1-4alkyl, C1-4alkoxy and —SO2NR5R6; R4 is chosen from a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom and a C1-4 alkyl group; R5 is chosen from a C1-4 alkyl group and a C3-8 cycloalkyl group; R6 is independently chosen from a hydrogen atom and a C1-4 alkyl group; n, p and q are independently 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4; m and s are independently 0, 1, 2 or 3; and r is 0, 1 or 2 with the provisos that at least one of m and r is not 0, the sum n+m+p+q+r+s is 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13, and the sum q+r+s is 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6.
US07964612B2	Therapeutic pyrazolyl thienopyridines The present invention provides for compounds of Formula I, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, and R7 have any of the values defined therefor in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are useful as therapeutic agents in the treatment of TGFβ-mediated conditions, including cancer and fibrotic disorders. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more compounds of Formula I.
US07964611B2	Process for making alkaline earth metal borated sulfonates An alkaline earth metal borated sulfonate prepared by a process comprising reacting a mixture of the following materials (A) (1) at least one of an oil soluble sulfonic acid or alkaline earth sulfonate salt or mixtures thereof (2) at least one source of an alkaline earth metal; and (3) at least one source of boron, in the presence of a mixture of comprising (4) at least one hydrocarbon solvent; and (5) at least one low molecular weight alcohol; and (6) from 0 to less than 10 mole percent, relative to the source of boron, of an overbasing acid, other than the source of boron; and (B) heating the reaction product of (A) to a temperature above the distillation temperatures of (4) and (5) to distill (4), (5) and water of reaction, wherein no additional water is added in the process.
US07964606B2	Therapeutic agents useful for treating pain The present invention discloses compounds of formula: where Ar1, Ar2, X, R3, and m are as disclosed herein or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof (a “Phenylene Compound”); compositions comprising an effective amount of a Phenylene Compound; and methods for treating or preventing pain and other conditions in an animal comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a Phenylene Compound.
US07964599B2	Therapeutic compounds Compounds comprising or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof, are disclosed, wherein J, B, Y, and A are as described. Methods, compositions, and medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US07964598B2	ApoE4 domain interaction inhibitors and methods of use thereof The present invention provides compounds that inhibit apoE4 domain interaction; and compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising the compounds. The present invention provides methods of treating apoE4-related disorders. The methods generally involve administering to an individual in need thereof a therapeutically effective amount of an apoE4 domain interaction inhibitor.
US07964582B2	Methods of treating skin and mucosal tissue atrophy using compositions including tensioning polymers The present invention features a method of treating atrophy of skin or mucosal tissue by administering to skin or mucosal tissue in need of such treatment a composition including a tensioning polymer, said method selected from the group consisting of thickening said skin or mucosal tissue, enhancing extracellular matrix production in said skin or mucosal tissue, and enhancing the barrier function of said skin or mucosal tissue.
US07964575B2	Use of a galectin-1-targeted RNAi-based approach for the treatment of cancer The present invention relates to an RNAi molecule suitable for reducing the expression of galectin-1 containing any of the sequences of SEQ ID NOs: 1-33, and preferably the sequences of SEQ ID NO: 2, 3, or 4, and to the use thereof as a medicament, or for the manufacture of a medicament for treating and/or for delaying the progression of cancer, preferably glioma, pancreatic cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, non-small-cell lung cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The present invention also relates to compositions and methods for treating and for delaying the progression of cancer, preferably glioma, pancreatic cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, non-small-cell lung cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, for reducing the migration of tumor cells, preferably cells of glioma, pancreatic cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, non-small-cell lung cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and/or for enhancing the efficacy of cancer therapies for the treatment of cancer, preferably glioma, pancreatic cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, non-small-cell lung cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, selected from the group comprising chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and/or gene therapy.
US07964572B2	High affinity nucleic acid ligands of complement system proteins Methods are described for the identification and preparation of high-affinity Nucleic Acid Ligands to Complement System Proteins. Methods are described for the identification and preparation of high affinity Nucleic Acid Ligands to Complement System Proteins C1q, C3 and C5. Included in the invention are specific RNA ligands to C1q, C3 and C5 identified by the SELEX method.
US07964569B2	Glycomimetic replacements for hexoses and N-acetyl hexosamines Compounds and methods are provided for obtaining oligosaccharide mimics. More specifically, compounds and methods are described wherein oligosaccharide mimics are obtained by incorporating or substituting in a cyclohexane derivative.
US07964566B2	Monomethylvaline compounds capable of conjugation to ligands Auristatin peptides, including MeVal-Val-Dil-Dap-Norephedrine (MMAE) and MeVal-Val-Dil-Dap-Phe (MMAF), were prepared and attached to Ligands through various linkers, including maleimidocaproyl-val-cit-PAB. The resulting ligand drug conjugates were active in vitro and in vivo.
US07964564B2	Chimeric natriuretic peptides Peptides of Dendroaspis, including chimeric peptides thereof, are provided, as well as methods of using the peptides as natriuretics, diuretics, and/or vasodilators.
US07964563B2	Oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation regulated by prolactin The present invention relates to a method to increase oligodendrocytes and oligodendrocyte precursor cells through administration of prolactin or a prolactin inducing agent.
US07964558B2	Therapeutic applications for C-peptide The present invention relates to administration of C-peptide in a once daily dose for use in the treatment of diabetes and diabetic complications.
US07964557B2	Inhibition of wet type age related macular degeneration (AMD) by adiponectin or acrp 30 The present invention provides new methods of treating wet type of age related macular degeneration by administering adiponectin (APN) or a functional fragment derived therefrom. One of the pathological complications of age related macular degeneration (AMD) is choroidal angiogenesis or choroidal neovascularization (CNV). The inventors discovered that the level of APN expression is significantly lower in the choroids of the laser-induced mouse model of choroidal angiogenesis or choroidal neovascularization (CNV) than that of the control mice and that administration of recombinant adiponectin (rAPN) or a peptide derived from the globular domain of the intact APN protein to the mouse model of CNV reduced the size of CNV significantly. These studies are the first to demonstrate the inhibitory effect of adiponectin on choroidal angiogenesis and thus provide the basis for treating a condition or disease involving angiogenesis, particularly age related macular degeneration, with administration of adiponectin.
US07964552B2	Fluorosurfactant with disproportionate effect This invention relates to surfactant compositions comprising a fluorosurfactant and a siloxane surfactant wherein the fluorosurfactant exhibits a disproportionate effect upon the resulting surfactant composition's ability to lower equilibrium surface tension. The fluorosurfactants and siloxane surfactants identified by the present invention exhibit a desirable disproportionate effect from the fluorosurfactant acting upon the resulting surfactant composition's ability to lower equilibrium surface tension. Because of this disproportionate effect, surfactant compositions of the present invention with no more than 21 weight percent fluorosurfactant have nearly identical ability to lower equilibrium surface tensions compared with surfactant compositions having higher amounts of fluorosurfactant. Such a disproportionate effect is desirable because it permits the use of lower amounts of the more costly fluorosurfactant and higher amounts of the less costly siloxane without significantly deteriorating equilibrium surface tension.
US07964551B2	Cleaning tablet A cleaning tablet comprising a hydrogen-bonded complex of poly(N-vinyl pyrrolidone) containing, by weight, about 15-20 wt. % H2O2, and ingredients capable of producing an effervescent effect in aqueous solution by release of carbon dioxide therefrom which comprises an alkali carbonate and/or bicarbonate base and an organic acid.
US07964548B2	Stable aqueous antimicrobial enzyme compositions The disclosure relates to an enzyme stabilization system, compositions with the enzyme stabilization system, and methods of using the enzyme composition. Preferred ratios of acid to amine are effective at stabilizing enzyme. Optional nonionic surfactants and solvents also positively contribute to enzyme stability. The compositions are useful in cleaning applications.
US07964547B2	Cleaner concentrate comprising ethanoldiglycine and a tertiary surfactant mixture Cleaner concentrates, associated cleaners, and associated methods are disclosed. The cleaner concentrates are capable for use in making cleaners that are capable of removing from surfaces fresh, greasy soils and polymerized soils more recently encountered in the food service industry originating from non-trans-fat oils. The cleaner concentrates include one or more alkalinity sources, one or more chelants, one or more surfactants, and as a remainder, water. The one or more alkalinity sources may be present in an amount sufficient to provide a free alkalinity (expressible as Na2O) of greater than about 3.6 wt % and a total alkalinity (expressible as Na2O) of greater than about 6.1 wt %, based on the total weight of the cleaner concentrate. The one or more chelants may be present in an amount sufficient to permit a use of a water having a hardness number up to about 600 ppm (600 mg/L) or more.
US07964546B2	Endoscope cleaning method and washing machine Provided are a method of cleaning an endoscope, a washing machine and a washing machine for endoscope, which can effectively clean an endoscope while preventing the endoscope from deterioration. The electrolytic cell 11 can produce from tap water acidic water with pH of 2 to 5 and the residual chlorine concentration of 50 to 300 ppm. A tank for acidic water 14 can store acidic water, in which part thereof can be fed to a tank of diluting acidic water 17 and the rest thereof can be fed to a feed section of concentrated water 20. A water feed section for dilution 16 can feed water for dilution to the tank of diluting acidic water 17. The tank of diluting acidic water 17 can add water for dilution from the water feed section for dilution 16 to part of the acidic water from the tank for acidic water 14 to adjust diluted acidic water to pH of 2.3 to 5.7 and the residual chlorine concentration of 10 to 60 ppm. The feed section of concentrated water 20 can feed the rest of acidic water fed from the tank for acidic water 14 through a channel connection port 20c to a channel port of an endoscope.
US07964544B2	Cleaning composition and method for preparing a cleaning composition A cleaning composition concentrate includes about 0.05 wt. % to about 90 wt. % of a surfactant component, about 0.01 wt. % to about 20 wt. % of a dispersant component, and about 0.001 wt. % to about 15 wt. % of a sheeting agent component, wherein the composition comprises less than about 0.1 wt. % volatile organic compound exhibiting a vapor pressure of less than 0.1 mm Hg at 20° C. The cleaning composition can be provided as a use composition as a result of diluting the cleaning composition concentrate with water of dilution at a dilution ratio of cleaning composition concentrate to water of dilution of about 1:1. A method for preparing a cleaning composition is disclosed.
US07964541B2	Lubricant composition for polishing a magnetic head with fixed abrasive grains Composition comprising 0.001-4.999 parts by mass of an organic onium salt e.g. tetraoctylammonium•bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide of formula (I): wherein Z is N or P, R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently C4-C20-hydrocarbon, providing that the ratio of the number of carbons of a group having the largest number of carbons to the number of carbons of a group having the smallest number of carbons in R1, R2, R3 and R4 is 2 or less, X− is an anion of formula (II): A1-N−-A2 (II) wherein A1 and A2 are each independently fluoroacyl, and 0.001-4.999 parts by mass of a C8-C25-fatty acid based on 100 parts by mass of a hydrocarbon solvent, the total amount of the organic onium salt and the fatty acid being 0.01-5 parts by mass. The composition maintains high productivity without causing breakdown or reduction in reliability caused by charge in the step of finally polishing a magnetic head.
US07964539B2	Well treatment This invention provides a method of controlling water in a subterranean formation, said method comprising contacting said formation with a water control treatment agent which comprises an organosilane in an amount effective to reduce the water permeability of at least part of said formation. At the same time, any decrease in the overall hydrocarbon (e.g. oil) permeability of said formation is preferably minimized. The invention further provides a method of plugging or sealing a subterranean formation.
US07964533B2	Method for producing an HTSC strip The invention relates to a method for producing a high temperature superconductor (HTSC) from a strip including an upper side precursor layer and which, for continuous sintering of the precursor layer within a furnace in the presence of a fed-in reaction gas, is drawn across a support. A furnace for performing the method is also described.
US07964531B2	3-phenoxy-4-pyridazinol derivatives and herbicidal composition containing the same A compound represented by the formula: [wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, alkyl group, etc., R2 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, alkyl group, etc., R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a substitutable alkyl group, a substitutable alkenyl group, alkynyl group, a substitutable cycloalkyl group, etc., or R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 may form a ring which may be substituted, which is formed by the adjacent two of them with carbon atoms to which the respective substituents are bonded, m and n each independently represent 0 or 1.] a salt thereof, an ester derivative thereof and an agricultural chemical containing the same as an effective ingredient, and a herbicidal composition containing the compound and a second herbicidally active compound as effective ingredients.
US07964529B2	Method of agglomeration Disclosed herein is an improved pan agglomeration process for forming porous absorbent particles suitable for use as an animal litter. The process eliminates the need for a pre-wetting step, while forming agglomerates that are up to 65% lighter in weight than the raw material feed. In addition, the agglomerates can incorporate performance-enhancing actives, such as odor-controlling carbon.
US07964526B2	Hydroconversion multi-metallic catalyst and method for making thereof A method for preparing a bulk multi-metallic suitable for hydrotreating heavy oil feeds is provided. In the process of preparing the catalyst precursor which is subsequently sulfided to form the bulk catalyst, a catalyst precursor filter cake is treated with at least a chelating agent, resulting in a catalyst precursor with optimum porosity with at least 90% of the pores being macropores, and having a total pore volume of at least 0.12 g/cc.
US07964524B2	Hydroconversion multi-metallic catalyst and method for making thereof A catalyst and a process for making a catalyst from a precursor composition containing rework materials are disclosed. The catalyst is made by sulfiding a catalyst precursor containing 5-95 wt. % rework material. The catalyst precursor employing rework materials can be a hydroxide or oxide material. Rework can be materials generated in the forming or shaping of the catalyst precursor, or formed upon the breakage or handling of the shaped catalyst precursor. Rework can also be in the form of catalyst precursor feed material to the shaping process, e.g., extrusion process, or catalyst precursor material generated as reject or scrap in the shaping process. In some embodiment, rework may be of the consistency of shapeable dough. In another embodiment, rework is in the form of small pieces or particles, e.g., fines, powder.
US07964521B2	Getter paste composition The present invention relates to a getter paste composition, and more particularly, to a getter paste composition which is quickly densified at low densification temperatures to be applied to a device that is weak to heat, provides good adhesiveness, controls moisture and gas effectively and is screen-printable to thereby improve productivity.
US07964509B2	Mass production method of semiconductor integrated circuit device and manufacturing method of electronic device In order to prevent the contamination of wafers made of a transition metal in a semiconductor mass production process, the mass production method of a semiconductor integrated circuit device of the invention comprises the steps of depositing an Ru film on individual wafers passing through a wafer process, removing the Ru film from outer edge portions of a device side and a back side of individual wafers, on which said Ru film has been deposited, by means of an aqueous solution containing orthoperiodic acid and nitric acid, and subjecting said individual wafers, from which said Ru film has been removed, to a lithographic step, an inspection step or a thermal treating step that is in common use relation with a plurality of wafers belonging to lower layer steps (an initial element formation step and a wiring step prior to the formation of a gate insulating film).
US07964507B2	Flexible substrate with electronic devices formed thereon A method of manufacturing an electronic device (10) provides a substrate (20) that has a plastic material. A particulate material (16) is embedded in at least one surface of the substrate. A layer of thin-film semiconductor material is deposited onto the substrate (20).
US07964503B2	Methods of patterning photoresist, and methods of forming semiconductor constructions The invention includes semiconductor constructions containing optically saturable absorption layers. An optically saturable absorption layer can be between photoresist and a topography, with the topography having two or more surfaces of differing reflectivity relative to one another. The invention also includes methods of patterning photoresist in which a saturable absorption layer is provided between the photoresist and a topography with surfaces of differing reflectivity, and in which the differences in reflectivity are utilized to enhance the accuracy with which an image is photolithographically formed in the photoresist.
US07964500B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor integrated circuit device To solve a problem that it becomes difficult to lower contact resistance between nickel-based metal silicide and metal for contact as the result of the miniaturization of the hole. One invention of the present application is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit device having a MISFET subjected to silicidation of a source/drain region and the like by nickel-based metal silicide, the method performing a heat treatment for the upper surface of a silicide film in a non-plasma reducing vapor phase atmosphere containing a gas having a nitrogen-hydrogen bond as one of main gas components, before forming a barrier metal at a contact hole provided at a pre-metal insulating film.
US07964498B2	Phase-change memory device capable of improving contact resistance and reset current and method of manufacturing the same A phase-change memory device and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein the phase-change memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having a switching device, a phase-change layer formed on the semiconductor substrate having the switching device to change a phase thereof as the switching device is driven, and a bottom electrode contact in contact with the switching device through a first contact area and in contact with the phase-change layer through a second contact area, which is smaller than the first contact area.
US07964495B2	Method of manufacturing complementary metal oxide semiconductor image sensor A method of manufacturing a CMOS image sensor manufacturing includes forming a plurality of metal pads over a semiconductor substrate; electrically connecting the metal pads to lower conductive film patterns of multi-layer metal wires using metal contacts; depositing an insulation film over the metal pads; patterning the insulation film to expose at least a portion of the upper surface of the metal pads; and removing impurities from an uppermost surface of the metal pads.
US07964493B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device A metal layer is formed on an upper surface of a resin layer provided to cover a plurality of semiconductor chips at a side on which an internal connecting terminal is disposed and the internal connecting terminal, and the metal layer is pressed to cause the metal layer in a corresponding portion to a wiring pattern to come in contact with the internal connecting terminal, and to then bond the metal layer in a portion provided in contact with the internal connecting terminal to the internal connecting terminal in a portion provided in contact with the metal layer.
US07964491B2	Method of forming metal wiring of nonvolatile memory device A method of forming metal wirings of a nonvolatile memory device include forming a first insulating layer over a semiconductor substrate including a first junction area and a second junction area, forming first and second contact holes through which the first and second junction areas are respectively exposed in the first insulating layer, forming first and second contact plugs within the first and second contact holes, etching a part of the second contact plug, thus forming a recess, forming a second insulating layer to fill the recess, forming a third insulating layer over the semiconductor substrate including the first and second insulating layers, forming a first trench through which the first contact plug is exposed a second trench through which the second contact plug is exposed by etching the third insulating layer, and forming first and second metal wirings within the first and second trenches, respectively.
US07964489B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a p-channel MIS transistor including: a first insulating layer formed on a semiconductor region between a source region and a drain region, and containing at least silicon and oxygen; a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer, and containing hafnium, silicon, oxygen, and nitrogen, and a first gate electrode formed on the second insulating layer. The first and second insulating layers have a first and second region respectively. The first and second regions are in a 0.3 nm range in the film thickness direction from an interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. Each of the first and second regions include aluminum atoms with a concentration of 1×1020 cm−3 or more to 1×1022 cm−3 or less.
US07964487B2	Carrier mobility enhanced channel devices and method of manufacture An integrated circuit with stress enhanced channels, a design structure and a method of manufacturing the integrated circuit is provided. The method includes forming a dummy gate structure on a substrate and forming a trench in the dummy gate structure. The method further includes filling a portion of the trench with a strain inducing material and filling a remaining portion of the trench with gate material.
US07964485B1	Method of forming a region of graded doping concentration in a semiconductor device and related apparatus A method for forming a doped region of a semiconductor device includes masking a portion of a substrate with a mask. The mask is configured to create a graded doping profile within the doped region. The method also includes performing an implant using the mask to create doped areas and undoped areas in the substrate. The method further includes diffusing the doped areas to create the graded doping profile in the doped region. The mask could include a first region having openings distributed throughout a photo-resist material, where the openings vary in size and spacing. The mask could also include a second region having blocks of photo-resist material distributed throughout an open region, where the photo-resist blocks vary in size and spacing. Diffusing the doped areas could include applying a high temperature anneal to smooth the doped and undoped areas to produce a linearly graded doping profile.
US07964482B2	Deposition of group III-nitrides on Ge The present invention provides a method for depositing or growing a group III-nitride layer, e.g. GaN layer (5), on a substrate (1), the substrate (1) comprising at least a Ge surface (3), preferably with hexagonal symmetry. The method comprises heating the substrate (1) to a nitridation temperature between 400° C. and 940° C. while exposing the substrate (1) to a nitrogen gas flow and subsequently depositing the group III-nitride layer, e.g. GaN layer (5), onto the Ge surface (3) at a deposition temperature between 100° C. and 940° C. By a method according to embodiments of the invention, a group III-nitride layer, e.g. GaN layer (5), with good crystal quality may be obtained. The present invention furthermore provides a group III-nitride/substrate structure formed by the method according to embodiments of the present invention and a semiconductor device comprising at least one such structure.
US07964477B2	Method of manufacturing III nitride crystal, III nitride crystal substrate, and semiconductor device Affords III-nitride crystals having a major surface whose variance in crystallographic plane orientation with respect to an {hkil} plane chosen exclusive of the {0001} form is minimal. A method of manufacturing the III-nitride crystal is one of: conditioning a plurality of crystal plates (10) in which the deviation in crystallographic plane orientation in any given point on the major face (10m) of the crystal plates (10), with respect to an {hkil} plane chosen exclusive of the {0001} form, is not greater than 0.5°; arranging the plurality of crystal plates (10) in a manner such that the plane-orientation deviation, with respect to the {hkil} plane, in any given point on the major-face (10m) collective surface (10a) of the plurality of crystal plates (10) will be not greater than 0.5°, and such that at least a portion of the major face (10m) of the crystal plates (10) is exposed; and growing second III-nitride crystal (20) onto the exposed areas of the major faces (10m) of the plurality of crystal plates (10).
US07964476B2	Method and apparatus for the laser scribing of ultra lightweight semiconductor devices A system for the laser scribing of semiconductor devices includes a laser light source operable to selectably deliver laser illumination at a first wavelength and at a second wavelength which is shorter than the first wavelength. The system further includes a support for a semiconductor device and an optical system which is operative to direct the laser illumination from the light source to the semiconductor device. The optical system includes optical elements which are compatible with the laser illumination of the first wavelength and the laser illumination of the second wavelength. In specific instances, the first wavelength is long wavelength illumination such as illumination of at least 1000 nanometers, and the second wavelength is short wavelength illumination which in specific instances is 300 nanometers or shorter. By the use of the differing wavelengths, specific layers of the semiconductor device may be scribed without damage to subjacent layers. Also disclosed are specific scribing processes.
US07964471B2	Methods of forming capacitors A method of forming a capacitor includes providing material having an opening therein over a node location on a substrate. A shield is provided within and across the opening, with a void being received within the opening above the shield and a void being received within the opening below the shield. The shield is etched through within the opening. After the etching, a first capacitor electrode is formed within the opening in electrical connection with the node location. A capacitor dielectric and a second capacitor electrode are formed operatively adjacent the first capacitor electrode.
US07964465B2	Transistors having asymmetric strained source/drain portions A structure formation method. First, a structure is provided including (a) a fin region comprising (i) a first source/drain portion having a first surface and a third surface parallel to each other, not coplanar, and both exposed to a surrounding ambient, (ii) a second source/drain portion having a second surface and a fourth surface parallel to each other, not coplanar, and both exposed to the surrounding ambient, and (iii) a channel region disposed between the first and second source/drain portions, (b) a gate dielectric layer, and (c) a gate electrode region, wherein the gate dielectric layer (i) is sandwiched between, and (ii) electrically insulates the gate electrode region and the channel region. Next, a patterned covering layer is used to cover the first and second surfaces but not the third and fourth surfaces. Then, the first and second source/drain portions are etched at the third and fourth surfaces, respectively.
US07964461B2	Method of forming isolation layer in semiconductor device The present invention is related to a method of forming an isolation layer in a semiconductor device and comprises the steps of forming a tunnel insulating layer and conductive layer patterns on an active area of a semiconductor substrate, the width of an upper portion of the conductive layer patterns being narrower than that of a lower portion; forming a trench between the conductive layer patterns on the semiconductor substrate; forming an insulating layer to fill a portion of the trench with the insulating layer; and performing an etching process to remove an overhang of the insulating layer formed at an upper edge of the conductive layer patterns. Here, the step of forming the insulating layer and the step of performing the etching process are repeatedly performed until a space between the conductive layer patterns and the trench are filled with the insulating layer.
US07964460B2	Method of manufacturing an NMOS device and a PMOS device A CMOS device includes high k gate dielectric materials. A PMOS device includes a gate that is implanted with an n-type dopant. The NMOS device may be doped with either an n-type or a p-type dopant. The work function of the CMOS device is set by the material selection of the gate dielectric materials. A polysilicon depletion effect is reduced or avoided.
US07964459B2	Non-volatile memory structure and method of fabrication A method for creating a non-volatile memory array includes implanting pocket implants in a substrate at least between mask columns of a given width and at least through an ONO layer covering the substrate, generating increased-width polysilicon columns from the mask columns, generating bit lines in the substrate at least between the increased-width polysilicon columns and depositing oxide at least between the polysilicon columns.
US07964457B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device and a manufacturing method for the same Provided is a manufacturing method for a power management semiconductor device or an analog semiconductor device both including a CMOS. According to the method, a substance having high thermal conductivity is additionally provided above a semiconductor region constituting a low impurity concentration drain region so as to expand the drain region, which contributes to a promotion of thermal conductivity (or thermal emission) in the drain region during a surge input and leads to suppression of local temperature increase, to thereby prevent thermal destruction. Therefore, it is possible to manufacture a power management semiconductor device or an analog semiconductor device with the extended possibility of transistor design.
US07964456B2	Method of fabricating polysilicon thin film and thin film transistor using polysilicon fabricated by the same method A method of fabricating a polysilicon thin film produces a polysilicon thin film which is used to make a thin film transistor. The method includes depositing a silicon film containing amorphous silicon on a substrate, and performing thermal treatment on the silicon film at a predetermined temperature in an H2O atmosphere. Accordingly, the crystallization temperature and thermal treatment time are decreased when the amorphous silicon is crystallized by a solid phase crystallization method, and this prevents the substrate from being bent due to application of a thermal treatment process for a long time and at a high temperature. As a result of the invention, a polysilicon thin film having superior crystallization properties is obtained. Use of the polysilicon thin film in a thin film transistor results in the reduction of defects in the thin film resistor.
US07964455B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device The method includes the steps of forming a gate insulating film over a first conductivity-type layer surface of a semiconductor substrate, implanting a second conductivity-type impurity into the first conductivity-type layer located on both sides adjacent to a conductive layer forming predetermined region, forming a conductive layer over the gate insulating film surface located to cover the first conductivity-type layer surface with no impurity implanted therein and the partial regions surface of the pair of low-concentration diffusion layers adjacent to the first conductivity-type layer, implanting a second conductivity-type impurity into regions uncovered with the conductive layer, of the pair of low-concentration diffusion layers to contact source and drain electrodes, and forming slits to divide regions lying on the sides of the high-concentration diffusion layers, each of which is provided to contact at least the drain electrode of the conductive layer located over the low-concentration diffusion layers, into two respectively.
US07964452B2	Liquid crystal display device and method for manufacturing the same As a substrate gets larger, time of manufacture is increased due to the repetition of film formations and etchings; waste disposal costs of etchant and the like are increased; and material efficiency is significantly reduced. A base film for improving adhesion between a substrate and a material layer formed by a droplet discharge method is formed in the invention. Further, a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device according to the invention includes at least one step for forming the following patterns required for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device without using a photomask: a pattern of a material layer typified by a wiring (or an electrode) pattern, an insulating layer pattern; or a mask pattern for forming another pattern.
US07964449B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor chip and method for processing semiconductor wafer In a laser processing step S3, boundary sections among semiconductor elements 2 of a resist film 4 are exposed to a laser beam 13a, to thus form in the resist film 4 boundary grooves 5—which partition the semiconductor elements 2 from each other—and to uncover a surface 1b of a semiconductor wafer 1 in the boundary grooves 5. In a plasma etching step S6, the surface 1b of the semiconductor wafer 1 exposed in the boundary grooves 5 is etched by means of plasma Pf of a fluorine-based gas, to thus separate the semiconductor wafer 1 into individual semiconductor chips 1′ along the boundary grooves 5. Between the laser processing step S3 and the plasma etching step S6, there is performed processing pertaining to a boundary-groove-surface smoothing step S5 for smoothing, by means of plasma Po of oxygen gas, surfaces of the boundary grooves 5 having assumed an irregular shape in the laser processing step S3.
US07964446B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: forming a columnar electrode on a semiconductor wafer; flip-chip bonding a second semiconductor chip onto the semiconductor wafer; forming a molding portion on the semiconductor wafer, the molding portion covering and molding the columnar electrode and the second semiconductor chip; grinding or polishing the molding portion and the second semiconductor chip so that an upper face of the columnar electrode and an upper face of the semiconductor chip are exposed; and cutting the molding portion and the semiconductor wafer so that a first semiconductor chip, where the second semiconductor chip is flip-chip bonded and the columnar electrode is formed, is formed.
US07964445B2	Recycling faulty multi-die packages The present invention teaches the recycling of a faulty multi-die memory package by isolating the functional part of the package and using it as a smaller memory package.
US07964442B2	Methods to obtain low k dielectric barrier with superior etch resistivity The present invention generally provides a method for forming a dielectric barrier with lowered dielectric constant, improved etching resistivity and good barrier property. One embodiment provides a method for processing a semiconductor substrate comprising flowing a precursor to a processing chamber, wherein the precursor comprises silicon-carbon bonds and carbon-carbon bonds, and generating a low density plasma of the precursor in the processing chamber to form a dielectric barrier film having carbon-carbon bonds on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the at least a portion of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursor is preserved in the low density plasma and incorporated in the dielectric barrier film.
US07964440B2	Phase-separated composite films and methods of preparing the same Composite films formed from blends of semiconducting and insulating materials that phase separate on patterned substrates are provided. Phase separation provides isolated and encapsulated areas of semiconductor on the substrate. Processes for preparing and using such composite films are also provided, along with devices including such composite films.
US07964439B2	Methods of fabricating devices by transfer of organic material The invention provides a method of depositing a layer of a conductive material, e.g. metal, metal oxide or electroconductive polymer, from a patterned stamp, preferably a soft, elastomeric stamp, to a substrate after an organic layer has been transferred from a patterned stamp to an organic layer over the substrate. The patterned metal or organic layer may be used for example, in a wide range of electronic devices. The present methods are particularly suitable for nanoscale patterning of organic electronic components.
US07964438B2	Method for forming a film with a graded bandgap by deposition of an amorphous material from a plasma A method is described of forming a film of an amorphous material on a substrate by deposition from a plasma. The substrate is placed in an enclosure, a film precursor gas is introduced into the enclosure, and unreacted and dissociated gas is extracted from the enclosure so as to provide a low pressure therein. Microwave energy is introduced into the gas within the enclosure to produce a plasma therein by distributed electron cyclotron resonance (DECR) and cause material to be deposited from the plasma on the substrate. The said flow rate of the film precursor gas is altered during the course of deposition of material, so as to cause the bandgap to vary over the thickness of the deposited material.
US07964436B2	Co-sputter deposition of metal-doped chalcogenides The present invention is related to methods and apparatus that allow a chalcogenide glass such as germanium selenide (GexSe1-x) to be doped with a metal such as silver, copper, or zinc without utilizing an ultraviolet (UV) photodoping step to dope the chalcogenide glass with the metal. The chalcogenide glass doped with the metal can be used to store data in a memory device. Advantageously, the systems and methods co-sputter the metal and the chalcogenide glass and allow for relatively precise and efficient control of a constituent ratio between the doping metal and the chalcogenide glass. Further advantageously, the systems and methods enable the doping of the chalcogenide glass with a relatively high degree of uniformity over the depth of the formed layer of chalcogenide glass and the metal. Also, the systems and methods allow a metal concentration to be varied in a controlled manner along the thin film depth.
US07964433B2	Anti-reflective device having an anti-reflective surface formed of silicon spikes with nano-tips Described is a device having an anti-reflection surface. The device comprises a silicon substrate with a plurality of silicon spikes formed on the substrate. A first metallic layer is formed on the silicon spikes to form the anti-reflection surface. The device further includes an aperture that extends through the substrate. A second metallic layer is formed on the substrate. The second metallic layer includes a hole that is aligned with the aperture. A spacer is attached with the silicon substrate to provide a gap between an attached sensor apparatus. Therefore, operating as a Micro-sun sensor, light entering the hole passes through the aperture to be sensed by the sensor apparatus. Additionally, light reflected by the sensor apparatus toward the first side of the silicon substrate is absorbed by the first metallic layer and silicon spikes and is thereby prevented from being reflected back toward the sensor apparatus.
US07964429B2	Method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device which is excellent in photoelectric conversion characteristics is provided by effectively utilizing silicon semiconductor materials. The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion device using a solar cell, in which a plurality of single crystal semiconductor substrates in each of which a damaged layer is formed at a predetermined depth is arranged over a supporting substrate having an insulating surface; a surface layer part of the single crystal semiconductor substrate is separated thinly using the damaged layer as a boundary so as to form a single crystal semiconductor layer over one surface of the supporting substrate; and the single crystal semiconductor layer is irradiated with a laser beam from a surface side which is exposed by separation of the single crystal semiconductor layer to planarize the surface of the single crystal semiconductor layer.
US07964428B2	Micromechanical component and method for fabricating a micromechanical component A method for fabricating a microelectromechanical or microoptoelectromechanical component. The method includes producing first and second layer composites. The first has a first substrate and a first insulation layer, which covers at least one part of the surface of the first substrate, while the second has a second substrate and a second insulation layer, which covers at least one part of the surface of the second substrate. An at least partly conductive structure layer is applied to the first insulation layers and the second composite is applied to the structure layer so that the second insulation layer adjoins the structure layer. The first and second layer composites and the structure layer are configured so that at least one part of the structure layer that comprises the active area of the microelectromechanical or microoptoelectromechanical component is hermetically tightly sealed by the first and second layer composites. Contact holes are formed for making contact with conductive regions of the structure layer within the first and/or second substrate.
US07964426B2	Solid-state image pickup device and manufacturing method thereof A solid-state image pickup device is provided in which a pixel forming region 4 and a peripheral circuit forming region 20 are formed on the same semiconductor substrate, a first element isolation portion is formed by an element isolation layer 21 in which an insulating layer is buried into a semiconductor substrate 10 in the peripheral circuit forming region 20, a second element isolation portion is composed of an element isolation region 11 formed within the semiconductor substrate 10 and an element isolation layer 12 projected in the upper direction from the semiconductor substrate 10 in the pixel forming region 4 and an element isolation layer 21 of the first element isolation portion and the element isolation layer 12 of the second element isolation portion contain the same insulating layers 17, 18 and 19. This solid-state image pickup device has a structure capable of suppressing a noise relative to a pixel signal and which can be microminiaturized in the peripheral circuit forming region.
US07964423B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same The invention relates to a semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device, which includes: an insulating film over a substrate; a first pixel electrode embedded in the insulating film; an island-shaped single-crystal semiconductor layer over the insulating film; a gate insulating film and a gate electrode; an interlayer insulating film which covers the island-shaped single-crystal semiconductor layer and the gate electrode; a wiring which electrically connects a high-concentration impurity region and the first pixel electrode to each other; a partition which covers the interlayer insulating film, the island-shaped single-crystal semiconductor layer, and the gate electrode and has an opening in a region over the first pixel electrode; a light-emitting layer formed in a region which is over the pixel electrode and surrounded by the partition; and a second pixel electrode electrically connected to the light-emitting layer. A surface of the first pixel electrode, which is in contact with the light-emitting layer, is flat, and a surface where the insulating film is in contact with the island-shaped single-crystal semiconductor layer roughly coincides with a surface where the first pixel electrode is in contact with the light-emitting layer.
US07964418B2	Real time process monitoring and control for semiconductor junctions A method of manufacturing a semiconductor layer is provided. In a first deposition during a first period of time, at least one Group IIIA element and at least one Group VIA element are deposited on a substrate or on a layer optional disposed on the substrate such as a back-electrode. During a second deposition during a second period of time, at least one Group IB element and the at least one group VIA element are deposited on the substrate or the optional layer. The one Group IB element combines with the Group VIA element to form a IB2VIA composition. A first deposition state is monitored, during the second deposition by making a first plurality of measurements of a first deposition state. The second deposition is terminated or attenuated based on a function of the first plurality of measurements of the indicia of the first deposition state.
US07964417B2	Method of measuring degree of crystallinity of polycrystalline silicon substrate, method of fabricating organic light emitting display using the same, and organic light emitting display fabricated using the same A method of measuring a degree of crystallinity of a polycrystalline silicon substrate includes obtaining a Raman spectrum graph by irradiating a polycrystalline silicon substrate with a laser beam; and calculating a degree of crystallinity of the polycrystalline silicon substrate from the Raman spectrum graph using the following formula: (degree of crystallinity)=(area of polycrystalline peak)/[(area of amorphous peak)+(area of polycrystalline peak)].
US07964413B2	Method for continuous mode processing of multiple reaction receptacles in a real-time amplification assay An automated analyzer for performing multiple diagnostic assays simultaneously includes multiple stations in which discrete aspects of the assay are performed on fluid samples contained in sample vessels. The analyzer includes stations for automatically preparing a sample, incubating the sample, preforming an analyte isolation procedure, ascertaining the presence of a target analyte, and analyzing the amount of a target analyte. An automated receptacle transporting system moves the sample vessels from one station to the next. A method for performing an automated diagnostic assay includes an automated process for isolating and amplifying a target analyte, and, in one embodiment, a method for real-time monitoring of the amplification process.
US07964412B2	Optical reagent format for small sample volumes An optical waveguiding optical format enables consistent optical analysis of small sample volumes with minimal variation in light path length among optical formats. The optical format is comprised of an input guide, an output guide, and a sample cavity adapted to allow light to pass through a sample on its way from the input guide to the output guide. A lid removed from the light pathway within the format may be provided with a reagent for assisting fluid analysis.
US07964405B2	Plant cultivation method Method for the production of young plants and/or micro-parent stock of 5 herbaceous ornamentals. Method for the production of young plants and/or of micro-parent stock of herbaceous ornamentals, which comprises an in vitro culture phase during which explants obtained from parent stock of species to be propagated, or derivatives of these explants, are subjected to micropropagation which is carried out under suitable conditions and on suitable culture media, in order to produce microplantlets which, when subjected to an in vivo culture phase, are intended to develop into plants or into micro-parent stock, characterized in that, to carry out said micropropagation: the explants are, under axenic conditions, in the dark and for a suitable period of time, placed on a proliferation medium which is composed to suit each plant species to be propagated, so as to induce the formation of white filaments which comprise axillary buds, each of the white filaments is divided into a plurality of pieces, each of 20 which comprises an axillary bud, and said pieces are, in the light, under axenic conditions and for a suitable period of time, placed into a rooting medium, which allows each axillary bud to produce a micro-plantlet which has roots.
US07964399B2	Cell line comprising vector encoding truncated FLK-1 receptor The present invention relates to the use of ligands for the FLK-1 receptor for the modulation of angiogenesis and vasculogenesis. The invention s based, in part, on the demonstration that Flk-1 tyrosine kinase receptor expression is associated with endothelial cells and the identification of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) as the high affinity ligand of Flk-1. These results indicate a major role for Flk-1 in the signaling system during vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Engineering of host cells that express Flk-1 and the uses of expressed Flk-1 to evaluate and screen for drugs and analogs of VEGF involved in Flk-1 modulation by either agonist or antagonist activities is described. The invention also relates to the use of FLK-1 ligands, including VEGF agonists and antagonists, in the treatment of disorders, including cancer, by modulating vasculogenesis and angiogenesis.
US07964397B2	Method for the cultivation of primary cells and for the amplification of viruses under serum free conditions The present invention relates to a method for the cultivation of primary cells. The primary cells are cultivated in a serum free medium comprising a factor selected from the group consisting of growth factors and attachment factors. The method for the cultivation of primary cells may be one step in a method for the amplification of viruses, such as poxviruses. According to this latter method the primary cells are cultivated in a serum free medium comprising a factor selected from the group consisting of growth factors and attachment factors. The cells are then infected with the virus and the infected cells are cultivated in serum free medium until progeny virus is produced.
US07964395B2	Modified vaccinia ankara virus variant and cultivation method The present invention provides an attenuated virus, which is derived from Modified Vaccinia Ankara virus and characterized by the loss of its capability to reproductively replicate in human cell lines. It further describes recombinant viruses derived from this virus and the use of the virus, or its recombinants, as a medicament or vaccine. A method is provided for inducing an immune response in individuals who may be immune-compromised, receiving antiviral therapy, or have a pre-existing immunity to the vaccine virus. In addition, a method is provided for the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of the virus, or its recombinants, in a vaccinia virus prime/vaccinia virus boost inoculation regimen. The present invention relates to a method of virus amplification in primary cells which are cultivated in a serum free medium. Viruses produced by this method are advantageously free of any infectious agents comprised in animal sera.
US07964394B2	Spore-like cells and uses thereof Highly undifferentiated spore-like cells can be isolated from many different tissues and bodily fluids and used to treat a wide variety of disorders.
US07964393B2	Constitutive promoter Lip3 The present invention relates to a novel constitutive promoter of plant, particularly to a putative lipase promoter Lip3 derived from Arabidopsis, a method for isolating the same, a recombinant expression vector containing the same and a use of the same for improving traits of a farm product. The constitutive promoter of the present invention can be applied to induce a constitutive gene expression such as herbicide resistance gene and reporter gene, because it can express a foreign gene regardless of its expression site. In addition, it can be widely used to develop a transgenic plant improving its useful trait.
US07964391B2	Automated, field-portable system for conducting toxicity measurements in water, soils, and sediments A system for testing the toxicity of a test sample comprising: an aqueous suspension of dinoflagellates; a test chamber configured to contain the aqueous suspension of dinoflagellates and the test sample; an optical signal generator configured to emit an excitation signal for exciting the dinoflagellates to emit a fluorescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a first optical transducer configured to produce a first data signal in response to detecting the fluorescence signal; a stimulator configured to introduce a gas into the aqueous suspension for stimulating the dinoflagellates to emit a bioluminescence signal if the dinoflagellates are alive; a second optical transducer configured to produce a second data signal in response to detecting the bioluminescence signal; and a processor configured to compare the first data signal and the second data signal to a control data to generate an output representing the toxicity of the test sample.
US07964388B2	Chemical reaction device, chemical reaction system, and chemical reaction method A device is provided for a chemical reaction between molecules immobilized on a solid phase and molecules in a solution. A chemical analysis device is also provided to capture molecules in the solution and subsequently measure the captured molecules. Reaction efficiency and sample throughput are thereby improved. The chemical reaction and chemical analysis devices use a microfluidic device channel as a reaction vessel. The channel is provided with a particular molecule immobilized on an interior surface of the channel with an obstacle positioned against the flow. In a typical reaction vessel having an enzyme immobilized in the capillary's interior surface and glass beads as obstacles, a reaction solution can move either in one direction or back and forth to react with the immobilized enzyme. The flow of the reaction solution is not laminar such that a reaction between the particular molecule and the reaction solution proceeds at high efficiency.
US07964384B2	Endotoxin binding by lactic acid bacteria and bifidobacteria The invention relates to the use of at least one strain of lactic acid bacteria and/or bifidobacteria having hydrophobic surface properties, for the preparation of a composition intended for the prevention or the treatment of endotoxin mediated and/or associated disorders and human or pet food compositions prepared thereof.
US07964383B1	Perhydrolase providing improved peracid stability An acetyl xylan esterase variant having perhydrolytic activity is provided for producing peroxycarboxylic acids from carboxylic acid esters and a source of peroxygen. More specifically, a Thermotoga maritime acetyl xylan esterase gene was modified using error-prone PCR and site-directed mutagenesis to create an enzyme catalyst characterized by an increase in the ratio of peracetic acid formation to peracetic acid hydrolysis specific activities (PAAF/PAAH ratio). The variant acetyl xylan esterase may be used to produce peroxycarboxylic acids suitable for use in a variety of applications such as cleaning, disinfecting, sanitizing, bleaching, wood pulp processing, and paper pulp processing applications.
US07964381B2	Variant form of urate oxidase and use thereof The present invention relates to genetically modified proteins with uricolytic activity. More specifically, the invention relates to proteins comprising truncated urate oxidases and methods for producing them, including PEGylated proteins comprising truncated urate oxidases.
US07964380B2	Nanoparticles for manipulation of biopolymers and methods of thereof Matrices for manipulation of biopolymers, including the separation, purification, immobilization and archival storage of biopolymers is disclosed.
US07964378B2	Production of peracids using an enzyme having perhydrolysis activity A method is provided for producing peroxycarboxylic acids from carboxylic acid esters. More specifically, carboxylic acid esters are reacted with an inorganic peroxide, such as hydrogen peroxide, in the presence of an enzyme catalyst having perhydrolysis activity derived from Bacillus sp. to produce peroxycarboxylic acids.
US07964369B2	Polypeptide complex that regulates cell cycle and anergy An active ubiquitin E3 ligase, GRAIL, is crucial in the induction of anergy in cells of the immune system, and in the regulation of cellular proliferation. GRAIL is shown to associate with, and be regulated by Otubain isoforms, including OTUBAIN-1 (DOG, the Destabilizer of GRAIL) and an alternative reading frame splice variant of OTUBAIN-1 (SOG, the Stabilizer of GRAIL). These proteins play opposing roles in the regulation of GRAIL auto-ubiquitination and consequently on its ability to induce anergy and regulate cellular proliferation. DOG serves as an adaptor protein, recruiting the DUB USP8. One major substrate for USP8 is the Ras exchange factor Ras-GRF1, and this protein can be found in a complex with USP8 and GRAIL, which complex is ubiquitinated by GRAIL.
US07964367B2	Human p51 genes and gene products thereof Novel human genes falling within the category of family genes relating to p53 gene which is known as a cell proliferation regulatory gene, and gene products thereof. A human p51 gene characterized by containing a base sequence encoding an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1; a human p51 gene having a base sequence consisting of the 145- to 1488-bases in the sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2; vectors containing these genes; host cells transformed with these vectors; a process for producing a p51 protein having the amino sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1; which comprises culturing the above host cells and harvesting the protein from the thus obtained culture; and the p51 protein having the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:1.
US07964363B2	Direct determination of vitamin D in serum or plasma A method for quantitating vitamin D metabolites directly in blood plasma or serum, without the need for prior purification of the vitamin D metabolites, comprising a digestion of the serum proteins with a serine protease such as proteinase K and sequence of steps for inhibiting the proteinase K activity in the competitive binding analysis. The advantages of this method are its high accuracy over the whole range of physiologically relevant values and that it can be easily adapted for a fully automated analysis of serum and plasma samples.
US07964362B2	Proteome epitope tags and methods of use thereof in protein modification analysis Disclosed are methods for reliably detecting the presence of proteins, especially proteins with various post-translational modifications (phosphorylation, glycosylation, methylation, acetylation, etc.) in a sample by the use of one or more capture agents that recognize and interact with recognition sequences uniquely characteristic of a set of proteins (Proteome Epitope Tags, or PETs) in the sample. Arrays comprising these capture agents or PETs are also provided.
US07964361B2	Rigidized trimethine cyanine dyes Disclosed are analogues of trimethine cyanine dyes, which are useful for importing fluorescent properties to target materials by covalent and non-covalent association.
US07964359B2	Compositions and methods for the enhancement of soluble amyloid beta oligomer (ADDL) uptake and clearance The present invention relates to methods for enhancing the cellular uptake and clearance of soluble oligomeric Aβ peptide assemblies from the environment surrounding both neuronal and non-neuronal cells. Oligomeric Aβ peptide assembly uptake and clearance is achieved via an agent that enhances insulin receptor signaling. Such ADDL uptake enhancers represent effective anti-ADDL therapeutics for use in the therapeutic treatment and/or prophylactic treatment of diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Down's syndrome, and the like, in which compromised nerve cell function is linked to the formation and/or the activity of soluble oligomeric Aβ peptide assemblies, also known as ADDLs, and ADDL-related assemblies.
US07964358B2	Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor gene, SPPR A novel sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor gene, herein termed sppr, and its splice variants. Sppr is up-regulated in LGL and is useful, for example, in the diagnosis and treatment of certain lymphoproliferative, neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases.

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