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US08744747B1	Environmental waypoint insertion The different advantageous embodiments provide a system comprising an environmental waypoint insertion process and a processor unit. The processor unit is configured to run the environmental waypoint insertion process. The environmental waypoint insertion process is configured to receive information. The environmental waypoint insertion process determines whether and how to suggest additional waypoints for insertion into a flight plan to a subscriber.
US08744744B2	Traveling environment recognition device A traveling environment recognition device capable of accurately recognizing a traveling environment of a vehicle. An occupancy grid map that stores an occupancy probability of each obstacle to traveling of the own vehicle for each cell of the occupancy grid map is generated, and the occupancy probability for each cell is updated according to Bayesian inference. More specifically, for each cell of the occupancy grid map, the occupancy probability calculated from information from a radar device, the occupancy probability calculated from information from a communication device, and the occupancy probability calculated from information from a storage device that stores map data are blended to provide an occupancy probability of the obstacles to traveling of the own vehicle, which leads to more accurate traveling environment recognition.
US08744740B2	Method of detecting location of opposing vehicle using GPS information A method of detecting a location of an opposing vehicle using Global Positioning System (GPS) information in which pieces of GPS raw data and pieces of GPS post-processing data of a driver's vehicle and of an opposing vehicle are received. It is determined using the received GPS post-processing data whether the opposing vehicle is a vehicle that has entered a predetermined range. If it is determined that the opposing vehicle is a vehicle that has entered the predetermined range, it is determined whether common data is present in the pieces of GPS raw data of the driver's vehicle and of the opposing vehicle by comparing the pieces of GPS raw data with each other. A degree of proximity to the opposing vehicle is using the common data in the pieces of GPS raw data of the driver's vehicle and the opposing vehicle.
US08744739B2	Method for initializing the mass of a motor vehicle A method of initializing the mass of a motor vehicle after a restart, for controlling a starting process of the motor vehicle a from a standstill. During operation of the motor vehicle, its mass is computed and the determined mass values are stored and, from the stored mass values, a vehicle-specific maximum mass value and/or a vehicle-specific minimum mass value is determined. The vehicle-specific maximum mass value and/or the vehicle-specific minimum mass value, determined in this manner, is subsequently used for initializing the mass of the motor vehicle after restarting the vehicle.
US08744738B2	Aircraft traffic separation system A method and apparatus for managing separation between vehicles. A closest point of approach between a first vehicle traveling along a first path and a second vehicle traveling along a second path is predicted. A number of compensation commands for altering the first path of the first vehicle are generated using the closest point of approach and a desired level of separation between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. The number of compensation commands is integrated with a number of control commands for the first vehicle to form a final number of control commands configured to maneuver the first vehicle to substantially maintain the desired level of separation between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. A response of the first vehicle to the final number of control commands is a desired response.
US08744732B2	Vehicle and engine controlling method A vehicle comprises an acceleration command input device operated by a driver to input an acceleration command; a braking command input device operated by the driver to input a braking command; and an engine controller for controlling a plurality of engine control components to change an engine driving power in response to the acceleration command and executing a deceleration control for reducing the engine driving power when a predetermined deceleration condition is met; the engine controller executing driving power increasing preparation for changing a controlled amount of at least one of the engine control components to increase the engine driving power while maintaining the deceleration control state when inputting of the braking command stops during the deceleration control, and changing a controlled amount of at least one of the engine control components to increase the engine driving power when the acceleration command is input thereafter.
US08744727B2	Control device for internal combustion engine A control device for an internal combustion engine which can highly precisely realize required torque including a high-frequency component with high responsiveness. The control device sets torque with a low frequency included in the required torque as an air quantity controlling torque, and calculates a target air quantity for realizing the air quantity controlling torque based on data in which a relationship of the air quantity and torque is set. The control device controls the air quantity in accordance with the target air quantity. Further, the control device sets torque including both a low frequency and a high frequency as air-fuel ratio controlling torque, and calculates an air-fuel ratio corresponding to the air-fuel ratio controlling torque and a present air quantity as a target air-fuel ratio. The control device controls a fuel injection amount in accordance with the target air-fuel ratio.
US08744726B2	Method for purging fuel vapors A method for improving purging of fuel vapors from a boosted engine is presented. In one embodiment, the method increases the efficiency of a venturi that supplies vacuum to purge fuel vapors from a vapor storage canister.
US08744724B2	Engine controlling apparatus An engine controlling apparatus includes a setting unit that sets a demand torque to an engine, a detection unit that detects a fluctuation of an external load, and a correction unit that corrects the demand torque. The apparatus includes a target torque calculation unit that calculates a target torque based on the demand torque, a control unit that controls an amount of air to be introduced into the engine so that an output torque may come close to the target torque, and an ignition timing detection unit that detects an ignition timing of the engine.The correction unit adds a torque increment for coping with a fluctuation of the external load to the demand torque to determine an increment correction demand torque and increases or decreases the increment correction demand torque in response to a displacement amount of the ignition timing from a predetermined reference value.
US08744721B2	Hydrostatic traction drive and vehicle with such a traction drive A hydrostatic traction drive includes a pressure medium source configured to drive four hydromotors connected as pairs in series, the pairs arranged parallel to each other. In a respective pressure medium flow path between the hydromotors of a series, a pressure medium volume flow is extracted which is diverted via a respective valve device to a pressure medium sink to bypass the respective downstream hydromotor. The hydrostatic traction drive also includes a control valve configured to balance the pressure on pressure differences between the pressure medium flow paths, in particular on a steering movement of an articulated steering. The control valve is configured to connect the pressure medium flow paths together hydraulically.
US08744716B2	Speed control systems and methods for internal combustion engines An engine control system includes a mode selection module that is configured to select an operating mode from one of an open loop control mode, a torque control mode, and a speed control mode based on an engine speed and a driver input. An axle torque arbitration (ABA) module generates ABA predicted and immediate torque requests based on the driver input. A speed control (SC) module generates a first set of SC predicted and immediate torque requests based on engine speed. A propulsion torque arbitration (PTA) module generates PTA predicted and immediate torque requests based on one of the ABA predicted and immediate torque requests and the first set of SC predicted and immediate torque requests based on the operating mode. A torque output control module controls output torque of an engine based on the PTA predicted and immediate torque requests.
US08744714B2	Vehicle braking control system A vehicle braking control system includes a wheel cylinder which applies a braking force in accordance with a fluid pressure to a vehicle wheel and a control device which controls the fluid pressure of the wheel cylinder based on the vehicle wheel acceleration. Then, the control device applies the predetermined fluid pressure to the wheel cylinder so as to acquire a return level of the vehicle wheel acceleration and calculates a control target value of the fluid pressure based on a behavior of the vehicle wheel acceleration after starting a sudden braking operation and before starting ABS control.
US08744713B2	Method for controlling braking of vehicle A method for controlling braking of a vehicle calculates a driver request braking deceleration and a current frictional coefficient of a road surface to obtain a vehicle deceleration corresponding to the coefficient of the road surface. A maximum deceleration at which a wheel lock does not occur upon braking only by a driving wheel is calculated when the driver deceleration is equal to or smaller than the coefficient by comparing the driver deceleration and the vehicle deceleration. A braking force is determined by distributing a regenerative braking force of the driving wheel and a frictional braking force of a driven wheel according to the coefficient when the maximum deceleration is smaller than the driver deceleration by comparing the maximum deceleration and the driver deceleration. A driving motor and a frictional braking device are controlled to generate the determined regenerative braking force and frictional braking force.
US08744712B2	Drive control device for electric vehicle, and electric vehicle A drive control device for an electric vehicle that is driven by a motor-generator, includes: a detection unit that detects a fact that an accelerator pedal depression amount and a brake pedal depression amount of the electric vehicle are both zero; and a control unit that sets a regenerative braking torque command value for the motor-generator to zero, while the detection unit is detecting the fact.
US08744711B2	Brake control device for driving and/or controlling actuators for influencing a braking function of a motor vehicle Brake control device for controlling actuators for influencing a braking function of a vehicle, including at least one logic circuit for controlling at least one braking function, wherein the control device controls at least one function of an electronic braking system and one parking brake function, wherein the brake control device includes electric power supply connections of at least the first kind and the second kind, wherein the first kind is connected to a reference potential and the second kind is connected to a different potential than the reference potential, and wherein the first kind or second kind is electrically connected to at least one functional element for controlling the electronic braking system and to at least one functional element for controlling the parking brake function, and/or is electrically connected to at least one functional element for controlling the electronic braking system and the parking brake function.
US08744704B2	Method for determination of gearshift points A method for determination of one or more downshift and upshift points for a gearbox in a motor vehicle. The vehicle includes an engine connected to the gearbox, where a downshift point represents a first engine speed at which the gearbox effects a downshift, and an upshift point represents a second engine speed at which the gearbox effects an upshift. One or more downshift and upshift points are determined relative to an engine target speed which is a desired speed for the engine. A system, a motor vehicle, a computer program and a computer program product thereof perform the method.
US08744703B2	Determination of one or more gearshift points A method, a system, a computer program and a computer program product for determining one or more shift points for a gearbox in a motor vehicle which comprises an engine connected to, in order to drive the gearbox. A shift point is defined by an engine speed at which the gearbox effects a downshift or upshift. The method uses one or more shift points determined on the basis of a change in road gradient.
US08744702B2	Work vehicle control device A work vehicle control device includes: a rotation speed control unit that controls an engine rotation speed in correspondence to an accelerator pedal operation quantity indicating an operating extent of an accelerator pedal; a speed ratio detection unit that detects a ratio of speed at an input shaft and at an output shaft of a torque converter, which is disposed between the engine and wheels; a decision-making unit that makes a decision that a fuel efficiency deteriorating condition exists if the torque converter speed ratio is less than a predetermined value or if the torque converter speed ratio is equal to or greater than the predetermined value and a target engine rotation speed corresponding to an operation of the accelerator pedal is greater than a preset value; and an informing unit that informs results of the decision made by the decision-making unit.
US08744701B2	Method to control a motor vehicle power train The invention concerns a method for controlling a motor vehicle drivetrain which comprises a drive motor, a multi-step, automated change-speed transmission and an automated separating clutch arranged between the drive motor and the transmission, and a shifting device with a selector lever which can be moved at least from a particular position in an upshift direction (“+” direction) for manually initiating an upshift and in a downshift direction (“−”) for manually initiating a downshift, and in which the transmission and the separating clutch can be controlled by a transmission control unit which is connected at least to a speed sensor, a brake pedal actuation sensor and a selector lever actuation sensor, such that when the motor vehicle is rolling with its drivetrain open the closing of the drivetrain is initiated by actuating the selector lever.To improve the functional safety it is provided that when a first movement of the selector lever in a shift direction (“+” direction or “−” direction) is sensed, this is interpreted as a provisional command to close the drivetrain, and if a second movement of the selector lever in the same shift direction (“+” direction or “−” direction) is sensed within a specified confirmation time (ΔtB), this is interpreted as a confirmation of the provisional command to close the drivetrain and, as an implementation command, initiates the closing of the drivetrain.
US08744696B2	Full crowd detent apparatus of wheel loader bucket Provided is a full crowd detent apparatus of a wheel loader bucket, and more particularly, a full crowd detent apparatus of a wheel loader bucket that can improve operator's joystick operation convenience by providing a full crowd detent function to full-crowd a bucket without operator's gripping a bucket operating joystick lever from a maximum dump position of the bucket up to a completion moment of a maximum full-crowd operation by controlling a power of an electromagnet by comparing an angle sensor value of a bucket detected from a rotary angle sensor that senses an angle at which a rotational shaft of the bucket rotates with an angle value of a predetermined bucket position (for example, full crowd and return to dig).
US08744695B2	Fuel consumption saving control device for work vehicle and fuel consumption saving method for work vehicle A fuel consumption saving control device for a work vehicle includes: a vehicle speed detector 11 for detecting whether the vehicle is traveling; an accelerator operation detector 16 for detecting whether an accelerator operating member is not operated; a boom operating lever 23 for detecting whether a command to carry out operation to lift a boom which performs cargo carrying work has been issued; and a controller 8 for carrying out control for increasing a speed reducing ratio of a travel transmission 4 when the vehicle speed detector 11 detects that the vehicle is traveling, the accelerator operation detector 16 detects that the accelerator operating member is not operated, and also the boom operating lever 23 detects that the command to lift the boom has been issued.
US08744693B2	Object detection system having adjustable focus An object detection system for a mobile machine is disclosed. The object detection system may have a first array of laser beam transmitters configured to generate a first plurality of grid lines on a ground surface, and a second array of laser beam transmitters configured to generate a second plurality of grid lines on the ground surface and produce a plurality of intersections with the first plurality of grid lines. The object detection system may also have a receiver configured to detect the plurality of intersections and generate a signal used to create an electronic terrain map based on the detection. At least one of the first and second arrays of laser beam transmitters may be selectively movable during operation to change a location of the plurality of intersections.
US08744689B2	Drive controlling apparatus for a vehicle To provide a vehicle motion control system capable of defining clear guidelines on more specific control timing associated with accelerating, steering, and braking operations, and conducting motion control based on the defined guidelines. An ideal motion control unit 42 within a central controller 40 uses longitudinal jerk information of a vehicle to control the steering of the vehicle. Information for determining the initiation timing of steering is presented from a human-vehicle interface (HVI) 55 to a driver. In accordance with the information presented from the HVI 55, the driver controls the initiation timing of steering.
US08744687B2	Vehicle steering apparatus A vehicle steering apparatus in which a mechanical coupling between a steering member and steered wheels is uncoupled, includes a steering actuator for driving a steered mechanism and a control unit for drive-controlling the steering actuator. The control unit reduces steering-stiffness using a PID control portion for drive-controlling the steering actuator according to a deviation between a target steered angle and a steered-angle detected by the steered angle sensor. A gain setting portion sets gains of the PID control portion to be relatively low when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US08744686B2	Device for estimating turning characteristic of vehicle The device calculates a transient yaw rate of the vehicle on the basis of a standard yaw rate of the vehicle using an estimated value of a time constant coefficient of steering response, and adjusts the estimated value of a time constant coefficient of steering response on the basis of the relationship between a transient yaw rate of the vehicle and an actual yaw rate of the vehicle so that a transient yaw rate of the vehicle approaches an actual yaw rate of the vehicle.
US08744676B2	Discharge ability estimating system, control system in vehicle incorporating discharge ability estimating system, and discharge ability estimating method There is provided a discharge ability estimating system for estimating a discharge ability of a battery for supplying electric power to an electric motor which rotates a crankshaft of an engine to start the engine, the system being configured to estimate the discharge ability of a battery based on an angular acceleration state of the crankshaft in a rotation starting period of the crankshaft.
US08744675B2	Advanced driver assistance system feature performance using off-vehicle communications An Advance Driver Assistance System of a vehicle collects measurements for a driving event, including GPS coordinates for a specific location from the EH system, and logs the data into an on-vehicle database. The ADAS uses the data in the on-vehicle database to develop a history associated with the specific location. Information, including GPS coordinates and recorded false output warnings, may be shared between the on-vehicle database and an off-vehicle database, such as associated with and Electronic Horizon system, providing an opportunity to significantly improve the feature performance of the ADAS. Driver assist information may be compiled between the off-vehicle database and the on-vehicle database, thereby continuously updating the knowledge base of the ADAS and optimizing feature performance of the ADAS over the life of the vehicle.
US08744674B2	Method for configuring infotainment applications in a motor vehicle A method of configuring infotainment applications in a motor vehicle is provided. A control unit is configurable via a configuration interface such that the functional scope and/or a basic setting of the infotainment application is changed based on first configuration data from a first configuration data server. A service center stationarily arranged at a distance from the motor vehicle has a second configuration data server and a second configuration data bank. The service center has a first modification interface by which configuration data of the second configuration data bank is modifiable using first access rights and a second Internet-based modification interface by which the configuration data is modifiable using second access rights differing from the first. Modifications of the configuration data are recognized and the configuration data of the first configuration data bank is changed by using the configuration data from the second configuration data bank.
US08744673B2	Vehicle air conditioner and control method and program for vehicle air conditioner In a vehicle air conditioner for a vehicle cabin interior is split into a plurality of air-conditioned zones, that is capable of independent air conditioning control for individual air-conditioned zones, provided is a solar radiation sensor that measures solar radiation levels individually for a first air-conditioned zone and a second air-conditioned zone adjacent thereto; a judging unit (100) that judges whether or not a difference between the solar radiation level of the first air-conditioned zone and the solar radiation level of the second air-conditioned zone falls within a predetermined range; a first controller (101) that performs identical air conditioning control for the first air-conditioned zone and the second air-conditioned zone when the difference falls within the predetermined range; and a second controller (102) that performs independent air conditioning control individually for the first air-conditioned zone and the second air-conditioned zone when the difference falls outside the predetermined range.
US08744672B1	Method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of multiprocessor system A multiprocessor system used in a car, home, or office environment includes multiple processors running multiple real-time applications. A dynamic configuration system includes a device manager, configuration manager, and a data manager running on one of the processors. The device manager detects and adds devices to the multiprocessor system, and the configuration manager reconfigures which processors run the applications. The data manager identifies the data type generated by the devices and which devices in the multiprocessor system are able to process the data.
US08744668B2	Automotive diagnostic server A system and method for an automotive diagnostic server can provide a portable vehicle diagnostic tool to identify a failed vehicle component. It may also provide a remote information device to serve as a connecting intermediary between devices, and to allow remote control of the devices and to provide information to a user. A remote diagnostic device to analyze data and interpret information to aid the user in making, using, maintaining, and fixing a piece of equipment or product may also be included. Web server functionality may be incorporated into the portable vehicle diagnostic tool to allow dissemination of the diagnostic information resulting from the diagnostic testing, and the web server may be accessed by a web browser of the remote information device.
US08744667B2	Non-intrusive device for diagnosis, by vectorial comparison, of operating situation(s) in at least one communication network A device (D) is dedicated to the diagnosis of operating situations) in at least one communication network (RC) having a bus (BU) with N wire(s). This device (D) comprises i) P connection means (MCI-MC3), with P≧N, bypass-connected at least to the N wires of the bus (BU) so as to access the P voltages présent, ii) conversion means (MV1-MV3) devised so as to convert the P voltages into P first digital signais (SI (p,t)), iii) processing means (MT) devised so as to construct a measurement vector (V(t)) associated with a voltages measurement instant (t) and comprising K éléments chosen from among at least the P first digital signais (SI (p, t)), then to compare at least this measurement vector (V(t)) with at least I pairs, with I≧1, of first (Vt(i,t)) and second (Vr2(i,t) référence vectors comprising K éléments representative of K minimum and maximum values that can be taken by the K éléments of the measurement vector (V(t)), so as to deliver I second signais (S2(i)) each représentative of the result of a comparison, each result being représentative of an operating situation on the bus (BU), and iv) I display means (MAI-MAI) each devised so as to signal an operating situation represented by a second signal (S2(i)) delivered.
US08744666B2	Systems and methods for semi-autonomous vehicular convoys The present invention relates to systems and methods for vehicles to safely closely follow one another through partial automation. Following closely behind another vehicle has significant fuel savings benefits, but is unsafe when done manually by the driver. On the opposite end of the spectrum, fully autonomous solutions require inordinate amounts of technology, and a level of robustness that is currently not cost effective.
US08744665B2	Control method for localization and navigation of mobile robot and mobile robot using the same The present invention relates to a control method for the localization and navigation of a mobile robot and a mobile robot using the same. More specifically, the localization and navigation of a mobile robot are controlled using inertial sensors and images, wherein local direction descriptors are employed, the mobile robot is changed in the driving mode thereof according to the conditions of the mobile robot, and errors in localization may be minimized.
US08744663B2	Control apparatus for autonomous operating vehicle In an apparatus for controlling an autonomous operating vehicle having an operating machine and a magnetic sensor adapted to detect a border of a travel-scheduled area, the vehicle is controlled to travel around the area from a start point along the border to sequentially record traveling directions and traveled distances on a bitmap. The generated travel trajectory is transformed to map information. A position of the vehicle is detected using bits of the bitmap of the transformed map information, and the vehicle is controlled to, as traveling straight in the north-south directions, while perform the operation with the operating machine based on the calculated traveling direction, the calculated traveled distance and the determined position, utilizing a primary reference direction obtained from a geomagnetic sensor as a reference.
US08744662B2	Method for operating autonomous moving cleaning apparatus A method for operating an autonomous moving cleaning apparatus includes the steps of: a microcontroller unit (MCU) processes a digital signal through an encoding technique to form an encrypted encoding data set; the MCU continuously sends out the encrypted encoding data set; data values in the encrypted encoding data set are converted to high or low voltages to activate a light emission member to generate flicker light; a light receiving member continuously receives a string of reflective light corresponding to the flicker light to form a corresponding high or low voltage which is converted to a corresponding digital signal sent to the MCU to be compared with the encrypted coding data set for decoding; and the MCU controls operations of a servomotor based on decoding correctness and the detected corresponding digital signal. Thus the autonomous moving cleaning apparatus can function steadily without being interfered by external lights.
US08744656B2	Running control device for electric vehicle A running control device for an electric vehicle includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a predetermined reference torque required for braking/driving the motor that provides a beneficial effect with regard to power consumption of the electric vehicle; a second calculation unit that calculates interval allocation between a first interval in which the electric vehicle is propelled by braking/driving the motor at the predetermined reference torque and a second interval in which the electric vehicle is coasted without the motor being braked or driven; a third calculation unit that calculates a control requested torque for braking/driving the motor intermittently, so as alternatingly to repeat running of the electric vehicle in the first intervals and coasting of the electric vehicle in the second intervals; and a running control unit that performs running control of the electric vehicle by braking/driving the motor intermittently according to the control requested torque.
US08744655B2	Method and system for controlling torque of hybrid vehicle provided with two motors The present invention controls torque of a hybrid vehicle that calculates power and torque of each motor when the hybrid vehicle provided with two motors operates at a transient state are used. More specifically, target power of a battery is determined. Then calculations are performed to determine target torque of the first motor, target torque of the second motor, target torque of an engine, and target speed of the engine at a steady state. The torque of the first motor at a transient state is calculated from the target torque of the second motor at the steady state and speeds of the first and second motors. Finally, torque of the second motor at the transient state is calculated from the torque of the first motor at the transient state and the speeds of the first and second motors.
US08744654B2	Method of controlling hybrid working machine and method of controlling pump output of hybrid working machine A method of controlling a hybrid working machine having a hydraulic pump driven with the output of an engine and the output of a motor generator includes calculating the input side power of the hydraulic pump and controlling the output of the motor generator based on the calculated power.
US08744651B2	Method of determining a maneuver performed by an aircraft A method of determining a maneuver performed by an aircraft having sensors for monitoring motion data, the method including periodically sampling the sensors to electronically determine segments of motion data of the aircraft; aggregating sequences of the segments of the motion data; comparing the aggregated segments of motion data to models of particular maneuvers; and determining the maneuver performed by the aircraft.
US08744648B2	Integrated framework for vehicle operator assistance based on a trajectory prediction and threat assessment Various types and levels of operator assistance are performed within a unified, configurable framework. A model of the device with a model of the environment and the current state of the device and the environment are used to iteratively generate a sequence of optimal device control inputs that, when applied to a model of the device, generate an optimal device trajectory through a constraint-bounded corridor or region within the state space. This optimal trajectory and the sequence of device control inputs that generates it is used to generate a threat assessment metric. An appropriate type and level of operator assistance is generated based on this threat assessment. Operator assistance modes include warnings, decision support, operator feedback, vehicle stability control, and autonomous or semi-autonomous hazard avoidance. The responses generated by each assistance mode are mutually consistent because they are generated using the same optimal trajectory.
US08744644B2	Apparatus and method for detecting location of vehicle An apparatus and method for detecting the location of a vehicle using results sensed by sensing devices installed outside the vehicle and the internal information of the vehicle without obtaining the current location information of the vehicle using signals transmitted from a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, the apparatus for detecting the location of a vehicle includes a location information reception unit for receiving location information that is generated by sensing a vehicle passing by a sensing point and that corresponds to the sensing point. A location detection unit estimates a current location of the vehicle based on information sensed by internal sensors of the vehicle and control information for a vehicle manipulation part while the location information is not received, and corrects the estimated current location of the vehicle using received location information when the location information is received.
US08744638B2	Method and system for demand response in a distribution network A method and system for controlling load in a utility distribution network are provided that initiates a shed event for a node in the distribution network by selecting premisess associated with the node that are participating in a demand response program to reduce the load at the node to desired levels. More specifically, the system and method provide for selecting only enough participating premisess associated with the node that are necessary to reduce the load to desired levels.
US08744636B2	Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of a kalina cycle A Kalina Cycle control system monitors one or more operating parameters of the Kalina Cycle. The system calculates one or more optimal operating parameters that allow the Kalina Cycle to operate at an increased efficiency. The system automatically adjusts the one or more actual operating parameters to the optimal parameters to increase the efficiency of the Kalina Cycle. Methods of increasing the efficiency of a Kalina Cycle include automatically adjusting one or more operating parameters to an optimal configuration.
US08744635B2	Power production control method based on power production rate requirement A control system for an energy production facility includes a plant controller for receiving an indication of a measured power output of the energy production facility that includes power generators and produces output signals. The system also includes a processing unit operably coupled to the plant controller and responsive to executable computer instructions when executed on the processing unit cause the plant controller to: create an output signal that causes an energy storage device to discharge in the event power reserves of the power generators can not met the requested ramp down rate; and create an output signal that causes the energy storage device to charge up in the event that the power capability of the power generators can meet the requested ramp down rate.
US08744634B2	Safety instrumented system (SIS) for a turbine system A retrofit kit for a turbine system is provided that includes a safety instrumented system (SIS) controller having a first plurality of functions and the SIS controller is configured to be coupled to a turbine-generator controller, wherein the SIS controller permits a startup function of the turbine-generator controller based on a plurality of inputs from a turbine.
US08744632B2	System and method for operating an economizer cycle of an air conditioner An air conditioning system for cooling an enclosure includes an air conditioner and a control system for triggering an economizer cycle of the air conditioner. The control system determines an electrical load of equipment in the enclosure, calculates a maximum acceptable outdoor temperature at which the economizer cycle may be operated based at least partially on the electrical load, receives data representative of an actual outdoor temperature, and initiates the economizer cycle if the actual outdoor temperature is equal to or below the maximum acceptable outdoor temperature.
US08744631B2	Manipulating environmental conditions in an infrastructure A system and method for manipulating environmental conditions in an infrastructure containing a fluid moving device are disclosed that include identifying correlations between operational settings of the fluid moving device and environmental conditions resulting from changes to the operational settings. In addition, an environmental condition detected at a location proximate to or within the plenum following supply of fluid into the plenum by the fluid moving device is received and errors between the received environmental condition and a reference environmental condition are identified. Operational settings for the fluid moving device to achieve the reference environmental condition are determined based upon the identified correlations and errors.
US08744626B2	Managing autonomous machines across multiple areas The different illustrative embodiments provide a system for autonomous machine management comprising a number of autonomous machines, a number of nodes, a performance estimation module, and a navigation system. The number of autonomous machines is configured to perform area coverage tasks in a worksite. The number of nodes is configured to define a number of worksite areas for the worksite. The performance estimation module is executed by a processor unit and configured to calculate a percentage of work completed in the number of worksite areas. The navigation system is configured to operate an autonomous machine to perform the area coverage tasks and move between the number of worksite areas.
US08744624B1	Substrate alignment system A substrate loading system, having a vision system adapted to view a substrate and provide position signals indicative of substrate position. A controller receives the position signals from the vision system, determines the substrate position, and sends transport signals to a robot arm. The robot arm engages the substrate in a beginning location and a beginning position and transports the substrate to a desired location and a desired position, based at least in part on the transport signals received from the controller.
US08744623B2	Timed dispenser and audit system A chemical product dispenser includes one or more timing features. The chemical product may include cleaning, sanitizing, disinfecting, or other chemical products typically dispensed using a conventional spray bottle or other chemical product applicator used in the cleaning industry. The timed dispenser includes a timer and one or more indicators that are activated when one or more predetermined periods of time (such as a contact time or cure time) have elapsed. A timed dispenser audit system further monitors and analyzes use of the timed dispensers throughout one or more facilities, and may generate reports based on the analysis.
US08744622B2	Information management system A system for information management has a compilation device collecting information particular to a vending device located therein, a PDA useable for receipt, manipulation or inputting information into the compilation device. An activation device triggers the compilation device to prepare it to export or import information to or from the PDA. The compilation device has a power source and activation sensor for activation of thereof and in a dormant state prior to such activation, thereby conserving the energy stored within the power source, and allowing the data compilation device to remain as small as possible. The PDA has operating software which is able to synchronize multiple PDAs to a computer server and is also capable of having route management software for use by field engineers.
US08744620B2	Interactive medication dispensing system with locking compartments This invention provides a system and method for dispensing medication and a dispensing apparatus that comprises a plurality of compartments in an array within a housing, the compartments having respective lids, each of the lids being movable from a closed position to an open position, the respective lids each having a latch that secures the lid in a locked configuration in the closed position. The apparatus has an actuator mechanism that selectively unlocks the latch of each of the lids at a predetermined time so as to place the unlocked lid in an unlocked configuration that enables the lid to be moved to the open position. The compartments of the medication dispenser each receive a removable cup therein that is accessible when a respective of the lids associated therewith is in the open position. Other features, such as communication and messaging and/or audible/visual displays can also be provided.
US08744619B2	Automatic prescription drug dispenser An automatic prescription drug dispenser including a remote dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network. The remote dispenser transmits and receives information from the communications network and dispenses prescription drugs to the patient. The prescription entry system transmits and receives information from the communications network and provides an input system for the prescriber to electronically enter individual prescriptions for each patient. The communications network coordinates communications between the doctor, insurance carrier, and the remote dispenser. The remote dispenser stores, retrieves, and labels prescription drug and over-the-counter products directly to patients through a remote automated dispenser, a prescription entry system, and a communications network.
US08744615B2	Substrate processing system, substrate detecting apparatus, and substrate detecting method A substrate processing system comprising a first detecting part configured to detect unprocessed wafers, and a second detecting part configured to detect processed wafers. The first detecting part is configured to detect whether the unprocessed wafers are respectively accommodated in respective accommodating portions of a container or not, and to detect accommodated conditions of the respective unprocessed wafers accommodated in the respective accommodating portions. The second detecting part is configured to collectively detect whether the processed wafers are respectively accommodated in the respective accommodating portions of the container.
US08744612B2	Numerical controller for machine tool with function of controlling speed of arc operation A numerical controller for machine tools that has function of controlling the speed of arc operation calculates a first operable feedrate based on the arc radius of a machining path and the allowable frequency (or allowable angular speed) to which servo position control is capable of responding. The numerical controller also calculates a second operable feedrate based on the arc radius of the machining path and the allowable acceleration to which servo position control can respond, and selects the minimum feedrate from the commanded feedrate and the calculated first and second feedrate to perform speed control.
US08744589B2	Obstructive sleep apnea treatment devices, systems and methods A method of stimulating a nerve of a patient. The method may include positioning a first electrode set on a first portion of the nerve, wherein the first portion of the nerve innervates a first upper airway muscle of the patient. The method may include positioning a second electrode set on a second portion of the nerve, wherein the second portion of the nerve innervates a second upper airway muscle of the patient. The method may further include alternatively delivering an electrical stimulation to the first electrode set and to the second electrode set.
US08744587B2	Collecting gait information for evaluation and control of therapy A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. The medical device or another device may periodically determine an activity level or gait parameter of the patient, and associate each determined level or parameter with a current therapy parameter set. A value of at least one activity metric is determined for each of a plurality of therapy parameter sets based on the activity levels or parameters associated with that therapy parameter set. Whether the patient is currently experiencing or anticipated to experience gait freeze caused by their neurological disorder, such as Parkinson's disease, may also be determined. Gait freeze events may be associated with current therapy parameters and used to determine activity metric values. In some examples, the activity metric associated with certain therapy parameters may be presented to a user.
US08744581B2	Cross-band communications in an implantable device An ambulatory monitoring device includes a sensor to monitor a physiological signal and a battery power source. The device also includes a wireless transceiver adapted to monitor a first frequency band having frequencies below 1 MHz and configured to detect and receive, using less than 10 micro-amps of current from the battery power source when operating, wireless communications within the first frequency band from a remote device at least one meter away. The wireless transceiver is further adapted to transmit—after receipt from the remote device of a first wireless communication within the first frequency band that includes an invitation for further communication—a second wireless communication in a second frequency band having frequencies above 10 MHz, the second wireless communication comprising data indicative of the physiological signal as sensed by the sensor.
US08744576B2	Sampling intrinsic AV conduction time Methods and/or devices for sampling a patient's intrinsic AV conduction time during cardiac therapy that may, e.g., change the AV delays to values based on the AV delays themselves, previously-sampled intrinsic AV conduction times, and/or one or more other parameters directly related to AV delays to provide a time period during which to measure the patient's intrinsic AV conduction time.
US08744575B2	Flat capacitor for an implantable medical device One aspect provides a capacitor feedthrough assembly having an electrically conductive member dimensioned to extend at least partially through a feedthrough hole of a case of the capacitor, the conductive member having a passage therethrough.
US08744574B2	Defibrillator with mutable sound prompts Defibrillators, software and methods are provided, for issued verbal prompts to rescuers. A defibrillator may receive a muting input and, responsive thereto, cause a verbal prompt to not be issued or to be issued less loudly relative another verbal prompt.
US08744573B2	Integrated resuscitation A resuscitation system that includes at least two defibrillation electrodes configured to be applied to the exterior of the chest of a patient for delivering a defibrillation shock, a source of one or more ECG signals from the patient, a defibrillation circuit for delivering a defibrillation shock to the defibrillation electrodes, a control box that receives and processes the ECG signals to determine whether a defibrillation shock should be delivered or whether CPR should be performed, and that issues instructions to the user either to deliver a defibrillation shock or to perform CPR, wherein the determination of whether CPR should be performed and the instructions to perform CPR can occur at substantially any point during a rescue. The control box may include a user operable control for initiating delivery of a defibrillation shock, and the instructions to deliver a defibrillation shock include instructions to activate the user operable control. The user operable control may be a button configured to be pushed by the user. The determination of whether CPR should be performed and the instructions to perform CPR may occur before a determination to deliver any defibrillation shock. The source of the ECG signals may be the defibrillation electrodes. The defibrillation circuit may be contained in the control box.
US08744570B2	Optical stimulation of the brainstem and/or midbrain, including auditory areas Apparatus and method for optical- or optical-and-electrical stimulation of midbrain and/or brainstem tissue (e.g., auditory nerve pathways). Peripheral neural stimulation using infrared lasers has been demonstrated in several systems; however, optical stimulation of the central nervous system (CNS) has not been previously described. In some embodiments of the present invention, radiant energy exposure of the cochlear nucleus using a mid-wavelength infrared laser generates optically-evoked auditory brainstem responses (oABRs). In an experiment, the cochlear nuclei of adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were exposed using a suboccipital craniotomy approach. In one embodiment, different regions of left cochlear nucleus were acutely stimulated with a 200- or 400-micron-diameter optical fiber placed on the surface of the brainstem, using 50- to 750-microsecond pulses of 1849-nm to 1865-nm-wavelength radiation at a rate of 10 to 40 Hz and power levels ranging from 10% to 80% of 5 watts. oABRs were recorded during the period of optical stimulation.
US08744566B2	Impedance based anatomy generation Methods and systems for the determination and representation of anatomy anatomical information are disclosed herein. Methods and systems described herein include generating anatomical information about the heart based on positions of the catheter electrodes and the electrical signals from the electrodes at the determined subset of electrode positions.
US08744564B2	Oedema detection A method of detecting tissue oedema in a subject. The method includes determining a measured impedance for first and second body segments. An index indicative of a ratio of the extra-cellular to intra-cellular fluid is then calculated for each body segment, with these being used to determine an index ratio based on the index for the first and second body segments. The index ratio can in turn be used to determine the presence, absence or degree of tissue oedema, for example by comparing the index ratio to a reference or previously determined index ratios.
US08744562B2	Method for monitoring or treating nervous system disorders A medical device system that includes a brain monitoring element, cardiac monitoring element and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a brain signal from the brain monitoring element and a cardiac signal from the cardiac monitoring element. The processor is further configured to compare the brain signal to the cardiac signal. A method of comparing a brain signal to a cardiac signal is also provided.
US08744557B2	Use of machine learning for classification of magneto cardiograms The use of machine learning for pattern recognition in magnetocardiography (MCG) that measures magnetic fields emitted by the electrophysiological activity of the heart is disclosed herein. Direct kernel methods are used to separate abnormal MCG heart patterns from normal ones. For unsupervised learning, Direct Kernel based Self-Organizing Maps are introduced. For supervised learning Direct Kernel Partial Least Squares and (Direct) Kernel Ridge Regression are used. These results are then compared with classical Support Vector Machines and Kernel Partial Least Squares. The hyper-parameters for these methods are tuned on a validation subset of the training data before testing. Also investigated is the most effective pre-processing, using local, vertical, horizontal and two-dimensional (global) Mahanalobis scaling, wavelet transforms, and variable selection by filtering.
US08744554B2	Removable localizing wire A localizing wire includes an anchor portion that can change shape from a collapsed shape to an expanded shape and thereby anchor within a tissue mass. The localizing wire has an exterior portion that can lie flat against the tissue mass. The localizing wire can be repositioned or withdrawn without the need for the reinsertion of an introducer.
US08744553B2	Real-time radiation treatment planning system The invention relates to a real time radiation treatment planning system for use in effecting radiation therapy of a pre-selected anatomical portion of an animal body using hollow needles. According to embodiments of the invention, the system may include a processing means processing means-configured to perform a three-dimensional imaging algorithm and a three-dimensional image segmentation algorithm, with respect to one or more specific organs within the pre-selected anatomical portion and with respect to the needles, for converting the image data obtained with an imaging means into a three-dimensional image of the anatomical portion, using at least one single or multi-objective anatomy-based genetic optimization algorithm. For pre-planning or virtual simulation purposes, the processing means is arranged to determine in real time the optimal number and position of at least one of the needles, positions of energy emitting sources within the needles, and the dwell times of the energy emitting sources at the positions. For post-planning purposes, the processing means is arranged to determine, based on three-dimensional image information, in real time the real needle positions and the dwell times of the energy emitting sources for the positions.
US08744552B2	Biopsy apparatus A biopsy apparatus includes a biopsy region positional information calculator for calculating a three-dimensional position of a biopsy region, a biopsy needle moving mechanism for moving a biopsy needle along three axes and/or turning the biopsy needle obliquely to an object to be examined, a biopsy needle positional information calculator for calculating a three-dimensional position of the biopsy needle, and a traveled distance calculator for calculating a distance over which the biopsy needle moves with respect to the biopsy region based on the three-dimensional position of the biopsy needle and the three-dimensional position of the biopsy region.
US08744551B2	Method for non-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography A method for non-contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) of a three-dimensional (3D) volume of a subject having a vascular structure extending through the 3D volume and having flowing spins passing through vascular structure. The method includes applying at least one radiofrequency (RF) pulse to a first slice to label the flowing spins passing into a second slice located within the 3D volume adjacent to the first slice and acquiring imaging data from the second slice using a two-dimensional (2D) pulse sequence and sampling k-space using a non-Cartesian sampling pattern. The acquisition of the of the imaging data is repeated to acquire a series of second slices located across the 3D volume to acquire respective sets of imaging data spanning the 3D volume. The sets of imaging data is reconstructed into a time-series of image frames depicting the flowing spins passing through the vascular structure.
US08744550B2	Open architecture tabletop patient support and coil system An assembly for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a patient and a method of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a patient using different MRI scanners is disclosed. In one example, the assembly includes a plurality of RF coils, wherein the RF coils are configured to be positioned adjacent to an anatomy of interest, a patient support structure configured to support of the patient, a base removably coupled to the patient support structure, the base and the patient support being configured for receipt in the bore of an MRI scanner, and an interface coupled to the plurality of RF coils and to the MRI scanner and configured to connect the plurality of RF coils and the MRI scanner and to selectively control a first RF coil and a second RF coil included in the plurality of RF coils.
US08744548B2	Lead apparatus A lead including one or more electrodes having circuitry associated therewith. Each such electrode includes a circuit extending along and conforming to at least a portion of an inner surface of the electrode. The circuit includes an isolation substrate contacting at least a portion of the inner surface of the cylindrical electrode portion, a first contact electrically isolated from the electrode portion by the isolation substrate and an integrated circuit electrically coupled to the first contact and the electrode.
US08744547B2	Optimizing analyte sensor calibration Method and apparatus for optimizing analyte sensor calibration including receiving a current blood glucose measurement, retrieving a time information for an upcoming scheduled calibration event for calibrating an analyte sensor, determining temporal proximity between the current blood glucose measurement and the retrieved time information for the upcoming calibration event, initiating a calibration routine to calibrate the analyte sensor when the determined temporal proximity is within a predetermined time period, and overriding the upcoming scheduled calibration event using the current blood glucose measurement are provided.
US08744537B1	Reconfigurable mobile device with keyboard cover and display areas A multifunction cover with touch screen display, icons, and a keyboard is described. A multifunction touch screen enabled mobile device may be configured to be connected to the separate cover, which may be attached to the device and detached from the device. The mobile device may be enabled with a cellular voice and data communication, WiFi connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and Internet Protocol connectivity. The mobile device may be enabled to play videos, capture photos, and stream multimedia content.
US08744533B2	Mobile communication terminal apparatus A mobile communication terminal apparatus having a communication function, the mobile communication terminal apparatus includes: a light emitting unit configured to indicate call incoming information or mail receiving information by light emission; a notification setting unit configured to set whether to indicate at least one of the call incoming information and the mail receiving information by using at least one of a sound and a vibration; a brightness detecting unit, which detects a brightness when the notification setting unit set to not indicate by using both of the sound and the vibration; and a light-emission control unit, which controls the light emitting unit to not emit light, when the notification setting unit set to not indicate by both the sound and the vibration by the notification setting unit and when the brightness detected by the brightness detecting unit is a predetermined brightness or less.
US08744530B2	Portable electronic device and method of controlling same A method of controlling a portable electronic device that has a touch screen display includes providing a graphical user interface on a touch screen display, detecting a touch event at a first location on the touch screen display, providing a navigation indicator in the graphical user interface in response to detecting the touch event at the first location, and in response to detecting movement of the touch event from the first location to a second location while touch contact is maintained on the touch screen display, changing the position of the navigation indicator in the graphical user interface by a distance that is greater than a distance of movement of the touch event on the touch screen display, a direction of change of position of the navigation indicator is based on a direction of movement of the touch event on the touch screen display.
US08744528B2	Gesture-based control method and apparatus of an electronic device An electronic device is provided comprising a camera obtaining an image, and a controller that performs a control operation based on a gesture recognized from the obtained image, wherein the controller performs a predetermined function of an application being executed when a predetermined gesture of a user is recognized, wherein the user does not have a control right and the predetermined gesture corresponds to the predetermined function.
US08744526B2	Communication terminal, and dial registration method and dial registration program therefor A communication terminal having one or more one-touch-dial buttons simplifies operations needed for registration of destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses. A communication terminal (e.g., a cellular phone) having one or more one-touch-dial buttons includes a destination-data registration unit (e.g., a phone-directory database) that allows destination data such as phone numbers or mail addresses to be registered therein, a one-touch-dial registration unit that allows destination data to be registered therein so as to be associated with the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, and a control unit that, in response to an operation of the one or more one-touch-dial buttons, determines whether destination data has been registered in the one-touch-dial registration unit or the destination-data registration unit, and that outputs a result of the determination and a query message regarding registration of the destination data.
US08744522B2	Portable security system built into cell phones A portable security system includes an image capturing module for capturing one or more images and an image analysis module in operable communication with the image capturing module, the image analysis module configured to (i) recognize, from the one or more images captured, one or more events related to detection of moving objects, (ii) selectively identify a finite number of spatial relationships of the moving objects, and (iii) analyze the one or more images within the portable security device to classify the finite number of spatial relationships of the moving objects corresponding to predefined moving object data stored on a data storage unit located within the portable security device. Also, an image transmission module for transmitting the one or more images recognized, selectively identified, and analyzed by the image analysis module to one or more external sources is provided.
US08744518B2	Mechanism for reducing time away from packet switched operation in a single radio solution A single radio wireless communications device is contemplated in which the user equipment (UE) operates according to more than one radio access technology. The UE may operate preferentially according to a first radio access technology, and may switch to a different radio access technology at predetermined intervals to check for incoming calls. An error unit within the UE may provide frequency error estimates to a GPS unit during operation according to the first radio access technology based upon signals received in the first radio access technology, unless any time spent in the different radio access technology is longer that a predetermined duration. In response to the predetermined duration being met, the error unit may provide the frequency error estimation to the GPS unit based upon signals received in the different radio access technology.
US08744516B2	Generic client for communication devices A Generic Client (GC) operates multiple virtual network interfaces that communicate simultaneously to different networks. Each virtual interface is capable of independent communication over an associated network through the same physical interface. In one implementation, the GC provides simultaneous communication with both infrastructure and ad-hoc networks in compliance with the IEEE 802.11 protocol. The GC provides these dual modes of operation by instantiating different infrastructure and ad-hoc virtual interfaces.
US08744511B2	Output power control for advanced WLAN and bluetooth-amp systems Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing power consumption by wireless devices through transmission output power control.
US08744502B2	Antenna to transceiver mapping of a multimode wireless device Various arrangements for mapping antennas to transceivers are presented. A plurality of antennas may be present. Each antenna of the plurality of antennas may be configured to communicate using different radio technologies. A plurality of transceivers may be present. At least some of the transceivers of the plurality of transceivers may be configured to utilize different radio technologies. A selector circuit may be present that is configured, based on input from a processor, to map each antenna of the plurality of antennas with each transceiver of the plurality of transceivers. The processor may be configured to control which antennas of the plurality of antennas are mapped to which transceiver of the plurality of transceivers. Touch sensors may be used to determine which antenna or antennas are likely to serve as effective electromagnetic transducers. Signal-to-noise measurements may be used to determine when to modify an antenna mapping.
US08744499B2	Mobile terminal and multimedia messaging service notification message processing method The disclosure provides a mobile terminal (10), which comprises: a storage module (101), configured to store a linked list that includes a service ID and a reception time of a Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) notification message, and a maximum length of the linked list; an inquiry module (102), configured to inquire whether there is a service ID identical with a service ID of a received MMS notification message in the linked list when the MMS notification message is received; a length determination module (103), configured to determine whether a length of the linked list is smaller than the maximum length when there is no service ID of the received MMS notification message in the linked list; a time difference determination module (104), configured to determine whether the time difference between the reception time and the last node in the linked list is greater than the time difference between the first node and the last node in the linked list when the length of the linked list is smaller than the maximum length; and a linked list modification module (105), configured to determine whether to insert the service ID and the reception time of the MMS notification message into the linked list as a node. The disclosure also provides an MMS notification message processing method. The disclosure increases the inquiry efficiency of the linked list.
US08744498B2	Cordless communication system A cordless communication system includes a base unit and a handset. The base unit is connectable to a communication line. The handset includes a handset wireless communicating unit, a handset communicating unit, a handset switching unit, and a handset starting unit. The handset wireless communicating unit implements wireless communications with the base unit wireless communicating unit. The handset communicating unit is capable of communicating signals with the base unit. The handset switching unit switches between a handset normal mode in which power is supplied to the handset wireless communicating unit and a handset power-saving mode in which power to the handset wireless communicating unit is interrupted. The handset starting unit controls the handset switching unit to supply power to the handset wireless communicating unit in order to switch to the handset normal mode from the handset power-saving mode if the handset communicating unit receives a handset start signal instructing the handset to cancel the handset power-saving mode during the handset power-saving mode.
US08744493B2	Localized silence area for mobile devices A system and method for creating a localized silence area. A mobile device may be registered with an access point base station. Any direct communication links from the mobile device to any other base stations may be removed. An indication may be given to the mobile device that the mobile device is in a localized silence zone. The indication may include a request that the mobile device operate in a silent mode, information about making outgoing calls, information about receiving incoming calls, or a combination of these. Procedures for incoming voice calls to the mobile device may be different for different priority levels.
US08744490B2	System and method for migrating agents between mobile devices Mobile agents can be deployed to location aware mobile devices within specific regions of interest to achieve specific goals in respect of events occurring in the region of interest. In order to ensure that the agent can persist within the region of interest until the agent goals are achieved, the agent is configured to locate other devices within the region of interest and to propagate itself, by moving or copying itself, to those other devices. When a device hosting the agent exits the region of interest, the agent is terminated, thereby freeing device resources.
US08744489B2	Mobile terminal and method of transferring or receiving data using the same The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which transfers or receives data, including location information, in various ways, and a method of transferring or receiving data using the same.
US08744484B2	Wireless network coverage estimation using down-sampled crowd-sourced data A method of estimating wireless network coverage includes receiving location data from a plurality of mobile devices located within range of an antenna in a wireless network. The location data is mapped onto a grid of districts and down-sampled for respective districts of the grid. An approximate coverage region of the antenna is calculated based at least in part on the down-sampled location data.
US08744483B2	Method and apparatus for updating location information for a terminal Discloses is a method for transmitting cell change instruction information, which is to be performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting cell change instruction information includes: selecting or reselecting a second cell from a first cell; comparing a first cell ID of the first cell with a second cell ID of the second cell, or comparing a first tracking area code (TAC) of the first cell with a second TAC of the second cell; and transmitting cell change instruction information to a network when the result of the comparison shows that the first cell ID does not match the second cell ID or the first TAC does not match the second TAC.
US08744480B2	Selected restriction of wireless communication services Wireless communications services on a wireless communications device are selectively restricted in accordance with a location of the wireless device and specific permission and/or restrictions assigned to the wireless device while within/at the location. Services can be selectively blocked (denied), selectively modified, or selectively allowed on a wireless device based on lists indicating permissibility for specific services for specific devices at/within specific locations. A location can be a zone of coverage of a cellular tower, micro/pico/Femto cell or wireless access point, a sector of a zone of coverage, a geographic region within a zone of coverage, or any appropriate combination thereof.
US08744479B2	Method and locating device for locating at least one mobile radio subscriber The present invention relates to a method for locating at least one mobile radio subscriber in a mobile radio network. The mobile radio subscriber transmits a measurement report that includes an itemization identifying at least two transmitting stations. A value correlated with the receive field strength of a signal from the transmitting stations is allocated to each transmitting station. A table is organized according to geographic units of a presettable area. A pre-calculated value correlated with the receive field strength of a signal from a transmitting station is allocated to each transmitting station. The transmitting stations are organized according to the values correlated with the receive field strength of the signal from the respective transmitting station. The location of the mobile radio subscriber is determined based on the geographic unit meeting at least one presettable criterion.
US08744473B2	Downlink limited-feedback interference alignment with constant amplitude codebooks and rate balance scheduling Downlink interference alignment schemes are described which provide, among other things, channel state information (CSI) from the UEs using a constant amplitude codebook. By providing only phase information associated the UEs' channel states, instead of both amplitude and phase information, fewer bits can be used to inform the BSs of the UEs effective channels, thereby reducing the bandwidth requirements associated with the transmission of CSI by UEs for downlink interference alignment purposes. According to other embodiments, feedback information can be used to perform user selection scheduling and rate balancing.
US08744471B1	Systems and methods of categorized allocation of radio resources Systems and methods of allocating radio resources are provided. The systems and methods involve assigning each of a plurality of mobile stations to one of a plurality of categories, wherein each of the plurality of categories is associated with a different resource allocation scheme. An amount of available radio resources is allocated to each of the plurality of categories. An amount radio resources assigned to each category is allocated to mobile stations assigned to the category based on the resource allocation scheme associated with the category.
US08744467B2	Mobile communication system, home radio base station, and operational frequency determination method A home radio base station according to the present invention includes a receiving unit 11 configured to receive notification information in peripheral cells of the same radio communication scheme as that of the home radio base station, an acquiring unit 12 configured to acquire operational frequencies in the same radio communication scheme as that of the home radio base station, from the received notification information, and a determining unit 13 configured to determine an operational frequency for the home radio base station, from the acquired operational frequencies.
US08744465B2	Resource allocation method in a communication system Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate resolving resource assignment conflicts between access terminals in a wireless communication environment. A first access terminal may receive a persistent, or “sticky” assignment of a set of resources, such as subcarriers. In the event that a second access terminal requires a brief resource assignment, a time-limited, or “non-sticky” resource assignment may be granted to the second access terminal. If a resource in the non-sticky assignment is already assigned to the first access terminal via the sticky assignment, the first access terminal may receive an indication of the conflict along with information related to a duration of the non-sticky assignment, may surrender the conflicted resource, and may resume control over the conflicted resource after the termination of the non-sticky assignment.
US08744462B2	Method for improving call success rate and base station system thereof The present invention discloses a method for improving the call success rate and a base station system thereof, which send reverse power control bits by using a specific parameter value according to the distance between a user and a base station, so as to improve the probability that the base station captures the mobile station and thereby improve the call success rate. The method includes the following steps of: distinguishing user type according to information in an origination message from a mobile station, and setting an initial value of a forward transmission power; and a base station sending a forward traffic channel null frame to the mobile station according to the initial value of the forward transmission power, wherein the forward traffic channel null frame contains reverse power control bits information.
US08744459B2	Communication system, service providing apparatus, resource management method and program When a service providing device which provides a service to a mobile communication terminal enters a service stop mode, a signal indicating that the service stop mode is set in is transmitted to service providing devices other than that service providing device. Upon reception of the signal, the service providing device which has transmitted the signal releases the resource of the mobile communication terminal to which a service has been provided.
US08744458B2	Signaling mixed resource allocations for D2D communications In an embodiment, for a case in which there is an active connection established between a cellular network and a user equipment UE and the UE has simultaneously an active connection within a local network distinct from the cellular network, there is an indication within a resource allocation message communicated between the cellular network and the UE which is used to identify whether a radio resource allocated by the resource allocation message is for the cellular network or for the local network. In various embodiments, the local network is a D2D network and the message is directed to a C-RNTI associated with the D2D network; and/or a value of the indication identifies the allocated radio resource as an allocation for the D2D network or for the cellular network and also whether the allocation is to the UE or to a paired D2D device or to both.
US08744455B2	Wireless communication system A wireless communication system includes a first base station and a second base station. The first base station includes a designator for determining a first resources for using the first base station and a second resources for using other base station in the predetermined radio resources, and a first transmitter for transmitting a first data by the use of the first resources to the mobile station and designation information determined on the bases of the second resources. The second base station includes a receiver for receiving the designation information from the first base station, and a second transmitter for transmitting a second data by the use of the second radio resources to the mobile station.
US08744453B2	Short-range wireless mobile terminal method and system A mobile wireless terminal includes a first wireless unit, a second wireless unit, an audio codec, and a processor unit. The first wireless unit is configured to connect to a wireless relay coupled between the mobile wireless terminal and a phone network over a short-range wireless link. The second wireless unit is configured to connect to a cellular network over a long-range wireless link. The audio codec is configured to process the voice communication. Further, the processor unit is coupled to the first wireless unit and the second wireless unit, and is configured to make a voice communication using the second wireless unit with an external party via the cellular network over the long-range wireless link. The processor unit is also configured to register with the wireless relay to establish the short-range wireless link and, when the registration is successful, to switch from the second wireless unit to the first wireless unit to carry the voice communication with a phone network via the wireless relay.
US08744452B2	Receiving signals from surrounding basestations A basestation for a cellular communications network is intended to provide coverage over a small area, which may be within an area that already has cellular coverage from one or more existing basestations. The basestation is therefore able to detect signals transmitted from the other basestations, in order to make measurements of the radio environment. In particular, the basestation may be able to receive signals periodically on the system downlink frequencies.
US08744451B2	Delayed ACK in dual-mode call handover Handover of a call to a dual-mode phone from cellular to Wi-Fi. When handing over a call mediated by a mobility controller to a dual-mode phone and switching the call from a cellular to a Wi-Fi call, the mobility controller initiates a Wi-Fi connection to the dual mode phone. When the Wi-Fi connection is established, and with the cellular connection through the mobility controller still in place, the mobility controller starts a timer with a predetermined value and the dual-mode phone initiates release of the cellular connection. When the timer expires, the mobility controller switches the call from the cellular connection to the Wi-Fi connection.
US08744450B2	Mobile communication method A radio terminal UE according to one embodiment includes a radio communication unit 210 configured to receive a plurality of parameters including a first parameter for high-speed movement and a second parameter for non-high-speed movement as parameters for processing for switching to a neighboring base station from a base station connected to the radio terminal, and a controller 260 configured to acquire movement speed information indicating a movement speed of the radio terminal and to select a parameter corresponding to the movement speed information. The first parameter is configured to inhibit processing for switching to a Pico base station PeNB which is included in the neighboring base stations.
US08744446B2	Sending measurement messages with updated channel quality measurement information A method of sending measurement messages with updated channel quality measurement information is provided. The method can include sending a first measurement message generated based at least in part on a first channel quality measurement in unassured mode. The method can further include determining whether a handover message is received within a timeout period following sending the first measurement message. In an instance in which it is determined that a handover message is not received within the timeout period, the method can additionally include determining an updated channel quality measurement and sending a new measurement message generated based at least in part on the updated channel quality measurement in unassured mode.
US08744444B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting a pilot report (PilotReport) message in wireless communication systems A method and apparatus for transmitting a PilotReport message is provided, comprising generating the PilotReport message and determining if an Active Set Size value is greater than one. In an embodiment, the access terminal will send a PilotReport message if one of the following conditions occurs: If the Active Set Size is greater than one, and EnhancedPilotReportEnabled=1, and The strength of a pilot in the active set has changed by more than an EnhancedPilotReportThreshold since the last PilotReport was sent. If the Active Set Size is one, and EnhancedPilot ReportEnabled=1, and The strongest current non-active pilot (for example, pilot j) has strength more than the EnhancedPilotReportRatio fraction of the total interference, and The strength of pilot j is more than EnhancedPilotReportThreshold away than the strength of the second strongest pilot at the time the last pilot report was sent.
US08744443B2	System and method for facilitating accelerated network selection using a weighted network list A scheme for facilitating accelerated network selection by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. In one exemplary embodiment, prior to performing a full band scan, the wireless UE device is operable to interrogate a list of networks with which the wireless UE device has registered at least once in a given period of time, wherein a network availability likelihood score may be associated with each of the list of networks. A particular network is selected from the list of networks based on its network availability likelihood score.
US08744438B2	Cell search method for multi-mode telecommunication apparatus, such apparatus, and computer program for implementing the method A cell search method for a multi-mode telecommunication apparatus is disclosed. The method comprises receiving signals present in a frequency range; transforming received signals into frequency domain; estimating power spectral density from transformed signals; estimating probability of different communication modes by correlating the estimated power spectral density with power spectral density signatures of said different communication modes; and performing cell search according to estimated most probable communication mode. Such an apparatus and a computer program for performing the method are also disclosed.
US08744437B2	Method for realizing user accessibility and multi-mode terminal The disclosure discloses a method for realizing user accessibility and a multi-mode terminal. A UE initiates, after a tracking area update (TAU) periodic timer of the UE expires, an update process to a mobile switching center/visitor location register (MSC/VLR) in the case that an idle mode signaling reduction (ISR) is activated and the UE resides in a global system for mobile communications/universal mobile telecommunication system (GSM/UMTS). The disclosure improves user experience.
US08744435B2	Multiple IMSI numbers A method includes determining a location of the wireless communication device and transmitting information indicating the location of the wireless communication device to a Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) location register (MILR). The MILR stores information associated with the wireless communication device including a first IMSI number, a first Mobile Directory Number (MDN), a second IMSI number and a second MDN.
US08744433B2	Mobile communication method and system In the method for wireless communication between a terminal and a base station supporting a real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode according to the present invention, one of the real time packet transfer service mode and reliable packet transfer service mode is selected and a communication channel between the terminal and the base station is established, and the packet data are bidirectionally exchanged between the terminal and the base station over the communication channel in real time.
US08744432B2	Performance management for a telecommunication network A performance management method is operable for use with a performance management system linked to a telecommunication network. The method comprises receiving a problem report from a femtocell of a plurality of femtocells communicatively coupled to the telecommunication network. The femtocell is configured to provide communications from at least one mobile device to the telecommunication network through a broadband connection. The problem report identifies a fault being exhibited by a femtocell and a performance parameter identifying a degradation in the performance of the femtocell. The method includes analyzing the performance parameter for determining a corrective action to be performed in an environment linked to the femtocell. The method includes performing the corrective action in the environment linked to the femtocell.
US08744428B2	Supported feature override Various exemplary embodiments relate to a method and related network node including one or more of the following: receiving, at the network device, a message; determining, in response to receiving the message, that a set of supported features should be transmitted to a partner device; determining, based on the partner device, whether a default set of features should be overridden; if the default set of supported features should be overridden, transmitting an alternative set of features to the partner device; and if the default set of supported features should not be overridden, transmitting a standard set of features based on the default set of features to the partner device.
US08744426B2	Profile switching method based on mobile phone WIFI and a mobile phone The present invention relates to a field of mobile communication, a profile adjusting method based on mobile phone WIFI is disclosed herein. An acquired SSID of the WLAN is compared with a pre-stored SSID, when the acquired SSID of the WLAN and the pre-stored SSID are determined to be the same, a user is prompted and the profile of the mobile phone which corresponds to the pre-stored SSID is activated. The profile switching method based on mobile phone WIFI provided in the present invention utilizes the existing mobile phone WIFI under the control of the mobile phone software to prompt that the user's mobile phone is in different locations based on the different WIFI connecting statuses, and automatically switching the profiles which correspond to locations which is pre-set by the user is achieved, as well as the user is provided convenience.
US08744416B2	Method for adjusting ring volume through short message service A method for adjusting ring volume through short message service includes steps of a communication device determining whether a volume adjusting condition is satisfied when there is a missed call; the communication device transmitting a first short message if the volume adjusting condition has been satisfied, wherein a first information element identifier (IEI) is set in the first short message and defined as a volume adjusting request in transfer protocol user data (TPUD) in advance; the communication device determining whether a second IEI is set in a second short message when receiving the second short message, wherein the second IEI is defined as a volume adjusting response in TPUD in advance; and the communication device selectively adjusting a ring volume thereof to maximum level if the second IEI is set in the second short message.
US08744412B1	Law enforcement vehicle information authorization system The various examples disclosed herein relate to systems, methods, and equipment that allow law enforcement to access vehicle identification information stored in a vehicle telematics unit, as well as other vehicle related information, wirelessly directly from a user's vehicle without going through wireless mobile network using an authorization code. The authorization code allows authorized law enforcement personnel to communicate directly with the vehicle and gain access to vehicle information while still keeping the information private.
US08744406B2	Proactive commands over secure channel between a mobile equipment and a UICC The invention relates to a UICC comprising a toolkit applet. The UICC comprises a toolkit security component for establishing and using a secure channel for proactive commands and events exchanged by the toolkit applet of the UICC with a mobile equipment. Other communications between the UICC and the mobile equipment take place outside of this secure channel. The invention also relates to a system comprising a UICC of the above type and a mobile equipment, such as a cell phone. The invention also relates to a method to selectively protect a UICC.
US08744403B2	Method and system for remote control of a smart card The present disclosure provides a method and system for remote control of a smart card. The method comprises that: a smart card management platform receives a request of locking or unlocking a smart card from a subscriber; and the smart card management platform performs interactive processing with a terminal side according to the request via a mobile network platform, so as to enable the terminal side to perform the locking or unlocking of the smart card. The present disclosure enables the payment subscriber to avoid loss when the terminal is robbed, lost, stolen, or is illegally used seriously, and provide a higher flexibility to the payment system.
US08744401B2	Enhanced telematic emergency response An enhanced emergency notification system comprising a vehicle location device located in a vehicle, an emergency notification device located in the vehicle, a receiving/transmitting device, and an emergency responder receiving device. The vehicle location device is configured to provide data regarding a current location of the vehicle. The emergency notification device is configured to send a first signal upon a specified event, wherein the first signal includes information on the location of the vehicle obtained from the vehicle location device. The receiving/transmitting device is configured to directly receive the first signal from the emergency notification device and transmit a second signal within a range, wherein the second signal includes at least the same information as the first signal. The emergency responder receiving device is configured to directly receive the second signal from the receiving/transmitting device when within the range.
US08744400B1	Method and system for obtaining emergency caller location Methods and systems for obtaining the location of a caller during an emergency or other telephone call. Before or during a call, a phone system can obtain from one or more sources a subscriber access line identity associated with a subscriber location record that includes a subscriber access line identity attribute and a subscriber location attribute. A phone system can send a query that includes the subscriber access line identity to a subscriber location query system that returns a subscriber location record or a subscriber location to the phone system. The phone system can then display the caller location information to a phone system, an agent or operator so that emergency services can be quickly and accurately dispatched. Using similar procedure and a memory, phone systems can also determine if a subscriber phone has or is changing location. Methods for testing the emergency call capabilities of a subscriber access line.
US08744398B2	Terminal, chip and method for receiving an emergency broadcast message A method for receiving an emergency broadcast message comprises the following steps: after receiving multiplex frames, a terminal determines whether there exists an emergency broadcast message according to a frame header of a multiplex frame corresponding to a control channel, and if so, the terminal parses the multiplex frame which corresponds to the control channel and has a multiplex frame identity of 0, to obtain the emergency broadcast message, and displays the obtained emergency broadcast message to a terminal user; while processing the emergency broadcast message, the terminal parses all the multiplex frames, plays mobile telephone TV programs and displays them to the terminal user. To implement the method, a terminal for receiving an emergency broadcast message and a chip for receiving and processing an emergency broadcast message are also disclosed.
US08744395B1	System and method for mitigating radio frequency interferences A system for mitigating radio frequency (RF) interferences. The system may comprise an interference cancellation module communicatively coupled with a first antenna, the interference cancellation module configured for mitigating interferences from a second antenna by phase shifting a signal receivable at the first antenna according to a phase shift value, the phase shift value being predetermined when the second antenna is oriented in an initial directional orientation. The system may further comprise a variable RF delay module communicatively coupled with the interference cancellation module, the variable RF delay module configured for determining a current directional orientation of the second antenna, the variable RF delay module further configured for providing a phase compensation value based upon the current directional orientation of the second antenna. The interference cancellation module may be further configured for phase shifting the signal receivable at the first antenna according to the phase compensation value.
US08744394B1	Antenna diversity system and method A system including a diversity module and an antenna selection module. The diversity module is configured to measure (i) a first signal-to-noise ratio and a first error rate associated with a first antenna, and (ii) a second signal-to-noise ratio and a second error rate associated with a second antenna. The antenna selection module is configured to select the first antenna or the second antenna by comparing (i) the first signal-to-noise ratio to the second signal-to-noise ratio, and (ii) the first error rate to the second error rate.
US08744393B2	Dynamic gain assignment in analog baseband circuits A system and method is provided for filtering and amplifying a signal where amplification can be distributed between stages of a filter and gain can be assigned throughout the filter to optimize system performance. Such a system can be implemented in the baseband section of RF receivers. VGAs can be implemented between filter stages, such as biquads, or VGAs can be incorporated in filter stages. Substantially linear VGAs comprising a parallel resistor array can be incorporated in the circuitry of the filter stages to reduce distortion. Gain can be assigned dynamically in the amplification stages to improve noise and/or linearity performance. For example, gain assignments can be implemented so that high power undesired signal components are filtered out before amplification to prevent component saturation, and low power signals are amplified before they are filtered to improve noise performance.
US08744392B2	Automatic gain control circuit and automatic gain control method An automatic gain control method includes receiving a sequence of multiple digital data, and calculating a plurality of signal values corresponding to the respective voltage values of the digital data, such as multiple peak-to-peak voltage values or power values, so as to optimize a gain according to variations in the output values. The gain optimization includes updating a reference value according to the signal values. If the reference value is less than a minimum threshold, the gain is increased to cause the reference value to reach the minimum threshold. The gain optimization also includes analyzing a clipping rate according to the signal values. If the clipping rate is equal to zero, then the gain is adjusted up. If the clipping rate is greater than zero, then the gain is adjusted down, such that the clipping rate is decreased to approach to zero.
US08744389B2	High data rate transmitter and receiver A high-speed transmitter and receiver are provided. In one embodiment, a transmitter comprises a baseband processor structured to receive data and to convert the data into a multiplicity of high and low signal values, with each high and low signal value having a first timing interval. A local oscillator generates a clock signal at a second timing interval and a digital circuit combines the high and low signal values with the clock signal to produce a transmission signal directly at a transmission frequency. A receiver is configured to receive the signal. This Abstract is provided for the sole purpose of complying with the Abstract requirement rules that allow a reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the disclosure contained herein. This Abstract is submitted with the explicit understanding that it will not be used to interpret or to limit the scope or the meaning of the claims.
US08744388B2	Dynamic radio data system options A broadcast radio event such as a song or a concert promotion, and a plurality of radio data fields corresponding to the event such as RTplus information, are received at a device. A user selects to display broadcast radio options simultaneous with receiving the broadcast radio event. Then is displayed a set of user-selectable options, at least one o which is derived from at least one of the radio data fields. In various embodiments, each time a new set of radio data fields are received, the set of displayed options is updated, with certain provisions to ‘freeze’ the displayed set of options. Examples of a derived option include a link to an Internet page, a phone number or email address, and posting a time and place of an advertised event to a calendar. A method, device, computer program product, and apparatus are detailed.
US08744380B2	Unified frequency synthesizer for direct conversion receiver or transmitter Method and system for direct conversion receiver (100), transmitter (200), or transceiver (300) device. The device includes a single frequency synthesizer (102) generating a frequency synthesizer output signal. At least one frequency divider (110n) is provided for generating a reduced frequency signal by selectively dividing the single frequency synthesizer output signal by an integer divisor value. Significantly, the device is configured to vary the reduced frequency signal so as to include every frequency the direct conversion communication device is designed to receive within a plurality of frequency bands by adjusting a frequency of the single synthesizer output signal and the divisor value.
US08744378B2	LINC transmitter with improved efficiency A radio frequency (RF) transmitter is provided. The RF transmitter includes first and second drivers that are configured to receive first and second sets of complementary RF signals. Restoration circuits are coupled to the first and second drivers, and a bridge circuit is coupled to the first and second restoration circuits. By having the restoration circuits and the bridge circuit, a common mode impedance and a differential impedance can be provided, where the common mode impedance is lower than the differential impedance.
US08744373B2	Multiple antenna system for wireless communication The invention provides an antenna system for wireless communications and in particular to a multiple antenna system for operation in conjunction with a radio frequency (RF) front end for wireless communication. The antenna system comprises one or more antennas configurable for transmission and reception in a first set of configurations and configured for transmission in a second set of configurations. The antenna system further comprises two or more antennas configurable for MIMO-diversity reception for the second set of configurations. The antennas that are configured for MIMO-diversity reception may be tunable, and may have similar characteristics to enhance MIMO reception. Mobile communications terminals utilizing the antenna system, and radio-frequency (RF) front ends for operation in conjunction with the antenna system are also provided. The antenna system may support communications in multiple frequency bands and/or multiple communication standards of operation.
US08744370B2	System for characterizing mixer or converter response A network analyzer comprises: a signal source configured to supply an input signal to a device, wherein the device is configured to generate a phase reference signal; a receiver configured to receive the phase reference signal from the device and to measure a phase response of the device according to the phase reference signal; and a calibration component configured to compare the measured phase response of the device with an actual phase response of the device to identify a tracking parameter for the receiver.
US08744364B2	Wireless station apparatus, wireless communication system, and wireless communication control method A wireless station apparatus is proposed that solves the problem of deterioration of communication quality. An arrival direction detection unit (13) detects the direction of arrival of uplink signals received by a wireless receiver (11). A mobile station determination unit (12) determines whether the transmission-origin mobile station of the uplink signals that are received by the wireless receiver (11) is a permitted mobile station or a nonpermitted mobile station. Based on the uplink signals received by the wireless receiver (11) and the determination result of the mobile station determination unit (12), an antenna adjustment unit (14) finds the degree of interference of permitted mobile stations and nonpermitted mobile stations in the direction of arrival that was detected in the arrival direction detection unit (13). The antenna adjustment unit (14) adjusts the direction of directivity of the reception antenna (10) in accordance with the degree of interference that was found.
US08744361B2	Devices and methods for transmitting and receiving data using precoding matrix A communication system to feed back an index of a precoding matrix is provided. A terminal may feed back an index of an optimal precoding matrix based on estimated channel status. A base station may transmit data to the terminal based on the index of the precoding matrix received from the terminal.
US08744358B2	Portable communication terminal The communication module 13 detects, in a predetermined operation mode in which the main processor 11 stops operation, another portable communication terminal existing in a range in which a communication connection is possible, determines the detected portable communication terminal as a target terminal from which target data is obtained, obtains the target data transmitted from the determined target terminal, and stores identification information for identifying the target terminal into the internal memory 13b. The main processor 11 executes processing using the obtained target data. The communication module 13 determines, while the main processor remains stopped, whether or not the identification information of the detected portable communication terminal is already stored in the internal memory 13b, and, under a condition that the identification information is determined to be stored, does not determine the detected portable communication terminal as the target terminal.
US08744357B2	Mobile wireless communications device having NFC sensor and magnetic sensor and associated methods A mobile wireless communications device includes a near field communications (NFC) device, and a magnetic sensor. A processor is coupled to the NFC device and the magnetic sensor, and is switchable between an active mode and an idle mode based upon the magnetic sensor. The processor is configured to remain in the active mode based upon communication via the NFC device irrespective of the magnetic sensor.
US08744356B2	Apparatuses and methods for coordination between plurality of co-located wireless communication modules via one wire The invention provides a mobile communication device having a Packet Traffic Arbitrator (PTA) module and a first wireless communication module, coupled to the PTA module via only one wire and configured to perform a first wireless transceiving. The first wireless communication module sends a first request indicating a remaining period of time for a second wireless communication module to use to the PTA module via the wire, and receives, via the wire, a first response indicating whether the first request has been accepted.
US08744353B2	Bluetooth mouse for fast switching linking objects A Bluetooth mouse for fast switching linking objects comprises a signal processing circuit triggered by a key unit to generate a control signal according to a displacement amount of the mouse. The signal processing circuit is electrically connected with a Bluetooth transmission device. The mouse has a pairing information memory storing pairing codes for establishing data transmission linkages between the Bluetooth transmission device and at least one information processing systems. The key unit is programmed one key or a combination of the keys to trigger the signal processing circuit to generate an object-switching signal. The object-switching signal drives the Bluetooth transmission device to access one pairing code from the pairing information memory according to the displacement amount of the mouse, and establishes a data transmission linkage with one information processing system corresponding to the pairing code.
US08744351B2	Method and system for reducing burden on a bluetooth low power end-point device A relay host wireless device is paired with a target host wireless device over a secure link. The relay host wireless device is operable to acquire link security information, which is associated with a link between the target host wireless device and a wireless end-point device, from the target host wireless device. The relay host wireless device is enabled to establish a link with the target host wireless device by faking its identity as an assumed identity of the target host wireless device. The acquired link security information is applied to the established link. The relay host wireless device is enabled to relay content between the target host wireless device and the wireless end-point device via the established fake link using said assumed identity of the target host wireless device and the secure link between the relay host wireless device and the target host wireless device, successively.
US08744343B2	Method for controlling mobility of terminal in broadband wireless access system including relay station The present invention relates to method and device that controls the mobility of a terminal in a broadband wireless access system including a relay station. The present invention provides an efficient method for controlling terminal mobility of a relay station and a method for performing handover of a terminal. The method for controlling mobility of terminal at a relay station in a broadband wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises step wherein at least one neighboring base station entity searched is added in a list, and a step wherein a broadcast message including the list is transmitted to the terminal.
US08744341B2	Reporting power headroom for aggregated carriers A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
US08744338B2	Broadcast receiver metadata augmentation with mobile transceiver A mobile transceiver device can communicate with a separate broadcast radio receiver, to receive metadata concerning a main program being received by the broadcast radio receiver. The mobile transceiver device uses the metadata to formulate a request or search query, send the request or search query over a WLAN or cellular data network transceiver, to one or more sources of additional information, which respond with additional information. The additional information can comprise more detailed metadata about the main program as well as content and programming that facilitate a commerce transaction. For example, more detailed metadata can include song lyrics and album art when the main program is a song, while if the main program is an advertisement, the additional information can comprise information for furthering completion of a transaction.
US08744337B2	Apparatus and methods of enhancing radio programming Apparatus and methods enhancing radio programming include receiving a broadcast radio transmission at a communication device. The broadcast radio transmission includes primary content and supplemental content having a relationship to the primary content. Further, the primary content includes a first audio data, while the supplemental content includes audio data. Additionally, the apparatus and methods include converting the supplemental content into converted supplemental content, maintaining the relationship to the primary content. Moreover, the converted supplemental content includes second audio data converted from the non-audio data. Thus, the described apparatus and methods allow the communication device to output signals for generating audible representations of both the primary content and the supplemental content.
US08744333B2	Image forming apparatus having preregistration mechanism A first conveyance path is a path for conveying paper from a paper feed unit to a registration roller. Passage of paper on the first conveyance path is detected by a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor detects passage of paper upstream from the second sensor. A second conveyance path is connected to the first conveyance path downstream from a detection position of the second sensor. In response to the first sensor detecting passage of paper, first preregistration correction is performed. In response to the second sensor detecting passage of paper, second preregistration correction is performed. If a first sheet of paper is supplied from the paper feed unit, the first preregistration correction is performed on a second sheet of paper conveyed following the first sheet. If the first sheet is conveyed from the second conveyance path, the second preregistration correction is performed on the second sheet.
US08744329B2	Fixing device and image forming apparatus incorporating same A fixing device includes a fixing rotary body rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation; a pressing rotary body, rotatable in a direction counter to the direction of rotation of the fixing rotary body, pressed against the fixing rotary body to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed; a joint connected to a shaft of one of the fixing rotary body and the pressing rotary body and rotatable to rotate the one of the fixing rotary body and the pressing rotary body; and a fixing knob detachably attached to the joint and rotated manually by a user.
US08744327B2	Media stripper, and fixing device and image forming apparatus employing same A media stripper for use with a pair of first and second, opposed rotary members includes a stripper finger and a rotation restriction mechanism. The stripper finger has an operational edge thereof disposed adjacent to the first rotary member to strip a recording medium from the first rotary member. The stripper finger is rotatable around a pivot axis parallel to a rotation axis of the first rotary member either in a first rotational direction in which the operational edge approaches the first rotary member, or in a second rotational direction in which the operational edge approaches the second rotary member, so as to establish an operational position thereof relative to the first rotary member. The rotation restriction mechanism is disposed for contact with the stripper finger to restrict rotation of the stripper finger in the second rotational direction upon establishment of the operational position of the stripper finger.
US08744324B2	Semiconductive roller, toner transport roller and electrophotographic apparatus The semiconductive roller according to the present invention includes a roller body having an outer peripheral surface made of a crosslinked substance of a semiconductive rubber composition and exhibiting Shore A hardness of not more than 60, the semiconductive rubber composition contains a base polymer made of a mixture of (1) mixed rubber N of liquid nitrile rubber and solid nitrile rubber, (2) chloroprene rubber C, and (3) epichlorohydrin rubber E in a mass ratio (C+E)/N of 10/90 to 80/20, the ratios of the chloroprene rubber and the epichlorohydrin rubber in the total quantity of the base polymer are not less than 5 mass % and not less than 5 mass % respectively, and roller resistance at an applied voltage of 5 V is not less than 104Ω and not more than 109Ω.
US08744323B2	Developing cartridge including doctor blade regulating developer on developer carrying member Developing cartridge includes doctor blade in contact with developer carrying member. The doctor blade includes supporting plate having proximal end portion and distal end portion. Pressing portion is provided on the distal end portion to define contacting portion at which the doctor blade contacts surface of the developer carrying member. The pressing portion has end face extending in a direction away from the developer carrying member from the contacting portion and facing an upstream side in rotational direction of the developer carrying member. The proximal end portion is positioned downstream from the contacting portion in the rotational direction of the developer carrying member. Angle α between the end face and a plane tangent to the contacting portion, at a position in proximity to the developer carrying member, is not smaller than 90 degrees, as viewed in cross section orthogonal to axis of rotation of the developer carrying member.
US08744319B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device has a developer tank for containing a two-component developer; a partition; a first and a second developer conveyance path for conveying the developer in pairs; a first conveyance member for conveying the developer in one direction, which has a first rotation axis, a first helical blade fixed to the first rotation axis, and a first passive gear provided to an end of the first rotation axis; a second conveyance member for conveying the developer in one direction, which has a second rotation axis, a second helical blade fixed to the second rotation axis, and a second passive gear provided to an end of the second rotation axis; a first communicating path; a second communicating path; a developing roller; and a rotation axis bending prevention belt provided so as to bridge the first and the second rotation axis outside the developer tank.
US08744314B2	Systems and methods for remanufacturing imaging components A drive gear for a generally cylindrical imaging component. The drive gear includes a body for engaging the generally cylindrical imaging component; a cylindrical shaft attached to the body, the cylindrical shaft having an end surface; and three prongs extending longitudinally outward from the end surface.
US08744312B2	Image forming apparatus and image forming method An image forming apparatus and an image forming method are provided that realize both the use of a decolorizing toner and a non-decolorizing toner and miniaturization of the apparatus.
US08744311B2	Image forming apparatus having drum supporting member In an image forming apparatus, a moving member supports developing units and is movable between a mounted position and a pulled-out position. A drum supporting member integrally supports photosensitive drums. The drum supporting member is detachably supported by the moving member. An endless belt is disposed above the moving member when the moving member is disposed in the mounted position. The drum supporting member is configured so as to be detached upward from the moving member, while the moving member supports the developing units and the moving member is in the pulled-out position.
US08744310B2	Detachable unit and image forming apparatus A detachable unit to be attached to a unit-receiving apparatus includes a unit body, a rotary member, an urging member urging the rotary member toward a downstream side in a detachable-unit-attaching direction, a contact-receiving portion provided on the rotary member, first and second support-receiving portions provided at respective ends of the rotary member, first and second supports provided at respective positions of the unit body corresponding to the positions of the first and second support-receiving portions, and first and second rotary support members provided between the first support-receiving portion and the first support and between the second support-receiving portion and the second support, respectively, and supporting the respective ends of the rotary member such that the rotary member is rotatable. The first and second rotary support members are supported in such a manner as to be movable in a detachable-unit-attaching-and-detaching direction.
US08744304B2	Developing device A developing device includes a developer carrying member for carrying a magnetic developer to form a developer image on an image bearing member; a developing device frame including a first accommodating chamber for accommodating the magnetic developer and including a second accommodating chamber, in which the developer carrying member is provided, for accommodating the magnetic developer supplied from the first accommodating chamber through a first opening; a removable sealing member for sealing the first opening; and a magnetic seal, provided between a longitudinal end portion of the developer carrying member and the developing device frame. The sealing member is removable through a second opening which is defined at least partly by the magnetic seal.
US08744303B2	Developing device A magnetic flux density formed on a sleeve surface by a magnetic seal member on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of a developer agitation and conveyance member is greater than a magnetic flux density formed on the sleeve surface by a magnetic seal member on an upstream side in the developer conveyance direction.
US08744301B2	Image forming apparatus and cleaning control method In an image forming apparatus for forming an image by electrophotography, a charging device is comprised of a needle electrode in which a plurality of saw teeth are arrayed in one direction; a cleaning rubber roller that cleans the needle electrode; a cleaning member supporter; a moving portion that moves the cleaning member supporter; and a control portion that controls the charging device, and the control portion includes a function to increase a saw-tooth current value by increasing print cumulative count; and a function to decrease the saw-tooth current value at the time of performing cleaning.
US08744300B2	Image forming apparatus Disclosed is an image forming apparatus with improved electrical connections. The image forming apparatus may includes a main body into which a device is detachably received. The electrical terminals provided in the main body connected correspondingly with electrical contact points provided on the detachable device. One or more surface distance extension parts may be arranged surrounding respectively one or more terminals such that the surface distance between two adjacent terminals can be increased. The detachable device may be, for example, a developing unit assembly, which may include one or more of a photoconductor, a charging device for charging the photoconductor to an electrical potential and a developer supply unit for supplying developer to the photoconductor.
US08744298B2	Image output device which, when authentication media are read by authentication device, executes jobs stored in storage medium on the basis of result of authentication When a plurality of authentication cards are read by an authentication device and the authentication cards are authenticated in an image output device, a binding and printing process is carried out. The image output device combines (binds) jobs associated with the authenticated cards into one job. The order of combining the jobs and the print mode for the combined job are set in accordance with the order in which the authentication cards have been authenticated or the priorities assigned to the respective jobs. The image output device prints the combined job to obtain a set of printouts. It is thus possible to provide the image output device which can output a plurality of jobs collectively, without the need of complicated operations, while maintaining a high level of security.
US08744291B2	Image-forming apparatus and method for controlling image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus includes a power-source part, a fixing device, a power-source switch, a memory part, a fixing motor, and a drive-transmitting part. The power-source part generates and supplies voltage. The fixing device includes a rotating heating body, a heater, and a rotating pressing body. The power-source switch turns off a power source of the image-forming apparatus. The memory part stores recorded data that the power source was turned off due to the operation of the power-source switch. When the recorded data is stored in the memory part, electric power is applied to the fixing motor so as to initiate rotation at a first torque, and when the recorded data is not stored, electric power is applied to the fixing motor so as to initiate rotation at a second torque, which is less than the first torque.
US08744289B2	Image forming apparatus The present invention provides a low-cost and safe image forming apparatus that has a first state in which first and second resistance heating bodies of a heater are connected in series, a second state in which the first and second resistance heating bodies are connected in parallel, and a third state in which a first switching unit shuts off a power supply path and a second switching unit is connected to a first power source terminal to block power supply to the heater.
US08744285B2	Image forming device, document processing method, and recording medium An image forming device includes a controller, a printer, first and second sheet feeding parts, and a document sheet ejection part. The controller includes an image acquiring unit which acquires image data, a document transport control unit which controls transporting of document sheets in the first sheet feeding part so that the document sheets are sequentially fed from the first sheet feeding part and delivered to the document sheet ejection part, and a print control unit. When one of the document sheets associated with a specified page is fed from the first sheet feeding part, the print control unit controls the document transport control unit so that a sheet is fed from the second sheet feeding part to the printer, and the printing control unit causing the printer to print the image data on the sheet and deliver the printed sheet to the document sheet ejection part.
US08744282B2	Image forming apparatus including toner container information sensing and positioning features An image forming apparatus capable of preventing erroneous reading of an information recording part on a toner container from occurring when the distance between a reading unit and the information recording part changes due to the rotational deflection of the toner container. The reading unit reads information from the information recording part formed on the outer periphery of the toner container. A holding roller comes into contact with the outer periphery of the toner container to position the toner container. The reading unit and the holding roller are arranged on respective lines substantially identical to each other in a direction of a normal to the rotation axis of the toner container.
US08744279B2	Adaptive PMD equalizer and implementation Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in a dual-pole optical communications network is compensated for using an adaptive PMD equalizer. The PMD equalizer may include a number of substantially identical filter modules that provide partial outputs which may be combined to form a PMD compensated output. A constant modulus algorithm (CMA)-based equalizer may track PMD across both poles and generates an error signal. The CMA-based equalizer includes a filter bank, and uses an update algorithm and tap/output adjustments based on a difference between combined tap energies and an index, and feedback from a forward error correction code frame synchronizer.
US08744273B2	Method and device for the optical transmission of data In a device and method for the optical transmission of data using a pulse-width-modulated LED (2), a startup phase ascertainment unit (3) for ascertaining at least one startup phase of the LED (2) as a function of a sequence of detected switching states of the LED (2) and a modulation unit (4) for modulating the data to a light signal emitted by the LED (2) during the ascertained startup phase of the LED (2) are provided, and data packets are first deleted from the data packet queue or queues after they have been successfully transmitted.
US08744271B2	Method for controlling terahertz electromagnetic carrier waves A method for influencing electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range between 0.1 and 10 terahertz includes providing a planar modulator having a matrix of at least 10×10 individual, active planar elements. Each planar element has a diameter between 5 μm and 100 μm. The planar elements are individually controlled using a central control unit such that each planar element assumes a respective one of at least two states in accordance with the control so as to influence the radiation.
US08744270B2	Avionics equipment with optical contact and avionics system comprising such equipment An avionics device able to be installed on board an aircraft, including means of processing information and a connector able to receive and/or transmit information, the aforementioned connector including an electrical coupling interface able to transmit and/or receive information in the form of electrical signals, and an electro-optical connection interface able to convert electrical signals into optical signals and to transmit information in the form of optical signals and/or receive information in the form of optical signals and convert these optical signals into electrical signals.
US08744268B2	Passive optical network module A GPON module comprises a housing and a circuit board disposed in the housing. The circuit board further includes ground lines that substantially isolate regions of the circuit board, an electro-optical interface for converting an inbound optical signal to an electrical signal and processing circuitry that is arranged to provide an electrical RF signal to an RF interface. The RF interface comprises a three-pin RF connector exposed from the housing, wherein the RF connector is coupled directly to the circuit board, and two of the three pins are coupled to ground.
US08744266B2	Method and apparatus for providing converged services A method and apparatus for providing link establishment in the access segment of the communications network using broadband multi-wavelength LED are disclosed. In one embodiment, such links may be established in point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, multipoint-to-multipoint, or ring format depending on the topology required for optimized access network build-out.
US08744265B2	Passive optical network with partially-tuned lasers A passive optical network (PON) component comprising a processor coupled to a plurality of receivers, the processor configured to monitor a plurality of drifting laser wavelengths and cause the drifting laser wavelengths to be tuned to a plurality of pass-bands. Also disclosed is an optical network unit (ONU) comprising a receiver, a transmitter coupled to the receiver, and a partially-tunable laser coupled to the transmitter and having a drifting laser wavelength, wherein the drifting laser wavelength is periodically tuned to one of a plurality of pass-bands. Included is a method comprising monitoring a plurality of drifting laser wavelengths associated with a plurality of pass-bands, and reconfiguring a plurality of time division multiple access (TDMA) timeslots when one of the drifting laser wavelengths migrates from one pass-band to another pass-band.
US08744263B2	WDM-PON system, ONT, OLT and method for initialization of tunable laser A wavelength-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) and a method are described herein for setting-up (e.g., wavelength tuning, power tuning) an ONT laser by establishing a communications channel on an optical layer between an optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical network termination (ONT). The communications channel is established by utilizing the OLT's laser shutdown function and the ONT's signal detection function.
US08744261B2	EPON with power-saving features A system and method for reducing power consumption in a Passive Optic Network (PON). The system comprises an optical line terminal (OLT), an optical network unit (ONU), a traffic-detection module configured to detect status of traffic to and from the ONU, and a power-management module configured to place the ONU in sleep mode based on the detected traffic status. The ONU includes transmitting and receiving components that are selectively powered down during the sleep mode based on a type of traffic in the ONU.
US08744260B2	Aperture control device and camera An aperture control device includes: an aperture first driving member that controls an aperture of a diaphragm through which light flux passes; an aperture second driving member that drives the aperture first driving member; a motor that drives the aperture second driving member; a detection device that detects start of movement of the aperture first driving member caused by the aperture second driving member driven by the motor; and a motor control device that controls an aperture value of the diaphragm by controlling a rotational amount of the motor after the detection device detects the start of movement of the aperture first driving member.
US08744259B2	Pop-up flash assembly and camera including the same A pop-up flash assembly including a main body comprising an opening; a moving unit linearly movable between a first position and a second position, wherein the moving unit is received in the opening at the first position and protrudes from the opening at the second position; a flash installed on the moving unit and generates light; a first link that has an end that is rotatably coupled to the main body; a second link that has an end that is rotatably coupled to another end of the first link, and another end of the second link being rotatably coupled to the moving unit; and a driver for rotating the first link.
US08744255B2	Auto-focus method An auto-focus (AF) method adapted for an image capturing device includes following steps. When a first press signal generated by a user pressing a button of the image capturing device is detected, a local peak searching method is applied to perform an AF procedure. It is determined whether a second press signal generated by the user pressing the button is detected. If not, it is determined whether a first released signal generated by the user releasing the button is detected. The continuous pressing count is calculated according to the first released signal and the first press signal that are continuously generated. Whether the continuous pressing count is greater than a first threshold is determined. If yes, a global peak searching method is applied to perform the AF procedure. If not, the local peak searching method is still applied to perform the AF procedure.
US08744251B2	Apparatus and methods for delivering a heated fluid Apparatus and methods for delivering a heated fluid. The apparatus includes at least a preheat zone, an expansion zone, and an expanded zone comprising a plurality of trim heaters, at least one fluid flow-distribution sheet, and an outlet. The apparatus may be used for delivering the heated fluid onto a moving fluid-permeable substrate.
US08744250B2	Edge ring for a thermal processing chamber Embodiments of the present invention provide an edge ring for supporting a substrate with increased temperature uniformity. More particularly, embodiments of the present invention provide an edge ring having one or more surface area increasing structures formed on an energy receiving surface of the edge ring.
US08744245B2	System and method for summary collection and playing of scenes and recording medium thereof A system and a method for summary collection and playing of scenes and a recording medium thereof are provided. The system includes media supply equipment, a scene description server, a scene server, and an end device. The media supply equipment supplies media data. The scene description server supplies scene description information of a scene segment corresponding to the media data, where each piece of scene description information records a playing content of the scene segment corresponding thereto. The scene server obtains the media data and a summary collect command supplied by the end device, and retrieves a plurality of partial scene segments from the media data according to an analysis result of the summary collect command and the playing content recorded by each piece of scene description information, so as to form media summary data and output the media summary data to the end device.
US08744241B2	Recording apparatus A recording apparatus includes a recording unit configured to record a file on a recording medium, a management unit configured to store the file recorded on the recording medium in a folder to manage the file, and a control unit configured to control the management unit to move a file which is different from a file to be divided and is stored in a folder which stores the file to be divided, to a folder other than the folder which stores the file to be divided according to an instruction to divide the file recorded on the recording medium and then store a new file created by the division in the folder which stores the file to be divided.
US08744240B2	Video distribution system, information providing device, and video information providing method for distributing video to a plurality of receiving terminals It is provided a video distribution system including a video distribution module, a control module, and a bookmark management module. The bookmark management module manages a first type bookmark whose status is not changed by viewing of the video and a second type bookmark whose status is changeable after the viewing of the video. The control module generates screen data that enables one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark to be selected with regard to the video stored in the library, transmits the generated screen data to the one of the receiving terminals, and sets one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark, which is selected by a user using the one of the receiving terminals, for the video and record the one of the first type bookmark and the second type bookmark in the bookmark management module.
US08744237B2	Providing video presentation commentary Embodiments are disclosed that relate to providing commentary for video content. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising receiving and storing an input of commentary data from each of a plurality of commentary input devices, and also, for each input of commentary data, receiving and storing identification metadata identifying a commentator, for each input of commentary data, synchronization metadata that synchronizes the commentary data with the associated media content item is received and stored. The method further comprises receiving a request from a requesting media presentation device for commentary relevant to a specified media content item and a specified user, identifying relevant commentary data based upon social network information for the specified user, and sending the relevant commentary data to the requesting client device.
US08744230B2	Method for real-time correlation of streaming video to geolocation A real time streaming geolocation method includes recording data and linking it to specific coordinates. The data is selectively stored to a database using a specialized data filtering method, and a streaming video can be created from the stored data. The streaming video can be created in real time, creating a current video simulation of a specific environment. The method also allows for interactive addition, modification and deletion of data, such as points of interest, in the video stream.
US08744228B2	Telecommunications patching system with cable management system and related cable management equipment A communications interconnection system includes: a communications rack having a pair of upright members; a patch panel mounted to the upright members, the patch panel having mounting locations for telecommunications connectors; and a cable management system mounted to the rack. The cable management system comprises a cable mounting member having a cable securing portion and a pair of arms attached to the cable securing portion, the arms being substantially parallel to each other and slidably mounted relative to the panel to enable adjustment of the distance between the cable securing portion and the communications rack. This configuration can enable the cable management system to be used with communications racks of different sizes and designs.
US08744223B2	Array-type photo module The present invention provides an array-type photo module including a filter, which, in each channel, transmits therethrough a portion of emitted light from an incident optical fiber on the opposite side of a gradient-index lens array and reflects another portion of the emitted light from the incident optical fiber toward the gradient-index lens array, and a light-shielding member which is arranged on the opposite side of the filter from the gradient-index lens array, so as to be spaced from the filter and, in each channel, has an opening passing therethrough transmitted light from the filter on the opposite side of the filter. The array-type photo module is easily and inexpensively manufactured, and may be used in a high-density array, with low crosstalk.
US08744221B1	Apparatus for transforming the aspect ratio of an optical input field based on stacked waveguides An apparatus consisting of stacked slab waveguides whose outputs are vertically staggered is disclosed. At the input to the stacked waveguides, the entrances to each slab lie in approximately the same vertical plane. A spot which is imaged onto the input will be transformed approximately to a set of staggered rectangles at the output, without substantial loss in brightness, which staggered rectangles can serve as a convenient input to a spectroscopic apparatus. A slit mask can be added to spatially filter the outputs so as to present the desired transverse width in the plane of the spectroscopic apparatus parallel to its dispersion.
US08744215B2	Methods and processes to aggregate multiple image feeds and dynamically select command reference frames Methods and systems to improve operator control of mobile robots are disclosed. The invention comprises in various embodiments the aggregation of multiple image feeds to improve operator situational awareness and the dynamic selection of command reference frames to improve operator intuitive control. The disclosed methods and systems reduce operator workload, reduce task completion times, and extend the capabilities of mobile manipulation systems.
US08744214B2	Navigating images using image based geometric alignment and object based controls Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .seas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.
US08744213B2	Digital microscope slide scanning system and methods Provided herein are systems methods including a design of a microscope slide scanner for digital pathology applications which provides high quality images and automated batch-mode operation at low cost. The instrument architecture is advantageously based on a convergence of high performance, yet low cost, computing technologies, interfaces and software standards to enable high quality digital microscopy at very low cost. Also provided is a method based in part on a stitching method that allows for dividing an image into a number of overlapping tiles and reconstituting the image with a magnification without substantial loss of accuracy. A scanner is employed in capturing snapshot images. The method allows for overlapping images captured in consecutive snapshots.
US08744209B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for visually reducing noise components contained in a low frequency range of image data An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer program, visually remove low-frequency noise contained in image data. Image data containing low-frequency noise is input from an input terminal. A window unit designates a window made up of a pixel of interest, and its surrounding pixels. A pixel selector selects a selected pixel to be compared with the pixel of interest from the window, and a pixel value determination unit determines a new pixel value of the pixel of interest on the basis of the pixel values of the selected pixel and pixel of interest. New image data is generated by substituting the pixel value of the pixel of interest by the new pixel value.
US08744207B2	Image processing device, image processing method, image processing program and recording medium Converting lightness of each pixel even for images having continuous lightness includes: setting a local area around a pixel for which lightness is converted, in the original image; setting an upper limit conversion function which continuously monotonically increases with respect to the lightness, and determines an output upper limit of lightness conversion; setting a lower limit conversion function which continuously monotonically increases with respect to the lightness, and determines an output lower limit of lightness conversion; calculating upper and lower limit values (upper and lower limit conversion function of lightness of the pixel to be converted); calculating a ratio for setting a value between the upper limit value and the lower limit value according to lightness of each pixel in the local area; and calculating converted lightness of a pixel for which the lightness is converted based on the upper limit value, the lower limit value and the ratio.
US08744203B2	Decoder-side region of interest video processing The disclosure is directed to decoder-side region-of-interest (ROI) video processing. A video decoder determines whether ROI assistance information is available. If not, the decoder defaults to decoder-side ROI processing. The decoder-side ROI processing may estimate the reliability of ROI extraction in the bitstream domain. If ROI reliability is favorable, the decoder applies bitstream domain ROI extraction. If ROI reliability is unfavorable, the decoder applies pixel domain ROI extraction. The decoder may apply different ROI extraction processes for intra-coded (I) and inter-coded (P or B) data. The decoder may use color-based ROI generation for intra-coded data, and coded block pattern (CBP)-based ROI generation for inter-coded data. ROI refinement may involve shape-based refinement for intra-coded data, and motion- and color-based refinement for inter-coded data.
US08744200B1	Hybrid compressive/Nyquist sampling for enhanced sensing Described is a knowledge-enhanced compressive imaging system. The system first initializes a compressive measurement basis set and a measurement matrix using task- and scene-specific prior knowledge. An image captured using the imaging mode of the dual-mode sensor is then sampled to extract context knowledge. The compressive measurement basis set and the measurement matrix are adapted using the extracted context knowledge and the prior knowledge. Task-relevant compressive measurements of the image are performed using the compressive measurement mode of the dual-mode sensor, and compressive reconstruction of the image is performed. Finally, a task and context optimized signal representation of the image is generated.
US08744196B2	Automatic recognition of images Presented is a method of automatically performing an action, based on graphical input. The method comprises: receiving, for a user, an input image; comparing the input image with the contents of a user-customized database comprising a plurality of records, each record representing a predefined class of image, wherein the user has previously associated records in the database with respective specified actions; attempting to recognize the image, based on the similarity of the input image to one of the predefined classes of image represented in the user-customized database; and if the image is recognized, performing the action previously associated by the user with the class. Also presented is apparatus for recognizing an image and a method of constructing a user-customized database.
US08744193B2	Image signature extraction device The image signature extraction device includes an extraction unit and a generation unit. The extraction unit extracts region features from respective sub-regions in an image in accordance with a plurality of pairs of sub-regions in the image, the pairs of sub-regions including at least one pair of sub-regions in which both a combination of shapes of two sub-regions of the pair and relative position between the two sub-regions of the pair differ from those of at least one of other pairs of sub-regions. The generation unit generates an image signature to be used for identifying the image based on the extracted region features of the respective sub-regions, using, for at least one pair of sub-regions, a method different from that used for another pair of sub-regions.
US08744191B1	Selection of an image or images most representative of a set of images Implementations consistent with the principles described herein relate to ranking a set of images based on features of the images determine the most representative and/or highest quality images in the set. In one implementation, an initial set of images is obtained and ranked based on a comparison of each image in the set of images to other images in the set of images. The comparison is performed using at least one predetermined feature of the images.
US08744183B2	Clustering of forms from large-scale scanned-document collection Techniques for identifying documents sharing common underlying structures in a large collection of documents and processing the documents using the identified structures are disclosed. Images of the document collection are processed to detect occurrences of a predetermined set of image features that are common or similar among forms. The images are then indexed in an image index based on the detected image features. A graph of nodes is built. Nodes in the graph represent images and are connected to nodes representing similar document images by edges. Documents sharing common underlying structures are identified by gathering strongly inter-connected nodes in the graph. The identified documents are processed based at least in part on the resulting clusters.
US08744180B2	System and process for automatically finding objects of a specific color A computer implemented method, system and computer program product for identifying the Main Colors and the matching colors of a visual object, and then viewing on a mobile device select items comprising the matching colors, such as from a merchant's catalogue. A visual object is analyzed for color content, and the results are stored on a system database located on the device or on a remote server. The color analysis of the objects comprise advanced image processing techniques, such as Main Color extraction using color space transformation comprising HSV, RGB and CYMK to map between pixels in the image. The user can subsequently view a display on their mobile identifying the visual object's Main Colors and at least one Harmonic Color; and then select and view all items (i.e. products in a database) comprising one Harmonic Color, and/or all items of a specific type and Harmonic Color.
US08744178B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage unit in which a color arrangement database recording correspondences between color arrangement information about a combination of colors and a color arrangement mood concerning an atmosphere provided by the combination of colors is stored and a color arrangement mood analysis unit that analyzes the input color arrangement information based on the color arrangement database to determine the color arrangement mood corresponding to the combination of colors represented by the input color arrangement information.
US08744175B2	Image providing device, image processing method, image processing program, and recording medium for causing a mosaic image by combining images Even a mosaic image in an uncompleted state, it makes a mosaic image having high recognizability of a picture of an original image displayed. An image providing device includes an image acquisition means that acquires an image specified by a user, a candidate determination means that, on the basis of color information of the acquired image and color information of the regions, determines regions to be candidates for a region to which the acquired image is assigned, an edge degree acquisition means that acquires edge degrees indicating degrees of edges in the regions determined as the candidates, an assignment determination means that, on the basis of the acquired edge degrees, determines a region to which the acquired image is assigned from the regions determined as the candidates, and a presentation means that, on the basis of assignment determined by the assignment determination means, causes a mosaic image in which the acquired image is placed to be presented.
US08744167B2	Method, medium, and apparatus of filtering depth noise using depth information A depth noise filtering method and apparatus is provided. The depth noise filtering method may perform spatial filtering or temporal filtering according to depth information. In order to perform spatial filtering, the depth noise filtering method may determine a characteristic of a spatial filter based on depth information. Also, in order to perform temporal filtering, the depth noise filtering method may determine a number of reference frames based on depth information. The depth noise filtering method may adaptively remove depth noise according to depth information and thereby enhance a noise filtering performance.
US08744165B2	Method and apparatus for stain separation in digital pathology images A stain separation system of digital pathology images that performs transforming a digital image from a first color domain to an optical domain to form an optical domain image (ODI), identifying a plane containing two or more basis vector which contain the pixels of the ODI, determining a plurality of orthogonal vector within the identified plane, forming a histogram of the digital image represented by the orthogonal vectors and determining one or more final stain vectors by searching for candidate vectors in the plane that minimize a cost function of the histogram.
US08744163B2	System and method for laser dissection Systems, devices, and methods for removing areas of tissue are described. A programmable laser may remove precise areas of tissue while the tissue remains substantially frozen. The laser is programmed in part by analyzing a reference image of a representative tissue section. A software program may receive digital images of test slices. Areas of interest in the image may be selected by a user. The software program can then create and send cut instructions to the programmable laser. The laser may be configured to make perforated cuts to remove the area of interest without melting the removed section.
US08744161B2	Method and computer system for scattered beam correction in a multi-source CT A method and a computer system are disclosed for scattered beam correction in a CT examination of an object in a multi source CT. In at least one embodiment, the method includes generating original projection data records; reconstruction of the object with the original projection data records of at least one detector; determining the scattered radiation generated by each emitter exclusively in the direction of the original beams of the at least one other emitter relative to its opposing detector; generating corrected projection data records by removing the calculated scattered radiation from the original projection data records; reconstruction of the object with the corrected projection data records, and implementing a further iteration of the method when determining the scattered radiation or issuing the reconstruction result if at least one predetermined abort criterion applies.
US08744159B2	Methods, systems and computer program products for collapsing volume data to lower dimensional representations thereof using histogram projection Methods of collapsing volume data to a lower dimensional representation of the volume data are provided. The methods include collapsing volume data to a lower dimensional representation of the volume data using histogram projection. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US08744158B2	Ophthalmologic image display apparatus, ophthalmologic image display method, program, and storage medium An ophthalmologic image display apparatus for displaying information about an eye includes an input unit configured to input a tomographic image of the eye, an acquisition unit configured to acquire diagnostic supporting information associated with positional information about the tomographic image of the eye, a processing unit configured to perform processing for assigning a voxel value to volume data constituting the tomographic image based on a reflection intensity value indicating the tomographic image and the diagnostic supporting information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image processed by the processing unit.
US08744156B2	Photographic information processing apparatus and photographic information processing method A photographic information processing apparatus corrects photographic information based on temporarily determined photographic information relating to a photographing operation. The photographic information processing apparatus includes a photographic information correction determination unit determines whether correction of the photographic information is required based on an operation by an operator, an image data acquisition unit detects an X-ray having penetrated a body of a patient and acquires image data based on the detected X-ray, a photographic information correction unit corrects the temporarily determined photographic information based on patient information of the patient in a case where the correction of the photographic information is determined to be required, and an image data output unit outputs the image data after the correction of the temporarily determined photographic information is completed. The acquired image data is prevented from being output unless the temporarily determined photographic information is corrected.
US08744151B2	Diagnosis assisting system, diagnosis assisting program and diagnosis assisting method A CPR image that represents a range corresponding to at least a portion of a blood vessel is generated from volume data obtained by imaging, and arranged in a predetermined region of a display screen. Band shaped condition display regions are arranged outside the predetermined region such that they are parallel to the blood vessel represented by the CPR image. Index values, such as stenosis rates and whether plaque is present, are calculated by analyzing the volume data. The calculated index values are converted to colors (RGB values) by referring to a conversion table. The condition display regions are displayed in colors according to the values of the index values.
US08744147B2	Graphical digital medical record annotation Disclosed herein is a method for graphically representing the condition of an anatomical structure that is the subject of a medical examination. The method includes displaying a background image representative of the anatomical structure, the image including a plurality of layers corresponding to different layers of the anatomical structure, selecting a layer of the background image, presenting a plurality of symbols, each corresponding to an anatomical pathological state and selected from a group associated with the selected layer, each symbol having a plurality of parameters which determine the rendering condition of a symbol on the background, selecting one of the presented symbols, selecting an X-Y position within the selected layer and displaying the symbol on the selected layer.
US08744145B2	Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a portion of the sub-sampled image. Fixed size face detection is applied to at least a portion of the integral image to provide a set of candidate face regions. Responsive to the set of candidate face regions produced and any previously detected candidate face regions, the resolution is adjusted for sub-sampling a subsequent acquired image.
US08744144B2	Feature point generation system, feature point generation method, and feature point generation program A feature point generation system capable of generating a feature point that satisfies a preferred condition from a three-dimensional shape model is provided. Image group generation means 31 generates a plurality of images obtained by varying conditions with respect to the three-dimensional shape model. Evaluation means 33 calculates a first evaluation value that decreases steadily as a feature point group is distributed more uniformly on the three-dimensional shape model and a second evaluation value that decreases steadily as extraction of a feature point in an image corresponding to a feature point on the three-dimensional shape model becomes easier, and calculates an evaluation value relating to a designated feature point group as a weighted sum of the respective evaluation values. Feature point arrangement means 32 arranges the feature point group on the three-dimensional shape model so that the evaluation value calculated by the evaluation means 33 is minimized.
US08744137B2	Information processing device and information processing method A processing device and method is provided. According to an illustrative embodiment, the device and method is implemented by detecting a face region of an image, setting at least one action region according to the position of the face region, comparing image data corresponding to the at least one action region to the detection information for purposes of determining whether or not a predetermined action has been performed, and generating a notification when it is determined that the predetermined action has been performed.
US08744135B2	Methods and data structures for multiple combined improved searchable formatted documents including citation and corpus generation Searchable annotated formatted documents are produced by correlating documents stored as photographic or scanned graphic representations of an actual document (evidence, report, court order, etc.) with textual version of the same documents. A produced document will provide additional details in a data structure that supports citation annotation as well as other types of analysis of a document. The data structure also supports generation of citation reports and corpus reports. Methods of creating searchable annotated formatted documents including citation and corpus reports by correlating and correcting text files with photographic or scanned graphic of the original documents. Data structures for correlating and correcting text files with graphic images. Generation of citation reports, concordance reports, and corpus reports. Data structures for citation reports, concordance reports, and corpus reports generation. Multiple document data structures are used to create multiple citation documents and reports. Embodiments of citation reports and corpus reports contain correlated, comprehensive multiple citations.
US08744134B2	Device and method for displaying full azimuth angle domain image data A device, system, and method for displaying seismic image data may include computing, from a wide-azimuth data set, a discrete data set associated with an image function at a seismic image point. The discrete data set may be mapped onto a continuous curved three-dimensional surface. The mapped data set may be projected onto a continuous planar surface. The projected data may be displayed as a planar disk. A plurality of continuous planar surfaces, each representing a single image point, may be assembled to form a three-dimensional body, representing a seismic gather of image points. The three-dimensional body may be displayed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08744132B2	Video-based method for detecting parking boundary violations A method and a system for determining a parking boundary violation includes receiving video data from a sequence of frames taken from an image capture device monitoring a parking area including at least a single parking space. A boundary is determined for defining at least one parking space in the parking area. A vehicle is detected in the parking area. A determination is made whether the detected vehicle is violating a parking regulation based on a position and size of the vehicle within the boundary.
US08744131B2	Pedestrian-crossing marking detecting method and pedestrian-crossing marking detecting device Provided are a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting method and a pedestrian-crossing marking detecting device, wherein the existence of pedestrian crossing markings and the positions thereof can be detected accurately from within a picked up image, even when detection of the intensity edges of painted sections is difficult. In the pedestrian-crossing mark detecting device (100), a road-surface distance of a predetermined range is calculated with respect to image data picked up from the periphery of the vehicle including the road, using camera installation information or a stereo camera's distance information, and the period of the pedestrian crossing markings is calculated on the basis of the road-surface distance of the predetermined range, and furthermore, a power of frequency is calculated using an even function and odd function of a square wave of the period as the basis function. In such a way, the existence of pedestrian crossing markings and the positions thereof can be detected accurately from within the captured image, even with pedestrian crossing markings where the paint has faded.
US08744128B2	Imaging system and image processing method thereof An image processing method is provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. A plurality of raw signal is received by a signal transceiving module of the ultrasound imaging system. It is determined whether each of the raw signals satisfies any condition in a condition group, and the raw signal satisfying any condition in the condition group is mapped to one of a plurality of preset constants to generate a plurality of first data. The raw signals not satisfying any condition in the condition group are processed according to a calculation formula to generate a plurality of second data. A beamforming procedure is simultaneously performed on the first and second data to obtain a beamformed image. The beamformed image is transformed to obtain an image of a region to be detected. Furthermore, an imaging system using the foregoing image processing method is also provided.
US08744127B2	Image processing apparatus and method for improving frame rate while maintaining natural movement of object on images An image processing apparatus includes a motion vector detector configured to detect, based on a first image and a second image different from the first image among a plurality of images, motion vectors representing a movement of an object on the second image with respect to an object on the first image; a first calculation unit configured to calculate an acceleration of the object on the image based on the motion vectors; a second calculation unit configured to calculate an object position representing a position of an object on an interpolation image interpolated between the images adjacent in a time direction among the images based on the acceleration, and an interpolation processing unit configured to interpolate the interpolation image on which the object is drawn at the object position.
US08744124B2	Systems and methods for detecting anomalies from data The present disclosure concerns methods and/or systems for processing, detecting and/or notifying for the presence of anomalies or infrequent events from data. Some of the disclose methods and/or systems may be used on large-scale data sets. Certain applications are directed to analyzing sensor surveillance records to identify aberrant behavior. The sensor data may be from a number of sensor types including video and/or audio. Certain applications are directed to methods and/or systems that use compressive sensing. Certain applications may be performed in substantially real time.
US08744115B2	Speaker Provided are a speaker and a speaker system. The speaker includes a main unit and a sub unit. The main unit emits a sound in a first direction. The sub unit is formed integrally with the main unit and emits a sound in a second direction different from the first direction.
US08744112B2	Earphone with speaker facing away from earpiece and sound tube that communicates with spaces in front of and behind the speaker Provided is an earphone capable of protecting a user's tympanic membrane, improving the durability thereof, and enjoying the further improved quality of sound by adjusting a medium-low pitched sound. In the earphone, a micro speaker mounted on a partition wall dividing an inner space is embedded in a housing. An earpiece is connected to the housing and is inserted into an external auditory canal, and a sound band adjustment unit is provided in the housing.
US08744111B2	Earphone with tension diaphragm An earphone with tension diaphragm includes a front portion, a rear portion, a silicone gel earplug, a filtering net and a sound generating unit. As a user pushes the earphone into his ear, the diaphragm of the sound generating unit has a deformation and thus an air turbulence would be generated. This air turbulence would then cause a deformation of the tension diaphragm and this deformation would in turn eliminate the strange and unpleasant noises generated as a user pushes an earphone into his ear. Therefore, better audio signals may be achieved and a better low-frequency effect may be reached. Also, because the earphone of the present invention is water-resistant, it may be used under water. In addition, other water-resistant earphones on the market do not have such tension diaphragm.
US08744110B2	Unidirectional dynamic microphone A unidirectional dynamic microphone includes a grip housing, a microphone unit supported at a first end of the grip housing, a plug assembly attached to a second end of the grip housing and connected to the microphone unit through a lead line, and an air room serving as a part of an acoustic circuit of the microphone unit in the grip housing. The grip housing has a fitting part for the plug assembly and an expanded portion. The plug assembly fitted in the fitting part is fixed within the grip housing by an elastic ring and a pressure ring fitted in the expanded portion. The elastic ring seals a space between the grip housing and the plug assembly.
US08744102B2	Hearing aid, and a method for control of adaptation rate in anti-feedback systems for hearing aids A hearing aid comprises at least one microphone (M) for converting input sound into an input signal, a subtraction node for subtracting a feedback cancellation signal from the input signal thereby generating a processor input signal, a hearing aid processor (G) for producing a processor output signal by applying an amplification gain to the processor input signal, a receiver (R) for converting the processor output signal into output sound, an adaptive feedback cancellation filter for adaptively deriving the feedback cancellation signal from the processor output signal by applying filter coefficients, calculation means for calculating the autocorrelation of a reference signal, and an adaptation means for adjusting the filter coefficients with an adaptation rate, wherein the adaptation rate is controlled in dependency of the autocorrelation of the reference signal.
US08744095B2	Digital mixing system with dual consoles and cascade engines A method is designed for controlling a total mixing system including a first mixing system and a second mixing system, which are operated in a linked manner. In the method, the first mixing system stores first scene data specifying contents of a mixing process matching a scene. The second mixing system stores second scene data specifying contents of a mixing process matching a scene. The first mixing system transmits a scene recall request to the second mixing system when a recall event of the first scene data occurs. The second mixing system transmits back a recall enabling response to the first mixing system after receipt of the scene recall request. The first mixing system reconstructs the contents of the mixing process on the basis of the first scene data after the reception of the recall enabling response. The second mixing system reconstructs the contents of the mixing process on the basis of the second scene data after the transmission of the recall enabling response.
US08744093B2	Active vibration/noise control device An active vibration/noise control device which is provided with a plurality of cancel signal generation parts for generating output signals for respectively cancelling noises generated at a plurality of vibration/noise generation sources. The effect of the suspension of either of first and second cancel signal generation parts on the other is reduced. According to the operating state of the first cancel signal generation part, the simulated transmission properties of the second cancel signal generation part are adjusted. Consequently, without regard to the operating state of the first cancel signal generation part, the noise control performance of the second cancel signal generation part can be maintained.
US08744092B2	Method for testing a wireless communication system in connection with a fitting device and a hearing device as well as a communication system A method for testing a wireless communication system is disclosed comprising a fitting device (1; IF, PC) and at least one of a hearing device (HD1, HD2) and an accessory device (ACC) to the hearing device (HD1, HD2). The fitting device (1; IF, PC) comprising means for communicating with at least one of the hearing device (HD1, HD2) and the accessory device (ACC). The method comprises the steps of: testing at least one of the following elements: a transceiver of the hearing device (HD1, HD2); a transceiver of the accessory device (ACC); a transceiver of the fitting device (1; IF, PC); quality of a link between two transceivers; comparing results of the testing with predefined values, presenting a result of the comparison to the user of the fitting device (1; IF, PC) by indicating failure or non-failure for the corresponding element tested, wherein the step of testing is controlled by the fitting device (1; IF, PC). Furthermore, a wireless communication system is disclosed, which is used for implementing the inventive method.
US08744090B2	Ribbon microphone To suppress the transverse displacement of a ribbon due to an impact to a level smaller than that achieved by electromagnetic damping. The switch 150 breaks a path between the piezoelectric element 140 and the secondary winding 132 so as to be non-conductive when a power plug is connected (the microphone is in use), and completes a path between the piezoelectric element 140 and the secondary winding 132 so as to be conductive when a power plug is not connected (the microphone is not in use), in order to generate a driving force in the direction opposite to the displacement direction of the ribbon 10 by causing a current corresponding to power generated in the piezoelectric element 140 to flow in the ribbon 10.
US08744088B2	Method, medium, and apparatus decoding an input signal including compressed multi-channel signals as a mono or stereo signal into 2-channel binaural signals A decoding method, medium, and device decoding an input signal, including compressed multi-channel signals as a mono or stereo signal, into 2-channel binaural signals. A full band channel level of each channel in the multi-channel system is calculated from channel level differences between the channels, and data of each channel included in the input signal is localized in directions corresponding to the channels based on the calculated full band channel levels of the channels. Accordingly, the input signal can be output as the 2-channel binaural signals by using simple operations without having to reconstruct multi-channel signals from the input signal in a quadrature mirror filter (QMF) domain.
US08744079B2	Secure communication system A method of encrypting data to be accessed only by a group of users comprises a user in the group receiving a user secret si=ƒ1(R, ui), the user secret having been created by operating a first one-way function f1 on parameters comprising a root key R and a public identifier ui for the user. The user in the group receives a public identifier ui for each of the other users in the group. The user in the group obtains a group key by operating a second one-way function ƒ2 on parameters comprising the user secret s, and the public identifiers for the other users in the group u1, u2, . . . , uj−1, uj+1 . . . un−1, un, wherein said second one-way function/band said first one-way function ƒ1 satisfy: ƒ2(ƒ1(R,u1), u2, . . . , un)=ƒ2(ƒ1(R,u2), u1, u3, u4 . . . , un)= . . . =ƒ2(ƒ1(R,un), u1, u2 . . . , un−1). The user in the group encrypts the data using the group key.
US08744078B2	System and method for securing multiple data segments having different lengths using pattern keys having multiple different strengths A system and method for securing data and information is disclosed. Multiple cryptographic paradigms may be applied to multiple length data segments to encrypt such data to prevent unauthorized use. The system and method uses pattern keys. At least one pattern key uses a cryptographic paradigm different from the other pattern keys. Furthermore, each pattern key has a given key strength and at least one pattern keys key strength differs from the one or more other pattern keys used in the process. The pattern keys are applied to the data in accordance with a key pattern which defines the sequence that each pattern key is applied to the data. The length of each data segment may vary one from the other and such segment length is determined in accordance with the pattern key applied. In addition, the initial plaintext data may first be encrypted using a first password before the disclosed process is implemented.
US08744074B2	Method and device for countering fault attacks The public exponent e of an RSA key is embedded in a RSA key object that lacks this exponent. During exponentiation, the public exponent e may be extracted and used to verify that the result of the exponentiation is correct. The result is output only if this is the case. The invention counters fault-attacks. Also provided are an apparatus and a computer program product.
US08744073B2	Digital random number generator based on digitally-controlled oscillators A system for random number generation includes a digital oscillator circuit, which has a set of available configurations and is operative to generate a random number sequence in accordance with a current configuration selected from the set. The system further includes a randomization circuit, which is operative to produce a pseudo-random stream of values corresponding to the available configurations of the digital oscillator circuit, and to control the digital oscillator circuit to alternate among the available configurations in accordance with the pseudo-random stream of values.
US08744072B2	Exponentiation method resistant against side-channel and safe-error attacks An exponentiation method resistant against side-channel attacks and safe-error attacks. Input to the method is g in a multiplicatively written group G and a /-digit exponent d with a radix m>1 and output is z=gd-1·(d−1) is expressed as a series of (/−1) non-zero digits, d0 . . . dI-2, in the set {m−1, . . . , 2m−2} and an extra digit dI-1 that is equal to dI-1−1, where dI-1 represents the most significant radix-m digit of d, and gd-1 is evaluated through a m-ary exponentiation algorithm on input g and (d−1) represented by d0 . . . d*I-1. Also provided are an apparatus and a computer program product.
US08744070B2	User device The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a user device, which includes a main body part, a movable part electrically connected with the main body part, and a switching control unit and a rotation driver unit for co-axially connecting the main body part with the movable part. The switching control unit is used for eliminating a friction that enables the main body part to be fixed relative to the movable part fixed to turn on a rotation mode of the movable part. The rotation driver unit is used for applying a pre-pressing elastic force to the movable part when the switching control unit turns on the rotation mode of the movable part, so as to enable the movable part to automatically rotate relative to the main body part. The pre-pressing elastic force is less than the friction.
US08744069B2	Removing near-end frequencies from far-end sound By-bandwidth voice-switching is performed during doubletalk between a near-end teleconference device and a far-end teleconference device. This may involve receiving far-end voice data from the far-end teleconference device. Near-end voice data is also received at the near-end teleconference device. Frequency subbands of the near-end voice data that having substantial energy are identified. Before playing the far-end voice data on one or more loudspeakers of the near-end teleconference device, frequency subbands from the far-end voice data frequency subbands thereof that correspond to the identified frequency subbands of the near-end voice data are attenuated and/or eliminated.
US08744068B2	Measuring quality of experience in telecommunication system Technologies are generally described for a system for measuring a quality of experience (QoE). In some examples, a quality of experience (QoE) measuring device may include a background noise detecting unit configured to measure a background noise around a near-end talker, and a decision unit configured to determine whether a double talk event detected by a double talk detector is caused by the background noise around the near-end talker.
US08744067B2	System and method of adjusting the sound of multiple audio objects directed toward an audio output device Embodiments of the present invention include methods and apparatuses for adjusting audio content when more multiple audio objects are directed toward a single audio output device. The amplitude, white noise content, and frequencies can be adjusted to enhance overall sound quality or make content of certain audio objects more intelligible. Audio objects are classified by a class category, by which they are can be assigned class specific processing. Audio objects classes can also have a rank. The rank of an audio objects class is used to give priority to or apply specific processing to audio objects sin the presence of other audio objects of different classes.
US08744065B2	Method and system for monitoring contact center transactions A method and system for concurrently monitoring contact center agents. A user interface executes on a supervisor station and displays multiple agent identifiers, including a first agent identifier and a second agent identifier, on a display device. The supervisor station provides to a three-dimensional spatial audio engine (3DSAE) first audio attribute data identifying a location of the first agent identifier in the user interface with respect to a supervisor reference position, the first audio attribute data including first audio direction data and first audio distance data. The supervisor station receives from the 3DSAE first voice signals corresponding to the first agent identifier, wherein the first voice signals include aural characteristics based on the first audio attribute data, and presents the first voice signals to an output port.
US08744064B1	Recording invocation of communication sessions Systems and methods for recording a communication session between a customer and an agent of a customer center communication system are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: configuring a communication component of the customer center communication system to enable recording of a media stream associated with the communication session; transmitting the media stream over a network based on the configuration of the communication component; receiving the media stream over the network; and recording the received media stream.
US08744062B2	Call center services system and method A method and system for providing automated call center services, operating by identifying a caller, accessing the caller's account information, determining the likely reason for the call, identifying an agent skill group based on the likely reason for the call, and providing an available agent with access to the caller's account information, together with a script based on the likely reason for the call. Data and voice access to agents is combined with specialized methods and systems for determining agent optimization capabilities, thereby allowing multiple call centers located in geographically different areas to operate as a seamless virtual call center, having the capability to dynamically reorganize the structure of available agents, regardless of where located. Real time statistics allow determination of how many agents should be available and what skill sets those agents should have, thereby facilitating management decisions.
US08744057B2	Method and apparatus for sharing end user feedback A method and apparatus for sharing end user feedback is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system can have a collection element that receives a vendor identifier and a measure of satisfaction associated therewith, and a storage element that stores the measure of satisfaction in a telephone directory of commercial vendors according to the vendor identifier. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08744055B2	Abstract application dispatcher Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing one or more services in a communication session such as a call or other media exchange independent of supporting network technologies. According to one embodiment, a system for providing one or more services in a communication session can comprise a communication network and an application dispatcher communicatively coupled with the communication network. The application dispatcher can be adapted to determine one or more components for providing at least one service in the communication session and direct the communication session to the one or more components. According to one embodiment, determining the one or more components and directing the communication session to the one or more components can be performed independent of supporting network technologies.
US08744049B2	Radiation grid, a radiographic apparatus equipped therewith, and a method of manufacturing the radiation grid A radiation grid comprises an absorber including absorbing foil strips extending in a direction of extension for absorbing radiation, the absorbing foil strips being arranged in a direction of arrangement perpendicular to the direction of extension; a first covering member for covering one planar surface of the absorber; a second covering member for covering a surface at the opposite side of the one surface of the absorber; first joint members each provided in an area of adjacence between the first covering member and one of the absorbing foil strips forming the absorber, for integrating the two parts; second joint members each provided in an area of adjacence between the second covering member and one of the absorbing foil strips forming the absorber, for integrating the two parts; and connecting members provided to connect ends in the direction of extension of the absorbing foil strips. The connecting members are disposed clear of a middle portion in the direction of extension of each absorbing foil strip.
US08744048B2	Integrated X-ray source having a multilayer total internal reflection optic device An integrated X-ray source is provided. The integrated X-ray source includes a target for emitting X-rays upon being struck by one or more excitation beams, and one or more total internal reflection multilayer optic devices in physical contact with the target to transmit at least a portion of the X rays through total internal reflection to produce X-ray beams, wherein the optic device comprises an input face for receiving the X rays and an output face through which the X-ray beams exit the integrated X-ray source.
US08744046B2	Method and apparatus of precisely measuring intensity profile of X-ray nanobeam Provided are a method and an apparatus of precisely measuring the intensity profile of an x-ray nanobeam, which can measure x-rays having different wavelengths with one knife edge and can perform optimal measurements corresponding to the depth of focus of an x-ray beam and the conditions of other measurement devices, using a dark field measurement method which enables precise measurements of the profile of an x-ray beam using a knife edge and using diffracted and transmitted x-rays. The knife edge (4) is formed of a heavy metal which advances the phase of an x-ray passing therethrough and is fabricated in such a manner that the thickness may change in the longitudinal direction continuously or in a stepwise fashion. The knife edge (4) is so set that an x-ray beam may traverse the knife edge (4) at such a thickness position as to achieve a phase shift in a range wherein a transmitted x-ray and a diffracted x-ray diffracted at the end of the knife edge may reinforce each other, and a superposed x-ray of the diffracted x-ray and the transmitted x-ray is measured by an x-ray detector.
US08744044B2	X-ray imaging apparatus An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray irradiation unit which irradiates X-rays, a detection unit which detects the X-rays transmitted through an object, and a housing which contains the detection unit. The housing includes a first housing in which an X-ray transmission member which transmits the X-rays is placed in an incident range of the X-rays irradiated from the X-ray irradiation unit; a second housing which supports the detection unit while being spaced apart from the X-ray transmission member on an opposite side to an incident side on which the X-rays strike the X-ray transmission member; and a plurality of connecting members which connect the first housing to the second housing.
US08744041B2	Methods and systems for dynamically modifying acquisition parameter during image acquisition Systems and methods for automatically and dynamically modifying an image acquisition parameter for use in tomosynthesis breast imaging. A selected image acquisition parameter is modified in response to a measured characteristic of an imaged object such as a breast, and thus tailored to provide the highest quality image for the particular object. For example, image quality in a breast tomosynthesis system can be improved by dynamically varying motion and other acquisition parameters of the tomosynthesis system in response to physical characteristics of the breast to be imaged (determined during image acquisition), such as the breast thickness, density or composition. Dynamically varying acquisition or processing methods helps to customize the system for each particular patient, thereby improving image quality and identification and assessment of potential pathologies and abnormalities, and lower radiation dose, and thus a reduced the risk of long-term adverse health effects due to lifetime accumulated radiation dose.
US08744039B2	X-ray CT apparatus An X-ray CT apparatus is provided that generates a three-dimensional cross-section model from scanogram projection data of an examinee. An operator inputs a site of interest, an assumed displacement amount of the site and a desired image quality index value. A scan planning unit calculates an X-ray attenuation index from the three-dimensional cross-section model, and corrects the calculated X-ray attenuation index on the basis of the input site of interest, assumed displacement amount and image quality index value. The scan planning unit further determines a tube current modulating pattern (irradiation X-ray dose modulating pattern) on the basis of the corrected X-ray attenuation index. When scanning is executed, an X-ray tube is controlled according to the determined irradiation X-ray dose modulating pattern, and controlled so as to obtain an optimum X-ray dose.
US08744036B2	High power density liquid-cooled pebble-channel nuclear reactor A high-temperature nuclear reactor, cooled by a liquid fluoride salt, is described. The reactor uses an annular fuel pebble comprised of an inert graphite center kernel, a TRISO fuel particles region, and a graphite outer shell, with an average pebble density lower than the density of the liquid salt so the pebbles float. The pebbles are introduced into a coolant entering the reactor and are carried into the bottom of the reactor core, where they form a pebble bed inside a plurality of vertical channels inside one or more replaceable Pebble Channel Assemblies (PCAs). Pebbles are removed through defueling chutes located at the top of each PCA. Each PCA also includes channels for insertion of neutron control and shutdown elements, and channels for insertion of core flux mapping and other instrumentation.
US08744034B2	Boiling water reactor A boiling water reactor has a reactor pressure vessel and a through piping. The reactor pressure vessel includes a main body trunk and an openable upper lid covering an upper open end of the main body trunk from above. The through piping penetrates lateral side of the main body trunk and has an opening section at a same level with or higher than the upper open end of the main body trunk in the reactor pressure vessel. The through piping may be connected to the sump arranged outside the reactor pressure vessel in the dry well. The through piping may be further connected to the suppression pool in the wet well and/or to the water level gauge in the dry well.
US08744032B2	Noise shaped interpolator and decimator apparatus and method Improved interpolator and decimator apparatus and methods, including the addition of an elastic storage element in the signal path. In one exemplary embodiment, the elastic element comprises a FIFO which advantageously allows short term variation in sample clocks to be absorbed, and also provides a feedback mechanism for controlling a delta-sigma modulated modulo-N counter based sample clock generator. The elastic element combined with a delta-sigma modulator and counter creates a noise-shaped frequency lock loop without additional components, resulting in a much simplified interpolator and decimator.
US08744028B2	Data communication system and receiving device A data communication system comprises a transmitting device which transmits data and a receiving device which receives the data. The transmitting device comprises a clock generating circuit and a transmitting unit. The clock generating circuit generates a clock having a temperature characteristic in that a clock frequency varies with temperature. The transmitting unit transmits data generated in synchronization with the clock to the receiving device. The receiving device comprises a receiving unit, a detecting unit, a storage unit, and a calculating unit. The receiving unit receives the data. The detecting unit detects the clock frequency from the data. The storage unit stores temperature characteristic information regarding the temperature characteristic of the clock frequency. The calculating unit calculates a temperature corresponding to the clock frequency based on the clock frequency and the temperature characteristic information.
US08744027B2	Infrared receiver circuit The invention relates to an infrared receiver circuit for receiving a carrier-modulated infrared signal that comprises a carrier signal and a wanted signal modulated onto the carrier signal, having a band pass filter that exhibits a frequency adjustment connection via which the band center frequency of the band pass filter can be adjusted, furthermore having a demodulator for recovering the wanted signal and having a signal output to which the demodulated wanted signal can be output. The infrared receiver circuit exhibits a signal input that is at least indirectly connected to the frequency adjustment connection of the band pass filter so that the band center frequency of the band pass filter can be adjusted by a clock signal of an external clock pulse generator.
US08744022B2	Glitch mitigation in a radio receiver A basic idea is to determine (S1) occurrence of a glitch caused by operation of the AGC mechanism, identify (S2) those modulation symbols in a digitized version of the received signal that are affected by the glitch, each modulation symbol represented by a number of bits in combination, and then reduce (S3), for each of the identified modulation symbols, the contribution in representing the identified modulation symbol as provided by at least a subset of the bits of the modulation symbol. In this way, the adverse effects of the glitch can be effectively mitigated and subsequent detection of the desired signal can be significantly improved. This also means that the link performance will be significantly improved.
US08744021B1	Systems, methods, and devices for improving signal quality Improving signal quality by sampling an intermediate frequency signal by an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and determining spectral characteristic data of the output signal of the ADC, and processing the spectral characteristic data to identify blocking signals and blocking spur signals that interfere with any desired signals. An adjustment is made to the frequency of one or more oscillators to reduce the interference resulting from the blocking signals if a ratio of the desired signal level to the total interfering blocker spur level is below a threshold.
US08744009B2	Reducing transmitter-to-receiver non-linear distortion at a transmitter prior to estimating and cancelling known non-linear distortion at a receiver A communication system is provided that includes a transmitter device and a receiver device. The transmitter device transmits input data as a transmitted signal having the known non-linear distortion (NLD) characteristic. The receiver receives a received signal that represents a channel affected version of the transmitted signal and that has the known NLD characteristic. The received signal includes power amplifier distortion (PAD) induced by the transmitter device's power amplifier. The receiver is designed to iteratively estimate, based on the known NLD characteristic, remaining PAD caused by the power amplifier, and to iteratively cancel estimated PAD to reduce PAD in the received signal.
US08744006B2	Transmit diversity for pre-coded radio control signals A method sends uplink control information from a user equipment to a serving node of a radio communications system by first encoding uplink control information bits into symbols. The encoded symbols are split into at least two groups of symbols for use to achieve diversity transmission. Each of the at least two groups of symbols are cyclically repeated to generate a repeated group for each of the at least two groups of symbols. Then the repeated groups are mapped each to different transmission ports of the user equipment for diversity transmission as uplink control information through a plurality of uplink transmission slots of an uplink subframe.
US08744005B2	Method and apparatus for generating modulation signals A method of generating modulation signals is disclosed including generally three steps. A plurality of modulation signals are generated, each of which is to be transmitted from a different one of a plurality of antennas in an identical frequency band, wherein each modulation signal includes a pilot symbol sequence including a plurality of pilot symbols used for demodulation. Each of the pilot symbol sequences is inserted at the same temporal point in each modulation signal, wherein the pilot symbol sequences are orthogonal to each other with zero mutual correlation among the plurality of modulation signals, each pilot symbol having a non-zero amplitude, the quantity of the plurality of pilot symbols in each sequence being greater than the quantity of the plurality of modulation signals to be transmitted. The plurality of modulation signals each including different transmission data and one of the pilot symbol sequences are output to the antennas.
US08743997B2	Method and apparatus for improving throughput and error performance of rateless coding systems A method and system are described for adaptively adjusting data communication of a rateless coding system, including adaptively estimating a symbol coding length, determining a symbol threshold, determining if the adaptively estimated symbol coding length is less than the symbol threshold, adjusting a transmission power level based on the second determining act and adaptively adjusting a modulation scheme based on the second determining act. Also described are a method and system for decoding communication of a rateless coding system, including receiving encoded symbols, determining if a length of the received encoded symbols is greater than a threshold number of encoded symbols and decoding the received encoded symbols if the length of the received encoded symbols is greater than the threshold number of encoded symbols.
US08743996B2	Digital broadcasting transmission/reception devices capable of improving a receiving performance and signal processing method thereof Disclosed is a digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having an improved reception performance and in a signal-processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter comprises a TS stream generator for inputting robust and normal packets having stuff bytes in predetermined positions and generating dual TS stream by inserting the robust packets between the normal packets; a randomizer for randomizing the dual TS stream; a stuff byte exchanger for replacing the stuff bytes of a randomized data streams from the randomizer to a predetermined known data; and an encoder for encoding a data streams to which the known data is inserted. Accordingly, the present invention detects the known data from a signal received from a reception side and uses the detected known data for synchronization and equalization, so that the digital broadcasting reception performance can be improved at poor multipath channels.
US08743995B2	Wireless communication throughput enhancement based on delayed channel gain information Channel gain information is utilized for determining linear, or non-linear, combinations of transmitted symbols to increase symbol throughput. The base station recombines symbols directed to different receivers in response to the channel gain information. Channel gain information, which is subject to delay, has been previously utilized merely for predicting current channel gains prior at the time of transmission. The present invention, however, utilizes the channel gain information to increase coding efficiency even when the channel gain information is not utilized for predicting current channel gains. The method, apparatus and systems of the invention are applicable to any configuration of multiple wireless transmission to multiple receivers.
US08743994B2	Feedback of channel information in a closed loop beamforming wireless communication system A method for feeding back transmitter beamforming information from a receiving wireless communication device to a transmitting wireless communication device includes a receiving wireless communication device receiving a preamble sequence from the transmitting wireless device. The receiving wireless device estimates a channel response based upon the preamble sequence and then determines an estimated transmitter beamforming unitary matrix based upon the channel response and a receiver beamforming unitary matrix. The receiving wireless device then decomposes the estimated transmitter beamforming unitary matrix to produce the transmitter beamforming information and then wirelessly sends the transmitter beamforming information to the transmitting wireless device.
US08743992B2	Codebook design and structure for multi-granular feedback A first precoding matrix W1 is selected from a first codebook comprising sets of rank specific precoding matrices. The first codebook is characterized by there being fewer precoding matrices associated with higher ranks than associated with lower ranks, and characterized by precoding matrices associated with ranks above a certain rank all being diagonal matrices. The selected first precoding matrix W1 is used to select a rank-specific second precoding matrix W2 from a second codebook, such that the selected first and second precoding matrices form a joint precoder specific to a desired rank. The second codebook is characterized by differently sized precoding matrices associated with each of N total ranks, in which N is an integer greater than one. Information on the joint precoder is reported to a network node over an uplink transmission channel.
US08743989B2	Method for transmitting an information sequence Methods and apparatus are disclosed for applying successive multi-rank beamforming strategies (e.g., successive precoding strategies) for the design of precoders over a set of parallel channels. Successive beamforming is applied to a narrow band channel model and is also applied for finer quantization of a single beamforming vector (e.g., recursive beamforming). A first embodiment provides the optimal approach with high complexity. An alternative embodiment provides successive beamforming for near optimal precoding selection with medium complexity. A low complexity method for precoder selection is also provided wherein a channel representative matrix for the set of parallel channels is determined and successive beamforming on the calculated channel representative is applied.
US08743987B2	Symbol detection for alleviating inter-symbol interference A receiver is configured to perform symbol detection based on a total frequency domain received signal that comprises contribution from a block of time domain symbols. The receiver comprises electronic circuitry operate to divide the block into plural sub-blocks, and for each sub-block, to jointly detect the symbols of the sub-block while treating symbols of the block which are outside of the sub-block as noise.
US08743983B2	Bearing determination using signals transformed into frequency domain An apparatus, a method and a computer program for determining a bearing. The apparatus may comprise: a first transformer configured to transform a first signal formed from a set of multiple orthogonal subcarriers and received via a first path, from a time domain to a frequency domain and produce for each of a plurality of the multiple orthogonal subcarriers a respective first coefficient; a second transformer configured to transform a second signal formed from the set of multiple orthogonal subcarriers and received via a second path, different from the first path, from a time domain to a frequency domain and produce for each of a plurality of the multiple orthogonal subcarriers a respective second coefficient; and processing circuitry configured to process the plurality of first coefficients and the plurality of second coefficients to determine a bearing for the apparatus.
US08743975B2	Method for transmitting a signal via a power line network, transmitter, receiver, power line communication modem and power line communication system A method for receiving signals over a power line network, within the power line network at least one transmitter and at least one receiver communicate via at least two channels, each of the channels having a respective feeding port of the at least one transmitter and a respective receiving port of the at least one receiver, and the receiver having at least two receiving ports. The method determines a channel characteristic of each of the channels, applies a receiving port selection criterion based on the channel characteristic, and selects an excluded receiving port among the at least two receiving ports based on the receiving port selection criterion, the excluded receiving port is not used during further communication.
US08743974B2	Adaptive modulation and coding with frame size adjustment for power line communications (PLC) Systems and methods for adaptive modulation and coding with frame size adjustment are described. In various implementations, these systems and methods may be applicable to Power Line Communications (PLC). For example, a method may include identifying a temporal region of a cyclostationary noise over which a frame is to be sent across a PLC network, the cyclostationary noise having a plurality of temporal regions, each of the plurality of temporal regions having a distinct spectral shape. The method may also include applying a given one of a plurality of Modulation and Coding Schemes (MCSs) to the frame to produce a modulated frame, wherein the given one of the plurality of MCSs is selected based, least in part, upon the spectral shape corresponding to the identified temporal region. The method may further include transmitting the modulated frame across the PLC network, at least in part, over the identified temporal region.
US08743968B2	Method and apparatus for analysing image data to quantify prior blockbased processing of the data A method of analyzing image data to quantify prior block-based processing comprises processing a set of pixel values derived from the image data to generate a spatial difference profile along a line perpendicular to assumed block edges, the spatial difference profile representing differences between values of pixels spaced spatially in a direction parallel to said line; summing the spatial difference profile in a direction perpendicular to that line; measuring inter-maxima distances in the spatial difference profile to a fractional precision in pixel spacing units; and aggregating measured inter-maxima distances to determine a block size.
US08743965B2	Method and system to improve the transport of compressed video data A method comprises determining a plurality of time intervals Tp and Tn within a variable bit rate (VBR) representation of an image sequence. The time intervals Tp are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is greater than a baseline value. The time intervals Tn are those in which a number of blocks of information per unit time is less than the baseline value. A second representation of the image sequence is created in which some blocks of information Bp are removed from the time intervals Tp and interlaced with blocks of information Bn in the time intervals Tn to reduce a variation in a number of blocks of information per unit time between the time intervals Tp and Tn.
US08743964B2	System and method for block-based per-pixel correction for film-based sources A system and method for block-based per-pixel correction for film-based sources. The appearance of mixed film/video can be improved through an adaptive selection of normal deinterlaced video relative to inverse telecine video. This adaptive selection process is based on pixel difference measures of sub-blocks within defined blocks of pixels.
US08743957B2	Context adaptive directional intra prediction Enhanced directional prediction apparatus and methods are taught which are based on edge-based adaptive directional estimation, for providing an improved prediction direction for intra prediction within a coding device. Image gradient vectors are obtained for pixels in the neighborhood of the current block, and edge directions determined. Candidate edge directions are processed to derive a dominant edge direction in response to defining an objective function as a summation of projections to a candidate direction and computing suggested direction of each neighboring pixel. The dominant edge direction may be utilized for the prediction direction, such as in response to a detection mode flag signaled to the decoder, or modified by an angular adjustment, which can be communicated to a decoder.
US08743954B1	Architecture for adjusting bit rate based on measured quality A system and method includes adjusting bit rate based on measured quality in a video conversion module. The video conversion module may be, for example, an encoder or a transcoder. In one embodiment, the video conversion module receives an input stream in a first format and converts the input stream to an output stream in a second format. The video conversion module is coupled to a bit rate controller that controls the bit rate of the output stream. A bit rate controller compares the output quality of the output stream to a target quality, and adjusts the output bit rate responsive to the comparison having a difference greater than a predetermined value.
US08743948B2	Scalable multi-thread video decoding Decoding tasks are identified for decoding encoded video. Decoding tasks may include entropy decoding tasks, motion compensation tasks, inverse frequency transform tasks, inverse quantization tasks, intra decoding tasks, loop filtering tasks, or other tasks. Task dependencies are identified for the video decoding tasks. For example, one or more decoding tasks may depend on prior completion of entropy decoding tasks. The decoding tasks are prioritized based at least in part on the task dependencies. For example, a higher priority may be assigned to tasks that must be completed before other tasks that depend on them can begin. Prioritized decoding tasks are selected to be performed by hardware threads. For example, a first hardware thread may perform a first decoding task that does not depend on any uncompleted tasks while a second hardware thread performs a second decoding task that does not depend on any uncompleted tasks.
US08743945B2	Shift register based downsampled floating tap decision feedback equalization Described embodiments receive a signal by a set of fixed taps and a set of floating taps of a receiver, each tap corresponding to a detected symbol. Each of the floating taps is stored in a corresponding shift register to account for process, operating voltage and temperature (PVT) variations of the receiver without calibration of delay elements. Multiplexing logic selects (i) corresponding floating taps for equalization by coupling selected floating taps to the outputs of the fixed taps, and (ii) different phases of each possible floating tap position. The multiplexing logic prunes and/or amalgamates the phases of each possible floating tap position and selects floating taps based on a magnitude of each phase. A combiner adjusts each output value of the fixed taps and the selected floating taps by a corresponding tap-weight, combines the adjusted values into an output signal and subtracts the output signal from the input signal.
US08743943B2	High-speed data reception circuitry and methods Equalization circuitry for receiving a digital data signal includes both feed-forward equalizer (“FFE”) circuitry and decision-feedback equalizer (“DFE”) circuitry. The FFE circuitry may be used to give the DFE circuitry a signal that is at least minimally adequate for proper start-up of the DFE circuitry. Thereafter, more of the burden of the equalization task may be shifted from the FFE circuitry to the DFE circuitry.
US08743942B2	Demodulation using serial localization with indecision A receiver includes a constellation processing module and a plurality of demodulation stages. The constellation processing module groups points of a constellation associated with a transmitted signal into a plurality of subsets, were at least two adjacent ones of the subsets have one or more common constellation points so that the at least two adjacent subsets overlap. The constellation processing module also determines a centroid-based value for each of the subsets of constellation points and groups the centroid-based values into one or more sets. Each of the demodulation stages except for the last demodulation stage localizes a search for a final symbol decision using the set of centroid-based values input to or selected by the demodulation stage as constellation points. The last demodulation stage determines the final symbol decision using the subset of constellation points input to or selected by the last demodulation stage.
US08743940B1	Method and apparatus for adaptively determining settings of a transmit equalizer Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with adaptively determining settings of a transmit equalizer are described. According to one embodiment, a signal is received from a transmitter and a signal contribution of the transmit equalizer is removed from the signal to produce a residual signal. Revised tap coefficients are computed based, at least in part, on the residual signal. Revised tap coefficient settings, that are based, at least in part, on the revised tap coefficients, are provided to the transmit equalizer.
US08743931B2	Systems and methods for a transceiver to transmit or receive test information over a communication channel using multicarrier modulation Upon detection of a trigger, such as the exceeding of an error threshold or the direction of a user, a diagnostic link system enters a diagnostic information transmission mode. This diagnostic information transmission mode allows for two modems to exchange diagnostic and/or test information that may not otherwise be exchangeable during normal communication. The diagnostic information transmission mode is initiated by transmitting an initiate diagnostic link mode message to a receiving modem accompanied by a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The receiving modem determines, based on the CRC, if a robust communications channel is present. If a robust communications channel is present, the two modems can initiate exchange of the diagnostic and/or test information. Otherwise, the transmission power of the transmitting modem is increased and the initiate diagnostic link mode message re-transmitted to the receiving modem until the CRC is determined to be correct.
US08743927B2	Low power, high resolution timing generator for ultra-wide bandwidth communication systems A data communication method is provided, comprising: processing high-speed digital data for communication to produce processed data; generating short impulse wavelets; constructing a digitally modulated ultra wideband signal from the short impulse wavelets in response to bits of the processed data, wherein the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal comprises a series of the short impulse wavelets, and the value of each bit of the processed data is digitally modulated onto the shape of at least one of the short impulse wavelets of the series, to produce a series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets; and transmitting the digitally modulated ultra wideband signal, including the series of digitally shape modulated impulse wavelets, via an antenna.
US08743916B2	Plane waveguide type laser and display device A plane waveguide type laser includes: a plate-shaped laser medium; a semiconductor laser which causes excitation light to enter an end surface of the laser medium; first and second claddings which are bonded to lower and upper surfaces of the laser medium, respectively, to form a waveguide in a vertical direction; a comb heat sink bonded to a lower surface of the first cladding; and a thermal lens producing portion bonded to an upper surface of the second cladding. In this structure, laser oscillation in the vertical direction is performed in a waveguide mode of the laser medium, and the thermal lens producing portion forms a periodic lens effect in the laser medium to perform laser oscillation in a lateral direction in a plurality of resonant modes.
US08743908B2	Coexistence of prime, S-FSK and G3 devices in powerline communications Communication devices, such as base nodes and modems, that comply with two or more different standards operate on a shared communication channel. To avoid mutual interference, a base node operating under a first standard reserves time using a contention free period designation. The base node allows devices operating under a second standard to communicate during the reserved time by not assigning the contention free period to another device operating under the first standard. Alternatively, a device using the first standard may avoid interference from transmissions generated under the second standard by modifying data packets prior to transmission. A prefix corresponding to a preamble in the second standard is added to the beginning of the data packet created under the first standard. Devices operating under the second standard observe the prefix and recognize that the channel is active. The second-standard devices backoff from transmission thereby minimizing interference.
US08743902B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program Random access operation is performed under a communication environment in which a plurality of communication modes having different transmission rate coexist with small overhead. A high-grade communication station spoofs information of a packet length and a rate in a decoding portion so that a value of (packet length)/(rate) corresponds to a duration where the communication is hoped to be stopped. The other station receiving the spoofed information receives the rest of the packet with the designated rate during the interval designated by the value of (packet length)/(rate). In this case, the packet length and the rate are not those of actually transmitted packet so that this packet is discarded.
US08743900B2	Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption of access point function in portable terminal An apparatus and a method for operating as a virtual terminal to participate in competition for medium access while a mobile terminal operates as an access point are provided. In a case where the mobile terminal accesses a medium while competing with a terminal that transmits data of low priority, an apparatus and a method for entering a low power mode to resolve a power consumption problem of the mobile terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a medium competing unit, which allows the mobile terminal to operate as a virtual terminal and participate in competition for a medium access when data to be transmitted does not exist in the mobile terminal operating as an Access Point (AP).
US08743899B2	Method for sending the physical broadcast channel in a time division duplex system A method for sending a physical broadcast channel in the TDD system is disclosed, which is: a signal of a physical broadcast channel is not sent in a pilot position, and the signal of the physical broadcast channel is sent on 4 OFDM symbols of the first subframe of one radio frame. Through the present invention, the extension requirement of the physical broadcast channel capacity in the TDD can be met, and the system complexity is reduced due to the normal cyclic prefix and extended prefix using the same sending method.
US08743890B2	System and method for supporting sub-subnet in an infiniband (IB) network A system and method can support multiple domains in an InfiniBand (IB) fabric. The IB fabric can include one or more subnets, wherein each said subnet contains one or more switch nodes. Additionally, at least one said subnet can be divided into one or more sub-subnets, wherein each said sub-subnet is managed by a separate sub-subnet manager that is associated with a unique management key, and wherein said one or more sub-subnets are connected by one or more sub-subnet gateway switch nodes, wherein each sub-subnet gateway switch node belongs to one sub-subnet.
US08743889B2	Method and apparatus for using a network information base to control a plurality of shared network infrastructure switching elements Some embodiments provide a program for managing several switching elements. The program receives, at a network information base (NIB) data structure that stores data for managing the several switching elements, a request to modify data stored in at least one particular switching element. The program modifies at least a first set of data tuples stored in the NIB for managing the particular switching element. The program sends a request to the particular switching element to modify at least a second set of data tuples for managing the particular switching element's operation.
US08743888B2	Network control apparatus and method Some embodiments provide a controller for managing several managed switching elements that forward data in a network. The controller includes an interface for receiving input logical control plane data. It also includes a converter for converting the input logical control plane data to output logical forwarding plane data. The logical forwarding plane data for subsequent translation into a set of physical forwarding behaviors that direct the forwarding of data by the managed switching elements.
US08743887B2	Methods and apparatus for mobility support and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration in a multimode network environment Described aspects provide for improving the mobility of wireless communication devices between one network domain and another network domain, specifically, but not limited to, between a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a cellular network and the like. Present aspects provide for services to be moved seamlessly and in a reliable manner between the cellular and WLAN domains in order to minimize service disruption for the end user and provide the requisite Quality of Service (QoS) for the different applications. The aspects herein presented provide for various mechanisms that serve to improve the decision points related to when and what technology each service is expected to be associated with and provides better techniques to move the wireless communication device between cellular and WLAN domains when in-traffic and when idle.
US08743886B2	Managing active edge devices in VPLS using BGP signaling In one embodiment, a method includes establishing in a Virtual Private Local Area Network (LAN) Service (VPLS) over Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network a floating pseudowire between a first provider edge router and a redundancy group having a plurality of provider edge routers each configured to forward data toward a external device. Each provider edge router in the redundancy group is configured to maintain an active link to the external device. A provider edge router that is not a member of the redundancy group sends data directed to the external device through the floating pseudowire. Only one provider edge router in the redundancy group receives and forwards the particular data to the external device.
US08743882B1	Packet header altering device A packet processor for a network device includes an incoming port that receives a first packet. The first packet includes a data portion, a control portion and a first outgoing port. A control data processing device receives the control portion from the incoming port while the data portion is stored in memory, and transmits the control portion to the first outgoing port. The first outgoing port transmits a first request for the data portion based on the control portion. A header altering device retrieves the data portion from the memory and strips, modifies, and encapsulates the data portion based on the first request.
US08743879B2	Label switched routing to connect low power network domains A network element is described. In one embodiment includes receiving a packet from the host in the first domain at the network element in the first domain, the packet including a destination address to the host in the second domain, the destination address being formed by replacing an Interface Identifier of an IP address by a second domain label and a shortened Media Access Control (MAC) address, the second domain label identifying the second domain. A routing label and the shortened MAC address are attached to the received packet, and the packet is sent on a label switched path indicated by the label to the second domain.
US08743878B2	Path resolve in symmetric infiniband networks Methods and systems for path resolving in a symmetric InfiniBand network are provided. One method includes transmitting, from a first node, a Management Datagram (MAD) to a second node, the MAD including a query for a Global Unique Identifier (GUID) for a port in the second node. The method further includes receiving the GUID for the port in response to the MAD and determining a Global Identifier (GID) for the port based on the received GUID. One system includes first and second nodes in communication with each other. The first node is configured to transmit a MAD to the second node, the MAD including a query for a GUID for a port in the second node. The first node is further configured to receive the GUID for the port in response to the MAD and determine a GID for the port based on the received GUID.
US08743877B2	Header processing engine Roughly described, a header processing engine for a network interface device has a header recognizer to parse the headers of a data packet stored at a buffer to identify the type and position of each header in the packet; a constructor unit; and a processor including an execution pipeline. The header recognizer is configured to, for each header: select in dependence on the header type commands stored at a command memory; and form one or more messages for the constructor unit identifying the selected commands and the position of the header in the data packet. The commands selected for the packet headers are collectively such as to, if executed by the constructor unit, cause the constructor unit to generate a data structure which operates to cause the processor to process of the packet headers without accessing the data packet at the buffer.
US08743875B2	Extension of the interpretation and definition of the IS-IS TLV/sub-TLV Techniques disclosed herein include systems and methods for improving efficiency of multicast state generation within Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) networks. Techniques include using an IS-IS TLV structure with new multicast state computation rules for SPB Networks. SPB Networks use a TLV field for the I-SID Address (and equivalent TLV fields defined in different IETF/IEEE drafts) and node nicknames to signal information that is used to compute a multicast state required to provide L2 Services over a given SPB Network. The I-SID Address TLV is set or filled to carry various items of information. These items of information can include Backbone Media Access Control (B-MAC), Virtual Local Area Network Identifier (VID), I-SID[Transmit, Receive Bit], etc.
US08743871B2	Media identification, classification, forwarding, and management for voice and video communications A system processes media, such as voice and video, in a scalable and secure manner. The system can process voice and video for a large quantity of users. For example, the system can enable large quantities of simultaneous phone conversations over an IP network. The IP network can carry voice, video, and other data concurrently. The system identifies which packets carry voice data, which packets carry video, and which packets carry other kinds of data. The system scales both with the quantity of users and in terms of network topology. Multiple digital signal processors (DSPs) can be controlled by and connected to a switching device via an Ethernet network. One or more DSPs connected to the switching device interact with the switching device as separate IP devices, in that each such DSP may have its own separate IP address to which IP packets may be addressed.
US08743870B2	Voice over IP (VoIP) network infrastructure components and method A voice over Internet protocol communication system and method provides infrastructure components as intermediaries between networks, the components include multi-protocol session controllers and a multi-protocol signaling switch as well as a management system. The session controllers process calls and participate in the calls that flow through it. The session controllers process calls that are either at the edge of the network or at the core of the voice over Internet protocol network. The session controllers associate calls with one another in call peers for incoming calls as ingress call peers and for outgoing calls as egress call peers. A centralized database of call routing policies is provided to the session controllers. The session controllers provide cost management, topology hiding, and inter-working, or conversion, of calls from SIP networks to H.323 networks for both voice and video.
US08743868B2	Method, devices and system of IMS services session control via USSD A system and method for allowing IMS subscribers to perform service and session control of IMS services via a CS access. A User Equipment, UE, that is registered with an IMS network but is not in a position to access the IMS network using IP can still access the IMS network and control the IMS sessions by sending Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, messages via an available Circuit Switched network that is connected to the IMS network.
US08743867B2	System and method for transferring interaction metadata messages over communication services System and method for transmitting interaction metadata messages, for example, computer telephony integration (CTI) messages, from one or more network end points and/ox from a central network device to a recording system using a light-weight interaction metadata protocol, for example, a light-weight CTI protocol, over one or more communication services.
US08743865B2	Aggregation of VCI routing tables The present invention provides, according to one example, a method of route aggregation in a network. The network may include at least two switches connected by a link. The method includes the steps of arranging virtual connection identifiers (VCIs) into groups based on a common prefix. Each of the groups corresponds to an outgoing port of a next switch. The method further includes the steps of allocating a VCI at the incoming port of the next switch, and informing the outgoing port of the previous switch of the allocated VCI number. The step of arranging may include splitting all available VCIs into N subgroups, where N is the number of outgoing ports on the switch on the other end of the link.
US08743864B2	System and method for supporting higher-layer protocol messaging in an in-band modem Acknowledging a source terminal data message from a destination terminal in an in-band communication system is disclosed. A first synchronization sequence followed by a low layer acknowledgement message and a second synchronization sequence followed by a high layer acknowledgement message is transmitted.
US08743860B2	Method and system for efficiently scheduling short range wireless data transmissions According to one disclosed embodiment, a method for efficiently scheduling short-range wireless data transmissions is described. This method may include providing beacon intervals for timed data transmission, receiving a plurality of requests for data, delaying allocation of any of the plurality of requests for data into one of the beacon intervals until a number of admitted requests for data exceeds a threshold. The method may also include allocating timeslots for pseudo-static service periods before allocating timeslots for non-pseudo static service periods and allocating timeslots for non-pseudo static service periods in descending order of relative time urgency.
US08743858B2	Wireless communication systems with femto cells Systems and methods of uniquely identifying communication nodes in a wireless communication system are described herein. One embodiment of the disclosure provides a wireless apparatus comprising a transceiver configured to receive a first identifier during at least one time slot. The first identifier identifies a first communication node. The apparatus further comprises a processing circuit configured to determine if the first identifier is received during a first time slot that is different from at least one pre-assigned time slot.
US08743857B2	Recursive reduction of channel state feedback A method and a system that multiplies a beamforming matrix by a unitary matrix that does not change the subspace of the beamforming matrix for form a converted matrix having a lower left triangle of zeros. A first column vector having a fewest number of elements of the converted matrix is quantized using a codebook and represented by a first codebook index. A Householder matrix is determined from the quantized first column vector and the converted matrix is multiplied by the Householder matrix. Quantizing, determining a Householder matrix from further column vectors of the converted matrix using a codebook and representing each respective column vector by further corresponding codebook index, and multiplying the converted matrix on the left by the determined Householder matrix for each respective column vector are recursively repeated. The first codebook index and further codebook indices are transmitted to a remote station for use in beamforming.
US08743852B2	Methods for coordinated signal reception across integrated circuit boundaries A wireless electronic device having first and second baseband processors is provided. In one suitable arrangement, radio-frequency power splitters and adjustable low noise amplifiers may be form in the receive paths. The use of power splitters allow signals associated with the first and second baseband processors to be received in parallel. In another suitable arrangement, radio-frequency switches are used in place of the power splitters. The states of the switches may be controlled using at least one of the first and second baseband processors. The use of switches instead of power splitters requires that wake periods associated with the first baseband processor and wake periods associated with the second baseband processor are non-overlapping. To ensure minimal wake period collision, a wake period associated with the second baseband processor may be positioned at a midpoint between two successive wake periods associated with the first baseband processor.
US08743846B2	Method for transmitting service flow information in a wireless communication system The present invention relates to a method for transmitting service flow information in a wireless communication system. The method for transmitting service flow information in a wireless communication system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises the step of enabling a terminal to transmit, to a base station and through the service flow to be generated or modified during a service flow generating or modifying process, an indicator for indicating whether or not uplink data to be transmitted exists.
US08743844B2	Apparatus and method for setting time information in mobile communication system Provided are an apparatus and a method for setting time information of an area in which a portable terminal, used in an asynchronous mobile communication system, is positioned. The apparatus includes a communicator for transmitting a time information setup request message to a Base Station (BS) and receiving a time information setup complete information from the BS, and a controller for generating the time information setup request message by changing a message type of a Mobility Management (MM) information message and setting the time information of the portable terminal using the time information setup complete message.
US08743836B2	Radio communication method and base station Provided is a radio communication method employed in a base station having plural antenna elements. The method includes the steps of: setting an inner zone and an outer zone by dividing a cell formed by the base station into two; determining whether a mobile station is located in the inner zone or the outer zone on the basis of a predetermined criterion; notifying the mobile station located in the inner zone of control information, including information on channel allocation and a communication method, through a broadcast channel; and notifying the mobile station located in the outer zone of control information through a dedicated channel by beamforming using the plural antenna elements.
US08743834B2	Method for performing handover, user equipment, base station, and radio communication system According to embodiments, a base station includes a radio communication unit configured to establish communication with a mobile communication terminal using a plurality of component carriers. The base station further includes a control unit configured to transmit a command to the mobile communication terminal to reduce the plurality of component carriers to one prior to handover of communication between the mobile communication terminal and the base station to another base station.
US08743832B2	Method for performing uncontrolled handover A device, system and method for performing an uncontrolled handover in a mobile station, a ranging request message including an identifier of a serving base station and a first identifier used in the serving base station is transmitted to a first target base station to perform network (re)entry to the first target base station, and a ranging response message including security information and a second identifier for identifying the mobile station is received from the first target base station.
US08743823B2	Transmission with collision detection and mitigation for wireless communication Techniques for transmitting signals on shared resources in a manner to detect and/or combat collision are described. In an aspect, a terminal may transmit a signal on a subset of resource elements in a resource block, and at least one null resource element with no signal may be used to detect for collision of the signal. In another aspect, different terminals may simultaneously transmit their signals on different subsets of resource elements in a resource block. These different subsets of resource elements may be pseudo-randomly selected to randomize interference. In one design, a terminal may determine a resource block to use for transmission of a signal, select a subset of the resource elements in the resource block, and transmit the signal on the selected resource elements, e.g., to at least one other terminal for peer-to-peer communication. The signal may be a peer discovery signal, a paging signal, etc.
US08743821B2	Radio communication system, base station device, mobile station device, and random access method A radio communication system includes a base station device and a plurality of mobile station devices which radio-communicate with the base station device. The base station device allocates random access signal identifiers for identifying random access signals to the mobile station devices and decides an allocation period for each of the random access signal identifiers used by the mobile base stations. During the allocation period, each of the mobile station devices transmits a random access signal corresponding to the allocated random access signal identifier. Thus, it is possible to suppress a delay until the random access procedure using a dedicated preamble is complete.
US08743819B2	Method for acquiring resource region information for PHICH and method of receiving PDCCH A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive a PDCCH (physical downlink control channel) transmitted from a base station via a specific resource region includes receiving a PBCH (physical broadcast channel) including first system information and PHICH (physical hybrid ARQ indicator channel) related information from the base station and receiving the PDCCH transmitted from the base station via the specific resource region for downlink control information.
US08743816B2	Scheduling method and system A scheduling method is disclosed by the present invention, and the method includes: a network element 1 transmitting downlink message to a network element 2, and scheduling the network element 2 to transmit or receive data over a plurality of subframes; according to the downlink message, the network element 2 using same scheduling information or different scheduling information to transmit or receive data over the plurality of subframes. A scheduling system is also disclosed by the present invention, and the system includes: a scheduling unit which is used to transmit downlink message to the network element 2 by the network element 1, and schedule the network element 2 to transmit or receive data over a plurality of subframes. With the method and system of the present invention, the scheduling for various network elements can be realized compatibly.
US08743815B2	Method and base station for transmitting SA-preamble and method and user equipment for receiving SA-preamble An SA-Preamble corresponding to an irregular system bandwidth different from a regular system bandwidth is configured to be as long as or larger than the irregular system bandwidth and transmitted. Thus, the performance of transmitting and receiving the SA-Preamble is increased.
US08743812B2	Method, system, and access gateway for traffic flows to share resources Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a system, and an access gateway for traffic flows to share resources. The method for traffic flows to share resources includes obtaining information of at least two traffic flows and resources requested by the at least two traffic flows, where the at least two traffic flows correspond to different Internet Protocols connections. The at least two traffic flows share the resources. The information of the at least two traffic flows is bound on an established data channel. Resources for the data channel are allocated according to the resources requested by the at least two traffic flows. The at least two traffic flows are beared on the data channel.
US08743810B2	Apparatus and method for allocating one or more resources to reduce resource hole in a wireless access system Disclosed is a method for receiving allocated resources, by a terminal, in a wireless access communication system. In particularly, the present invention is to provide a method for receiving one or more resources in a wireless access communication system, the method comprising: receiving a control message from a network; checking the received control message whether the control message includes resource shift information; and receiving the one or more resources according to the resource shift information if it is checked that the control message includes the resource shift information, wherein the resource shift information comprises at least one of a resource shift indicator, a resource shift offset and a feedback allocation information.
US08743809B2	Channel selection in a multiple carrier multiple radio access technology network Methods and apparatuses to adaptively select radio frequency channels with which to connect a mobile wireless device to a wireless network are described. In response to a trigger event, the mobile wireless device selects a radio frequency channel from a list of radio frequency channels that use a first radio access technology and transmits a series of connection requests on the selected radio frequency channel. When no acknowledgement is received, the mobile wireless device excludes the selected radio frequency channel from the list of radio frequency channels and repeats the selecting, transmitting and excluding steps up to a maximum number of repetitions before attempting to connect to the wireless network using a second radio access technology.
US08743808B2	Collision reduction in a CSMA/CA system Method for reducing collisions between a first station and a second station in a CSMA/CA system. The method may be performed by the first station. Medium access to transmit to the second station may be obtained according to a first procedure for obtaining medium access. It may be determined that the second station is configured to grant transmit opportunity to the first station. Medium access to transmit to the second station may be obtained according to a second procedure for obtaining medium access based on determining that the second station is configured to grant transmit opportunity to the first station. The first procedure may include contending for medium access, while the second procedure may include delaying contention for medium access relative to the first procedure.
US08743806B2	System and method for multicarrier uplink control An uplink control method for use in a communication system based on multiple carriers. The method includes allocating different types of random access channels for different types of uplink operations.
US08743801B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting CSI on the PUSCH in an LTE system The present invention relates to allowing configuring CSI reporting (step S-224, 310) on radio resources that are allocated over a plurality of sub frames on Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH). Allocation of said radio resources (steps S-202, 404) can be performed by semi-persistent allocation or by using Transmission Time Interval (TTI) bundling. By using either semi-persistent scheduling or TTI-bundling as decided by an eNB (104, 204, 600) the UE (102, 202, 500) can be configured to report CSI (step S-224, 310) for a plurality of UL transmissions. By allocating radio resources by using semi-persistent scheduling, the signaling overhead, which can be substantial for dynamic scheduling of radio resources, decreases. By using TTI-bundling the coverage of the CSI-reports increases.
US08743799B2	Change of rate matching modes in presence of channel state information reference signal transmission In one aspect thereof the exemplary embodiments of this invention provide a method that includes, prior to confirmation that a network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of a user equipment, operating a user equipment with the network access node in accordance with a first rate matching mode and, only after confirmation to the user equipment that the network access node has correctly acquired capabilities of the user equipment, changing the rate matching mode to a second rate matching mode. In an embodiment the first rate matching mode comprises puncturing a downlink shared channel transmission with a set of resource elements, which may be at least one of reference symbols and muted resource elements, and the second rate matching mode comprises rate matching the downlink shared channel around those resource elements that are members of the set of resource elements. Also described are apparatus and computer readable storage medium storing program code that operate in accordance with the method.
US08743798B2	Device, system, and method for establishing wireless communication between LANS When radar/radio signals are detected by one of two access points establishing communication in a WDS mode, the one access point notifies the other access point of a change of a communication channel to a newly allocated channel and actually changes the communication channel to the newly allocated channel. The other access point notified of the newly allocated channel performs a passive scan at the notified newly allocated channel to detect a beacon broadcasted by the one access point. In response to detection of the beacon, the other access point resets the communication channel to the notified newly allocated channel. The two access points can accordingly reestablish communication in the WDS mode within a short time period. This arrangement allows for a quick channel change in response to detection of radar/radio signals, such as a weather radar, during communication of a 5 GHz frequency band in the WDS mode.
US08743792B2	Method for transmitting ACK/NACK signal in wireless communication system applied carrier aggregation and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting ACK/NACK signal in a wireless communication system applied carrier aggregation is disclosed herein. More specifically, the method includes receiving multiple transmission blocks respectively through multiple downlink component carriers from a base station, determining ACK/NACK responses corresponding to each of the multiple transmission blocks by decoding the multiple transmission blocks, mapping the ACK/NACK responses to a ACK/NACK state information, and transmitting the ACK/NACK state information through a single uplink component carrier, wherein ACK information included in the ACK/NACK state information indicates a number of ACK response among the ACK/NACK responses.
US08743786B2	Power backoff for multi-carrier uplink transmissions Teachings presented herein provide reduced computational complexity and/or memory requirements for a mobile terminal to determine the power backoff required for a multi-carrier uplink signal. In particular, the mobile terminal determines whether its power headroom falls below a pre-defined power headroom threshold, indicating that it is headroom limited. If so, it quantizes power allocated to each carrier of the multi-carrier uplink signal according to a pre-defined quantization policy. In doing so, the mobile terminal thereby reduces the possible configurations that may be selected for the multi-carrier uplink signal. Thus, in one embodiment, the mobile terminal stores the required backoff in a look-up table for only the configurations that may be selected when the mobile terminal is headroom limited. This relieves the memory requirements of the mobile terminal as compared to storing the required backoff for all possible configurations of the multi-carrier uplink signal.
US08743785B2	System and method for reducing interference A system and method for reducing interference are provided. A method for communications controller operations in a multi-carrier system includes generating information for a broadcast channel, preparing the information for transmission, selecting a location for an unoccupied subcarrier from a plurality of available locations, and placing the prepared information into a plurality of contiguous subcarriers, where the plurality of contiguous subcarriers includes the unoccupied subcarrier and a plurality of other subcarriers. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of contiguous subcarriers.
US08743784B2	VHT-SIG-B field in null data packets (NDPs) Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for using information in a Very High Throughput Signal B (VHT-SIG-B) field in the preamble of a null data packet (NDP). Retaining the VHT-SIG-B field in NDPs offers several advantages, such as maintaining a unified IEEE 802.11ac preamble structure, providing for 4 μs extra time to process beamforming feedback, and being able to use information in the VHT-SIG-B field to determine a level of interference in the NDP.
US08743782B1	Automated method to determine position of Wi-Fi access point to enable location based services A user initiates a request for determination of position of a mobile device in an area where there is no GPS signal. The position of the mobile device is determined by using cell tower triangulation methods using the wireless operator network. If the mobile device is in communication with a wireless local area network access point, the mobile device provides information about the address of the wireless local area network access points within range and the signal strength of the wireless access points. The server then stores the determined position in a database in connection with each address and signal strength provided by the wireless local area network access point. Thus the position of the wireless local area network access point has now been recorded and can be used in the future to determine the position of a mobile device.
US08743779B2	Systems, apparatus and methods to facilitate simultaneous traffic-idle or idle-idle demodulation Systems and methods for facilitating simultaneous operations are provided. The methods can include monitoring a common channel to evaluate cells or sectors in an active set, wherein monitoring is performed by a user equipment having a single receiver chain configured to receive traffic and idle information. The methods can also include demodulating channels, using the single receiver chain, including demodulating one or more emergency alerts, wherein demodulating is performed for a radio access technology and a protocol stack associated with the radio access technology.
US08743777B2	Method for controlling path switching in wireless communication system, and controller and wireless base station in that system In a wireless communication system including a wireless terminal, a plurality of wireless base stations that wirelessly communicate with the wireless terminal, and a controller that changes the path used for communication with the wireless terminal from a first path via a first wireless base station to a second path via a second wireless base station, the controller monitors the amount of remaining data to the wireless terminal at the first wireless base station, controls to the timing to change to the second path according to the monitor result.
US08743775B2	Method for handling inter-radio access technology measurement requests in a mobile telecommunications device Apparatus and a method are described for handling inter-radio access technology measurement reports in a radio telecommunications device, the device being operable with a first cellular radio access technology (e.g. UTRAN, E-UTRAN), GERAN and Generic Access Network, the radio telecommunications device being capable of adopting a cellular preferred mode. The method comprises, in the radio telecommunications device, when the radio telecommunications device is in cellular preferred mode and operating with the first cellular radio access technology and the radio telecommunications device is registered with a Generic Access Network Controller that operates as a GERAN network component, and a quality of a signal from the first cellular radio access technology is below a certain threshold and a quality of a signal from the GAN is above a certain threshold and a request has been received to send an inter-RAT measurement report, generating inter-radio access technology measurements and, when there is at least one GERAN cell that satisfies a triggering condition, transmitting a measurement report in respect of the GERAN cell(s) and a measurement report in respect of the generic access network.
US08743774B2	Resource requests for a wireless communication system Techniques for sending resource requests in a wireless communication system are described. Multiple types of quality of service (QoS) information may be supported for resource requests and may include QoS class and latency deadline. A terminal may have data to send on the reverse link and may determine QoS information for the data. The QoS information may include at least one QoS type, which may be dependent on a configuration selected for use to send resource requests. The terminal may also determine backlog level information indicative of the amount of data to send. The terminal may generate a resource request with the backlog level and QoS information. The resource request may include the backlog level information and QoS class information, the backlog level information and either QoS class information or latency deadline information, the backlog level information and latency deadline information, or some other combination of information.
US08743770B2	Support for user equipment multiplexing in relay enhanced networks An apparatus processes a first data packet header element of fixed length which identifies a bearer or a logical channel, as well as a configuration parameter indicating the length of an additional second data packet header element inclusive of a length of zero. A combination of the first data packet header element and the second data packet header element identifies a bearer or a logical channel of a user equipment. Data of different user equipments is processed in a transport block data packet by utilizing a packet header of the transport block data packet including combination of the first data packet header element and the second data packet header element for each different combination of bearer or logical channel and user equipment.
US08743764B2	Extending an effective control channel periodicity via discontinuous reception (DRX) Discontinuous reception (DRX) operation may be utilized to maintain connection with user equipment (UE) by increasing the effective control channel transmission periodicity. UEs may be configured with a compatible control channel transmission periodicity such that multiple UEs may share a resource in a time-division-multiplexed manner using DRX offsets and periodicity, effectively extending control channel transmission periodicity through resource overloading.
US08743763B2	User device dormancy In a particular embodiment, a method includes sending a message from a communication device to a radio network controller. The message indicates that a data session has ended. The data session is supported by a wireless channel between the communication device and the radio network controller. After a time period following the sending of the message, a second message is selectively sent to the radio network controller. The second message indicates that the data session has ended. The second message is selectively sent based at least in part on whether a measurement indicates that data was communicated via the wireless channel during the time period.
US08743751B2	Peer discovery in a wireless wide area network system A method of wireless communication of a wireless device includes receiving a signal indicating WWAN resources that can be utilized for communicating peer discovery signals. In addition, the method includes communicating an OFDM peer discovery signal in the WWAN resources. A method of wireless communication of a base station includes transmitting a signal to a wireless device indicating WWAN resources dedicated for a silence interval that can be utilized for communicating peer discovery signals. The WWAN resources dedicated for a silence interval include a first subset of resources and a second subset of resources. The method further includes measuring noise in the first subset of resources and refraining from measuring noise in the second subset of resources.
US08743750B2	Method of evaluating the reliability of a route in a cooperative network The invention relates to a method of evaluating the reliability of a route in a cooperative network for transmitting packets of data between a source node and a destination node of the network. It includes, on reception by the destination node of a message indicating a route between the two nodes: a step of associating the indicated route with a reliability indicator parameter evaluated by the destination node; and a step of sending the source node a response including the parameter associated with the indicated route.
US08743745B2	Single channel full duplex wireless communication A single channel full duplex wireless communication system includes a processor, a transmitter, a receiver, a secondary transmission path, a combining element, a primary transmission feedback path and a secondary transmission feedback path. The transmitter transmits a transmission signal via a transmission path. The receiver receives a received signal via a reception path. The transmitter and the receiver utilize one channel to transmit and receive signals. The transmission signal causes self-interference. The processor estimates a first transfer function and feeds the secondary transmission path with the transmission signal adjusted by the first transfer function to reduce the transmission signal leaked to the reception path. The combining element combines the transmission signal with the adjusted secondary transmission path signal to remove the self-interference. The primary transmission feedback path output is modified by a second transfer function. The secondary transmission feedback path output is modified by a third transfer function.
US08743743B1	Management of mute and unmute requests during an electronic-conference session In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving, from a first participant of a plurality of participants in an electronic-conference session, a mute request. The mute request comprises information indicating a request to mute communication from a second participant of the plurality of participants in the electronic-conference session, information identifying the first participant as a mute requester, and information identifying the second participant as a mutee. The method includes muting, in response to the mute request, communication from the second participant. The method includes sending, to one or more user devices, the information identifying the first participant as the mute requester and the information identifying the second participant as the mutee.
US08743742B2	System and method for modeling a system that comprises networks connected across a third party external network based on incomplete configuration data The present system includes a system, method and device for inferring connectivity between network devices across a third party network. Configuration data related to the network devices is examined and configuration data about the network is inferred. The inferred configuration data may be related to a communication protocol, network bandwidth, and the like. A model representing the network is then created to indicate inferred interfaces and connections through the external network between network devices. The representation may be rendered in various forms, such as a display or data exported to another system. Various studies may also be performed using the model, such as traffic, routing, or planning studies.
US08743739B2	Telecommunications apparatus and method, storage medium, and program The present invention relates to a telecommunications apparatus and a method, a storage medium, and a program for determining whether or not an other side communicating apparatus is near in a network. In a transmitting apparatus, a transmitting unit transmits a sending-message, and a control unit receives a response message to the sending-message, which includes acknowledgement information based on shared data and transmission information in the sending-message. The transmitting apparatus also includes a first judging unit that judges whether a response time of the acknowledgement message is less than a predetermined time. A receiving apparatus includes a generating unit that generates the acknowledgment information and transmits the response message to the transmitting apparatus.
US08743738B2	Triple-tier anycast addressing In one embodiment, a solution is provided wherein redundant routers are treated as a single emulated switch. When a packet is received at a layer 2 edge switch from a host, the layer 2 edge switch may determine a switch identifier for the emulated switch using a destination anycast hardware address contained in the packet. The anycast hardware address may identify an emulated switch comprising a plurality of routers. Then a header may be added to the packet, the header including the switch identifier. Following that, the packet may be forwarded to another layer 2 switch along a shortest path from the layer 2 edge switch to the emulated switch.
US08743735B1	Emulation system for verifying a network device Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a method and system for functionally verifying a network device design programmed into a hardware logic verification system. The method and system encapsulates and de-encapsulates test patterns generated by a tester application into and out of network packets, which are further encapsulated into and de-encapsulated from enclosing data packets for fast and efficient delivery to the network device. Such method and system decreases functional verification times for a network device DUT while requiring little to no modification of existing tester applications and functional verification hardware.
US08743734B2	Configuring component carriers in carrier aggregation Technology for configuring component carriers in carrier aggregation is disclosed. One method comprises scanning for an enhanced Node B (eNode B) with a user equipment (UE). An eNode B is selected by the UE. The UE is attached to an available carrier provided by the eNode B. The available carrier is designated as a Primary Component Carrier (PCC). The PCC is configured as a component carrier pair comprising a downlink primary component carrier (DL PCC) and an uplink primary component carrier (UL PCC). Mobility management and security input information is received at the UE from the eNode B via the DL PCC and the UL PCC.
US08743730B2	Systems and methods for recording resource association for a communications environment Included are embodiments for determining an extension-to-channel mapping. At least one embodiment includes determining, at a first time, a first extension-to-channel mapping configuration, the first extension-to-channel mapping configuration including an indication that at least one extension is coupled to a first recording channel. Similarly, some embodiments include determining, at a second time, a second extension-to-channel mapping configuration, the second extension-to-channel mapping configuration including an indication that the at least one extension is coupled to a second recording channel. Similarly, some embodiments include creating an extension-to-channel map, the extension-to-channel map indicating a configuration of the at least one extension, the first recording channel, and the second channel during a time period between the first time and the second time.
US08743721B2	Methods and devices relating to downlink assignments The invention relates to a method in a first communication device of receiving control information over a radio channel from a second communication device. The first communication device receives a subframe over the radio channel, and determines whether the subframe is a downlink subframe with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device by reading data in the subframe. That being the case, the first communication device decodes data within the subframe, and determines whether any data packet being sent from the second communication device before the subframe has been missed by analyzing an indicator associated to the subframe in the data. The indicator provides knowledge about previous downlink subframes with downlink assignment intended for the first communication device.
US08743720B2	Method of channel management for multiple component carrier in mobile communication system Disclosed are channel management methods in a multicarrier structure in a mobile communication system. Uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) channel management methods in a carrier aggregation environment are used as the channel management methods. In DL, a base station determines a component carrier (CC) of an unstable radio channel state, stops data retransmission by the CC, and notifies a terminal of retransmission stop. In UL, the base station determines a CC of an unstable radio channel state and instructs the terminal to stop data retransmission by the CC, and the terminal stops the data retransmission and initializes a retransmission buffer. Using the channel management methods in the mobile communication system employing the multicarrier structure, an increase in the number of unnecessary retransmissions is prevented, so that unnecessary retransmission and power consumption of the terminal can be reduced and the waste of radio resources and the degradation of base station performance due to unnecessary retransmission can be prevented.
US08743714B2	Radio communications system, base station, user apparatus, and method A mobile communications system having a first base station and one or more second base stations is disclosed, wherein the first base station includes a first generator which generates a first known signal for use in common between the first base station and the second base station and a second known signal use specific to each of the first base station and the second base station, and a radio transmitter which wirelessly transmits, to a subordinate terminal apparatus, the first known signal and the second known signal which are generated by the first generator.
US08743712B1	Systems and methods for aggregating data for resources in a target group of resources A computer-implemented method for aggregating data for at least one resource in a target group of resources is described. At least one resource in a target group of resources is monitored. Data from the at least one resource are collected in accordance with a single metric. The data collected from the at least one resource are aggregated. A predefined operation is executed on the aggregated data. A single instance of data representative of the aggregated data collected from the at least one resource in the target group of resources is generated.
US08743706B2	Transmission circuit and radio communication apparatus In a transmission circuit used in a TDD scheme, a preset current is supplied from a current source to a detection diode via a switch that is made conductive during a reception period and made non-conductive during a transmission period. A determination is made if the output of the detection diode is within a predetermined specified range and, if the output is out of the specified range, a judgment is made that the detection diode is faulty.
US08743703B2	System and method for tracking application resource usage A system and method for tracking application resource usage. Network performance information of a communications network is gathered using performance information packet data packets. The network performance information is communicated to an application. Instructions in the application are executed in response to receiving the network performance information.
US08743701B2	Test device and test method for mobile communication terminal It is possible to check the settings of multiplex communication for test or the state of multiplex communication during the test. A test device tests whether a mobile communication terminal, which is a test target, performs a communication operation normally and displays a list of at least the address of the mobile communication terminal and information for identifying a communication partner of the mobile communication terminal as multiplex communication related information when the mobile communication terminal performs multiplex communication on a multiplex communication related display unit 6d of a display unit 6.
US08743700B2	System and method for provisioning resources of a packet network based on collected network performance information A system and method for provisioning resources of a packet network, including monitoring at least one network performance information parameter associated with communications of data packets. The at least one network performance information parameter(s) may be compared with at least one respective threshold value indicative of degradation of communications of the data packets. A determination may be made that the network performance information parameter(s) crosses the respective threshold value(s). In response to determining that the network performance information parameter(s) crosses the respective threshold value(s), a network resource may be provisioned to compensate for the degradation of communications of the data packets.
US08743696B2	Mobile transport solution for offloading to an alternate network This disclosure relates to a system and method for offloading selected data to an alternate communication network. The offloading provides another route for selected packet traffic that can relieve the burden on a mobile operator's network, such as the backhaul and core networks. As the proliferation of data rich content and increasingly more capable mobile devices has continued, the amount of data communicated over mobile operator's networks has exponentially increased. Upgrading the existing network that was designed for voice calls is not desirable or practical for many mobile operators. This disclosure provides systems and methods for offloading data to the Internet or another IP network to relieve congestion on the mobile operator's network.
US08743690B1	Selective packet sequence acceleration in a network environment At least one first frame of a first data flow is inspected by a general processing unit to at least determine whether a subsequent portion of the first data flow can be delegated to a network processing unit for accelerated processing. A deceleration trigger is defined for the first data flow from the inspection of the first frame. A first subsequent portion of the first data flow is delegated to a network processing unit for accelerated processing based, at least in part, on the defining of the first deceleration trigger. The first deceleration trigger defines at least one first condition that, when met during accelerated processing of the first data flow, prompts returning processing of the first data flow from the network processing unit to the general processing unit for further inspection of subsequent packets.
US08743687B2	Filtering data flows There is disclosed a method and controller for controlling an information flow in a data transmission system including receiving a plurality of data packets. The method and controller also includes selectively discarding and/or selectively time-shifting the data packets in a predetermined manner to generate a modified information flow. The method and controller also includes selectively discarding and/or selectively time-shifting the data packets of the modified information flow to generate at least one further modified information flow. The further modified information flow may be obtained in a selected one of a plurality of parallel steps.
US08743683B1	Quality of service using multiple flows A method, system, and computer program are provided for quality of service using multiple flows. At a first digital device, a plurality of inter-device flows is established between the first digital device and a second digital device via a communication network. At least one flow metric associated with each of the inter-device flows is determined, which may include, for example, a latency metric, a loss metric, and/or a re-ordering metric. According to various embodiments, flow metrics may form a basis for categorizing the inter-device flows. One or more preferred flows are selected based on the flow metrics. Finally, a packet to be sent to the second device is directed to one of the preferred flows.
US08743682B2	Method and apparatus for notifying of the occurrence of an event in a wireless communication system Disclosed is a preamble transmission method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system. The preamble transmission method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes detecting the occurrence of an event, and transmitting a preamble corresponding to the detected event to a network through a random access channel (RACH). Congestion in a wireless network can be reduced, and a procedure for notifying of the occurrence of an event can be simplified.
US08743675B2	Communication device for receiving and transmitting OFDM signals in a wireless communication system A communication device for transmitting orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signals in a wireless communication system. The device includes a plurality of antenna elements that transmit the OFDM signals to a receiver over a plurality of transmission channels in the wireless communication system. The device also generates weight coefficients applied to each of the plurality of subcarrier signals, and controls an amplitude and/or phase of the plurality of subcarrier signals as a function of said weight coefficients.
US08743671B2	Method for adjusting recording condition, optical disc device, and information recording method A recording adjustment method capable of controlling an edge position of a mark with high accuracy. Based on an acquired read-out signal waveform, a starting position of a last pulse is adjusted such that a so-called L-SEAT shift value for an end edge of the mark becomes minimum.
US08743668B2	Objective lens drive device and optical pickup In an optical pickup equipped with a semiconductor laser, electro-optical components such as a lens, and an objective lens drive device, the objective lens drive device includes objective lenses, a holder holding the objective lenses, a focusing coil, and tracking coils. The focusing coil is wound in parallel to the optical surface of the objective lens, and formed in a parallelogram shape having inclined portions provided near the tracking coils. The two tracking coils are placed on diagonal portions of the lens holder.
US08743667B1	Method for controlling writing in a thermally-assisted recording (TAR) disk drive with thermal fly-height control A thermally-assisted recording (TAR) disk drive operates by turning on write current prior to the application of heat to the recording layer by the near-field transducer (NFT). In a TAR disk drive that uses thermal fly-height control (TFC), TFC power is at a first power level that keeps the write pole at a predetermined fly-height. The write current is then turned on, either simultaneously with or after a reduction in TFC power. The write pole then reaches its optimal fly-height as a result of the combination of write pole protrusion caused by the write current and retraction of the write pole caused by the reduction in TFC power. After the write pole has reached its optimal fly-height, heat is applied to the recording layer by the NFT. The combination of write current and heat causes writing to occur at the optimal write pole fly-height.
US08743664B2	Dial module for a watch, and watch including such a dial module Dial module for a clock provided with several pointers whose shafts can be driven by the clock mechanism, characterized in that the dial module (1) consists of a casing (10), at least two separate pointers, whereby each pointer (2,3) is provided with its own separate concentric dial (6,7), and whereby at least a pointer (3), together with its shaft (5) and dial (7), can move with respect to another first pointer (3), such that the two pointers (2,3) never overlap one another, and that the mobile dial(s) (7) always maintain a fixed orientation with respect to the casing (10), whereby the upper visible part of the pointers (2,3) and the dials (6,7) are arranged on a single continuous surface.
US08743663B2	Pointer type timepiece A high-speed rotating wheel rotates at high speed by a third stepper motor which meshes with a portion of teeth of a ratchet wheel. A transmission projection of the ratchet wheel moves within an elongated hole of a transmission wheel which rotates with the movement of the hour hand. The ratchet wheel rotates at high speed, and a display wheel rotates at high speed by the high speed rotation of the ratchet wheel via a feed wheel. When normally moving the hour hand, the ratchet wheel rotates with the transmitting wheel and the portion of teeth of the ratchet wheel is made to approach the high-speed rotating wheel. When the display of the display wheel changes, the high-speed rotating wheel meshes with the portion of teeth of the ratchet wheel and rotates the ratchet wheel at high-speed. Accordingly, the date display of the display wheel can be quickly changed.
US08743662B2	Replaceable cap for a dosing device A replaceable cap (10) for a transdermal liquid dosing device (12) such as an insulin pen is provided. The cap includes an elongate hollow body (14) with a first open end (16) which can be placed over a front part (26) of the dosing device and a second closed end (18) opposite the first end. The cap body also includes a cavity which opens into the interior (50) of the cap body and which houses a control unit (52) which includes a timer unit, a switch mechanism (56) that stands at least partially proud of the cavity, so as to project into the interior of the body, and a timer display unit (58) which displays time counted by the timer unit on an outer surface of the body of the cap. The switch mechanism is engaged by abutment of a surface of the front part of the dosing device when the cap is placed on the dosing device, and released when the cap is removed from the dosing device, the engagement and/or releasing of the switch mechanism causing the timer unit to reset after the elapse of a predetermined period of time, the time since the timer unit was last reset thereby indicating the time that has elapsed since the dosing device was last used.
US08743661B2	Timing tag A disposable timing tag is provided, including a thin, flexible planar sheet member having first and second end sections, and a middle section. A printed radio frequency identification (RFID) circuit is disposed on the middle section thereof and includes an integrated circuit chip, and a dipole antenna electrically coupled thereto. The dipoles of antenna extend generally along the longitudinal axis of the sheet member toward the first and second respective end sections thereof. The first and second end sections of the flexible planar member are separated from the middle section by fold lines formed in the surface of the planar member extending across the horizontal axis thereof, and the planar sheet member is folded such that the first and second ends thereof are connected to one another and the planar member forms a substantially D-shaped closed loop. The joined first and second ends of the flexible planar member are positioned between said laces and tongue of said athletic shoe and said RFID circuit on said middle section of the flexible planar member is spaced away from the surface of the athletic shoe.
US08743658B2	Systems and methods for blind localization of correlated sources A system and a method for a blind direction of arrival estimation is provided for a nonlinear 1-dimensional array of M receivers of J
US08743654B1	Reflectivity maps Systems and methods for embedding three-dimensional targets in realistic sonar images are provided. An actual or synthetic sonar image is first created and a reflectivity map is produced therefrom. A direct path bottom reverberation is calculated to which texture is added by multiplying the signal from a given point on the bottom at coordinates (x,y) by the reflectivity map R(x,y) at that point and in which targets are embedded. Echoes from targets and other noise sources are superimposed on the direct path bottom reverberation to generate raw unbeamformed stave data. The stave data is beamformed to produce the desired complex image with the desired targets naturally embedded therein.
US08743653B1	Reducing dynamic power consumption of a memory circuit A circuit can include address evaluation circuitry coupled to an address bus of a memory and configured to generate a first control signal responsive to determining that an address on the address bus has not changed for a current clock cycle from a previous clock cycle. The circuit can include write enable evaluation circuitry coupled to the memory and configured to generate a second control signal responsive to determining that a write enable signal of the memory is de-asserted for the current clock cycle and for the previous clock cycle. The circuit can include clock enable circuitry coupled to a clock enable port of the memory and configured to generate a clock enable signal to the clock enable port of the memory responsive to the first control signal and the second control signal.
US08743652B2	Semiconductor device having CAL latency function Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device that includes a command receiver receiving the command signal to generate a first internal command signal, and a latency control circuit activating a second internal chip select signal after elapse of first cycles of a clock signal since a first internal chip select signal is activated. The latency control circuit activates a second control signal when the chip select signal is maintained in an inactive state during second cycles of the clock signal that is larger than the first cycles. The command receiver is activated based on a first control signal. The first control signal is activated in response to the first internal chip select signal. The first control signal is deactivated in response to the second control signal.
US08743651B2	Clocked memory with word line activation during a first portion of the clock cycle A memory includes a plurality of latching predecoders, each including a first transistor coupled between a power supply voltage and a latch and having a control electrode coupled to a clock signal; a second transistor coupled to the first transistor and having a control electrode coupled to a first address bit signal; a third transistor coupled to the second transistor and having a control electrode coupled to a second address bit signal; a fourth transistor coupled to the third transistor and having a control electrode coupled to a delayed and inverted version of the clock signal; a fifth transistor coupled between the fourth transistor and ground and having a control electrode coupled to the clock signal; and an output which provides a predecode value during a first portion of a clock cycle of the clock signal and a predetermined logic level during a second portion of the clock cycle.
US08743648B2	Internal power source voltage generating circuit of semiconductor memory and method for generating internal power source voltage An internal power source voltage generating circuit of a semiconductor memory and a corresponding method shorten an access delay upon transition of a data reading operation in an address period shorter than a prescribed minimum period to an operation in the prescribed minimum period. While a boosted voltage of an external power source voltage is supplied to the semiconductor memory as the internal power source voltage via an output line connected to one end of a condenser. A reference low potential is applied to the other end of the condenser and the external power source voltage is applied to the output line, thereby charging the condenser. If the internal power source voltage is lower than a threshold voltage, the internal power source voltage on the output line is boosted by applying the external power source voltage to the other end of the condenser.
US08743646B2	Semiconductor memory devices with a power supply A semiconductor device includes a virtual power supplier, a driving signal generator and a load driver. The virtual power supplier boosts a driving voltage to generate a virtual voltage. The driving signal generator generates a driving signal based on the virtual voltage, such that the driving signal has a voltage level that is reinforced as compared with a voltage level of the driving voltage. The load driver drives a load based on the driving voltage and the driving signal.
US08743643B2	Dynamic random access memory with fully independent partial array refresh function A dynamic random access memory device includes a plurality of memory subblocks. Each subblock has a plurality of wordlines whereto a plurality of data store cells are connected. Partial array self-refresh (PASR) configuration settings are independently made. In accordance with the PASR settings, the memory subblocks are addressed for refreshing. The PASR settings are made by a memory controller. Any kind of combinations of subblock addresses may be selected. Thus, the memory subblocks are fully independently refreshed. User selectable memory arrays for data retention provide effective memory control programming especially for low power mobile application.
US08743642B2	Data serializers, output buffers, memory devices and methods of serializing Data serializers, output buffers, memory devices and methods for serializing are provided, including a data serializer that may convert digits of parallel data to a stream of corresponding digits of serial data digits. One such data serializer may include a logic system receiving the parallel data digits and clock signals having phases that are equally phased apart from each other. Such a data serializer may use the clock signals to generate data sample signals having a value corresponding to the value of a respective one of the parallel data digits and a timing corresponding to a respective one of the clock signals. The data sample signals may be applied to a switching circuit that includes a plurality of switches, such as respective transistors, coupled to each other in parallel between an output node and a first voltage.
US08743639B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a switching unit coupled between a local sense amplifier and a bit line sense amplifier and configured to be turned on in response to a switching signal which is enabled in synchronization with an enable signal for enabling the local sense amplifier and disabled at a time point where a preset period passes after a first power for enabling the bit line sense amplifier is precharged.
US08743638B2	Method and circuit for testing a multi-chip package A method and circuit for testing a multi-chip package is provided. The multi-chip package includes at least a memory chip, and the memory chip includes a number of memory cells. The method includes performing a normal read operation on the memory cells to check if data read from the memory cells is the same with preset data in the memory cells; and performing a special read operation on the memory cells to check if data read from the memory cells is the same with an expected value, wherein the expected value is independent from data stored in the memory cells.
US08743634B2	Generic low power strobe based system and method for interfacing memory controller and source synchronous memory A system and method for interfacing a memory controller and a source synchronous memory utilizing a generic low power strobe. A set of double rate (2×) strobes can be generated by gating a continuous double rate clock in order to enable the set of double rate strobes only for duration of a data transfer from controller to the memory. The data and control from a SDR continuous single rate (1×) clock domain with respect to the memory controller can be moved to a set of double rate clock domain by sampling with the set of double rate strobes. The phase of the set of double rate strobes can be shifted in relation to the continuous single rate clock and a phase relationship of the generated synchronous signals to the memory can be dynamically switched by changing the phase of the set of double rate strobes. The set of double rate clock domain enables each bit-slice to be independently programmed to generate an output to the memory at each phase relative to the controller single rate clock.
US08743630B2	Current sense amplifier with replica bias scheme Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a sense amplifier architecture that facilitates fast and accurate read operations. The sense amplifier architecture includes a folded cascode amplifier for its first sense amplifier stage, and a pre-charge circuit to establish a pre-charge condition for a senseline and a reference senseline of the sense amplifier. The pre-charge circuit and the folded cascode amplifier each include one or more cascode transistors of the same size and which receive the same bias voltage on a gate thereof. This architecture provides fast and accurate read operations in a relatively small footprint, thereby providing a good blend of cost and performance.
US08743618B1	Bit line resistance compensation Methods for compensating for variations in bit line resistance during sensing of memory cells are described. The variations in bit line resistance may occur die-to-die or plane-to-plane on the same die. In some embodiments, for each die or memory plane on a die, a plurality of bit line read voltages associated with a plurality of zones may be determined based on sensing criteria. The sensing criteria may comprise a number of fail bits. Each zone of the plurality of zones may be associated with a memory array region within a die or memory plane. Prior to performing a read or verify operation on a group of memory cells, a bit line read voltage used during sensing of the group of memory cells may be determined based on the plurality of bit line read voltages and a zone associated with the group of memory cells.
US08743615B2	Read compensation for partially programmed blocks of non-volatile storage Read compensation for partially programmed blocks of non-volatile storage is provided. In partially programmed blocks, the threshold voltage distributions may be shifted down relative to their final positions. Upon receiving a request to read a page that is stored in a block, a determination may be made whether the block is partially programmed. If so, then a suitable compensation may be made when reading the requested page. This compensation may compensate for the non-volatile storage elements (or pages) in the block that have not yet been programmed. The amount of compensation may be based on the amount of interference that would be caused to the requested page by later programming of the other pages. The compensation may compensate for shifts in threshold voltage distributions of the requested page that would occur from later programming of other pages.
US08743608B2	Nonvolatile memory apparatus and verification method thereof A nonvolatile memory apparatus includes: a memory cell array including a plurality of unit memory cells; a page buffer unit configured to read data from a selected memory cell of the memory cell array and store the read data; a controller configured to generate a reference current generation signal, a first current control signal, and a second current control signal, which correspond to the number of fail bits to be sensed and a deviation in cell current amounts flowing through the unit memory cells during a read operation, in response to a verification command; and a fail bit sensing unit configured to receive the reference current generation signal, the first current control signal, and the second current control signal from the controller in response to the verification command, and control at least one of a reference current amount and a data read current amount of the page buffer unit.
US08743607B2	Semiconductor memory device for storing multivalued data Data storage circuits are connected to the bit lines in a one-to-one correspondence. A write circuit writes the data on a first page into a plurality of 5 first memory cells selected simultaneously by a word line. Thereafter, the write circuit writes the data on a second page into the plurality of first memory cell. Then, the write circuit writes the data on the first and second pages into second memory cells adjoining 10 the first memory cells in the bit line direction.
US08743605B2	High-resolution readout of analog memory cells A method includes storing data in an analog memory cell by writing an analog value into the memory cell. After storing the data, the data stored in the memory cell is read by discharging electrical current to flow through the memory cell, during a predefined time interval, while applying a variable voltage to a gate of the memory cell. A fraction of the predefined time interval, during which the variable voltage allows the electrical current to flow through the memory cell, is estimated. The stored data is estimated based on the estimated fraction.
US08743604B2	Nonvolatile memory devices having improved read reliability Memory systems include at least one nonvolatile memory array having a plurality of rows of nonvolatile multi-bit (e.g., N-bit, where N>2) memory cells therein. A control circuit is also provided, which is electrically coupled to the nonvolatile memory array. The control circuit is configured to program at least two pages of data into a first row of nonvolatile multi-bit memory cells in the nonvolatile memory array using a first sequence of read voltages to verify accuracy of the data stored within the first row. The control circuit is also configured to read the at least two pages of data from the first row using a second sequence of read voltages that is different from the first sequence of read voltages. Each of the read voltages in the first sequence of read voltages may be equivalent in magnitude to a corresponding read voltage in the second sequence of read voltages.
US08743603B2	Efficient data storage in multi-plane memory devices A method for data storage includes initially storing a sequence of data pages in a memory that includes multiple memory arrays, such that successive data pages in the sequence are stored in alternation in a first number of the memory arrays. The initially-stored data pages are rearranged in the memory so as to store the successive data pages in the sequence in a second number of the memory arrays, which is less than the first number. The rearranged data pages are read from the second number of the memory arrays.
US08743597B2	Self-referenced magnetic random access memory element comprising a synthetic storage layer The present disclosure concerns a MRAM element comprising a magnetic tunnel junction comprising: a storage layer, a sense layer, and a tunnel barrier layer included between the storage layer and the sense layer; the storage layer comprising a first magnetic layer having a first storage magnetization; a second magnetic layer having a second storage magnetization; and a non-magnetic coupling layer separating the first and second magnetic layers such that the first storage magnetization is substantially antiparallel to the second storage magnetization; the first and second magnetic layers being arranged such that: at a read temperature the first storage magnetization is substantially equal to the second storage magnetization; and at a write temperature which is higher than the read temperature the second storage magnetization is larger than the first storage magnetization. The disclosed MRAM element generates a low stray field when the magnetic tunnel junction is cooled at a low temperature.
US08743593B2	Magnetoresistance effect element and magnetic memory cell and magnetic random access memory using same Disclosed are a magnetoresistance effect element equipped with an magnesium oxide passivation layer, and a high-speed, ultra-low power consumption nonvolatile memory using said element. A tunnel magnetoresistance effect (TMR) film comprised of a ferromagnetic free layer, an insulation layer, and a ferromagnetic fixed layer is provided, and an MgO passivation layer is provided on the side walls of a protective layer and an orientation control layer, thus suppressing elemental diffusion of a tunnel magnetoresistance effect (TMR) element from each layer due to thermal processing at 350° or higher and obtaining a magnetic memory cell and magnetic random access memory having stable, high-output reading and a low current writing characteristics. Furthermore, when CoFeB is used in the ferromagnetic layer and MgO is used in the insulation layer, it is preferable that the MgO passivation layer have an (001) orientation.
US08743591B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for driving the same In a semiconductor memory device, one electrode of a capacitor is connected to a bit line, and the other electrode of the capacitor is connected to a drain of a cell transistor. A source of the cell transistor is connected to a source line. When a stack capacitor, for example, is used in this structure, one electrode of the capacitor is used as part of the bit line. An impurity region formed on the semiconductor substrate or a wiring parallel to a word line can be used as the source line; thus, the structure of a DRAM is simplified.
US08743583B1	Internal supply redundancy across memory devices configured for stacked arrangements Disclosed are various embodiments related to stacked memory devices, such as DRAMs, SRAMs, EEPROMs, ReRAMs, and CAMs. For example, stack position identifiers (SPIDs) are assigned or otherwise determined, and are used by each memory device to make a number of adjustments. In one embodiment, a self-refresh rate of a DRAM is adjusted based on the SPID of that device. In another embodiment, a latency of a DRAM or SRAM is adjusted based on the SPID. In another embodiment, internal regulation signals are shared with other devices via TSVs. In another embodiment, adjustments to internally regulated signals are made based on the SPID of a particular device. In another embodiment, serially connected signals can be controlled based on a chip SPID (e.g., an even or odd stack position), and whether the signal is an upstream or a downstream type of signal.
US08743580B2	Apparatus for high speed ROM cells A ROM cell comprises a first first-level contact formed on a first active region of a transistor of a memory cell, a second first-level contact formed on a second active region of the transistor of the memory cell, wherein the second first-level contact is coupled to a first VSS line and a second VSS line formed in a first interconnect layer, wherein the second VSS line is electrically coupled to the first VSS line, and wherein the second VSS line is of a direction orthogonal to a direction of the first VSS line. The ROM cell further comprises a first bit line formed in the first interconnect layer, wherein the first bit line is formed in parallel with the second VSS line and a second bit line formed in the first interconnect layer, wherein the second bit line is formed in parallel with the second VSS line.
US08743579B2	Stable SRAM cell SRAM cells and SRAM cell arrays are described. In one embodiment, an SRAM cell includes a first inverter and a second inverter cross-coupled with the first inverter to form a first data storage node and a complimentary second data storage node for latching a value. The SRAM cell further includes a first pass-gate transistor and a switch transistor. A first source/drain of the first pass-gate transistor is coupled to the first data storage node, and a second source/drain of the first pass-gate transistor is coupled to a first bit line. The first source/drain of the switch transistor is coupled to the gate of the first pass-gate transistor.
US08743577B2	Method and apparatus for high efficiency AC/DC conversion of low voltage input Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a method and apparatus for providing a low-power AC/DC converter designed to operate with very low input voltage amplitudes. Specific embodiments can operate with input voltages less than or equal to 1 V, less than or equal to 200 mV, and as low as 20 mV, respectively. Embodiments of the subject low-power AC/DC converter can be utilized in magnetic induction energy harvester systems. With reference to a specific embodiment, a maximum efficiency of 92% was achieved for a 1 V input, and efficiencies exceeding 70% were achieved for a 200 mV input. A specific embodiment functioned properly when connected to a magnetic energy harvester device operating below 200 mV input.
US08743574B2	Efficient power conversion for ultra low voltage micro scale energy transducers A power converter is provided for an energy harvesting system of a micro-scale electronic device. The power converter is configured to transfer electrical energy from an energy transducer to an energy storage device. The power converter illustratively includes a tree topology charge pump.
US08743573B2	Voltage inverter and method of controlling such an inverter A voltage inverter capable of operating in the event of a short-circuit or open-circuit fault. The voltage inverter includes: a load having three phases, each phase having a first terminal and a second terminal; first and second cells each including three branches connected together in parallel, each branch including two switches connected in series and a mid-point positioned between the two switches, each first terminal of each of the phases being connected to one of the mid-points of the first cell and each second terminal of each of the phases being connected to one of the mid-points of the second cell; and a DC voltage source, the first and second cells each being connected to the DC voltage source via two electrical isolators.
US08743572B2	Lossy triphase low-pass filter The invention relates to a lossy triphase low-pass filter having a filter choke, a filter capacitor, and an attenuation element per phase of said the low-pass filter, wherein one filter capacitor and one attenuation element each are electrically connected in series. Two diodes are provided as attenuation elements, which are electrically connected to each other in an anti-parallel manner. In this manner a lossy triphase low-pass filter is obtained, the power loss of which is significantly reduced without any loss of the attenuation effect.
US08743571B2	Distributed power supply system with harmonic signal generation for stabilization A distributed power supply system in which no simultaneous disconnection from the system occurs when a system voltage momentarily drops is provided. It includes an inverter circuit that converts a direct current power generated by a direct current power supply and that supplies the alternating current power to an alternating current power supply power system, and an inverter control circuit for carrying out PWM control of the inverter circuit, wherein the inverter control circuit includes a three-phase voltage command signal generation unit, that is configured of a three-phase fundamental wave signal generation unit that generates three-phase fundamental wave signals from two phase components of voltage detected by a voltage detector, and a third harmonic signal generation unit that adds together third harmonic components of respective phases, having a predetermined amplitude, generated based on the three-phase fundamental wave signals.
US08743569B2	Power supply device The present power supply device includes a microcomputer that detects a current input to an active filter, a voltage input to the active filter, and a voltage output from the active filter, decreases a target voltage as the input current increases, and controls an IGBT to turn on/off the IGBT to match the input current and the input voltage in phase with each other and also match the output voltage to the target voltage. Thus, as the input current increases, the target voltage is decreased. A loss caused at the IGBT can be reduced to be small.
US08743568B2	Current supply circuit, polyphase drive circuit, method of designing current supply circuit Losses are reduced in a current supply circuit including an inverter having a switching element. The dynamic losses in an IGBT element including a free wheeling diode are proportional to the product of turn-on losses and a switching frequency, and the static losses are proportional to the product of a current flowing through the IGBT element and a saturation voltage across a collector and an emitter of the IGBT element. When the breakdown voltage of the IGBT element is increased twice, the saturation voltage across a collector and an emitter does not reach twice as much. Therefore, the static losses can be reduced by increasing a voltage twice and reducing a current by half that are supplied to a load to attain the same power to supplied to the load, with the same dynamic losses.
US08743566B2	System and method for increasing DC power system efficiency without requiring a large battery reserve A system for increasing parallel rectifier DC power system efficiency. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a controller configured to sense and classify a load magnitude change into groups including large load transients and moderate load transients and (2) at least one rectifier coupled to the controller and configured to transition from a stand-by mode to an active mode upon an occurrence of one of a large load transient and a moderate load transient.
US08743562B2	Modular cam system A cam system includes a beam including a plurality of coupling features. A first handle is operable to be coupled to the beam using the coupling features. A plurality of cam elements are each operable to be coupled to the beam at different locations along the beam using the coupling features. A plurality of cam brackets are each operable to be mounted to a first member having a first connector. The coupled-together beam, first handle, and cam elements are operable to be coupled a second member having a second connector such that, with the cam brackets mounted to the first member, the engagement of the cam elements with the cam brackets mate the first connector and the second connector.
US08743559B1	Interconnect pattern for semiconductor packaging An interconnect array is described. The interconnect array comprises a pattern of adjacent interconnect tiles, each interconnect tile comprising ten interconnect locations including eight I/O signal connectivity locations forming a perimeter array having a corner I/O signal connectivity location, a center connectivity location surrounded by the eight I/O signal connectivity locations in the perimeter array being a first ground connectivity location or a power connectivity location, and a second ground connectivity location adjacent to the corner I/O signal connectivity location of the perimeter array and externally offset from the perimeter array to form an asymmetrically shaped interconnect tile. At least one interconnect tile of the pattern of adjacent interconnect tiles has a center connectivity location that is a power connectivity location.
US08743556B2	Printed circuit board connection assembly In at least one embodiment, a vehicle power module comprises a first printed circuit board (PCB) including a first plurality of electrical components for providing a first voltage and a second voltage. The vehicle power module further comprises a second PCB including a second plurality of electrical components, the second PCB being spaced away from the first printed circuit board and a first connector assembly being coupled to the first PCB and to the second PCB for providing the first voltage to the second PCB. The vehicle power module further comprises a second connector assembly being coupled to the first PCB and to the second PCB for providing the second voltage to the second PCB. The first connector assembly provides the first voltage of up to 14V and the second connector assembly provides the second voltage of 200V or greater.
US08743555B2	Methods for suppressing power plane noise Substrates having power planes, such as, for example, printed circuit boards, include at least one noise suppression structure configured to suppress electrical waves propagating through at least one of a first power plane and a second power plane. The at least one noise suppression structure may include a first power plane extension that extends from the first power plane generally toward the second power plane, and a second power plane extension that extends from the second power plane generally toward the first power plane. Methods for suppressing noise in at least one of the first power plane and second power plane include providing such noise suppression structures between the power planes.
US08743552B2	Expansion apparatus for serial advanced technology attachment dual in-line memory module and motherboard for supporting the expansion apparatus A motherboard assembly includes a motherboard and an expansion apparatus. The motherboard includes a first expansion slot. An edge connector is set on a bottom side of the expansion apparatus to be detachably engaged in the first expansion slot. A number of SATA interfaces and a number of second expansion slots are arranged on the expansion apparatus, and are connected to signal pins and power pins of the edge connector.
US08743549B2	Modular mass storage system A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage modules coupled to the rack, and one or more data control modules coupled to the rack. The data storage modules may include a chassis, two or more backplanes coupled to the chassis, and one or more mass storage devices (for example, hard disk drives) coupled to the backplanes. The data control modules may access the mass storage devices in the data storage modules.
US08743547B2	Electronic device having cooling structure An electronic device having a heat dissipating component is provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board, a heat pipe which is disposed on a first side of the circuit board, a heat generating device which is disposed on a second side of the circuit board opposite to the first side, a heat sink placed which is disposed on a surface of the heat generating device and absorbs heat of the heat generating device, and a connecting member which penetrates through the circuit board and thermoconductively connects the heat pipe and the heat sink.
US08743546B2	Sheet structure and method of manufacturing the same The sheet structure includes a plurality of linear structure bundles 12 each of which comprises a plurality of linear structures of carbon atoms arranged, spaced from each other at a first gap and which are arranged at a second gap which is larger than the first gap; and a filling layer 14 filled in the first gap and the second gap and supporting the plurality of linear structure bundles 12.
US08743545B2	Thermal expansion-enhanced heat sink for an electronic assembly A heat sink and method of fabrication are provided for removing heat from an electronic component(s). The heat sink includes a heat sink base and frame. The base has a first coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), and includes a base surface configured to couple to the electronic component to facilitate removal of heat. The frame has a second CTE, and is configured to constrain the base surface in opposing relation to the electronic component, wherein the first CTE is greater than the second CTE. At least one of the heat sink base or frame is configured so that heating of the heat sink base results in a compressive force at the base surface of the heat sink base towards the electronic component that facilitates heat transfer from the electronic component. A thermal interface material is disposed between the base surface and the electronic component.
US08743544B2	Cardlock clamp A cardlock clamp is described that is used to secure an electronics module in a channel of a card cage. The cardlock clamp is configured to convert an input compression force into clamping forces in at least two radial directions perpendicular to the input compression force. The described cardlock clamp also provides self-alignment and self-center functions for the electronics module inserted into the channel. Further, variations of the cardlock clamp are described that provide more effective heat transfer from the electronics module to the card cage.
US08743543B2	Modular computing environments A computer system may include a connecting hub having a plurality of docking regions and be configured to provide to each docking region electrical power, a data network interface, a cooling fluid supply and a cooling fluid return; and a plurality of shipping containers that each enclose a modular computing environment that incrementally adds computing power to the system. Each shipping container may include a) a plurality of processing units coupled to the data network interface, each of which include a microprocessor; b) a heat exchanger configured to remove heat generated by the plurality of processing units by circulating cooling fluid from the supply through the heat exchanger and discharging it into the return; and c) docking members configured to releaseably couple to the connecting hub at one of the docking regions to receive electrical power, connect to the data network interface, and receive and discharge cooling fluid.
US08743542B2	Apparatus and method for cooling of a substantially closed space with recirculation air An apparatus for cooling of a substantially closed space, in particular a data center, where continuous or intermittent heat is produced by at least one heat source, with recirculation air, includes a heat exchanger with a first set of ducts and a second set of ducts, each set of ducts having an in- and outlet. The in- and outlet of the first set of ducts are connected to the space to form a first recirculation path, and the in- and outlet of the second set of ducts are connected to an environment of the space to form a second recirculation path. The heat exchanger is a plate heat exchanger.
US08743538B2	Protective hinge cover for a mobile computing device Embodiments of the present invention disclose a protective hinge cover for a mobile computing device. According to one embodiment, the protective hinge cover includes an inner cavity area for receiving the mobile device along with a rotatable attachment member formed therein. In addition, a plurality of coupling features are utilized to facilitate attachment of the hinge cover with the mobile computing device. Moreover, the rotatable attachment member and housing frame are configured to provide a movable and stable structure for the mobile computing and also allow for adjustment by an operating user so as to provide multiple viewing angles via a hinge mechanism associated with the rotatable attachment member.
US08743537B2	Airflow adjustment device and blade server An airflow adjustment device is disclosed. The airflow adjustment device is used for a blade server provided for plugging in an interface card, and the interface card includes a bracket. The airflow adjustment device is installed in the blade server, and the airflow adjustment device includes a top cover, a plurality of sidewalls, a bracket plate, and at least one deflector. The bracket plate is used for sheltering the bracket, and air enters the blade server through the at least one deflector and at least one gap area formed by the bracket plate and at least one of the plurality of sidewalls whereby the flow resistance of the blade server is not affected by the type of the bracket.
US08743536B2	Mechanical conversion sleeve Embodiments disclose a conversion sleeve for connecting smaller form factor drives to a receptacle of a larger form factor drive. The conversion sleeve has an outer frame shaped to fit within the receptacle of the larger form factor drive. Within the conversion sleeve is at least one channel for receiving a smaller form factor drive. The smaller form factor drive is hot swappable. On a side of the conversion sleeve, a spring-locking mechanism is design to lock into an existing aperture of the receptacle. The conversion sleeve also includes an interposer to bring the smaller form factor drive to the receiving end of the conversion sleeve for easy access.
US08743535B2	Keypad with water and dust protection A keypad suitable for use with a mobile communication or a handheld device. The keypad includes an actuator component formed from multiple materials and comprises a plurality of actuators, a sealing bead and/or a light guide. The sealing bead is formed from a flexible or compressible material such as silicone rubber. When the keypad is installed the sealing bead is compressed against the mounting surface in the device and provides a seal for the keypad against environmental agents such as moisture, dust and/or electrostatic discharges.
US08743534B2	Resin chassis base, and electric apparatus and display apparatus provided with the same The present invention provides a resin chassis base that can correspond to for various components and components with various sizes by providing a plurality of sets of mounting holes thereon. The present invention provides a resin chassis base that fixes an electric substrate, and is mounted to a component provided in an electric apparatus, the resin chassis base having formed thereon the plurality of sets of mounting holes in order to be screwed to various components and/or components with various sizes. The resin chassis base is screwed by use of any one of the plurality of sets of the mounting holes formed on the resin chassis base.
US08743533B2	Locking member for joining portions of an assembly Electronic device assemblies may have multiple parts. A first electronic device assembly structure may be attached to a second electronic device assembly structure using a locking member. The locking member may include a tip portion that is inserted into a guiding channel in the assembly and a disposable portion that breaks away from the tip portion during assembly. Barbs on the locking member tip may resist retraction of the tip following assembly. A cam locking structure may help hold the first and second structures together. Locking features may resist longitudinal motion between the first and second structures. Snap features may provide a fail-safe mechanism to prevent disassembly of the assembly following an accidental dislodgement of the tip portion. The tip portion and assembly structures may be configured to resist bowing in the assembly structures.
US08743530B2	Electronic component and substrate module including an embedded capacitor In an electronic component and a substrate module, a laminated body includes a first capacitor conductor and a second capacitor conductor embedded therein, which define a capacitor. First and second external electrodes are connected to the first capacitor conductor and the second capacitor conductor through extraction conductors, respectively. Third and fourth external electrodes are connected to the first capacitor conductor through extraction conductors. Fifth and sixth external electrodes are connected to the second capacitor conductor through extraction conductors. On a first side surface, no external electrode having an electrical potential different from the electrical potential of the third external electrode is provided between a first end surface and the third external electrode. On the first side surface, no external electrode having an electrical potential different from the electrical potential of the fifth external electrode is provided between a second end surface and the fifth external electrode.
US08743523B2	Systems, methods, and apparatus for limiting voltage across a switch Systems, methods, and apparatus for limiting voltage across a switch utilizing voltage clamping circuitry are provided. The voltage clamping circuitry may include a rectifier circuit comprising inputs and outputs, the inputs in parallel communication across operational circuitry; an electronic active switching device in parallel communication with the outputs of the rectifier circuit; and at least one Zener diode in parallel communication with the electronic active switching device. When voltage across the electronic active switching device and the Zener diode meets or exceeds a predetermined value, the current will flow through the electronic active switching device and limit voltage across the operational circuitry to within a voltage clamping circuitry voltage limit.
US08743522B2	Monitoring method, circuit and system A monitoring circuit for use with a monitored circuit having a power supply input and a load output. The monitoring circuit having a biasing module, a reference generator coupled to the power supply input and the biasing module, a comparator coupled to the monitored circuit and the reference generator and an output device coupled to the load output and activated at a predetermined signal threshold.
US08743521B2	Photovoltaic system with overvoltage protection A photovoltaic system having a photovoltaic generator, whose strings with series-connected photovoltaic modules have a positive pole and a negative pole, and with an inverter whose DC input is connected to the two poles. The voltage of the positive pole and/or of the negative pole is measured with respect to ground, and a first switching element located between the positive pole and the DC input of the inverter and/or a second switching element located between the negative pole and the DC input of the inverter is opened, while a third switching element located between the positive pole and the negative pole is closed, when the voltage of the positive pole or of the negative pole exceeds a predefined first or second limit value.
US08743515B2	ESD clamp with novel RC triggered circuit Some embodiments relate to an area efficient electrostatic discharge (ESD) clamp comprising an RC trigger circuit, having one or more low-voltage, thin-oxide devices, which is configured to operate with a high-voltage power supply. In some embodiments, the ESD clamp comprises an RC trigger circuit connected between a first circuit node having a first voltage and a second circuit node having a second voltage. The RC trigger circuit comprises a resistive element connected in series with a thin-oxide MOS capacitor. The MOS capacitor has a source and drain connected to an intermediate supply voltage between the first and second voltage, and a body connected to the second voltage. By connecting the source and drain to the intermediate supply voltage, the thin-oxide MOS capacitor is able to reliably operate with a high-voltage power supply.
US08743514B2	HVDC power transmission with cable fault ride-through capability A high voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission system includes a cable fault ride-through system. The cable fault ride-through system is configured to ensure the HVDC power transmission system remains operational via an earth path between the power source end and the load end during a transmission cable fault, even in the absence of a neutral bus and/or dc circuit breakers.
US08743509B1	Disk drive having a head loading ramp and a disk limiter tab that projects from a side of an actuator arm A disk drive includes a disk drive base, and a spindle. A disk is attached to the spindle, and the disk includes a disk outer peripheral extent. An actuator is attached to the disk drive base and defines an actuator pivot axis that is substantially parallel to the spindle rotation axis. At least one actuator arm extends away from the actuator pivot axis. A head gimbal assembly (HGA) is attached to the at least one actuator arm. A first disk limiter tab protrudes from a side of the actuator towards the spindle rotation axis. The disk drive also includes a ramp that has a parking surface that is in contact with the HGA with the disk drive in a non-operational state. The first disk limiter tab extends over the disk outer peripheral extent in the non-operational state.
US08743502B1	Disk drive spinning down disk to a spin rate based on spin-up parameter A disk drive comprising a head actuated over a disk, and control circuitry operable to spin the disk at a first spin rate. The control circuitry is further operable to reduce the spin rate of the disk from the first spin rate to a second spin rate, wherein the second spin rate is based on a spin-up parameter associated with spinning up the disk from the second spin rate to the first spin rate. For example, the spin-up parameter may comprise one or more of a spin-up time limit, power setting, and ambient temperature.
US08743497B2	Discrete track media (DTM) design and fabrication for heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) An apparatus includes a recording media including a substrate, a plurality of tracks of magnetic material on the substrate, and a non-magnetic material between the tracks; a recording head having an air bearing surface positioned adjacent to the recording media, and including a magnetic pole, an optical transducer, and a near-field transducer, wherein the near-field transducer directs electromagnetic radiation onto tracks to heat portions of the tracks and a magnetic field from the magnetic pole is used to create magnetic transitions in the heated portions of the tracks; and a plasmonic material positioned adjacent to the magnetic material to increase coupling between the electromagnetic radiation and the magnetic material.
US08743495B1	Disk drive detecting track squeeze when circular tracks are defined from non-circular servo tracks A disk drive is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk comprising a plurality of non-circular servo tracks for defining a plurality of substantially circular tracks. Each non-circular servo track comprises a plurality of servo sectors defining a plurality of servo wedges. The head is positioned at a first offset relative to a first circular track and a relationship of servo bursts for each servo wedge is first generated. The head is positioned at a second offset relative to the first circular track and the relationship of the servo bursts for each servo wedge is second generated. For each servo wedge, a selection is made between the first generated relationship at the first offset and the second generated relationship at the second offset, and the servo bursts at the selected offset are evaluated to generate a track squeeze indicator.
US08743492B2	Variable stopwrite threshold with variable smoothing factor In one embodiment, a data storage system includes a head; a drive mechanism for passing a medium over the head; a controller electrically coupled to the head; logic encoded in or available to the controller for: periodically determining a stopwrite threshold based on a standard deviation or a variance at a current position error signal sample, wherein a smoothing factor applied to a subsequent calculation of the standard deviation or variance is altered based at least in part on a current magnitude of the standard deviation or the variance; determining whether the current position error signal sample exceeds the stopwrite threshold; disabling writing when the current position error signal sample exceeds the stopwrite threshold; and enabling writing when the current position error signal sample does not exceed the stopwrite threshold. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described according to more embodiments.
US08743490B2	Color filter substrate and method of manufacturing the same A color filter substrate includes a plurality of color filters and a first dummy pattern. The color filters are formed in a display area. The color filters include a plurality of colors. The first dummy pattern is formed in a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The first dummy pattern has a color identical to one of the colors. An edge portion of the first dummy pattern corresponding to an apex of the display area is rounded. Therefore, the reliability of a color filter manufacturing process may be improved, the reliability of the color filter may be improved, and the generation of stain defects having a radial shape may be prevented, so that display quality may be improved.
US08743486B2	Optical image capturing lens system An optical image capturing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex at a paraxial region. The second lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic material, and has an object-side surface being convex at a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region, wherein the surfaces of the second lens element are aspheric. The third lens element with negative refractive power is made of plastic material, and has an object-side surface being concave or planar at a paraxial region and an image-side surface being concave at a paraxial region and being convex at a peripheral region, wherein the surfaces of the third lens element are aspheric.
US08743485B2	Wide-viewing-angle imaging lens assembly The present invention provides a wide-viewing-angle imaging lens assembly comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a front lens group, a stop, and a rear lens group. The front lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface and a second lens element. The rear lens group comprises, in order from the object side to the image side: a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, and a fifth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface. Such an arrangement of optical elements can effectively enlarge the field of view of the wide-viewing-angle imaging lens assembly, reduce the sensitivity of the optical system, and obtain good image quality.
US08743482B1	Optical imaging lens assembly An optical imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The third lens element and the fourth lens element both have refractive power. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, wherein at least one of the surfaces of the fifth lens element is aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces of the sixth lens element are aspheric, and the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point on the image-side surface thereof.
US08743478B2	Optical lens for image pickup An optical lens for image pickup, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side along the optical axis comprising: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with negative refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power; a plastic fourth lens element with positive refractive power having biconvex surfaces with at least one aspheric surface; and a plastic fifth lens element with negative refractive power having a concave image-side surface, with at least one aspheric surface and at least one inflection point. By such arrangements, the optical lens for image pickup satisfies conditions related to shorten the total length and to reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras and mobile phones with camera functionalities.
US08743477B2	Optical photographing lens system An optical photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with negative refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power, wherein at least one surface of the fourth lens element is aspheric. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface and both of the surfaces are aspheric. The sixth lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface changing from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and both of the surfaces are aspheric.
US08743476B2	Lens with single detection member shared to perform focusing and zooming operations and reset method thereof A lens with a single detection member shared to perform focusing and zooming operations includes a base, a detection member, a focusing unit and a zooming unit. The focusing unit includes a focusing group frame and a focusing detection board. The zooming unit includes a zooming group frame and a zooming detection board. In a reset method, a signal read from the detection member is a light-passing signal or a light-shielding signal, the focusing group frame and the zooming group frame are in any position. With the focusing group frame of the focusing unit and the zooming group frame of the zooming unit, the any position of the focusing group frame and the zooming group frame can be determined, and then the focusing group frame and the zooming group frame are driven to reset as a predetermined standby position.
US08743471B2	Zoom lens system, interchangeable lens apparatus and camera system A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising a first lens unit having negative optical power, a second lens unit having positive optical power, a third lens unit having negative optical power, and a fourth lens unit having positive optical power, wherein the first lens unit moves along an optical axis, and the fourth lens unit is fixed relative to an image surface, in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at the time of image taking, and the condition: 0.8<\|f1/fW\|<1.4 (f1: a composite focal length of the first lens unit, fW: a focal length of the entire system at a wide-angle limit) is satisfied; an interchangeable lens apparatus; and a camera system are provided.
US08743468B2	Wide converter lens A wide converter lens that is disposed on an object side of a main lens and changes the viewing angle, wherein the wide converter lens includes: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, and a third lens having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens, the second lens, and the third lens are sequentially ordered from the object side to the image side, and the wide converter lens satisfies the following inequality: 2vd≧50 where 2vd is an Abbe number of the second lens.
US08743462B2	Concentrating daylight collector The disclosure generally relates to concentrating daylight collectors, and in particular to concentrating daylight collectors useful for interior lighting of a building. The concentrating daylight collectors generally include a plurality of moveable reflective vanes and a Cassegrain-type concentrator section.
US08743460B2	Diffractive optical element and method for manufacturing same An element includes a first resin layer and a second resin layer disposed between a first glass lens substrate and a second glass lens substrate, a boundary surface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer having a diffraction grating shape including a plurality of inclined surfaces and wall surfaces. The second resin layer is composed of a fluororesin in which fine metal oxide particles are dispersed. Since a refractive index distribution easily occurs in this material during curing by application of ultraviolet light, by applying ultraviolet light substantially perpendicular to the inclined surfaces of the diffraction grating shape, a refractive index distribution is formed in the thickness direction perpendicularly to the inclined surfaces.
US08743457B2	Astrometry and photometry with coronagraphs In a first exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an optical device comprises a telescope, a coronagraph device coupled to the telescope and having a focal plane occulting mask to provide a coronagraphic image, and a reticulate grid element arranged in a light path propagated through the telescope, at a location relative to the coronagraphic image, to create controlled fiducial spots in the coronagraphic image.
US08743455B2	Optical pulse transmitter It is disclosed a method for driving a laser diode such as to enable mitigation or elimination of so called spiking effects related to the number of injected carriers in the laser overshooting the equilibrium value at the beginning of the lasing process. In this manner, among other things, the efficiency of a master oscillator power amplifier that may be utilized in range finding applications will be improved. It is further disclosed an optical pulse transmitter comprising such a laser diode.
US08743452B2	Colour change material and method of manufacture thereof Metal nanovoids are grown on a stretchable plastic film. The fabrication proceeds by assembling the template of a single layer of close packed silica spheres on a conducting substrate. A conducting layer is then electrochemically grown on top to form a master. An elastomeric precursor is then coated on the master (e.g. by spinning) and is cured before removal. The resulting plastic film is then coated with a thin (e.g. 20 nm) layer of noble metal (e.g. Au, Ag or Cu), to produce a flexible film. Applications for such tuneable structural color would be coating of injection molded artifacts, such as mobile phone covers, car bodies to form an iridescent skin, wall and fascia decorations, loudspeaker coatings, architectural tent coverings, and clothing.
US08743451B2	Coloured particles for electrophoretic displays This invention relates to colored polymer particles preferably with surface functionality for charge retention, a process for their preparation, the use of these particles for the preparation of an electrophoretic device, and to color electrophoretic displays comprising such particles.
US08743448B2	Method and apparatus for determining bias point of modulator The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for determining a bias point of a modulator, wherein the method includes: adding pilot signals to the bias voltages of the modulator; adjusting the bias point of the modulator at a predetermined step and acquiring a first harmonic amplitude value corresponding to each bias point in a backlight detection current signal output by the modulator; and determining a bias point corresponding to the maximum value of the first harmonic amplitude values associated with multiple bias points as the bias point of the modulator. By virtue of the disclosure, the detection of a difference frequency signal can be eliminated, thereby reducing the complexity and cost of a periphery control circuit while ensuring the control accuracy, effectively improving the stability and reliability of the control process, and improving the modulation and transmission performance of optical signals in the whole system.
US08743446B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same Provided is a display device, including: a sealing member including an opening and surrounding a space defined by a pair of light transmissive substrates; an end seal for closing the opening of the sealing member to form an encapsulation space; oil filled in the encapsulation space; a spacer for maintaining an interval between the pair of light transmissive substrates; a shutter; a drive portion arranged in the oil, for mechanically driving the shutter; and a wall portion formed on at least one of opposed surfaces of the pair of light transmissive substrates. The wall portion includes apart arranged at a position interrupting a shortest path between the opening of the sealing member and a display region. The wall portion is made of a material forming the spacer, the shutter, and the drive portion.
US08743445B2	Optical deflector, optical scanning apparatus, and image forming apparatus An optical deflector including a rotary member supported by a bearing shaft and rotatively driven by a motor for deflecting a plurality of laser beams separated from each other in a rotational axis direction of the rotary member is disclosed. The optical deflector includes a polygon mirror having four sides arranged about the rotational axis direction. Each of the four sides is a continuous plane having a plurality of effective reflection areas separated from each other in the rotational axis direction.
US08743443B2	Hologram fabrication process, and hologram fabricated by that process The invention provides a hologram fabrication process, characterized by comprising steps of fabricating a computer-generated hologram (CGH) having amplitude information and phase information recorded by computer operation on a given recording surface, irradiating the computer-generated hologram (CGH) with the first reconstructing illumination light (2) to generate the first diffracted light (3) from the computer-generated hologram (CGH) thereby reconstructing a first reconstruction image (O′), simultaneously entering the first diffracted light (3) and the first reference light (4) in a first-stage hologram recording material (11) faced away from the first reconstructed image to record a first-stage hologram (11) in it, irradiating the recorded first-stage hologram (11) with the second reconstructing illumination light (5) to generate the second diffracted light (6) from the first-stage hologram (11) thereby reconstructing the second reconstruction image (O″), and simultaneously entering the second diffracted light (6) and the second reference light (7) in a second-stage hologram recording material (21) located near the second reconstructed image (O″) to record the second-stage hologram (21) in it as a reflection or transmission type volume hologram.
US08743435B2	Image reading apparatus An image reading apparatus includes an ADF driven by a motor; an image reading unit transmitting charges accumulated in a photoelectric conversion element as a shift pulse to a shift register; and a shift pulse control unit controlling an output timing of the shift pulse based on rotation of the motor. When the rotation of the motor stops, the shift pulse control unit outputs the shift pulse to transmit the charges accumulated in lighting of a light source immediately before the stoppage of the motor.
US08743431B2	Sheet conveying device, image reading device, and image forming device A sheet conveying device includes: a sheet housing unit that houses a sheet; a sheet conveying unit that conveys the sheet; a sheet detection unit that detects presence or absence of the sheet in the sheet housing unit; a sheet nipping unit that nips the sheet housed in the sheet housing unit; and a control unit. The control unit controls the sheet nipping unit to reach a nipping state to nip the sheet in the sheet housing unit upon the sheet detection unit detecting a sheet-present state, executes a power saving mode to stop supplying power to at least a part of the electric mechanisms when no drive command is input for a predetermined time, and controls the sheet nipping unit to cancel the nipping state before execution of the power saving mode.
US08743430B2	Scanning device A scanning device includes a body, a paper-feeding module, a scanning module and two transmission modules. The body has a paper-feeding area and a scanning area stacked with each other. The paper-feeding module is disposed at the paper-feeding area in the body and the scanning module is disposed at the scanning area in the body. One of the transmission modules is disposed within the paper-feeding area and electrically connected to the paper-feeding module so as to convey a document from the paper-feeding area to the scanning area, while another of the transmission modules is disposed within the scanning area and electrically connected to the scanning module so as to drive the scanning module for scanning images on the document.
US08743428B2	Image scanning unit and image forming apparatus having the same An image scanning unit an image forming apparatus having the same to scan an image recorded on a document. The image scanning unit includes: a transparent window on which a document to be scanned is laid; an image sensor running straightly under the transparent window for capturing an image recorded on the document, a unit for driving the image sensor; a guide shaft for guiding the straight movement of the image sensor; and an image sensor carrier connected to the driving unit and the guide shaft for straightly moving the image sensor along the guide shaft when the driving unit operates. The image sensor carrier has an image sensor mounting surface on which the image sensor is mounted, and a guide shaft holder integrally formed with the image sensor mounting surface and mounted on the guide shaft.
US08743421B1	System and method for spot color correction A system and method for matching spot colors in a PDL document with actual printed output is disclosed. A pre-press workflow application identifies spot colors in a PDL document and creates a table of potential substitute color tiles, each having color characteristics similar to the original spot color. These tiles are then printed in a “swatch page” of numerically assigned colors and reviewed by the user for potential selection over the original spot color values. A substitute color may then be selected from the swatch page and the pre-assigned numerical value for the selected color tile input into the workflow application. The PDL document is then altered to record the color change. The resulting printed document more closely matches the desired spot color and the process can be repeated for any print environment to allow for more consistent printing results and lower print job costs.
US08743419B2	Image processing apparatus and method converting low-resolution image to high-resolution using signal value patterns Provided is an image processing apparatus and image processing method that make it possible to reduce jaggedness and blurring that may occur when performing resolution conversion of an inputted image from low resolution to high resolution, and make it possible to output a high-resolution image. When performing the conversion from low resolution to high resolution, a multi-gradation signal value pattern that surround a pixel of interest for which interpolation is being performed is acquired. By performing pattern matching, a pattern that corresponds to the acquired signal value pattern is extracted from among pattern files that are prepared in advance for the acquired signal value pattern, after which the image is converted to high resolution by signal value substitution and then outputted.
US08743417B2	Image forming apparatus configured to generates composite image having same resolution, from images having different resolutions, image forming method, and integrated circuit An image forming apparatus is for forming an image with the use of image data items having different resolutions that are input to the image forming apparatus. The image forming apparatus includes a controller unit configured to store the image data items having different resolutions, and report image format information of the image data items; resolution conversion units configured to convert the image data items having different resolutions acquired from the controller unit to have the same resolution, based on the image format information reported from the controller unit; and an image forming unit configured to form the image with the use of the image data items that have been converted by the resolution conversion units to have the same resolution.
US08743416B2	Data processing program and data processor A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a set of program instructions installed on and executed by a computer. The set of program instructions includes (a) acquiring a layout image size where the layout image is generated based on an original image data, the size of the layout image is specified by base data, and the base data represents graphical image in which the layout image is arranged and includes location data that specifies a location at which the original image data is stored, (b) acquiring an original image size, (c) determining whether the original image size is greater than the layout image size, (d) setting the original image as a print target when the original image size is greater than the layout image size, and (e) generating a print instruction instructing to print the original image set as the print target in a size larger than the layout size.
US08743409B2	Information processing apparatus and method of processing information An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving data; a printing unit for printing the data; a data storage unit for storing the data; a print setting storage unit for storing a print enable setting indicating whether the data received with the receiving unit is printed; and a print control unit for controlling the printing unit to print the data stored in the data storage unit when the print enable setting is not set to print the data and it is determined that a remaining storage capacity of the data storage unit is not sufficient.
US08743403B2	Certified print archiving A method for archiving is disclosed. The method comprises generating a first image file corresponding to an original print using a first printer placed at a first location. Further, the first image file is transmitted from the first location to a second printer placed at a second location. The method further includes generating a duplicate print corresponding to the first image file at the second location. Further, a quality of the first image file is compared with a quality of the duplicate print, and the duplicate print is archived based on the comparison.
US08743402B2	Printing system for selecting a printer and operator, and recording medium A printing system comprises a storage part for storing therein first history information on the number of responsible printing operations of each operator by orderer and second history information on the number of uses of each printer by operator, and a determination part for determining a responsible operator to be in charge of printing of a new print order from a specific orderer and a processing printer to be used by the responsible operator in the printing of the new print order on the basis of the first history information and the second history information.
US08743399B2	Image forming system, apparatus, and method permitting selection of an image to be formed An image forming system includes: an information operation apparatus which receives screen data and image forming data corresponding to the screen data; an image forming apparatus which communicates with the information operation apparatus; and a display apparatus which communicates with the information operation apparatus and which displays an image on a display portion based on the screen data received from the information operation apparatus, wherein when receiving an image forming confirmation command, the image forming apparatus receives the image forming data corresponding to the image shown on the display apparatus from the information operation apparatus, displays an image which indicates the image forming data and forms the image based on the image forming data if an image forming command is received.
US08743394B2	Image capturing apparatus for adjusting image attributes An image capturing apparatus includes a housing, a processor module, a sheet feeder, an image capturing assembly, a display module and an operation interface. The image capturing assembly captures both of first and second images of a document sheet, past a scan region and transported by the sheet feeder, and produces first and second image data representative of the first and second images in either a single-sided or double-sided scanning mode. The display module displays representation images of the first and second images. The operation interface receives user input and outputs a selection signal comprising information of selecting at least one of the first and second images. The processor module processes at least one of the first and second image data into output image data according to the selection signal.
US08743388B2	Access to networked peripheral device for impaired users A method for controlling a peripheral device includes receiving input from a user at a workstation adapted to the user, determining whether the received input can be valid, generating a job ticket from the valid input, sending the job ticket to the peripheral device and receiving an identifier representing the job ticket from the peripheral device.
US08743384B2	Image forming apparatus and communication control program product An image forming apparatus is provided with a processing unit that performs a predetermined process, a power-supply shutting unit that shuts off power supply to the processing unit when a predetermined door is opened, a voltage detecting unit that detects a decrease in voltage at a point located posterior to the power-supply shutting unit, and a communication control unit that does not initiate communication with the processing unit if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit before a start of the communication with the processing unit, and judges the just-ended communication as abnormal if the decrease in voltage is detected by the voltage detecting unit after the end of the communication with the processing unit.
US08743380B2	Information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, printing system, control program, printing medium, and printing medium selection control method An object of this invention is to reduce the burden of setting work when setting the correspondence between printing media and paper feed stages in a printing apparatus which selects a predetermined printing medium and prints image data. To achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in a printing apparatus capable of selecting a desired printing medium as a printing condition in selecting a printing medium set on the paper feed stage and printing includes the display step of displaying a medium setting template, the step of selecting an arbitrary template name from the template names of the displayed medium setting template, and the step of setting the correspondence between the set medium contents and the paper feed tray in correspondence with the selected template name. A printing process is performed on the set medium for each paper feed tray.
US08743374B2	Shape measuring device, shape measuring method, and shape measuring program The invention provide a shape measuring device, a shape measuring method, and a shape measuring program capable of clearly observing a surface state of a measuring object while measuring a shape of the measuring object at high accuracy. Light irradiated by a light projecting unit is reflected by a measuring object and received by a light receiving unit. Stereoscopic shape data of the measuring object is generated by a triangular distance measuring method. The light irradiated by the light projecting unit is reflected by the measuring object and received by the light receiving unit. All-focus texture image data of the measuring object is generated by synthesizing texture image data of a plurality of portions of the measuring object while changing a focus position of the light receiving unit. The stereoscopic shape data and the all-focus texture image data are synthesized to generate synthesized data.
US08743373B1	Metrology of optics with high aberrations An interferometry method and associated system and computerized media for testing samples under test including those with high aberrations, comprising: situating a sample under test between a tilt mirror and a reference mirror, the tilt mirror tiltable with at least one degree of freedom about at least one tilt mirror axis, and further translatable along an axial line defined by a direction of propagation of a test wavefront from a source thereof; propagating the test wavefront toward the tilt mirror; after the test wavefront has been reflected by the tilt mirror, further propagating the test wavefront toward a reference mirror; and deriving a substantially complete first-tilt-alignment wavefront metrology of the sample under test from a plurality of first-tilt-alignment interferograms taken with the tilt mirror held fixed at a first predetermined tilt mirror angle while discreetly varying a displacement between the sample under test and the reference mirror.
US08743369B2	Surface plasmon resonance sensor An SPR sensor comprising a thin conducting layer comprising at least one conductive element formed on a surface of a transparent substrate, a light source that illuminates an interface between the conducting layer and the substrate, a photosensitive surface that generates signals from light reflected from the interface, a flow cell formed with at least one flow channel having a lumen defined by a wall formed from an elastic material and from a region of the conducting layer, and at least one hollow fluid-providing flow control apparatus having a lumen and an orifice communicating with its lumen. Fluid flow is enabled between the flow channel and the lumen of the flow control apparatus by forcing an end of the flow control apparatus through the elastic material so that the orifice communicates with the flow channel lumen.
US08743366B2	Light emission portion, photoelectric smoke sensor, and suction-type smoke sensing system The present invention can detect smoke with high accuracy. A light emitting portion is provided with a light emitting element outputting the inspection light with high brightness, the distribution of which is adjusted. A reflection portion collects the inspection light from the light emitting element to the detection region. A diaphragm portion transmits the collected light toward the detection region, while removing light diffused to regions other than the detection region a light shielding portion shields the light diffused to the regions other than the detection region. The light emitting element is provided with a light source outputting the inspection light with high brightness and a parabolic reflective mirror whose curved surface reflects light from the light source toward the detection region, the reflected light being in a doughnut shape in which the center is relatively dark and the periphery is bright.
US08743364B2	Method and system for matching color and coarseness appearance of coatings The present invention is directed to a method and a system for producing one or more matching formulas to match color and coarseness appearance of a target coating on a substrate. The method provides providing a set of coating chips comprising at least two coating chips having different lightness values, and at least two coating chips having matching lightness values and different coarseness values. This invention provides a simple method and the system for matching color and coarseness appearance of the surface coating.
US08743360B2	Detection method for birefringence measurement A method of controlling a light beam in an optical system includes a light source that directs a collimated light beam along a path, through a sample, and toward the active area of a stationary detector. The method includes the step selectively moving a lens into the path of the light beam for spreading the beam in instances where the path of the beam is altered by the sample between the source and the stationary detector. The detector, therefore, is held stationary. Adjustment means are provided for increasing the intensity characteristic of the light that reaches the detector to account for a decrease in intensity that occurs when the lens is in the path of the light beam to spread the beam.
US08743359B2	Optical surveillance of mixing and separation The present invention relates to a non-invasive method for surveilling mixing and separation of a suspension in an analytical system using solid phase particles for separation of an analyte by measuring particle distribution with a camera attached to a pipetting device.
US08743357B2	Light source device, surface inspecting apparatus using the device, and method for calibrating surface inspecting apparatus using the device A surface inspecting apparatus can inspect a smaller defect by using a PSL of a smaller particle size. However, the particle size of the PSL is restricted. In the conventional surface inspecting apparatus, therefore, no consideration has been taken as to how to inspect the defect of such a small particle size as is not set in the PSL which will be needed in the near future in an inspection of a semiconductor manufacturing step. The invention has a light source device for generating light which simulated at least one of a wavelength, a light intensity, a time-dependent change of the light intensity, and a polarization of light which was scattered, diffracted, or reflected by an inspection object, and the light is inputted to a photodetector of the surface inspecting apparatus. The smaller defect can be inspected.
US08743355B2	Simple sugar concentration sensor and method A glucose sensor comprising an optical energy source having an emitter with an emission pattern; a first polarizer intersecting the emission pattern; a second polarizer spaced a distance from the first polarizer and intersecting the emission pattern, the second polarizer rotated relative to the first polarizer by a first rotational amount Θ; a first optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a second optical detector positioned proximal to the second polarizer, the first polarizer and the second polarizer being positioned between the optical energy source and the second optical detector, the second optical detector intersecting the emission pattern; a compensating circuit coupled to the second optical detector; and a subtractor circuit coupled to the compensating circuit and the first optical detector.
US08743350B2	Measuring device for characterizing two-phase flows The invention relates to a device (1) for characterizing a two-phase flow in a channel (11), and to a related method. The device includes: a light source (10) for illuminating the channel (11), in which a fluid can flow in the form of a series of droplets in another fluid; a means (12) for detecting variations in illumination related to the passage of a drop in the channel, said detection means including at least two photodiodes (121, 122) arranged in series in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the channel (11), so that a droplet in said series of droplet flowing in the channel (11) can consecutively vary the illumination detected by the first photodiode (121) and then the illumination detected by the second photodiode (122), the photodiodes (121, 122) being reversibly mounted such that the difference in current between the electric currents of each of the two photodiodes can be determined in order to obtain a differential current representing the difference in the variation in the illumination of the photodiodes; and a processing means (19) for processing the data from the detection means (12) in order to provide data which are characteristic of the two-phase flow.
US08743349B2	Apparatus and method to correct image An apparatus and method of correcting an image are provided. The apparatus includes a receiver to receive a depth value and a luminous intensity, the depth value and the luminous intensity being measured by at least one depth sensor, and a correction unit to read a correction depth value of a plurality of correction depth values mapped to different depth values and different luminous intensities from a first storage unit and to correct the measured depth value using the read correction depth value, the correction depth value being mapped to the measured depth value and the measured luminous intensity.
US08743348B2	Optical distance detection system There is provided an optical distance detection system which includes a light source and a detection device. The light source is configured to illuminate a surface of an object. The detection device is configured to receive a reflected light from the surface of the object and to output a distance of the object according to the reflected light. The detection device includes a sensing module and a calculation module. The sensing module is configured to receive the reflected light to accordingly generate an image. The calculation module is for outputting the distance according to a light spot position and a light spot size of the reflected light forming on the image.
US08743347B1	Semiconductor IR lamp replacement providing bands IV, II and band I for staring infrared countermeasures system In a staring infrared countermeasures system, wherein the improvement comprises a semiconductor material emitter for providing a specific infrared wavelength to provide protection against an infrared radiation guided missile.
US08743342B2	Reflective imaging optical system, exposure apparatus, and method for producing device An imaging optical system of the far pupil type, which is applicable to an exposure apparatus, is provided with six reflecting mirrors and forms an image of a first plane on a second plane. An incident pupil of the imaging optical system is positioned on a side opposite to the imaging optical system with the first plane intervening therebetween. A condition of −14.3<(PD/TT)/R←8.3 is fulfilled by a distance PD which is provided along an optical axis between the incident pupil and the first plane, a distance TT which is provided along the optical axis between the first plane and the second plane, and an angle of incidence R (rad) of a main light beam which comes into the first plane.
US08743341B2	Immersion exposure apparatus and immersion exposure method, and device manufacturing method An immersion type exposure apparatus comprises: an optical member from which an exposure beam is emitted; a first movable member that is movable while holding a substrate, in a predetermined region including a first region including a position facing the optical member and a second region different from the first region; a second movable member that is movable while holding the substrate independently from a first movable member, in a predetermined region including the first region and the second region; a first connection member that is releasably and alternately connected with the first movable member and the second movable member, and moves one movable member in the first region; a second connection member that is releasably and alternately connected with the first movable member and the second movable member, and moves the other movable member in the second region; and a third movable member that is provided on the first connection member and is movable to a position facing the optical member; and at least one of the first movable member, the second movable member, and the third movable member is moved to the position facing the optical member so that a beam path on the emitting side of the optical member is kept filled with a liquid.
US08743340B2	System and method for imaging apparatus calibration A system is disclosed including an image sensor positioned at a first specified angle relative to a projected image plane. The system includes a projector that projects a test pattern onto the projected image plane. A controller is structured to iteratively adjust the projector focus until an image focus index is maximized, where the image focus index is a function of an amplitude of at least one harmonic frequency of a scan of the test pattern. The controller is further structured to determine a skew indicator value and adjust a projector skew adjustment. The controller is further structured to compare a current zoom level to a target zoom level and adjust a projector zoom. The projected image plane is a manufacturing surface, where the projected image is utilized in a manufacturing process.
US08743336B2	Color filter substrate and display panel A color filter substrate includes a substrate, a light-shielding layer, a color filter layer, at least one padding structure, a passivation layer, a transparent conductive layer and at least one spacer. The substrate has a light-shielding region and pixel regions. The light-shielding layer is located in the light-shielding region. The color filter layer is located in the pixel regions. The padding structure disposed on the light-shielding layer and the color filter layer are in the same layer. The passivation layer covers the padding structure, a portion of the light-shielding layer and the color filter layer. The spacer is disposed on the transparent conductive layer which covers the passivation layer and located above the color filter layer. A height of the spacer and a thickness of the color filter layer in total are less than a height of the padding structure and a thickness of the light-shielding layer in total.
US08743332B2	Liquid crystal display device In one embodiment, a first substrate includes a pixel electrode having a first main electrode in a belt-like shape extending along a first cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a counterclockwise direction with respect to an initial alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules, and a second main electrode in the belt-like shape extending along a second cross line direction which crosses at an acute angle in a clockwise direction with respect to the initial alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules. A second substrate includes a counter electrode having a pair of third main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the first main electrode extending along a first cross line direction and a pair of fourth main electrodes in the belt-like shape arranged above a pair of regions sandwiching the second main electrode extending along the second cross line direction.
US08743330B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device is provided which can enhance a numerical aperture. The display has a pixel transparent conductive film electrode and a transparent conductive film counter electrode formed on an insulation film, which in turn is formed on a first substrate to cover the pixel electrode. A plurality of linear portions of the counter electrode are arranged on the pixel electrode. A gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the first pixel is formed on a first-pixel side of the gate signal line and a gate-signal-line side of the pixel electrode of the second pixel is formed on a second-pixel side of the gate signal line. The gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the first pixel and the gate-signal-line-side frame portion of the counter electrode of the second pixel are formed in common on the gate signal line in a striding manner.
US08743328B2	Manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display device wherein each side of a metal pattern and a semiconductor pattern facing an etched space is contacted by an insulating layer Provided is a manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display device, in which a semiconductor pattern and a metal pattern are formed so that the semiconductor pattern includes a first portion formed under the metal pattern and a second portion which outwardly extends off the metal pattern from the first portion. An insulating layer for covering the metal pattern and the semiconductor pattern is formed. The insulating layer is subjected to etching in a first region located above the metal pattern and in a second region located above at least the second portion of the semiconductor pattern. In the etching step, the insulating layer in the first region is subjected to etching to form a through hole for electrical connection to the metal pattern, and the insulating layer and the semiconductor pattern in the second region are subjected to etching to remove the second portion of the semiconductor pattern.
US08743327B2	Input device and method for manufacturing the same A touch panel (input device) includes a flexible transparent base; a transparent electrode formed on a first surface of the transparent base; a decorative layer formed on a second surface of the transparent base, the second surface being opposite the first surface; and a transparent panel (glass panel) bonded to the second surface of the transparent base, with an optical clear adhesive layer interposed therebetween.
US08743318B2	Display device and method of manufacturing the same A display device may be constructed with a first substrate having a first electrode and a second electrode, a second substrate formed on the first substrate and facing the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer may be constructed with a polymer-stabilized liquid crystal (PSLC), and a size of domains of the PSLC is 200 nm or less.
US08743313B2	Flat panel display and method for assembling the flat panel display A front frame of a flat panel display having positioning structure allows a LCD cell to be positioned and mounted thereon along an assembly direction. A restraining frame may be further incorporated for positioning and spacing purposes for each component of the display. Optical films, a light guide component, a backlight unit, and a reflector of the flat panel display are then mounted in a row along the assembly direction on the restraining frame or the front frame, where the backlight unit and/or the reflector may be fixed to a back cover of the backlight module in advance. Finally, a speaker, wiring of the display, circuit boards, and a board cover are assembled to the front frame and the back cover.
US08743312B2	Fixing structure for printed circuit board assembly and liquid crystal display using the same The liquid crystal display comprises a display panel, a flexible circuit board, a printed circuit board assembly, and a fixing structure which comprises a back plate comprising a first bending element comprising a first vertical surface being connected to the back plate and a first flat surface, an edge of the first flat surface being connected to the first vertical surface so that the first vertical surface and the first flat surface forming a first hook element opening and a second bending element comprising a second vertical surface being connected to the back plate and a second flat surface, an edge of the second flat surface being connected to the second vertical surface so that the second vertical surface and the second flat surface forming a second hook element opening, the second hook element opening and the first hook element opening being faced to an opposite direction.
US08743310B2	Flat display A flat display is disclosed, which includes a backlight module, a display panel, a flexible printed circuit board physically connected to the display panel, and a shielding double-sided tape for fastening the flexible printed circuit board on the backlight module. The shielding double-sided tape includes a frame shielding portion adhered to a front surface of the backlight module, and an extending portion extended from the frame shielding portion. A surface of at least one part of the extending portion is adhered to a back surface of the backlight module, and another surface of the least one part of the extending portion is adhered to the flexible printed circuit board.
US08743309B2	Methods for fabricating display structures An electronic device display may have a color filter layer and a thin film transistor layer. A layer of liquid crystal material may be interposed between the color filter layer and the thin film transistor layer. A layer of polarizer may be laminated onto the surface of the color filter layer. Laser trimming may ensure that the edges of the polarizer are even with the edges of the color filter layer. The thin film transistor layer may have an array of thin film transistors that control pixels of the liquid crystal material in the display. Driver circuitry may be used to control the array. The driver circuitry may be encapsulated in a planarized encapsulant on the thin film transistor layer or may be mounted to the underside of the color filter layer. Conductive structures may connect driver circuitry on the color filter layer to the thin film transistor layer.
US08743302B2	Display device A display device includes: a display section including a plurality of display pixels; and a liquid crystal barrier section including a plurality of barrier regions. Each of the barrier regions extends in a first direction inclined with respect to an arrangement direction of the display pixels, and allows light to transmit therethrough and blocks the light. The liquid crystal barrier section includes: a liquid crystal layer; and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer interposing the liquid crystal layer in between. The first electrode layer includes an electrode pattern having a slit provided along the first direction in the barrier regions.
US08743299B2	Three-plate type of liquid crystal projector using projection display apparatus A projection display apparatus comprises a reflective LC display device and a polarizing beam splitter having a polarizing separative plane and wired grids. The LC molecules of the device are aligned such that i) a segment on a second subtracted, produced by projecting a major axis of each LC molecule perpendicularly onto the second substrate, makes an angle of 42 to 48 degrees counterclockwise or counterclockwise in relation to a direction of a straight line on the second substrate, formed by projecting each wire grid perpendicularly onto the second substrate and ii) of both ends of the segment, one end meeting an end of each LC molecule, which is positioned nearer to the second substrate than the other end, is positioned nearer to an intersection at which a plane including the polarizing separative plane and a plane including the second substrate mutually intersects, than the other end of the segment.
US08743293B1	Control method of an audio/video system An audio/video system includes a display having a plurality of input sources and a first peripheral device connected to one of the input sources. The display provides a user interface for receiving a switching command for switching current input source of the display among the input sources from a user, and the display automatically generates a first standby command to the first peripheral device when the received switching command is not switching the current input source to the input source corresponding to the first peripheral device.
US08743287B2	Method and system for mitigating motion trail artifacts and improving low contrast contours in temporal filtering based noise reduction Current output pictures of video data are generated utilizing a motion compensated (MC) blended picture and a corresponding non-MC blended picture of the video data. Windows of picture data from a first picture and MC windows of picture data from a MC previously output picture may be partitioned. The partitioned widows are compared and the first picture is blended with the MC previously output picture based on the comparison to, for example, reduce noise and prevent motion trail artifacts. Non-MC windows of picture data from a MC or non-MC previously output picture may be partitioned and compared with the windows of picture data from the first picture. The first picture may be blended with the MC or non-MC previously output picture based on the comparison to reduce motion trail artifacts. A blending factor is determined and utilized to blend the blended pictures to reduce noise and prevent motion artifacts.
US08743284B2	Synchronizing remote audio with fixed video A multimedia device (100) including a separating entity configured to separate a multimedia stream into audio frames and video frames, a sequencing entity configured to add a sequence number to at least one audio frame, a transceiver configured to transmit audio frames to a remote audio device, a controller coupled to a video player, the controller configured to determine a delay associated with transmitting the audio frames to the remote audio device based upon the sequence number and to control the presentation of the video frames at the video player based on the delay.
US08743283B2	Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US08743282B2	Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal.
US08743281B2	Alias avoidance in image processing An image processing apparatus generating output pixel values with respect to pixels of an input image selected in accordance with an image feature direction in the input image and including a comparing mechanism comparing blocks of pixels of the input image, the blocks disposed with respect to a pixel position under test so that a correlation between the blocks would indicate an image feature direction applicable to that pixel position; and a validating mechanism detecting whether an image feature direction may be used to interpolate an output pixel value at the pixel position under test. The validating mechanism: (i) detects whether a detected image feature direction for the pixel position under test meets one or more predetermined directional criteria; and (ii) detects whether pixel values in image regions disposed with respect to the pixel position under test in accordance with possible image feature directions meet one or more predetermined pixel value criteria.
US08743277B2	Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes an operation member movable from an initial position with respect to an apparatus body, a first elastic member configured to be deformed from a first state to a second state when the operation member is moved from the initial position and to restore the operation member to the initial position with a force produced to return from the second state to the first state, a second elastic member configured to be held by the first elastic member when the first elastic member is in the first state, and a contact portion configured not to come into contact with the second elastic member when the operation member is at the initial position and to come into contact with the second elastic member when the operation member is moved from the initial position.
US08743273B2	Imaging device and solid-state imaging device A row scanning unit activates a synchronous curtain shutter mode in which pixel reset scan is performed and exposure of the imaging area is started by the pixel reset scan and is ended by light shielding by a mechanical curtain shutter, the pixel reset scan meaning that scan on a row-by-row basis is performed on pixel reset in which the photodiodes are reset by turning on the transfer transistors and a corresponding reset transistor, wherein in the mechanical curtain synchronous shutter mode, the pixel reset scan according to the traveling characteristics of the mechanical curtain shutter is performed, and the pixel reset scan includes performing a pixel reset operation simultaneously on the unit cells of different rows.

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