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US07805199B2	Method and apparatus for establishing context among events and optimizing implanted medical device performance An apparatus and method for adjusting the performance of an implanted device based on data including contextual information. Contextual information, including operational and performance data concerning the implanted device as well as the patient with the implanted device, is stored by a portable electronic device. In one embodiment, the portable electronic device is adapted for battery operation and includes a personal digital assistant (PDA). The portable electronic device is adapted for use as an interface to conduct wireless communications with the implanted device. In one embodiment, the portable electronic device interfaces with a clinical programmer for use by a physician.
US07805196B2	Collecting activity information to evaluate therapy A medical device delivers a therapy to a patient. The medical device or another device may periodically determine an activity level of the patient, and associate each determined activity level 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 associated with that therapy parameter set. A list of the therapy parameter sets is presented to a user, such as a clinician, for evaluation of the relative efficacy of the therapy parameter sets. The list may be ordered according to the one or more activity metric values to aid in evaluation of the therapy parameter sets. Where values are determined for a plurality of activity metrics, the list may be ordered according to the one of the activity metrics selected by the user.
US07805190B2	Defibrillators customized for anticipated patients An external defibrillator is customized for at least one person, i.e., an anticipated patient, through creation of a profile for the anticipated patient that allows the defibrillator and users of the defibrillator to provide customized treatment to the patient. The profile may include treatment parameters for the anticipated patient, such as defibrillation therapy parameters selected for the patient. The profile may also include a baseline recording of a physiological parameter of the patient, and medical history and personal information regarding the patient. In some embodiments, the external defibrillator stores a profile for each of one or more anticipated patients within a memory. In other embodiments, a profile for an anticipated patient is stored within a medium associated with that anticipated patient. The medium may, for example, be a removable medium for external defibrillators.
US07805189B2	Voltage/current regulator improvements for an implantable medical device Apparatus and method provide flexibility in generating a stimulation waveform to an electrode of an implantable medical device. The stimulation waveform comprises at least one stimulation pulse. The embodiment of the invention supports a generation of a stimulation pulse in which an amplitude and an electrical polarity of the stimulation pulse can be dynamically changed. The embodiment comprises a capacitor arrangement, a regulator and a switching array. The capacitor arrangement can be reconfigured with respect to an electrical reference through the switching array in order for the regulator to deliver the stimulation pulse to a pair of electrodes. In another embodiment, a plurality of stimulation waveforms are generated in which different stimulation waveforms are associated with different electrodes. With the embodiment, a plurality of regulators are connected and reconfigured to the capacitor arrangement in order that the different stimulation waveforms are generated by different regulators.
US07805184B2	Portable body fat measurement device and optical sensor module of the device A portable body fat measurement device includes: a light source unit having at least two top view light sources and a guide unit perpendicularly guiding an optical signal generated in the top view light sources to determine a measurement point where body fat is measured; an optical detection unit detecting a scattered optical signal to transform into an electrical signal, the scattered optical signal being generated by a scattering of the optical signal irradiated to the measurement point; and a signal processing unit processing the electrical signal and calculating body fat information, wherein the at least two top view light sources and the optical detection unit are horizontally arranged.
US07805183B2	Stromal collagen in the diagnosis and characterization of breast cancer The present invention provides methods and systems for evaluating biological materials for the diagnosis of disease, such as gland abnormalities, and the cancerous and precancerous conditions. Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques, such as MP microscopy and harmonic generation microscopy, are used to generate high resolution, three dimensional images of a test tissue, such as a biopsy tissue sample and tissue in whole organisms, that are analyzed, optionally in combination, to detect, identify and characterize tumor-associated collagen signatures. The presence, abundance and extent of histological features and structural motifs comprising tumor-associated collagen signatures may be directly and accurately correlated with the onset and progression of cancer, such as breast cancer. The present methods are capable of providing an accurate and selective diagnosis of cancer, and provide diagnostic information complementary to conventional diagnostic methods.
US07805182B2	System and method for the guidance of a catheter in electrophysiologic interventions In a system and a method for the guidance of a catheter with an electrode in an electrophysiological procedure, sequence of images of the catheter and of a resting reference catheter is generated with an X-ray device and stored together with the associated electrographic recordings from the electrodes. A reference image may then be selected from said sequence that corresponds to a desired electrographic pattern. In a next step, the positions of the catheters are localized on the reference image. The position of the reference catheter can be identified with the position of this catheter on an actual image. Thus it is possible to determine on the actual image also a target position for the catheter that corresponds to the position of this catheter on the reference image. The target position may finally be indicated on a monitor to assist the guidance of the catheter to a desired location.
US07805181B2	Non-invasive quantitative myocardial perfusion assessment In a computer-readable medium, device and method for quantitative assessment of cardiac perfusion, a myocardium is depicted on a series of cardiac images and is divided into image segments. A cardiac perfusion parameter is determined for each of the image segments. At least one image segment with a normal perfusion parameter value is selected. The cardiac perfusion parameters of the remaining image segments are normalized based on the normal perfusion parameter value of said image segment with normal perfusion. The perfusion parameter can be a maximum upslope of a time-intensity profile for distribution of a contrast agent in said myocardium. A normal maximum upslope is derived for at least one image segment with normal perfusion and a relative maximum upslope is calculated for each other segment with relation to the normal maximum upslope.
US07805176B2	Exchange-weighted xenon-129 nuclear magnetic resonance system and related method Method and system that provides, among other things, the capability for using hyperpolarized xenon-129 as a probe to non-invasively and non-destructively characterize important properties of certain structures or materials into which hyperpolarized xenon-129 can be introduced and wherein the xenon exists in two or more chemically-shifted states that are in exchange High-resolution MR images can be generated in a fraction of a second wherein the associated signal intensities reflect material properties that characterize the gas exchange among the different states. For example, in the human or animal lung, the system and related method can exploit the differences in gas-exchange characteristics between healthy and diseased lung tissue to generate high-resolution, high signal-to-noise cross-sectional MR images that permit non-invasive regional detection of variations in lung tissue structure with a combination of spatial and temporal resolution that is unmatched by any current imaging modality.
US07805175B2	Microarray bioprobe device integrated with a semiconductor amplifier module on a flexible substrate The present invention provides a microarray bioprobe device integrated with a semiconductor amplifier module, which integrates micro array biological probes and thin film transistors on a flexible substrate by Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS) processes and semiconductor processes. A signal from the microarray bioprobe device is amplified through a near amplifier to increase signal-to-noise ratio and impendence matching. The micro array biological probes of the present invention are produced on the flexible substrate such that the micro array biological probes can be disposed to conform to the profile of a living body's portion and improving contact between the probes and living body's portion.
US07805172B2	Cover for a mobile device and mobile device having same A cover for a mobile device. The cover includes a support member, wherein at least a portion of the support member is transmissive, and a shielding layer located on the support member between the edge and the center of the support member, the shielding layer having at least one region that decreases in opacity from the edge of the support member towards the center of the support member. A mobile device having the cover is also provided.
US07805165B2	Loading-adjustable RF switch matrix circuit and driving method thereof A loading-adjustable RF switch matrix circuit includes a first output unit for selectively outputting at least one RF signal, at least one signal switching module, and a detecting module coupled to the first output unit and the signal switching module. The signal switching module includes a first loading unit for adjusting the loading of the RF switch matrix circuit; a first switch unit coupled to the RF signal, the first loading unit and the first output unit for controlling the RF signal coupled to the first loading unit or the first output unit. If the detecting module detects that the first output unit is not coupled to a first external device, the first switch unit couples the RF signal to the first loading unit.
US07805161B1	Virtual visitor location register for a wireless local area network A multi-mode mobile station is able to wirelessly communicate with a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and with a wireless local area network (WLAN). The WLAN includes a “virtual” visitor location register (VVLR) for storing information about multi-mode mobile stations being served by the WLAN. The VVLR communicates with a home location register (HLR) in the WWAN in order to facilitate roaming between the WWAN and WLAN by the multi-mode mobile station.
US07805157B2	Wireless communication terminal In a wireless communication terminal, information from a wireless communication unit is decoded by a communication control unit and analysis information is acquired. A content reception judgment unit instructs the communication control unit to terminate a content receiving process if a mobile radio environment corresponding to transmission rate information of the contents, included in the analysis information, is below a content reception threshold stored in a content reception threshold storage unit. Thus, the wireless communication terminal can judge that the possibility of a failed reception is high before content reception, and needless power consumption can be prevented and power consumption reduced by not performing reception.
US07805154B2	Apparatus and method for transmission power balance adjustment in a mobile cellular system A transmission power control system can establish synchronization by matching adjustment start timings while repeating adjustment periods even when start timings of transmission power balance adjustment are different due to fluctuation of transmission delay of control message from the control station to base station, and can increase circuit capacity by establishing balance of transmission powers between the base stations. In the transmission power control system the base station comprises control means for controlling initiation of a balance adjustment period for performing the balance adjustment from a frame number determined on the basis of frame number of the balance adjustment period.
US07805152B2	PTT architecture A communication system comprising: at least one first communication device configured to communicate in half duplex mode using a first encoding-decoding format; at least one second communication device configured to communicate in half duplex mode using a second encoding-decoding format; a third communication device configured to communicate in half duplex mode using the first format; a fourth communication device configured to communicate in half duplex mode using the second format; wherein the third and fourth communication devices are configured to communicate with each other in half duplex mode using a third encoding decoding format.
US07805150B2	Wireless device, program products and methods of using a wireless device to deliver services In at least one embodiment, a mobile device detects proximity to a point on a route and determines whether an audio track is associated with the point. In response to detecting that the mobile device is proximate to the point and a determination that an audio track is associated with the point, the mobile device presents the audio track.
US07805148B2	System and method for location transparency A service that augments a key element of Unified Messaging and Unified Communications initiatives—i.e., Mobile Subscriber Location Awareness—to enhance substantially the value, usefulness, etc. of the presence awareness, place shifting, etc. components of such initiatives. The service may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located, full-featured Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.
US07805146B1	Cell phone PDA/GPS communication network with AIS A method, a combined cellular, PDA communication device and system having specialized software applications for allowing a plurality of combined cellular phone/PDA device users to monitor each others' locations and status, to initiate cellular phone calls by touching a symbol on the touch screen display with a stylus which can also include point to call conferencing calling. Each participant's cellular phone/PDA device includes a GPS navigation receiver with application software for point to call cellular phone initiation to participants and geographical entities including vehicles, persons or events, conference calls and video transfers. The method, device and system also includes several features that allow each individual cell phone/PDA device user to interface the automatic identification system (AIS) ship reports and transmissions with cellular IP network participants so that data is exchanged between the AIS carrying ships and cell phone equipped network participants permitting AIS equipped ships to view the location of nearby boats having network cell phones and to allow boats carrying cell phone users to view the locations of AIS equipped ships.
US07805142B2	Methods and device for varying a hand-off base station list based on traffic conditions A neighbor list of potential hand-off base stations is varied to control call blocking and dropping rates. The list may be varied in accordance with real-time traffic flow criteria.
US07805140B2	Pre-emptive roaming mechanism allowing for enhanced QoS in wireless network environments A preemptive roaming mechanism in wireless network environments. In one implementation, the present invention provides a wireless client that implements a preemptive roaming mode that, when an attribute of the signal (e.g., Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), etc.) between the access point with which the client is currently associated crosses a threshold, scans for other access points with which to associate. In one implementation, the client switches between the scanning mode and a traffic mode to allow data to be transferred between the client and the current access point. The pre-emptive roaming functionality can be configured to support desired data rates or other QoS levels.
US07805139B2	Wireless communication system that supports multiple standards, multiple protocol revisions, multiple extended services and multiple extended services delivery options and method of operation therefor A wireless communication system facilitates communication with subscribing units within a respective service area that supports at least one communication protocol revision. The system communicates with a subscribing unit operating within a respective service area to determine the communication protocol revisions supported by the subscribing unit. Subsequently, the subscribing unit and base station communicate according to a supported communication protocol revision. The base station and subscribing unit further communicate to indicate extended services supported by the subscribing unit and the methods of delivering the extended services to the subscribing unit. The extended services include caller line ID, message waiting indications and short message services among other extended services. In addition to a base station, the wireless communication system may include a mobile switching center that is in communication with the base station. The mobile switching center includes a visitor location register that records communication protocol revisions of the subscribing unit.
US07805136B1	Automated form-based feedback of wireless user experiences accessing content, e.g., web content A computer system receives communications from wireless communications devices reporting on problems with communications with content servers on a network such as application servers or web site servers. The central computer system generates reports summarizing the reported problems. Such summary reports can be used internally by a wireless service provider or made available to the proprietor of the content server. The wireless communications devices include an interactive application that facilitates generation of a report and transmission of the report to the computer system. In one embodiment, the computer system is managed by a provider of wireless communications services.
US07805135B2	Wall mounted docking station A multi-zone audio system is provided that is portable to a handheld audio device at a plurality of locations. The system includes a multi-zone audio system controller having an audio input/output selection circuit for selectively regulating the source and distribution of audio signals. A plurality of handheld connector docks are distributed about the multi-zone system. Each connector dock is in communication with the audio system controller. The connector docks include a connector port, engagable to the handheld device, for communicating music/data/commands between the handheld device and the system controller. A plurality in-wall audio controllers are also distributed about the multi-zone system. Each in-wall controller is in communication with the audio system controller, and includes an input circuit for selective input of commands to regulate operation of the system controller and/or the handheld device. The handheld connector docks are operative to transfer music/data/commands between the audio system controller and a handheld device disposed within the connector dock.
US07805132B2	Method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications A method and system for the prevention of unwanted wireless telecommunications, which is implemented as part of a computer program product in (preferentially) the telecommunications operator's network. The method and system meets and/or exceeds much of current, proposed, and even academically anticipated legislative (and by necessity, technical) criteria, and thus the broader body of consumer requirements associated with wireless telecommunications spam filtering. Indeed, the method and system provides for a remarkably flexible and customizable advance in the art through the utilization of a progressive filtering algorithm. This algorithm offers both the subscriber and the service provider with the capability to block and/or extract potentially harmful or unsolicited SMS, MMS and other such messages on the basis of an extensive range of parameters and rules.
US07805124B2	Low-loss frequency pattern generator Frequency pattern generator (1, 101, 201) for generating frequency pulses, said generator having a first local oscillator unit (2-1, 121, 221) for generating a first radio frequency carrier frequency signal (LO1), at least one second local oscillator unit (2-2, . . . 2-N, 122, 222) for generating at least one second radio frequency carrier frequency signal (LO2), a switching device (3, 103, 203) for passing on one of the radio frequency carrier frequency signals (LO1, LO2) or a zero signal (DC) in a manner dependent on a control signal (CTR), and a mixing stage (9, 109, 209, 212, 309) for mixing the signal (LO) that has been passed on by the switching device (3, 103, 203) with a mixing frequency signal (LF) to form a pulsed output signal (RFOUT), the pulsed output signal (RFOUT) having frequency pulses at a respective frequency (f1, . . . f8) and length (Tp) in a manner dependent on the control signal (CTR).
US07805122B2	Local oscillator with non-harmonic ratio between oscillator and RF frequencies using digital mixing and weighting functions A novel and useful apparatus for and method of local oscillator (LO) generation with non-integer multiplication ratio between the local oscillator and RF frequencies. The LO generation schemes presented are operative to generate I and Q square waves at a designated frequency while avoiding the well known issue of harmonic pulling. The signal is input to a synthesizer timed to a rational multiplier of the RF frequency fRF. The signal is then divided to generate a plurality of phases of the divided signal. A plurality of combination signals are generated which are then multiplied by a set of weights and summed to cancel out some undersired products. The result is filtered to generate the LO output signal.
US07805120B2	Noise blanker circuit and method for removing noise and correcting a signal A noise blanker circuit and method of removing impulse noise from a signal and correcting the signal is provided. The circuit includes a detection stage, a pulse removal stage, and a pulse removal correction stage. The detection stage includes at least an input that emits an input signal along a first signal path and a second signal path. The first and second signal paths are in communication with a blank pulse generator. The pulse removal stage is in communication with the input and includes at least a sample and hold device that samples and holds the input signal based upon an output of the blank pulse generator. The pulse removal correction stage includes at least a pulse removal device in communication with the detection stage and the pulse removal stage and corrects the input received from the pulse removal stage based upon the output of the blank pulse generator.
US07805119B2	Multi-frequency detector The method provides a method and device for detecting in a single or multi frequency signal, one or more frequencies from a predetermined set of frequencies. The Signal is subjected to a complex filter substantially passing all of the frequencies in the predetermined set of frequencies. For each of one or more pairs of members of the complex filtered signal, a complex number Yd is determined having a phase indicative of a phase difference between the two members of the pair. The one or more frequencies are then determined based upon the one or more complex numbers. The method and device of the invention may be used in an apparatus such as a call indicator (CI) detector or a DTMF detector.
US07805118B2	Satellite receiving method and system A satellite receiving system (200, 300) and a method for adjusting a satellite receiving system include an input (113); a first oscillator (106) with theoretical frequency (FOSC1) and real frequency (FOSC1′), a first frequency mixer (105) delivering a signal at a first intermediate frequency (F2), a second oscillator (302) with frequency (FOSC2), a second frequency mixer (301) delivering a signal at a second intermediate frequency (FOUT), a microcontroller (202), which controls a real frequency (FVCO) of the second oscillator, and an output (110). An external signal (112) at a determined frequency (F1) is supplied to the input (113). A nominal value (FOSC2) of the frequency of the second oscillator is determined as a function of the input frequency (F1), the theoretical frequency (FOSC1) of the first oscillator and the second intermediate frequency (FOUT). The frequency of the second oscillator is controlled, via the microcontroller, at the determined nominal value. An offset is detected between the theoretical frequency (FOSC1) and the real frequency (FOSC1′) of the first oscillator, from an offset between the first intermediate frequency (F2) and the second intermediate frequency (FOUT) at the output (110). The offset is corrected by changing the nominal frequency (FOSC2) of the second oscillator to a real frequency (FVCO) so as to cancel the offset at the output.
US07805114B1	In situ re-configurable wireless communications system (IRCWCS) In Situ Re-Configurable Wireless Communications System (IRCWCS) in combination with a wearable computer provides an individual user at a public gathering place, fixed facility or non-stationary object with new and enhanced capabilities. In one embodiment of the invention, the re-configurable wireless communication system includes a portable wireless access unit and a Long Range Ethernet (LRE) network switch that connects to an existing LAN. A bridge device such as an LRE puck connects the portable wireless access unit to the LRE network switch through a communications infrastructure. A wearable computer in wireless communication with the portable wireless access unit using a radio frequency link allows communication of video, voice and data to and from the existing LAN through the LRE network switch. The LRE network switch couples to a central command station through the existing LAN.
US07805113B2	Circuit and method for selectable high/low side injection in an intermediate frequency transceiver A method of communication between a first transceiver having a first local oscillator set at a first frequency and a second transceiver having a second local oscillator set at a second frequency disclosed. The method includes transmitting a first signal at a first frequency from the first transceiver to the second transceiver, transmitting a second signal at the second frequency from the second transceiver to the first transceiver, and receiving the second signal at the first transceiver. The method further includes maintaining the first local oscillator at the first frequency and the second local oscillator at the second frequency during the transmitting of the first signal, during the receiving of the first signal, during the transmitting of the second signal, and during the receiving of the second signal.
US07805108B2	Apparatus and method for improved call release in a wireless network The present invention decreases the time required to determine whether a call connection between a base station and a mobile station in a wireless network has failed during a call set up procedure. A preamble frame detector in the base station detects preamble frames transmitted by the mobile station. When the base station detects missing preamble frames the base station increases the power level of null frames that the base station transmits to the mobile station. The more powerful null frames increase the likelihood of a successful call connection. The base station releases the call if a connection is not made in less than five seconds. The mobile station similarly releases unsuccessful call connections.
US07805107B2	Method of student course and space scheduling A method of determining student demand for academic courses during a variety of time periods and a method of scheduling the student demand for academic courses for academic programs of study is provided, the method being operated on a computer system.
US07805106B2	Sheet cutting apparatus, sheet processing apparatus, and image forming apparatus A sheet cutting apparatus including: an information obtaining device, which obtains information on the thickness of a sheet bundle to be cut; a sheet presser movable between a standby position for receiving the sheet bundle at a predetermined position and a pressing position for pressing the sheet bundle at the predetermined position to fix the sheet bundle; a cutting knife, which cuts the sheet bundle fixed by the sheet presser; and a control device, which moves the sheet presser to another standby position between the standby position and the pressing position before the sheet bundle is conveyed to the predetermined position.
US07805104B2	Magnetic element-applied medium, and medium information reading method and device An information reading device for reading identification information from a medium to which at least one magnetic element for generating a signal upon receiving a magnetic field is provided, which includes a plurality of detecting parts that detect a signal generated from the magnetic element according to the magnetic field applied to the medium, and an information reading part that reads information formed by the magnetic element based on a combination of detecting parts which have detected the generated signal.
US07805103B2	Cleaning blade for removing toner A cleaning blade member includes a cleaning layer and an elastic layer provided on the cleaning layer's back surface. Both are formed of a polyurethane member produced through curing and molding a castable polyurethane composition, the cleaning layer containing a long-chain polyol, a polyisocyanate, and a diamino compound having a melting point≦80° C., the elastic layer containing a long-chain polyol, a polyisocyanate, a short-chain diol, and a short-chain triol, and has a percent edge drooping≦7.0%, the cleaning and elastic layers have Young's modulus contribution factors Ra and Rb, respectively. (Rb/Ra)=0.05-6.0. Ra=[TaEa/(Ta+Tb)]. Rb=[TbEb/(Ta+Tb)]. Ea and Eb are Young's modulus of the cleaning and elastic layers, respectively. Ta and Tb represent the thicknesses of the cleaning and elastic layers, respectively, and the overall Young's modulus of the cleaning layer and elastic layer is (Ra+Rb)=5.0-14.0 MPa.
US07805097B2	Developing device and toner cartridge A developing device includes a developing roller that supplies developer, a developing case that supports the developing roller, a toner cartridge that houses the developer and is attachable to and detachable from the developing case in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the developing roller, an abutting member that is swingably provided on the developing case and is abuttable against the toner cartridge from a downstream side in a direction along which the toner cartridge is detached from the developing case, an operating member that is swingably provided on the toner cartridge, and an interlocking member that swings the abutting member between an abutting position and a canceling position, the interlocking member swinging in conjunction with a swinging operation of the operating member, and the toner cartridge being detachable from the developing case when the interlocking member is in the second position.
US07805095B2	Charging device and an image forming device including the same A charging device comprises first and second electrodes forming a charging zone. A plurality of nanostructures adhere to at least one of the first and second electrodes. A charging voltage supply couples to the electrodes to support the formation of gaseous ions in the charging zone. An aperture electrode or grid proximate to the first and second electrodes is coupled to a grid control voltage supply which grid control voltage supply, in turn, controls a flow of gaseous ions from the charging zone to thereby charge a proximately-located receptor. In one embodiment, the charging voltage supply is arranged to provide a pulsed-voltage waveform. In one variation of this embodiment, the pulsed-voltage waveform comprises a pulsed-DC waveform. In another embodiment, the charging voltage supply is arranged to provide an alternating-current waveform. In one embodiment, the charging device itself is comprised in an image forming device.
US07805094B2	Image forming apparatus and charge removing device thereof An image forming apparatus and a charge removal device thereof capable of evenly irradiating light to a photosensitive body are disclosed. The charge removal device includes a charge removal lamp, which may be mounted outside the length of the photosensitive body, and the optical axis of which forms an angle with respect to the surface of the photosensitive body, and a lens provided between the photosensitive body and the charge removal lamp. The lens can collimate or make less divergent the light beam emitted by the charge removal lamp, and directs the collimated or less divergent light beam onto the surface of the photosensitive body. The light beam from the lens may be incident upon an area of the surface extending across the length of the photosensitive body.
US07805093B2	Process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus usable therewith A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The apparatus includes an electrophotographic photosensitive member, a developing roller, two units, a movable member, and a cover. The roller can contact the photosensitive member to develop an image formed thereon. One unit supports the photosensitive member with a part thereof exposed. The other unit supports the roller and moves between positions for contacting the roller and the photosensitive member with each other and spacing these elements from each other. The movable member moves the roller-supporting unit between the contact and spaced positions. The cover covers the exposed part and engages the movable member to regulate movement thereof with the developing unit positioned in the spaced position.
US07805090B2	Fuser assemblies, xerographic apparatuses and methods of fusing toner on media in xerographic apparatuses Fuser assemblies, xerographic apparatuses including the fuser assemblies, and methods of fusing toner on media in xerographic apparatuses are disclosed. An embodiment of the fuser assemblies comprises a first roll including an electrically-conductive first surface; an electrically-conductive second surface, the first surface and the second surface defining a nip therebetween at which toner is fused on a medium; at least one voltage sensor for sensing a first voltage difference between the first surface and the second surface; and at least one power supply connected to the first surface and the second surface. A controller is connected to each voltage sensor and each power supply. The controller receives a signal from each voltage sensor indicating the first voltage difference, and the controller controls each power supply to produce a second voltage difference between the first surface and the second surface based on the first voltage difference.
US07805087B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveying device configured to convey a sheet along a conveying path, a fixing roller configured to perform thermal fixing on the sheet having unfixed toner, a motor configured to rotationally drive the fixing roller, a first sheet detector disposed downstream from the fixing roller, a second sheet detector provided between the first sheet detector and the fixing roller and where the second sheet detector does not detect the sheet when the sheet is being properly conveyed, and a controller configured to perform motor stopping methods for stopping the driving of the motor, wherein the methods providing different motor stopping capabilities. When the first sheet detector is not detecting the sheet at a predetermined timing, the controller selects from the methods on the basis of a detection result of the second sheet detector.
US07805084B2	Dual stage modular optical devices Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a dual stage modular optical device for sending and/or receiving optical signals. A first fabricated package includes a light source for generating optical signals and/or a light detector for detecting received optical signals. A second fabricated package includes an opening for accepting circuitry that is to electrically interoperate with the light source and/or light detector to transfer optical signals. A lead frame mechanically connects the first fabricated package to the second fabricated package and electrically connects the light source and/or light detector to contacts exposed in the opening. The dual stage modular optical device can be coupled to a substrate configured to be received within a standard slot of a host system, such as a PCI or PCMCIA slot. Thus, one or more optical connections are integrated within the host device or system.
US07805080B2	Optical interconnect An optical interconnect has a plurality of optical data sources, a plurality of optical data receivers, a diffractive optical element configured to diffract an optical beam from at least one alignment optical source to at least one sensor, and an aligning element configured to align optical beams from the optical data sources to said optical data receivers, according to readings from the sensor.
US07805073B2	Systems and methods of optical path protection for distributed antenna systems Systems and methods for optical path protection for distributed antenna systems are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises receiving an electrical uplink radio frequency signal; generating an uplink optical signal derived from the electrical uplink radio frequency signal; splitting the uplink optical signal for transmission on a primary uplink optical fiber and a secondary uplink optical fiber; combining any downlink optical signal received on a primary downlink optical communication medium and any downlink optical signal received on a second downlink optical communication medium in order to output a downlink optical signal; and generating a downlink radio frequency signal derived from the downlink optical signal.
US07805066B2	System for guided photography based on image capturing device rendered user recommendations according to embodiments Guided photography with image capturing device rendered user recommendations. Data is accessed that is associated with an intended photograph. A knowledge base is accessed to obtain data that is related to the data that is associated with the intended photograph. Recommendations are determined for the intended photograph based on the knowledge base data. The recommendations are provided to a rendering system of the device before the intended photograph is taken.
US07805065B2	Radiator apparatus A radiator apparatus for concentrating or dispersing energy. In one embodiment, the radiator includes a thermal conductive layer, a radiation layer, and a thermal insulation layer. The radiation layer is powered by an energy source and includes at least one radiation element embedded in at least a portion of the thermal conductive layer. The thermal insulation layer faces the thermal conductive layer. In another embodiment, the radiator includes a generally helical dome-shaped radiation member powered by an energy source and a generally dome-shaped reflection member including a reflective surface facing the radiation member. In yet another embodiment, the radiator includes a radiation member powered by an energy source and a reflection member having an at least partially ring-shaped concave reflective surface facing the radiation member for distributing energy to an at least partially hat-shaped or ring-shaped area or zone.
US07805063B2	Speed control system for a ceiling fan motor The invention teaches a speed control system for a brushless DC motor for a ceiling fan, comprising a power circuit 1, a microprocessor circuit 2, a power drive circuit 3, a speed regulation circuit, and a brushless DC permanent magnetic motor 5, wherein the input terminal of the power circuit 1 is connected to the output terminal 101 of an AC power source, the output terminal of the power circuit 1 serves to power the various circuits, the output terminal of the microprocessor circuit 2 is connected to the input terminal of the power drive circuit 3, the output terminal of the power drive circuit 3 is connected to the coil windings 501 of the brushless DC permanent magnetic motor, and the output terminal of the speed regulation circuit is connected to the input terminal of the microprocessor circuit 2. The speed control system of the invention provides the advantages of low energy consumption, low noise during the operation of the motor, and a stable operation at low speeds.
US07805060B2	Information recording method, information recording medium, and information reproducing method, wherein information is stored on a data recording portion and a management information recording portion With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US07805058B2	Reproduction device, reproduction method, program storage medium, and program The present invention displays subtitles in a language desired by a user in a desired format. A text data decoder 121 decodes text subtitle data, supplies a character object to a character object buffer 122, and supplies attribute data to an attribute data buffer 123. The attribute data stored in the attribute data buffer 123 is changed on the basis of an operation input from the user. A font rasterizer 124 converts the character object into raster data on the basis of attribute specification read from the attribute data buffer 123 and acquired font data, and outputs the raster data. By detecting each character object bearing a bookmark on the basis of the attribute and using a bookmark buffer 125, character objects bearing the same bookmark ID are prevented from being repeatedly rasterized. The present invention is applicable to a playback apparatus.
US07805057B1	Record carrier, apparatus and method A record carrier (1) of the invention stores at least video-related user data and control data in digital form. The control data enables playback control of the user data, which control data comprises at least play control data which defines user data items which are playable, at least selection control data for enabling the user to select and control reproduction of user data and at least variable control data for operating on user and system variables. The record carrier (1) is characterized in that the variable control data comprises at least one instruction for a conditional arithmetical operation.
US07805052B2	Apparatus and method for video processing, and storage medium and program therefor A video recording apparatus for continuously presenting a main program to a user without a break while presenting a commercial. A main program buffer records a main program of a video signal in accordance with a temporal position of at least the main program or commercials in the video signal, and a commercial buffer records the commercials. A controller determines whether a current time is in a period to display a commercial, on the basis of at least the temporal position of the main program or the commercials in the video signal. A mixer mixes the main program and the commercials such that the main program is temporally continuously displayed in a full screen area and such that a commercial is displayed in a small area in the bottom right corner of the screen during a period in which the commercial should be displayed.
US07805048B2	Methods and apparatus for directing light emitting diode output light Sideways emission enhancements are described for light emitting diode (LED) lighting solutions having a wide variety of applications. While a typical LED lighting device has a substantial portion of its light emitted near a normal to the semiconductor photonic chip emitting the light, the present approach may suitable provide a compact, easily manufacturable device with good thermal design characteristics and a changed emission pattern without changing the horizontal mounting plane of the semiconductor photonic chip.
US07805047B2	Optical transmission system An optical transmission system (1) alters quantity of incident light by reflecting an optical signal by a micro mirror (11) to enter an optical fiber (13) and by controlling an angle of the micro mirror (11), so that attenuation of the optical signal is controlled. An optical filter (14) is disposed between the micro mirror (11) and the optical fiber (13), for correcting a relationship between a control angle or control voltage of the micro mirror (11) and attenuation of the optical signal to be close to a linear relationship.
US07805046B2	Termination of fiber optic cable Apparatus and methods provide for cables with secured terminations. For some embodiments, a cable includes an inner tube surrounding an optical fiber, an aluminum tube surrounding the inner tube, and armor tubing surrounding the aluminum tube. The aluminum tube resists collapse of the inner tube at bends in the cable, inhibits or prevents hydrogen from reaching the fiber, and facilitates termination of the cable. For example, terminating the cable may include crimping the armor tubing to deform the aluminum tube into gripping engagement with an outside of the inner tube and an inside of the armor tubing. In some embodiments, a retention assembly secures the fiber relative to the inner tube and includes a retention tube secured to the inner tube and a packing sleeve squeezed into gripping engagement with the fiber by radial inward deformation of the retention tube where the packing sleeve is disposed in the retention tube.
US07805042B2	Flexible optical interconnection structure and method for fabricating same A flexible optical interconnection structure has a plurality of layers including an optical waveguide made of a core and a clad. The core is disposed to include a neutral surface that is not affected by expansion or contraction by bending. Alternatively, when the neutral surface is position outside the core, the core is disposed to satisfy Δy≦0.03×R, in which Δy is a distance between the neutral surface and a surface of the core at a side near the neutral surface, and R is a curvature radius of an innermost surface of the flexible optical interconnection structure in the bent state.
US07805038B2	Birefringent photonic bandgap optical waveguide A birefringent elongate waveguide for guiding light, comprises: a core region (110), comprising an elongate region of relatively low refractive index; and a cladding region (100), comprising elongate regions (105) of relatively low refractive index interspersed with elongate regions (117,120) of relatively high refractive index. In a transverse cross-section of the waveguide, a (5) relatively high refractive index boundary region (115) is provided that surrounds the core region and has either (1) at most two-fold rotational symmetry or (2) a rotational symmetry that reduces the rotational symmetry of the waveguide to at most two-fold rotational symmetry. The symmetry of the boundary region (115) results at least in part from azimuthal variations therein, which are substantially uncharacteristic of the cladding region (100).
US07805033B2	Optical wavelength division multiplexed multiplexer/demultiplexer for an optical printed circuit board and a method of manufacturing the same The invention provides an optical mux/demux for an optical printed circuit board. The mux/demux comprises: a first waveguide formed on a support layer for carrying a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal; a separator/combiner for separating the wavelength division multiplexed signal into component signals of corresponding wavelengths or for combining component signals into the said wavelength division multiplexed signal; and plural second waveguides, each for receiving or providing one or more of the said component signals, wherein the separator/combiner is at a predetermined location relative to the waveguides.
US07805031B2	Methods for fabricating color-center-based quantum computer architectures Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to color-center-based quantum computer architectures that are both scalable and defect tolerant and to methods for fabricating color-center-based quantum computer architectures. In one embodiment of the present invention, a node of a quantum computer architecture comprises a first photonic device configured to transmit electromagnetic waves, a color center embedded in diamond and coupled to the first photonic device, and a switch located between the first photonic device and a bus waveguide. The switch can be configured to selectively control transmission of electromagnetic waves between the bus waveguide and the color center.
US07805029B2	Thermal sensing fiber devices There is provided a feedback-controlled self-heat-monitoring fiber, including an insulator having a fiber length with at least one metal-semiconductor-metal thermal sensing element along the fiber length and disposed at a position in a cross section of the fiber for sensing changes in fiber temperature. An electronic circuit is connected to the thermal sensing element for indicating changes in fiber temperature. A controller is connected for controlling optical transmission through an optical transmission element, that is disposed along the fiber length, in response to indications of changes in fiber temperature.
US07805022B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer program The present invention allows a thumbnail display representing the outline of input images in a digital image printer to be made, in which it is determined whether an image is a first kind of image or a second kind of image, and if it is determined that the image is the first kind of image, a feature part of the first kind of image is enlarged in the thumbnail display to make the contents of image more understandable.Also, the invention allows a thumbnail display representing the outline of input images in a digital image printer to be made, in which it is determined whether an image is a character image or a gradation image, and if it is determined that the image is the character image, a part of the character image is enlarged in the thumbnail display to make the characters more understandable.
US07805021B2	Electronic image registration based on chrominance channel A method to detect edges based on chrominance information alone or in combination with gray level values includes comparing chrominance values to a registration parameter based on chromacity measurements of a backing. To calibrate a system, a small scan obtains sample image data for the backing in the document feeder. Using the sampled image data, average chrominance values for the backing are determined. Based on the averages, a channel having a low chrominance contribution is selected as the registration channel. A registration parameter is calculated for automatic registration of documents based on the average chrominance and chrominance deviation for the registration channel.
US07805019B2	Enhancement of decompressed video A method and apparatus for enhancing video quality by adaptively removing distortions and ringing effects embedded in decompressed video signals. The apparatus can operate in conjunction with decoder devices installed in set-top boxes, satellite receivers, TV broadcast channel servers, digital still cameras, DVD players and recorders, large screen TV sets, media players, and the like.
US07805016B2	Decoding apparatus and decoding method A decoding apparatus having a de-ringing filter to filter image data decoded from encoded image data by orthogonal transformation encoding. In the de-ringing filter, a subtracter generates an absolute value of difference between a value of a filter object pixel and a value of at least one pixel selected from pixels surrounding the filter object pixel on the image data. A comparator compares the absolute value with a threshold. A selector outputs the value of the at least one pixel if the absolute value is less than the threshold, and outputs the value of the filter object pixel if the absolute value is not less than the threshold. A convolution operator convolutes a filter coefficient with the value output from the selector, and outputs a convolution result as a filtered value of the filter object pixel.
US07805015B2	Method of point identification and tracking in a digital video environment A computer implemented method, apparatus, data processing system, and computer usable program code are provided for identifying interest points. A set of digital images and a set of threshold values are received, where the set of digital images includes a set of digital frames. A set of directional values are calculated for each of a set of pixels within each digital frame in the set of digital frames. A set of interest points are identified within each digital frame in the set of digital frames using the set of threshold values and the set of directional values. Finally, a set of characteristics is identified for the set of interest points.
US07805012B2	Systems, methods, and computer program products for image processing, sensor processing, and other signal processing using general parametric families of distributions Methods and systems are disclosed for signal processing. A method includes receiving a plurality of digitized coefficients determining a best-fit distribution of a general family of distributions for the plurality of digitized coefficients, and providing a characterization of the digitized coefficients based upon the determined best-fit distribution. The system includes a memory for storing computer program instructions and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is operable to execute the computer program instructions to receive a plurality of digitized coefficients, determine a best-fit distribution of a general family of distributions for the plurality of digitized coefficients, and provide a characterization of the digitized coefficients based upon the determined best-fit distribution.
US07805011B2	Method and apparatus for providing lossless data compression and editing media content A method and a related apparatus for compressing images included in media content and editing the media content. The method can include providing an image-matching algorithm and a memory device, using the image-matching algorithm to identify images that are similar in a selection of media content extracting the images that are similar from the selection of media content, storing a single image that represents the extracted images in the memory device, and replacing the extracted images in the selection of media content with a metadata link that points to the single image. The method can further include providing a previously edited video program that originally was created from film footage, determining which of the video fields from the program include a unique film frame from the footage, and extracting the video fields from the program that include a unique film frame.
US07805008B2	Structural content filtration of hypotheses in a cognitive control framework Structural content filtration to reduce the number of hypotheses for the location of an active object in a recorded image generated by a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application program may be accomplished by transforming the recorded image and a corresponding playback image, determining a sub-image from the transformed recorded image which corresponds to an object to be searched for in the transformed playback image, determining a set of points on the transformed playback image which have appropriate values for matching the sub-image, and filtering hypotheses on the playback image which are more than a selected distance from any one of the subset of points.
US07805002B2	Smoke detection method and apparatus A smoke detection method and system, which uses the effects of the diffusion of light to identify the presence of smoke in a monitored area, are disclosed. This method comprises the steps of: (1) electronically capturing a sequence of images of a light source in the monitored area, (2) transferring these images into an image buffer, (3) scanning these images to identify the chunks of adjacent pixels with brightness values above a prescribed threshold, (4) maintaining the sequence of such chunks obtained from consecutive images in a cluster stack, (5) analyzing the evolution of the features of each of these cluster over a prescribed period of time to identify the patterns that are caused by particle-induced light diffusion, and (6) issuing a prescribed system response in the event such light diffused patterns are identified.
US07804997B2	Method and system for a three dimensional facial recognition system A computer automated 3D sketch artist process for generating a computer 3D image of an individual includes the steps of generating a morphable head model as a starting point to develop a composite 3D like picture of the individual by analysis of a prerecorded data base of 3D face pictures, selecting a lighting model to best depict the individual, selecting a mouth model from a prerecorded data base of mouth shapes to best depict the individual's mouth and teeth, selecting an expression model for the individual's composite 3D sketch from a prerecorded data base of facial expressions, and manipulating the generated composite 3D sketch with various morphing tools to selectively modify the composite sketch to best conform to the individual's characteristics.
US07804996B2	Method for associating stereo image and three-dimensional data preparation system A method for associating a stereo image, by acquiring images of an object from a first point and a second point and by associating the image at the first point and the second point, comprising a step of moving from the first point to the second point while taking an image of the object, a step of setting two or more pass points on the image of the first point, a step of comparing a preceding image and a subsequent image over time, a step of retrieving and identifying the pass points of the preceding image in the subsequent image, a step of retrieving and identifying the pass points sequentially with respect to every frame image data from the image of the first point to the image of the second point, a step of identifying the pass points of the image of the second point, and a step of associating the image at the first point with the image at the second point via the pass points.
US07804995B2	Stereoscopic format converter A device and method for converting one stereoscopic format into another. A software-enabled matrix is used to set forth predefined relationships between one type of format as an input image and another type of format as an output image. The matrix can then be used as a look-up table that defines a correspondence between input pixels and output pixels for the desired format conversion.
US07804990B2	System and method for labeling and identifying lymph nodes in medical images A method for assigning a lymph node in a medical image with an anatomical name, the method including: identifying landmarks in a medical image; computing features relative to the landmarks given a location of a lymph node in the medical image; and assigning an anatomical name to the location of the lymph node by using a classifier that compares the computed features with classification rules.
US07804988B2	Method for filtering of tomographic 3D displays on the basis of the reconstruction of volume data A filter method for tomographic 3D displays is disclosed, in which a volume model is used for display, which reproduces the volume of the examination object in the form of a large number of three-dimensional image voxels, and the image value of each voxel reproduces one object-specific characteristic of the examination object in this volume. According to the method, the original image voxels are processed using a 2D filter which is the same over the entire image area, and two different linear filters with selected directions which are obtained from the extremes of the previously calculated variances thus resulting in three data records with differently filtered image voxels, and in which, furthermore, the original image voxels and the filtered image voxels are mixed using local weights to form a result image. In addition, original image data can be processed using a steepening linear filter with a filter direction in the direction of the maximum local variance, resulting in a data record which is mixed into the final image with locally different weighting.
US07804984B2	Spatial-spectral fingerprint spoof detection Methods and apparatus are provided of deriving a discrimination feature set for use in identifying biometric spoofs. True skin sites are illuminated under distinct optical conditions and light reflected from each of the true skin sites is received. True-skin feature values are derived to characterize the true skin sites. Biometric spoofs is similarly illuminated under the distinct optical conditions and light reflected from the spoofs is received. Spoof feature values are derived to characterize the biometric spoofs. The derived true-skin feature values are compared with the derived spoof feature values to select a subset of the features to define the discrimination feature set.
US07804981B2	Method and system for tracking position of an object using imaging and non-imaging surveillance devices A method and system for tracking the position of objects, such as aircraft and ground vehicles around an airport. A transmission from the object is received at a non-imaging surveillance device of known location, the transmission being used to determine the coordinate position of the object within a given time period. Image data for the object is captured by an imaging surveillance device of known location to provide an image of the object within the same given time period. The coordinate position is correlated with the image to provide composite data about the object within the same given time period. The composite data is displayed to a viewer as a visual depiction of the object.
US07804978B2	Method and device for reading digital watermark, computer software package and corresponding storage means The invention relates to a method of reading a watermark, of the type comprising a step of determining at least one watermarking message contained in a data set, possibly preceded by a step of determining at least one suite of parameters of a watermarking channel undergone by the data set, each suite of channel parameters comprising at least one channel parameter. The step of determining at least one watermarking message and/or the prior step of determining at least one suite of channel parameters comprises (comprise): an estimation phase, consisting in processing at least one batch of data comprising data of the data set, so as to obtain N estimated element(s), with N≧0; and a verification phase, consisting in validating or invalidating, in view of the entirety or of at least a subset of the data set, each estimated element. In the foregoing, each estimated element is an estimated watermarking message, in the case of the step of determining at least one watermarking message, and a suite of estimated-channel parameters, in the case of the prior step of determining at least one suite of channel parameters.
US07804976B1	Radiant cooler for loudspeakers An apparatus, system, and method is disclosed for providing auxiliary heat dissipating capacity to a loudspeaker assembly. The apparatus comprises a plug that is inserted into a vent at the back of a loudspeaker assembly and extends away therefrom. The plug makes a thermal connection with the pole piece through which the vent is bored, so that the plug conducts at one end the heat from the pole piece that is radiated thereto by the voice coil and radiates this heat to the ambient air at its other end. A plate may be affixed to it other end to provide an additional heat sink for the apparatus. The apparatus may be removable or permanently affixed to the pole piece.
US07804973B2	Fitting methodology and hearing prosthesis based on signal-to-noise ratio loss data An individual with a hearing loss often experiences at least two distinct problems: 1) the hearing loss itself i.e. an increase in hearing threshold level, and 2) a signal-to-noise ratio loss (SNR loss) i.e. a loss of ability to understand high level speech in noise as compared to normal hearing individuals. According to one aspect of the present invention, this problem is solved by selecting parameter values of a noise reduction algorithm or algorithms based on the individual user's SNR loss. Thereby, a degree of restoration/improvement of the SNR of noise-contaminated input signals of the hearing prosthesis has been made dependent on user specific loss data. According to another aspect of the present invention, a hearing prosthesis capable of controlling parameters of a noise reduction algorithms in dependence on the user's current listening environment as recognized and indicated by the environmental classifier has been provided.
US07804971B2	Electrostatic ultrasonic transducer, ultrasonic speaker and display device The present invention relates to a push-pull type electrostatic ultrasonic transducer, particularly, an electrostatic ultrasonic transducer capable of generating usual sound pressure with lower energy, and thereby, reducing voltage (lowering power); wherein the spacing between the electrodes and vibrating film is set to a specific distance.
US07804970B2	Array interconnect for improved directivity Systems and methods which improve the directivity of a transducer array by reducing electrical cross-talk between conductors connected to individual transducer array elements through the use of a plurality of interconnect circuits are shown. A plurality of signal transmission path circuits, such as circuit boards, flexible printed circuits, etc., are used to provide electrical power to and receive signals from transducer elements of a transducer array. Embodiments couple transducer elements to conductive traces of the signal transmission path circuits in a manner such that adjacent transducer elements are not connected to conductive traces on the same signal transmission path circuit. In some embodiments, a plurality of signal transmission path circuits are offset such that two identical signal transmission path circuits can be used to provide connectivity to array transducer elements using more widely spaced conductive traces, thus reducing electrical cross-talk effects.
US07804964B2	Device for protecting the hearing from loud MRT sounds Device for protecting the hearing from loud MRT soundsDevice for protecting the hearing from loud MRT sounds, with a protective sound generating device linked to the MRT electronics for generating a protective sound rising slowly in amplitude, increasing the impedance in the middle ear immediately before the onset of the loud MRT sound.
US07804962B2	Modeling a sensor network design to secure a network against attack A wireless sensor network may be designed by modeling the network as a function of at least one design parameter and/or at least one threat parameter ∈, by assessing the model by varying the at least one design parameter to determine an effect on the at least one threat parameter ∈, and by choosing a value for the at least one design parameter based on the assessment that produces an acceptably low value for the at least one threat parameter ∈.
US07804961B2	Method and apparatus for fast crytographic key generation A method and apparatus for fast generation of a cryptographic key. A processor within a wireless communication device generates a public key upon termination of wireless communication. When a user of the wireless communication device desires to initiate a secure communication subsequent to the previous communication, the public key that was generated upon termination of the previous communication is used to engage in secure communications with a second communication device.
US07804960B2	Hardware-based encryption/decryption employing dual ported key storage A system for the encryption and decryption of data employing dual ported RAM for key storage to accelerate data processing operations. The on-chip key storage includes a dual-ported memory device which allows keys to be loaded into memory simultaneous with keys being read out of memory. Thus, an encryption or decryption algorithm can proceed while keys are being loaded into memory.
US07804955B2	Flexible key plate A device includes a front cover with a cutout, a rear cover connected to the front cover, and a substrate including a key pad provided within the front cover and the rear cover. The key pad is substantially aligned with the cutout of the front cover. The device also includes a key top provided adjacent to the key pad through the cutout of the front cover, and a flexible key plate provided over at least the cutout of the front cover and including an opening for receiving the key top.
US07804953B1	Redirection of outbound calling Outbound calls are processed in a telecommunications network. Schedule service data associated with network terminating addresses is stored in a memory of a content platform. During a connectivity session between the content platform and a first media platform configured for interactive voice response for outbound calling, available outbound port capacity of the first media platform is determined at the content platform. If the outbound port capacity of the first media platform is not available, a request for redirecting outbound calling capacity from a first outbound call production platform to a second outbound call production platform is transmitted to an outbound calling scheduler.
US07804951B2	System and method for playing tones and announcements in multimedia communications networks A method of assigning responsibility for playing tones and announcements to a network element in a multimedia communications network is provided. The method includes receiving a call from a caller to a subscriber at a first network element, as part of the call a tone or an announcement needs to be played to the subscriber; determining whether a second network element is able to play the tone or announcement; playing the tone or announcement through the second network element, if the second network element is able to play the tone or announcement; attempting to locate a third network element that is able to play the tone or announcement, if the second network element is not able to meet the request; and playing the tone or announcement through the third network element, if the third network element is located.
US07804950B2	Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing routing of communications Methods, systems, and computer program products for determining routings of communications. Methods include receiving a communication for a receiving party and determining one or more potential locations of the receiving party. A probability that the receiving party is at each of the potential locations is calculated based on a statistical model. It is determined which of the potential locations has the highest probability. Routing of the communication to the potential location with the highest probability is initiated.
US07804946B2	Method and system for providing enhanced caller identification A system (100) and method deliver audible caller identification information when standard Caller ID information can not be provided, even when a subscriber to the service has per line blocking. A service control point (106) detects the directory number to which a terminating attempt trigger is assigned and places this directory number in a parameter for transmission to a service switching point (102) using a forward_call message (206). The per line blocking function does not interfere with transmission of this parameter so that the called party's directory number can be passed for processing and call completion by the system.
US07804940B2	Subscriber line testing system, broadband line card and broadband/narrowband telecommunication system The present invention provides two subscriber line testing systems, three broadband/narrowband telecommunication systems and a broadband line card. In the subscriber line testing systems of the present invention, a test module is configured in the CO broadband device, reducing the complexity and the cost of the subscriber line testing systems. In the broadband line card provided by the present invention, line capturing relays are configured in the broadband line card so that the LPF card can be designed as a passive device to reduce corresponding costs, thus using this broadband line card helps reduce the complexity of the CO broadband device and the subscriber cost thereof. In the three broadband/narrowband telecommunication systems provided by the present invention, by using the subscriber line testing systems and the broadband line card, the complexity of broadband/narrowband telecommunication systems and subscriber cost thereof are also reduced. In the third broadband/narrowband telecommunication system provided by the present invention, both the broadband line card without line capturing relay and the broadband line card with line capturing relay can be incorporated so that a better compatibility is provided.
US07804939B2	Methods and systems for correcting cross-connect assignments Methods and systems are configured to provide information associated with a communication network. The information is useful when maintaining data associated with one or more segments that define a communication path in the communication network. Moreover, the information can be used to correct one or more records associated with one or more segments in a record keeping system, such as a Loop Facility Assignment Control System (LFACS).
US07804935B2	Fuzzy logic guided inverse treatment planning A fuzzy inference system for use in modulating radiation treatment includes a fuzzifer for inputting imaging data, and inference device operatively to the fuzzifer for analyzing the imaging data and determining radiation treatment target from non-treatment target, and a defuzzifier for modulating radiation treatment pursuant to the analysis from the inference device.
US07804930B2	Nuclear fuel assembly comprising a reinforcing mesh device and the use of one such device in a nuclear fuel assembly The nuclear fuel assembly having nuclear fuel rods and a support skeleton having two nozzles, guide tubes interconnecting the nozzles, and spacer grids for holding the rods, the grids being secured to the guide tubes. The assembly further has at least one lattice reinforcing device for reinforcing the support skeleton. The reinforcing device is placed between two spacer grids and is secured to the guide tubes. The invention is applicable to fuel assemblies for pressurized water reactors.
US07804927B2	Method for locking a synthesised output signal of a synthesised waveform synthesiser in a phase relationship with an input signal, and a digital waveform synthesiser for producing a synthesised output signal in a phase relationship with an input signal A digital waveform synthesiser (1) is implemented as a single chip integrated circuit on a single chip (2) and comprises a direct digital synthesiser (10) which produces a synthesised output signal waveform on an output terminal (4) which is substantially phase and frequency locked to the phase and frequency of an externally generated input signal applied to an input terminal (5). A comparing circuit (20) compares the period of the synthesised output signal waveform on the output terminal (4) with the period of the input signal, and a control circuit (28) produces progressively altered values of a frequency control digital word which are sequentially applied to an accumulator (11) of the direct digital synthesiser (10) in response to the comparing circuit (20), until the value of the frequency control digital word applied to the accumulator (11) is such as to produce the synthesised output signal waveform to be substantially phase and frequency locked to the phase and frequency input signal applied to the input terminal (5).
US07804925B2	Detection arrangement, counter unit, phase locked loop, detection method and method for generating an oscillator signal A detection arrangement includes a counter unit which receives a first clock signal and a reference clock signal. The counter unit derives a first data word as a function of a time deviation between clock edges of the first clock signal and the reference clock signal. The detection arrangement further includes a signal processing unit to determine a phase deviation word as a function of the first data word and a second data word, the second data word based on the duration of a clock period of the reference clock signal.
US07804923B2	Apparatus and method for locking out a source synchronous strobe receiver An apparatus for locking out a source synchronous strobe receiver, including a delay-locked loop (DLL) and one or more receivers. The DLL receives a reference clock, and generates a select vector and an encoded select vector that both indicate a lockout time. The select vector is employed to select a delayed version of the reference clock that lags the reference clock by the lockout time. The lockout time is slightly less than a number of cycles of the reference clock. The one or more receivers are each coupled to the delay-locked loop. Each of the one or more receivers receives the encoded select vector and a corresponding strobe, and locks out reception of the corresponding strobe for the lockout time following transition of the corresponding strobe. The encoded select vector is employed to determine the lockout time by selecting a delayed version of the corresponding strobe.
US07804922B2	System and method for adjacent channel power detection and dynamic bandwidth filter control A system for detecting and minimizing interference in a radio receiver includes a plurality of bandpass filters having different response characteristics, a power detector configured to compare a power output of a first bandpass filter and a second bandpass filter, and logic to cascade a third bandpass filter when the difference in power output between the power output of the first bandpass filter and the power output of the second bandpass filter exceeds a threshold amount.
US07804920B2	Closed loop adaptive clock RFI mitigation A method according to one embodiment for mitigating radio frequency interference by identifying system clocks, identifying active radio channels, measuring clock harmonics in or near the active radio channels, determining potential interference occurring if the clocks were moved to new fundamental frequencies, and shifting clock fundamental frequencies to reduce interference to the active radio channels based on existing interference and the potential interference of a plurality of new fundamental frequencies. Of course, many alternatives, variations, and modifications are possible without departing from this embodiment.
US07804913B2	Integer cycle frequency hopping modulation for the radio frequency transmission of high speed data The invention disclosed in this application uses a method of modulation named Integer Cycle Frequency Hopping (ICFH) wherein a carrier signal, comprised of a continuum of sine waves is generated on a single frequency. A data bit representing either a “1” or a “0”, depending upon the logic polarity chosen by the builder is imposed upon the carrier signal by modifying the carrier signal at precisely the zero crossing point or the zero degree angle. The method of imposing the data is to cause either a lengthening or shortening of the proceeding 360 degrees of phase angle, thus effectively either raising or lowering the frequency of the carrier signal for just the one, or a succession of cycles at hand. Upon completion of the 360-degree cycle(s), the carrier will return to the original frequency. The main carrier frequency is only modulated beginning at the zero degree phase angle and ending at the 360-degree phase angle. In this modulation scheme as few as one sine wave cycle can be used to represent one data bit. The spectral output of a transmitting device using this modulation scheme will be defined by the difference in frequency between the main carrier signal and the modulating frequency. In the resulting signal a modulated segment of the main carrier frequency can represent either a binary “1” or a binary “0”.
US07804912B2	Method and apparatus for encryption of over-the-air communications in a wireless communication system A communication device converts a bit stream to multiple symbols and provides encryption at a physical layer by shifting a phase of each symbol of the multiple symbols to produce multiple encrypted symbols. Each encrypted symbol of the multiple encrypted symbols is modulated with an orthogonal subcarrier to produce at least one modulated subcarrier and the at least one modulated subcarrier is then transmitted via a wireless link. On a receive side, a receiving communication device receives the transmitted, encrypted symbols and provides decryption at a physical layer by shifting a phase of each encrypted symbol in correspondence with the phase used to encrypt the symbol at the transmit side.
US07804911B2	Dual demodulation mode AM radio Apparatuses and methods for receiving an amplitude modulated signal in one of two modes depending on the quality of the received signal. In a first mode, the amplitude modulated signal is converted directly to a baseband signal. In a second mode, the amplitude modulated signal is converted to an intermediate frequency signal. The present invention advantageously combines direct conversion and image-rejection heterodyne receiver topologies with a relatively large degree of component reuse and relatively few additional components.
US07804909B2	Digital television transmitter and method of coding data in digital television transmitter A digital television (DTV) transmitter and a method of coding data in the DTV transmitter method are disclosed. A pre-processes enhanced data by coding the enhanced data for forward error correction (FEC) and expanding the FEC-coded enhanced data. A data formatter generates enhanced data packets including the pre-processed enhanced data and inserting known data to at least one of the enhanced data packets. A first multiplexer multiplexes main data packets with the enhanced data packets, and a data randomizer randomizes the multiplexed data packets. A Reed-Solomon (RS) encoder RS-codes the randomized data packets by adding first parity data, and a data interleaver interleaves the RS-coded data packets. A trellis encoder trellis-encodes the interleaved data packets, wherein the trellis encoder may be initialized when a known data sequence is inputted thereto.
US07804908B2	Method of calibrating the transmission chain of a wireless transceiver and corresponding wireless transceiver A calibration is performed tone per tone during interframe spacing. A peak detection is used for measuring the level of the corresponding signal, and a gain correction coefficient is stored for correcting the digital complex modulation coefficients provided by the mapping.
US07804906B2	Multicarrier transceiver A multicarrier transceiver is disclosed that includes a digital signal processor with a plurality of memory locations, a direct memory, an encoder module coupled to receive data from the FIFO buffers, a decoder module coupled to receive data from the FIFO buffers, a Fourier transform module configured to perform an inverse Fast Fourier transform for transmit operations and to perform Fast Fourier transform (FFT) operations for receive operations, a plurality of distributed modules including the encoder module, the decoder module and the Fourier transform module, each module configured with a memory port, each memory port coupled to a peripheral bus and the DMA bus, a plurality of memory ports coupled to each of the distributed modules, the plurality of memory ports coupled to a peripheral bus, and a plurality of point-to-point buses coupled to each of the distributed modules, the point-to-point bus configured to enable data flow and testing and provide a bypass capability for each of the distributed modules.
US07804904B1	Active replica transformer hybrid A communication circuit includes a near end transmitter, a hybrid having an input in communication with an output of the near end transmitter, and a near end adjustable load replication transmitter having an adjustable load. The communication circuit further includes a subtractor configured to subtract an output from the near end adjustable load replication transmitter from the output from the near end transmitter and the hybrid. The communication circuit further includes a near end receiver responsive to an output of the subtractor and a calibration circuit configured to adjust the adjustable load against a reference load.
US07804896B2	Content adaptive noise reduction filtering for image signals A method includes selecting a target pixel and comparing a value of the target pixel with a respective value of each of a plurality of pixels located in an area that includes the target pixel. Further, for each pixel of the plurality of pixels that has a value different by at least a threshold amount from the value of the target pixel, the value of such pixel is replaced by the value of the target pixel. A filter function is applied to a set of pixels which includes the value of the target pixel and current values, after the selective replacement step, of the plurality of pixels.
US07804892B1	Circuitry for providing programmable decision feedback equalization Equalization circuitry may be implemented by cascading a plurality of equalization stages. Each equalization stage may compensate for some of the attenuation of a received data signal. Each equalization stage may also be configured to perform decision feedback equalization to remove distortion from the current bit of data signal caused by one of the preceding bits in the data signal. Each equalization stage may be controlled by a DFE coefficient that determines the amount of voltage with which to adjust the output of the equalization stage. The equalization circuitry may be implemented on a receiver that includes clock data recovery circuitry and a pipeline/deserializer for providing preceding bit values to the equalization stages.
US07804891B2	Device and method for judging communication quality and program used for the judgment A device and method for effectively judging a communication quality in a communication system and a program used for the judgment. A communication device generates a four-value FSK symbol by adding a redundant bit to a bit of the most important part of encoded audio data. The symbol containing the redundant bit is set so that the symbol value is the maximum value of the minimum value of the four values which may be obtained. A reception device R receives the FSK modulation wave, restores the symbol, counts the number of redundant bits contained in the restored symbol and having incorrect values, decides whether to perform a bad frame masking process and what kind of bad frame masking process is to be performed, and executes the decided process. Thus, it is possible to accurately or rapidly judge the communication quality with a simple configuration.
US07804889B2	Channel estimation method and apparatus using linear interpolation scheme in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system and receiver using the same Disclosed are a channel estimation method and a channel estimation apparatus, and a receiver using the same. The channel estimation apparatus provided in the receiver detects pilot signals from radio signals and estimates channels of the detected pilot signals. The channel estimation apparatus estimates channels corresponding to data by conducting linear interpolation, which allows for simultaneous interpolation in time and frequency axes, by use of information on the estimated pilot channels. Thus, the memory capacity required for the receiver can be reduced using channel estimation in which the simultaneous interpolation is conducted. Also, the performance of the receiver can be further improved in a wireless environment where the receiver moves at high speed.
US07804888B2	Voice modem protocol for uninterrupted data connection A back-up solution is presented for a DSL modem that guarantees essentially uninterrupted data connections in the event of a failure in the DSL connection. When a DSL data connection fails, e.g., due to changes of the local loop characteristics in the high frequency band, a voice-band modem is used in conjunction with an amplitude modulator/demodulator to keep the data connection uninterrupted by shifting the voice-band modem signal up to DSL frequencies, transmitting the data at this higher frequency over the local loop between the subscriber and a DSLAM, and then shifting the voice-band modem signal back to a “normal” frequency and demodulating this signal using the voice-band modem before it enters the data network. Since the frequency band used is at a frequency higher than that of voice communications, the subscriber can continue to use the local loop to conduct voice communications or any other communications that require use of the voice band frequencies, such as facsimile and V. series modem communications.
US07804887B2	Ultra-narrow bandwidth radio frequency communications link The present invention is a dramatically enhanced RF link for low-data-rate applications (1-100 bps), using one or more transmitters to communicate with one or more receivers, at dramatically enhanced ranges. The receiver of the present invention can rapidly search, detect, and lock in on narrow band signal transmissions, that may be present in a much larger frequency band and which may be changing frequency during the duration of the message. These receivers enable ultra-low noise floor detection of longer range, more highly attenuated, signal transmissions, by decreasing the receiver bandwidth.
US07804881B2	Laser system with segmented diode laser Disclosed is a laser system comprising: A laser assembly (101) comprising a plurality of emitters; first and second light feedback devices (208, 232) forming respective external cavities with the laser assembly; a dispersive device (205) for redirecting respective portions of the light from the laser assembly to the first and second feedback devices (208, 232), wherein the first feedback device (232) is adapted to reflect a feedback portion of the redirected beam back onto the dispersive device (205) and to generate the output beam (233) from an output part of the first redirected beam, —an imaging device (213) for generating an optical Fourier transform of the plurality of emitters at a Fourier plane (235). The dispersive device (205) is positioned displaced from said Fourier plane (235) by a predetermined displacement (d) in a direction along said principle axis (230).
US07804877B2	Atomic lasers with exciplex assisted absorption The present invention provides in one of the embodiments for either a continuous wave (cw) or pulsed alkali laser having an optical cavity resonant at a wavelength defined by an atomic transition, a van der Waals complex within the optical cavity, the van der Waals complex is formed from an alkali vapor joined with a polarizable gas, and a pump laser for optically pumping the van der Waals complex outside of the Lorentzian spectral wings wherein the van der Waals complex is excited to form an exciplex that dissociates forming an excited alkali vapor, generating laser emission output at the wavelength of the lasing transition.
US07804875B2	Vertical cavity surface emitting laser module having monitoring photodiode and method of fabricating the same Provided are a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) module providing accurate alignment between a VCSEL and a monitoring photodiode (MPD) for efficiently detecting light emitted by the VCSEL and a method of fabricating the VCSEL module. The VCSEL module includes: a first mirror layer, a first semiconductor conducting layer, an active layer, a tunnel junction layer, and a second semiconductor conducting layer sequentially formed on a first region in a substrate having first and second regions; a MPD disposed on a portion of the second semiconductor conducting layer in the first region; and a VCSEL including layers having the same shapes as the first mirror layer, the first semiconductor conducting layer, the active layer, the tunnel junction layer and the second semiconductor conducting layer in the first region, and a second mirror layer formed on a portion of the second semiconductor conducting layer, and sequentially formed on the second region in the substrate. The predetermined distance is set so that light emitted by the VCSEL can be detected by the MPD.
US07804869B2	Gallium nitride based semiconductor device with electron blocking layer A semiconductor device comprises an n-side waveguide layer, an active layer in contact with the n-side waveguide layer and a p-side waveguide layer in contact with the active layer. An electron blocking layer is in contact with the p-side waveguide layer and comprises a first composition of two elements from group III of the periodic table and an element from group V of the periodic table. A cladding layer includes a cladding sublayer that is in contact with the electron blocking layer. The cladding sublayer comprises a second composition of two elements from group III of the periodic table and an element from group V of the periodic table. The second composition is different from the first composition.
US07804862B1	Token ID mechanism for network data transfer A node in a network that receives data from a data source, such as another node. The receiving node sends a token identifier to the data source and receives data from the data source, along with the token identifier. A token identifier identifies a location in memory on the receiving node, but is not the same as an address in the memory. Thus, a token identifier is preferably neither a physical memory address nor a virtual address.
US07804858B2	Vehicle communication system A transmission ECU on a transmission side and reception ECUs on a reception side are connected through communication lines and junction connectors. A delay circuit is provided in each of the junction connectors on the side of the reception ECUs. One end of the delay circuit is connected to the communication line on the side of the transmission ECU and the other end of the same is connected to the communication line on the side of the reception ECU. The communication lines on the both ends of the delay circuit are grounded through termination resistors.
US07804852B1	Systems and methods for definition and use of a common time base in multi-protocol environments Systems, device and methods are provided for determining a reference clock frequency for use by a multi-protocol analyzer in connection with a multi-protocol communications system. Initially, the clock frequencies for each of the links in the multi-protocol communications system are determined. The link clock frequencies are then used as a basis for determining the frequency of the reference clock. While the reference clock frequency is based upon the link clock frequencies, the reference clock frequency is different from each of the reference clock frequencies.
US07804851B2	Discovery technique for physical media interface aggregation Various discovery techniques are described for physical media interface aggregation.
US07804850B2	Slow MAC-e for autonomous transmission in high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA) along with service specific transmission time control A system and methods for slow medium access control entity (MAC-e) for autonomous transmission during High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), and for service specific transmission time control in HUSPA, wherein a control parameter that is independent from the air interface transmission time interval (TTI), hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes or enhanced dedicated transport channel (E-DCH) scheduling is used. This control defines the minimum time interval between subsequent new transmissions. The control has no impact on retransmissions, which are performed normally.
US07804845B2	Method to confirm the server identity for server-initiated services A system and method for providing server identification to accept a server request in a vehicle wireless communications system. If the server wishes to send a request for a certain function to the vehicle, it will transmit the request and the vehicle will receive the request. If the vehicle receives a valid vehicle identification number, the vehicle will then ask the server to disconnect the communications link. The server will disconnect the communications link, and wait for the vehicle to call the server directly within a predetermined time window to confirm that it was in fact a valid server making the request. If the server confirms that it was the one making the initial request, the vehicle will perform the function.
US07804843B2	Communication apparatus and method of airbags for a vehicle A communication apparatus in an airbag system includes an airbag ECU as a master unit, sets of communication lines and slave sensor devices. The slave sensor devices are respectively connected to the airbag ECU through the set of communication lines. The airbag ECU transmits data transmission request commands to the respective sets of communication lines at timings which are different from each other. Thus, transmission timings in the respective sets of communication lines are prevented from being synchronized, and noise which develops in consequence of the data communications between the master unit and the slave sensor devices can be reduced.
US07804839B2	Interconnecting multiple MPLS networks A network may include a first customer edge (CE) router and a second CE router. The first CE router may run an external border gateway protocol (EBGP) to exchange routing information with a first provider edge (PE) router that is in a first multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) network and may run an interior gateway protocol (IGP) to exchange routing information with the second CE router. The second CE router may run the IGP to exchange routing information with the first CE router and may run the EBGP to exchange routing information with a second PE router in a second MPLS network.
US07804838B2	Time synchronizing device and process and associated products The present invention concerns a time synchronizing device and process, and a local gateway comprising that device. The time synchronizing device synchronizes a router arranged between two communication networks. It comprises intercepting means of a message coming from an apparatus of a source network for that message, having a specific time clock, and directed to a target network for that message, preparing means of a time request able to be executed in that apparatus so as to cause synchronizing data based on that specific clock to be obtained from that apparatus and to be transmitted back to the synchronizing device, sending means of the time request to the apparatus, forwarding means of the intercepted message to the target network after the preparing means have prepared the time request, receiving means of the synchronizing data, and exploiting means of those data to synchronize a local time clock used by the router with respect to that specific time clock .Application to home networks.
US07804833B2	In-line packet processing A method and apparatus for in-line processing a data packet while routing the packet through a router in a system transmitting data packets between a source and a destination over a network including the router. The method includes receiving the data packet and pre-processing layer header data for the data packet as the data packet is received and prior to transferring any portion of the data packet to packet memory. The data packet is thereafter stored in the packet memory. A routing through the router is determined including a next hop index describing the next connection in the network. The data packet is retrieved from the packet memory and a new layer header for the data packet is constructed from the next hop index while the data packet is being retrieved from memory. The new layer header is coupled to the data packet prior to transfer from the router.
US07804830B2	IP connectivity with NAT traversal Method and apparatus for establishing direct IP bi-directional or unidirectional connectivity between communication devices (6,24), accommodating the circumstance of either or both communication devices residing behind a Network Address Translator (NAT). When a communication device requests IP connectivity to another communication device, either the local or remote communication device's associated service node (26,28) or their agents (41,42) (or another node 29, using information collected by the devices' associated service nodes), formulates an appropriate direct IP pathway (40) to traverse any pertinent NATs and instructs the applicable communication devices (30,32,34,44,45,46,47) to self-configure to establish the pathway (40).
US07804829B2	Wireless communication system, data transmitter and wireless communication method A wireless communication system includes a data transmitter, having an image pickup device, and a plurality of data receivers, for performing interactive wireless data communications between the data transmitter and each of the data receivers. The data transmitter includes a display for displaying an image of a data receiver photographed by the image pickup device, from among the plurality of data receivers, a data transmission destination recognizer, a directional antenna controller for directing a directional antenna to the data receiver recognized as a transmission destination of transmission data by the data transmission destination recognizer, a command transmitter for transmitting a communication designation command to the data receiver, and a device address storage for storing a device address of the data receiver. The data receiver includes a command receiver, and an ACK transmitter.
US07804828B2	Communication method between communication networks According to one embodiment, a communication method comprises receiving, in a first communication network for example, a packet from a terminal connected to a second communication network. The packet includes source address information therein. A determination is made whether the source address information had been changed from an original address used in the second communication network to a changed address used in the first communication address. The changed address being associated with the terminal is stored and the source address information including the changed address is provided to a terminal connected to the first communication network. Communications are supported using the source address information between the terminal connected to the first communication network and the terminal connected to the second communication network.
US07804827B2	Method for ensuring adequacy of transmission capacity, terminal employing the method, and software means for implementing the method The invention relates to a method for ensuring the adequacy of transmission capacity in a digital packet-switched cellular network where both voice sample packets and associated header fields are transmitted in real time in one and the same transmission channel. The invention also relates to a terminal employing the method. In the method, the contents of voice sample packets at the beginning of a speech spurt are partly replaced by packet header field data in situations where the combined bit count of voice sample data and packet header data exceeds the transmission capacity of the transmission channel.
US07804825B2	Matrix expansion lattice A cross-connect switching system includes a plurality of three stage switching arrays and an expansion switching array, wherein a second stage of each of the three stage switching arrays includes an expansion section comprising switches which facilitate interconnection of each three stage array to the expansion switching array. In one embodiment, the expansion switching array includes a plurality of square arrays, each having Q inputs and Q outputs and wherein the second stages of the three stage arrays each include 1 . . . M+1 . . . M+p vertical stages which connect to the square “D” arrays of the central expansion switching array.
US07804824B2	Method and system for operating a field programmable line card using a country coded template A database correlating a specific set of linecard criteria, out of a plurality of sets of linecard criteria, to a template code is loaded into a linecard during manufacturing. A template code based on country-specific criteria is sent to the linecard at startup, whenever otherwise desired. The template code may also be periodically refreshed from a central authority that recognizes the address of a particular linecard.
US07804823B2	Systems and methods for communicating documents via an autonomous multiple-function peripheral device A multiple-function peripheral device includes a packet-switched network interface and an autonomous application programming interface. The application programming interface requests image information from a remote server via the packet-switched network interface in a first mode of operation. The application programming interface sends image information to a remote device via the packet-switched network interface in a second mode of operation.
US07804822B2	Method and apparatus for detecting subscriber service address change A method and apparatus for allowing VoIP service providers to detect service address changes of IP service subscribers are disclosed. Specifically, when a power cycle, e.g., powering off and on, of a particular VoIP endpoint device, such as a Terminal Adaptor (TA) or a soft phone client, is detected, a service provider may assume that the service address of the subscriber has changed. Therefore, appropriate actions can be taken by the service provider to obtain the latest service address from the subscriber to ensure accurate service address information is available, e.g., in support of an emergency call through the particular VoIP endpoint device.
US07804820B2	System and method for processing packet domain signal Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and a method for processing a packet domain service signal, which enable a terminal that does not support an access control protocol of an Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) to access the IMS and acquire the services in the IMS. An AGCF is added for shielding the differences of the users on the basis of the IMS defined in the 3GPP R5/R6 standard, specifically, a PSTN/ISDN user accesses an AGF first, accesses the IMS through an agent function of the AGCF, and the AGCF also manages and controls the AGF. Control of the PSTN/ISDN services may be implemented in the AGCF, or in an AS added to the IMS, or the control of basic services and supplementary services may be implemented in the AGCF while the control of value-added services may be implemented in the AS.
US07804814B2	Power control for a mobile radio communication system A communication system having a plurality of common channels and includes a primary common control physical channel, a plurality of dedicated channels and a synchronization channel (SCH). The primary common control physical channel and the synchronization channel are transmitted time multiplexed, and the sum transmit power of dedicated channels is reduced during the transmission of the synchronization channel in order to keep the total output power at the base station power amplifier below a maximum power limit.
US07804813B2	Radio communication method, radio communication terminal and radio LAN system The present invention discloses a radio communication method or the like, which contributes to the improvement of data transmission efficiency in a radio communication based on TDMA system (in particular, radio communication in accordance with IEEE Std. 802.11) by providing idle time between the data transmitted and received by radio communication terminals on a radio section. In the radio communication between radio communication terminals, data transmission efficiency is improved by reducing transmission time of header added to the data or by reducing idle time. More concretely, header is added to the data for each predetermined data transmission, for instance, and by transmitting the other data without header added to it, transmission time of header is reduced. Also, data transmission efficiency is improved by carrying out methods such as a method to acquire header of the data on radio section in advance, a method to utilize identification information as the header, and a method to transmit continuous data by reducing IFS (InterFrame Space) after Ack (receiving acknowledgment information).
US07804807B2	Managing establishment and removal of security associations in a wireless mesh network Techniques and technologies are provided for managing establishment, maintenance and removal of security associations (SAs) between nodes in an ad hoc network, such as a wireless mesh network.
US07804804B2	Wireless communication system, wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication method, and computer program In network groups adjacent to each other constructed by communication apparatuses notifying beacons, the communication apparatuses can exchange necessary data between themselves, avoiding interference. Communication stations in a group set one beacon period to operate the network group. A communication station in the group acquires a beacon period and a reservation period of an adjacent group, sets its own reservation period avoiding the acquired beacon period and reservation period, and as necessary, enters the adjacent group to exchange necessary data. A device shared by a plurality of users does not belong to any group, and a communication apparatus in a different group temporarily enters the beacon period as necessary to exchange data.
US07804801B2	QR decomposition apparatus and method for MIMO system Provided are a QR decomposition apparatus and method for a MIMO system. The QR decomposition apparatus includes: a norm calculator for calculating a vector size norm for a channel input; a Q column calculator for calculating a column value of a unitary matrix Q by multiplying a delayed channel input with √{square root over (norm)}; an R row calculator for receiving the delayed channel input, the output of the Q column calculator, and 1/√{square root over (norm)}, and calculating a row value of an upper triangular matrix R; a Q update calculator for receiving the delayed channel input, the output of the R row calculator, and a delayed output of the Q column calculator, and calculating a Q update matrix value; and a norm update calculator for receiving a delayed output of the norm calculator and an output of the R row calculator, and outputting a norm update matrix value.
US07804797B2	Communication control device and communication control method A communication control device is provided which efficiently utilizes wireless resources to improve communication quality and system throughput by appropriately setting and performing node transmission power. The communication control device in a wireless LAN system includes a sender 206, a receiver 207, and an inter-AP communication function 211 for determining, based on at least one of wireless information obtained by measurement of a wireless signal by an access point 103 or a station 104a, or reported wireless information, whether or not there is a neighboring BSS, and a transmission power determination function 210 and a transmission power setting/update function 205 for setting and updating the transmission power of the access point 103 and the station 104a in its own BSS when there is a neighboring BSS in which all the access point have the control function of the transmission power, on the other hand, for maximizing the transmission power when there is no neighboring BSS or when there is a neighboring BSS that does not control the transmission power.
US07804795B2	Method of configuring and registering internet protocol address in a wireless mobile communication system having connection-oriented radio link A method of configuring and registering an Internet Protocol (IPv6) address in a wireless mobile communication system having a connection-oriented radio link is provided. In an IP configuration method without Duplicate Address Detection (DAD), a Mobile Station (MS) is allocated a unique Connection Identifier (CID) specific to the MS from a serving Base Station (BS), and the MS and BS configure the IPv6 address independently using a known network prefix, a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the MS, and the allocated CID. The BS registers the configured IPv6 address to a HA on behalf of MS.
US07804794B2	Power-saving network switching device A network switching device includes packet switching means and clock signal providing means. The packet switching means receive packets sent from any of the plurality of lines, determines forwarding destinations for the received packets, and forwards the received packets. The packet switching means operates synchronized with a provided clock signal. The clock signal providing means provides the clock signal to the packet switching means. The clock signal providing means is capable of switching a frequency of at least a portion of the clock signal for being provided to the packet switching means to multiple different values.
US07804783B2	Automatic detection and testing of new networking connections A new connection wizard automatically detects available networking hardware, as well as networks that are available. The wizard then presents the user with a list of choices, i.e., different connection types that they can set up. This list of options is based on the hardware and networks that were detected initially. Thus, the wizard will only present the user with the connection types that can actually be utilized. Once the user has selected a connection type and completed the configuration through the wizard, the wizard will automatically test the connection and report success or failure to the user.
US07804780B2	Receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path The present invention provides receiving and transmitting devices for providing fragmentation at a transport level along a transmission path. The transmitting device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to negotiate a packet size with a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit a data packet of up to the negotiated size. The control unit is further adapted to receive acknowledgments from the remote device associated with one or more fragments, fragmented at the transport-level, of the transmitted data packet. The receiving device comprises an interface and a control unit coupled to the interface. The control unit is adapted to receive two or more fragments of a data packet transmitted by a remote device. The control unit is also adapted to transmit one or more acknowledgments to the remote device based on the received fragments.
US07804779B2	Method and device for remotely controlling the congestion of meshed flow in a packet mode telecommunication network The invention relates to a method for remotely controlling the congestion of meshed flow exchanged in a packet mode telecommunication network between a number N of central sites Ci provided with flow management devices and a number M of remote sites Dm devoid of such devices. According to the invention, said active devices of central sites Ci exchange between them information intended specifically for the management of flows exchanged between each of the central sites Ci and each of the remote sites Dm.
US07804777B2	Upstream data rate estimation In one embodiment, a device includes: a transceiver operable to transmit packets to and receive packets from a modem; and a logic engine configured to transmit first packets at a rate through an upstream path for a modem to an Internet node such that no throttling is triggered in the modem, the logic engine being further configured to transmit second packets through the upstream path for the modem to the Internet node at a rate sufficient to trigger throttling in the modem if the modem implements throttling, the logic engine being further configured to compare an average transmission time for first packets to an average transmission time for the second packets to determine whether the modem implements throttling.
US07804774B2	Scalable filtering and policing mechanism for protecting user traffic in a network Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for scalable filtering and policing mechanism for protecting user traffic in a network. A data packet is filtered by a multi-tiered filtering and transmission system. Data packets matching the first tier filter are discarded. Data packets matching the second tier filter are transmitted to an output module based on a criterion. Data packets in the third tier filter are hashed into bins and data packets matching an entry in the bin are transmitted to the output module based on a criterion for the bin. Data packets in the fourth tier transmission system are transmitted to the output module based on a criterion. Data packets that do not meet the criterion for transmission to the output module are transmitted to an attack identification module which analyzes the data packets to identify attacks.
US07804763B2	Power line communication device and method A power line communication device for communicating data signals over a power line is provided. One example embodiment comprises a conditioning circuit configured to be coupled to the power line and a modem communicatively coupled to the conditioning circuitry to transmit and receive data signals over the power line via the conditioning circuitry. The modem may be configured to transmit and receive orthogonal frequency division multiplexed data signals that comprise a plurality of sub-carriers, wherein the modem is adapted to vary the transmit power for each of a plurality of subsets of the plurality of sub-carriers from substantially zero power to a plurality of increments above zero power. The modem also may be adapted to transmit and receive data signals with the transmit power for each of a plurality of subsets of the plurality of sub-carriers being different and to transmit and receive using a different modulation scheme at different sub-carriers.
US07804758B2	Holographic information recording/reproducing apparatus An information recording/reproducing apparatus can suppress generation of stray light and prevent aggravation of the SN (signal to noise) ratio at the time of reproduction. If the angle of incidence of reference beam relative to the information recording medium (transmission-type disk 119 or reflection-type disk 213) at the time of recording is θ1, the angle of incidence of reference beam relative to the information recording medium at the time of reproduction is θ2 and the angle of incidence of reference beam reentering the information recording medium relative to the information recording medium at the time of reproduction is θ3, the angle of the galvano mirror for changing the angle of incidence of reference beam and the angle of the galvano mirror for reentering reference beam into the information recording medium are controlled so as to establish relationships of θ1≠θ2 and θ1=θ3.
US07804757B2	Hologram recording and reproducing apparatus A hologram recorder/player includes recording beam modulation controller which causes a spatial light modulator to modulate the recording beam in such a way that a hologram is recorded in a plurality of blocks in a unit recording region and that each of the blocks includes recording information (DATA) and error correction code, at a time of recording. The hologram recorder/player includes incident angle variable controller which varies a reference beam incident angle to a plurality of predetermined angles with respect to the unit recording region. The recording beam modulation controller causes the modulation of the recording beam in such a way that a different hologram is generated for a page each time the reference beam incident angle is varied and that the hologram in each page is recorded in a plurality of the blocks.
US07804751B2	Method of distinguishing optical recording medium and apparatus of the same One inventive aspect relates to a method which easily distinguishes copycat products that are difficult to distinguish by identifying only a media ID. A media ID and other attribute data are read out of a reference optical recording medium, and then a media ID and other attribute data are read out of an optical recording medium that is a target for separation. They are compared with each other in a data record processing section to determine whether data is data matched or not matched, and the result is displayed on a display section.
US07804750B2	Test disc and drive verification method In a test disc, data (test data) is recorded in such a manner as to fill an entirety of a data region and, next to this test data, border-out data is recorded which contains information indicating that recording is prohibited. By determining whether the data can be played back appropriately from a position in the vicinity of an outer periphery of the disc where playback characteristics are apt to be unstable, whether the data can be played back appropriately from all of the regions is verified. Also, by determining whether it is possible to recognize that test disc is capable of recording, it is verified whether the border-out data can be smoothly acquired from the position in the vicinity of the outer periphery of the disc where playback characteristics are apt to be unstable.
US07804746B2	Land/groove track and pickup head movement direction detection A detector is scanned across an optical storage medium having groove tracks and land tracks, each track having a wobble structure, to detect light reflected from the optical storage medium. A wobble signal and a tracking error signal are generated based on an output of the detector, and the wobble signal is sampled according to the tracking error signal. A determination about whether the detector is at the groove track or the land track is made based on the tracking error signal and a comparison of sampled values of the wobble signal.
US07804738B2	Active steering systems and methods for marine seismic sources Systems and methods for automatic steering of marine seismic sources are described. One system comprises a marine seismic spread comprising a towing vessel and a seismic source, the seismic source comprising one or more source arrays each having a center of source array, each source array having one or more source strings; a seismic source deployment sub-system on the towing vessel, the sub-system controlled by a controller including a software module, the software module and the deployment sub-system adapted to control an inline distance between one of the centers of source array and a target coordinate. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract, allowing a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07804736B2	Delay controller for ultrasound receive beamformer An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound transducer having an array of elements and a beam origin located between two adjacent elements, each of the elements for converting received energy into an echo signal; and a beamformer that includes an initialization controller having initialization controller circuitry for calculating initialization parameters according to a process for calculating initialization parameters from a reduced table; at least one channel having a delay circuit and a delay controller; and a summer for summing phase-aligned signals to form a beamformed signal.
US07804733B2	System and method for memory phase shedding Embodiments of the invention supply power to DRAM or other memory devices with a multi-phase voltage regulator. A power controller coupled to the multi-phase voltage regulator causes one or more phases of the multi-phase voltage regulator to be activated or deactivated (shed) according to predetermined criteria. Embodiments of the invention thus improve power management by providing one or more reduced power states for the memory devices. Other embodiments are described.
US07804728B2	Information handling system with SRAM precharge power conservation An information handling system (IHS) includes a processor with on-chip or off-chip SRAM array. After a read operation, a control circuit may instruct the SRAM array to conduct a precharge operation, or alternatively, instruct the SRAM array to conduct an equalize bitline voltage operation. A read operation may follow the precharge operation or the equalize bitline voltage operation. The control circuit may instruct the SRAM array to conduct an equalize bitline voltage operation if an equalized voltage of a bitline pair exhibits more that a predetermined amount of voltage. Otherwise, the control circuit instructs the SRAM array to conduct a precharge operation before the next read operation.
US07804725B2	Write driving circuit and semiconductor memory apparatus using the same A write driving circuit includes a plurality of driving units that write data corresponding to detection signals on memory banks, and at least one detecting unit that detects data input from the outside, and outputs the detection signals to two or more driving units among the plurality of driving units.
US07804724B2	Method and apparatus for boundary scan programming of memory devices In accordance with at least one embodiment, a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture are provided for configuring a virtual boundary register in a programmable logic device (PLD), transmitting a first user-definable-command operation code (opcode) to the PLD to effect programming of a memory device coupled to the PLD, and preferably transmitting a second user-definable-command opcode to the PLD, the second user-definable-command opcode causing the physical boundary scan circuitry to load the virtual boundary register. The foregoing is preferably achieved in accordance with a boundary scan standard (e.g., Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) 1149.1, dated 2001).
US07804717B2	Semiconductor device A dummy cell includes a plurality of first memory cells MC for storing “1” or “0”, arranged at points of intersection between a plurality of word lines WR0 to WR7 and a plurality of first data lines D0 to D7, a plurality of first dummy cells MCH for storing “1” or “0”, arranged at points of intersection between the word lines WR0 to WR7 and a first dummy data line, and a plurality of second dummy cells MCL for storing “0”, arranged at points of intersection between the word lines WR0 to WR7 and a second dummy data line DD1.
US07804716B2	Flash memory device having improved bit-line layout and layout method for the flash memory device Provided are a flash memory device having an improved bit-line layout and a layout method for the flash memory device. The flash memory device in which bit lines are disposed based on double patterning technology (DPT), may include at least one main bit line connected to a cell string including a memory cell storing data, at least one dummy bit line disposed parallel to the at least one main bit line, and a common source line transferring a common source voltage, and disposed on a different layer from a layer on which the at least one main bit line and the at least one dummy bit line are disposed, wherein the at least one dummy bit line may include a first dummy bit line transferring a first voltage and a second dummy bit line transferring a second voltage.
US07804714B1	System and method for providing an EPROM with different gate oxide thicknesses A system and method are disclosed for providing an electrically programmable read only memory (EPROM) in which each memory cell comprises an NMOS select transistor with a thick gate oxide and a PMOS breakdown transistor with a thin gate oxide. The source of the NMOS transistor and the source, drain and N well of the PMOS transistor are connected. The gate of the PMOS transistor is grounded. Under the control of the NMOS transistor, a programming voltage pulse is passed to the N well of the PMOS transistor of a selected memory cell. The magnitude of the voltage is sufficient to break the thin gate oxide of the PMOS transistor without damaging the NMOS transistor. Because the memory state of the memory cell depends on the breakdown status of the PMOS transistor, the data may be retained in the memory cell for an unlimited period of time.
US07804713B2	EEPROM emulation in flash device Flash memory systems and methodologies are provided herein for providing byte alterability in a flash device. Logical cell mapping is changed from using a single physical memory cell to using two adjacent physical cells as a logical cell for emulating byte alterability. By mapping two adjacent physical cells as a single logical cell, the logical cell is a combination of neighboring drain/source regions, thereby creating a single program and erase entity. The single program and erase entities can allow for logical cell erase and program in either direction of a low voltage state or a high voltage state on a single bit or variable bit length basis. By employing the single program and erase entity, the subject innovation can provide a cost-effective approach to emulating electrically EEPROM in a flash device.
US07804712B2	Flash memory device and program recovery method thereof A method of programming a flash memory includes programming memory cells connected to a selected word line by applying a first voltage to the selected word line and a second voltage to non-selected word lines, the second voltage being lower than the first voltage, lowering the first voltage of the selected word line to a third voltage after programming the memory cells connected to the selected word line, the third voltage being lower than the first voltage, and recovering a fourth voltage of the selected word line and the non-selected word lines, the fourth voltage being lower than the second and third voltages.
US07804706B2	Bottom electrode mask design for ultra-thin interlayer dielectric approach in MRAM device fabrication A bottom electrode (BE) layout is disclosed that has four distinct sections repeated in a plurality of device blocks and is used to pattern a BE layer in a MRAM. A device section includes BE shapes and dummy BE shapes with essentially the same shape and size and covering a substantial portion of substrate. There is a via in a plurality of dummy BE shapes where each via will be aligned over a WL pad. A second bonding pad section comprises an opaque region having a plurality of vias. The remaining two sections relate to open field regions in the MRAM. The third section has a plurality of dummy BE shapes with a first area size. The fourth section has a plurality of dummy BE shapes with a second area size greater than the first area size to provide more complete BE coverage of an underlying etch stop ILD layer.
US07804699B2	Segmented ternary content addressable memory search architecture A segmented ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) search architecture is disclosed. In one embodiment, a TCAM device with a row of TCAM cells includes a first segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of corresponding search bits of a search string with a first portion of a stored string in the first segment of the TCAM cells, an evaluation module for generating a search enable signal if the match of the corresponding search bits with the first portion of the stored string is determined, and a second segment of the TCAM cells for determining a match of remaining search bits of the search string with a remaining portion of the stored string in response to the search enable signal.
US07804696B2	Electromagnetic radiation containment in an electronic module Electromagnetic radiation containment in an electronic module. In one example, an electronic module includes a housing, a printed circuit board, and an electrically conductive sealing element. The printed circuit board is partially positioned within the housing and defines an edge connector extending from the housing. The electrically conductive sealing element radially surrounds 360 degrees of one end of the housing and the printed circuit board proximate the edge connector such that when the edge connector is fully received in a host board connector mounted to a host board, the electrically conductive sealing element cooperates with a corresponding structure of the host board to at least partially define a Faraday cage substantially enclosing the edge connector and the host board connector. The housing defines a radial groove which aids in the retention of the sealing element.
US07804694B2	Reference layer openings A component having reference layer openings to contribute towards achieving a differential impedance in a circuit, is described herein.
US07804690B2	Server device The present invention relates to a server device which comprises a case having two symmetric slots disposed on the top and a first handle disposed in each of the slots to make it easier to lift up the server device, a horizontal partition disposed in the case and dividing the inner space of the case into upper and lower parts, wherein the upper part is a first holding space capable of holding at least an electronic device, a first heat dissipation unit is disposed at the front of the electronic, the lower part of the case is a second holding space capable of holding at least a server, and a second heat dissipation unit may be disposed at one side of the second holding space, such that a plurality of servers, electronic devices and heat dissipation units may be integrated into the server device for easily and conveniently being moved.
US07804688B2	Apparatus including processor An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor having a major surface, where the processor generates heat when energized. It also includes a heat dissipation plate comprising a thermally conductive material, and includes a first portion with flat opposing surfaces and a second portion substantially perpendicular to the first portion. The heat dissipation plate is adapted to dissipate heat from the processor. It also includes an array of pins, where the pins in the array of pins are substantially perpendicular to the flat opposing surfaces of the heat dissipation plate, and a heat dissipating material contacting the heat dissipation plate and the major surface of the processor. The heat dissipating material does not contact the second portion of the heat dissipating plate, and the pins are configured to be received in a socket assembly on a circuit board.
US07804685B2	Ducted exhaust equipment enclosure An electronic equipment enclosure includes a frame structure at least partially enclosed by a plurality of panels defining a compartment in which one or more electronic components are mounted and an exhaust air duct that is adapted to segregate hot air being exhausted from the compartment from cool air entering the compartment, thereby improving thermal management of the enclosure. The exhaust duct includes a lower duct section extending upward from the top panel of the compartment and an upper duct section telescoping upward from an upper end of the lower duct section. Each duct section includes four panels connected together by hinged corner fittings such that the section is collapsible. The upper duct section includes an outwardly flared portion.
US07804681B2	Display device and collection device A display device includes a circuit board, a pocket-shaped structure, a holder, and a display panel. The pocket-shaped structure includes a first side wall, a second side wall, a third side wall, a fourth side wall, and two support plates. The third side wall and the fourth side wall each has a hole. The two support plates are located beside the third side wall and the fourth side wall and form an empty space with the four side walls. The holder includes a first panel, a second panel, and two engaging slides. The two engaging slides are located at two extension arms of the first panel. When the holder is stored in the empty space, the first panel is supported on the two support plates and the two engaging slides are clamped within the holes of the third side wall and the fourth side wall.
US07804674B2	Position recognition in an electromagnetic actuator without sensors An electromagnetic actuator and a method for controlling the actuator comprising at least one armature (3) and two coils (1, 2). The voltage gradient at the two coils (1, 2) is measured during a sudden increase in voltage. From this measured data, a subtractor (16) computes a third voltage gradient (25) from which a logic unit (17) determines the position of the armature (3) without the use of an additional sensor.
US07804665B2	Head support device, disk device having the head support device, and portable electronic device having the disk device A head support device that is resistant to shock due to external impact, a disk device including the head support device, and a portable electronic device including the disk device are disclosed. In the head support device, a head support arm on which a head slider with a head is disposed through a flexible and elastic gimbal mechanism is formed rotatably about a rotary shaft as a horizontal rotating axis in parallel with a disk surface. The head support arm is formed such that it pivots, about a straight line drawn between apexes of a pair of pivots as a vertical pivot axis, vertically (generally perpendicularly) with respect to the disk surface. A gravity center position of a total mass of members, other than the head slider, pivoting about the vertical pivot axis is positioned near the vertical pivot axis.
US07804662B2	Perpendicular magnetic recording head including wrap around shield with notched top write gap and method of fabricating the same In a perpendicular recording head, a notch is formed in the top write gap at a location on top of the main pole. A perpendicular head with this notched top write gap structure has less transition curvature and better writability while reducing the adjacent track interference (ATI). Also, the process used to fabricate the head ensures that the trailing edge (writing edge) of the main pole is extremely flat with no corner rounding.
US07804660B2	Method for unloading head without calibration in hard disk drives A hard disk drive with a voice coil motor coupled to a head. The disk drive includes a circuit that provides a drive current with a sinusoidal waveform to the voice coil motor during an unload routine. The back emf of the voice coil motor can be determined during a sample period when the current is essentially zero. There is no need to perform a resistance calibration. This reduces the time needed to unload the head.
US07804656B2	Light delivery technique for heat assisted magnetic recording head An apparatus includes a load beam, a slider coupled to the load beam by a gimbal assembly and including an optical transducer, an optical fiber for transmitting light directly toward the transducer, and a mounting structure for adjusting the position of an end of the optical fiber. Data storage devices that include the apparatus are also included.
US07804653B2	Imaging optical system for cameras An imaging optical system for cameras comprising a stop, a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens in order from object side to image side. The first lens is convex at the object side, and has positive refractive power and both surfaces of which are aspherical. The second lens is convex at the image side and has negative refractive power. The third lens has a concave surface at its central portion facing the image side and a convex surface at its peripheral portions facing the image side. The imaging optical system satisfies the conditions of the following Inequalities: 0.8 < L 2 ⁢ Y < 1 0.5 < fl f < 0.86 where L denotes the distance from the stop to the image focal point, 2Y denotes the diagonal length of the effective image surface, f denotes the overall focal distance of the imaging optical system, and f1 denotes the focal distance of the first lens.
US07804650B2	Lens sheet for use in backlight, backlight and display device using the same A lens sheet according to the invention includes a base film, a lenticular lens resin layer, a prism resin layer, and a filling resin layer. The lenticular lens resin layer includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses formed on one surface of the base film and arranged. The prism resin layer includes a plurality of prisms formed on the other surface of the base film and arranged, and has a lower refractive index than the refractive index of the base film. The filling resin layer is filled on a surface of the prism resin layer provided with the arranged prisms and has a higher refractive index than the refractive index of the prism resin layer. Therefore, the lens sheet according to the invention can restrain side lobe light emitted obliquely to the front surface.
US07804649B2	Microreplicated achromatic lens A microreplicated achromatic lens is disclosed. The article includes a web including first and second opposed surfaces. The first surface includes a first microreplicated structure having a plurality of first features. The second surface includes a second microreplicated structure having a plurality of second features. Opposing first and second features are registered to within 10 micrometers. Corresponding opposed first and second features cooperate to form an achromatic microlens element.
US07804637B2	Stable induced alignment of mini mirrors for solar energy concentration and other optical functions It is becoming increasingly imperative to harness solar energy due to the ever growing shortage of conventional energy sources. The instant invention is concerned with method and apparatus for the stable alignment of mirrors inside transparent micro balls with the plane of the mirror perpendicular to the aligning electric field for solar energy concentration and related applications such as optical switches, etc. Coupling of an applied perpendicular electric field with the induced dipole in a mirrored ball results in an unstable orientation. The instant invention circumvents this problem so that a stable orientation is accomplished, resulting in an increase in the percentage of incident light that is reflected to the receiver. Broadly, this invention deals with novel concepts used for alignment in the focusing of light wherever mirrors are used for focusing such as for solar propulsion assist, illumination and projection of light, optical switching, etc. A particularly important objective is the focusing of sunlight for solar power conversion and production.
US07804632B2	Display device using 1 dimensional hologram An image display device using a one-dimensional hologram is disclosed. The image display device includes a light deflection unit which deflects a parallel light ray and adjusts the incident angle of a reconstructing light in sequence, and a one-dimensional hologram optical modulator which reproduces the entire picture by updating each lineal picture in sequence. A one-dimensional hologram is capable of expressing one lineal picture at one time with single axes data. The one-dimensional hologram is updated in synchronization with the incident reproducing light. The input data for a one-dimensional hologram may be computed by an optical calculation method.
US07804624B2	Image capture device A device and method for scanning an image of an object are disclosed. The device includes a controlled transparency film (5) and a set of light detectors (80). A backlight (50) may be used for scanning the object. The controlled transparency film is modulated to apply a series of filters on the backlight as it bounces off the object, back toward the detectors. The light detectors are sampled while each filter is being applied. The resultant measurements correspond to coefficients of a two-dimensional image transform. These coefficients may be collected as a bitstream to be inserted into an image file. This allows the image data to be compressed as it is being captured, thereby reducing processor overhead.
US07804622B2	Image reading apparatus Disclosed is an image reading apparatus including: an original transporting device for transporting an original; an image reader for reading an image of the original in a first reading region or a second reading region while transporting the original by the original transporting device; and a correcting device for correcting image data read in the second reading region by the image reader so as to give the image data the same white level as image data read in the first reading region based on the ratio of the white level of the second reading region to that of the first reading region.
US07804620B2	Method and arrangement for generating a dot matrix imprint with control using random output and probability In a method and arrangement for generation of an imprint with a printing device operating according to a dot matrix principle (in particular an inkjet principle), a dot pattern is provided for the imprint, with which the printing device image points corresponding to the provided dot pattern on a substrate. For at least one first image point a probability with which the image point is generated is provided. Whether this image point is actually generated on the substrate is determined in a decision step using a random generator and the probability. The image point is generated (or not) in a subsequent step dependent on the result of the decision step.
US07804619B2	Adjustment of print position in print controller The CD-R print system 10 has a shape identical to the CD-R and the like, and the scale marks are printed on the adjustment medium AM with the base line BL previously printed thereon. The user inputs portions of the scales overlapping with the base line BL to the CD-R print system 10 via the user interface. Then, the CD-R print system 10 determines an amount of misalignment of print position based on the input information. The CD-R print system 10 reflects this amount of misalignment to generate print data. Such CD-R print system 10 enables the print position to be readily adjusted with accuracy without using a rule or the like.
US07804618B2	Image forming apparatus having removable external memory and its control method Memory interface means which can be easily removed by a user is included, use of a generally-available general-purpose memory is made possible and increase of the capacity of a memory which can be used by an image forming apparatus, image electronic data stored in a memory in the image forming apparatus, management information for managing the image electronic data, management information in the apparatus such as a telephone book used by facsimile means are can be bidirectionally copied or moved with the external memory in accordance with the user's operation or automatically.
US07804615B2	Method for limiting bit rate in IP facsimile and method for limiting bit rate in IP facsimile in gateway A method for limiting bit rate in IP facsimile, in this method the highest bit rate that the called gateway allows is determined, after the call connection is set up, the called fax machine transmits the digital identification containing the highest facsimile bit rate that the called fax machine provides, the called gateway compares the highest facsimile bit rate that the called fax machine provides with the determined highest bit rate that the called gateway allows, then selects the lower and inserts in the frame and transmits to the calling fax machine, the calling fax machine compares the bit rate with the highest bit rate that the calling fax machine itself provides, the lowest will be the highest bit rate at which message is transmitted, then the message is transmitted, confirmed, then the call connection is released. In this method, when the network becomes bad, the highest facsimile bit rate is limited through gateway to improve quality of pictures. A method for achieving limiting bit rate in IP facsimile by a gateway is also proposed in the present invention.
US07804613B2	Method and system for facilitating paper to electronic communications A method for a computer system includes receiving a fax from a user comprising a digitized document and a billing telephone number associated with the user, wherein the digitized document includes a digitized transmission page including a digitized recipient e-mail address, and wherein a receiving number over which the fax is received is associated with a pay-per-use service, optically recognizing characters of the recipient e-mail address from the digitized e-mail address, determining an attachment in a format suitable for attachment to an e-mail message from the digitized document, sending an e-mail message comprising an e-mail attachment portion including the attachment, an e-mail TO portion including the recipient e-mail address, and an e-mail body portion including a service provider identifier, and submitting a service charge associated with the pay-per-use service against the billing telephone number.
US07804612B2	Network printing with driverless clients A method and mechanism for a client causing an electronic document to be printed without using a printer driver installed on the client is provided. A client discovers one or more printing devices on a network. The client communicates with a discovered printing device to identify the printing features supported by the discovered printing device. When the client receives a request to print an electronic document to a selected printing device, the client sends the electronic document and print configuration data to the selected printing device. As the client has been informed of the printing features supported by the selected printing device, the client can send the electronic document and the print configuration data to the selected printing device in a form readable by the selected printing device. The selected printing device processes the electronic document and the print configuration data to produce a printed copy of the electronic document.
US07804604B2	In-flight drop location verification system A system measures a location of a drop delivered by, for example, an ink-jet type applicator. An image of the drop is captured from two directions, resulting in two drop images. Only one image capturing apparatus is needed to capture the drop images. The location in three-dimensional space is determined by using the two images but only one image capturing device. The position or location information can then be used to calibrate a coating apparatus.
US07804603B2	Measurement apparatus and method A measurement apparatus disclosed that has a radiation source configured to provide a measurement beam of radiation such that an individually controllable element of an array of individually controllable elements capable of modulating a beam of radiation, is illuminated by the measurement beam and redirects the measurement beam, and a detector arranged to receive the redirected measurement beam and determine the position at which the redirected measurement beam is incident upon the detector, the position at which the redirected measurement beam is incident upon the detector being indicative of a characteristic of the individually controllable element.
US07804602B2	Apparatus and method for relocating an articulating-arm coordinate measuring machine A measurement apparatus, system and method for measuring objects which is easily relocatable about the object is described. The system uses an articulated-arm coordinate measuring machine (CMM) and a laser tracker. A retroreflector for use with the laser tracker is located on the arm of the articulated-arm (CMM). A common coordinate frame of reference can be determined for the CMM and the laser tracker so that the CMM can be moved. Also, points hidden from the laser tracker can be measured for example with the CMM.
US07804601B2	Methods for making holographic reticles for characterizing optical systems Characterization of an optical system is quickly and easily obtained in a single acquisition step by obtaining image data within a volume of image space. A reticle and image plane are positioned obliquely with respect to each other such that a reticle having a plurality of feature sets thereon, including periodic patterns or gratings, is imaged in a volume of space, including the depth of focus. Metrology tools are used to analyze the detected or recorded image in the volume of space through the depth of focus in a single step or exposure to determine the imaging characteristics of an optical system. Focus, field curvature, astigmatism, spherical, coma, and/or focal plane deviations can be determined. The present invention is particularly applicable to semiconductor manufacturing and photolithographic techniques used therein, and is able to quickly characterize an optical system in a single exposure with dramatically increased data quality and continuous coverage of the full parameter space. In embodiments, the test reticle is holographically generated by interfering two or more beams of optical radiation. The resulting interference pattern is recorded on a reticle and used for testing the optical system. The geometry of the holographic interference pattern is tightly controlled by the properties of the interfering beams and is therefore more accurate than conventional reticle writing techniques.
US07804599B2	Fluid volume verification system This invention describes a fluid transfer device which has a fluid handling system and a fluid detection system controlled by a central processing system which allows the device to accurately determine both the verification of fluid dispensed and the liquid level position in the reaction vessel.
US07804596B2	Overlay key, method of forming the overlay key and method of measuring overlay accuracy using the overlay key In an overlay key used for measuring overlay accuracy between first and second layers on a substrate, a first mark may be formed in the first layer, and a second mark may be formed on the second layer. The first mark may include first patterns having a first pitch and extending in a first direction. The second mark may include second patterns extending in substantially the same direction as the first direction and having a second pitch substantially equal to the first pitch. First and second images may be acquired from the first and second marks. The overlay accuracy may be produced from position information of first and second interference fringes formed by overlaying a test image having a third pitch onto the first and second images.
US07804590B2	Multi mode inspection method and apparatus An inspection system for inspecting an object, the system comprising an illuminator including at least one pulsed light source, a detector assembly, and a relative motion provider operative to provide motion of the object relative to the detector assembly, along an axis of motion, the detector assembly comprising a plurality of 2-dimensional detector units whose active areas are arranged at intervals.
US07804588B2	Measuring device for optical and spectroscopic examination of a sample A measuring device for optical and spectroscopic examination of a sample includes a housing, a first light source, a window, an optical spectrometer with a dispersive element and a number of detector elements and which can record light from the first light source which is indirectly reflected by the sample and reenters the housing through the window, an electronic camera whose incidence opening is directed onto the sample, through the window, and an electronic evaluation device which is connected to an image sensor of the camera and to the detector elements. The camera may be assigned a second light source.
US07804586B2	Method and system for image processing for profiling with uncoded structured light A 3D scanning apparatus configured to image a physical entity comprises a radiation projector for projecting a plurality of radiation stripes onto the physical entity, a detector for detecting striped radiation received from the physical entity; and a data storage device for storing the received radiation as a pixellated bitmap image, the apparatus characterised in that the physical entity, the radiation projector and the detector are geometrically arranged to constrain the number of times that each received stripe is permitted to occur in a given pixel row of the bitmap, the geometrica) constraint determining a stored occlusion classification comprising a plurality of types of occlusions and the apparatus additionally comprising an occlusion type processing means configured to utilise the classification for detecting the various types of occlusions in said received image data.
US07804584B2	Integrated circuit manufacturing methods with patterning device position determination Methods of manufacturing an integrated circuit by a lithographic apparatus are disclosed. The methods include patterning a radiation beam with a patterning device, projecting the patterned beam onto a substrate using a projection system, and determining the position of the patterning device. In one example, the patterning device's position relative to the projection system is determined by measuring the position of the patterning device's support structure. In another example, the position can be determined by measuring a position of the patterning device relative to its support and by measuring a position of the support. In another example, a Z-position of the patterning device is determined by directing at least one beam of radiation onto a part of the patterning device located outside a pattern area. This can be done by directing a pair of laser beams from sensors on the projection system to reflecting strips on the patterning device.
US07804582B2	Lithographic apparatus, method of calibrating a lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method A lithographic apparatus includes a system to compensate for the effect of thermal distortion of the substrate table on position measurements of the substrate table using lateral mirrors in the substrate table. Methods of calibrating a lithographic apparatus using various substrate table scan trajectories and measurements of the localized position and rotation of lateral mirrors in the substrate table are presented. A dual stage lithographic apparatus with alignment marks defining the geometry of a lateral mirror used only at the exposure station to measure the geometry of the lateral mirror when the substrate table is at the measurement station.
US07804580B2	Immersion exposure apparatus and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device An immersion exposure apparatus includes a placement unit on which a substrate is to be placed, the substrate including a body to be processed and a resist film on the body, a projection optical system including a projection lens, a liquid supply unit including an immersion nozzle, a measurement unit for measuring positions of alignment marks Mi (i=1, 2, . . . ) on the substrate, and a control unit for controlling a position of the placement unit on which the substrate is placed so that a pattern image of the photo mask is projected onto a predetermined position on the substrate when immersion exposure to the substrate is performed based on a measurement value acquired by the measurement unit and a correction value for correcting a measurement error resulting from a change of a measurement environment caused during measurement of alignment marks Mi.
US07804578B2	Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method An exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate to a pattern of an original. An illumination optical system illuminates the original. A projection optical system projects the pattern that is illuminated by the illumination optical system onto the substrate. A vacuum chamber houses at least one of the illumination optical system and the projection optical system. A heat absorber, arranged in the vacuum chamber, absorbs heat in the vacuum chamber. A heat conductor includes a metal member and connects the heat absorber and a wall of the vacuum chamber. The metal member is softer than the heat absorber and the wall, and fills a space between the heat absorber and the wall, and a cooler, arranged outside the vacuum chamber, cools the wall.
US07804577B2	Lithographic apparatus A barrier member is provided for use in immersion lithography. The barrier member includes an extractor assembly on a bottom surface configured to face the substrate. The extractor assembly includes a plate configured to split the space between a liquid removal device and the substrate in two such that a meniscus is formed in an upper channel between the liquid removal device and the plate and below the plate between the plate and the substrate.
US07804575B2	Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method having liquid evaporation control A lithographic apparatus is described having a liquid supply system configured to at least partly fill a space between a projection system of the lithographic apparatus and a substrate with liquid, a barrier member arranged to substantially contain the liquid within the space, and one or more elements to control and/or compensate for evaporation of liquid from the substrate.
US07804573B2	Liquid crystal display device, method for fabricating the same, and portable telephone using the same A liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal display panel and a semiconductor integrated circuit for driving and controlling the liquid crystal display panel. The number of input/output wires connected to I/O terminals (bonding pads) of the semiconductor integrated circuit is reduced so as to simplify wiring patterns of the I/O wires, whereby degrees of freedom in arranging the I/O wiring patterns are enhanced. The panel has a pair of insulating substrate, and the semiconductor integrated circuit is mounted on one of the paired substrates. The semiconductor integrated circuit has a mode terminal which is fixed to a power supply potential or to a reference potential during operation of the integrated circuit, and power supply dummy terminals connected to the power supply potential or reference potential inside the semiconductor integrated circuit. The wiring patterns formed on the paired insulating substrates connect the mode terminal to the power supply dummy terminals.
US07804570B2	Liquid crystal display device including superposition of pixel electrodes and signal lines A liquid crystal display device includes an array substrate and an opposing substrate that are disposed face to face at a prescribed interval. The array substrate includes a scan line, signal lines, switching devices disposed at intersections between the scan line and the signal lines, pixel electrodes disposed in a matrix manner and driven by the switching devices and auxiliary capacitance lines for retaining applied voltage for the pixel electrodes. The pixel electrodes have side edges superposed on the signal lines or black matrices formed on the opposing substrate to achieve shielding of light, and the side edges have parts superposed on shield electrodes disposed on the auxiliary capacitance lines to make an amount of superposition between the pixel electrodes and the signal lines or the black matrices in a region corresponding to positions where the shield electrodes are disposed smaller than that in other regions.
US07804563B2	Substrate for liquid crystal display device, liquid crystal display element, and liquid crystal display device A substrate for liquid crystal display includes at least: at least two substrates (a glass substrate and a TFT substrate); a liquid crystal layer disposed between the substrates; an ITO film that applies an electric field to the liquid crystal layer; a photospacer that regulates cell thickness (a thickness of a liquid crystal layer) between the substrates; a light-shielding film; and a colored layer, in which at least a part of the photospacer is formed on the light-shielding film or at a portion where the light-shielding film and the colored layer overlap; and the light-shielding film includes at least one of a resin and a precursor thereof and also includes metal particles having a silver-tin alloy portion.
US07804561B2	Colored composition for color filters, color filter and liquid crystal display device A cyan-colored composition for a color filter contains a phthalocyanine blue pigment comprising either of C.I. Pigment Blue 15:3 and C.I. Pigment Blue 15:4, or both, a phthalocyanine green pigment comprising C.I. Pigment Green 7, and a pigment carrier consisting of a transparent resin, a precursor of the resin or a mixture thereof. A color filter includes a red-colored filter segment, a green-colored filter segment, a blue-colored filter segment, and a cyan-colored filter segment or a yellow-colored filter segment.
US07804560B2	Display device An object of the invention is to provide a display device having a high contrast ratio by a simple and easy method. Another object of the invention is to manufacture such a high-performance display device at low cost. In a display device having a display element between a pair of light-transmissive substrates, polarizing plates each having an extinction coefficient of an absorption axis which is different from that of an absorption axis of another polarizing plate are stacked to be provided. At that time, the stacked polarizing plates are arranged so as to be in a parallel nicol state. A wave plate and a retardation film may be provided between the stacked polarizing plates and the substrates.
US07804556B2	Backlight unit and liquid crystal display device having the same Disclosed are a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display device having the same, capable of reducing tube current variation between light sources. The backlight unit includes a plurality of lamps provided at both ends thereof with electrodes and having a tubular shape, a plurality of lamp holders for fixing the both ends of the lamps, at least one substrate on which the lamp holders are mounted, and at least two conductors formed on the substrate in opposition to each other to generate capacitance for uniformly maintaining tube current of the lamps.
US07804548B2	Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes: a plurality of scanning lines; a plurality of data lines which are divided into blocks each composed of m data lines (m is an integer equal to or larger than 2); pixels which are provided at intersections of the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines and each of which emits light at a gray-scale level designated by a data signal sampled to the data line when the scanning line is selected; a scanning line driving circuit which selects at least one of the scanning lines in a horizontal scanning period; a sampling signal output circuit which outputs sampling signals for sequentially selecting the blocks in the horizontal scanning period; a rotation circuit which inputs the data signals to m pixels corresponding to the selected scanning line and the data lines belonging to the selected block and distributes the input data signals corresponding to the m pixels to m image signal lines according to a correspondence prescribed by one or more predetermined control signals; and sampling switches each of which is provided to the data line and samples the data signals distributed to the m image signal lines to the m data lines belonging to one block on the basis of the sampling signal.
US07804547B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a backlight which illuminates the liquid crystal display panel, and a display control circuit which controls the liquid crystal display panel and the illumination light source. The display control circuit includes a panel driving section which drives the liquid crystal display panel after supply of power, a state detecting section which detects a display driving state that the panel driving section drives the liquid crystal display panel for display of a stable image corresponding to a video signal, and a light source driving section which drives the backlight in accordance with an illumination request signal, after detection of the display driving state by the state detecting section.
US07804546B2	Antenna system and television receiver An antenna system including an antenna capable of responding to a horizontally-polarized-wave and a vertically-polarized-wave and receives digital television broadcasting signals. The system further includes: a memory section to store an outdoor reception program and an indoor reception program; an acquisition section to configure in the antenna a horizontally-polarized-wave reception mode or a vertically-polarized-wave reception mode, and to acquire reception information of the television broadcasting signals; a determination section to determine whether the antenna is installed outdoors or indoors; a configuration section to control the outdoor reception program stored in the memory section when the determination section determines that the antenna is installed outdoors, and the indoor reception program stored in the memory section when the determination section determines that the antenna is installed indoors; and a control section to control the reception of the television broadcasting signals by the antenna system through the program configured.
US07804545B2	Switched input video device A switched input video device has a switched input, video improvement circuitry and/or transcoder circuitry, and a switch for communicating a switched input to at least one of the video improvement circuitry and the transcoder circuitry.
US07804541B2	Image pickup apparatus An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes a main body 1 incorporating an image pickup element, an operation part that is placed on the main body 1 and can be operated by a user, and a seventh surface 107 provided on the main body 1, on which, when the user takes a picture while holding the main body 1, the thumb of the hand holding the main body 1 can be left in a stand-by state. The operation part includes rotation operation parts that are placed in the vicinity of the seventh surface 107 and are rotatable, and the rotation operation parts are arranged so that at least a part of the same faces the seventh surface 107. With this, a movement amount of the fingers of the user is reduced, whereby the operability is improved.
US07804539B2	Solid-state imaging device and method of driving same A method of driving a solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric converting elements arranged in a two-dimensional array on a light-receiving surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a charge transfer path disposed along each of columns of photoelectric converting elements, the charge transfer path reading out charges detected at each of photoelectric converting elements in a column of the photoelectric converting elements and transferring the charges, the photoelectric converting elements in the column thereof comprising two groups, each containing every other photoelectric converting element. Charges are read out from the two groups into the charge transfer path at a time difference between the two groups.
US07804534B2	Solid-state imaging device, driving method thereof, and imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements formed in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate in the form of a two-dimensional array so as to comprise a plurality of sets, each comprising a subset of the photoelectric conversion elements arranged in one direction; charge transfer paths each formed at a side portion of the subset of the photoelectric conversion elements to cause a signal charge of the photoelectric conversion elements be read out when a readout pulse is applied and cause the signal charge which has been read out to be transferred when a transfer pulse is applied; and an electrically conductive light shielding film which is laminated on a surface of the semiconductor substrate through an insulating layer and has openings immediately above each of the photoelectric conversion elements.
US07804532B2	Noise reducing device, electronic camera, and image processing program for reducing image noise by using blackout image A noise reducing device captures image data obtained by capturing a field with an image capturing part and a plurality of blackout image data obtained by capturing the field with the image capturing part under a light shielded state. This device reduces non-correlative random noise in the plural blackout image data. With random noise reduced, fixed pattern noise appears more accurately in resultant as blackout image data B. This device reduces the fixed pattern noise in the image data by using this blackout image data B.
US07804522B2	Image analysis for smoke detection A smoke detection method for identifying, in a current input image, an area indicative of the presence of smoke, there being a sequence of two or more input images, the method comprising the steps of: storing a background estimation for a current input image; and comparing the current input image with the background estimation to detect a partial obscuring of the background estimation indicative of the presence of smoke in the current input image.
US07804521B2	Image manipulation camera A handheld camera comprising a sensor adapted to sense an image, a camera manager for controlling the sensing of the image, an image processing manager for manipulating the image, a print manager for controlling printing of the manipulated image, and a guillotine adapted to cut a print media on which the manipulated image is printed from a print roll. The print manager is operable to activate the guillotine upon receipt of a signal indicative of a manual attempt to pull the print media from the camera.
US07804519B2	Method of refining a plurality of tracks One embodiment of a method of refining a plurality of primary tracks of a plurality of targets can be broadly summarized by the following steps: receiving a plurality of primary tracks, wherein each primary track includes ordered sequences of observation events having similarities in their visual signatures; dividing the primary tracks into separate refinement packages; allocating the refinement packages to different ones of a plurality of processors; and receiving one or more refined tracks from the plurality of processors. Other methods and systems are also provided.
US07804513B2	Optical writing unit, image forming apparatus, process cartridge, and method of adjusting light intensity An optical writing unit includes a light-emitting-element array in which a plurality of light emitting elements is arranged and an optical system that guides light flux emitted from the light emitting elements as a light spot. A result of comparison of a property value of the light emitting elements at a predetermined threshold in an exposure intensity distribution of the light emitting elements is within a preset range over an entire effective image area. An emission condition of the light emitting elements is set such that a fluctuation of amounts of exposure of the light emitting elements or a result of comparison of the amounts of exposure does not exceed a preset range over the entire effective image area.
US07804512B2	Method and apparatus for producing an image A method of producing an image that can eliminate an fθ lens is provided. This method of producing an image includes producing the image from a plurality of dots with varying intervals that are to be formed by linearly scanning an image forming surface with light that has been modulated using image data for producing by a polygon mirror that rotates at a constant angular velocity, and generating, before the producing the image, the image data for producing to form the image with the plurality of dots with varying intervals from original image data that forms a target output image with a plurality of dots with constant intervals. The step of generating the image data for producing includes setting a state of a first dot included in the plurality of dots with varying intervals at a state of a second dot that is included in the plurality of dots with constant intervals obtained from the original data and is at a position that is close to a position of the first dot.
US07804508B2	Viewing digital images on a display using a virtual loupe A method and apparatus for viewing digital images is provided. A digital image may be viewed using a digital image system that employs a virtual loupe. A virtual loupe comprises a lens region and a target region. The lens region and the target region may each be a bounded area displayed on a display. A user may position the target region over a digital image displayed on the display to cause a depiction of visual information associated with the target region to be displayed in the lens region. The user can configure the virtual loupe to display visual information in the lens region at different levels of magnification. The lens may automatically move and change in orientation with respect to the target region as the target region moves on the display to ensure that the display of the lens region on the display is always unobscured.
US07804507B2	Face-mounted display apparatus for mixed reality environment A display apparatus for a mixed reality environment includes an image processor for mixing an actual image of an object around a user and a artificial stereo images to produce multiple external image signals, a user information extractor for extracting the user's sight line information including the user's position his/her eye position, direction of a sight line and focal distance; an image creator for creating a stereo image signal based on the extracted user's sight line information; an image mixer for synchronously mixing the multiple external image signals and the stereo image signal; and an image output unit for outputting the mixed image signal to the user.
US07804504B1	Managing yield for a parallel processing integrated circuit A method for manufacturing an integrated circuit is described. The integrated circuit comprises a plurality of tiles, each tile comprising a processor and a switch coupled to neighboring tiles to form a network of tiles. The method includes identifying at least one tile that includes a fault, and forming data paths through one or more tiles to preserve communication in the network.
US07804502B2	Method of causing first object to take motion according to positional relationship with second object When a direction is input through a direction indicating switch of an operation switch unit, a player character of a game, such as, but not limited to, for example a basketball game, moves in the inputted direction while dribbling a ball. When a direction directed toward the position of the ball from the position of the player character matches with the inputted direction, the moving speed of the player character becomes V. When the direction directed toward the position of the ball from the position of the player character does not match with the input direction, the moving speed of the player character becomes Vcos(θ/2) where θ is an angle defined by the direction directed toward the position of the ball from the position of the player character and the inputted direction.
US07804501B2	Object loading and unloading system An object loading and unloading system for loading and unloading objects in a graphically simulated virtual environment, or virtual world, is described. A world object manager manages multiple object loaders to load and unload objects as geographic cells move within and out of a loading radius of each loader based on a position of a camera or view within the virtual world. Each object loader has an associated priority level, and the world object manager notifies a loader to load its corresponding objects in a cell only after all loaders having higher priority levels, which also have that cell in their respective loading radii, have already loaded their corresponding objects in that cell. The world object manager may expose various programming interfaces to provide an extensible object loading system whereby third parties can define new loaders to be incorporated into the hierarchical spatial object loading system.
US07804495B2	User interface system, user interface apparatus, and method of controlling electronic device The present invention provides a user interface apparatus capable of determining both control content and a control amount without increasing the number of buttons.A remote controller RC is provided with a ring pad 121 as a ring-shaped operating element. The total range of the ring pad 121 is divided into a predetermined number of regions, and control content and a region number are defined for each of the regions. In the case of controlling a DVD/HD recorder DHR by using the remote controller RC, control content is specified on the basis of a region in the ring pad 121 touched by the user for the first time. In the case where the user performs an input operation of continuously tracing the ring pad 121, a control of a control amount according to the number of regions traced by the operation is performed.
US07804490B2	Method for multiple gesture detection and verification on a touchpad In a gesture detection method for a touchpad, various gestures such as tap, drag and double tap are determined by operating an object to touch on the touchpad, leave from the touchpad, and move on the touchpad.
US07804485B2	Hand held control device with dual mode joystick for pointing and scrolling Control device (computer mouse) for moving a visual pointer on a display constituting part of a user interface for computer equipment. The control device is designed to be used hand held free of support from any surface, as the movement of the pointer in two dimensions takes place by means of a guide pin, a so-called joy-stick. The guide pin preferably has a double function so that it may also be used for scrolling the display. The control device may include an attachment for the user's hand or wrist, and may be integrated with a telephone receiver or with a remote control for a television set or the like.
US07804476B2	Active matrix display device A display device comprising an array of pixels, with gates of thin film transistors of the pixels in a row connected to a row conductor. Row driver circuitry provides row address signals for controlling the switching of the transistors of the pixels of the row including an ON gate voltage and an OFF gate voltage. Control circuitry shifts the ON gate voltage and the OFF gate voltage in dependence on drive and/or environmental conditions such as temperature and/or refresh rate. The control circuitry maintains a constant difference between the ON gate voltage and the OFF gate voltage. This allows the gap between the on and off voltages to be reduced, which results in power savings. The kickback voltage is kept constant so that kickback compensation is kept simple.
US07804475B2	Systems for displaying images utilizing two clock signals Systems for displaying images are provided. In this regard, a representative system incorporates a signal driving circuit that includes a plurality of PMOS shift registers connected in series and controlled only by a first clock signal and a second clock signal, wherein the PMOS shift registers are operative to output corresponding driving pulses in turn after receiving a start pulse.
US07804474B2	Overdriving circuit and method for source drivers The present invention provides an overdriving circuit for source drivers to overdrive a LCD module. The overdriving circuit includes a first threshold detection logic unit, a second threshold detection logic unit, and a selection logic unit. The first threshold detection logic unit receives gray scale data from an overdriving timing controller, compares the gray scale data to a first predetermined gray scale value, and outputs a first control signal. The second threshold detection logic unit receives the gray scale data, compare the gray scale data to a second and a third predetermined gray scale values, and outputs a second control signal. The selection logic unit receives the gray scale data, receives a plurality of gray scale compensation data, and outputs one of the received data according to the first control signal, the second control signal and a third control signal.
US07804473B2	LCD panel drive adopting time-division and inversion drive A method of operating a liquid crystal display device includes: (A) time-divisionally driving pixels in a certain line of an LCD panel so that pixels adjacent in a horizontal direction are driven with data signals of opposite polarities. The (A) step includes: (A1) generating a first data signal of a first polarity on a first output terminal of a driver, and then driving a first pixel out of said pixels in the certain line through electrically connecting the first output terminal to the first pixel; and (A2) generating a second data signal of the first polarity on the first output terminal and then driving a second pixel out of said pixels in the certain line through electrically connecting the first output terminal to the second pixel, in succession to the drive of the first pixel.
US07804468B2	Data driver system and method, for use with a display device, having improved performance characteristics A data driver and a method of driving the same. The data driver includes a shift register for generating sampling signals; sampling latches for sampling digital data applied to output channels, respectively, in accordance with the sampling signals; holding latch units for receiving the sampled digital data of the channels from the sampling latches to hold the digital data for a first period; first digital-to-analog converters for receiving the held digital data of the channels from the holding latch units to generate currents corresponding to the digital data; a second digital-to-analog converter commonly connected to the channels and the first digital-to-analog converters to receive the digital data provided from the holding latch units for a second period and to generate correction currents for the data currents; and output stages for sampling, correcting, and driving final currents using the data currents and the correction currents.
US07804467B2	Display device and electronic equipment using the same In an active matrix EL display device, pixels which are suitable for a constant current drive are structured. The pixel includes a first switch which has one end connected to a source signal line and the other end connected to a current-voltage conversion element, a second switch which has one end connected to the current-voltage conversion element and the other end connected to a voltage holding capacitor and to a voltage-current conversion element, and a pixel electrode connected to the current-voltage conversion element and to the voltage-current conversion element.
US07804456B2	Ultra wideband loop antenna The wideband L-loop antenna is presented in this invention. It has excellent performance for lower band of UWB system and has the attractive features of small size, inexpensive, and easy to design. The antenna composed of a single metallic layer is printed on the top of a substrate and a coupled tapered transmission line is printed on the top of the same substrate. A L shape portion is formed by widening partially or wholly the width of a part of antenna elements in comparison with the other part.
US07804453B2	Antennas for wireless electronic devices Antenna window structures and antennas are provided for electronic devices. The electronic devices may be laptop computers or other devices that have conductive housings. Antenna windows can be formed from dielectric members. The dielectric members can have elastomeric properties. An antenna may be mounted inside a conductive housing beneath a dielectric member. The antenna can be formed from a parallel plate waveguide structure. The parallel plate waveguide structure may have a ground plate and a radiator plate and may have dielectric material between the ground and radiator plates. The ground plate can have a primary ground plate portion and a ground strip. The ground strip may reflect radio-frequency signals so that they travel through the dielectric member. The antenna may handle radio-frequency antenna signals in one or more communications bands. The radio-frequency antenna signals pass through the dielectric member.
US07804452B2	Safety mast The safety mast and the double safety mast both distance the transmitter from its controls and operator thus reducing radiation to both. The transmitter must be separated from its controls prior to installation.
US07804448B2	Portable, iterative geolocation of RF emitters Iterative geolocation of a stationary RF emitter through the use of TDOA may include the use of a single portable geolocation (e.g., TDOA) sensor, a pair of portable geolocation sensors and three of more portable geolocation sensors. Adding portable geolocation sensors to the iterative process reduces the constraints on the signals to be located as well as providing a reduction in the number of iterations required to obtain improved location accuracy.
US07804447B2	Method for determining positions of contacts A method for determining the positions of contacts through a global positioning system (GPS) is disclosed. The method includes sending position requests to the contacts, feeding back the current position information of the contacts to a GPS receiver of a user after receiving position requests, searching the contacts located within a same geographical region as the user according to the feedback information and displaying a list of the contacts to the user in the same geographical region.
US07804445B1	Method and apparatus for determination of range and direction for a multiple tone phased array radar in a multipath environment A system and method combine multiple data streams in an efficient and optimal manner, based on new techniques, to determine range, relative angle and velocity with respect to a point of reference. Embodiments of the present invention take advantage of the multiple data streams to provide improved performance when the data is contaminated with environmental and system noise. Embodiments of the present invention may be applied to data output from different target estimation systems, including radar, sonar, ultrasonic and laser systems. In addition, embodiments of the present invention may be implemented in systems with multiple tones and multiple antennas, and generally work in multipath environments.
US07804438B2	Image sensors and dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods Dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for performing analog-to-digital conversion of an analog signal. Various dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for applying the analog signal and a coarse ramp to a same input of a comparator, and applying a fine ramp to another input of the comparator. Some dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for applying the analog signal, a coarse ramp, and a fine ramp to a same input of a comparator. Various dual ramp analog-to-digital converters and methods allow for applying the analog signal to an input of a first comparator, applying a coarse ramp to the input of the first comparator through a coarse ramp switch, applying the analog signal to an input of a second comparator, and applying a fine ramp to another input of the second comparator.
US07804430B2	Methods and apparatus for processing variable length coded data An apparatus for processing variable length coded data includes a coefficient buffer unit and several lookup tables. The coefficient buffer unit includes a coefficient memory and an index register for storing an indication of a non-zero nature of coefficients stored in the coefficient memory. Advantageously, the lookup tables may be altered to adapt the apparatus for processing variable length coded data to handle encoding or decoding video adhering to a specific standard. Furthermore, the lookup tables may be adapted to accelerate the determination of the presence of escape codes and the subsequent handling of the escape codes.
US07804429B2	Multiple stream multiple rate resampling A method of resampling a digital signal involves serially receiving a plurality of samples of said digital signal and applying a plurality of filter coefficients to a first subset of the plurality of samples to generate a first plurality of intermediate results and to a second subset of the samples to generate a second plurality of intermediate results. The first plurality of intermediate results is accumulated to generate a first resampled value, and the second plurality of intermediate results is accumulated to generate a second resampled value. Upon receipt, each signal sample may be used to update each of a plurality of running accumulation values and then discarded before receipt of a next signal sample. Furthermore, multiple signals may be resampled concurrently using a single filter path by multiplexing circuit components, such as memory blocks.
US07804428B2	System and method for compressing a stream of integer-valued data A method and system are provided to minimize the size and complexity of bitstreams associated with encoded data by using a new compression scheme. An entropy encoder receives a list of run/data value pairs and entropy encodes separately the runs and data values, selecting their codewords according to length and magnitude, respectively, and catenates the resulting codeword pairs—run codeword first—in an encoded bitstream.
US07804423B2	Real time traffic aide A system and method for providing real-time traffic information using a wireless vehicle-to-vehicle communications network. A vehicle includes a plurality of sensors that detect other vehicles around the vehicle. The wireless communications system on the vehicle uses the sensor signals to calculate a traffic condition index that identifies traffic information around the vehicle. The vehicle broadcasts the traffic condition index to other vehicles and/or road side infrastructure units that can present the information to the vehicle driver, such as in a navigation system, and/or rebroadcast the traffic information to other vehicles. The traffic condition index can be calculated using the speed of the surrounding vehicles, posted speed limits, the distance between the surrounding vehicles and the traffic density of the surrounding vehicles.
US07804418B2	Vehicle light assembly and manufacturing method A lens for a vehicle light assembly includes at least one ink marking provided thereon. At least a portion of the ink marking is configured such that it appears generally opaque to a viewer when a light source in the light assembly is not illuminated and does not appear opaque when the light source is illuminated. The ink marking includes an ink composition that includes a transparent ink and a pigmented ink.
US07804417B2	Interactive lighting system A lighting system and method for providing a particular lighting pattern from a predetermined set of lighting patterns are disclosed. The system comprises a presence detector for detecting a presence of a person in an area, a timer for measuring a duration of the presence, a pattern selector for selecting the particular lighting pattern from the predetermined set of lighting patterns based on the presence and the duration, and a plurality of adjustable light sources for applying the particular lighting pattern.
US07804414B2	Collision-detecting device for automotive vehicle A device for detecting a collision of a vehicle with an obstacle includes an enclosed space positioned behind a front bumper cover. Deformation or displacement of the bumper cover due to a collision is transmitted to the enclosed space. Air pressure in the enclosed space and its temperature are measured by sensors and electrical signals representing the pressure and the temperature are fed to an electronic control unit that determines whether the enclosed space is hermetically closed or not based on the pressure and the temperature of the air in the enclosed space. If the enclosed space becomes non-hermetical due to a collision impact, the air therein leaks and the pressure therein becomes atmospheric pressure irrespective of the temperature of the air in the enclosed space. Therefore, the hermetical condition of the enclosed space is surely detected.
US07804412B2	Remote tracking and communication device A remote tracking and communication device comprising a housing which encloses a processor, a memory, a position locator, a first transmitter, and a second transmitter. Each of the latter components are electronically coupled to the processor. Both the first and second transmitters are adapted to send and receive wireless voice and data signals in a digital format. The device further comprises a first battery, which is removably affixed to the housing and electronically coupled to each component within the housing, a speaker and a microphone electronically coupled to the first transmitter, and a button electronically coupled to the processor. When pressed, the button is adapted to activate voice communications with a call center using the first transmitter.
US07804411B2	Combination EAS and RFID label or tag using a hybrid RFID antenna A security tag includes an EAS component having a defined surface area, and an RFID component having a defined surface area. The EAS component surface area is configured to at least partially overlap the RFID component surface area. The RFID component includes an antenna which at least partially overlaps the first surface. A substantially planar spacer having a thickness is at least partially disposed between the defined surface areas of the EAS and RFID components. The RFID element read range is affected and controlled by the spacing between the RFID element and the EAS element. The RFID reader is capable of activating the RFID component when the RFID component is within the read range. The antenna includes a magnetic loop antenna in electrical contact with a spiral antenna to increase near field read response.
US07804409B2	RF controlled devices to increase compliance with handwashing protocols A system for monitoring compliance with handwashing protocols by a plurality of workers, each worker carrying a wireless tag having a worker identifier, the monitoring being performed in a facility having a plurality of areas, the system comprising a plurality of wireless tag reader/transmitters each having an area identifier, at least one wireless tag reader/transmitter being positioned in each of the areas and each wireless tag reader/transmitter being capable of reading the worker identifier stored in the wireless tag when the worker is within range of the wireless tag reader/transmitter and further capable of transmitting the worker and area identifiers to at least one computing device; and at least one of said wireless tag reader/transmitters being disposed at a handwashing station; wherein the at least one wireless tag reader/transmitter reads the worker identifier when the worker manipulates a device at the handwashing station dispensing a washing substance and transmits the worker and area identifiers to the at least one computing device.
US07804408B2	Electronic tag housing having shrink wrap support The present invention provides for an electronic tag housing used to support electronic tags to an article with a shrink wrap tube. The present invention provides an electronic tag assembly, including a housing, having a base and a cover attachable to the base. The housing includes a cavity for supporting an electronic tag. A heat shrinkable tube is supported by the housing between the cover and attachable base.
US07804406B2	Quality control system of concrete and cement products using wireless IC tag A quality control system of concrete and cement products is provided in which the manufacturing information on cement products of mortar or concrete can be checked at any time, the reliability is such that there is no possibility of the recorded information being lost or falsified, there is no possibility of damage in concrete, and the directivity of the sensitivity of an antenna can be broadened.
US07804403B2	Security system control module A security system control module with a portable housing including a wireless receiver, control circuitry, nonvolatile memory, and a data connector. The receiver receives data transmissions from at least one wireless security device that monitors a condition of a premises in which the wireless security device is installed. The data connector exchanges data between the control circuitry and an external host device, and it also accepts from the external host device primary operating power for operating the wireless receiver, the control circuitry, and the nonvolatile memory. The control circuitry is adapted to process signals in accordance with a preprogrammed configuration file stored in the nonvolatile memory, the signals received via the wireless receiver from a wireless security device, and to communicate with an external computer located remotely from the external host device via the data connector using a first communications protocol.
US07804402B2	Fire detectors with environmental data input Regional physical information can be entered along with automatically sensed ambient condition information into regional monitoring system. Alarm decision processing can be adjusted in accordance therewith.
US07804401B2	Apparatus and method for recognizing surrounding state An apparatus and method of recognizing a surrounding state are provided. The apparatus for recognizing a surrounding state includes: a unique information obtaining unit which obtains, from a peripheral device, unique information of the peripheral device; and a surrounding state determining unit which determines a surrounding state, based on the unique information.
US07804398B2	Valve-integrated transponder A valve-integrated transponder includes an air valve and a casing that are integrated with each other, and is disposed within a tire. The casing houses a substrate having a detecting element mounted thereon, an inverse F antenna element, and a supporting member. The antenna element has a substantially line symmetrical shape where a pair of radiation conductors extend away from each other. A longitudinal direction of the substrate is substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the air valve, and a lateral direction of the substrate is inclined relative to a well of a wheel rim. The two radiation conductors of the antenna element disposed on the substrate are inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to the substrate, so as to be disposed substantially in parallel to the well that extends at the inner side of the transponder as viewed in the radial direction of the tire.
US07804395B2	Mobile radio communication system A mobile radio communication system estimates the positional relationship between an own moving terminal and another moving terminal around a view obstruction. If the absolute value of the difference between detected reception power levels is lower than a first power threshold value, the own moving terminal determines that the other moving terminal is positioned within the visual range of the own moving terminal, the distance from the own moving terminal to the other moving terminal being shorter than a predetermined distance BP, or that the other moving terminal is positioned outside thereof, the distance to the visual range of the own moving terminal being shorter than the predetermined distance BP. Also if the absolute value is higher than or equal to the first power threshold value, the own moving terminal determines in a similar manner.
US07804387B2	System and method for manufacturing field emission structures using a ferromagnetic material An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.
US07804384B2	Acoustic wave filter device utilizing filters having different acoustic wave propagation directions An acoustic wave filter device having a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function, in which the signal balance between a pair of balanced terminals is improved, has, on a piezoelectric substrate, one end of at least one longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter and one end of at least one second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter among the rest of acoustic wave filters are commonly connected and connected to an unbalanced terminal, and the other ends of the longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filters are electrically connected to first and second balanced terminals, respectively, and in which a propagation direction of an acoustic wave in the longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic wave filter and a propagation direction of an acoustic wave in the second longitudinally coupled resonator type acoustic filter are different from each other.
US07804383B2	Coupled lamb wave resonators filter A coupled Lamb wave resonator filter includes first and second Lamb wave resonators. The first Lamb wave resonator includes a first resonant layer, and first and second electrodes on opposite sides of the first resonant layer. The second Lamb wave resonator includes a second resonant layer, and third and fourth electrodes on opposite sides of the second resonant layer. One of the sides of the first resonant layer belongs to a plane parallel to a plane corresponding to one of the sides of the second resonant layer. Both planes pass through the third and fourth electrodes of the second Lamb wave resonator. A periodic lattice acoustically couples the first and second resonant layers.
US07804380B2	Acoustic wave duplexer An acoustic wave duplexer has a satisfactory isolation characteristic between a reception acoustic wave filter chip and a transmission acoustic wave filter chip, and includes a reception surface acoustic wave filter chip and a transmission surface acoustic wave filter chip mounted on a substrate. The substrate includes first and second balanced terminals and a common terminal. At least one of the transmission surface acoustic wave filter chip and the reception surface acoustic wave filter chip is a balanced filter unit that includes, as an input terminal or an output terminal, a first balanced signal terminal and a second balanced signal terminal. The acoustic wave duplexer further includes a first interconnection arranged to connect the balanced filter unit and the first balanced terminal and a second interconnection arranged to connect the balanced filter unit and the second balanced terminal. The first and second interconnections intersect with each other while being insulated from each other.
US07804379B2	Pulse width modulation dead time compensation method and apparatus Dead time compensated complementary pulse width modulation (PWM) signals are derived from a PWM generator by first applying time period compensation to the PWM generator signal based upon the direction of current flow in an inductive load being controlled by the PWM generator. Dead time is then applied to the compensated PWM generator signal for producing complementary dead time compensated PWM signals for controlling power switching circuits driving the inductive load.
US07804378B2	Method and apparatus for pulse width modulation There is described a method and an apparatus for pulse width modulation with a predefined switching period having an adjustable ratio of the switch-on duration to the switch-off duration, in which a quantized signal is converted into a pulse-width-modulated signal and is generated in the form of a discrete pulse sequence of switch-on operations and switch-off operations with the predefined switching period, the switching edge for the switch-on duration and/or the switch-off duration being determined on the basis of the ratio of the switch-on duration to the switch-off duration.
US07804376B2	Continuous phase modulation processing for wireless networks Various example embodiments are disclosed herein. According to an example embodiment, a method may include receiving a plurality of data symbols, generating a continuous phase modulated waveform based on the data symbols, generating a plurality of coefficients which represent the continuous phase modulated waveform, and wirelessly transmitting the plurality of coefficients via a plurality of subcarriers.
US07804375B2	Modulation circuit A modulation circuit is provided that generates an output signal obtained by modulating an input signal with a local signal and includes a local input section that receives the local signal and generates the local signal and an inverted local signal obtained by inverting the local signal, a signal input section that receives the input signal and generates the input signal and an inverted input signal obtained by inverting the input signal, a first multiplying section that outputs from a terminal that receives the input signal a first multiplied signal obtained by multiplying the local signal with the input signal, a second multiplying section that outputs from a terminal that receives the inverted input signal a second multiplied signal obtained by multiplying the inverted local signal with the inverted input signal, an output section that adds the first multiplied signal to the second multiplied signal and generates the output signal, and a transmission line that sends to the output section the first multiplied signal output by the first multiplying section and the second multiplied signal output by the second multiplying section and has an electrical length according to a predetermined frequency as the frequency of the input signal.
US07804374B1	Feedthrough capacitance compensation for resonant devices A device has a resonator coupled to input and output nodes, the resonator being characterized by a transducer to drive the output node, and further characterized by a feedthrough capacitance such that portions of the input signal bypass the transducer to allow a spurious signal to reach the output node. The device includes a compensation capacitor coupled to the output node to define a compensation capacitance in accordance with the feedthrough capacitance. A phase inversion circuit is coupled to the compensation capacitance to generate a compensation signal and coupled to the output node such that the spurious signal is offset by the compensation signal. In some cases, a differential amplifier of the phase inversion circuit has the compensation capacitance in a feedback path to offset the feedthrough capacitance. In these and other cases, the compensation capacitance and the feedthrough capacitance may be unmatched to avoid overcompensation.
US07804373B2	Method of fabricating hermetic terminal and hermetic terminal, method of fabricating piezoelectric oscillator and piezoelectric oscillator, oscillator, electronic appliance, and radio clock A method of fabricating a hermetic terminal includes: joining and firing wherein a bar-shaped member to be a lead is inserted into a ring, and they are fired to form a hermetic terminal intermediate having the bar-shaped member fixed in the ring; flattening wherein an end part of the bar-shaped member to be the inner lead portion of the lead is flattened to form a stair portion; and shaping wherein an end part of the stair portion is cut to shape the stair portion into a predetermined shape, wherein in the joining and firing step, a solid round bar longer than the lead is used as the bar-shaped member, and one end side of the bar-shaped member to be the inner lead portion is inserted into the ring so that the one end side is longer than the inner lead portion in the hermetic terminal as a completed product.
US07804370B2	Frequency generator There is provided a feedback circuit including: an oscillator generating an oscillation frequency signal; a mixer unit having an input terminal, a feedback terminal, and an output terminal and outputting a frequency signal through the output terminal, the frequency signal obtained by adding or subtracting frequency of a feedback signal, input through the feedback terminal, to or from frequency of the oscillation frequency signal input through the input terminal from the oscillator; a first frequency divider dividing the frequency signal output from the mixer unit at a division ratio of N (N is a multiple of 2) to generate an output signal; and a feedback circuit adjusting the output signal of the first frequency divider for the first frequency divider to output a frequency signal in a desired band and feeding back the adjusted signal to the feedback terminal of the mixer unit.
US07804369B2	Integrated frequency calibration architecture In an exemplary embodiment, a free running VCO has two modes: a normal operating mode and a calibration mode. In the calibration mode, the free running VCO is phase lock looped with itself instead of a calibration VCO. Furthermore, in an exemplary embodiment, a tuning voltage for the free running VCO is adjusted to offset any tuning error. In addition, in various embodiments a reference crystal oscillator used in the phase lock loop is located on a DSP module instead of on the RF module. In yet another exemplary embodiment, the free running VCO is the only high frequency VCO on a radio frequency module.
US07804365B2	Multilayer amplifier module An amplifier module includes an integrated circuit device including a first amplifier circuit electrically connected to a first input terminal. The amplifier circuit includes a number of x first amplifier branches electrically connected to the first input terminal. The amplifier module also includes a number y of first output terminals each assigned to a respective TX frequency band, a first switching unit that electrically connects one or more of the first amplifier branches to one of the first output terminals, and a multilayer substrate, on top of which the integrated circuit device and the switching unit are mounted. The substrate includes integrated passive matching elements that are part of matching circuits where x≧1 and y≧2. Each of the first amplifier branches is adapted to deliver a different power level at its output and is matched to a load at the first output terminals by one of the matching circuits.
US07804363B2	Open loop DC control for a transimpedance feedback amplifier A transimpedance amplifier having open-loop DC control is provided. The open-loop feedback control may provide a DC bias that is configurable based on the characteristics of an input device, such as, a photodiode or a magnetoresistor. The open-loop feedback control may provide quick recovery from voltage level variations and may provide stability for the amplifier.
US07804361B2	Low noise amplifier A low noise amplifier is provided. The low noise amplifier includes: a low noise amplifying unit amplifying an input signal; a harmonic and noise generating unit disposed in an input terminal of the low noise amplifying unit, for generating a compensating signal for compensating for an intermodulation distortion signal and a thermal noise signal of the input signal to the low noise amplifying unit; and a load unit outputting the amplified input signal generated by the low noise amplifying unit.
US07804359B1	Linearization with memory compensation A polynomial generator and memory compensator module is provided that includes: a first bank of delay filters for generating current and delayed versions of the envelope for an RF input signal and for the square of the envelope, a polynomial generator for generating polynomials using the current and delayed versions of the envelope, each polynomial being weighted according to pre-distortion weights; an adder for adding the polynomials to provide a pre-distortion signal for pre-distorting the RF input signal to provide a pre-distorted RF input signal such that a power amplifier amplifying the pre-distorted RF input signal provides an amplified RF output signal that reduces a non-linearity of the power amplifier; and a second bank of delay filters for generating delayed versions of the output signal, wherein the adder further adds the delayed versions of the output signal to the polynomials to provide the pre-distortion signal.
US07804350B1	Level shifting using cross-coupled cascode transistors A level-shifter circuit capable of operating at low voltages. Two complementary current paths are provided between each of two intermediate nodes (at least one of which being an output node) and one of the supply voltages. A network of field-effect transistors are coupled between the other voltage supply and the intermediate nodes. The transistors include a pull-up (or pull-down as the case may be) transistor pair coupled to the high (or low as the case may be) voltage supply. There are two cascode transistor pairs coupled between the pull-up (or down) transistors and the corresponding intermediate node. One cascode pair couples the respective intermediate node to the drain terminal of the respective pull-up (or down) transistor. The other cascoded pair cross-couples the intermediate node to the gate terminal of the opposite pull-up (or down) transistor.
US07804347B2	Pulse generator circuit and communication apparatus A pulse generator circuit that outputs pulses having a predetermined shape from an output terminal based on a start signal includes a timing generator circuit that generates (n) signals (n is an integer greater than or equal to 2), a pulse width signal generator circuit that generates a first pulse width signal and a second pulse width signal a first filter circuit limiting the band of the first pulse width signal, a second filter circuit limiting the band of the second pulse width signal, first and second power supplies, a first variable impedance circuit controlled by the first filter circuit, a second variable impedance circuit controlled by the second filter circuit, and a switching circuit that alternately connects the output terminal to the first power supply using a logic function value based on at least part of the n signals.
US07804345B2	Hybrid on-chip regulator for limited output high voltage A driver circuit provides fast settling times, slew rate control, and power efficiency, while reducing the need for large external capacitors. A voltage reference circuit generates a voltage reference signal. A comparator compares the voltage reference signal and a driver output signal and generates an output high voltage control signal. An output driver includes a first and a second switch that are coupled together. The first and second switches are further coupled to generate the driver output signal in response to coupling the output high voltage control signal to the control terminal of the first switch and coupling an input signal to the control terminal of the second switch.
US07804328B2	Source/emitter follower buffer driving a switching load and having improved linearity A source follower or emitter follower buffer provided according to an aspect of the present invention includes a capacitor connected between the input path and a node formed by the junction of a pair of transistors forming a cascoded current source connected to the output of the buffer. The capacitor passes input signal current directly to a switching load connected to the output of the buffer, and very little signal-dependant current flows through the transistor receiving the input signal. As a result, input-output non-linearity due to signal-dependant modulation (variation) of transconductance of the transistor receiving the input signal is minimized. When incorporated in switched-capacitor analog to digital converters, the buffer facilitates generation of digital codes that represent an input signal more accurately.
US07804325B1	Dedicated function block interfacing with general purpose function blocks on integrated circuits To improve interfacing between a block of dedicated function circuitry and blocks of more general purpose circuitry on an integrated circuit (“IC”), signals that are to be output by the dedicated function block are routed internally in that block so that they go into interconnection circuitry on the IC for more efficient application by that interconnection circuitry to the general purpose circuitry. Some of this routing internal to the dedicated function block may be controllably variable. The routing internal to the dedicated function block may also be arranged to take advantage of “sneak” connections that may exist between the dedicated function block and the general purpose blocks.
US07804321B2	Circuits and methods for testing FPGA routing switches An FPGA architecture includes multiplexers having non-volatile switches having control gates coupled to word lines W, each word line associated with a row, the switches connecting to wiring tracks through buffers having a controllable ground connection NGND, at least some of the switches being a tie-off switch coupleable to one of a plurality of bitlines B, each bitline associated with column.
US07804309B2	Systems and methods for soil moisture estimation Embodiments of the present invention provide estimates of soil moisture by measuring the change in electrical conductivity near the surface of the earth using surface-propagated electromagnetic fields. A method is provided for estimating near-surface soil moisture, including measuring signals from an electromagnetic ground wave propagating between one or more receiving element locations, determining a transfer characteristic proportional to an average electrical conductivity between pairs of locations; and determining estimated soil moisture in one or more regions derived from analyzing the determined electrical conductivity between pairs of locations and a predetermined regional relationship between electrical conductivity and soil moisture.
US07804307B1	Capacitance measurement systems and methods A first capacitor and a second capacitor are charged until voltage at the second capacitor settles to a settling voltage. While charging, the first capacitor is alternately switched between a current source and ground. When the settling voltage is reached, charging of the first capacitor is halted. The second capacitor continues to be charged until voltage at the second capacitor reaches a reference voltage. The amount of time it takes for the settling voltage to reach the reference voltage corresponds to a measure of capacitance on the first capacitor.
US07804302B2	Method and apparatus for enhancing formation resistivity images obtained with downhole galvanic tools The average current at a plurality of measure electrodes of a resistivity imaging tool is determined and subtracted from the individual measure currents to give a resistivity image with improved dynamic range.
US07804299B2	Diffusion weighted preparatory sequence for magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequence A preparatory pulse sequence is applied prior to an imaging pulse sequence during a diffusion-weighted MRI scan. The preparatory pulse sequence diffusion weights the longitudinal magnetization using a gradient waveform that is first moment nulled to reduce image artifacts caused by patient motion.
US07804295B2	Apparatus and method for detection of defects using flux leakage techniques An apparatus for the detection of defects utilizing non-destructive flux leakage techniques in ferrous materials includes rare earth magnets which are supported at an angle in the order of 45 degrees with the surface of the test specimen to induce a magnetic field within the material. The angled arrangement draws the field into the specimen over a larger surface area, reducing reluctance and ensuring that the field does not shallow within the material. The device provides real-time, three dimensional, visual feedback to the user and includes built-in means for data storage and retrieval without the need for an external computer interface. A distance sensor is used to correct the signal from the sensor array for distance from the surface. A position analyzing device utilizes the magnetic field to determine the position of the apparatus along the surface of the test material, increasing the accuracy in position measurement during testing.
US07804293B2	Power supply and stabilizer Provided is a power supply apparatus including a low pass filter that receives an output voltage of a current output section and allows a low frequency component with a frequency lower than a preset cutoff frequency to pass through; an excess voltage restricting load section that consumes an excess voltage restricting current, which is at least a portion of the output current from the current output section, when a load is turned on; and an excess voltage restricting control section that keeps the excess voltage restricting load section turned off when the output voltage of the current output section is less than an upper reference voltage, which is obtained by adding together a voltage output by the low pass filter and a preset upper offset voltage.
US07804292B2	Method for testing integrated circuits mounted on a carrier A method for testing integrated circuits mounted on a carrier includes the step of securing the carrier. The carrier is displaced into an operative position in which the integrated circuits are in physical and electrical communication with a diagnostic probe. Test signals are generated in test circuitry in electrical communication with the diagnostic probe and communicated to the integrated circuits with the diagnostic probe. The test signals are received at the test circuitry via the diagnostic probe. The test signals are made available to a controller via a communications link and an automated server and displayed with the controller.
US07804287B2	Low heat dissipation I/O module using direct drive buck converter A current-loop output circuit for an industrial controller provides for low power dissipation and reduced part count by driving current loads of different resistances directly from a switched voltage source. Proper filtering and design of a feedback loop allows the necessary transient response times to be obtained.
US07804286B2	Multiple output amplifiers and comparators An amplifier/comparator includes a multitude of output stages all sharing the same input stage. One or more of the output stages are amplification stages and have compensated output signals. A number of other output stages are not compensated and provide comparison signals. Each uncompensated output stage is adapted to switch to a first state if it detects a first input signal as being greater than a second signal, and further to switch to a second state if it detects the first input signal as being smaller than the second signal. By varying the channel-width (W) to channel-length (L) ratio (W/L) of the transistors disposed in the output stages, the trip points of the comparators and/or the electrical characteristics of the amplifiers are selectively varied.
US07804284B1	PSRR regulator with output powered reference The invention relates to a regulator with a reference generator circuit (e.g., a band-gap reference) and a reference generator power selector. The reference generator power selector selectively powers the reference generator circuit from an input power signal during start-up and from a regulated power signal during steady-state operation. The reference generator power selector may also select from multiple regulated power signals during steady-state operation.
US07804282B2	Buck converter with inductor pre-energizing Circuits and methods to achieve a buck-boost converter, capable to achieve a constant output voltage by pre-charging of an inductor if the input voltage is close to the output voltage has been achieved. The prior art problem of output voltage variations occurring while the input voltage is close to the output voltage is avoided. In case the input voltage is lower than a defined threshold voltage or the duty cycle exceeds a defined maximum allowable level, the inductor of the converter is pre-charged followed by boosting of the energy of the inductor to the output of the converter. In both modes the control loops of the buck converter can be used for buck duty cycle control. The duration of the pre-charge depends upon the level of the input voltage, the lower the input level is the longer is the pre-charge performed.
US07804281B2	Reducing common mode noise of power factor correction converters using general balance concept Common mode (CM) noise is substantially canceled in a switching power supply circuit such as a boost converter by providing a split inductor and analyzing the switching power supply circuit as a bridge circuit formed of the switch, portions of the split inductor and parasitic capacitances of respective portions of the power supply circuit. The bridge can then be balanced by addition of capacitance in parallel with the parasitic capacitance of a respective portion of the power supply circuit or dividing the split inductor such that a ratio of inductances of respective portions of the split inductor approximates a ratio of parasitic capacitances of the respective power supply circuit portions which may be measured or otherwise empirically determined. CM noise reduction of up to 40 db can be achieved without symmetric circuit design, addition of circuit elements or complex filtering having added cost, space requirements and power losses. Further, such a reduction in common mode noise allows simple EMI filtering arrangements to be employed further reducing cost and space requirements for the power supply circuit.
US07804277B2	Apparatus for estimating state of charge of secondary battery An apparatus for estimating a state of charge (SOC) of a secondary battery. A control section of a battery controller (ECU) computes a total amount of electric discharge of a secondary battery and compares the total amount of electric discharge with a predetermined threshold value. The threshold value is set so as to fall within a range of; for instance, 400 Ah to 1600 Ah. When the total amount of electric discharge is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value, an open-circuit-voltage (OCV)-SOC map is replaced with a map achieved in a state where a memory effect is saturated. When the total amount of electric discharge is smaller than the predetermined threshold value, a correction is made to the map so as to achieve a map that is a mixture consisting of the OCV-SOC map achieved in an initial state and the OCV-SOC map achieved in the saturated state at a predetermined ratio. The SOC is estimated by use of the corrected map.
US07804275B2	Battery power supply A battery power supply for use with an electronic device, such as a computer, uses a multi-cell battery, and a recharging circuit. Cells of the battery are serially interconnected to produce positive output voltages of 3.6, 4.8 and 12 volts DC and negative voltages of 4.8 and 12 volts DC. The power supply includes output terminals for delivering the DC voltages to power inlets of the device nominally rated at 12, 5 and 3.3 volts DC. The recharging circuit includes an AC voltage input terminal and outputs corresponding to the battery output terminals.
US07804274B2	Vehicle charging station having a dual position locking door A vehicle charging station including a compartment having a door, a receptacle disposed within the interior of the compartment for receiving a charging cord from a vehicle, and a door mechanism. The door mechanism includes a first latch for locking and unlocking the door from a closed position. The first latch locks the door in the closed position without drawing power and keeps the door locked in the closed position if power is lost to the vehicle charging station. The door mechanism also includes a second latch for locking and unlocking the door in a second position such that the door is ajar allowing the cord to pass from the vehicle to the interior of the compartment. The second latch allows the door to open beyond its ajar position to allow the cord to be removed if power is lost to the vehicle charging station while the door is locked in the second position.
US07804273B2	Selector circuit for power management in multiple battery systems A selector circuit configured to select among a DC power source and a plurality of batteries for an electronic device. The selector circuit includes a first comparator configured to compare a first input signal representative of a voltage level of the DC power source with a first threshold level and provide a first output signal representative of a difference between the first input signal and the first threshold level, and a selector output circuit. The selector output circuit is configured to provide selector output signals that control selection among the DC power source and the plurality of batteries. The selector output circuit providing said selector output signals to select the DC source and deselect the plurality of batteries if the first output signal is representative of the voltage level of said DC power source being greater than the first threshold level.
US07804272B2	Non-contact type power feeder system for mobile object and protecting apparatus thereof A noncontact type power feeder system for feeding a power to a mobile object, in which a power feeding portion and a power receiving portion can be easily manufactured at low costs and which can transmit a high power. The noncontact type power feeder system for a mobile object, comprises a power feeding portion provided in a surface on which the mobile object runs, and a power receiving portion provided in the lower part of the mobile object at a position facing to the power supply portion, the each of the power feeding portion and the power receiving portion is composed of windings formed in an oval shape, and a magnetic planar core formed therein with a recess in which the windings are accommodated so that the longitudinal direction of the oval shape of the windings is extended along the travel direction of the mobile object, the planer core is composed of several planar blocks each having a rectangular surface, several blocks being laid so that long sides of the rectangular surfaces are extended in the travel direction of the mobile object, in which several blocks are also laid in the direction orthogonal to the travel direction, and several blocks being superposed one upon another, the recess of the planar core is defined by thick wall parts in which the planar cores are superposed on the surface of the planar core, outside and inside of the oval shape part of the windings.
US07804262B2	Non-intrusive electronic control circuitry to detect an open protector in a hermetically sealed compressor An electronic apparatus externally detects open protector contacts inside of a compressor. The compressor includes a compressor motor having a run winding and a start winding. The compressor motor also includes internal protector contacts that open the electrical circuit to the “C” terminal in a protection condition. A compressor running indicator circuit is electrically connected between the “S” and the “R” terminals to indicate a compressor running condition. Also, a protection indicator circuit is electrically connected between the “C” and the “S” terminals to indicate a voltage present across the “C” and the “S” terminals. The protection indicator circuit is also coupled to the compressor running indicator circuit such that the protection indicator circuit is disabled when the compressor is running normally and the protection indicator is enabled and indicates when protector contacts open inside of the compressor.
US07804259B2	Discharge lamp ballast apparatus A discharge lamp ballast apparatus includes a fault detecting section 9b of a discharge lamp 6; a first storing section 10 for storing a fault detected; a lighting delay detecting section 9c-3 for detecting lighting delay time from beginning of starting operation to lighting of the discharge lamp; a reigniting voltage measuring section 9c-5 for measuring a discharge lamp voltage immediately after switching of polarity applied to the discharge lamp according to AC lighting; a measuring section 9c-6 for measuring a period of time during which a current does not flow by detecting a discharge lamp current immediately after switching the polarity applied to the discharge lamp according to the AC lighting; a going out counting section 9c-4 for counting a number of times of going out by detecting going out during lighting of the discharge lamp; and a second storing section 9c for storing the lighting delay, reigniting voltage, period of time during which the current does not flow, and number of times of going out as operation records.
US07804255B2	Dimming system powered by two current sources and having an operation indicator module A dimming system and method of operating the same are provided. The dimming system includes a first terminal configured to operatively connect to a first conductive line, a second terminal configured to operatively connect to a second conductive line, and a third terminal configured to operatively connect to a third conductive line. The first conductive line is configured to connect to a load, the second conductive line is configured to supply an alternating current, and the third conductive line is configured to connect to a current path. The dimming system further includes a controller operatively connected to at least one of the first, second and third terminals for controlling operation of the dimming system. The first and second terminals are configured for electrically connecting to a primary power supply and the first and third terminals are configured for electrically connecting to a secondary power supply. The primary power supply is powered through connection to neutral, and wherein the secondary power supply is powered through connection to an earth ground.
US07804251B2	LED signaling apparatus with infrared emission An infrared signaling apparatus is disclosed, which utilizes high intensity solid state lighting elements, such as light emitting diodes (LEDs) to provide signaling for navigational as well as search/rescue applications employing night vision equipments.
US07804242B2	Top-emission active matrix electroluminescence device and method for fabricating the same A top-emission active matrix electroluminescence device and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed, wherein a counter common electrode is formed in an area outside of a pixel area, when forming a pixel electrode, so as to simultaneously enhance an emission efficiency and an electrical function of the device. Herein, the counter common electrode is electrically connected to a common electrode, thereby preventing an overload and a short-circuit of the common electrode, even though the common electrode is formed in a thin layer.
US07804240B2	Organic electro luminescence device and method of fabricating the same An organic electro luminescence device includes a light emission unit disposed on a substrate and a passivation film including a plurality of organic films and a plurality of inorganic films, the plurality of organic films and the plurality of inorganic films are alternately stacked to cover the light emission unit on the substrate, wherein a side of the passivation film disposed between an edge of the substrate and an edge of the light emission unit is gradually thinner from the edge of the light emission unit towards the edge of the substrate.
US07804239B2	White light emitting diode Provided is a white light emitting diode (LED) including a blue LED chip; and yellow, green, and red light emitting phosphors that are coated on the blue LED chip at a predetermined mixing ratio and converts light, emitted from the blue LED chip, into white light.
US07804237B2	Luminescence conversion of LED including two phosphors A luminescence conversion of LED, which uses a blue emitting chip and two illuminating substances, whereby one emits a red and the other a yellow to green. Both illuminating substances are separated upstream from the chip.
US07804236B2	Flat panel display incorporating control frame A flat panel display including: a plurality of electrically addressable pixels; a plurality of thin-film transistor driver circuits each being electrically coupled to an associated at least one of the pixels, respectively; a passivating layer on the thin-film transistor driver circuits and at least partially around the pixels; a conductive frame on the passivating layer; and, a plurality of nanostructures on the conductive frame; wherein, exciting the conductive frame and addressing one of the pixels using the associated driver circuit causes the nanostructures to emit electrons that induce the one of the pixels to emit light.
US07804234B2	Self-ballasted compact fluorescent lamp and method for manufacturing A compact fluorescent lamp comprises a discharge tube arrangement with at least one discharge tube. The tube is formed of glass, encloses a discharge volume filled with a discharge gas and has a fluorescent phosphor coating disposed on the inner surface of the tube. The tube forms a continuous arc path and has electrodes disposed at each end of the arc path. The lamp also comprises a ballast circuit connected to the electrodes by lead-in wires and to a supply voltage by lead-out wires for controlling the current in the tube. A bulb shaped outer envelope comprises a substantially spherical portion, which encloses the tube arrangement and an elongated end portion, which encloses the ballast circuit. The end portion of the outer envelope has a neck portion with an open end on a base side for receiving a base shell. The open end of the neck portion is closed and terminated by a closing and neck reinforcing means of a material compatible with the material of the outer envelope, which has a substantially circular opening. The lead-out wires are led through the substantially circular opening to a base shell for connecting said lamp to said supply voltage through a socket.A method for manufacturing a compact fluorescent lamp as described above is also disclosed. In the proposed method the open end of the elongated portion of the outer envelope is closed and terminated with a closing and neck reinforcing means comprising a substantially circular opening for leading through the lead-out wires.
US07804230B2	Piezoelectric actuator A piezoelectric actuator for use in a fuel injector, the actuator comprising a stack of one or more piezoelectric elements for receipt within an accumulator chamber of the injector, distribution electrode means for generating an electric field within the stack and an electrical connector arrangement including a body member defining an external boundary and including a base portion and a stem portion projecting from the base portion. The base portion defines a base end face for abutment with an adjacent end face associated with the stack. Terminal means are provided for connection with an external power supply. The terminal means includes first and second terminal members disposed internal to the external boundary of the body member. The first and second terminal members are arranged side by side and disposed internal to the external boundary of the body member. The actuator further comprises first and second contact plates, each of which is connected electrically to a first end of a respective one of the first and second terminal members. The first and second terminal members are further connectable with an external power supply, in use, so as enable voltage supply to the distribution electrode means. The base portion of the body member defines a sealing surface for abutment with an internal surface defined by the accumulator chamber.
US07804229B2	Magnetostrictive / piezo remote power generation, battery and method A power generation device generates power by subjecting a composite of magnetostrictive material and piezo material to a magnetic field. The composite of magnetostrictive material and piezo material may be incorporated in a battery or other storage device.
US07804228B2	Composite passive materials for ultrasound transducers Provided herein are composite passive layers for ultrasound transducers having acoustic properties that can be easily tailored to the needs of the transducer application using current microfabrication techniques. In an embodiment, a passive layer comprises metal posts embedded in a polymer matrix or other material. The acoustic properties of the passive layer depend on the metal/polymer volume fraction of the passive layer, which can be easily controlled using current microfabrication techniques, e.g., integrated circuit (IC) fabrication techniques. Further, the embedded metal posts provide electrical conduction through the passive layer allowing electrical connections to be made to an active element, e.g., piezoelectric element, of the transducer through the passive layer. Because the embedded metal posts conduct along one line of direction, they can be used to provide separate electrical connections to different active elements in a transducer array through the passive layer.
US07804227B2	Tear resistant electroactive polymer transducers Described herein are several solutions that increase transducer lifetime by reducing or preventing tear propagation in a compliant electroactive polymer. One solution couples a compliant tear resistant treatment to a transducer proximate to an edge portion of the electroactive polymer. Another solution uses a tear resistant layer that couples to and covers a large surface area of the transducer. Another suitable tear resistant solution provides added material outside an active area; the added material reduces stress or strain variations in polymer material outside the active area when the electroactive polymer transducer is deflected or pre-strained.
US07804226B2	Polymer actuator In a polymer actuator provided with a first polymer structural member having a conductive property, an electrolyte retention layer electrically connected to the first polymer structural member, and a second polymer structural member electrically connected to the first polymer structural member through the electrolyte retention layer interposed therebetween and having a conductive property, and by applying a potential difference between the first polymer structural member and the second polymer structural member, the first polymer structural member and the second polymer structural member are allowed to expand and contract, by displacement of the second polymer structural member, the potential difference between the first polymer structural member and the second polymer structural member is changed.
US07804225B2	Droplet discharging head, image forming apparatus, and film forming apparatus A droplet discharging head, includes a diaphragm, a fixing plate, and a piezoelectric element. The piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a piezoelectric body layer interposed between the first and second electrodes, a first internal electrode extending from the first electrode between the first, and second electrodes, and a second internal electrode extending from the second electrode between the first and second electrodes. At least a part of a first end face of the piezoelectric element is in contact with the diaphragm. The first end face includes a first end of the first electrode, a first end of the second electrode, and a first end of the piezoelectric Body. The piezoelectric body layer includes an active layer that overlaps both the first and second internal electrodes, a first inactive layer that overlaps only the first internal electrode, and a second inactive layer that overlaps only the second internal electrode. A thickness of the second inactive layer between the second electrode and the active layer is larger than a thickness of the first inactive layer between the first electrode and the active layer.
US07804221B2	Surface acoustic wave device A surface acoustic wave device has high power withstanding performance and is able to effectively suppress an undesirable spurious response. The surface acoustic wave device includes an LiNbO3 substrate having Euler angles (0°±5°, θ±5°, 0°±10°), an electrode that is disposed on the LiNbO3 substrate and that has an IDT electrode made mainly from Cu, a first silicon oxide film that is disposed in an area other than an area in which the electrode is disposed to have a thickness equal to that of the electrode, and a second silicon oxide film that is disposed so as to cover the electrode and the first silicon oxide film, wherein the surface acoustic wave device utilizes an SH wave, wherein a duty D of the IDT electrode is less than or equal to about 0.49, and θ of the Euler angles (0°±5°, θ±5°, 0°±10°) is set to fall within a range that satisfies the following inequality: −10×D+92.5−100×C≦θ≦37.5×D2−57.75×D+104.075+5710×C2−1105.7×C+45.729 D: duty C: thickness of the IDT electrode normalized using a wavelength λ.
US07804217B2	Rotary electric machine with coil member and method of manufacturing coil member In a rotary electric machine, a field coil member includes a first edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the first pole core. The field coil member includes a second edgewise coil composed of a plurality of coaxially layered convolutions. The coaxially layered convolutions are wound around the outer periphery of the second pole core. The field coil member includes a link portion connecting between the first edgewise coil and the second edgewise coil in series. One of the first and second edgewise coils has one coil end extending therefrom to cross over the link portion at a crossover portion thereof. The crossover portion between the one coil end and the link portion is arranged to be non-overlapped with the convolutions of the one of the first and second edgewise coils.
US07804216B2	Permanent-magnet reluctance electrical rotary machine For an electrical reluctance rotary machine, a stator has a winding as an armature, and a rotor has permanent magnet implanting slots provided in a rotor core at lateral sides magnetic poles configured to produce reluctance torque along directions of magnetic flux passing through the magnetic poles to produce reluctance torque, and permanent magnets inserted in the permanent magnet implanting slots so as to cancel magnetic flux of the armature intersecting that magnetic flux, to control a magnetic field leaking at ends of the magnetic poles, having circumferential magnetic unevenness. The electrical reluctance rotary machine is configured to meet a relationship, such that 1.6 ≤ P × W pm R ≤ 1.9 where Wpm [mm] is a width of permanent magnet, R [mm] is a radius of the rotor, and P is the number of poles.
US07804213B2	Low profile d.c. brushless motor for an impeller mechanism or the like An impeller and at least a portion of a cooperating peripheral volute may be integrated into, and preferably are integrally injection molded with, concentric outer rotor and inner stator assemblies, respectively, to achieve a low profile precision impeller mechanism based on an improved brushless d.c. motor with low length (L) to diameter (D) ratio and suitable for use in a variety of other applications. In one practical embodiment of such a motor, a rotating cap has an inner circumference which is molded about an outer ferromagnetic back ring that in turn supports a permanently magnetized ring shaped rotor magnet having a number of poles of alternating polarity defined about its inner circumference and separated by a relatively small cylindrical air gap from the outwardly projecting radially oriented selectively magnetized poles of a fixed stator assembly. In one exemplary embodiment, the rotor may have 8 poles and the stator may have 9 poles. The fixed stator assembly is preferably integrally molded into a base housing that also includes a precision fixed bearing support that extends upwardly through the center of the stator assembly and that is rotatably coupled to a rotating shaft that extends downwardly from (and preferably is integral with) the center of the rotating cap. A coaxial pair of preloaded ball bearings is preferably supported between an inner cylindrical surface of the fixed bearing support and an outer cylindrical surface of the rotating shaft, to thereby permit the rotor to rotate precisely about the stator with minimal variation in the cylindrical air gap therebetween.
US07804208B2	Method and structure for cooling an electric motor A high speed electric motor for use in a variety of applications. The electric motor an electric motor including a motor housing or stator, a rotor having a commutator and brushes for contacting the commutator at a predefined area known as the contact area. Additionally, the motor includes a forced air cooling assembly. The forced air cooling assembly includes a centrifugal fan for creating air flow, a manifold for accelerating the air flow. The manifold having exit ports and the exit ports being positioned directly over the contact area for directing the accelerated air flow at the contact area and the motor housing having at least one opening aligned with the contact area and at least a second opening defining an exit vent. Additionally, a method of cooling the motor in accordance with the invention is also disclosed.
US07804205B2	Electret device and electrostatic operating apparatus An electret device includes an electret film capable of storing charges and a charge outflow inhibition film formed on an upper surface of a region having a high charge density in the electret film and inhibiting the charges stored in the electret film from flowing out.
US07804203B2	Wireless chip The size of a wireless chip is often determined according to an antenna circuit thereof. Power source voltage or power supplied to the wireless chip can be more easily received with a larger antenna. On the other hand, there has been an increasing demand for a compact wireless chip, and it is thus necessary to downsize an antenna. In view of this, the invention provides a wireless chip capable of data communication with a small antenna, namely a compact wireless chip having an improved communicable distance. A power source circuit of an ID chip of the invention generates a higher power source voltage than a power source voltage generated in a conventional ID chip, by using a boosting power source circuit having a boosting circuit and a rectifier circuit.
US07804199B2	Fail-safe circuit for gas valves A fail-safe circuit and fail-safe methods for controlling gas valves are provided. In one illustrative embodiment, a fail-safe circuit includes at least one input that can be connected to a control device and at least one output that can be connected to a gas valve. In some cases, the fail-safe circuit may only supply an output voltage for opening the gas valve if the input signal received from the control device includes at least two different successively applied frequency signals. Other methods and embodiments are also contemplated.
US07804196B2	Multiple input/output power converter and fuel cell vehicle with same A multiple input/output power converter includes: at least two input/output circuits to be connected to electric units; a plurality of power converting circuits including switches and at least an inductor, a plurality of capacitors connected to the power converting circuits; and a control circuit for controlling the switches in a plurality of modes to selectively operate the inductor and the capacitors to operate the power converting circuits in either of stepping up, stepping down, or conducting operation. The capacitors are shared among the power converting circuits.
US07804194B2	Device, system and method for charger switch adaptor A system to connect an electrical device to a switch which connects or disconnects the device to the power source, and providing power to the charger and/or another operational circuit of the device, for example, keep-alive circuit, with no dependency in the state of the switch.
US07804190B2	Method and apparatus for resistive power distribution An electrical power distribution method and apparatus are disclosed, the apparatus comprising a first power distribution member section receiving electrical power from a power supply and a second high resistivity power distribution member section, electrically connected to the first section for supplying the electrical power to an electrical device in electrical communication with the high resistivity section.
US07804189B2	Efficient DC distribution system, topology, and methods Embodiments of power distribution systems and methods are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US07804188B2	Termination circuit, vehicle-mounted control apparatus, and vehicle-mounted communication system The termination circuit for use in a transmission line to transmit a differential signal includes a first series circuit of a resistive element and an inductive element connected between one of two signal wires of the transmission line and a reference potential, and a second series circuit of a resistive element and an inductive element connected between the other of the signal wires and the reference potential. The inductive elements of the first and second series circuits are magnetically coupled such that they generate magnetic fields having such directions as to reinforce each other when a common-mode signal flows along the transmission line, and generate magnetic fields having such directions as to weaken each other when a differential-mode signal flows along the transmission line.
US07804187B2	Electronically openable lock fitting for a motor vehicle The invention relates to an electrically-openable lock fitting for a motor vehicle, connected to main electric supply means (3) and to emergency electric supply means for the lock fitting in the event of a malfunction of the main electric supply means. The emergency electric supply means comprise a power reserve component (6) and electric energy reserve means (9), and an identification element (4) ensuring the identification of a user. The identification element comprises at least one signal receiver (4) communicating with an element which can deliver a signal in order to identify the user. The connection of the electric energy reserve means (9) is controlled in such a way that the electric energy reserve means (9) supply the energy reserve component (6) once identification has been made and authorized.
US07804186B2	Modular array fluid flow energy conversion facility In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for the efficiency with which fluid energy is converted into another form of energy, such as electrical energy, where an array of fluid energy conversion modules is contained in a scalable modular networked superstructure. In certain preferred embodiments, a plurality of turbines, such as for instance wind turbines, may be disposed in an array, where the plurality of arrays may be disposed in a suitable arrangement in proximity to each other and provided with geometry suitable for tight packing in an array with other parameters optimized to extract energy from the fluid flow. In addition, the turbines may be a more effective adaptation of a turbine, or an array of turbines, to varying conditions, including fluid conditions that may differ among different turbines in an array, or among different turbines in a set of arrays.
US07804185B1	Non-fuel combusting stand alone air turbine engine The invention discloses a non-fuel combusting air turbine assembly suitable as a stand alone system for generating electricity. The systems include an air turbine engine powered by a compressor mechanism to increase the potential energy that can be harnessed by the turbines, having a noise reducing air intake section for delivering air to the compressor. Additionally, the systems include a turbine mechanism composed of plural sets of stationary vanes and rotating vanes, preferably arranged alternatively, and a battery rechargeable by a generator operable by the rotating turbine vanes. To initiate starting the turbine assembly, a secondary power source is included.
US07804183B2	Power generating system Provided is a power generator, including a plurality of wind power generators generating electrical power using wind power energy, and variable-speed wind power generators (20a, 20b) connected between the power generator and an electrical power system. The variable-speed wind power generators (20a, 20b) equalize an output of the entire power generating system by outputting power for correcting for a drop in output of the power generator.
US07804177B2	Silicon-based thin substrate and packaging schemes A silicon-based thin package substrate is used for packaging semiconductor chips. The silicon-based thin package substrate preferably has a thickness of less than about 200 μm. A plurality of through-hole vias are formed in the silicon-based thin package substrate, connecting BGA balls and solder bumps. The silicon-based thin package substrate may be used as a carrier of semiconductor chips.
US07804176B2	Semiconductor device This invention is to provide a nonvolatile memory device that enhances a size reduction and mass productivity while ensuring reliability and signal transmission performance. A nonvolatile memory chip having a first side formed with no pads and a second side formed with pads is mounted on a mounting substrate. A control chip for controlling the nonvolatile memory chip is mounted on the nonvolatile memory chip. The control chip has a first pad row corresponding to the pads of the nonvolatile memory chip. The first pad row is mounted adjacent to the first side of the nonvolatile memory chip. The first pad row of the control chip and a first electrode row formed on the mounting substrate are connected via a first wire group. The pads of the nonvolatile memory chip and a second electrode row formed on the mounting substrate are connected via a second wire group. The first electrode row and the second electrode row are connected through wirings formed in the mounting substrate.
US07804174B2	TFT wiring comprising copper layer coated by metal and metal oxide A gate electrode (wiring) (40) having a Cu layer (40a) surrounded by a coating film (40b) made of titanium or titanium oxide; a TFT substrate (31) comprising the gate electrode (wiring) (40) and a LCD comprising a pair of opposing substrates and a liquid crystal disposed between the opposing substrates, wherein one of the pair of opposing substrates is a TFT substrate (31), are disclosed.
US07804172B2	Electrical connections made with dissimilar metals Electrical connections between different materials. An electrical connection system includes electrical components and an electrical connection between the electrical components. The electrical connection includes a functionally graded material. A method of making an electrical connection between different materials includes the steps of: providing an electrical component which includes a material; providing another electrical component which includes another material; and electrically connecting a functionally graded material between the electrical components. An electrical connection system includes an electrical component and a functionally graded material electrically connected to the electrical component. The functionally graded material provides a gradual transition between at least two dissimilar materials.
US07804162B2	Multi-wavelength white light-emitting structure A multi-wavelength white light-emitting structure uses a UV light emitting diode chip and a blue light emitting diode chip to excite a red phosphor and a green phosphor and generates a white light-emitting structure having good color rendering. The multi-wavelength white light-emitting structure uses a UV light emitting diode chip that emits light having a wavelength of between 350˜430 nm to excite a red phosphor to emit red light having a wavelength of between 600˜700 nm. The present invention then uses a blue light emitting diode chip that emits light having a wavelength between of 400˜500 nm to emit blue light and uses the blue light emitting diode chip to excite a green phosphor to emit green light having a wavelength of between 490˜560 nm. Mixing the red light, the blue light and the green light forms a white light.
US07804161B2	Semiconductor device and dam for resin The invention provides a semiconductor device including a rectangular chip provided on a mounting region of a substrate, a liquid resin layer provided under the rectangular chip and on a side surface of the chip, and a plurality of dams formed on the substrate so as to extend along the side surface of the rectangular chip. The configuration allows the semiconductor device to be provided with the substrate having a reduced size which is achieved by preventing a liquid resin from flowing out.
US07804160B2	Ultrasonic bonding equipment for manufacturing semiconductor device, semiconductor device and its manufacturing method An ultrasonic bonding equipment for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises a tip portion. The tip portion has a top surface which is faced to a member to be bonded, and propagates an ultrasonic vibration to the top surface. A plurality of protruding portions are provided on the top surface. Each of the protruding portions has: a first pair of opposite side surfaces inclined with respect to the top surface; and a second pair of opposite side surfaces substantially vertical to the top surface. A semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor chip; a lead; and a bonding strap electrically connecting the semiconductor chip and the lead. A recess is formed on an upper surface of the bonding strap in at least one of a first region where the bonding strap and the semiconductor chip are connected and a second region where the bonding strap and the lead is connected. A first pair of opposite side surfaces of the recess are inclined with respect to the upper surface of the bonding strap, and a second pair of opposite side surfaces of the recess are substantially vertical to the upper surface of the bonding strap.
US07804158B2	Electronic device with shielding structure and method of manufacturing the same An electronic device includes a substrate, an active circuit, and a shielding structure. The active circuit is formed on the substrate. The shielding structure is disposed surrounding the active circuit, and includes a first heavy ion-doped region, first metal stack, second heavy ion-doped region, second metal stack and top metal. The first heavy ion-doped is formed in the substrate and located at a first side of the active circuit. The first metal stack is formed on the first heavy ion-doped region of the substrate, wherein the first metal stack is connected to a ground voltage. The second heavy ion-doped region is formed in the substrate and located at a second side of the active circuit. The second metal stack is formed on the second heavy ion-doped region of the substrate. The top metal is formed on the first metal stack and second metal stack and passing over the active circuit.
US07804157B2	Device configured to have a nanowire formed laterally between two electrodes and methods for forming the same A device configured to have a nanowire formed laterally between two electrodes includes a substrate and an insulator layer established on at least a portion of the substrate. An electrode of a first conductivity type and an electrode of a second conductivity type different than the first conductivity type are established at least on the insulator layer. The electrodes are electrically isolated from each other. The electrode of the first conductivity type has a vertical sidewall that faces a vertical sidewall of the electrode of the second conductivity type, whereby a gap is located between the two vertical sidewalls. Methods are also disclosed for forming the device.
US07804152B2	Recessed shallow trench isolation In some embodiments, a memory integrated circuit has different shallow trench isolation structures in the memory circuitry of the memory integrated circuit and the control circuitry of the memory integrated circuit. The isolation dielectric fills the trenches of the shallow trench isolation structures to different degrees.In some embodiments, a memory integrated circuit has memory circuitry with shallow trench isolation structures and intermediate regions. The memory circuitry supports a channel between neighboring nonvolatile memory devices supporting multiple current components with different orientations.In some embodiments, recessed shallow trench isolation structures are formed.
US07804150B2	Lateral trench gate FET with direct source-drain current path A field effect transistor includes a trench gate extending into a semiconductor region. The trench gate has a front wall facing a drain region and a side wall perpendicular to the front wall. A channel region extends along the side wall of the trench gate, and a drift region extends at least between the drain region and the trench gate. The drift region includes a stack of alternating conductivity type silicon layers.
US07804149B2	Nanostructured ZnO electrodes for efficient dye sensitized solar cells The present invention provides methods of forming metal oxide semiconductor nanostructures and, in particular, zinc oxide (ZnO) semiconductor nanostructures, possessing high surface area, plant-like morphologies on a variety of substrates. Optoelectronic devices, such as photovoltaic cells, incorporating the nanostructures are also provided.
US07804141B2	Semiconductor element structure and method for making the same A semiconductor element structure includes a first MOS having a first high-K material and a first metal for use in a first gate, a second MOS having a second high-K material and a second metal for use in a second gate and a bridge channel disposed in a recess connecting the first gate and the second gate for electrically connecting the first gate and the second gate, wherein the bridge channel is embedded in at least one of the first gate and the second gate.
US07804138B2	Buried guard ring and radiation hardened isolation structures and fabrication methods Semiconductor devices can be fabricated using conventional designs and process but including specialized structures to reduce or eliminate detrimental effects caused by various forms of radiation. Such semiconductor devices can include the one or more parasitic isolation devices and/or buried guard ring structures disclosed in the present application. The introduction of design and/or process steps to accommodate these novel structures is compatible with conventional CMOS fabrication processes, and can therefore be accomplished at relatively low cost and with relative simplicity.
US07804136B2	Method of forming nitride films with high compressive stress for improved PFET device performance A method is provided for making a FET device in which a nitride layer overlies the PFET gate structure, where the nitride layer has a compressive stress with a magnitude greater than about 2.8 GPa. This compressive stress permits improved device performance in the PFET. The nitride layer is deposited using a high-density plasma (HDP) process, wherein the substrate is disposed on an electrode to which a bias power in the range of about 50 W to about 500 W is supplied. The bias power is characterized as high-frequency power (supplied by an RF generator at 13.56 MHz). The FET device may also include NFET gate structures. A blocking layer is deposited over the NFET gate structures so that the nitride layer overlies the blocking layer; after the blocking layer is removed, the nitride layer is not in contact with the NFET gate structures. The nitride layer has a thickness in the range of about 300-2000 Å.
US07804132B2	Semiconductor device A gate electrode is provided such that both ends thereof in a gate width direction are projected from an active region in plane view. Partial trench isolation insulation films are provided in a surface of an SOI substrate corresponding to lower parts of the both ends, and body contact regions are provided in the surface of the SOI substrate outside the both ends of the gate electrode in the gate width direction so as to be adjacent to the respective partial trench isolation insulation films. The body contact region and a body region are electrically connected through an SOI layer (well region) under the partial trench isolation insulation film. In addition, a source tie region in which P type impurity is doped in a relatively high concentration is provided in the surface of a source region in the vicinity of the center of the gate electrode in the gate width direction.
US07804131B2	Multi-chip module A multi-chip module that includes a conductive element connecting at least two semiconductor devices, the conductive element including enhancements for improving the mechanical coupling between the conductive element and the molded housing of the MCM.
US07804129B2	Recessed gate electrode MOS transistor and method for fabricating the same Disclosed are a transistor and a method for fabricating the same capable of increasing a threshold voltage and a driving current of the transistor. The method includes the steps of forming a first etch mask on a silicon substrate, forming a trench by etching the exposed isolation area, forming a first insulation layer in the trench and the first etch mask, forming a second insulation layer on the first insulation layer, removing the second insulation layer and the first insulation layer until the first etch mask is exposed, forming a trench type isolation layer on the isolation area, forming a second etch mask on an entire surface of the silicon substrate, etching the exposed channel area, performing an etching process with respect to a resultant substrate structure, and forming a gate in the recess.
US07804128B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device according to an example of the present invention includes a semiconductor region, source/drain areas arranged separately in the semiconductor region, a tunnel insulating film arranged on a channel region between the source/drain areas, a floating gate electrode arranged on the tunnel insulating film, an inter-electrode insulating film arranged on the floating gate electrode, and a control gate electrode arranged on the inter-electrode insulating film. The inter-electrode insulating film includes La, Al and Si.
US07804127B2	Semiconductor non-volatile memory having semiconductor non-volatile memory cell with electric charge accumulation layer, and method of producing the same A semiconductor non-volatile memory cell includes an Si (silicon) layer containing substrate including an activation region having a ridge portion; an element separation region embedded in both sides of the activation region; a gate electrode with a gate insulation film inbetween formed over the ridge portion for covering a part of both side surfaces of the ridge portion and an upper surface of the element separation region; a channel forming region formed in a surface layer region of the ridge portion; an extension region formed on both sides of the channel forming region in the longitudinal direction; and an electric charge accumulation layer capable of accumulating electric charges and a sidewall formed on the extension region and one or both of side surfaces of the gate electrode facing with each other in the longitudinal direction.
US07804126B2	Dense non-volatile memory array and method of fabrication A non-volatile memory array has word lines spaced a sub-F (sub-minimum feature size F) width apart and bit lines generally perpendicular to the word lines. The present invention also includes a method for word-line patterning of a non-volatile memory array which includes generating sub-F word lines from mask generated elements with widths of at least a minimum feature size F.
US07804124B2	Device structures for a memory cell of a non-volatile random access memory and design structures for a non-volatile random access memory Device and design structures for memory cells in a non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). The device structure includes a semiconductor body in direct contact with the insulating layer, a control gate electrode, and a floating gate electrode in direct contact with the insulating layer. The semiconductor body includes a source, a drain, and a channel between the source and the drain. The floating gate electrode is juxtaposed with the channel of the semiconductor body and is disposed between the control gate electrode and the insulating layer. A first dielectric layer is disposed between the channel of the semiconductor body and the floating gate electrode. A second dielectric layer is disposed between the control gate electrode and the floating gate electrode.
US07804121B2	Flash memory device and programming and erasing methods therewith A flash memory device and programming and erasing methods therewith is disclosed, to secure the programming and erasing characteristics by changing a structure of a floating gate, in which the flash memory device includes a first conductive type semiconductor substrate defined as a field area and an active area; a tunnel oxide layer on the active area of the first conductive type semiconductor substrate; a floating gate on the tunnel oxide layer, having at least first and second floating gates having different levels of energy band gap; a dielectric layer on the floating gate; a control gate on the dielectric layer; and second conductive type source/drain regions in the active area of the first conductive type semiconductor substrate at both sides of the floating gate.
US07804117B2	Capacitor over red pixel A red pixel having a capacitor formed over the photo-conversion region of the pixel. The capacitor can be used by other pixels as a common capacitor. The capacitor is coupled to floating diffusion region shared by a plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels also share readout circuitry.
US07804116B2	Solid-state imaging device A solid-state imaging device having an arrangement in which well contact is achieved for each pixel is provided. In the solid-state imaging device, a well contact part is formed in an activation region of a photoelectric conversion portion. The well contact part fixes a well in which the photoelectric conversion portion and transistors of the pixel are provided at a predetermined potential.
US07804112B2	Semiconductor device The semiconductor device according to the present invention includes an SJMOSFET having a plurality of base regions formed at an interval from each other and an SBD (Schottky Barrier Diode) having a Schottky junction between the plurality of base regions. The SBD is provided in parallel with a parasitic diode of the SJMOSFET.
US07804111B2	Semiconductor device and method for adjusting characteristics thereof The object of the invention is to provide a semiconductor device including signal-transmission interconnections preferable for transmitting high frequency signal and capability to adjust characteristics of the above signal-transmission interconnections. A semiconductor device according to the present invention consists of a signal-transmission interconnection 20 for transmission of signals, a MOS capacitance element 10 having a gate electrode connected to the signal-transmission interconnection 20, a first voltage-applying interconnection 30 connected to a source and a drain of the MOS capacitance element 10 and applying a voltage to the source and the drain of the MOS capacitance element 10, a second voltage-applying interconnection 40 connected to a well of the MOS capacitance element 10, and applying a voltage to the well of said first MOS capacitance element 10. Jitters occurring in the signal-transmission interconnection 20 can be adjusted by adjusting each of voltages of the first voltage-applying interconnection 30 and the second voltage-applying interconnection 40.
US07804109B2	Heterojunction bipolar transistor and method for manufacturing the same, and power amplifier using the same A heterojunction bipolar transistor with InGaP as the emitter layer and capable of both reliable electrical conduction and thermal stability wherein a GaAs layer is inserted between the InGaP emitter layer and AlGaAs ballast resistance layer, to prevent holes reverse-injected from the base layer from diffusing and reaching the AlGaAs ballast resistance layer.
US07804106B2	P-type nitride semiconductor structure and bipolar transistor A nitride semiconductor structure is provided which greatly improves ohmic characteristics by repairing process damage by regrowing an indium-containing p-type nitride semiconductor on a p-type nitride semiconductor having the process damage. In addition, a nitride semiconductor bipolar transistor is provided which can greatly improve its current gain and offset voltage. The structure includes an indium-containing p-type nitride semiconductor layer on a p-type nitride semiconductor processed by etching. The bipolar transistor, which has a base layer composed of a p-type nitride semiconductor, has an indium-containing p-type InGaN base layer regrown on a surface of a p-type InGaN base layer exposed by etching an emitter layer.
US07804103B1	White lighting device having short wavelength semiconductor die and trichromatic wavelength conversion layers A high color rendering index (CRI) white light emitting device from a short wavelength semiconductor die is encapsulated with nanoparticle-loaded resin. Trichromatic wavelength conversion micro-particles are dispersed layer by layer in a converting sequence from a long emission spectrum to a short emission spectrum. The refractive index of wavelength conversion micro-particles matches that of the nanoparticle-loaded encapsulants.
US07804099B2	Solid-state light source A solid-state light source includes at least one stack of light emitting elements. The elements are an inorganic light emitting diode chip and at least one wavelength conversion chip or the elements are a plurality of light emitting diode chips and one or more optional wavelength conversion chips. The wavelength conversion chip may include an electrical interconnection means. The light emitting diode chip may include at least one GaN-based semiconductor layer that is at least ten microns thick and that is fabricated by hydride vapor phase epitaxy. A method is described for fabricating the solid-state light source.
US07804090B2	Patterned-print thin-film transistors with top gate geometry A self-aligned, thin-film, top-gate transistor and method of manufacturing same are disclosed. A first print-patterned mask is formed over a metal layer by digital lithography, for example by printing with a phase change material using a droplet ejector. The metal layer is then etched using the first print-patterned mask to form source and drain electrodes. A semiconductive layer and an insulative layer are formed thereover. A layer of photosensitive material is then deposited and exposed through the substrate, with the source and drain electrodes acting as masks for the exposure. Following development of the photosensitive material, a gate metal layer is deposited. A second print-patterned mask is then formed over the device, again by digital lithography. Etching and removal of the photosensitive material leaves the self-aligned top-gate electrode.
US07804083B2	Phase change memory cell including a thermal protect bottom electrode and manufacturing methods Memory devices are described along with manufacturing methods. An embodiment of a memory device as described herein includes a bottom electrode, a thermal protect structure on the bottom electrode, and a multi-layer stack on the thermal protect structure. The thermal protect structure comprises a layer of thermal protect material, the thermal protect material having a thermal conductivity less than that of the bottom electrode material.
US07804075B2	Method and system for tomographic imaging using fluorescent proteins A system for optical tomography includes an apparent light source adapted to project excitation light toward a specimen having fluorescent proteins therein, wherein the excitation light enters the specimen becoming intrinsic light within the specimen, wherein the intrinsic light is adapted to excite fluorescent light from the fluorescent proteins, and wherein the intrinsic light and the fluorescent light are diffuse. A method of optical tomography includes generating the excitation light with the apparent light source, wherein the intrinsic light and the fluorescent light are diffuse.
US07804074B2	Lightray treatment device for hardening fingernail modeling compounds A lightray treatment device (1) for hardening fingernail modeling compounds has a lightray treatment chamber (3) enclosed in a housing (2) and can be comfortably reached by both the left and right hands of a user of the device (1). The housing (2) has two oppositely located wall openings (6, 7) and a hand support surface (8, 9) with a thumb support (12, 13) assigned to each wall opening (6, 7) in the lightray treatment chamber (3). At least two light sources (10, 11) are arranged in the lightray treatment chamber (3), of which the first light source (10) is used for treating the thumb with light and is arranged in front of the thumb supports (12, 13) of the hand support surfaces (8, 9), and the second light source (11) is arranged in the ceiling of the lightray treatment chamber (3).
US07804072B2	Heterogeneous capture-gated neutron spectrometer A system and method for a heterogeneous capture-gated neutron detector are disclosed. The system includes an inorganic hydrogenous scintillating layer configured to emit at least one collision photon when contacted with a neutron having an energy greater than a predetermined value. A neutron capture layer is located adjacent the inorganic or organic hydrogenous scintillating layer and configured to capture the neutron and emit at least one gamma ray. The inorganic or organic hydrogenous scintillating layer is further configured to emit at least one capture photon in response to the at least one gamma ray from the neutron capture layer. Detection of the collision photon and capture photon designate a detected and captured neutron.
US07804066B2	Charged-particle beam apparatus Provided is a charged-particle beam apparatus capable of preventing a small amount of dust from being attached to an electrostatic lens serving as an objective lens to apply a high voltage to the electrostatic lens.The charged-particle beam apparatus 1 includes a chamber 2 which has an interior 2a evacuated by an intra-chamber evacuating means 4, and a lens-barrel 3 which emits a charged-particle beam B1 onto a sample S put in the interior 2a of the chamber 2. The lens-barrel 3 includes a cylindrical body 5 which includes an emission outlet 6 for emission of the charged-particle beam B1, a charged-particle supply part 7 which is housed at a side of a proximal end 5b in an interior 5a of the cylindrical body 5 and releases the charged-particle beam B1, and an objective lens 11 which is housed at a side of a distal end 5b in the interior 5b of the cylindrical body 5 and has an electrostatic lens for generating an electric field and converging the charged-particle beam B1 released from the charged-particle supply part 7. The cylindrical body 5 of the lens-barrel 3 is provided with a gas supplying means 12 capable of supplying a gas G to the interior 5b of the cylindrical body 5, and the gas supplying means 12 is provided at a side of a proximal end of the objective lens 11.
US07804065B2	Methods of calibrating and operating an ion trap mass analyzer to optimize mass spectral peak characteristics A method for calibrating an ion trap mass spectrometer is disclosed. The method includes steps of identifying a phase (defined by the RF trapping and resonant ejection voltages) that optimizes peak characteristics, and then determining, for each of a plurality of calibrant ions, an optimal resonant ejection voltage amplitude when the ion trap is operated at the identified phase. The resonant ejection voltage applied to the electrodes of the ion trap may then be controlled during analytical scans in accordance with the established relationship between m/z and resonant ejection voltage amplitude.
US07804063B2	Methods for detecting dihydrotestosterone by mass spectrometry Provided are methods for determining the amount of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing DHT in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of DHT in the sample.
US07804059B2	Method and apparatus for accurate calibration of VUV reflectometer A calibration technique is provided that utilizes a standard sample that allows for calibration in the wavelengths of interest even when the standard sample may exhibit significant reflectance variations at those wavelengths for subtle variations in the properties of the standard sample. A second sample, a reference sample may have a relatively featureless reflectance spectrum over the same spectral region and is used in combination with the calibration sample to achieve the calibration. In one embodiment the spectral region may include the VUV spectral region.
US07804052B2	Methods and apparatuses for pixel testing Methods and apparatuses for non-optical testing of imaging devices having an array of pixels are provided. One or more pixels are tested by setting the photoconversion device and/or a floating diffusion region to a known voltage level that is different from that used to operate the pixel during non-test operation. The pixel is then sampled and compared to an expected value.
US07804051B2	Geodetic target object and surveying system with a structural integration of transmitting channels and receiving channels into a common unit with a reflector component Disclosed is a geodetic target object comprising at least one reflector surface, a receive channel with a detector (18) for receiving electromagnetic radiation (ES) transmitted by a measuring unit (2″), and a transmit channel with a radiation source (13′). The associated transmission port and/or reception port is/are integrated into the reflector surface or is/are embodied so as to adjoin the reflector surface such that radiation (RS) that is modulated for transmitting data can be transmitted in the direction of the measuring unit (2″) within the cross section (5″) of the radiation (ES) generated by the measuring unit (2″).
US07804048B2	Structure for cooling a surface An apparatus for cooling a surface having a metal structure made of a material with high thermal conductivity, and designed to provide efficient cooling of the surface while minimizing mechanical stress between the metal structure and the surface.
US07804046B2	Acoustic heater and acoustic heating system In order that an object can be warmed through the use of thermoacoustic effect, the acoustic heating apparatus includes a first stack 3a sandwiched between a high-temperature-side heat exchanger 4 and a low-temperature input-side heat exchanger 5 in a first tube portion 2a and a second stack 3b sandwiched between a low-temperature-side heat exchanger 6 and a high-temperature output-side heat exchanger 7 in a second tube portion 2b. A standing wave and a traveling wave are generated through self excitation in the first tube portion 2a by cooling the low-temperature input-side heat exchanger 5 to minus 20° C. to 60° C. A temperature gradient is generated in the second stack 3b by propagating the resulting standing wave and the traveling wave to the second tube portion 2b, and high-temperature heat is output due to this temperature gradient from the high-temperature output-side heat exchanger 7 disposed on the second stack 3b side.
US07804044B2	Heating device and method for the production thereof and heatable object and method for producing same A heating device having a layer containing electrically conductive plastic. The layer exhibits adhesive characteristics at least in some sections on at least one side. A heatable object equipped with a heating device of this type. The layer containing electrically conductive plastic is connected to at least one component of an object. A. radiant heating system including a support and a heating layer containing electrically conductive plastic, whereby the heating layer is formed by a flexible film and the support is also flexible. Methods to produce such products and apparatus.
US07804039B2	Liquid phase diffusion bonding method of metal machine part and such metal machine part A liquid phase diffusion bonding method for a metal machine part superior in the quality of the joint and the productivity enabling the bonding time to be shortened, achieving homogenization of the bonding structure and improving the tensile strength, fatigue strength, and joint quality and reliability. This liquid phase diffusion bonding method of a metal machine part is characterized interposing an amorphous alloy foil for liquid phase diffusion bonding at bevel faces of metal materials, performing primary bonding by melt bonding said amorphous alloy foil and said metal material by resistance welding to form a joint, then performing secondary bonding by liquid phase diffusion bonding by reheating said joint to at least the melting point of said amorphous alloy foil, then holding it there to complete the solidification process of said joint.
US07804037B2	Push button assembly A push button assembly comprises a button (1) with an actuating structure (5) movably mounted within a housing (2) for operation of a switch (20). The housing (2) provides a frame (18) comprising side wall structures (16), with a flange structure (15) mounted at a top open end thereof, The axial length of the housing (2) is shorter than the horizontal length of the side wall structures (16), resulting in a short push button assembly. The button (1) is illuminable via a lamp (25) which is provided on a carrier strip (22), the switch (20) being mounted on a body (19), both of which can be removably mounted substantially within the confines of the housing (2), with respective connection terminals (23, 21) projecting outward thereof, the assembly therefore occupying minimal space behind a panel when mounted on such a panel of an amusement or gaming machine where space may be restricted.
US07804035B1	Switch mechanism, and associated method, for light assembly or other electrical device An apparatus designed to suspend an electrical device such as a light bulb and to turn the light bulb on or off by exerting a force on the bulb itself, an encasing around the bulb, the conductive leads, or an extension thereof. When force is exerted, tension causes a tension bar actuator to actuate an electrical switch, thus turning the bulb on or off.
US07804032B2	Section for a window or facade and electric cable for a section for a window, door or facade A frame section for a window or a door or a façade. The frame section includes an external shell and an internal shell. Each shell has hollow chambers. At least one of the shells includes a first groove and a second groove. The first groove is configured to accommodate hardware fittings. The second groove is configured to accommodate a cable.
US07804029B1	Electromagnetic wrap A device and method for altering the line reactance of a transmission line having a transmission line, a first floating conductor and a grounding (shielding) conductor. The first floating conductor is positioned between and electrically insulated from the transmission line and the grounding conductor. A source and a load are connected at opposite ends of the transmission line.
US07804008B2	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV609128 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV609128. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV609128, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV609128 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV609128 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV609128.
US07804004B2	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV906975 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV906975. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV906975, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV906975 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV906975 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV906975.
US07804003B2	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV603860 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV603860. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV603860, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV603860 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV603860 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV603860.
US07804001B2	Plants and seeds of corn variety CV476579 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV476579. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV476579, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV476579 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV476579 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV476579.
US07803995B1	Soybean cultivar S07-03RM886409 The present invention is in the field of soybean cultivar S07-03RM886409 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean cultivar S07-03RM886409 and its progeny, and methods of making S07-03RM886409.
US07803985B2	Gene cluster involved in biosynthesis of isopentenyl diphosphate in the non-mevalonate pathway of Hevea brasiliensis According to this invention, a gene cluster involved in the non-mevalonate pathway of Hevea brasiliensis was obtained and nucleotide sequences of these genes were determined. The gene cluster according to this invention involved in the IPP biosynthesis in the non-mevalonate pathway is involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin E and carotenoids. Therefore, the Hevea brasiliensis obtained by introducing the gene cluster of the present invention can be expected to produce high-quality rubber with improved permanence.
US07803984B2	Compositions and methods for controlling plant parasitic nematodes The present invention relates to compositions and methods for controlling nematode infestation of plants. In particular, the present invention provides vectors comprising sequences designed to control nematodes by RNA interference (RNAi) and transgenic plants transformed with such vectors.
US07803982B2	T1R3 transgenic animals, cells and related methods The present invention relates to the discovery, identification and characterization of a receptor protein, referred to herein as T1R3, which is expressed in taste receptor cells and associated with the perception of bitter and sweet taste. The invention encompasses transgenic animals and cells that do not express functional T1R3 protein, particularly knock-out animals and cells, and transgenic animals and cells that express a non-native T1R3 protein. Experimental model systems based on these animals and cells can be used to study T1R3-mediated taste transduction and responses of the components of the T1R3 signal transduction pathway to various tastants, furthering our understanding of the molecular biology and biochemistry of taste. Such model systems would also be useful for screening for novel tastants and taste modulators, such as enhancers of desirable flavors, and blockers of undesirable flavors.
US07803981B2	Transgenic ungulates capable of human antibody production The invention features novel methods for the production of large quantities of xenogenous antibodies, such as human antibodies. Preferably, this result is effected by inactivation of IgM heavy chain expression and, optionally, by inactivation of Ig light chain expression, and by the further introduction of an artificial chromosome which results in the expression of xenogenous antibodies (e.g., non-bovine antibodies), preferably human antibodies.
US07803979B2	Method for removing water from an alkylation process system A method is disclosed for removing water from an alkylation process system using a water removal column to remove water from a re-run column (catalyst regeneration column) overhead stream.
US07803976B2	Alkylaromatics production A process for alkylation of an alkylatable aromatic compound to produce a monoalkylated aromatic compound, comprising the steps of: (a) providing at least one reaction zone having a water content with at least one alkylation catalyst having an activity and a selectivity for said monoalkylated benzene, said alkylation catalyst comprising a porous crystalline molecular sieve of a MCM-22 family material, said MCM-22 family material is characterized by having an X-ray diffraction pattern including d-spacing maxima at 12.4±0.25, 3.57±0.07 and 3.42±0.07 Angstroms; (b) supplying the reaction zone with at least one alkylatable aromatic compound and at least one alkylating agent; (c) operating the reaction zone under suitable alkylation or transalkylation conditions, to produce at least one effluent which comprises a monoalkylated aromatic compound and a polyalkylated aromatic compound(s); (d) monitoring the amount of the monoalkylated aromatic compound or the amount of the polyalkylated aromatic compound(s) in the effluent; (e) adjusting the water content in the reaction zone to secure a desired amount of the monalkylated aromatic compound or the polyalkylated aromatic compound(s) in the effluent, the water content in the reaction zone being in a range from about 1 wppm to about 900 wppm; and wherein the polyalkylated aromatic compound(s) produced is reduced as compared to the reaction zone having a water content of about 0 wppm when the reaction zone is operated under equivalent conditions.
US07803973B2	Process for producing fluoropropenes Dehydrohalogenation processes for the preparation of fluoropropenes from corresponding halopropanes, in which the fluoropropenes have the formula CF3CY═CXNHP, wherein X and Y are independently hydrogen or a halogen selected from fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine; and N and P are independently integers equal to 0, 1 or 2, provided that (N+P)=2.
US07803972B2	Shell catalyst, in particular for oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde, and also method for production thereof The invention relates to a coated catalyst, especially for oxidation of methanol to formaldehyde, which, on an inert, preferably essentially nonporous, support body, has at least one coating which comprises, before the removal of the organic fractions of components b) and c): (a) oxides, or precursor compounds convertible to the corresponding oxides, of molybdenum and iron, where the molar ratio of Mo:Fe is between 1:1 and 5:1, and optionally further metallic components or metal oxide components or precursor compounds convertible to the corresponding oxides, (b) at least one organic binder, preferably an aqueous dispersion of copolymers, especially selected from vinyl acetate/vinyl laurate, vinyl acetate/ethylene, vinyl acetate/acrylate, vinyl acetate/maleate, styrene/acrylate or mixtures thereof, and (c) at least one further component selected from the group consisting of SiO2 sol or precursors thereof, Al2O3 sol or precursors thereof, ZrO2 sol or precursors thereof, TiO2 sol or precursors thereof, waterglass, MgO, cement, monomeric, oligomeric or polymeric silanes, alkoxysilanes, aryloxysilanes, acryloyloxysilanes, aminosilanes, siloxanes or silanols. Additionally described is a process for preparing the catalyst and its preferred use.
US07803970B2	Multi-substitued selective androgen receptor modulators and methods of use thereof This invention provides a class of androgen receptor targeting agents (ARTA). The agents define a new subclass of compounds, which are selective androgen receptor modulators (SARM). Several of the SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected androgenic and anabolic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. Other SARM compounds have been found to have an unexpected antiandrogenic activity of a nonsteroidal ligand for the androgen receptor. The SARM compounds, either alone or as a composition, are useful for a) male contraception; b) treatment of a variety of hormone-related conditions, for example conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Aging Male (ADAM), such as fatigue, depression, decreased libido, sexual dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, hypogonadism, osteoporosis, hair loss, anemia, obesity, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, benign prostate hyperplasia, alterations in mood and cognition and prostate cancer; c) treatment of conditions associated with Androgen Decline in Female (ADIF), such as sexual dysfunction, decreased sexual libido, hypogonadism, sarcopenia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, alterations in cognition and mood, depression, anemia, hair loss, obesity, endometriosis, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer; d) treatment and/or prevention of acute and/or chronic muscular wasting conditions; e) preventing and/or treating dry eye conditions; f) oral androgen replacement therapy; and/or g) decreasing the incidence of, halting or causing a regression of prostate cancer.
US07803968B2	Method for making carboxylic acids The present invention relates to a process for producing carboxylic acids. It relates more particularly to a process for producing carboxylic acids by oxidation of a hydrocarbon with oxygen or a gas containing oxygen, and even more particularly to the oxidation of cyclohexane to adipic acid. The invention relates to a process for producing carboxylic acids by oxidation with oxygen or a gas containing oxygen of a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon in the presence of an oxidation catalyst and of a monocarboxylic oxidation solvent that is lipophilic in nature, comprising a step of extraction of the dicarboxylic acids formed in the oxidation step, consisting in carrying out, in liquid phase, an extraction of the diacids using water.
US07803967B2	4-alkoxy-cyclohexane-1-amino-carboxylic esters and processes for their preparation The invention relates to novel 4-alkoxy-cyclohexane-1-amino-carboxylic esters of the formula (IV) in which R1 and R2 are as defined in the description, to intermediates and processes for their preparation and to their use as intermediates in the synthesis of insecticidal, acaricidal and herbicidal compounds or pharmaceutically active compounds.
US07803965B2	Method for recovery of ethylene in a recirculating gas process for the production of vinyl acetate The efficiency of vinyl acetate production is increased by scrubbing of off gas followed by CO2 absorption. A portion of the off gas containing substantial quantities of ethylene is recycled to the process, whereas another portion is employed in another ethylene consuming reaction. Despite not removing non-reactive gases, selectivity and yield based on ethylene are both increased.
US07803962B2	Process for the resolution of racemic verapamil A new process is described for the resolution of racemic verapamil, which allows the desired enantiomer to be obtained in high yields and with high enantiomeric purity. The process uses optically active 2,3-bis[(2-fluorobenzoyl)oxy]butanedioic acid as the resolving agent, and a water/dimethylformamide or water/acetonitrile or water/methanol mixture, as the reaction solvent.
US07803957B2	Ethylene oxide production using fixed moderator concentration A method for controlling ethylene oxidation uses ethylene and oxygen, in conjunction with a silver based catalyst, a moderator and a co-moderator, to form ethylene oxide. When controlling the ethylene oxidation reaction, the moderator concentration is maintained constant within a comparatively narrow operative concentration range and the co-moderator concentration is varied within a comparatively wider operative concentration range, to optimize a catalyst property such as the catalyst activity and/or the catalyst selectivity.
US07803952B2	Manufacture of lactones The present invention relates to a process for the manufacture of cyclic monocarboxylic esters (lactones) and related compounds by hydrogenation of cyclic dicarboxylic acid anhydrides in the presence of metal catalysts.
US07803951B2	Glucagon receptor antagonist compounds, compositions containing such compounds and methods of use Substituted aryl and heteroaryl derivatives are disclosed. The compounds are useful for treating type 2 diabetes and related conditions. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment are also included.
US07803950B2	Method for the production of diarylcycloalkyl derivatives The invention relates generally to a process for preparing diarylcycloalkyl derivatives of the formula (I). wherein the respective R-group substituents are defined herein. These compounds of formula (I) are activators for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPAR activators) which are useful in the therapeutic treatment of a number of diseases and disorders of the central nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, psychiatric disorders and the like. The present invention is a novel process for preparing PPAR activators of the formula (I) which do not have the disadvantages of the processes known in the prior art. In particular, a process is provided with which the PPAR activators of formula (I) can be prepared in a suitable enantiomeric excess, i.e. high enantioselectivity, without the need for subsequent chiral chromatography.
US07803948B2	Method for the isomerisation of transition metal complexes containing cyclometallated, carbene ligands A process for converting a compound C1 of the formula I in a mer isomer form into an isomeric compound C2 of the formula I in a fac isomer form.
US07803947B2	Method for producing thiocarbamate derivative An O-aryl N-(6-alkoxy-2-pyridyl)-N-alkylthiocarbamate represented by the following formula (I): (wherein R1, R2 and Ar are as defined below) is produced by treating a phenol represented by the following general formula (IV): Ar—OH (IV) (wherein Ar represents an aryl group) with a base in a solvent and then adding thereto an alkali metal salt of N-(6-alkoxy-2-pyridyl)-N-alkyldithiocarbamic acid represented by the following general formula (III): (wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a C1-C4 alkyl group and M represents an alkali metal) and a halomethane represented by the following general formula (V): CH2XmYn (V) (wherein X and Y represent different halogen atoms, m represents 0, 1 or 2, n represents 0, 1 or 2, and m+n equals 2) for causing a reaction.
US07803945B2	Tetrahydropyridothiophenes Compounds of a certain formula (I), in which Ra and Rb have the meanings indicated in the description, are novel effective compounds with anti-proliferative and/or apoptosis inducing activity.
US07803942B2	Crystals of morphinan derivative and process for producing the same The present invention is directed to provide 17-cyclopropylmethyl-3,14β-dihydroxy-4,5α-epoxy-6β-[N-methyl-trans-3-(3-furyl)acrylamido]morphinan hydrochloride consistent in quality after production and having high purity. A crystal of 17-cyclopropylmethyl-3,14β-dihydroxy-4,5α-epoxy-6β-[N-methyl-trans-3-(3-furyl)acrylamido]morphinan hydrochloride including a A-form, B-form or C-form crystal thereof, and a process for producing the same are provided.
US07803941B2	Process for preparing ring-fluorinated aromatics The present invention relates to an improved process for preparing ring-fluorinated aromatics of the general formula (I) by a halogen exchange reaction (halex reaction) of a plurality of halogen substituents in one stage in the presence of a catalyst.
US07803940B2	Heteromonocyclic compound or a salt thereof having strong antihypertensive action, insulin sensitizing activity and the like production thereof and use thereof for prophylaxis or treatment of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases and/or central nervous system diseases A compound represented by the formula (I): wherein R1 is an oxo group, ═N—R or the like; a group represented by the formula: is a group represented by the formula: R2 is a group represented by the formula: R3 and R4 are each H, or C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, C1-C6 alkylamino, di(C1-C6)alkylamino or C1-C6 alkylthio, each of which is optionally substituted; and R5 is H, or C1-C6 alkyl, C2-C6 alkenyl, cyclic group, each of which is optionally substituted, —CO—R8 or —O—R8′, or a salt thereof. The compound of the present invention is useful as a drug for the prophylaxis or treatment of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases and/or central nervous system diseases.
US07803939B2	2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds and their uses The present invention provides 2,4-pyrimidinediamine compounds that inhibit the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades that lead to the release of chemical mediators, intermediates and methods of synthesizing the compounds and methods of using the compounds in a variety of contexts, including in the treatment and prevention of diseases characterized by, caused by or associated with the release of chemical mediators via degranulation and other processes effected by activation of the IgE and/or IgG receptor signaling cascades.
US07803936B2	Compounds and methods for labeling oligonucleotides The invention provides a novel method of labeling oligonucleotides, with reporter moieties, including but not limited to, quenchers, fluorophores, biotin, digoxigenin, peptides and proteins. In addition, this invention provides a method of detecting hybridization of oligonucleotides. This invention also provides novel azo quenchers having the general formula shown below. The invention further provides compositions comprising labeled oligonucleotides and solid supports. The invention also provides kits comprising at least one composition of the present invention.
US07803934B2	Parallel preparation of high fidelity probes in an array format The present invention provides massively parallel oligonucleotide synthesis and purification for applications that utilize large collections of defined high-fidelity oligonucleotides (e.g., from about 101 to about 105 different sequences, generally between 25-160 bases in length).
US07803930B2	Antisense modulation of apolipoprotein B-expression Antisense compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of apolipoprotein B. The compositions comprise antisense compounds, particularly antisense oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acids encoding apolipoprotein B. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of apolipoprotein B expression and for treatment of diseases associated with expression of apolipoprotein B are provided.
US07803928B2	Methods and compositions for expression of transgenes in plants Methods and compositions for the expression of transgenes in monocot plants including maize are disclosed. In the invention, gene silencing is avoided by use of monocot-homeologous sequences from plants of the genus Coix for transformation. Included in these transgene sequences are Coix promoters, enhancers, coding sequences and terminators. Suitable alternatives to maize-derived transgenes are desirable for expression in maize in that homology-based gene silencing can limit or effectively eliminate transgene expression.
US07803927B2	Methods and compositions for expression of transgenes in plants Methods and compositions for the expression of transgenes in monocot plants including maize are disclosed. In the invention, gene silencing is avoided by use of monocot-homeologous sequences from plants of the genus Coix for transformation. Included in these transgene sequences are Coix promoters, enhancers, coding sequences and terminators. Suitable alternatives to maize-derived transgenes are desirable for expression in maize in that homology-based gene silencing can limit or effectively eliminate transgene expression.
US07803926B2	Postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome and porcine circovirus from pigs The cloning of a novel PCVII viral genome is described as is expression of proteins derived from the PCVII genome. These proteins can be used in vaccine compositions for the prevention and treatment of PCVII infections, as well as in diagnostic methods for determining the presence of PCVII infections in a vertebrate subject. Polynucleotides derived from the viral genome can be used as diagnostic primers and probes.
US07803925B2	AXMI-028 and AXMI-029, a family of novel delta-endotoxin genes and methods for their use Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:2, 4, 15, 17, or 19, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1, 3, 14, 16, or 18, as well as variants and fragments thereof.
US07803924B2	HSP60 from arthrobacter The hsp60 gene from a strain of Arthrobacter has been isolated and sequenced. The encoded protein is believed to be highly immunogenic, especially in fish, and also has utility as a non-specific adjuvant, and as an adjuvanting carrier for heterologous antigens.
US07803921B2	Sulfotransferase 1E1 sequence variants Isolated sulfotransferase nucleic acid molecules that include a nucleotide sequence variant and nucleotides flanking the sequence variant are described, as well as sulfotransferase allozymes. Methods for determining if a mammal is predisposed to cancer also are described.
US07803920B2	ECAT16 gene expressed specifically in ES cells and utilization of the same The present invention relates to an ES cell detection marker containing a polynucleotide derived from any one of ECAT15-1 gene, ECAT15-2 gene, ECAT16 gene, Rnf17 gene and LOC380905(TDRD4) gene.
US07803911B2	Dried blood factor composition comprising trehalose A method for preparing a stable dried composition of blood factor product containing a stabilizing amount of trehalose in the absence of a stabilizing amount of albumin is disclosed.
US07803906B2	Composition comprising an angiogenesis related protein Nucleotide sequences and the corresponding polypeptide sequences implicated in the regulation of angiogenesis are identified. The nucleotide and polypeptide sequences, or pharmaceutical compositions made from such sequences, can be used in the clinical study of the angiogenesis process, the prognosis, diagnosis and treatment of pathologies linked to angiogenesis, and in the implementation of pharmacological, pharmacogenomic and drug identification trials.
US07803903B2	Protein-binding doxorubicin peptide derivatives The invention relates to low-molecular doxorubicin peptide derivatives containing MMP-2 or MMP-9 divisible peptide sequences and a protein-binding group.
US07803899B2	Methods to reduce organic impurity levels in polymers and products made therefrom Various methods are described for preparing dry water-soluble polymers with reduced organic impurity content by combining water-soluble polymer in water with at least one dry polar solvent to form a mixture that separates into a first layer comprising a majority of the solvent and water and a second layer comprising a majority of the polymer, then separating the layers and drying the second layer to obtain a solid comprising the water-soluble polymer. Further, or solid polymer products having reduced organic impurity levels and/or moisture content are also described.
US07803898B2	Aminoquinoxaline compound, polyaminoquinoxaline compound, and use thereof An aminoquinoxaline compound represented by the following formula (1a), and a polyaminoquinoxaline compound obtained by polymerizing the aminoquinoxaline compound, wherein R1 and R2 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a C1-C10 alkyl group, a C1-C10 alkoxy group, or the like, R3 and R4 independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, an amino group, a C1-C10 alkyl group, a C1-C10 alkoxy group or the like, and X1 represents —NH—R5—NH2 or —NH—R6.
US07803897B2	Process for preparing polyketone The present invention relates to a process for preparing polyketone with improved catalytic activity and intrinsic viscosity, and specifically a process for preparing polyketone, using a mixed solvent of 40 to 60 mol % acetic acid and 40 to 60 mol % water, as a liquid medium, and the precursor of palladium chloride-1,3-bis[di(methoxyphenyl)phosphino]propane, as a catalyst component.
US07803896B2	Polyimide-titania hybrid materials, their preparation, and film prepared from the materials The present invention relates to polyimide-titania hybrid thin film, which possesses relatively good surface planarization, excellent thermal properties (400
US07803895B2	Organosilicon polymer and method of manufacturing thereof A novel organosilicon polymer, the main chain of which is composed of siloxane units and silalkylene units and to which are bonded organic groups with amide bonds linked to silicon atoms of the molecule.
US07803894B2	Coating compositions with perfluoropolyetherisocyanate derived silane and alkoxysilanes Described are coating compositions for treating substrates such as hard and soft surfaces to render the surfaces oil and water repellent, as well as stain and dirt resistant. The compositions described include three component systems in an organic solvent, where the components include a hydrolyzable perfluoropolyetherisocyanate derived silane, and to non-fluorinated components such as alkoxy silanes, one optionally containing a reactive functional group.
US07803892B2	Aqueous emulsion composition An aqueous emulsion composition comprising (A) an aqueous resin emulsion comprising a fluorine-containing polymer and (B) a surfactant of the formula: R1O—(CH2CH2O)p—(R2O)q—R3 (1) wherein R1 is an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, R2 is an alkylene group, R3 is a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkenyl group, p is the number of at least 2, q is the number of at least 1, and p and q are such numbers that the weight ratio of the polyoxyethylene block is from 5 to 80% by weight based on whole molecule, is excellent in stability against impurity and mechanical stability.
US07803886B2	Ligands and catalyst systems thereof for the catalytic oligomerization of olefinic monomers The present invention relates to a ligand and its use in a catalyst for the oligomerization of olefinic monomers, the ligand having the general formula (I); P(R4)—P(R1)(R2)═N(R3) (I) wherein: the R1 group and R2 group are independently selected from a hydrocarbyl, substituted hydrocarbyl, heterohydrocarbyl and substituted heterohydrocarbyl group; the R3 is selected from hydrogen, a hydrocarbyl group, a substituted hydrocarbyl group, a heterohydrocarbyl group, a substituted heterohydrocarbyl group, a silyl group or derivative thereof; the R4 group is an optionally substituted alkylenedioxy, alkylenedimercapto or alkylenediamino structure which is bound to the phosphorus atom through the two oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen atoms of the alkylenedioxy, alkylenedimercapto or alkylenediamino structure or an optionally substituted arylenedioxy, arylenedimercapto or arylenediamino structure which is bound to the phosphorus atom through the two oxygen, sulphur or nitrogen atoms of the arylenedioxy, arylenedimercapto or arylenediamino structure.
US07803884B2	Block copolymers and use thereof A block copolymer comprising at least one segment having an acid group and at least one segment substantially free from acid groups is provided wherein the segment substantially free from acid groups contains a structure of the following general formula (1): Ar1—Z—Ar2—O—Ar3—Om (1) (wherein, m represents an integer of 10 or more, Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 represent mutually independently a divalent aromatic group which may be substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms or an aryloxy group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and Z represents —CO— or —SO2—, each Z in the segments representing independently —CO— or —SO2—). The block copolymer exhibits more excellent performances as a polymer electrolyte for fuel cells or the like.
US07803881B2	Process for amination of acrylic macromonomers and products therefrom Processes for forming adducts of amines with acrylic macromonomers are provided. Also provided are processes for using ring-closing reactions of the adducts to form lactams. The adducts are useful, for example, for making adhesives, surfactants, viscosity modifiers, processing aids, and other products.
US07803878B2	Process for preparing polymer emulsions and polymers formed therefrom An aqueous polymer emulsion comprising water and swollen multi-stage polymer is provided. The swollen multi-stage polymer has low dry bulk density, as measured by centrifugation. To achieve the low dry bulk density, the polymer is highly swollen in such a way that it does not subsequently collapse. The polymer is useful in paint and paper coatings.
US07803877B2	Block polymers and cosmetic compositions and processes comprising them The present invention relates to novel block polymers comprising at least one first block and at least one second block that are incompatible with each other, have different glass transition temperatures (Tg), and are linked together via an intermediate segment comprising at least one constituent monomer of the at least one first block and at least one constituent monomer of the at least one second block. The block polymer has a polydispersity index I of greater than 2. The invention also relates to cosmetic compositions comprising the block polymers and processes for their use.
US07803874B2	Golf ball material, golf ball and method for preparing golf ball material The invention provides a golf ball material comprising components (A), (B) and (C): (A) a mixture of different masterbatches prepared by separately masterbatching two or more different metal ions (A1) or a masterbatch prepared by simultaneously masterbatching two or more different metal ions in itself (A2), (B) one or more polymer selected from the group consisting of diene polymers, thermoplastic polymers and thermoset polymers, and (C) one or more polymer having an acid content of from about 0.5 to about 30 wt % and selected from the group consisting of olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid copolymers, olefin-unsaturated carboxylic acid-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester terpolymers, unsaturated carboxylic anhydride-containing polymers, unsaturated dicarboxylic acid-containing polymers and unsaturated dicarboxylic acid half ester-containing polymers. The invention also provides a method for preparing such a golf ball material, and a golf ball made of the material. The golf ball material has a good thermal stability, flow and processability, making it suitable for injection-molding. Moreover, this material is ideal for producing, without any loss of the rebound resilience of golf ball parts molded from the material, high-performance golf balls having excellent durability, scuff resistance and flexibility.
US07803869B2	Water based removable paint formulation and system A weather resistant, easily removable paint composition for application over a surface or over another paint. The removable paint composition comprises from about 19 to about 34% by weight of a combination of two different acrylic polymers, from about 0.2 to 4% by weight of an aliphatic water-borne urethane polymer, from 0.06% to 0.6% by weight of an alkali, and water. The removable paint composition can be removed without damaging the underlying surface or paint.
US07803868B2	Addition-crosslinkable silicone compositions with low coefficients of friction Addition-crosslinkable silicone compositions contain (A) 100 parts by weight of polydiorganosiloxane(s) which has alkenyl groups and whose viscosity is from 5000 to 50,000,000 mPas at 25° C., having at least 2 alkenyl groups per molecule, and at least 0.15 mol % of alkenylsiloxane units, based on all siloxane units, (B) from 1 to 50 parts by weight of polydiorganosiloxane(s) whose viscosity is at least 5,000,000 mPas at 25° C., and having no alkenyl groups, (C) SiH-functional crosslinking agent(s), (D) hydrosilylation catalyst(s), and (E) from 3 to 90 parts by weight of filler(s) whose BET specific surface area is at least 50 m2/g. Vulcanizates of the addition-crosslinkable silicone compositions have low coefficients of friction.
US07803865B2	Aqueous dispersion, its production method, and its use Aqueous dispersions including at least one thermoplastic resin; at least one dispersing agent; and water; wherein the dispersion has a pH of less than 12 are disclosed along with dispersions including at least one thermoplastic resin; at least one dispersing agent; and water wherein the dispersion has a volume average particle size of less than about 5 μm. Some dispersions include less than about 4 percent by weight of the dispersing agent based on the weight of the thermoplastic resin. Other dispersions include at least one propylene-rich alpha-olefin interpolymer; at least one dispersing agent; and water. Methods of making such dispersions are also described.
US07803862B2	Composition for polyolefin resin foam, foam of the same, and process for producing foam A composition for polyolefin resin foam, which comprises a polymer component comprising a polyolefin resin and a rubber and/or thermoplastic elastomer, and a powder particle, wherein the composition has an extensional viscosity as measured with a capillary rheometer (temperature, 200° C.; shear rate, 5,000 [1/s]) of from 20 to 100 kPa·s.
US07803857B2	Mono- or multilayer stabilized polyester film Biaxially oriented mono- or multilayered polyester film containing at least one UV stabilizer according to formula (I): wherein R1 is —H, C1-C12-alkyl, -aryl, —S—(C1-C12)-alkyl or —O—R9 or —O—(C1-C5)-alkylene-C(O)O—R9, wherein R9 is -aryl or C1-C12-alkyl, R3 and R4 and R2, R5, R6, R7 and R8 independently from each other represent —H, —(C1-C12)-alkyl, —O—(C1-C12)-alkyl, -aryl or —O-aryl, wherein said alkyl radicals with more than two C-atoms and alkylene radicals with more than one C-atom can be linear or branched.
US07803855B2	Wood composites, methods of production, and methods of manufacture thereof An adhesive binder comprising a phenol-formaldehyde resin, polyvinyl ester resin, and a protein is disclosed. The adhesive binder is useful for preparing wood composites.
US07803844B2	Composition for preventing and/or treating bone disease, physiologically functional or health food containing thereof, and pharmaceutical containing thereof as active ingredients The present invention provides the pharmaceutical compositions, the pharmaceutical preparations thereof as an active ingredient, the health food, the food with health-promoting benefits and the like. The present invention provides the above-mentioned pharmaceutical preparations and the like comprising at least one of the compound shown in the following formula (I), physiologically acceptable salt thereof, or hydrate thereof. (wherein, R′1, R′2, and R′3 are independently a hydrogen atom, OH, or alkoxy group having C1 to C3, respectively. R1, R2, and R3 are independently a hydrogen atom or alkenyl group having C3 to C5, respectively).
US07803840B2	Utilization of dialkylfumarates The present invention relates to the use of certain dialkyl fumarates for the preparation of pharmaceutical preparations for use in transplantation medicine or for the therapy of autoimmune diseases and said compositions in the form of micro-tablets or pellets. For this purpose, the dialkyl fumarates may also be used in combination with conventional preparations used in transplantation medicine and immunosuppressive agents, especially cyclosporines.
US07803835B2	Substituted acetic acid derivatives The present invention relates generally to substituted acetic acid derivatives and methods of using them.
US07803832B2	N-(1-arylpyrazol-4L)sulfonamides and their use as parasiticides The invention relates to a sulfonamide compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically, veterinarily or agriculturally acceptable salt or solvate thereof, where the groups R1-R5 are described in the description, to compositions comprising such compounds, processes for their synthesis and their use as parasiticides.
US07803829B2	Use of a kinase inhibitor for the treatment of particular resistant tumors The invention provides low molecular weight compounds, namely 1H-thieno[2,3-c]pyrazoles, showing a high affinity for the ATP pocket of ABL tyrosine kinase. These compounds are thus ATP-competitive tyrosine kinase inhibitors displaying a significant inhibitory potency also, and in particular, towards BCR-ABL inhibitor-resistant T315I ABL mutants. The compounds of the invention find a useful application in the treatment of BCR-ABL inhibitor-resistant ABL-mediated diseases, such as Imatinib-resistant chronic myelogenous leukemia. Moreover, the invention provides a screening method for the identification of compounds capable of binding the ATP pocket of a kinase protein, in particular of the T315I mutant ABL kinase.
US07803821B2	Fungicide N-cycloalkyl-carboxamide, thiocarboxamide and N-substituted-carboximidamide derivatives The present invention relates to N-cycloalkyl-carboxamide, N-cycloalkyl-thiocarboxamide and N-cycloalkyl-N-substituted carboximidamide derivatives of formula (I) wherein A represents carbo-linked, 5-membered heterocyclyl groups, T represents O, S, NRc, N—ORd, N—NRcRd or N—CN, Z1 represents cycloalkyl groups and Z2 and Z3, W1 to W5 represent various substituents; their process of preparation, their use as fungicide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.
US07803819B2	DPP IV inhibitors The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) wherein R1, R2, and X are as defined in the description and claims, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds are useful for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with DPP IV, such as diabetes, particularly non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and impaired glucose tolerance.
US07803811B2	1,2,3-substituted indolizine derivatives, inhibitors of FGFs, method for preparing them and pharmaceutical compositions containing them The present invention relates to novel 1,2,3-substituted indolizine derivative which are inhibitors of fibroblast growth factors, to methods or preparing such derivatives, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such derivatives, and to methods of treatment comprising such derivatives.
US07803810B2	Inhibitors Compounds of formula (I), combinations and uses thereof for disease therapy, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, including all tautomers, stereoisomers and polymorphs thereof wherein: R1 represents C2-8alkyl; C2-8alkenyl; —(C1-6alkyl)-aryl; —(C1-6alkyl)-heteroaryl; —(C1-6alkyl)-carbocyclyl; —(C1-6alkyl)-heterocyclyl; -aryl; -heteroaryl; -carbocyclyl or -heterocyclyl; wherein said aryl or heteroaryl groups may be optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from, C1-4alkyl, C1-4-fluoroalkyl, C1-4alkoxy, C1-4-fluoroalkoxy, hydroxy, —SO2(C1-4alkyl), —SO2N(C1-4alkyl)(C1-4alkyl), —SOC1-4alkyl, —SOC3-6cycloalkyl —C(O)O(C1-4alkyl), benzyloxy and phenyl; and wherein said carbocyclyl and heterocyclyl groups may be optionally substituted by one or more substituents selected from —C1-4 alkyl, —C1-4 alkoxy, hydroxyl, halogen and oxo; R2 represents H; C1-4alkyl or halogen; R3 represents H; C1-4alkyl or halogen; and R4 represents H; C1-4alkyl or halogen.
US07803789B2	Vitamin D analog—RAK, methods and uses thereof Compounds of formula IA or IB are provided where X1, X2 and X3 are independently selected from H or hydroxy protecting groups and R1 is selected from straight or branched chain alkyl groups having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms; straight or branched chain alkenyl groups having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms; straight or branched chain hydroxy-substituted alkyl groups having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms; straight and branched chain hydroxy-substituted alkenyl groups having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms. Such compounds are used in preparing pharmaceutical compositions and are useful in treating a variety of biological conditions.
US07803787B2	Composition and method for treating connective tissue damage by transmucosal administration The present invention provides a composition, and a method of use thereof for treating connective tissue damage in man and in animals, which comprises a therapeutically effective amount of chondroitin sulfate, N-acetyl D-glucosamine, and hyaluronan (hyaluronic acid). Particularly, the present invention provides a composition, and a method of use thereof, for treating connective tissue damage including, but not limited to, arthritic disease, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osterochondrosis dessicans, cartilage damage, joint injury, joint inflammation, joint synovitis, degenerative joint disease (DJD), post surgical DJD, traumatic injury, fracture, tendon damage, ligament damage, skeletal damage, musculoskeletal damage, fiber damage, adipose tissue damage, blood cell damage, and plasma damage. Compositions for delivery of the present invention include those for parenteral, oral, and transmucosal delivery and for direct surgical placement onto the affected tissues.
US07803786B2	Pharmaceutical co-crystal compositions and related methods of use The present invention comprises pharmaceutical compositions comprising a co-crystal of an API and a co-crystal former, and methods of making and using the same.
US07803785B2	Gemcitabine prodrugs, pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof The present invention provides gemcitabine prodrugs, methods of making gemcitabine prodrugs, pharmaceutical compositions of gemcitabine prodrugs and methods of using gemcitabine prodrugs and pharmaceutical compositions of using gemcitabine prodrugs to treat or prevent diseases or disorders such as cancer or viral infections.
US07803783B2	Use of WNT inhibitors to augment therapeutic index of chemotherapy Methods and compositions are provided for the protection of normal cells from cytoreductive therapy that target proliferating cells, by administering an inhibitor of Wnt signaling pathways. Wnt signaling is critically important for homeostasis of the epithelial lining of the adult intestine and other proliferating normal adult tissues.
US07803781B2	Modulation of growth hormone receptor expression and insulin-like growth factor expression Compounds, compositions and methods are provided for modulating the expression of growth hormone receptor and/or insulin like growth factor-I (IGF-I). The compositions comprise oligonucleotides, targeted to nucleic acid encoding growth hormone receptor. Methods of using these compounds for modulation of growth hormone receptor expression and for diagnosis and treatment of disease associated with expression of growth hormone receptor and/or insulin-like growth factor-I are provided. Diagnostic methods and kits are also provided.
US07803773B2	Controlled release formulations of octreotide A formulation of octreotide or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which provides controlled release of a therapeutically effective amount of octreotide for a period of at least about two months. Methods of treating acromegaly, decreasing growth hormone, decreasing IGF-1, and treating conditions associated with carcinoid tumors and VIPomas by administering a controlled release formulation of octreotide are provided herein.
US07803769B2	OSK1 peptide analogs and pharmaceutical compositions Disclosed is a composition of matter comprising an OSK1 peptide analog, and in some embodiments, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. A pharmaceutical composition comprises the composition and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Also disclosed are DNAs encoding the inventive composition of matter, an expression vector comprising the DNA, and host cells comprising the expression vector. Methods of treating an autoimmune disorder and of preventing or mitigating a relapse of a symptom of multiple sclerosis are also disclosed.
US07803763B2	Method of purifying preproinsulin The invention relates to a method for the chromatographic purification of preproinsulins, in which higher molecular weight substances are removed from an aqueous solution of preproinsulin by a first chromatography on an anion exchanger in flow-through mode and a subsequent second chromatography on a cation exchanger in adsorption mode, and to a method for preparing insulins, which includes the method for preparing preproinsulins.
US07803761B2	Viral capsid proteins and any peptides or compositions thereof for the treatment of pathologic disorders The present invention relates to viral capsid proteins, as a medicament for the treatment of a pathologic disorder. More particularly, the invention relates to the viral capsid proteins VP1, VP2 and VP3, preferably, the SV40 VP1 or any peptide, fragment, mutant, derivative and mixtures thereof or of virus-like particles (VLP's) comprising the same, as the active ingredient in compositions for the treatment of pathologic disorders, preferably disorders associated with inactivation of cellular proteins involved with quality control processes, particularly, chaperones. The invention further provides methods for the treatment of such disorders and the use of the SV40 capsid proteins for the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions.
US07803759B2	S-nitrosoprotein preparation and production method therefor A protein is efficiently nitrosylated with nitrogen monoxide by merely mixing S-nitrosoglutathione as a nitrogen monoxide donor with a protein solution containing a stabilizing agent comprising at least one compound or a combination of plural compounds selected from an N-acetylamino acid, a fatty acid, and a fatty acid salt. The method that enables efficient NO addition to a cysteine residue in un-nitrosylated protein without changing the structure of protein and hence provides NO to a living organism.
US07803758B2	I kappa B kinase complex as a target for the treatment of Huntington's disease The present invention provides methods and compositions for protecting cells from the toxicity of mutant huntingtin (Htt) protein and for treatment of Huntington's disease (HD). The methods generally involve administering to cells or a patient an effective amount of an IKK inhibitor. In addition, methods are provided for identifying therapeutics for the treatment of HD.
US07803752B2	Method of inducing neuronal production in the caudate nucleus and putamen The present invention relates to methods of inducing neuronal production in the brain, recruiting neurons to the brain, and treating a neurodegenerative condition by providing a nucleic acid construct encoding a neurotrophic factor, and injecting the nucleic acid construct intraventricularly into a subject's brain.
US07803751B2	Compositions and methods for detecting phosphomonoester The invention provides a method of modifying a phosphomonoester moiety of a target compound. The method can include the steps of (a) providing a target compound having an electrophilic moiety and a phosphomonoester moiety; (b) contacting the target compound with a first carbodiimide compound under conditions for preferential addition of the first carbodiimide compound to the electrophilic moiety over the phosphomonoester moiety, thereby forming an electrophile-protected target compound; and (c) contacting the electrophile-protected target compound with a second carbodiimide compound and a nucleophilic compound under conditions for addition of the nucleophilic compound to the phosphomonoester.
US07803742B2	Thermoset nanocomposite particles, processing for their production, and their use in oil and natural gas drilling applications Thermoset polymer particles are used in many applications requiring lightweight particles possessing high stiffness, strength, temperature resistance, and/or resistance to aggressive environments. The present invention relates to the use of two different methods, either each by itself or in combination, to enhance the stiffness, strength, maximum possible use temperature, and environmental resistance of such particles. One method is the application of post-polymerization process steps (and especially heat treatment) to advance the curing reaction and to thus obtain a more densely crosslinked polymer network. In general, its main benefits are the enhancement of the maximum possible use temperature and the environmental resistance. The other method is the incorporation of nanofillers, resulting in a heterogeneous “nanocomposite” morphology. In general, its main benefits are increased stiffness and strength. Nanofiller incorporation and post-polymerization heat treatment can also be combined to obtain the benefits of both methods simultaneously. The present invention relates to the development of thermoset nanocomposite particles. It also relates to the optional further improvement of the heat resistance and environmental resistance of said particles via post-polymerization heat treatment. Furthermore, it also relates to processes for the manufacture of said particles. Finally, it also relates to the use of said particles in the construction, drilling, completion and/or fracture stimulation of oil and natural gas wells; for example, as a proppant partial monolayer, a proppant pack, an integral component of a gravel pack completion, a ball bearing, a solid lubricant, a drilling mud constituent, and/or a cement additive.
US07803738B2	Concentrated herbicide formulation, non-volatile, stable at low temperatures and soluble in water of 2,4-D [(2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic] acid Concentrated herbicide formulation, non-volatile, stable at low temperatures and soluble in water of 2,4-D acid ((2,4-dichlorophenoxy) acetic acid), characterized in that it includes: 45 to 75%, w/v of 2,4-D acid, in the form of a water soluble salt of a primary, secondary, or tertiary amine, or a primary, secondary, or tertiary alkanolamine, or a mixture of both; 1 to 40%, w/v of a humectant selected from a group made up of amine oxides, amide amine oxides, ethoxylated fatty amines, glycerin and its derivatives, sorbitol and its derivatives and polyethyleneglycol, and their mixtures; 0.1 to 20%, w/v of an antifreeze selected from a group made up of glycols; 0.01 to 0.5%, w/v of an antifoaming agent chosen from amongst silicon oil emulsions at 10-30%, surfactant agents based on hydrocarbons such as fatty acids and their salts in hydrocarbon, and alcohols with 8 or more carbon atoms, such as 2-ethylhexanol and isooctanol; optionally, 0.5-10%, w/v of a non-polar solvent; and the rest being water.
US07803736B2	Supported chromium catalyst and its use for preparing homopolymers and copolymers of ethylene A process for preparing supported, titanized chromium catalysts is disclosed. The process comprises A) bringing a support material into contact with a protic medium comprising a titanium compound and a chromium compound; B) optionally removing the solvent; C) optionally calcining the precatalyst obtained after step B); and D) optionally activating the precatalyst obtained after step B) or C) in an oxygen-containing atmosphere at from 400° C. to 1100° C.
US07803734B2	Metal catalyst and method for production thereof The present invention relates to a metal catalyst containing fine metal particles, characterized in that the fine metal particles have a particle diameter of 3 nm or less and also have a proportion of metallic bond state of 40% or more, which is ascribed by subjecting to waveform separation of a binding energy peak peculiar to the metal as measured by using an X-ray photoelectron spectrometer. The fine metal particles are preferably fine platinum particles. The fine metal particles are preferably supported on the surface of carrier particles by reducing ions of metal to be deposited through the action of a reducing agent in a reaction system of a liquid phase containing the carrier particles dispersed therein, thereby to deposit the metal on the surface of carrier particles in the form of fine particles. The proportion of metallic bond state of the fine metal particles is adjusted within the above range by reducing after deposition thereby to decrease the oxidation state.
US07803730B2	Method of manufacturing glass and compositions thereof A solid state particle agglomerate and method for producing the solid state particle agglomerate are provided. The alkaline earth metal source material, aluminum source material and silicon source material that comprise the solid state particle agglomerate are uniformly distributed and in close proximity within the solid state particle agglomerate, enabling the solid state particle agglomerate to form glass in a more energy efficient manner when heated.
US07803726B2	Duster system for damp and dry dusting A kit duster pad and a cleaning composition said duster pad comprising at least one layer comprising hydrophilic non-woven fibers capable of contacting a surface to be cleaned; and at least one non-woven layer capable of being attached to a handle, wherein the at least one layer comprises at least one free end; and wherein said cleaning composition comprises a solids content at least about 0.5% by weight of the cleaning composition.
US07803718B2	BiCMOS performance enhancement by mechanical uniaxial strain and methods of manufacture A BiCMOS device with enhanced performance by mechanical uniaxial strain is provided. A first embodiment of the present invention includes an NMOS transistor, a PMOS transistor, and a bipolar transistor formed on different areas of the substrate. A first contact etch stop layer with tensile stress is formed over the NMOS transistor, and a second contact etch stop layer with compressive stress is formed over the PMOS transistor and the bipolar transistor, allowing for an enhancement of each device. Another embodiment has, in addition to the stressed contact etch stop layers, strained channel regions in the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor, and a strained base in the BJT.
US07803715B1	Lithographic patterning for sub-90nm with a multi-layered carbon-based hardmask Multi-layered carbon-based hardmask and method to form the same. The multi-layered carbon-based hardmask includes at least top and bottom carbon-based hardmask layers having different refractive indexes. The top and bottom carbon-based hardmask layer thicknesses and refractive indexes are tuned so that the top carbon-based hardmask layer serves as an anti-reflective coating (ARC) layer.
US07803714B2	Semiconductor through silicon vias of variable size and method of formation A through-silicon via structure is formed by providing a substrate having a first conductive catch pad and a second conductive catch pad formed thereon. The substrate is secured to a wafer carrier. A first etch of a first type is performed on the substrate underlying each of the first and second conductive catch pads to form a first partial through-substrate via of a first diameter underlying the first conductive catch pad and a second partial through-substrate via underlying the second conductive catch pad of a second diameter that differs from the first diameter. A second etch of a second type that differs from the first type is performed to continue etching the first partial through-substrate to form equal depth first and second through-substrate vias respectively to the first and second conductive catch pads.
US07803713B2	Method for fabricating air gap for semiconductor device A method for fabricating an interconnect structure in a semiconductor device. A masking layer is formed on a dielectric layer formed on a substrate, having at least one opening. The opening is transferred into the dielectric layer. A Plasma stripping process is performed to remove the masking layer, such that a damaged sidewall portion of the dielectric layer surrounding the opening therein is formed. The opening in the dielectric layer is filled with a conductive element. The damaged sidewall portion of the dielectric layer is removed to form a gap between the dielectric layer and the conductive element, wherein substances from removal of the damaged sidewall portion of the dielectric layer are formed on the conductive element. The substances are removed using a citric acid solution.
US07803708B2	Method for reducing amine based contaminants Method for reducing resist poisoning. The method includes the steps of forming a first structure in a dielectric on a substrate, reducing amine related contaminants from the dielectric and the substrate prior to a formation of a second structure on the substrate such that the amine related contaminates will not diffuse out from either the substrate or the dielectric, wherein the reducing utilizes a plasma treatment which one of chemically ties up the amine related contaminates and binds, traps, or consumes the amine related contaminates during subsequent processing steps, forming the second structure on the substrate, and after the forming of the first structure, preventing poisoning of a resist layer in subsequent processing by the reducing.
US07803707B2	Metal silicide nanowires and methods for their production The present invention provides metal silicide nanowires, including metallic, semiconducting, and ferromagnetic semiconducting transition metal silicide nanowires. The nanowires are grown using either chemical vapor deposition (CVD) or chemical vapor transport (CVT) on silicon substrates covered with a thin silicon oxide film, the oxide film desirably having a thickness of no greater than about 5 nm and, desirably, no more than about 2 nm (e.g., about 1-2 nm). The metal silicide nanowires and heterostructures made from the nanowires are well-suited for use in CMOS compatible wire-like electronic, photonic, and spintronic devices.
US07803704B2	Reliable interconnects A method for forming a semiconductor device is presented. The method includes providing a substrate prepared with a dielectric layer formed thereon. The dielectric layer having a conductive line disposed in an upper portion of the dielectric layer. The substrate is processed to produce a top surface of the dielectric layer that is not coplanar with a top surface of the conductive line to form a stepped topography.
US07803703B2	Metal-germanium physical vapor deposition for semiconductor device defect reduction The present invention provides a method of manufacturing a metal silicide electrode (100) for a semiconductor device (110). The method comprises depositing by physical vapor deposition, germanium atoms (120) and transition metal atoms (130) to form a metal-germanium alloy layer (140) on a semiconductor substrate (150). The metal-germanium alloy layer and the semiconductor substrate are reacted to form a metal silicide electrode. Other aspects of the present invention include a method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (400).
US07803699B2	Polysilicon thin film transistor and method of fabricating the same A polysilicon thin film transistor (TFT) may include a substrate, at least one insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a heat retaining layer formed to contact the semiconductor layer. The heat retaining layer may reduce and/or prevent a reduction in a melt duration time of amorphous silicon during a crystallization process for forming a polysilicon layer of the TFT.
US07803696B2	Wafer dividing method A method of dividing a wafer which is partitioned by a plurality of first dividing lines extending in a predetermined direction and a plurality of second dividing, lines formed in a direction perpendicular to the plurality of first dividing lines, along the first dividing lines and the second dividing lines, comprising the step of forming a first continuous deteriorated layer in the inside of the wafer along the first dividing lines by applying a laser beam along the first dividing lines; the step of forming a second deteriorated layer in the inside of the wafer along the second dividing lines except for the intersections with the first dividing lines by applying a laser beam along the second dividing lines except for the intersections with the first dividing lines; the step of dividing the wafer along the first dividing lines where the first deteriorated layer has been formed by exerting external force to the wafer along the first dividing lines; and the step of dividing the wafer along the second dividing lines where the second deteriorated layer has been formed by exerting external force to the wafer along the second dividing lines.
US07803694B2	Process for transferring a layer of strained semiconductor material Semiconductor wafers having a thin layer of strained semiconductor material. These structures include a substrate; an oxide layer upon the substrate; a silicon carbide (SiC) layer upon the oxide layer, and a strained layer of a semiconductor material in a strained state upon the silicon carbide layer, or a matching layer upon the donor substrate that is made from a material that induces strain in subsequent epitaxially grown layers thereon; a strained layer of a semiconductor material of defined thickness in a strained state; and an insulating or semi-insulating layer upon the strained layer in a thickness that retains the strained state of the strained layer. The insulating or semi-insulating layers are made of silicon carbide or oxides and act to retain strain in the strained layer.
US07803689B2	Semiconductor device manufactured with a double shallow trench isolation process A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a device isolation film by a double Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) process, forming a first active region having a negative slope and a second active region having a positive slope. Additionally, the method includes applying a recess region and a bulb-type recess region to the above-extended active region so as to prevent generation of horns in the active regions. This structure results in improvement in effective channel length and area.
US07803688B2	Capacitive substrate and method of making same A capacitive substrate and method of making same in which first and second glass layers are used. A first conductor is formed on a first of the glass layers and a capacitive dielectric material is positioned over the conductor. The second conductor is then positioned on the capacitive dielectric and the second glass layer positioned over the second conductor. Conductive thru-holes are formed to couple to the first and second conductors, respectively, such that the conductors and capacitive dielectric material form a capacitor when the capacitive substrate is in operation.
US07803687B2	Method for forming a thin film resistor A method for forming a thin film resistor includes providing a substrate having a transistor region and a thin film resistor region defined thereon, sequentially forming a dielectric layer, a metal layer and a first hard mask layer on the substrate, patterning the first hard mask layer to form at least a thin film resistor pattern in the thin film resistor region, sequentially forming a polysilicon layer and a second hard mask layer on the substrate, patterning the second hard mask layer to form at least a gate pattern in the transistor region, and performing an etching process to form a gate and a thin film resistor respectively in the transistor region and the thin film resistor region.
US07803686B2	Methods for etching doped oxides in the manufacture of microfeature devices Methods for selectively etching doped oxides in the manufacture of microfeature devices are disclosed herein. An embodiment of one such method for etching material on a microfeature workpiece includes providing a microfeature workpiece including a doped oxide layer and a nitride layer adjacent to the doped oxide layer. The method include selectively etching the doped oxide layer with an etchant comprising DI:HF and an acid to provide a pH of the etchant such that the etchant includes (a) a selectivity of phosphosilicate glass (PSG) to nitride of greater than 250:1, and (b) an etch rate through PSG of greater than 9,000 Å/minute.
US07803685B2	Silicided base structure for high frequency transistors High frequency performance of (e.g., silicon) bipolar devices (100, 100″) is improved by reducing the extrinsic base resistance Rbx. Emitter (160), base (161) and collector (190) are formed in or on a semiconductor substrate (110). The emitter contact (154) has a portion (154′) that overhangs a portion (1293, 293″) of the extrinsic base contact (129), thereby forming a cave-like cavity (181, 181″) between the overhanging portion (154′) of the emitter contact (154) and the underlying regions (1293, 1293″) of the extrinsic base contact (129). When the emitter contact and the extrinsic base contact are silicided, some of the metal atoms forming the silicide penetrate into the cavity (181, 181″) so that the highly conductive silicided extrinsic base contact extends under the edge of the emitter contact (154′) closer to the base (161, 163) itself, thereby reducing Rbx. Smaller Rbx provides transistors with higher fMAX.
US07803683B2	Method of fabricating a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an insulating film formed above an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate and including a contact hole, the contact hole including an upper portion and a lower portion located on the upper portion via a boundary as a first lower end of the upper portion and a first upper end of the lower portion, the boundary including a second inner width same as the first inner width, the lower portion including a second lower end having a third inner width narrower than the second inner width, a first conductive plug made from polycrystalline silicon and formed in the lower portion of the contact hole so that the exposed upper surface of the substrate is in contact with the first conductive plug, and a second conductive plug formed on the first conductive plug and made from a conductive material different from the polycrystalline silicon.
US07803676B2	Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device using a DMOS device includes: a semiconductor substrate, in which a first conductive type well is formed; a first conductive type gate electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate with a gate insulating layer intervening between the gate electrode and the semiconductor substrate; a second conductive type body electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the gate electrode; a first conductive type drain electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate and separated from the gate electrode and the body electrode; a second conductive type first body region formed in the well under the body electrode; a second conductive type second body region extending from the first body region to the gate insulating layer and formed in the well; a first conductive type source region formed in the second body region and extending from the first body region to the gate insulating layer; and a first conductive type source electrode extending from the source region to surround the gate electrode on the semiconductor substrate with an insulating layer intervening between the source electrode and gate electrode.
US07803674B2	Methods for fabricating SOI devices Silicon on insulator (SOI) devices and methods for fabricating the same are provided. An exemplary embodiment of a SOI device comprises a substrate. A first insulating layer is formed over the substrate. A plurality of semiconductor islands is formed over the first insulating layer, wherein the semiconductor islands are isolated from each other. A second insulating layer is formed over the first insulating layer, protruding over the semiconductor islands and surrounding thereof. At least one recess is formed in a portion of the second insulating layer adjacent to a pair of the semiconductor islands. A first dielectric layer is formed on a portion of each of the semiconductor islands. A conductive layer is formed over the first dielectric layer and over the second insulating layer exposed by the recess. A pair of source/drain regions is oppositely formed in portions of each of the semiconductor islands not covered by the first dielectric layer and the conductive layer.
US07803666B2	Manufacturing process for a Quad Flat Non-leaded chip package structure A manufacturing process for a Quad Flat Non-leaded (QFN) chip package structure is provided. First, a patterned conductive layer and a patterned solder resist layer on the patterned conductive layer are provided. A plurality of chips are bonded onto the patterned solder resist layer such that the patterned solder resist layer are between the chips and the patterned conductive layer. The chips are electrically connected to the patterned conductive layer by a plurality of bonding wires, wherein the chips and the bonding wires are at the same side of the patterned conductive layer. At least one molding compound is formed to encapsulate the patterned conductive layer, the patterned solder resist layer, the chips and the bonding wires. Then, the molding compound, the patterned conductive layer and the patterned solder resist layer are separated.
US07803663B2	Method for manufacturing a molded MMC multi media card package obtained with laser cutting A method is provided for manufacturing a fully moulded Multi Media Card package obtained by laser cutting wherein at least some edges and the corners around the package have rounded profile and a sufficient smoothness for a safe handling. The method includes providing a rounded groove on a substrate back side of the package, all around the package profile, and cutting the edges of said package by a laser cutting line passing through said groove. This new technique allows the use of all the 24.0 mm width of the MMC package for the substrate 2, thus increasing the surface available for electronic components.
US07803661B2	Flip chip laser bonding process An apparatus for heating a chip includes: a laser generator for emitting a laser beam to a semiconductor chip to heat the semiconductor chip; and a beam intensity adjuster disposed on a laser emission path between the semiconductor chip and the laser generator to equalize the intensity of the laser beam to be emitted to the semiconductor chip. A flip chip bonder having the chip heating apparatus, and a method for bonding a flip chip using the same are also provided.
US07803653B2	Method of manufacturing image sensor A method of manufacturing an image sensor includes forming a device isolation region in an active pixel sensor area of a semiconductor substrate and alignment keys in a scribe lane area of the semiconductor substrate, such that the depth of the alignment keys is equal to or shallower than the depth of the device isolation region. The method further includes forming a photoelectric converter in the active pixel sensor area, polishing a rear surface of the semiconductor substrate and using the alignment keys to form a microlens at a position corresponding to the photoelectric converter on the polished rear surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07803649B2	Angular rate sensor and method of manufacturing the same An angular rate sensor 100 comprises a first structure 110 which includes a fixed portion 111 having an opening 114, a displacing portion 112 placed in the opening 114, and a connecting portion 113 adapted to connect the fixed portion 111 and the displacing portions 112; a second structure 130 which includes a weighting portion 132 joined to the displacing portion 112, and a pedestal portion 131 arranged to surround the weighting portions 132 and joined to the fixed portion 111, and is laminated in place on the first structure 110. A first body 140 formed by laminating a first metal layer 142 and a first insulating layer 141 thereon is joined to the fixed portion 111 such that the first insulating layer 141 faces the fixed portion 111. A second substrate 150 formed by laminating a second metal layer 152 and a second insulating layer 151 thereon is joined to the pedestal portion 131 such that the second insulating layer 151 faces the pedestal portion 131.

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