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US07933634B2	Adapting portable electrical devices to receive power wirelessly Wireless power receiving apparatus (150) is retrofitted to a portable electrical device (100) to enable the device to receive power wirelessly. The apparatus comprises a power-receiving element (200) adapted to be attached to the device, e.g. by adhesive (201), and also being adapted to receive power wirelessly from a transmitter of power when the element and transmitter are in proximity with one another. One or more power connectors (203) are connected electrically to the power-receiving element and are adapted to be connected, when the apparatus is in use, to one or more corresponding power connectors (101) of the portable electrical device to deliver power received by the element to the device. The power-receiving element may be in the form of a sticker or may be carried by or incorporated in a replacement cover portion for the portable electrical device.
US07933628B2	Transmission and reception parameter control A system and method for implementing transmission parameter control at a transmitting station is described. The exemplary system and method comprises querying a transmission parameter control module for a transmission schedule. The transmission schedule comprises at least one schedule entry defining a set of transmission parameter controls as they pertain to a destination address. At least one packet of data is then transmitted to the destination address according to the transmission parameters controls of at least one schedule entry from the transmission schedule. A system and method for selecting an antenna configuration corresponding to a next transmission of packet data is also disclosed.
US07933627B2	GPS RF front end IC with frequency plan for improved integrability A GPS RF Front End IC using a single conversion stage, which is immune from self jamming from clock signal harmonics generated internally or from dominant clock signal harmonics generated externally by the subsequent baseband GPS processor which uses a clock of 48●fo for GPS processing. The improved frequency plan reduces the problems of interference when the integration of the RF and Baseband functions is required in the form of a single-chip, or as 2 individual chips on a common substrate.
US07933624B2	Radio channel control method and receiving apparatus A base station used in a radio communication system includes a transmitting unit operable to transmit a signal to a receiver and a receiving unit operable to receive control signals indicating a changing in transmission power and another transmission parameter of the base station from the receiver which generates the control signals by measuring reception condition for a specific signal transmitted from the base station.
US07933623B1	System and method for addressing dispatch stations A system and method for dispatch communications are provided. A dispatch station can use one or more alias addresses for communicating with other dispatch stations. The dispatch station can register with a dispatch network for only one of the alias addresses or a number of the alias addresses.
US07933617B2	Content reproducing device, content reproducing system, automatic content receiving method, and automatic content transferring method Disclosed herein is a portable type content reproducing device for reproducing content data, said portable type content reproducing device including, a radio communication unit, a nonvolatile storage unit, a reproduction processing unit, a connection controlling unit, and a reception controlling unit.
US07933610B2	Method and apparatus to select an optimum site and/or sector to provide geo-location data A system and method selects secondary base stations to task that provide geo-location information used to geo-locate a mobile station. A network overlay location system may be co-located at base station sites of a wireless communications network. The location measurement units of the network overlay system provide location information of the mobile station, which may be determined via one or more geo-location techniques, for example: time of arrival (TOA), time difference of arrival (TDOA), uplink time difference of arrival (UTDOA), angle of arrival (AOA), signal power, radio fingerprinting etc. Selecting secondary base stations to task using various selection criteria may provide optimum results when geo-locating a mobile station.
US07933609B2	Tracking a group of mobile terminals A method performed by a mobile terminal may include identifying a group of mobile terminals, generating a message that includes a link to a map showing a position each of the mobile terminals in the group and transmitting the message to each of the plurality of mobile terminals in the group.
US07933601B2	Handover execution and communication resumption in wireless access system Handover execution and communication resumption in a wireless access system is provided. Performing a handover includes communicating with a serving base station through a first communication link and receiving from the serving base station, handover information associated with at least one candidate target base station. The method also includes transmitting handover indicator to the serving base station indicating a handover operation to a selected target base station and performing a ranging procedure with the selected target base station to establish a second communication link with the selected target base station while maintaining the first communication link with the serving base station. The method also includes being released from the serving base station in response to a handover complete status message from the selected target base station to the serving base station, or resuming normal communication with the serving base station if the handover fails with the selected target base station.
US07933598B1	Methods and apparatuses for effecting handover in integrated wireless systems Embodiments of the invention provide methods and apparatuses for effecting handover between the licensed and unlicensed portions of an integrated wireless network. For one embodiment, prior to hand out of a communication from the unlicensed wireless system (UWS), a cell identifier associated with a user terminal is changed from the cell identifier corresponding to the internet access point to the cell identifier corresponding to the unlicensed network controller. This allows the destination MSC of the licensed wireless system (LWS) to accept and fulfill a handover request from the UWS. In accordance with an alternative embodiment of the invention, after a hand in of a communication to the UWS, a cell identifier associated with the user terminal is changed from the cell identifier corresponding to the UNC to the cell identifier corresponding to the internet access point. This change allows providing location-based services to the UT being serviced by the UWS.
US07933594B2	Self-configuring communication networks for use with process control systems Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for configuring a communication network associated with a plurality of wireless enabled field devices. The disclosed methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture may compare identification information associated with a wireless enabled field device to configuration database information. Configuration information associated with the wireless enabled field device may be retrieved based on the comparison of the identification information to the configuration database information. The retrieved configuration information is sent to the wireless enabled field device via at least one wireless communication link to configure the wireless enabled field device.
US07933593B2	Allocation of radio resources in a CDMA2000 cellular system A CDMA data transmission system and method for periodically allocating channels to subscriber units, wherein prior to the beginning of any period all active subscriber units are identified that are in communication with the transmitter and for which there are data, exceeding a given minimal quantity, stored in a buffer. For each active subscriber unit one or more priority factors are calculated as a function of associated power levels; and on the basis of the priority factors, at least one channel is allocated to a corresponding active subscriber unit. The channel allocation is repeated in respect of any active subscriber units to which no channels have yet been allocated, subject to an availability of unallocated channels and subject to a limitation of maximum transmitter power.
US07933591B2	Security in a mobile communications system When a mobile terminal (10), having a basic identity module (12) operative according to a first security standard, initiates a service access, the home network (30) determines whether the mobile terminal has an executable program (14) configured to interact with the basic identity module for emulating an identity module according to the second security standard. If it is concluded that the mobile terminal has such an executable program, a security algorithm is executed at the home network (30) to provide security data according to the second security standard. At least part of these security data are then transferred, transparently to a visited network (20), to the mobile terminal (10). On the mobile terminal side, the executable program (14) is executed for emulating an identity module according to the second security standard using at least part of the transferred security data as input. Preferably, the first security standard corresponds to a 2G standard, basically the GSM standard and the second security standard at least in part corresponds to a 3G standard such as the UMTS standard, and/or the IP Multimedia Sub-system (IMS) standard.
US07933590B2	DMB data receiving apparatus and method for improving DMB data receiving speed Disclosed is a DMB data receiving apparatus and method for improving a DMB data receiving speed. According to the DMB data receiving apparatus and method, if there are predetermined MSC data, which have not been received or received with an error when receiving MSC data by a DMB reception terminal, the DMB reception terminal can receive the predetermined MSC data through a return channel established between the DMB reception terminal and a broadcasting station. In detail, if there are predetermined MSC data, which have not been received or received with an error, the DMB reception terminal request the broadcasting station to transmit the predetermined MSC data and to allow establishment of a return channel, and then receives the predetermined MSC data through a return channel established based on the request. Therefore, when some MOT content data have not been received or received with an error, the DMB reception terminal can immediately receive the corresponding MOT content data without waiting until the next MOT data transmission period begins, thereby greatly improving the DMB data receiving speed.
US07933588B1	Communication system and method A method for communicating between an operator at an operator device and a user recipient includes enabling an operator of the operator device to enter a device-independent unique identifier for a user recipient by requiring interaction between the operator and the operator device without requiring interaction between the operator and software on the operator device that is designed for communication over an IP-based network. The method includes identifying an IP network address associated with the user recipient based on the device-independent unique identifier and routing a message entered by the operator to the determined IP network address.
US07933584B2	Method for implementing security update of mobile station and a correlative reacting system A correlative reacting system and a method for implementing security update of mobile station. The correlative reacting system includes a security correlative agent at a terminal side and a security correlative server at a network side communicated with the security correlative agent via an air interface. In the present invention, the correlative reacting system performs an information interaction with the mobile station, controls the mobile station to carry out an automatic security update. The automatic security update includes automatic downloading and installation, update of the security correlative agent, and automatic recovery of the insecurity factors of the mobile station and the like.
US07933580B2	Emergency services for voice over IP telephony (E-VoIP) A method for determining the physical coordinates of a VoIP phone and transmitting the physical coordinates to an emergency services call center or the like comprises the steps of determining the physical coordinates of the VoIP phone using signals from a GPS or cellular network, placing a call to an emergency services call center using the VoIP phone, and automatically transmitting the physical coordinates of the VoIP phone to the emergency services call center.
US07933579B2	Personal emergency communication system A personal emergency communication system includes a user-carried portable communication unit having a single button, which when depressed by the user, wirelessly sends a call request signal to a base unit. The base unit initiates a telephone call through a dial-up network to an emergency response center and places an operator at the emergency center in wireless voice communication with the portable unit when the call is connected. The telephone number to be called can be stored in at least one of the portable unit and the base unit. A speech synthesizer operating in combination with automated voice messages stored in at least one of the base unit and portable unit are used to advise the user of the status of the call, and to provide the user with verbal confirmation that functional systems of the base unit are operating properly.
US07933575B2	Circuit for settling DC offset in direct conversion receiver The present invention discloses a circuit for settling DC offset and controlling RC time-constant in a direct conversion receiver. The circuit includes a variable resistive unit for providing a continuously or non-continuously variable resistance in the direct conversion receiver. The variable resistive unit can provide the variable resistance by utilizing a controllable transistor or a plurality of resistors. Accordingly, the variable resistive unit can be coupled to a capacitor for constituting a high pass filter, which is capable of rapidly settling DC offset in a direct conversion receiver.
US07933574B2	Method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching Aspects of a method and system for LNA adjustment to compensate for dynamic impedance matching are provided. In this regard, an antenna matching network may be configured to maximize received signal strength for a determined frequency and an amplifier gain may be adjusted based on the maximized signal strength such that output levels of the amplifier are between specified limits. The antenna matching network may be programmatically controlled via one or more switching elements. The amplifier gain may be programmatically controlled via one or more bias points. The antenna matching network may be configured for a plurality of frequencies in a frequency band, such as an FM broadcast band, and a configuration for each frequency may be stored. Accordingly, when the receiver is tuned to a frequency, a corresponding configuration may be retrieved from memory.
US07933572B1	Method and system for communicating between a remote antenna system and a cellular base station via a cable television network A typical cable television (CATV) network can be used as a communication link between a remote antenna system and a cellular base station (BTS). To do so, capacity of the typical CATV network is expanded to add use of an additional frequency spectrum, the added frequency is then divided into frequency channels (bands) of which each channel is digitized (e.g., using QAM) to produce a certain amount data bandwidth per channel, and a certain number of those channels are concatenated together to provide an aggregate data channel for carrying traffic between the cellular BTS and the remote antenna system (e.g., a distributed antenna system (DAS)).
US07933564B2	Method for the multi-antenna transmission of a linearly-precoded signal, corresponding devices, signal and reception method An embodiment of invention relates to a method for the transmission of a signal formed by vectors, each vector comprising N source symbols to be transmitted, using M transmission antennas, wherein M is greater than or equal to 2. The method comprises the following steps: linearly precoding the signal using a matrix product of a source matrix formed by vectors that are organized in successive lines by a linear precoding matrix, delivering a precoded matrix; and successively transmitting precoded vectors corresponding to columns of said precoded matrix, the M symbols of each precoded vector being distributed to the M antennas.
US07933563B2	Communication system, communication terminal, server, communication method to be used therein and program therefor Terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n refer to information on the state of the terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n and a user to add functions for modifying the operation of the terminal and processing data thereby allowing the operation of the terminal to be modified, and the communication data to be processed, when the state information is in a specific condition. A server 3 accesses the information on the state of the terminals 1 and 2-1 to 2-n and the user on the side of the server 3, extracts terminal group information under a specific condition, generates a new group, and adds a presence linking function for performing registration with a group management function, thereby allowing the above state information to be used to generate a dynamic group.
US07933560B2	Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving data in a mobile communication system using multiple antennas are provided. A receiver estimates a fading channel of received data, selects a weight set relative to a maximum data transmission rate from at least one weight set with elements of a plurality of orthogonal weight vectors, and transmits feedback information including the selected weight set and channel-by-channel state information to a transmitter. The transmitter demultiplexes data to be transmitted on a basis of the feedback information into at least one sub-data stream, multiplies each sub-data stream by an associated weight, and transmits the data.
US07933559B2	RF test chamber A system for testing radio frequency (RF) communications of a device capable of such communications is provided. The system includes a chamber for isolating the device from RF interference, an antenna that is suitable for RF communications with the device wherein the antenna is capable of communications over a range of frequencies, the antenna being located within the chamber, and a digital communication link for providing non-RF communications with the device.
US07933556B2	Remote video access capability for a wireless video monitoring/cordless phone system A multimode cordless telephone system that can be used for remote video monitoring. The system includes a base station, at least one camera that is in wireless communication, at least periodically, with the base station, and a cordless handset, having a viewing screen, also in wireless communication, at least periodically, with the base station, the cordless handset having a first mode that is operable when the cordless handset is within a predetermined range of the base station wherein the cordless handset operates in conjunction with the base station to provide telephonic communication and image monitoring of images captured by the cameras, and a second mode that is operable when the cordless handset is beyond the predetermined range of the base station wherein the cordless handset communicates with the base station over the public switched telephone network (PSTN) to monitor images captured by the cameras.
US07933555B2	System and method for reducing phase noise Systems and methods that reduce phase noise are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include one or more of the following: generating a signal at a particular frequency in which the signal may be associated with a harmonic frequency signal disposed at a harmonic frequency; and selectively attenuating frequency content disposed in a region around the harmonic frequency. The signal may be associated with a second harmonic frequency signal disposed at a second harmonic frequency. Frequency content disposed in a second region around the second harmonic frequency may be selectively attenuated. One or more non-linear operations may be applied to the signal and the applied signal may be transmitted.
US07933552B2	Multi-band satellite and/or ancillary terrestrial component radioterminal communications systems and methods with combining operation A satellite radioterminal communications system may include first and second space-based components and a return link diversity combiner. The first space-based component may be configured to communicate uni-directionally and/or bidirectionally with a first radioterminal over a first forward link using a first band of frequencies and/or over a first return link using a second band of frequencies. The second space-based component may be configured to communicate uni-directionally and/or bidirectionally with a second radioterminal over a second forward link using a third band of frequencies and/or over a second return link using a fourth band of frequencies. The second space-based component may also be configured to receive return link communications from the first radioterminal over the first return link using the second band of frequencies, and the first and third bands of frequencies may be different bands of frequencies.
US07933546B2	Lubricant applying device and image forming apparatus In a lubricant applying device, a position adjusting member adjusts relative positions of a lubricant and a rotating member. The rotating member rotates while in contact with the lubricant, receives the lubricant, and applies the lubricant to an image carrier in an image forming apparatus.
US07933545B2	Reducing image artifact reduction method Often times the glossing process results in an image artifact consisting of locally lighter image a fixed distance from the lead edge as a print is glossed. This artifact is most visible in areas of medium but consistent image. The present invention provides methods for reducing this artifact.
US07933544B2	Image forming system An image forming system which is capable of causing a clear coating apparatus to discharge processed sheets in proper page order, and improving usability and operability of the system by users. An image forming apparatus is set to perform single-sided image formation or double-sided image formation. A clear coating apparatus is set to perform single-sided clearing coating or double-sided clear coating. Whether to perform inverted discharge of sheets is controlled according to the settings of the image forming apparatus and the clear coating apparatus.
US07933543B2	Image forming apparatus with cleaning mode The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion forming a toner image on a recording material, and a fixing portion heating and fixing the toner image formed on the recording material to the recording material, wherein the apparatus has a cleaning mode in which the fixing portion is cleaned, and when the cleaning mode is set, the image forming portion forms a predetermined toner image on the recording material, and the fixing portion then heats and fixes the predetermined toner image to the recording material to form a cleaning sheet which is heated and conveyed to clean the fixing portion. By the virtue of the present invention, it achieves high cleaning performance in which the fixing portion is cleaned by the cleaning sheet.
US07933537B2	Xerographic charging device having planar two pin arrays In a xerographic printing apparatus, including a charge receptor, the charge receptor being movable in a process direction; and a charge device for applying a charge to a surface of the charge receptor, the charge device having a corona member including a pin array being oriented and extending substantially non perpendicular to the surface of the charge receptor in the process direction.
US07933536B2	Image forming device An image forming device includes a driving mechanism that transmits a driving force to a process cartridge through an input portion of the process cartridge. The driving mechanism includes a drive shaft shifting between a state engaging with the input portion and a state spaced from the input portion, a first cam joined with a door to be rotated with movement of the door, the first cam including a first sliding surface, a translation member including a sliding contact portion which slidably contacts the first sliding surface, the translation member being configured to engage with the drive shaft and shift together with the drive shaft with the sliding contact portion sliding on the first sliding surface with rotation of the first cam, and a second cam including a second sliding surface which slidably contacts the sliding contact portion to face the first sliding surface through the sliding contact portion.
US07933532B2	Method and apparatus for generating a spread spectrum signal in a printer power supply unit A method and apparatus that generates a spread spectrum signal in a printer power supply unit is disclosed. The method may include receiving an enable signal to power on the printer power supply unit, generating an initial power signal for the printer power supply unit based on the signal received from the power supply controller, the initial power signal being generated in a predetermined frequency range around a predetermined center frequency value, powering on the printer power supply unit using the generated initial power signal, repeatedly updating the initial power signal, wherein the updated power signal has a frequency value in the predetermined frequency range and the predetermined center frequency value is maintained, and powering the printer power supply unit using the updated power signal.
US07933531B2	Image formation device An electrophotographic image formation device comprises an image transfer unit (including an image transfer member) attached to a main body in a detachable manner, a density detecting unit including a detector unit and thereby detecting density of a developing agent transferred to the image transfer member, a protective cover which protects the density detecting unit not detecting the density by covering the detector unit, first and second reflecting parts (differing in reflectivity) formed in a part of the protective cover facing the detector unit, and a shifting unit which places the protective cover at a first position (with the first reflecting part facing the detector unit) when the image transfer unit has been attached to the main body while placing the protective cover at a second position (with the second reflecting part facing the detector unit) when the image transfer unit has not been attached to the main body.
US07933527B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and transfer device In an image forming apparatus, an electrostatic latent image formed on a surface of a photoreceptor is developed into a toner image. A printing paper transported on a transport belt is brought into contact with the surface of the photoreceptor and an electric field is applied to the printing paper from a rear surface of the transport belt by a transfer roller to transfer the toner image onto the printing paper. The transfer roller applies different levels of electric field to the printing paper, so that a predetermined transfer electric field is applied to a region other than a leading edge of the printing paper being transported. An electric field weaker than the predetermined transfer electric field is applied to the leading edge. Even in the presence of a projection generated when the printing paper is cut, the printing paper naturally strips off from the surface of the photoreceptor.
US07933524B2	Apparatus for and method of generating millimeter waves Provided are an apparatus for and a method of generating millimeter waves, in which millimeter-wave generation and frequency up-conversion can be achieved at the same time using a single device. The apparatus includes a mode-locking laser diode (LD) which has a distributed feedback (DFB) sector and a gain sector and generates high-frequency optical pulses through a passive mode locking process, a modulator which modulates an external optical signal using an electric signal and injects the modulated optical signal to the mode-locking LD to lock the optical pulses, and a radio frequency (RF) locking signaling unit which injects the electric signal to the modulator.
US07933521B2	Integrated multiplexer/demultiplexer having offset transmitters and receivers for use in an optical transceiver module An apparatus for use in an optical transceiver module that incorporates an integrated multiplexer/demultiplexer for high speed data transfer applications. One example embodiment includes a transmissive block arranged to interface with a transmit optical port, a receive optical port, and a plurality of optical subassemblies. The transmit optical port may transmit a first multiplexed optical signal and the receive optical port may receive a second multiplexed optical signal. Filters may be positioned between the transmissive block and one or more of the optical subassemblies to transmit signals at predetermined wavelengths while reflecting other signals incident thereon.
US07933518B2	Intelligent optical systems and methods for optical-layer management An integrated optical transceiver includes an optical receiver that produces a first electrical signal at a reception electrical interface in response to a first optical signal, an optical transmitter that emits a second optical signal in response to a second electrical signal received at a transmission electrical interface, a first optical branching device that receives the first optical signal at an reception optical interface and to direct at least a portion of the first optical signal to the optical receiver, and a second optical branching device that directs the second optical signal to an transmission optical interface. The first optical branching device directs at least a portion of the first optical signal to the second optical branching device. The second optical branching device directs the portion of the first optical signal received from the first optical branching device to the transmission optical interface.
US07933514B2	Camera system and digital camera A camera system includes: a digital camera; and a key device configured as a unit separate from the digital camera. The digital camera includes a control device that sets a lock mode for encrypting image data and recording the encrypted image data into a recording medium and clears the lock mode in response to a lock release signal input via the key device.
US07933511B2	Lens barrel and image pickup apparatus A lens barrel capable of reducing the radial size thereof while maintaining the degree of freedom in layout of a shutter and a anti-shake mechanism. A barrier drive ring includes first and second rotation-transmitting protrusions axially protruding toward an imaging area and parallel to and substantially opposed to each other. An image pickup element-holding member includes a first and second cam contact section which are brought into contact with the first and second rotation-transmitting protrusion, when the lens barrel is retracted. Rotation transmission to the barrier drive ring is performed in a varying manner first via a contact between the first rotation-transmitting protrusion and first cam contact section, then via contacts between the first and second rotation-transmitting protrusions and the first and second cam contact sections, and finally via a contact between the second rotation-transmitting protrusion and the second cam contact section.
US07933500B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07933499B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07933498B2	Information storage medium and information recording/playback system There are provided an information storage medium capable of real-time recording/playback of digital moving picture information, and a digital information recording/playback system using this medium. In a medium that records/plays back data including video data and control information, the control information (DA21 in FIG. 4; RTR_VMG in FIG. 30) includes information (VOBU entry in FIG. 31) for accessing a specific portion (VOBU) of the video data.
US07933494B2	Recording apparatus and method, and program A recording apparatus for recording, when an encoded stream is provided, the encoded stream on a predetermined recording medium, the encoding stream including a plurality of groups each including a plurality of encoded unit data obtained by an encoding process performed for a plurality of unit data which form a stream, the recording apparatus including: a detection section configured to detect the structure of each of the groups which form the encoded stream; and a recording control section configured to produce, when a different group having a structure different from a prescribed structure is detected by the detection section, specification information with which the position of the different group in the encoded stream can be specified and record the specification information as metadata of the encoded stream on the predetermined recording medium.
US07933484B2	Strain-relief device for cables and wire-guiding element A strain-relief device for cables, in particular optical waveguide cables, includes a lower part (10), which is in the form of a U in cross section, and an upper part (30). The lower part (10) is formed on its limbs (12) on one end side (16) with a pivot bearing and on the opposite end side (13) with latching tabs (14), which are arranged on the inner sides of the limbs (12). The upper part (30) includes at least two sprung lateral limbs (31), on whose outer side in each case at least one latching projection (35) is arranged, which latching projections (35), in the assembled state, latch behind the latching tabs (14) on the lower part (10). The upper part (30) also includes spindle means, which can be inserted into the pivot bearing in the lower part (10), and to a wire-guiding element (60), in particular for optical waveguide wires. The wire-guiding element (60) includes a lower part (40) and an upper part (50). The lower part (40) is formed in the longitudinal direction (L) with guides (46), which are formed between guide webs (45), clamping ribs (47) being arranged on the inner sides of the guide webs (45), and having first fixing means on the upper side (44). The upper part (50) has second fixing means on its lower side (51) which produce a connection with the first fixing means.
US07933482B2	Optical fiber probe tips and methods for fabricating same Optical fiber probe tips and methods for fabricating the same are presented. One method entails immersing a distal end of an optical fiber having a cladding and a core into an etching solution and simultaneously etching the cladding and the core using the etching solution for tapering the cladding and the core to form a tapered cladding and a tapered core tip. The optical fiber probe tips are suitable for near-field, scanning, optical microscopy (NSOM).
US07933481B2	Optical cable The present invention relates to an optical cable comprising one or more optical waveguides, which one or more optical waveguides are provided with a protective layer, a buffer tube surrounding said one or more optical waveguides, which buffer tube is surrounded by an outer sheath, while a radial interspace is present between said outer sheath and said buffer tube, which radial interspace is filled with a filler.
US07933480B2	Optical transmission structural body, optical waveguide, optical waveguide formation method, and optical wiring connection body An object of the present invention is to provide an optical transmission structural body capable of preferably transmitting an optical signal between an optical wiring and an optical waveguide irrespective of a sh ape of a portion of the optical wiring, the portion being connected to a core part of the optical waveguide.The optical transmission structural body of the present invention is constituted so that at least an optical wiring and an optical waveguide are connected to each other and an optical signal can be transmitted between a core of the optical wiring and a core part of the optical waveguide, wherein a portion of the optical wiring, the portion being connected to the core part of the optical waveguide, is not specially subjected to a planarization processing or has a surface roughness Ra based on JIS B 0601 of 0.1 μm or more.
US07933474B2	Method for creating and using affective information in a digital imaging system An image file for storing a still digital image and metadata related to the still digital image, the image file including digital image data representing the still digital image, and metadata that categorizes the still digital image as an important digital image, wherein the categorization uses a range of levels and the range of levels includes at least three different integer values.
US07933471B2	Method and system for correlating physical model representation to pattern layout One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that reduces computational complexity in simulating an image resulting from an original mask and an optical transmission system. During operation, the system obtains a set transmission cross coefficient (TCC) kernel functions based on the optical transmission system, and obtains a set of transmission functions for a representative pattern which contains features representative of the original mask. The system constructs a new set of kernel functions based on the TCC kernel functions and the transmission functions for the representative pattern, wherein responses to the new kernel functions in a resulting image corresponding to the representative pattern are substantially uncorrelated with one another. The system further produces an intensity distribution of a resulting image corresponding to the original mask based on the new kernel functions, thereby facilitating prediction of a layout that can be produced from the original mask.
US07933469B2	Video processing Digital video contrast enhancement and skin tone correction by conversion to CIECAM02 color space with lightness transformation and a skin tone probability density function of hue and saturation.
US07933467B2	Apparatus and method for categorizing image and related apparatus and method for de-interlacing The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for de-interlacing. The apparatus includes an edge detection module, a statistics module, and an interpolation circuit. The edge detection module performs an edge detection operation on a plurality of pixels of an image so as to generate edge information corresponding to the image. The statistics module performs a detection window based statistics operation on the edge information so as to generate statistics information corresponding to the image. The interpolation circuit interpolates the image according to the statistics information so as to generate an intra-field interpolation signal corresponding to the image.
US07933461B1	High-speed dithering architecture A filter for implementing Floyd Steinberg two-dimensional error diffusion algorithms allows high-speed processing of video and images. The filter is shown in direct form with proper bit precision with implementations that permit the filter to operate at high speed. Furthermore, a reduction in the gate count is achieved over the direct form. The results of static timing analysis obtained post synthesis are also summarized.
US07933459B2	Data processing apparatus, the method and coding apparatus From an MPEG image data (S11), an MPEG2 encoder circuit (51) extracts a quantum scale (Qm) of each macro block (MB) which has been used for quantization of the MPEG2 in the encoding process. An activity calculation circuit (53) calculates an activity (Nact), based on the quantum scale (Qm), A rate control circuit (54) calculates a quantization parameter (QP) for each macro block (MB), based on the activity (Nact).
US07933456B2	Multi-layer video coding and decoding methods and multi-layer video encoder and decoder Multi-layer video coding and decoding methods, multi-layer video encoder and multi-layer video decoder are provided. The multi-layer video coding method includes encoding a video frame having a predetermined resolution using a first video coding scheme, using a frame encoded by the first video coding scheme as a reference to encode the video frame with the same resolution as the predetermined resolution using a second video coding scheme, and generating a bitstream containing the frames encoded by the first and second video coding schemes.
US07933455B2	Grouping items in video stream images into events A technique is disclosed for determining when to close a group of a plurality of groups. A closed group is one to which an image set may not be added. Each group includes one or more image sets. Each image set includes one or more images of at least one object. Each group corresponds to an object that is common among images in the one or more image sets that belong to the group. Determining when to close a particular group is based, at least in part, on one or more factors, such as how many image sets are in the particular group, the length of time the particular group has been open, and data about the one or more image sets in the particular group.
US07933450B2	Writing information processing system, writing information generating device and computer readable storage medium A writing information processing system includes a writing information generating device and an information processing device. The writing information generating device generates writing information relating to a user's writing operation on a medium. The information processing device acquires the writing information from the writing information generating device and stores the writing information. The writing information generating device includes an operation status detector and a visible light generator. The operation status detector detects a current operation status of the writing information generating device. The visible light generator generates visible light representing the detected current operation status of the writing information generating device.
US07933449B2	Pattern recognition method According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a pattern recognition method of approximating distribution of a set of vectors and a class boundary in a vector space based on basis functions. The method includes defining directional basis functions between two basis vectors, and performing the approximation using a linear combination of the directional basis functions.
US07933448B2	Card reading system employing CMOS reader A method and an apparatus determines at least one of rank or suit of a playing card. The apparatus has at least one two-dimensional complementary metal oxide semiconductor imaging system that provides a signal when playing cards are moved over the system. The signal is a series of gray scale values that are converted into binary values. The sensed data is transmitted to a hardware component that identifies at least one of rank and suit to an external data storage device.
US07933445B2	Color gamut mapping/enhancement technique using skin color detection A method for mapping/enhancing the color of an image to be displayed on a display includes receiving an image having a plurality of pixels where each of the pixels has a plurality of color components. The image is processed using a pair of gamut color mapping operations in combination with skin-tone pixels detection to modify the image in a suitable manner for presentation on the display.
US07933440B2	Method and system for evaluating two time-separated medical images In a method for evaluation of two images of an organ system acquired at different points in time to establish a pathological variation, the organ system exhibits a first region and a second region that are present in and that are differentiated in each of the images, with the second region of the pathological variation being acquired more strongly than the first region. A registration is determined that causes the respective first region in two images to be in registration with each other. Imaging system-dependent differences, in particular deformations, are determined and compensated between the two images. After an extension of the registration such that the second region is encompassed as well by the extended registration, via a transformation one of the two images to the other can be made, presented and/or stored that includes the second region, using the extended registration. A medical imaging system with a computer can implement the method.
US07933439B2	Ultrasound imaging method and appartus for adaptively suppressing tissue flickering The present disclosure provides an ultrasound imaging method and apparatus for adaptively suppressing tissue flickering. The method includes transmitting ultrasound pulses to an object to be detected and receiving ultrasound echo signals from the object to be detected; processing the ultrasound echo signals to obtain anatomical image data; demodulating the ultrasound echo signals to obtain demodulated signals; processing the demodulated signals to obtain blood flow image data; and displaying either anatomical image data or blood flow image data based on fusing rules, wherein a first fusing rule is used for a portion of the object to be detected in which tissue flickering exists, and a second fusing rule, which is different from the first fusing rule, is used for a portion of the object to be detected in which no tissue flickering exists.
US07933438B2	Maximum intensity projection performing method and apparatus In order to visualize a narrow blood vessel overlapping a thick blood vessel, at the time of performing a maximum intensity projection on three-dimensional image data, three-dimensional image data is weighted with a plurality of weighting functions of different attenuation characteristics along a projection line. Maximum intensity projections are performed on the plurality of pieces of the weighted three-dimensional image data, and results of all of the maximum intensity projections are summed. The weight of the weighting function is zero until the projection line reaches the surface of an image and, after the reach, gradually decreases from an initial value. Alternatively, the weight of the weighting function is zero to some midpoint of the projection line and, after the midpoint, gradually decreases from the initial value. The midpoint is adjustable. The attenuation characteristic is given by an exponential function. Parameters of the exponential function are adjustable.
US07933434B2	Vehicle and lane mark recognizes A vehicle capable of preventing detection of stud-type lane marks from being impossible and a vehicle having a lane mark recognizer are provided. The vehicle includes installation interval recognizing means (21) which recognizes an interval (L) between Botts Dots, vehicle speed recognizing means (22) which recognizes a traveling speed (v) of the vehicle, image synthesizing means (13) which generates synthesized image data (M3) by combining image data (M1) stored in an image memory (11) through an image input circuit (10) and image data (M2) stored in an image memory (12) through the same, imaging timing determining means (20) which determines the timing of imaging by a camera (2) on the basis of the interval (L) and the traveling speed (v) when acquiring the image data (M1, M2) in such a way that the positions of the Botts Dots in the image data (M1, M2) are different therebetween, and Botts Dots detecting means (14) which detects the Botts Dots from the synthesized image data (M3).
US07933422B2	Operation panel structure and control method and control apparatus for mixing system As viewed from the front of an operation panel, adjustment sections for individual input channels are positioned on the operation panel close to a human operator, and a display, a control section for setting an equalizer process, compressor process etc. for one selected channel and a signal delivery control section for setting signal delivery to mixing buses for the selected channel are positioned in a horizontal row remotely from the human operator. Operators in the delivery control section are varied in function in accordance with a selected operation mode. For example, in a mix send mode, a plurality of rotary operators are set to function as send level adjustment operators for the respective input channels so as to adjust send levels to a given mixing bus, while, in a mix master mode, the rotary operators are set to function as output gain adjustment operators for the respective mixing buses.
US07933421B2	Sound-field correcting apparatus and method therefor A sound-field correcting apparatus includes a sound-field correcting unit for executing, based on a correcting information, predetermined audio signal processing for correcting a sound field, an information acquiring unit for acquiring the correcting information on each position, a designating unit for designating, in a predetermined space range including the positions, a target position serving as a position at which sound-field correction is to be performed, a correcting information acquiring unit for acquiring, based on the correcting information on each position, correcting information corresponding to the target position designated by the designating unit, and a control unit for performing control based on the correcting information acquired by the correcting information acquiring unit so that the sound-field correcting unit executes the audio signal processing.
US07933419B2	In-situ-fitted hearing device The hearing device is operable in a fitting mode and in a listening mode and comprises a transducer for receiving, in the fitting mode, audio test signals, and for converting the audio test signals into signals to be perceived by the user in the fitting mode. It comprises a parameter memory means for storing parameter settings, which parameter settings are obtained from user input received through a user interface in response to the signals perceived by the user in the fitting mode. And it comprises a signal processor using the parameter settings for correcting audio signals at least in the listening mode. The user interface is comprised in the hearing device and the hearing device comprises an audio signal source, in which audio signal source the audio test signals are stored or generated.
US07933417B2	Encoding device and decoding device The present invention relates to an encoding device for saving the number of bits of codes. In step S11, the differential value between a normalization coefficient Bi to be encoded and a normalization coefficient Bi-1 for an encoding unit Ai-1 in a band adjacent to the lower side of an encoding unit Ai corresponding to the normalization coefficient Bi is computed. In step S12, reference is made to a table in which a differential value having a high frequency of occurrence is associated with a code having a small number of bits, and a code corresponding to the computed differential value is read. In step S13, it is determined whether or not all normalization coefficients B have been encoded. If it is determined that all normalization coefficients B have been encoded, in step S14, the code read in step S12 is output. The present invention is applicable to an audio recorder.
US07933416B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding multi-channel signals A method of encoding multi-channel signals having two or more channels into a first signal and a second signal, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including generating the first signal by performing a first operation using a first channel signal in the multi-channel signals; and generating the second signal by performing a second operation using a combination of the first channel signal and a second channel signal in the multi-channel signals.
US07933413B2	Key exchange verification Key exchanges between peer-to-peer devices can be vulnerable to man in the middle attacks. Verification of the key exchanges can be made on a channel, network and/or device different from the channel, network and/or device used for the key exchange to determine whether the key exchange was secure. Verification of the key exchange can also be made through an established and trusted device and/or entity. If the key exchange was secure, the parties to a communication utilizing the key(s) exchanged can be notified, if desired. If the key exchange was not secure, the parties can be notified and the communication can be selectively disconnected.
US07933411B2	Method of constructing MPEG program streams from encrypted MPEG transport streams An electronic device comprising: a transport stream analyzer, the transport stream analyzer adapted to receive an encrypted MPEG transport stream and to output a program stream map stream, a conditional access table stream, a program stream directory stream, an encrypted video signal stream, one or more encrypted audio streams, an entitlement control message stream and an entitlement management message stream, all as MPEG packetized elementary stream data structures; and a packet multiplexer adapted to receive the output of the transport stream analyzer and to assemble the output of the transport stream analyzer into an encrypted MPEG compliant modified program stream comprised of packs of MPEG packetized elementary stream data structures and to output the encrypted MPEG compliant modified program stream.
US07933406B2	Encryption device and method, and image forming apparatus An encryption device which is capable of preparing an encrypted document not easily deciphered by a third person. The encryption device encrypts information formed on a recording member on the basis of a predetermined encryption code. A surface of the recording member is irradiated with light. An image of the irradiated surface of the recording member irradiated with the light is taken. The encryption code is prepared on the basis of the taken image of the irradiated surface.
US07933402B2	Integrated adapter and fax device using the same An integrated adapter and fax device using the integrated adapter are provided. The power supply converting unit and line interface unit, each of which has a first section and a second section that are isolated from each other, are configured separately in the integrated adapter. Thus, product liability and safety standards are fundamentally satisfied, material costs of an external case of the fax device can be reduced, the external case can be more freely designed, and a power supply line and telephone line can be easily connected by a modular jack.
US07933401B2	Key assembly A key assembly applicable in an electronic device for performing preset functions is provided. The key assembly includes a control member and at least one sensor, wherein the control member selectively enables any sensor to sense the external operation, and when an external operation is sensed, the sensor outputs a triggering signal for performing the corresponding function.
US07933400B2	Method and system for timed interaction with an interactive voice response system Provided are methods and systems associated with interactive voice response (“IVR”) systems that control the amount of time a user interacts with the system. According to the invention, an IVR system utilizes a timer or series of timers to determine how long a user has been interacting with the IVR system. When threshold events occur, the IVR system will analyze the status of the call and may switch the user to a predefined destination, such as to an operator queue, directly to a live operator, or to another designated navigation point in the IVR navigation structure. In this manner increasing the efficiency of manner in which the IVR system interacts with a caller.
US07933397B2	Telephone system that notifies caller of called party's state A telephone system that has the ability to provide a caller with additional information (beyond a busy signal or a ring tone) concerning the called party when the called party's line is busy: The called party can control the amount and type of additional information provided to the calling party. In one embodiment, when the called party is notified that someone is trying to place a call (by a mechanism such as by conventional caller ID) the called party has the option of providing the calling party with a variety of different information, such as whether or not the called party is on a conference call and the number (and name if available) of the party to whom the called party is speaking.
US07933390B2	Region-wide messaging system and methods including validation of transactions Methods and systems are disclosed that allow for the exchange of voice mail messages between different VMSs of different service providers and/or in different networks by the transmission of such messages through a data network using a standard protocol of the data network. Methods and systems also are disclosed that validate message transactions among subscribers receiving regional messaging services over the PSTN. The subscribers are located in different geographic areas and may be provided their voice, facsimile or data messaging services by different companies. The present invention validates passing messages (data) among customers of potentially different companies located in different areas by assessing the validity of the transaction in light of a number of conditions, including applicable regulatory or business conditions.
US07933388B1	Method and system for providing information and advertising content in a telephone system A method for operating a directory assistance process adapted to provide a targeted message to incoming callers totally or substantially free of one or more 411-type directory assistance calling charges. The method includes receiving a phone call from an incoming caller and receiving a voice based request for information associated with directory assistance from the caller. The method also includes determining phone number information in response to the request through one or more first databases and identifying a phone number associated with the incoming caller using a caller identification process. The method further includes querying at least one database to ascertain a match between the phone number associated with the incoming caller and at least one of a plurality of identifiers in the at least one database, determining at least one message, transmitting the determined message to the incoming caller, and transmitting the phone number information to the incoming caller.
US07933387B1	Voice transition script caller A system allows an agent to execute an interaction protocol, to create an interaction between the agent and a contact. The agent or a computer dialing system initiates a call to a contact and the agent selectively interleaves responses to the contact with a live voice or with a recorded script. The interleaving of responses to the contact from the human agent and the recorded script approximates seamless transitions. The system includes a script player for outputting scripted voice waveforms over a phone line to a contact and a signal processor configured to provide a normalized signal selected from the output device and the script player.
US07933386B2	Interactive hospitality system A hospitality system has at least one database for storing guest preferences regarding environment variables, for storing a national and/or regional origin or personal attributes of the guest. According to embodiments, advanced evacuation systems and entertainment systems are provided which fit the guest's preferences and origin.
US07933385B2	Emergency alert for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) A voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) positioning center (VPC) is implemented in configuration with support from a text-to-voice module, emergency routing database, and VoIP switching points (VSPs) to allow a public safety access point (PSAP) or other emergency center to effectively communicate the nature of an emergency alert notification and the area of notification to the VoIP positioning center (VPC). The inventive VPC in turn determines which phones (including wireless and/or VoIP phones) are currently in the area for notification, and reliably and quickly issues the required warning to all affected wireless and VoIP phones.
US07933382B2	Interface for liquid metal bearing and method of making same An x-ray tube includes a cathode and a target assembly positioned to receive electrons emitted from the cathode. The target assembly includes a target and a spiral groove bearing (SGB) configured to support the target. The SGB includes a rotatable component having a first surface and a first material attached to the first surface, a stationary component having a second surface and a second material attached to the second surface, the stationary component positioned such that a gap is formed between the first material and the second material, and a liquid metal positioned in the gap. At least one of the first and second materials has a thickness greater than 0.1 mm.
US07933381B2	HF frequency tuning device An HF frequency tuning device includes a resonance cavity in which an HF is introduced, a phase detecting section which generates a sign data representing a sign of a phase difference between a traveling wave and a reflected wave included in the HF in the resonance cavity. The frequency of the HF is repeatedly shifted by a first pitch. The direction of the shift is determined by the sign data for reducing the phase difference. When the sign is inverted, the frequency of the HF is repeatedly shifted to the opposite direction by a second pitch smaller than the first pitch until the sign is inverted again. By this tuning process, the fine tuning of HF can by achieved in a short time.
US07933378B2	Multi-tube X-ray detection A computed tomography system (100) includes a first (1081) and a second source (108N) disposed at different z-axis locations at about a same angular position around an examination region (112) that alternately emit radiation beams (114) that traverse the examination region (112). The first source (1081) emits a first radiation beam (1141) having a first outer projection (204) and the second source (108N) emits a second radiation beam (114N) having a first outer projection (216). Both of the first outer projections (204, 216) traverse plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation, and the first outer projections (204, 216) define a width of a volume (400) within which the emitted radiation beams (114) are confined. A common detector (124) detects radiation from the x-ray beams (114) that traverses the volume (400) and generates data indicative thereof, and a reconstructor (132) reconstructs the data to generate an image of the volume (400).
US07933376B2	X-ray CT system and a method for creating a scanning plan A condition on the attribute of an image for generating multi-frame image data containing a plurality of frames of images per file from image data is stored beforehand. When image data is received, multi-frame image data is generated from the received image data based on incidental information contained in the image data and the condition stored beforehand. Then, the generated multi-frame image data is archived. When a request for an image is made by a certain terminal, an application functioning on the terminal is identified, and multi-frame image data appropriate for the application is sent from among the generated multi-frame image data.
US07933375B2	Ray consistency based reconstruction of helical cone beam data A CT imaging system includes a computer that is programmed to rebin cone beam projection data into a series of two-dimensional sinograms based on an optimized ray consistency approach. The computer receives cone beam data from a detector array and is programmed to specify a plurality of view angles for the cone beam data. The computer selects a plurality of measured rays for each of the plurality of specified view angles, the plurality of measured rays having a view angle approximate to the specified view angle as determined by an optimized ray consistency. The computer also forms a two-dimensional sinogram for each of the plurality of specified view angles based on the selected plurality of measured rays. The computer then defines an image surface for each of the plurality of specified view angles based on the selected plurality of measured rays.
US07933372B2	Successive interference cancellation based on the number of retransmissions A method for processing a plurality of symbol streams is provided. The method includes receiving a first symbol stream, wherein the first symbol stream has a corresponding first number of retransmissions. The method further includes receiving a second symbol stream, wherein the second symbol stream has a corresponding second number of retransmissions. The method further includes selecting the first symbol stream for decoding, if the first number of retransmissions is greater than the second number of retransmissions.
US07933371B2	Channel environment-adapted MMSE reception method and apparatus using multiple receive antennas Method and Apparatus for controlling combining coefficients of multiple receive antennas according to the channel conditions in a mobile communication system, to improve data restoration performance. A mobile station detects preamble, pilot and data from a signal received from a base station via the multiple receive antennas, measures a channel correlation from the detected preamble, classifies time-domain/frequency-domain intervals having a channel correlation exceeding a predetermined threshold as calculation regions, and calculates MMSE coefficients for the calculation regions. In this way, the mobile station finds the optimal coefficients for combining the signal received via the multiple receive antennas, thereby optimizing the reception performance.
US07933370B2	Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) receiver and signal detection method thereof A Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) receiver and a signal detection method thereof are provided. Since no square root calculation needs to be performed when a calculation for detecting a transmission signal is performed using a Zero Forcing-Sorted QR Decomposition (ZF-SQRD) algorithm and a Minimum Mean Square Error-Sorted QR Decomposition (MMSE-SQRD) algorithm, the complexity of a calculation for detecting a transmission signal under a MIMO channel environment can be reduced.
US07933368B2	Method and apparatus for implementing a digital signal quality metric A method for detecting a digital radio signal includes the steps of receiving the digital radio signal including a series of symbols, developing a correlation waveform having a peak that corresponds to a symbol boundary, normalizing the correlation waveform, and calculating a peak value of the normalized correlation waveform, wherein the peak value represents the quality of the received digital radio signal. A receiver that performs the method is also provided.
US07933367B2	Method and apparatus for implementing seek and scan functions for an FM digital radio signal A method for detecting a digital radio signal includes the steps of receiving the digital radio signal, developing a correlation waveform having a peak that corresponds to a symbol boundary, normalizing the correlation waveform, calculating a peak value of the normalized correlation waveform, and dwelling on the received digital radio signal when the peak value exceeds a predetermined threshold. A receiver that performs the method is also provided.
US07933365B2	Enhanced VSB Viterbi decoder An enhanced VSB receiver includes a tuner which tunes an RF signal and converts it into an IF signal, an IF mixer which converts the IF signal into a baseband signal, and a demodulator which demodulates the baseband signal signal into a VSB signal. The enhanced VSB receiver further includes a map recovery unit which recovers VSB map information of the VSB signal, an enhanced equalizer for compensating channel distortion of the VSB signal and outputting an equalized symbol, and an enhanced Viterbit decoder for estimating whether polarity inversion occurred during a symbol period of the equalized symbol and Viterbi-decoding the equalized symbol based on the polarity estimation.
US07933362B2	Multilevel QAM symbol timing detector and multilevel QAM communication signal receiver A multilevel symbol timing signal detector is provided, which is used for reliably detecting the symbol timing of a multilevel QAM signal. When an oversampling I signal is inputted to I-Signal Histogram Generator 610, the signal is subjected to 1-symbol length buffering by computing absolute values. Sampling times corresponding to an oversampling frequency and amplitude data for these times are extracted from the buffered data and the amplitude data is buffered for each sampling time over predetermined intervals. Histograms of the amplitude data for each sampling time are generated based on these buffered amplitude data. Symbol timing is acquired by detecting a sampling time corresponding to the amplitude data with the highest frequency of detection based on the histograms of amplitude data.
US07933359B2	Polar transmitter for increasing modulation rate using multi-phase generator Provided is a polar transmitter which increases a modulation rate using a multi-phase generator and includes: a data processor which processes and separates incoming data to an amplitude component and a phase component; a multi-phase generator which generates a plurality of carriers having a plurality of phase components by processing a carrier having a certain frequency; a selection output part which selects and outputs a carrier having a phase substantially equal to the phase component; and a carrier output part which synthesizes the output carrier with the amplitude component and outputs a carrier. Accordingly, the modulation rate of the carrier can be increased and the bandwidth can be extended with the related art polar transmitter. Therefore, the polar transmitter is applicable to the wideband communications, the multi-mode, and the multi-band.
US07933358B2	GFSK/FSK modulation circuit and related method implemented in a digital manner A Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying/Frequency Shift Keying (GFSK/FSK) modulation circuit implemented in a digital manner comprises a frequency divider for dividing frequency of an inputted clock signal to get a sampling signal, a buffer coupled to the frequency divider for storing inputted data, an integrator coupled to the buffer for processing integration according to the data outputted from the buffer, a first read only memory coupled to the integrator for transferring the data outputted from the integrator according to a cosine function, and a second read only memory coupled to the integrator for transferring the data outputted from the integrator according to a sine function.
US07933357B2	Apparatus and method for transmission and reception in a multi-user MIMO communication system An apparatus and method for transmission and reception in a multi-user Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system are provided. In a transmitter, a filter portion receives quantized Channel State Information (CSI) and Channel Quality Information (CQI) from a receiver, calculates a transmit filter value using on the quantized CSI and the CQI, determines an appropriate AMC level for the receiver, and sends a pilot signal including the transmit filter value and information about the determined AMC level on subcarriers in one of a preamble and data symbols. An antenna is used to send the output of the filter portion and receives data from the receiver.
US07933355B2	Systems, devices, and methods for training sequence, transmission and reception A training sequence helps optimize SNR degradation in a wireless communication. Various sets of training sequences may be stored in a repository, and transmitters and receivers encoded with such sequences transmit at least one of the sequences between them as part of the wireless transmission of data.
US07933347B2	Receiver and method for compensating for frequency offset of receiving signal in multi-band OFDM scheme A multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) receiver, and more particularly, a receiver and method for effectively compensating for a frequency offset of a received signal in a multiband OFDM scheme. The receiver for compensating for a frequency offset of a received signal in an OFDM scheme includes: a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) which generates a first compensation signal by processing an input signal in a time domain based on a first carrier frequency offset estimated in the time domain, and a second carrier frequency offset estimated in a frequency domain; a sampling frequency offset tracking (SFOT) unit which generates a second compensation signal by estimating a sampling frequency offset from frequency domain pilot symbols contained in the first compensation signal; and a carrier frequency offset tracking (CFOT) unit which estimates the second carrier frequency offset by using pilot symbols contained in the second compensation signal.
US07933346B2	Base station and method for mitigating interference in a sectorized communication network Embodiments of a base station and method for mitigating interference in a sectorized wireless communication network are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, some partitions of subchannels are configured in accordance with the distributed subcarrier permutation scheme for use within each sector of a base station, and one or more partitions of subchannels is configured in accordance with the contiguous subcarrier scheme for use within each sector of the base station.
US07933344B2	OFDMA based on cognitive radio A multiuser scheme allowing for a number of users, sets of user, or carriers to share one or more channels is provided. In the invention, the available channel bandwidth is subdivided into a number of equal-bandwidth subchannels according to standard OFDM practice. The transmitter is informed by an application that it needs to transmit data a particular rate. The transmitter determines the minimum number of subchannels and maximum energy (or noise) threshold for each subchannel necessary to achieve that data rate and selects a set of subchannels matching those requirements. The subchannels need not be contiguous in the spectrum or belong to the same channel. Once the transmitter has selected the required number of subchannels, it begins transmitting simultaneously on those subchannels across the entire bandwidth used by those subchannels.
US07933340B2	Communications system, receiver apparatus, transmission mode proposal method, and program A communications system has a transmission apparatus for transmitting a signal and a reception apparatus for receiving the signal. The reception apparatus includes: a transmission mode table; a propagation path condition detecting block; a transmission mode extraction block; a threshold adjustment block; and a transmission mode proposal block.
US07933339B2	Systems and methods for processing chroma samples in video Embodiments of systems and methods for processing chroma samples in video are provided. One system embodiment, among others, comprises a memory with logic, and a processor configured with the logic to receive a compressed video stream that includes a picture having chroma samples and luma samples, receive in said compressed video stream a parameter set associated with the picture, receive auxiliary chroma information in said parameter set, said auxiliary chroma information corresponding to at least a portion of the chroma samples in the picture, said chroma information further corresponding to a phase shift, wherein said phase shift corresponds to a relative location of each chroma sample in said at least a portion of the chroma samples in the picture, decompress the received compressed video stream, determine the phase shift according to a value of the received auxiliary chroma information, and process the at least a portion of the chroma samples in the picture according to the determined phase shift. Other embodiments for signaling chroma information for a picture in a compressed video stream are included herein.
US07933337B2	Prediction of transform coefficients for image compression A block transform-based digital media codec uses a transform coefficient prediction that takes into account a dominant directionality of the digital media data (e.g., an image with strong horizontal or vertical features), and further operates compatibly with a two-stage transform. For DC and DCAC coefficients from an inner stage transform of a macroblock, the codec calculates and compares directionality metrics based on inner stage transform DC coefficients of neighboring macroblocks to determine dominant directionality. For DCAC coefficients from an outer stage transform of blocks within the macroblock, the codec calculates and compares directionality metrics based on the inner stage transform DCAC coefficients of the macroblock to detect dominant directionality. The determination of directional dominance can also take into account information from other channels (e.g., chrominance as well as luminance).
US07933327B2	Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus 1 includes: a quantization matrix holding unit (112) that holds a quantization matrix (WM) which has already been transmitted in a parameter set and a matrix ID for identifying the quantization matrix (WM), which are associated with each other; and a variable length coding unit (111) that obtains the matrix ID corresponding to the quantization matrix (WM) used for quantization from the quantization matrix holding unit (112) and places the matrix ID in a coded stream Str.
US07933323B2	Method and system for performing timing recovery in a digital communication system Processing signals in a digital communication may include equalizing a signal in a timing-recovery system using a frequency domain equalizer. The frequency domain equalizer may be a frequency domain adaptive filter that adapts using a least-mean-square algorithm where at least one tap-weight that corresponds to a pre-cursor may be constrained to zero. The processing may include recovering timing information using a Mueller/Muller timing recovery algorithm that may be aided by using a pre-filter before the equalizer.
US07933319B2	Signal processing circuit A signal processing system is disclosed. The system includes: a first synthesizer and a second synthesizer, for respectively generating a first frequency and a second frequency; a first RF circuit; a first analog front end (AFE); a second RF circuit; and a second AFE, wherein the first RF circuit and the first AFE can support a signal transmission of a first bandwidth, the second RF circuit and the second AFE can support a signal transmission of a second bandwidth, a central frequency of the first bandwidth is substantially equal to the first frequency, and a central frequency of the second bandwidth is substantially equal to the second frequency.
US07933318B2	Carrier re-activation in case of signal to noise ratio improvement The present invention relates to a first transceiver unit, acting as a receiver unit, and to a second transceiver unit, acting as a transmitter unit. The first transceiver unit measures the signal to noise ratio for each tone, and determine whether a tone shall be shut off, thereby reducing interference on neighboring lines and power consumption. If so, the first transceiver unit keeps on measuring the noise level over that tone. If the ratio of the initially measured signal level to the newly measured noise level exceeds a pre-determined threshold, then the first transceiver unit requests the second transceiver unit to re-activate that tone. A new initialization sequence is transmitted over that tone for initializing the frequency domain equalizer, for measuring the signal to noise ratio, and finally for agreeing on a bit loading.
US07933317B2	Method for transmitting UWB pulse sequences in a cost-efficient manner A telecommunications transmitting device, including: an encoder configured to generate an initial signal formed by at least one reference sequence including an initial integer number of pulses dispatched over a same integer number of time windows; a transmitter configured to transmit the initial signal to a receiver; a demodulation device configured to determine that no acknowledgement from the receiver in response to the initial signal is received; and a processing unit configured to tune a second integer number of pulses constituting a second reference sequence, the second integer number being larger than the initial integer number, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a second signal formed by the second reference sequence including the second integer number of pulses dispatched over a same integer number of time windows.
US07933316B2	Searcher for multiple orthogonal channels with known data WCDMA step2 search A circuit and algorithm are disclosed for a step2 search of a three step search of synchronization channels in a W-CDMA system. A mobile terminal of the CDMA system includes an RF downconverter for receiving I and Q signals. A searcher, responsive to the I and Q signals, includes a first correlator for correlating the I and Q signals with a primary synchronization code on a primary synchronization channel, and a second correlator for correlating I and Q signals with a secondary synchronization code on a secondary synchronization channel. The correlated I and Q signals are added for each of the secondary synchronization codes. An energy calculator and a maximum energy detector use the correlated I and Q signals of both the primary and secondary synchronization channels to detect the most likely scrambling code group of secondary synchronization codes.
US07933315B2	Spread spectrum communication and synchronization A method for generating a data signal for synchronizing one or more electrically coupled digital receivers is disclosed. A data signal having a data rate is modulated with a pseudo-noise (PN) code having a data rate greater than the data rate of the data signal. The modulated data signal is demodulated by a receiver using the PN code. A correlation value is generated and is compared to a predetermined value to indicate phase synchronization. If the receiver is in phase synchronization with the transmitter, the received demodulated data signal is passed.
US07933306B2	Transmitting method, receiving method, transmitting device, receiving device and transceiving device for an ultra-wideband communication system A transmitting device of the present invention comprises an encoder (20), a transmitting unit (100) including a pulse generator (30) and a parallel-to-serial converter (50), a transmitting control unit (40), and an antenna (90). The pulse generator (30) comprises a first pulse train generator (31), a second pulse train generator (32), . . . and an n-th pulse train generator (33). A k-bit information bit train is inputted from the information signal source (10), The encoder (20) encodes the k-bit information bit train into an n-bit encoded bit train at a coded rate of (k/n). The pulse generator (30) generates n-piece repetitive pulse trains corresponding to the n-bit encoded bit train. The antenna (90) transmits the n-piece repetitive pulse trains as UWB-IR.
US07933305B2	Device for generating or detecting electromagnetic radiation, and fabrication method of the same A device for generating or detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a substrate, a gain medium provided on the substrate, a plurality of reflectors for confining electromagnetic radiation at a predetermined frequency range and substantially perpendicular to a face of the substrate, and spacer means for spacing the reflectors from each other at a predetermined distance, with the gain medium being sandwiched between the reflectors. The gain medium has a quantum well structure formed of a semiconductor material, and gives a gain to electromagnetic radiation by transitioning between subbands created in at least a quantum well in the quantum well structure. The spacer means is formed of a material different from a material of the gain medium.
US07933303B2	Group-III nitride semiconductor laser device, and method for fabricating group-III nitride semiconductor laser device Provided is a group-III nitride semiconductor laser device with a laser cavity allowing for a low threshold current, on a semipolar surface of a support base in which the c-axis of a hexagonal group-III nitride is tilted toward the m-axis. First and second fractured faces 27, 29 to form the laser cavity intersect with an m-n plane. The group-III nitride semiconductor laser device 11 has a laser waveguide extending in a direction of an intersecting line between the m-n plane and the semipolar surface 17a. For this reason, it is feasible to make use of emission by a band transition enabling the low threshold current. In a laser structure 13, a first surface 13a is opposite to a second surface 13b. The first and second fractured faces 27, 29 extend from an edge 13c of the first surface 13a to an edge 13d of the second surface 13b. The fractured faces are not formed by dry etching and are different from conventionally-employed cleaved facets such as c-planes, m-planes, or a-planes.
US07933299B2	Device and method for controlling switchover of broadcasting channel in digital multimedia broadcasting receiver Provided is a device and method for controlling switchover of a broadcasting channel in a digital multimedia broadcasting receiver. The device includes a first demultiplexing unit for firstly buffering transport stream packets, searching the buffered transport stream packets for a PAT (program association table), a PMT (program map table), and an intra frame, and obtaining program information on the broadcasting channel to be switched over; and a second demultiplexing unit for secondly buffering the transport stream packets and, on the basis of the obtained program information, searching the secondly buffered transport stream packets for an audio or video transport stream packet of the corresponding broadcasting channel, and performing audio or video demultiplexing for the searched audio or video transport stream packet.
US07933291B2	Protocol neutral channel-based application communication A system is presented that enables applications in a distributed system to communicate through a channel-based communication system. The applications use adaptors which communicate through a communication mechanism, resulting in application independence from the communication mechanism. In one embodiment, the communication mechanism consists of transmission media, logical channels, and brokers. The adaptors communicate with each other over the transmission media. Groups of adaptors involved in a particular type of communication from a communication channel. Channel profiles, which include channel properties and a list of adaptor members, are stored in brokers which can be queried by adaptors. Adaptors can support channel-specific data processing operations specified in the channel profile. Adaptors can join a channel, leave a channel, and communicate with other adaptors over the channel.
US07933290B2	System and method for comprehensive service translation A service translation proxy provides a variety of translation services during the service discovery and subsequent service consumption phase. The service translation proxy receives a service request in accordance with one particular Service Description Protocol (SDP) and optionally translates the service request into the correct SDP as required using the appropriate service discovery interface. In addition, session description, session media, and session transport translations are implemented by the service translation proxy as required to support the service.
US07933280B2	Packet routing control method and system A wireless communication system downloads information from a file server using multiple wireless communication paths. When a destination requests data from a file server through a wireless terminal, the wireless terminal generates an address translation rule that includes source, translation and destination addresses used to route the data from the file server to the destination through a virtual network server. The address translation rule is sent to at least one other wireless terminal, so that retrieved data packets can be routed through both wireless terminals simultaneously. A packet retrieved from the file server is sent to the virtual network server, where the packet is encapsulated into multiple packets and assigned virtual addresses. The encapsulated packets are sent to the multiple wireless terminals, and are sent from those terminals to the destination using the address translation rule, where the packets are decapsulated to reproduce the originally sent packet.
US07933277B1	Method and apparatus for processing scalable content Method and apparatus for processing scalable content having a base layer and at least one enhancement layer is described. In one example, static logic having decoder logic and system monitor logic is provided. Programmable logic having a plurality of reconfigurable slots is also provided. The decoder logic includes a base layer processor for processing the base layer of the scalable content. The system monitor logic is configured to dynamically reconfigure at least one of the plurality of reconfigurable slots with at least one enhancement block for processing the at least one enhancement layer of the scalable content.
US07933275B2	Generic information element A computer data signal including a generic element identifier, a plurality of task-specific data, a variable length identifier and a multi-use data type identifier. The generic element identifier is configurable to identify an information element containing the generic element identifier as a generic information element. The variable length identifier is configurable to indicate a number of the plurality of task-specific data. The multi-use data type identifier is configurable to indicate a type of the plurality of task-specific data.
US07933274B2	Quality of service in a home network In one embodiment, a method for establishing Quality of Service (QoS) in a home network is provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for bandwidth in a virtual private network (VPN); receiving a traffic specification of an application on a control point retrieving a traffic policy; retrieving path characteristics of the VPN; and reserving resources in the VPN based on the path characteristics, the traffic policy, and the traffic specification.
US07933273B2	Cooperative NAT behavior discovery Methods and apparatus for facilitating traversal of a network address translator (NAT) are disclosed. For example, a node configured to communicate with one or more other nodes over a network may facilitate NAT traversal by a) determining information regarding the behavior of one or more NATs with the node; and storing the information in such a way that the information is retrievable by one or more other nodes; or b) retrieving information regarding behavior of one or more NATs obtained by one or more other nodes and using the information to traverse one or more of the NATs.
US07933266B2	Configurable network router A signal router, configured to receive information carried by a first signal and transmit the information on a second signal, is described. The signal router, using routing information it gathers, selects the second signal from a number of signals, with the first and the second signals differing in at least one physical characteristic. The signal router operates in a network of a number of such signal routers, and so each one of the signal routers is coupled to at least one of the other signal routers. The routing information is used to create a circuit from a first one of the signal routers to a second one of the signal routers. Once the circuit is created, the information is routed over the circuit. According to one aspect of the present invention, the signals are optical signals.
US07933264B2	Serial multiplexer module for server management A serial multiplexer module for server management includes a first, a second and a third switching devices in circuit connection with a baseboard management controller, a serial transceiver and an input/output controller respectively. Each of the switching devices includes respectively four simplex sub-switches. The simplex sub-switches are controlled to be switched on/off directly/indirectly by a first control signal and/or a second control signal transmitted from the baseboard management controller, thereby enabling and monitoring the communication between the baseboard management controller, the input/output controller and the serial transceiver.
US07933256B2	Coherent single antenna interference cancellation for GSM/GPRS/EDGE A method for midamble estimation comprises the steps of receiving a burst of symbols, selecting a subset of the burst of symbols that comprises a first midamble symbol, calculating, for each symbol in the subset, a corresponding midamble estimation error, and determining the lowest calculated midamble estimation error to locate the first midamble symbol. A receiver comprises an antenna configured to receive a burst of symbols, a timing estimator configured to select a subset of the burst of symbols that comprises a first midamble symbol, a midamble estimator configured to calculate, for each symbol in the subset, a corresponding midamble estimation error, and a processor configured to select the symbol in the subset corresponding to a lowest calculated midamble estimation error as the first midamble symbol.
US07933255B2	Multi-antenna wireless data processing system A wireless data processing system uses a selectively enabled multi-antenna processor to demodulate N separate data signals from M separate antennas simultaneously. The multi-antenna processor is adapted to respond to changing channel conditions between two access points, so that it selectively kicks in if there is noise, interference, frequency fading, a need for an enhanced data rate, a need for an increased operating range, etc.
US07933251B1	Wireless network having joint power and data rate adaptation A wireless network includes transmission power and data rate adaptation based upon quality experienced by the user.
US07933250B2	Code channel management in a wireless communications system Systems and techniques are disclosed relating to communications. The systems and techniques involve dividing a plurality of subscriber stations into a plurality of groups, assigning a different plurality of orthogonal codes to each of the groups, the number of the orthogonal codes assigned to one of the groups being less than the number of subscriber stations in said one of the groups, encoding communications to one of the subscriber stations in said one of the groups at a data rate, and determining whether to spread at least a portion of communications to said to one of the subscriber stations with one of the orthogonal codes assigned to said one of the groups as a function of the data rate.
US07933249B2	Grade of service and fairness policy for bandwidth reservation system A scheme for assigning priority levels to users based upon a history of their request for access to the resources. If a user has, over a historical period of time, made fewer demands than a stated amount, that user is given a higher priority than a user who has made greater use of the resources than their stated amount. Thus, users making the heaviest demand on the available resources are allocated fewer resources despite their demand, whereas users that make less demands for the resources are granted more of the resources they request. An additional feature of an access allocation scheme according to the present invention is to reserve at least some resources for the users at the lowest priority levels. Thus, even users being assigned to a lowest priority queue will be granted at least some access once in a while. A third feature in connection with the present invention is to use the time of continuous transfer as a threshold to drop a presently assigned priority. For example, when a user at a particular priority level has made continuous use of resources for a predetermined time, that user is reassigned to the next lowest priority level and its resources are taken away. The user is then required to vie again for access to resources at this lower priority level.
US07933247B2	Real-time scalable wireless switching network A real-time scalable wireless switching network is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, a first access point coupled to a wired network, where the first access point is capable of communicating with one or more mobile nodes over a wireless network. The exemplary network architecture further includes a first node coupled to the wired network to communicate with the first access point over the wired network, where the first node includes a wireless network interface to wirelessly communicate with at least one of the first access point and the one or more mobile nodes over the wireless network. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07933245B2	Media independent handover for mobility A media independent handover (MIH) device communicates with an 802 technology medium access control (MAC) layer and an 802 technology physical (PHY) layer utilizing an 802 technology management entity (ME) device. Handover information messages are produced by the MIH device. The handover information messages facilitate handover. The 802 technology ME device facilitates encapsulation of the handover information messages. The 802 technology ME device is coupled to the 802 technology MAC layer and the 802 technology PHY layer. The encapsulated handover information messages is sent to other MIH devices messages via the 802 technology ME device.
US07933243B2	Method for performing random access procedures and terminal thereof A random access procedure between a mobile terminal and a network is performed based upon the characteristics of a RACH preamble. If the RACH preamble was explicitly signaled by the network, a downlink channel is monitored until a new transmission is indicated according to radio resource allocation information received from the network. If the RACH preamble was not explicitly signaled by the network, a contention resolution timer is started and the downlink channel is monitored until the contention resolution timer expires. Such monitoring of downlink channels in a more efficient manner, results in effective reduction in power consumption.
US07933242B2	Fast bearer prioritization in a scheduler using activity detection Apparatus, methods and computer program products provide fast instantaneous overload control during scheduling operations involving users in a wireless communications network who are candidates to be scheduled in a next transmission time interval. Apparatus detect congestion conditions in a wireless communications network by determining an instantaneous operating region of a scheduler (e.g., a medium access control-high speed scheduler) based on required activity detection and prioritize users in a scheduling candidate set based on the cost of a user. In a variant, this may be implemented by combining part of the required activity detection algorithm with a per-bearer cost function. In one implementation, this will limit the number of users that suffer during momentary congestion in the wireless communications network.
US07933240B2	Apparatus and method for redundant connectivity and multi-channel operation of wireless devices A wireless network includes leaf nodes (such as wireless sensors or other wireless devices) and infrastructure nodes (such as access points). The leaf nodes communicate data messages to the infrastructure nodes. The infrastructure nodes communicate the data messages to gateway infrastructure nodes, which transmit the data messages over a wired network. The leaf nodes may communicate data messages to multiple infrastructure nodes in various ways. For example, the leaf nodes may transmit multiple messages, one at a time, to multiple infrastructure nodes. The leaf nodes may also broadcast a single message to multiple infrastructure nodes. In addition, the leaf nodes may communicate a single message containing a group identifier (such as a multi-cast group address) associated with multiple infrastructure nodes. In this way, communications from the leaf nodes may be more reliable. This may be particularly useful, for example, in networks such as 802.11-based networks.
US07933238B2	Method and apparatus for transmission within a multi-carrier communication system A method and apparatus are provided for indicating to a communication unit a plurality of modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) to be utilized for communication. During a first MCS is determined for first resource blocks to be sent to a first remote unit or base station, and a second MCS is determined for a second resource block to be sent to the remote unit or base station. A message is transmitted indicating the first and the second MCS and also indicating the first resource blocks and the second resource block. Finally, a first PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at a first time using the first MCS and the first resource blocks and a second PDU is transmitted to the remote unit or base station at the first time using the second MCS and the second resource block.
US07933235B2	Multiflow reverse link MAC for a communications system An access terminal (206) configured for wireless communication with an access network (204) within a sector (1032). The access terminal includes a transmitter (2608) for transmitting a reverse traffic channel to the access network (204), an antenna (2614) for receiving signals from the access network (204), a processor (2602) and memory (2604) in electronic communication with the processor (2602). Instructions stored in the memory (2604) implement, for each flow (1216) of a plurality of flows on the access terminal (206), determining the flow's total available power (1238). The access terminal's total available power (1234) is determined by summing each flow's total available power (1238). A packet is transmitted to the access network (204) at a power level that does not exceed the access terminal's total available power (1234).
US07933230B2	Dynamic bandwidth sharing A Dynamic Threshold Rule is provided for sharing of bandwidth of a shared medium between multiple devices. In one embodiment, a device determines a measure of available bandwidth of said medium; reserves bandwidth up to the available bandwidth; receives a request from a device for bandwidth of a specified amount; and honors the request when relinquishing the specified amount results in preserving an equal or greater percentage of bandwidth available at a time of reserving bandwidth. Different classes of devices may be distinguished, where the percentage for devices of a particular class is greater than for devices not of that particular class, or for which at least one class of device is exempt from the requirement to relinquish bandwidth.
US07933229B2	Method and system for selective usage of broadband forward link A radio access network has a reverse link frequency band for receiving signals from mobile stations and has first and second forward link frequency bands for transmitting signals to mobile stations. The second forward link frequency band has a greater frequency bandwidth than the first forward link frequency band and occupies a different part of the radio frequency spectrum. For certain types of communication sessions, such as voice and low-speed data, the reverse link frequency band and the first forward link frequency band are used. For other types of communication sessions, such as high-speed data and streaming video, the reverse link frequency band and the second forward link frequency band are used.
US07933228B2	Time sensitive scheduling data delivery network Communications network based passive delivery of time sensitive scheduling data to an entity is described. Specific time sensitive scheduling data streams are created from aggregating time sensitive scheduling data from multiple originating organizations, affiliated groups of individuals, and individuals. Specific time sensitive scheduling data from originating organizations, affiliated groups of individuals, and individuals are sent via the passive delivery communications network. Specific time sensitive scheduling data streams aggregated from the multiple originating organizations, affiliated groups of individuals, and individuals are transmitted via the passive delivery communications network to the entity based on desirability and relevancy of time sensitive scheduling data. Specific time sensitive scheduling data from originating organizations, affiliated groups of individuals, and individuals are received via the passive delivery communications network. The passive delivery of time sensitive scheduling data to the entity is accommodated based upon derived interests of the entity via a time sensitive scheduling data receiving device.
US07933222B2	Information entry for network optimization A telecommunications network model receives data regarding a telecommunications network and a customer's use of that network. The data includes information about nodes, link between nodes, tariffs, and customer usage. The received data is utilized to create a model of the telecommunications network. The model may then be utilized to optimize a customer's use of the network, optimizing for a lowest cost solution.
US07933213B1	Method and apparatus for monitoring and restoring time division multiplexing circuits A method and apparatus for proactively managing TDM circuits used in a packet network, e.g., a VoIP network, by allowing it to instruct a program to periodically test the health of all circuits catalogued in the TDM facility database are disclosed. If a circuit is found to be out of service, the present invention will trigger a maintenance action through the edge component of the VoIP network to reset the circuit and restore it to a healthy condition.
US07933212B2	Methods and apparatus to diagnose enhanced interior gateway routing protocol problems in networks Example methods and apparatus to diagnose enhanced interior gateway routing protocol (EIGRP) problems in networks are disclosed. A disclosed example method to identify whether an EIGRP problem is present in a network comprises automatically performing one or more tests of one or more routers of the network in response to a submitted trouble ticket, processing results of the one or more tests to automatically identify whether the EIGRP problem is present in the network, and automatically assigning the trouble ticket to a work center when the EIGRP problem is present in the network.
US07933211B2	Method and system for providing prioritized failure announcements An approach is provided for announcing a fault condition or failure in a network system. Announcement notifications are prioritized based on a priority information derived from at least two local parameters determined at a respective network element (NE1 to NEn). Thereby, fault correction activities can be optimized.
US07933210B2	Network test apparatus, network test method and network test program According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus is transmitting/receiving an OAM frame containing kinds of tests indicating one or more tests for Ethernet-OAM to/from a relay apparatus, storing configuration information to generate a network configuration needed for each of the plurality of tests in a pseudo manner, distinguishing the kind of test contained in the relevant OAM frame and obtaining network information of a network to which the relay apparatus that transmitted the OAM frame belongs and obtaining configuration information corresponding to the obtained network information obtained from the stored configuration information.
US07933206B2	Method for adapting link weights in relation to optimized traffic distribution The invention relates to a method which is used to adapt link weights or, link costs, for optimized traffic distribution within a communication network. According to said method, a loop is circulated until an interruption criterion is met. The individual iterations comprise the following steps: Routing of traffic within the communication network is calculated based on link cost paths. Parameter values used for opt imization e.g. the link-related volume of traffic, are determined for the individual links by means of the calculated path, and an expected volume of traffic and the link are determined for the parameter having the highest value. When the highest determined value is equal to or less than the valve of the previous step (interruption criterion), the link costs are increased for the determined link. Said method enables link costs and paths for optimized traffic distribution to be determined in an economical manner.
US07933197B2	Method and apparatus for constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data communications network A method of constructing a repair path around a non-available component in a data communications network having, as components, nodes having a network address and links there between comprises the step, performed at a participating node, of receiving from a notifying node in the network, a notification identifying the notifying node and components through which the notifying node can be reached. The method further comprises the step of deriving, from the notification, a network repair address for use in the event of non-availability of a component identified in the notification. The method further comprises the step of constructing a repair path for the repair address.
US07933195B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving channel quality information in a communication system using an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing scheme A method for transmitting channel quality information (CQI) from a receiver station to a transmitter station in a wireless communication system which includes diversity mode consisted of spaced apart subcarriers and band AMC mode consisted of a number of bands comprised of a predetermined number of adjacent subcarriers. The method comprises the steps of transmitting an average CINR(Carrier to Interference and Noise Ratio) value for a full frequency band if the receiver station operates in the diversity mode; transmitting a differential CINR of a predetermined number of bins if the receiver station operates in the band AMC mode.
US07933190B2	Electric field read/write device and method of driving the same Provided are an electric field read/write device and a method of driving an electric field read/write device. The method including an electric field read/write head comprising a resistance region disposed between a source region and a drain region and a writing electrode disposed on the resistance region, wherein the method includes: applying a controlling voltage to the writing electrode, wherein the controlling voltage is smaller than a threshold voltage which causes polarization of a recording medium, and reproducing data recorded in the recording medium according to change of an amount of a current flowing through the resistance region according to a polarization direction of electric domains of the recording medium.
US07933189B2	Focus optical system and optical disc master exposure apparatus In a focus optical system for optical discs or optical disc master exposure apparatuses, a relative positional relation between a cylindrical lens and a 4-division detector in an astigmatic optical system is adjust so that an interference fringe appearing in reflected light derived from an optical disc master is made to be incident on a dead zone of the 4-division detector. Thus, an astigmatic focus servo free from effects of variations in a focus error signal due to the interference fringe is realized. As a result of this, effects of the interference fringe appearing in the reflected light derived from an optical disc or optical disc master can be suppressed.
US07933188B2	Optical pickup To reduce a bad influence on a tracking control signal and a data signal by reflected light from an adjacent layer on a multi-layer disc as stray light, the following device is made in the invention. Reflected light from the multi-layer optical disc including stray light from another layer is once converged by a reflected light condenser lens and is reflected on a reflector. A grating which prevents zero-order light from being generated by setting groove depth to λ/4 and which is set to pitch to prevent positive and negative first- or higher-order diffracted lights from returning to the reflected light condenser lens is arranged between the lens and the reflector including an optical axis with the grating apart from the reflector. Hereby, as reflected light from another layer is cut off though reflected light from a corresponding layer is transmitted to a detector, a detected control signal and a detected data signal are not influenced by reflected light from another layer.
US07933185B2	Optical storage medium, optical read/write apparatus, and optical read/write method An optical read/write apparatus causes a read/write light beam from illuminating means to strike only one side of an optical storage medium including stacked data storage layers each of which is readable/writeable separately from the other layers. In this case, the optical read/write apparatus operates so that data is read/written from/into a second data storage layer after fully recording a recordable area of a first data storage layer. Thus, light can be shone with uniform intensity across the substantially entire recordable area of the second data storage layer without using a complex read/write system even under such conditions that the transmittance to light of the first data storage layer in the recordable area may vary depending on whether any data is recorded in the recordable area.
US07933184B2	Multilayered optical disc and its recording method In an optical disc having N (N is an integer larger than or equal to 3) information recording layers of rewritable or recordable type, each of the information recording layers includes an test area to adjust conditions for recording and reproduction and the test areas are arranged so that the radial positions thereof overlap those of other layers. Recording test is performed only to an area smaller than or equal to 1/N of the test area of each layer and any other area is always unrecorded (write inhibited).
US07933180B2	Optical information reproducing method and apparatus for performing reproduction compensation The present invention provides an optical information reproducing method of detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising the steps of: detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length, and an optical information reproducing apparatus for detecting a record mark formed in an optical information recording medium and generating a reproduced signal, comprising: a detection circuit for detecting a mark length of each record mark on basis of a reproduced signal, and a correction circuit for correcting the reproduced signal by a correction amount corresponding to the detected mark length.
US07933177B2	Optical pickup apparatus, optical read/write apparatus, and gap control method An optical pickup apparatus includes a light source, focusing optics, a light detector, a controller, and a drive unit. The drive unit first drives the focusing optics to a specific position on an information recording medium. Light from the light source irradiates the information recording medium via the focusing optics as near-field light. Light reflected off the medium due to total internal reflection is then detected by the light detector, generating a gap error signal as a result. The controller then generates a gap servo signal by conducting a feed-forward control, whereby a push-pull signal in the direction orthogonal to the relative travel direction of the medium is applied to the gap error signal. In so doing, precise control of the gap size between the focusing optics and the information recording medium is achieved for near-field read/write operations.
US07933175B2	Optical disk drive In an optical disc drive that needs an aberration correcting element for correcting spherical aberrations, it takes long time to conduct a processing operation of the aberration correcting element in an interlayer movement of a multilayer disc and a drive initializing operation. In order to eliminate the problem, an optical disc drive using a pickup includes a focus actuator for moving an objective lens in a rotation axis direction of a disc, a tracking actuator for moving the objective lens in a radial direction of the disc, an aberration corrector for correcting aberrations, and a feeder for moving the pickup in the disc radial direction. A control operation of the aberration corrector and a control operation of the feeder are conducted in parallel.
US07933167B2	Sonar imaging system with a synthetic aperture A synthetic antenna sonar system, includes: a sonar provided with emission elements and reception elements, the reception elements including a composite physical antenna having N transducers, the sonar being located on a mobile carrier; an inertial unit arranged on the carrier and suitable for measuring instantaneous position and orientation informations of the carrier; a common clock supplying a temporal signal enabling the synchronization of both the inertial unit and the sonar; elements for determining the instantaneous speed of the carrier, the determined speed feeding the inertial unit to correct the drift thereof; and micronavigation elements enabling an image of the seafloor to be obtained through formation of the synthetic antenna channels from K sonar operation recurrences, considering that the physical antenna movement during the carrier displacement is fully known from the informations measured by the inertial unit.
US07933164B2	Using towed seismic surveys that do not have coinciding streamer positions in the time lapse analysis of a producing field A technique includes performing at least one intervening towed seismic survey after a prior towed seismic survey and before a future towed seismic survey. The prior towed seismic survey has associated first streamer positions, and the future towed seismic survey has associated second streamer positions that do not coincide with the first streamer positions. The technique includes using measurements that are acquired in the intervening towed seismic survey(s) to link the prior towed seismic survey to the future towed seismic survey for time lapse analysis involving the prior and future towed seismic surveys.
US07933162B2	Row addressing Embodiments are provided that include a row decoder, including a row activation path, having a row address converter with an output coupled to an input of a section replacement detector. Further embodiments provide a method including mapping an external row address to an internal row address, wherein the internal row address comprises a section address, determining whether a section corresponding to the section address includes an error, and if the section includes an error, converting the internal row address to a redundant row address, wherein mapping the external row address to the internal row address is initiated prior to determining whether the section replacement should be performed. Further embodiments include a method for receiving a row address for a row in a memory section including a non-2^n number of normal rows and mapping the row address to a redundant row address by substracting a value from the row address.
US07933160B2	High speed carbon nanotube memory In order to realize high speed carbon nanotube memory, bit line is multi-divided into short lines for reducing parasitic capacitance. For reading, a small local sense amp is composed of a local pre amplifier and a local main amplifier with high gain, and a simple global sense amp is composed of an inverter as amplifying circuit for receiving an output of the local sense amp through a global bit line. By the sense amps, time domain sensing scheme is realized such that a voltage difference in the bit line is converted to a time difference as an output of the global sense amp, for differentiating high data and low data. In this manner, fast read operation is realized with fast sensing circuit. And alternative circuits are described. Particularly, field-effect alignment process is realized for aligning the carbon nanotubes on exact location of the memory cell, when forming the memory cell.
US07933155B2	Memory device with reduced buffer current during power-down mode A memory device comprises a memory array, at least one buffer coupled to the memory array, and test circuitry coupled to the buffer. The buffer comprises switching circuitry configured to multiplex first and second inputs of the buffer to a given output of the buffer based at least in part on a control signal generated by the test circuitry. The control signal is generated as a function of both a test signal indicative of a test mode of operation of the memory device and a power-down signal indicative of a power-down mode of operation of the memory device. The buffer further comprises current reduction circuitry responsive to the control signal for reducing an amount of current consumed by the buffer in the power-down mode of operation. The buffer may comprise an input data buffer or an address buffer of the memory device.
US07933154B2	Non-volatile memory device for reducing layout area of global wordline decoder and operation method thereof A non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array from which data is read via a plurality of bitlines, which includes a plurality of memory cells having gates respectively connected with a plurality of wordlines, a first type global wordline decoder configured to selectively apply n different voltages, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 3, to a corresponding wordline of the plurality of wordlines in a program mode, and a second type global wordline decoder configured to selectively apply (n−1) different voltages to a corresponding wordline of the plurality of wordlines in the program mode, the second type global wordline decoder having fewer switching elements than the first type global wordline decoder.
US07933151B2	Non-volatile semiconductor storage device Memory strings includes: a first semiconductor layer including a columnar portion extending in a direction perpendicular to a substrate; a first electric charge storage layer formed to surround a side surface of the columnar portion; and a first conductive layer formed to surround the first electric charge storage layer. First selection transistors includes: a second semiconductor layer extending upward from a top surface of the columnar portion; a second electric charge storage layer formed to surround a side surface of the second semiconductor layer; and a second conductive layer formed to surround the second electric charge storage layer. The non-volatile semiconductor storage device further includes a control circuit that causes, prior to reading data from a selected one of the memory strings, electric charges to be accumulated in the second electric charge storage layer of one of the first selection transistors connected to an unselected one of the memory strings.
US07933150B2	Nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and programming method thereof A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and a programming method thereof are provided. The programming method includes first programming a cell among a plurality of adjacent memory cells to the highest threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a data state, and subsequently programming the other adjacent cells to the lower threshold voltage distributions corresponding to second and third data states. The second data state and the third data state may have the second highest threshold voltage distribution and the third highest threshold voltage distribution, respectively, or the third highest threshold voltage distribution and the second highest threshold voltage distribution, respectively.
US07933149B2	Non-volatile memory device A non-volatile memory device and a method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes the steps of: providing a semiconductor substrate having isolation layers in an isolation region, a tunnel insulating layer formed between the isolation layers, and first electron charge layers formed between the isolation layers, wherein the isolation layers comprise projections extending higher than the semiconductor substrate; etching the first electron charge layers, thereby reducing the thickness of the first electron charge layers and exposing sidewalls of the isolation layers; performing a first etch process to reduce the width of the projections; forming second electron charge layers between the projections on the first electron charge layers; and performing a second etch process to remove the projections between the second electron charge layers.
US07933147B2	Sensing circuit of a phase change memory and sensing method thereof A sensing circuit of a phase change memory. The sensing circuit comprises a data current source and a reference current source, a storage memory device and a reference memory device, a storage switch and a reference switch, an auxiliary current source and a comparator. First terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device are respectively coupled to the data current source and the reference current source. The storage switch and the reference switch are respectively coupled to second terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device. The auxiliary current source is dynamically coupled to the first terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device. The comparator is coupled to the first terminals of the storage memory device and the reference memory device.
US07933146B2	Electronic devices utilizing spin torque transfer to flip magnetic orientation Electronic devices that include (i) a magnetization controlling structure; (ii) a tunnel barrier structure; and (iii) a magnetization controllable structure including: a first polarizing layer; and a first stabilizing layer, wherein the tunnel barrier structure is between the magnetization controlling structure and the magnetization controlling structure and the first polarizing layer is between the first stabilizing layer and the tunnel barrier structure, wherein the electronic device has two stable overall magnetic configurations, and wherein a first unipolar current applied to the electronic device will cause the orientation of the magnetization controlling structure to reverse its orientation and a second unipolar current applied to the electronic device will cause the magnetization controllable structure to switch its magnetization in order to obtain one of the two stable overall magnetic configurations, wherein the second unipolar current has an amplitude that is less than the first unipolar current.
US07933145B2	Nonvolatile magnetic memory device A nonvolatile magnetic memory device includes a magnetoresistance effect element that includes: a layered structure having a recording layer; a first wiring electrically connected to a lower part of the layered structure; a second wiring electrically connected to an upper part of the layered structure; and an interlayer insulation layer surrounding the layered structure. The magnetoresistance effect element further includes a low Young modulus region having a Young modulus lower than that of a material forming the interlayer insulation layer. The recording layer has an easy magnetization axis, and a hard magnetization axis orthogonal to the easy magnetization axis. When the magnetostriction constant λ of a material forming the recording layer is a positive value or a negative value, the low Young modulus region is disposed in an extension region of the easy magnetization axis or in an extension region of the hard magnetization axis of the recording layer, respectively.
US07933141B2	Semiconductor memory device In a semiconductor memory device, a memory cell is connected with a local sense amplifier and a global sense amplifier via a local bit line and a global bit line. The local sense amplifier is a single-ended sense amplifier including a single MOS transistor, which detects a potential of the local bit line which varies when reading and writing data with the memory cell. The threshold voltage of the MOS transistor is monitored so as to produce a high-level write voltage and a low-level write voltage, which are corrected and shifted based on the monitoring result so as to properly perform a reload operation on the memory cell by the global local sense amplifier. Thus, it is possible to cancel out temperature-dependent variations of the threshold voltage and shifting of the threshold voltage due to dispersions of manufacturing processes.
US07933139B2	One-transistor, one-resistor, one-capacitor phase change memory Memory devices and methods for operating such devices are described herein. A memory cell as described herein comprises a transistor electrically coupled to first and second access lines. A programmable resistance memory element is arranged along a current path between the first and second access lines. A capacitor is electrically coupled to the current path between the first and second access lines.
US07933134B2	Semiconductor memory device having a plurality of chips and capability of outputting a busy signal One package contains a plurality of memory chips. Each memory chip has an I/O terminal which generates a busy signal. The busy signal enables a busy state when a power supply voltage value reaches a specified and guaranteed range after a power-on sequence. The busy signal maintains the busy state until completion of initialization operations for the plurality of memory chips. The busy signal releases the busy state after completion of all initialization operations for the plurality of memory chips.
US07933132B2	Synchronizing frequency and phase of multiple variable frequency power converters In an embodiment, a power converter system includes a plurality of variable frequency power converters and a plurality of synchronization circuits. Each variable frequency power converter has a switching frequency. Each synchronization circuit is associated with a respective one of the plurality of variable frequency power converters. A control circuit is coupled to and coordinates the plurality of synchronization circuits. The plurality of synchronization circuits and the control circuit are operable to synchronize the switching frequencies of the variable frequency power converters to each other. Each synchronization circuit is operable to: receive a first input signal indicative of the beginning of a switching period for the associated variable frequency power converter; receive a second input signal indicative of the end of the switching period for the associated variable frequency power converter; generate a first output signal for directing a pulse width modulation of the associated variable frequency power converter; and generate a second output signal for coordinating a phase relationship with another variable frequency power converter in the system.
US07933129B2	Adjustable auxiliary expansion card retainer An adjustable expansion card retainer comprises a first supporting frame and a second supporting frame with a front end thereof pivotally coupled to a rear end of the first supporting frame; a compressing end of the first supporting frame can be rotated to a proper angle relatively to a lower side of the second supporting frame. The compressing end of the first supporting frame is allowed to adjust downward amount movement substantially by sliding a first slide unit of the first supporting frame forward a proper distance relatively to a first fixing unit. Whereby, various expansion cards with different height can be respectively compressed to enable an auxiliary expansion card retainer to be suitable for fixing various expansion cards with different height.
US07933123B2	Portable electronic device with two-piece housing Portable electronic devices are provided. Each device may be formed from two parts. A first part may be provided with components such as a display, a touch screen, a cover glass, and a frame. A second part may be provided with a plastic housing, circuit boards containing electrical components, and a bezel. Engagement members may be connected to the first and second parts. The engagement members may be formed from metal clips with holes and springs with flexible spring prongs that mate with the holes in the clips. The metal clips may be welded to frame struts on the frame and the springs may be welded to the bezel. During assembly, the first part may be rotated into place within the second part. Retention clips attached to the frame may be used to secure the two parts together. Assembly instructions and associated connector numbers may be provided within the devices.
US07933122B2	Protective enclosure for a computer Disclosed is a three-layer protective enclosure that provides resistance to water, dust, dirt, and bump protection for sensitive computers. In one embodiment, an inner membrane layer is provided, which is a thin, flexible layer that protects portions of a computer and allows the user to interact with keyboards, push buttons and other interactive features of the computer. A protective hard shell fits tightly over the membrane and provides additional sealing and rigidity to the protective enclosure. A stretchable cushion layer is placed over the hard shell which conforms to the hard shell and seals moisture, dust and dirt from entering the hard shell. The stretchable cushion layer provides cushioning and also allows access to certain controls on the computer. In another embodiment, a touch screen cover may be used with, or without, a membrane over other portions of the computer.
US07933113B2	Multilayer electronic component and method for manufacturing multilayer electronic component A method for manufacturing a laminated ceramic capacitor includes a step of preparing a laminate which has a first principal surface, a second principal surface, a first end surface, a second end surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface and which includes insulating layers and internal electrodes having end portions exposed at the first or second end surface; a step of forming external electrodes on the first and second end surfaces such that plating deposits are formed on the exposed end portions of the internal electrodes so as to be connected to each other; and a step of forming thick end electrodes electrically connected to the external electrodes such that a conductive paste is applied onto edge portions of the first and second principal surfaces and first and second side surfaces of the laminate and then baked.
US07933104B2	Safety switching apparatus for a failsafe disconnection of an electrical load A safety switching apparatus for failsafe disconnection of an electrical load has a first and a second connecting terminal for connecting a first signaling switch and a third and a fourth connecting terminal for connecting a second signaling switch. It also has a first and a second output switching element, which are designed to produce a redundant output switching signal. The first connecting terminal is connected to a first potential and the third connecting terminal is connected to a second potential. The potentials differ from one another. In addition, the second connecting terminal is coupled to the first switching element in such a way that the first switching element receives the first potential via the first signaling switch. Likewise, the fourth connecting terminal is coupled to the second switching element in such a way that the second switching element receives the second potential via the second signaling switch. According to one aspect of the invention, a circuit arrangement is provided for determining at least one further potential at the second and/or fourth connecting terminal, and said circuit arrangement is designed to control the redundant output switching signal as a function of the further potential.
US07933097B1	Disk drive head suspension with damper hinge A disk drive head suspension includes a load beam, a flexure for carrying a magnetic head slider, a base mounting structure for coupling the head suspension to a disk drive actuation system, a hinge, and a damping material. The load beam includes a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The flexure is attached to and supported by the load beam. The hinge is attached to the base mounting structure and to the load beam and includes a constraint layer portion extending toward the distal end portion of the load beam. The damping material is located between and in contact with the constraint layer portion of the hinge and the load beam for damping resonance vibrations in the head suspension.
US07933092B1	Method and apparatus for estimating a position of a head in a disk drive In a method for providing an estimate of a head position for a disk drive, a readback signal is filtered. The readback signal includes a first position signal component corresponding to a first position pattern on a disk, and includes a second position signal component corresponding to a second position pattern on the disk. Filtering the readback signal includes using a filter determined based on statistical information regarding a noise component of the readback signal. An estimate of an amplitude of the first position signal component is generated based on the filtered readback signal, and an estimate of an amplitude of the second position signal component is generated based on the filtered readback signal. An estimate of a head position with respect to a track on the disk is generated based on the estimate of the amplitude of the first position signal component and the estimate of the amplitude of the second position signal component.
US07933091B2	Magnetic disk drive and control method thereof Embodiments of the present invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of easily suppressing degradation of position error caused by disturbance resulting from vibration from the outside. According to one embodiment, the magnetic disk drive acquires, during a period of time of track following control, data necessary for determining a filtering characteristic required to newly be specified in a peak filter; in association with the start of subsequent seek control, determines the filtering characteristic required to be specified in the peak filter; and specifies the determined filtering characteristic in the peak filter.
US07933088B2	Disk drive having a disk of discrete-track media type According to one embodiment, a disk drive has a DTM type disk. The DTM type disk has a servo area on one recording surface. In the servo area, a servo pattern is recorded. The servo pattern is composed of a projection-depression pattern and an N- and P-pole magnetic pattern. The N- and P-pole magnetic pattern is recorded in an address-data region that contains a cylinder code.
US07933087B1	Disk drive storing parameters of a write operation in a plurality of data sectors A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk having a plurality of data sectors, and a head actuated over the disk. The disk drive further comprises control circuitry operable to execute a write operation for writing data to the disk. A first part of the data is written to a first data sector together with a first sector signature data (SSD) record comprising a first parameter of the write operation and a first id that identifies the first parameter. A second part of the data is written to a second data sector together with a second SSD record comprising a second parameter of the write operation and a second id that identifies the second parameter.
US07933086B2	Power supply voltage supply circuit and disk apparatus Aspects of the present embodiment are related to a power supply voltage supply circuit and the disk apparatus that are capable of reducing power consumption in data writing and reading. The power supply voltage supply circuit includes a data processing unit writing data onto a disk medium and/or reading data from the disk medium=having a plurality of zones assigned a cylinder number, a data input-output unit transmitting data to the data processing unit at a transfer rate in accordance with the zones, a power supply voltage supply unit supplying a voltage to the data input-output unit and a control unit controlling the power supply voltage supply unit in order to supply the voltage in accordance with the transfer rate.
US07933085B2	Head spacing verification in magnetic disk drive systems during end-user operation Magnetic disk drive systems and associated methods are described for verifying a spacing between read/write heads on a slider and a magnetic recording disk during end-user operation. An operating power applied to heating elements in the slider controls the spacing due to thermal protrusion. While in end-user operation, the operating power is temporarily increased to a test power to decrease the spacing. The test power is then evaluated to determine if contact between the read/write heads and the magnetic recording disk is detected. If contact is not detected, then the spacing due to the operating power is determined to be adequate. If contact is detected, then the operating power is recalibrated.
US07933083B2	Diaphragm device A diaphragm device with which individual wavelengths or ranges of wavelengths in the path of a beam of spectrally dispersed light can be suppressed. Such a diaphragm device comprises at least one array of diaphragms, wherein the individual diaphragms of the array are arranged in a definite relation to each other and may be coupled in the path of the beam and each diaphragm of the array in the coupled state is arranged in a given relation to an individual wavelength or a range of wavelengths.
US07933082B2	Lens device A monitoring lens device includes a focus ring that is provided in an outer circumferential portion of a fixed cylinder and a zoom ring that is provided in an outer circumferential portion of the focus ring. A screw hole that is engaged with a shaft portion of a lock knob is formed in the focus ring, and an opening portion (long groove) through which the lock knob passes is formed in the zoom ring. A spacer is attached to the lock knob and a convex portion of the spacer is fitted into the opening portion.
US07933081B2	Focusing device and imaging device A focusing device of simple construction that is miniaturizable, and an imaging device utilizing the same, are provided. A focusing device (10) comprises an actuator (11), a lens holder (12) that holds lenses (13a) and (13b), and a holder support base (14) upon which the lens holder (12) is installed. The actuator (11) comprises a polymer layer (51), a positive electrode (52) that is formed upon the holder support base (14), and a negative electrode (53) that is formed upon the lens holder (12). When the applied voltage between the positive electrode (52) and the negative electrode (53) rises, the polymer layer (51) deforms radially outward along the positive electrode (52). Along with this deformation of the polymer layer (51), the actuator (11) moves the lens holder (12) along the optical axis.
US07933077B1	Wide-angle imaging lens module A wide-angle imaging lens module includes a fixed aperture diaphragm, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens arranged from an object side to an image side in a sequence of: the first lens of a negative refractive power with a meniscus shape, having a concave surface on the image side and at least one aspheric surface; the diaphragm; the second lens of a positive refractive power, having a convex surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface; the third lens of a negative refractive power, having a concave surface on the image side and at least one aspheric surface; the fourth lens of a positive refractive power, having a convex surface on the object side and at least one aspheric surface.
US07933074B2	Zoom lens unit and information device A zoom lens unit, including in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens group having a positive refracting power; a second lens group having a negative refracting power; a third lens group having a positive refracting power; and a fourth lens group having a positive refracting power, an aperture stop being disposed on an object side of the third lens group, wherein the third lens group has at least two positive lenses and one negative lens, wherein all the positive lenses of the third lens group satisfy the following formula: (1) −0.005865νd3p+0.93226<θgF3p<−0.005865νd3p+0.95226, where, νd3p represents an Abbe number of each of the positive lenses of the third lens group, and θgF3p represents a partial dispersion ratio of each of the positive lenses of the third lens group, defined by the formula: θgF3p=(ng−nF)/(nF−nC).
US07933070B2	Lens array, light emitting diode head, exposure device, image forming apparatus, and image reading apparatus A lens array includes a plurality of lens assembly members with a plurality of lenses and a light blocking member with a plurality of apertures arranged therein. The lens assembly members are arranged so that an optical axis of each of the lenses of one of the lens assembly members is aligned with an optical axis of each of the lenses of another of the lens assembly members.Further, the lens assembly members and the light blocking member are arranged so that the following relationship is satisfied: ( PX 2 ) 2 + ( PY 4 ) 2 ≤ RA ⁢ LO - F F where PY is a pitch of the lenses in one row, PX is a pitch of the rows, F is a focal length of each of the lenses, LO is a distance between each of the lenses and an object surface thereof, and RA is a distance between the optical axis and an inner surface of the aperture.
US07933069B2	Display device, display controlling method, and program A display device which is capable of generating more parallaxes without reducing resolution and an image quality, a display controlling method, and a program are provided. An aperture ratio of a light source is set as 1/N, and liquid lenses are disposed at distances of focal lengths of the first liquid lens and the second liquid lens from the light source, respectively. A position controlling portion changes a position of a nonpolar liquid by a size of each of luminescent pixels as represented by the first liquid lens and the second liquid lens, which results in that emitted lights from respective luminescent pixels pass through either the first liquid lens or the second liquid lens to be emitted in directions different from one another as shown in the form of lights. The present embodiments can be applied to a parallax image displaying device.
US07933068B2	Reconfigurable projection-screen system A reconfigurable projection-screen system. The projection-screen system includes a flexible screen and a frame assembly. The flexible screen includes a screen perimeter and a viewing region interior the screen perimeter. The frame assembly includes a plurality of frame members, where at least some of the plurality of frame members include a screen perimeter engaging portion. The plurality of frame members are selectively arrangeable in at least an assembled viewing configuration and a disassembled configuration. In the assembled viewing configuration the plurality of screen perimeter engaging portions extend the screen perimeter and hold the viewing region substantially flat. In the disassembled configuration the plurality of screen perimeter engaging portions allow the viewing region to fold.
US07933067B1	Flat field Schmidt telescope with extended field of view Various embodiments provide a flat field Schmidt-type telescope including a spherical primary mirror, an aspheric correcting plate spaced apart from the primary mirror, a detector disposed between the primary mirror and the corrector plate, and a field lens disposed between the primary mirror and the detector. The field lens is configured to reshape a curved field plane formed by the primary mirror into a flat field plane. A material of the field lens is selected to transmit in the infrared wavelength range (e.g., SWIR and/or MWIR) and is selected to have a desired refractive index so as to achieve a field of view (FOV) of the telescope greater than approximately 10 degrees.
US07933062B2	Electrophoretic fluid, electrophoretic display medium, electrophoretic display element, and electrophoretic display device A disclosed electrophoretic fluid includes a solvent; and first, second, and third dispersible particles having different optical properties and dispersed in the solvent, the first dispersible particles being uncharged, the second dispersible particles being positively-charged electrophoretic particles, and the third dispersible particles being negatively-charged electrophoretic particles.
US07933058B2	Thermochromic component and thermochromic display apparatus using the same A thermochromic component includes a thermochromic module and a heater. The heater is thermally coupled with the thermochromic module. The heater includes a carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure directly transfers heat to the thermochromic module. A thermochromic display apparatus also is provided. The thermochromic display apparatus uses the thermochromic component.
US07933057B2	Oscillator device, optical deflector and image forming apparatus using the optical deflector An oscillation system includes first and second oscillation movable elements supported by respective elastic supporting elements. The oscillation system has a first natural oscillation mode of a resonance frequency f1 and a second natural oscillation mode of a resonance frequency of f2 which is approximately N-fold of f1 where N is a natural number. A control device determines set driving frequencies Df1 and Df2 in accordance with a predetermined equation while satisfying a relation Df2=N×Df1 and drives the oscillation system at the set driving frequencies through a driving member.
US07933055B2	Laser scanner A laser scanner for detecting spatial surroundings comprises a stator (21), a rotor (1), mounted on the stator (21) to be rotatable about a first rotational axis, and a rotary body (2), mounted on the rotor (1) to be rotatable about a second rotational axis. A laser source (6) and a detector (7) are arranged in the rotor (1). One optical link (9) each is configured on the second rotational axis on every side of the rotary body (2) between the rotor (1) and the rotary body (2) so that emission light can be introduced by the laser source into the rotary body (2) via the first optical link (8) and reception light can be discharge from the rotary body (2) via the second optical link (9). A first rotary drive (25) drives the rotor (21) and a second rotary drive (26) drives the rotary body (2). Two goniometers (4) and evaluation electronics (5) which are connected to the laser source (6) and the detector (7) allow association of a detected distance with a corresponding direction. The rotary body (2) can have a very compact design, is completely passive and therefore does not require any power supply or transmission of signals.
US07933053B2	Fine tuning color dictionaries A spot color dictionary is fine tuned or updated. Localized color production models are determined for spot colors of interest to be produced by an associated document processing system or printer. Measurements are made of colors of produced spot colors. Optionally, measurements are made of colors of test patches that are based on perturbations from the colors of the spot colors. In determining a model for the production of a target spot color, measurement data related to colors that are closer in color space to a given target color is given a higher weight than is measurement data related to colors that are further in color space from the target color. Accordingly, the model is localized to the region of color space about the target color and therefore, more accurately predicts a colorant recipe for the target color than would interpolation based on a full gamut, or more general model.
US07933052B2	Document feeder and image capturing device Document feeder and image capturing device preventing empty stamping associated with improper positioning of printing unit. Document feeder A, conveying document originals from a document placement location, along a predetermined conveyance path (12), and to a document information-capturing location (5, 6), is furnished with: a printing unit (8), which is shiftable along the document widthwise direction approximately orthogonal to the document conveyance direction, and is for carrying out predetermined printing onto conveyed documents; and a detection unit (S4), provided in the conveyance path further upstream in the conveyance direction than the printer unit (8), that detects whether a conveyed document will pass inside the limits of the range in which the printer unit (8) prints.
US07933051B2	Program startup apparatus, control method thereof, and medium storing program A program startup apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire type information indicating a kind of a read document, an identification unit configured to identify a program for an image forming apparatus corresponding to the type information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a startup unit configured to start the program identified by the identification unit.
US07933046B2	Print engine controller for image processing page data A print engine controller is provided for an inkjet printhead. The print engine controller receives page data representing a page to be printed, the page data having a bi-level black layer in a compressed format and a contone layer in a compressed format. The processor is configured to decompress the bi-level black layer and the contone layer of the page data, halftone the decompressed contone layer to form a bi-level cyan, yellow, magenta, and black (CYMK) layer, composite the decompressed bi-level black layer over the bi-level CYMK layer to form a bi-level CYMK image of the page to be printed and carry out processing operations for printing the CMYK image.
US07933045B2	Color conversion system and method A processor is provided that includes a primary memory and color conversion logic. The primary memory may store a first color look-up table (LUT) related to a second color space. The color conversion logic, in response to a received set of pixels having color values in a first color space, converts the received set of pixels to a second color space. The color conversion logic selectively accesses, based on a comparison of one or more pixel parameters to a threshold, one of the primary memory and a secondary memory located on a second device to obtain a color value of the second color space that is associated with each pixel of the set of pixels. The color conversion logic monitors the number of times that each of the primary memory and the secondary memory are accessed and automatically adjusts the threshold to maintain an access ratio.
US07933042B2	Image document creation device, method for printing image document, program for printing image document, and recording medium According to one embodiment of the invention, an image document creation apparatus is provided so as to be connectable to a plurality of image forming apparatuses that have been arranged on a network, and has a configuration provided with an acquisition means that acquires color gamut information possessed by the image forming apparatuses; an identification means that identifies colors included in document data and/or image data saved in the image document creation apparatus; a color difference calculation means that calculates, for each of the image forming apparatuses, a color difference between the colors identified by the identification means and the color gamut information acquired by the acquisition means; an apparatus selection means that selects an image forming apparatus as a print target based on the calculated color difference; and a printing means that instructs the selected image forming apparatus to print the document data and/or the image data.
US07933039B2	Apparatus, method, and computer program product for forming image An image reading unit reads an image as a first image represented in a first color space. A color converting unit converts the first image into a second image represented in a second color space. A storing unit stores therein the first image and the second image. A printing unit prints the second image stored in the storing unit.
US07933038B2	System for delivering greeting using interactive form A system is provided for delivering a greeting using an interactive form. The system has means for generating print data to include an interactive element associated with the delivery of the greeting card and an identity indicative of the interactive element, and means for transferring the generated print data to a printer. The printer is responsive to the received print data to print the form with the interactive element and coded data encoding the identity coincident with the interactive element such the interaction with the printed interactive element using a sensing device enales sensing of the coded data.
US07933036B2	Electric appliance setting system, image processing apparatus, electric appliance, and program product therefor An electric appliance setting system, comprising an image processing apparatus with an image scanning system, at least one electric appliance, which is communicably connected with the image processing apparatus through a network, is provided. The image processing apparatus includes a setting sheet print controlling system and a setting data transmission system. The at least one electric appliance includes a setting sheet data transmission system and a setting modifying system.
US07933035B2	Printing system, job processing method, printing apparatus, storage medium, and program A printing system capable of increasing the working efficiency of an operator engaged in a post-process necessary after printing can be provided. For this purpose, the user interface unit can execute a display which allows the operator to explicitly input, for each job, instruction information in consideration of a post-process necessary after a printing process in a job requiring a printing process by a printing apparatus in a printing system capable of stacking, on a stacking unit, printed materials having undergone the printing process. When the job to be processed is a job for which the operator inputs the instruction information via the display, printed materials of the job for which the operator inputs the instruction information are stacked on the stacking unit while the printed materials are classified every printed materials on the basis of the instruction information input by the operator for the job.
US07933033B2	Image forming apparatus, image processing method, image processing program and recording medium An image forming apparatus that functions as a client of a distributed file system is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a distributed file system process part for mounting a file system of a server apparatus on the image forming apparatus to enable the image forming apparatus to access the file system of the server apparatus as the distributed file system of the image forming apparatus; and a storing process part for accessing the file system of the server apparatus and storing, in the file system, information that is stored in a storage unit used by the image forming apparatus.
US07933030B2	Printer driver product, print control unit, print system, and print control method A product of printer driver which operates on an operating system making a computer execute a conversion processing to convert data in electronic document format into data in bitmap format, the printer driver further making the computer execute, an accepting process which accepts from the operating system print target data in electronic document format, a first outputting process which generates, based on the print target data in electronic document format, print data in a command language format capable for interpretation by a printer as a control target and outputs the print data thus generated to the printer, and a second outputting process which requests the operating system to convert the print target data in electronic document format into bitmap data, and outputs print data based on the bitmap data thus converted to the printer, and the first outputting process and the second outputting process are selectively performed.
US07933028B2	Image recording system and program A bypass transporting path apparatus is disposed on a color image recording apparatus and a transporting path connecting apparatus is disposed between a front portion of a monochrome image recording apparatus and a rear portion of the color image recording apparatus. This system includes an operational state monitoring portion that monitors the operational states of the color image recording apparatus and the monochrome image recording apparatus, and a power supply controlling portion that performs control based on the operational states of the color image recording apparatus and the monochrome image recording apparatus to shift any one image recording apparatus to a power saving state and to make the other image recording apparatus wait in a recordable state.
US07933020B1	System and method for reducing laser phase noise in a resonator fiber optic gyroscope A resonator gyroscope comprises a reference laser generator to produce a reference light; a first slave light source to produce a first slave light locked to the reference light; a second slave light source to produce a second slave light locked to the reference light; a resonator coupled to said first and second light sources, the resonator having first and second counter-propagating directions and resonance tracking electronics coupled to the Sagnac resonator to generate a first beat frequency based on a first resonance frequency for the first counter-propagating direction, a second beat frequency based on a second resonance frequency for the second counter-propagating direction, and a third beat frequency based on a third resonance frequency for the second counter-propagating direction; wherein the rotational rate of the resonator gyroscope is a function of the first, second and third beat frequencies.
US07933017B2	Device, system and method for characterizing a colour device A method for characterizing a color reproduction device. A first output color measure responding to a first reference input color value is measured under normal measurement conditions. The measurement conditions are modified and a second output color measure responding to the first reference input color value is measured under the modified measurement conditions. A transformation rule, enabling transformation between the second output color measure and the first output color measure, is calculated from the first color value and the second color value. A first set of output color measures responding to a set of input color values is measured under modified measurement conditions, and the first set of output color measures is converted, using the transformation rule, to a second set of output color measures. A system and a control device are also provided.
US07933005B2	Modified method and apparatus for measuring analytes A device for measuring a compound with in a sample both non-invasively and invasively is provided. The devise comprised a source of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) operatively coupled to a power source, one or more receptors and a detector. The one or more receptors shaped to receive a body part and a sample holder and optically coupled to the source of EMR by one or more radiation guiding elements. The radiation guiding element comprising an input in operable association with the source of EMR, and an output in operable association with a detector and coupled to a processing system.
US07932996B2	Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and device fabrication method An exposure apparatus forms an immersion area by supplying a liquid onto a part of a substrate, and forms a prescribed pattern on the substrate through the liquid. A spare immersion area, which is capable of holding part of the liquid on the substrate, is formed at the outer circumference of the immersion area. It is possible to prevent the separation of the liquid, which is disposed between a lower surface of a projection optical system and a substrate surface, from the lower surface of the projection optical system in accordance with the relative movement of the projection optical system and the substrate.
US07932993B2	Divided sub-image array scanning and exposing system An “image writing” and “image reading” system and method for providing a pattern to a subject such as a wafer is provided or an image to an image sensor such as CCD. The system includes a pixel panel, such as a digital mirror device or a liquid crystal display or other SLM, for generating for creating a plurality of sub-image array of the pattern in “image writing” case. The pixel elements are simultaneously divided to a sub-image array on the subject by a lens system. The system also includes a stage for moving, stepping or scanning the pixel panel, relative to the subject so that it can create a contiguous whole image on the subject.
US07932992B2	Projection exposure apparatus, cleaning and maintenance methods of a projection exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method A projection exposure apparatus that exposes a substrate with a liquid interposed between a surface of the substrate and an optical element on the substrate side of a projection optical system; includes liquid supply and discharge mechanisms, which supply the liquid via a liquid supply tube as they recover the liquid via a liquid recovery tube, and an adhesion preventing mechanism that prevents an adhesion of impurities on member forming a flow path for the liquid.
US07932988B2	Layout of liquid crystal display panels and size of mother substrate A layout of LCD panels and a size of the mother substrate are disclosed, to improve the efficiency in arrangement of the LCD panels, and to maximize the substrate efficiency, the layout comprising a mother substrate; a dummy region of 15 mm or less in a periphery of the mother substrate; and six LCD panels of the 26-inch model in a matrix of 2×3 on the mother substrate excluding the dummy region with a margin corresponding to 2 ˜4% of a length of the LCD panel.
US07932987B2	Liquid crystal display having heating layer and method of making the same An LCD includes a first substrate, a heating layer formed on the first substrate, an insulating layer having a first opening formed on the heating layer, at least one switching device, two contact pads formed on the insulating layer, and respectively electrically connected to the scan line and the data line, a capacitor, a bridge electrode formed in the first opening, a passivation layer covering the switching device and the capacitor, a pixel electrode formed on the passivation layer and electrically connected to the drain of the switching device, a second substrate having a common electrode disposed on the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The source of the switching device is connected to the data line. The passivation layer has a plurality of second openings respectively exposing the contact pads and the bridge electrode, wherein the bridge electrode is electrically disconnected from the contact pads.
US07932986B2	Liquid crystal display comprising a first signal line including a first portion and second portion, wherein the cross-section of the second portion is thinner than the cross-section of the first portion, and wherein a spacer overlaps the second portion A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate, a first signal line formed on the first substrate, the first signal line including a first portion and a second portion, wherein the second portion is thinner than the first portion, a second signal line insulated from the first signal line, the second signal line crossing the first signal line, a thin film transistor connected to the second signal line, a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor, an insulating layer formed on the first signal line, the second signal line, and the thin film transistor, the insulating layer including a first portion and a second portion, a first spacer formed on the first portion of the insulating layer, and a second spacer formed on the second portion of the insulating layer, wherein the second portion of the insulating layer overlaps the second portion of the first signal line, and the first portion and the second portion of the insulating layer have different surface heights.
US07932975B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a reflective liquid crystal panel (20) having a liquid crystal panel polarization plate (22), a polarization plate (32) provided on a front surface side of the polarization plate (22) with its absorption axis in parallel with an absorption axis of the polarization plate (22), and a negative C plate (31) provided between the liquid crystal panel polarization plate (22) and the polarization plate (32). The negative C plate (31) sets a direction in which viewing limitation is carried out. Thus, it is possible to provide the liquid crystal display device in which a viewing angle can be narrowed by freely setting, in the reflective liquid crystal panel, the direction in which the viewing limitation should be carried out.
US07932973B2	Electro-optical device having a color filter having color layers with different hues An electro-optical device includes a plurality of subpixel regions forming a display field and a color filter including a plurality of color layers of which at least one is of an additive primary color. The color layers have different color hues and at least two of the color layers are arranged in at least one of the subpixel regions so as not to overlap with each other in plan view. A method for manufacturing the electro-optical device includes forming the color layers such that at least two of the color layers are arranged in at least one of the subpixel regions so as not to overlap with each other in plan view. An electronic apparatus includes the electro-optical device.
US07932970B2	Two dimensional light source using light emitting diode and liquid crystal display device using the two dimensional light source A two-dimensional light source includes a base substrate having holes, wires disposed on a lower surface of the base substrate, a light emitting diode (LED) chip disposed on an upper surface of the base substrate, plugs that connect two electrodes of the LED chip to the wires through the holes, a buffer layer covering the LED chip, and an optical layer that is disposed on the buffer layer and has an optical pattern formed at a portion of the optical layer corresponding to the LED chip.
US07932966B2	Backlight device for liquid crystal display and method of fabricating the same A backlight device for a liquid crystal display includes a substrate, and a plurality of white, red, green, and blue light emitting diodes arranged on the substrate.
US07932965B2	Thin film transistor array panel and method for manufacturing the same A thin film transistor array panel includes a substrate, a data line and a gate electrode formed on the substrate, a insulating layer formed on the data line and the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer formed on the insulating layer, a drain electrode and a source electrode formed on the semiconductor layer, a passivation layer formed on the drain electrode and the source electrode including a first contact hole to expose a portion of the data line, a second contact hole to expose a portion of the source electrode, a third contact hole to expose a portion of the drain electrode, and a fourth contact hole to expose a portion of gate electrode, a first connector formed on the passivation layer and connected to the data line and the source electrode through the first contact hole and the second contact hole, a gate line formed on the passivation layer and connected to the gate electrode through the fourth contact hole, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode through the third contact hole.
US07932961B2	Liquid crystal display device having light blocking line disposed on same layer as gate line Active matrix display devices having improved opening and contrast ratios utilize light blocking lines to improve display contrast ratios yet position the light blocking lines on the same level of metallization as the gate lines to thereby limit parasitic capacitive coupling between the data lines and the pixel electrodes. The light blocking lines are also positioned on only one side of the data lines so that improvements in the display's opening ratio can also be achieved. The light blocking lines are preferably patterned so that no overlap occurs between a display's data lines and the light blocking lines. The elimination of overlap reduces the step height in the display's pixel electrodes and thereby reduces the extent of disclination of the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal material extending opposite the pixel electrodes. The light blocking lines are also preferably patterned beneath the display's data lines so that parasitic capacitive coupling between the data lines and the pixel electrodes is reduced. The light blocking lines are also preferably formed with beveled edges so that the step height in the display's pixel electrodes can be reduced even further.
US07932960B1	Integrator array for HUD backlighting An system for providing uniform and focused backlighting to a liquid crystal display (LCD) can be provided. The system can include at least one light source that emits light rays. The system can include at least one column having a first end positioned adjacent to the at least one light source, a second end adapted to be positioned adjacent to the LCD and a plurality of walls. The system can include an optical receptor coupled to the first end of the at least one column, which can include an angled side wall that can be coupled to the walls of the at least one column. The light rays from the at least one light source can be totally internally reflected by the angled side wall and walls to create at least one virtual light source to backlight the LCD.
US07932956B2	DTV transmitter and method of coding data in DTV transmitter A DTV transmitter includes a pre-processor pre-processing supplemental data, a multiplexer multiplexing pre-processed data with main data, and a byte-symbol converter converting each data byte of the multiplexed data into a symbol. It further includes a symbol processor processing each supplemental data symbol outputted from the byte-symbol converter. It encodes one of upper and lower bits of each supplemental data symbol into first and second data bits, post-decodes the first data bit, and outputs the post-decoded data bit and the second data bit as a symbol. The DTV transmitter further includes a symbol-byte converter converting each symbol outputted from the symbol processor into a data byte.
US07932953B2	Ambient light derived from video content by mapping transformations through unrendered color space Extracting and processing video content encoded in a rendered color space to be emulated by an ambient light source, comprising extracting color information from a video signal and transforming the color information through unrendered color space using tristprimary matrices to form a second rendered color space to drive the ambient light source. Video signal decoding into frames can allow extracting average or other color information from an selected screen regions to reduce bitstream load, and negative gamma correction helps prevent garish or inappropriate chromaticities and luminance.
US07932952B2	Light quantity adjusting device, optical system having the same, and image taking apparatus An optical performance is deteriorated by a minute phase difference of transmission wave front of an ND filter. In a light quantity adjusting device which includes an ND filter (P1) for attenuating a quantity of light passing through an aperture formed by diaphragm blades (S11 and S12) and in which a cover ratio of the aperture by the ND filter (P1) is changed, setting is conducted such that a phase difference between lights with a predetermined wavelength λ which pass through regions (N11, N12, and N13) of the ND filter (P1) with different transmittances inside the aperture becomes substantially 0λ, substantially 1λ, or substantially 2λ in a state in which the aperture is completely covered with the ND filter (P1).
US07932949B2	Manual focus adjustment apparatus and focus assisting program According to the present invention, when a lens is moved in an operation of an operation device, the focal information calculated for each travel position of the lens can be graphed corresponding to the lens position, and the focal information about the current lens position can be identified from the focal information about another position. Thus, a manual focus adjustment can be made while checking the graph. Especially, since the history of the focal information calculated for each lens travel position can be graphed, the lens can travel to the lens position in which a desired peak can be obtained when there are a plurality of peaks of focal information on the graph.
US07932946B2	Imaging apparatus and radiation imaging system The present invention aims to provide an imaging apparatus capable of reducing image unevenness even if a protective layer including a polarized solvent is used. The imaging apparatus of the present invention includes a plurality of pixels each having a conversion element and a TFT connected to the conversion element, a protective layer disposed over the plurality of pixels, a plurality of bias lines each electrically connected to each of the conversion elements, and a plurality of signal lines each electrically connected to each of the TFT. Then, the plurality of bias lines and the plurality of signal lines are alternately disposed at a predetermined interval within a region in the protective layer. Then, the plurality of bias lines is commonly connected through a connecting wiring on the outside of the region in the protective layer, and the connecting wiring is disposed to cross the plurality of signal lines.
US07932940B2	Apparatus for edge enhancement and peaking signal generation based on a target hue A viewfinder configured to display a captured image includes: an edge correction signal generation unit configured to generate a peaking signal corresponding to an edge enhancement correction target hue that is a hue for which edge enhancement correction will be performed from three primary color signals generated from an input video signal; a signal adding unit configured to add the peaking signal generated by the edge correction signal generation unit to each of the three primary color signals generated from the input video signal; and a driving signal generation unit configured to generate a driving signal for a display device from the three primary color signals to each of which the peaking signal has been added by the signal adding unit.
US07932935B2	Imaging apparatus capable of reducing deterioration of an image even when the gain increased An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to image an object, a gain adjustment unit configured to adjust a gain for an image signal output from the imaging unit, a signal processing unit configured to process the image signal, the signal processing unit including a first noise reduction unit to reduce a particular noise included in the image signal, an image compression unit configured to compress an image signal output from the signal processing unit, the image compression unit including a second noise reduction unit to reduce the particular noise included in the image signal output from the signal processing unit, and a control unit configured to set one of the first and second noise reduction units into an operative state and another unit into an inoperative state according to a gain adjustment by the gain adjustment unit.
US07932934B2	Image processing method and imaging apparatus using the same An image processing apparatus and an image processing method are provided. The image processing method is implemented by the apparatus, which receives and stores captured image data. Addresses for the captured image data are generated and stored in a look up table in memory along with color signal data that is stored in an additional data area. Output image data is generated by interpolating the address information in the lookup table to determine coordinate information for the output image. The output image coordinate information allows for drawing an output image with corrected image distortion, corrected perspective distortion, altered viewpoint from captured image, mirror-image conversion, or electronic zooming of the captured image. Color signal data from the additional data area is then used to draw an overlay on the output image in color.
US07932932B2	Method and apparatus for a chopped two-chip cinematography camera A method of capturing a color image includes steps of operating a first sensor of a camera to integrate a first charge over a first time interval, operating a second sensor of the camera to integrate a second charge over a second time interval and scanning the first and second sensors to readout the respective first and second charges during a third time interval. The first time interval overlaps the second time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the first time interval. The third time interval includes no overlapping time with the second time interval.
US07932930B2	Brightness correction for image A CPU determines whether or not a picked up image that corresponds to image data is a backlit portrait image by analyzing the image data on a pixel-by-pixel basis, and if the picked up image that corresponds to the image data is determined to be a backlit portrait image, then executes a brightness correction for backlit portrait image. The CPU obtains a tone curve that may have an output value of a predetermined value FV as an output value in response to an input value of a flesh-colored pixel average luminance value PV ave, which is an average luminance value of flesh-colored pixels of all pixels that constitute the image data. The CPU applies the tone curve to the luminance of every pixel in the image data and thereby executes the brightness correction.
US07932924B2	Image-shake correction apparatus The present invention provides an image-shake correction apparatus comprising: an image displacement device that displaces on an image forming plane an image formed by an image-capturing optical system; an image-shake correction device that displaces an image by use of the image displacement device in such a way as to cancel an image shake due to a vibration exerted on the image-capturing optical system; and an output device that outputs to a predetermined external apparatus information on image displacement by the image displacement device, in order to prevent the occurrence of defects due to image-shake correction, information on the image-shake correction can be supplied to an external apparatus that obtains capturing conditions of a camera and implements predetermined processing.
US07932920B2	Method and apparatus for video conferencing having dynamic picture layout A method and apparatus for conferencing dynamically determines conference parameters such as image layout, image resolution and bandwidth. The conference parameters are dynamically determined based on the number of participants or video sources or both that currently connect to the conference. Video signals received from connected sites are processed to provide a composite video signal according to defined conference parameters and the composite video signal is transmitted to the connected sites. Upon one or more other sites connecting to the conference or one or more of the connected sites disconnecting from the conference or both, such that the number of sites or sources currently connected in the conference changes, one or more conference parameters is redefined. The received video signals are processed according to the redefined conference parameters to provide a second composite video signal that is transmitted to the connected sites. The conference parameters include composite image layout, image resolution, and conference bandwidth rate.
US07932913B2	Method and apparatus for collating object An object collation method comprising a registration procedure for registering the registered data of a registered object in a database, and a collation procedure for collating the input image of a target object with the registered data. The registration procedure includes a step of storing the three-dimensional shape of the registered object and a texture space defined by a texture group indicating the luminance and/or color information of each position of the object surface under various illumination conditions. The collation procedure includes the steps of: generating an illumination fluctuation space defined by the image group under the various illumination conditions, at the location and position of the target object in the input image from the three-dimensional shape and the texture space; and collating the target object and the registered object based on the distance between the illumination fluctuation space and the input image.
US07932911B2	Processor for executing switch and translate instructions requiring wide operands A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width and accessible number of general purpose registers.
US07932910B2	System and software for performing matrix multiply extract operations A programmable processor and method for improving the performance of processors by expanding at least two source operands, or a source and a result operand, to a width greater than the width of either the general purpose register or the data path width. The present invention provides operands which are substantially larger than the data path width of the processor by using the contents of a general purpose register to specify a memory address at which a plurality of data path widths of data can be read or written, as well as the size and shape of the operand. In addition, several instructions and apparatus for implementing these instructions are described which obtain performance advantages if the operands are not limited to the width and accessible number of general purpose registers.
US07932908B1	Apparatus systems, and the methods for stimulating movement of a ball in response to a signal generated in an input device moved by a game player A sensing baseball game apparatus (10) has a game machine (12) connected to a television monitor (18). A bat input device (32) is provided with an acceleration sensor. An acceleration signal is transmitted by an infrared-ray LED (34) to an infrared-ray receiving part of the game machine (12) whereby the game machine (12) determines a moving speed of the bat input device (32) to calculate a moving parameter of a ball to be batted. Accordingly, a batted ball is moved in the game scene according to the parameter.
US07932902B2	Emitting raster and vector content from a single software component Technologies are described herein for emitting raster and vector content from a single software component. An application program maintains an in-memory representation of a document in an intermediate format. When the application program needs to render the document, it determines whether the target device is a raster or a vector device. The application program then utilizes a single software component to render the document for the target device. The application program provides an instruction to the software component as to whether the in-memory representation should be rendered as vector content or as raster content. In response to receiving the instruction, the software component retrieves the in-memory representation and renders it according to the instruction received from the application program. The rendered content is then provided to the target device.
US07932901B2	Timing generating circuit, display apparatus, and portable terminal A timing generating circuit with low power consumption and a small layout area, a display apparatus including the timing generating circuit as one peripheral driving circuit, and a portable terminal including the display apparatus as a display output section are provided. In the timing generating circuit, which is formed on an insulating substrate and generates output pulses SRFF1out to SRFFnout having different frequencies based on a master clock MCK, a clock generating circuit (11) generates an operating clock having a lower frequency than the master clock MCK frequency. Then, a counter section (12) operates based on this operating clock and successively outputs shifted pulses S/R1out to S/Rmount from shift registers (121-1) to (121-m). An output pulse generating section (13) generates output pulses SF1out to SFnout based on combinations of the shifted pulses S/R1out to S/Rmount.
US07932896B2	Techniques for reducing jitter for taps Distinguishing sloppy taps from sliding motions is disclosed using an algorithm that can take into account both a time instability factor Tinst and a touch instability factor Zinst. A limited amount of motion per frame can be subtracted off immediately following the detection of a touch event. Small lateral motions indicative of a sloppy tap can be suppressed, while fast finger motions indicative of a quick, long cursor movement can immediately pass through the filter without being suppressed by a significant amount. A motion pass-through suppression factor can be applied subtractively to motion in particular direction as a function of Zinst and Tinst, wherein Zinst can represent a suppression value given as a finger speed for a particular percentage change in touch instability per frame, and Tinst can represent a suppression value given as finger speed for a particular tpress.
US07932891B2	Driving method and system thereof for LCD multiple scan A multiple scan method for driving a display and a display therewith is provided. The multiple scan method is achieved by alternately driving the active pixels in the display twice or more times for expediting response time of these active pixels to reach the target luminance in the display. The pixels in the display are charged or discharged twice or more times within one frame period. By such design, the response time is shortened and quality for showing motion pictures is significantly improved.
US07932883B2	Sub-pixel mapping A method of mapping a four primary input signal to sets of four sub-pixels of a display device, the method including sub-sampling the input samples of the four primary input signal by assigning the first, second and third input signals of a particular input sample to the first, second and third sub-pixels, producing first, second and third primary colors of a particular set of four adjacent sub-pixels, respectively, and the fourth input signal of a further input sample to the fourth sub-pixel, producing a fourth color of said particular set of the four adjacent sub-pixels, wherein the particular input sample and the further input sample are associated with adjacent positions on the display device.
US07932880B2	EL display panel driving method In order to charge and discharge parasitic capacitance of a source signal line sufficiently and program a predetermined current value into a pixel transistor, it is necessary to output a relatively large current from the source driver circuit. However, if such a large current is passed through the source signal line, the value of this current is programmed into the pixel, causing a larger than desired current to flow through an EL element. For example, if a 10 times larger current is used for programming, a 10 times larger current flows through the EL element, and thus the EL element illuminates 10 times more brightly. To obtain predetermined emission brightness, the time during which the current flows through the EL element can be reduced to 1/10 of one frame (1 F). This way, the parasitic capacitance of the source signal line can be charged and discharged sufficiently and the predetermined emission brightness can be obtained.
US07932876B2	Electro-optical device, method of driving the same, and electronic apparatus An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixel circuits each including a light-emitting element and a driving transistor for driving the light-emitting element; data lines that are connected to the plurality of pixel circuits and that supply data signals representing light-emitting gray-scale levels to the pixel circuits; and a data line driving circuit that supplies the data signals to the pixel circuits through the data lines. In addition, the data line driving circuit applies to each pixel circuit in a predetermined sequence a forward frame period supplying a data signal having a forward bias voltage for making the light-emitting element emit light and a backward frame period supplying a data signal having a backward bias voltage for making the light-emitting element not emit light, and drives each of the pixel circuits.
US07932875B2	Microdisplay and interface on a single chip A microdisplay having interface circuitry on the same silicon backplane to allow it to receive digital images and video in a variety of formats and convert same to field sequential color signals for generation of full color images. It includes column data processors having a comparator for each block of N-columns of pixels. Image data is double-buffered in SRAM memory cells located beneath the pixel electrodes, but not within each pixel. The stored data is logically associated with each pixel via the column data processors. Image compression is accomplished by converting RGB data to a variant of YUV data and sampling the color components of the converted data less frequently than the luminance components. The SRAM image buffer consumes a reduced amount of power. A temperature compensation scheme allows the temperature of the microdisplay to be sensed and the drive voltage to the pixel electrodes to be varied in response thereto.
US07932874B2	Display device The present invention aims at the lowering of an image quality of an outer peripheral portion of an image display region. For this end, in a display device in which a plurality of display panels are arranged from a front side to a depth side in an overlapped manner and an image is displayed on the respective display panels, the respective display panels have regions which allow the image to be displayed thereon (image display regions) broadened toward the depth-side display panel from the front-side display panel.
US07932871B2	Orthogonal loop radiofrequency antenna device The invention concerns an orthogonal loop radiofrequency antenna device designed to receive electromagnetic waves comprising at least two loops (BH, BV) consisting of a single electrical conductor, each of said loops (BH, BV) capable of having a particular shape and located in their respective plane, said planes containing each one of said loops (BH, BV) being orthogonal, and the radiofrequency antenna being located proximate a low frequency antenna.
US07932867B2	Methods and systems of changing antenna polarization A switch assembly selectively couples an antenna communication circuit to a first feed point of a first antenna, and selectively couples the antenna communication circuit to a second feed point of a second antenna. Each feed point is selected based on polarization of an electromagnetic wave to be radiated from or received by the corresponding antenna.
US07932859B2	Method and apparatus for satellite positioning system time resolution A method and apparatus that reduces the number of possible time alignment possibilities to simplify the satellite positioning system time-ambiguity resolution problem is disclosed. The method may include receiving a first signal (160) from a satellite (150) of a first satellite positioning system and receiving a second signal (140) from a satellite (130) of a second satellite positioning system. The first signal can have a first modulation sequence length and the second signal can have a second modulation sequence length different from the first modulation sequence length. The method may also include determining a time offset between the first signal from the satellite of the first satellite positioning system and the second signal from the satellite of the second satellite positioning system based on an estimated propagation delay of the first signal and the second signal. The method may additionally include establishing a position of a satellite positioning receiver (120) based on the time offset.
US07932858B2	Satellite positioning method and system A satellite terrestrial positioning system is disclosed in which navigation satellites verify, in an autonomous manner, essential information that is transmitted to users using unidirectional links received from reference beacons.
US07932853B1	System and method for identifying incursion threat levels An aircraft weather radar system for displaying an indication of a threat level presented by an obstacle to the aircraft on an electronic display. The weather radar system includes a radar antenna configured to receive radar returns from a radar sweep. The weather radar system additionally includes processing electronics configured to determine a movement vector of the obstacle using the radar returns. The processing electronics are further configured to determine the threat level of the obstacle to the aircraft based on the determined movement vector, to generate parameters for an indication based on the determined threat level and to cause the indication to be displayed on an electronic display.
US07932849B2	Method for achieving high-speed analog-to-digital conversion without degrading accuracy, and associated apparatus A method for achieving high-speed analog-to-digital conversion without degrading accuracy includes: receiving digital outputs of a plurality of pipelined analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that perform analog-to-digital conversion on a same analog signal; and performing digital calculations on the digital outputs to generate a calibrated digital output. An apparatus for achieving high-speed analog-to-digital conversion without degrading accuracy is further provided. The apparatus includes: a digital module arranged to receive digital outputs of a plurality of pipelined ADCs that perform analog-to-digital conversion on a same analog signal. In addition, the digital module includes a plurality of digital calculation paths respectively corresponding to the pipelined ADCs, wherein each digital calculation path corresponding to an associate pipelined ADC of the pipelined ADCs is electrically connected to the associate pipelined ADC. The digital module performs digital calculations on the digital outputs to generate a calibrated digital output.
US07932846B2	A/D converter and random-noise reducing method for A/D converters An A/D converter includes a sample/hold unit that samples an input analog signal at a predetermined timing to hold m (m≧2) equal analog values and successively outputs the m held equal analog values in time series; an A/D converting unit that converts the m equal analog values successively input in time series from the sample/hold unit to m digital signals in time series; a data-alignment adjusting circuit that adjusts timings of the m digital signals successively input in time series from the A/D converting unit to parallelize the m digital signals; and an averaging circuit that outputs an average value of the m digital signals input in parallel from the data-alignment adjusting circuit as a final A/D conversion result.
US07932844B1	Circuits and methods for calibrating a frequency response of a filter In one embodiment, the present invention includes an integrated circuit comprising a radio frequency communication channel having a mixer and a programmable analog filter coupled to an output terminal of the mixer. The integrated circuit further comprises a digital-to-analog converter providing an AC signal to the digitally programmable analog filter, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to an output terminal of the digitally programmable analog filter, and a digital calibration circuit that adjusts the filter frequency according to measurements calculated from the data from the ADC. During a first calibration phase, the filter frequency is adjusted to a first frequency and a first signal is measured. During a second calibration phase, the filter frequency is adjusted to a second frequency approximately equal to a frequency of the AC signal, and a second signal is measured. The filter frequency is further adjusted based on measured values of the first and second signals.
US07932841B2	Wireless communication device including a universal keypad The present invention provides a multifunctional input device. The input device includes a functional mode which defines the mode of operation of the input device. Each functional mode includes one or more domain levels with each domain level containing one or more domain-level values. Each domain level-value within each functional mode is assigned to one of a plurality of programmable input keys. The domain-level value assigned to each programmable input key controls the function of that programmable input key within a given functionality and domain level. The present invention also includes a display to indicate the domain-level value associated with each of the programmable input keys within a given functionality.
US07932839B2	Mobile terminal and method for operating touch keypad thereof A mobile terminal and method for operating a touch keypad, the mobile terminal including a touch keypad, a touch sensor for sensing a signal inputted from a key selected by a user on the touch keypad and outputting location information corresponding to the selected key based upon the sensed signal, a Control Processor (CPU) for outputting at least one or more control signals based upon the outputted location information, and a light emitting diode controller for independently driving a light emitting diode corresponding to the selected key based upon the outputted control signals.
US07932838B2	Aircraft collision avoidance system A system for monitoring a volume of space surrounding an aircraft having a plurality of extremity portions includes a plurality of sensors. Each sensor is disposed at a respective corresponding one of the aircraft extremity portions. Each sensor is configured to generate an image of a monitored area covering a predetermined distance from the extremity portion at which the sensor is disposed. A processing device is configured to determine, from an image generated by a first sensor of the plurality, a characteristic of an object within the monitored area covering the predetermined distance from the extremity portion at which the first sensor is disposed. The processing device is further configured to generate a signal in response to determining the object characteristic.
US07932837B2	Conditional aircraft cabin warning and signalling system for determining the cabin status A monitoring method for monitoring a seat status for an aircraft. A seat occupancy status of a seat element is measured by a seat occupancy sensor, and the fastening status of the seat element is measured by a fastening sensor. The seat occupancy status and the fasting status are transmitted to a monitoring device. The monitoring device automatically generates a warning signal if a combination of a predetermined occupancy status and a predetermined fastening status occurs.
US07932835B2	Vehicle zone detection system and method An object detection system is provided for detecting a thermal emitting object in a blind zone proximate to a host vehicle. The system includes a thermal radiation detector located on a host vehicle and configured to sense temperature of multiple coverage zones proximate to the host vehicle. A processor processes temperature sensed by an infrared detector. The processor determines a change in thermal temperature sensed by the infrared detector and determines the presence of an object in the coverage zone based on the change in the sensed temperature. An output provides a signal indicative of an object sensed in the coverage zone based on the determined change in temperature. The thermal radiation detector may include a first infrared detector configured to measure temperature of a first coverage zone by receiving infrared radiation from the first coverage zone, and a second infrared detector configured to measure temperature of second and third coverage zones by receiving infrared radiation from the second and third coverage zones.
US07932834B2	Data relay system for instrument and controller attached to a drill string A casing sensor and methods for sensing using a casing sensor are disclosed. The casing sensor includes a casing shoe and a sensor coupled to the casing shoe. A casing data relay includes a downhole receiver coupled to a well casing and a transmitter coupled to the receiver. The casing sensor may be coupled to the transmitter. A drill string actuator may be controllable through the downhole receiver.
US07932833B2	Detecting coolant flow reduction for a marine engine system A system for detecting a reduction in engine coolant flow rate is provided. The system includes a device configured to monitor at least one parameter associated with an engine, and a device configured to measure actual engine air intake manifold temperature. The system further includes a controller configured to determine a theoretical engine air intake manifold temperature based on the at least one monitored parameter, compare the theoretical engine air intake manifold temperature with the actual measured engine air intake manifold temperature, and generate a signal indicative of engine coolant flow rate.
US07932832B2	Movement managing system To provide a movement managing system for grasping the movement of a remote person and acquiring the information with improved reliability. A movement managing system for managing the movement of a person to be managed comprises a personal information input device (10) installed on a movement path of the person, a data managing server (20) for managing information on the person, and information acquiring device (30) for acquiring information on the person from the data managing server. When personal information for specifying the person is inputted, the personal information input device (10) transmits the personal information and the device ID that the device (10) uniquely has to the data managing server (20). The data managing server (20) identifies the pass position on the movement path that the person has passed on the basis of the personal information and device ID received from the personal information input device (10) and transmits information representing the pass position that the person has passed to the information acquiring device (30).
US07932830B2	Method of assigning and deducing the location of articles detected by multiple RFID antennae In accordance with preferred embodiments of the invention, a method (and corresponding apparatus) is provided for deducing the location of one or more items or objects to be monitored. In exemplary embodiments, the method (and corresponding apparatus) is implemented in RFID (radio frequency identification) applications (e.g., reading RFID tags at 13.56 MHz and approximately 900 MHz) by deducing the location of an item associated with a unique RFID tag in one or more areas of detection covered by multiple RFID reader antennae.
US07932828B2	Space charge dosimeters for extremely low power measurements of radiation in shipping containers Methods and apparatus are described for space charge dosimeters for extremely low power measurements of radiation in shipping containers. A method includes in situ polling a suite of passive integrating ionizing radiation sensors including reading-out dosimetric data from a first passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor and a second passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor, where the first passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor and the second passive integrating ionizing radiation sensor remain situated where the dosimetric data was integrated while reading-out. Another method includes arranging a plurality of ionizing radiation sensors in a spatially dispersed array; determining a relative position of each of the plurality of ionizing radiation sensors to define a volume of interest; collecting ionizing radiation data from at least a subset of the plurality of ionizing radiation sensors; and triggering an alarm condition when a dose level of an ionizing radiation source is calculated to exceed a threshold.
US07932827B2	Mobile RFID reader with integrated location awareness for material tracking and management A portable RFID reader (or reader/writer) that also employs a location determination subsystem that facilitates determination of the reader (or reader/writer) location. The location subsystem can employ a satellite-based GPS (Global Positioning System) location technology where such signals are unimpeded by structures. Additionally, the location subsystem can employ other terrestrial location technologies that operate inside structures such as warehouses and the factory automation environment.
US07932826B2	System for tracking the location of components, assemblies, and subassemblies in an automated diagnostic analyzer A system and method for the tracking of medical instrument, components, assemblies, and sub-assemblies thereof, and maintenance information relating to the foregoing. According to the system, radio frequency identification tags are attached to or affixed on the medical instrument itself for the purpose of locating, identifying, monitoring, tracking the medical instrument and updating the maintenance and replacement activities relating to the medical instrument. In addition, radio frequency identification tags are attached to or affixed on the components, the assemblies, and the sub-assemblies, of the medical instrument in order to locate, identify, monitor, track the components, the assemblies, and the sub-assemblies and update the maintenance and replacement activities relating to these components, assemblies, and sub-assemblies. The medical instrument itself can have a radio frequency identification tag; each major component of the automated diagnostic instrument can have a radio frequency identification tag; each minor component of the automated diagnostic instrument can have a radio frequency identification tag on the container in which it is packaged. A master radio frequency identification tag correlated with a database is needed in order to collect information relating to all of the radio frequency identification tags associated with the medical instrument.
US07932824B2	Item tracking system An item tracking system which makes use RFID technology for automatically monitoring the taking and returning operations of items from one or more storage locations inside a working area which allows to have an “on line” status of each tool as well as the using history of each tool, furthermore, the system “knows” which item has been taken or stored from which storage area by which worker and when and synchronize and compile the information of all storage locations in one database and system for administering, reporting and sending alarms in order to have total tool control, accountability, tools service control (maintenance, calibration, repairs, and/or replacement), and administration of usage for the tools controlled by the system.
US07932823B2	Disaster noticing system, disaster noticing server, disaster reporting terminal method, and program The disaster information system according to the invention includes a disaster noticing server and a disaster reporting terminal. The disaster noticing server calculates the expected time of arrival at which the natural disaster will arrive at the current location of the disaster reporting terminal, and transmits the calculated expected time of arrival to the disaster reporting terminal. The disaster reporting terminal, when it receives the expected time of arrival from the disaster noticing server, acquires the current time measured at the disaster reporting terminal, and calculates the time remaining until the natural disaster will arrive at the disaster reporting terminal from the expected time of arrival and the current time.
US07932819B2	Vehicular instrument device and vehicle with vehicular instrument device A first meter cluster panel and a second meter cluster panel are disposed on an instrument panel of a vehicle such that the first meter cluster panel and the second meter cluster panel have respective centers of display disposed substantially coaxially with each other. The first meter cluster panel is disposed near a boundary line at a position deeper than that of the second meter cluster panel as viewed by a driver who is directing his or her line of sight from an eye range in the forward direction of the vehicle. The first meter cluster panel displays information that is visually recognized outside of a steering wheel. The second meter cluster panel displays information that is visually recognized inside the steering wheel when the driver directs his or her line of sight from the eye range in the forward direction of the vehicle.
US07932817B2	Wireless warning brake light A wireless warning brake light includes a third brake light with a casing installed therein with plural LEDs and a signal receiver for detecting brake signals emitted by an emitter and for activating the LEDs. The rear side of the casing of the third brake light is provided with adhesive material for gluing the third brake light on a safety helmet. A brake light is disposed with plural LEDs and an emitter. The original brake light of a vehicle is replaced with the aforementioned brake light. When the brake light is started, the emitter will be triggered to emit a brake signal that is detected by the receiver of the third brake light, warning vehicles coming from behind. Thus, the safety of motorcyclists or of the drivers of automobiles is ensured.
US07932813B2	Sampling to obtain signal from RFID card A radio frequency identification (RFID) reader of an apparatus in an example employs substantially synchronized sampling to obtain a signal from an RFID card notwithstanding employment by the RFID card of any of amplitude shift keying (ASK), frequency shift keying (FSK), or phase shift keying (PSK). The RFID reader decodes the signal notwithstanding the employment by the RFID card of any of ASK, FSK, or PSK.
US07932812B2	Wide area and large capacity intelligent object tracking system and method A wide area object tracking system comprises a primary and two secondary base stations. Each secondary base station is coupled to the primary base station to define a tag detecting cell. Each station receives a signal from a tag attached to a tracked object, yielding three signals indicative of the tag location within the cell. Many overlapping cells in a given space allow tracking objects within that space. The system comprises a central server coupled to the primary base station, and may include at least one tag recording unit and a tag recovery apparatus both coupled to the central server. The primary base station uses three channels to communicate with the tag, the central server, and with at least one other primary base station, the secondary base stations, and a portable control unit.
US07932810B2	Top reading keypad assembly and method of inputting an access combination A method of inputting a user input access combination in order to gain authorized entry into a secure location comprises providing an input device having first and second input keys as well as a display, randomly generating a first character and a second character on the display, inputting the user input access combination into the input device, and comparing the user input access combination with an authorized access combination. The user input access combination includes a first user input character and a second user input character. The step of inputting the user input access combination comprises pressing the first input key to change the first randomly generated character to the first user input character, and pressing the second input key to change the second randomly generated character to the second user input character.
US07932809B2	RFID/biometric area protection The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a safety mechanism associated with a protective zone in an industrial automation environment. An radio frequency identification (RFID) component can receive data from an RFID tag to identify a location. A safety component can employ a safe mode to a device based at least in part upon the location to employ a protected zone in proximity with the device.
US07932799B2	Transformer The invention relates to a transformer (12) with a planar primary winding and a planar secondary winding. In order to support the heat dissipation during operation, each winding is integrated on a substrate in at least one dedicated PCB (30, 40). The PCBs (30, 40) are separated from each other by a non-ferromagnetic and electrically insulating material (50). The material: (50) transfers heat better than the substrates. The invention relates equally to an apparatus comprising such a transformer (12).
US07932796B2	Switch device A movable contact which is positioned inside a sealing case is moved by a magnetic shunt body which moves outside the sealing case. The movement of the movable contact by the movement of the magnetic shunt body is caused by a change of magnetic force of a magnet through a pair of yokes. The magnetic shunt body is assembled to a moving member, and elastically moves around the moving member resisting a first spring.
US07932795B2	Silent electromagnetic relay A silent electromagnetic relay in which a predetermined degree of silencing effect can be maintained regardless of a change to the specification, a higher silencing effect can be obtained at the time of return, the parts control is easy, and the cost of manufacturing is low. A first silent spring is mounted in a position of an inward face of a moving iron to be attracted to an iron core of an electromagnet portion, and an L-shaped moving iron turning based on excitation and demagnetization of the electromagnet portion is housed in a housing that is a resin molded product. Furthermore, a second silent spring for coming in contact with an inner face of the housing is mounted to an outward face of the moving iron and on an opposite side to the first silent spring.
US07932793B2	Common mode filtering method and device Provided are common mode filtering method and device for use with a defected ground structure, the device including a substrate, coupled microstrip lines formed on the substrate and a ground plane formed underneath the substrate, the common mode filtering method being characterized by forming at least a defected ground structure on the ground plane and making dual mode signals pass through the coupled microstrip lines, thereby using the defected ground structure to suppress dual model noises within a specific frequency band and prevent signal distortion.
US07932792B2	Nanotube device A device comprising a nanotube configured as a resonator, a source electrode, a gate electrode, a drain electrode and at least one impeding element, wherein the at least one impeding element is configured to minimize energy loss due to a contact resistance between at least the source electrode and the nanotube.
US07932790B2	Switched modulation of a radio-frequency amplifier Switch-modulation of a radio-frequency power amplifier by-representing the input signal by the I-signal (1) and Q-signal (9) of the complex components (I+j−Q), and pulse width modulating the I-signal and the Q-signal separately to create a modulated I-signal pulse sequence (3a) and a modulated Q-signal pulse sequence (3b). Further, the pulses corresponding to negative sample values are time-shifted relative the pulses corresponding to positive sample values, and each pulse of the I-signal pulse sequence is delayed by introducing a delaying time shift.
US07932789B2	Frequency adjustable surface acoustic wave oscillator A frequency adjustable surface acoustic wave oscillator uses circuitry in which the phase relationship between the corresponding input and output signals and the voltage applied to or received by transducer fingers is controlled in such a manner that the frequency of the surface acoustic wave oscillator is arbitrarily controlled over a wide range by digital means. This provides an oscillator that exhibits a wide tunable frequency range while providing low phase noise.
US07932788B2	Oscillating, deflectable micromechanical element and method for use thereof The invention relates to micromechanical elements deflectable in an oscillating manner and to a method for the operation of such elements. In this respect, it is the object of the invention to be able to operate the micromechanical elements in a stable and simple manner on the oscillating deflection while taking account of the respective mechanical resonant frequency. A least one spring element is present on elements in accordance with the invention with which it is held. It is deflected between two reversal points using an electrical AC voltage. The one or more spring element(s) has/have non-linear spring characteristics so that a changed mechanical resonant frequency results in dependence on the respective deflection.
US07932784B1	Frequency and phase locked loop synthesizer The present invention is a frequency and phase locked loop (FPLL) synthesizer having a frequency-locked loop (FLL) operating mode and a phase-locked loop (PLL) operating mode. The FLL operating mode is used for rapid coarse tuning of the FPLL synthesizer and is followed by the PLL operating mode for fine tuning and stabilization of the frequency of an output signal from the FPLL synthesizer. The FPLL synthesizer includes a variable frequency oscillator, which is controlled by FLL circuitry during the FLL operating mode or by PLL circuitry during the PLL operating mode. The FLL circuitry includes frequency division circuitry for reducing the frequency of the output signal, frequency detection circuitry for measuring the frequency error of the frequency reduced output signal, and a loop filter to control the bandwidth of an FLL control loop formed by the FLL circuitry and the variable frequency oscillator.
US07932783B2	Resonant operating mode for a transistor The PN junctions of a transistor are biased for operation in the active mode but an initial flow of current reverses the bias of the base-emitter junction causing the transistor to conduct a resonant current with a voltage less than the forward junction voltage of said base-emitter.
US07932777B1	Switching amplifier for driving reactive loads A switching amplifier drives balanced piezoelectric or other capacitive or reactive loads with a minimum physical electronics volume, enabling a compact arrangement that can combine amplifier and transducer at the same physical location. Power supply current is minimized by using two or more transducers driven with phase-shifted signals, resulting in stored energy being cycled between the transducers rather than being carried over the power supply lines for storage in a power supply. Auxiliary power supply capacitors to store energy coming out of the load can thus be minimized. The modulation scheme puts the switching frequencies in common-mode while the baseband signals are differential mode. The common-mode switching frequency signals are blocked from the loads by a common-mode inductor. The common-mode inductor can be physically small as a result of the large baseband load currents being in differential mode. Low-volume load filters are made possible by the fact that they are not called upon to filter signals at the fundamental switching frequency but only at higher frequencies. The loads are biased independently of the baseband signals. The switching amplifier can drive balanced loads comprising two, three or more individual load elements.
US07932772B1	Curvature-compensated band-gap voltage reference circuit A band-gap reference voltage is developed by a phase-clocked band-gap circuit including a single PN junction through which first and second constant currents are alternately directed. A current proportional to absolute temperature is selectively added to one of the first and second constant currents to curvature-compensate the developed band-gap reference voltage. The band-gap circuit is calibrated at any desired temperature by interrupting the curvature compensation current and trimming the one constant current to bring the un-compensated band-gap reference voltage into correspondence with a nominal band-gap voltage functionally related to the calibration temperature and circuit component values.
US07932770B2	Charge pump circuit Each of a plurality of pump stages has an input node and an output node and performs a charge pump operation in response to any one of the first and second clock signals. The plurality of pump stages include a first pump stage, in which a charge transfer transistor is connected between the input node and the output node. One end of a pump capacitor is connected to the output node, and the other end is supplied with one of the first and second clock signals corresponding to the first pump stage. A connection switcher connects to the gate of the charge transfer transistor any one of the output node of a pump stage which is supplied with one of the clock signals corresponding to the first pump stage and the input node of a pump stage which is supplied with the other clock signal not corresponding to the first pump stage and which is included in a pump stage row not including the first pump stage.
US07932769B2	Protected power devices A power insulated gate field effect transistor has main cells (2) controlled by a main cell insulated gate and sense cells (4) controlled by a sense cell insulated gate. A sample and hold circuit (10, 50) is arranged to operate in a plurality of states including at least one sample state and a hold state to sense the current flowing through the sense cells (4) when in the at least one sample state but not in the hold state. The sample states may be used in a feedback loop to control a drive amplifier (20) driving the gates of the main and sense cells (2,4) and/or to mirror the current in the sense cells (4) on a measurement output terminal (58).
US07932766B2	Digitally controlled oscillator with the wide operation range There is provided a digitally controlled oscillator, which is capable of widening its operation range with maintaining its resolution and the maximum frequency at which it operates. The digitally controlled oscillator includes a phase compensation block, a coarse block, and a fine block. The phase compensation block 510 generating a PLL signal PLLCLK and a first clock signal CLK1 which has the same phase and frequency as the PLL signal, in response to a phase control signal DISABLE and a fourth clock signal CLK4. The coarse block 520 generating a second clock signal CLK2 and a third clock signal CLK3 which results from delaying the PLL signal PLLCLK and the first clock signal CLK1 for a given time, in response to a m(integer)-bit coarse A control signal COAR_A and an (m−1)-bit coarse B control signal COAR_B. The fine block generating the fourth clock signal CLK4 by applying interpolation to the second clock signal CLK2 and the third clock signal CLK3 in response to an n(integer)-bit first fine control signal FCB and a n-bit second fine control signal FC.
US07932765B2	Digital delay lines Some embodiments provide real-time variable delays in a delay line. In some of these embodiments, the real-time variable delays may be enable without producing clock glitches. In an embodiment, delay cells in a delay line may be coupled together in a chain to form a lattice of inverters providing different paths of signal propagation. Each path may have a different number of inverters; each inverter adding a known processing time associated with the signal inversion process. In some embodiments, an input signal may be propagated in an inverted or non-inverted form to the inputs of multiple inverters in the lattice, including the inputs of inverters through which the input signal does not propagate. A desired delay time may be obtained in an embodiment by selecting a path containing a desired number and configuration of inverters. The path may be selected in an embodiment using switchably enabled inverters.
US07932763B2	Signal processing circuit and signal processing method A signal processing circuit includes: a first operation circuit for receiving a phase component of an input signal, and generating an adjusted phase component and at least one weighting factor according to the phase component of the input signal; a second operation circuit, coupled to the first operation circuit, for receiving the adjusted phase component and converting the adjusted phase component into a frequency component corresponding to the adjusted phase component; a third operation circuit, coupled to the first operation circuit, for receiving an amplitude component of the input signal, and adjusting the amplitude component according to the at least one weighting factor to generate an adjusted amplitude component; and a fourth operation circuit, coupled to the second operation circuit and the third operation circuit, for generating an output signal according to the frequency component and the adjusted amplitude component.
US07932760B2	System and method for implementing a digital phase-locked loop An apparatus for implementing a digital phase-locked loop includes a voltage-controlled oscillator that generates a primary clock signal in response to a VCO control voltage. Detection means generates counter control signals, including count up signals and count down signals, to indicate a current relationship between the primary clock signal and a reference signal. An up/down counter then either increments or decrements a counter value in response to corresponding counter control signals. The counter value is then converted by a digital-to-analog converter into the VCO control voltage for adjusting the frequency of the primary clock signal generated by the voltage-controlled oscillator. In alternate embodiments, the foregoing up/down counter may be utilized to adjust the frequency of the voltage-controlled oscillator in proportion to the counter value by utilizing appropriate techniques other than generating a VCO control voltage with a digital-to-analog converter.
US07932759B2	DLL circuit and control method therefor A DLL includes a first variable delay circuit that variably delays a first transition of an external signal, a second variable delay circuit that variably delays a second transition of the external signal, a synthesis circuit that synthesizes output signals of the first variable delay circuit and the second variable delay circuit, a duty change detection circuit that changes and detects the duty of an output signal of the synthesis circuit, and delay control circuits that vary the delay of the first variable delay circuit or the second variable delay circuit in accordance with the result of duty detection by the duty change detection circuit.
US07932757B2	Techniques for minimizing control voltage ripple due to charge pump leakage in phase locked loop circuits Techniques for adaptively control of a loop filter sampling interval to mitigate the effects of charge pump leakage current in an apparatus including a phase lock loop circuit are provided. In one aspect, the apparatus includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a phase frequency detector (PFD) providing a phase comparison operation, a loop filter providing a control voltage to lock the VCO to a desired operating frequency, and a charge pump configured to provide an output signal to the loop filter in response to at least one of an UP pulse and a DOWN pulse. The apparatus further includes a sampling switch, coupled between an input of the loop filter, an output of the charge pump, and characterized by a sampling interval. A sampling switch controller is configured to adaptively control the width of the sampling interval in order to mitigate the effects of leakage current from the charge pump by closing the sampling switch in advance of the phase comparison operation and opening the sampling switch when the phase comparison operation is completed.
US07932756B2	Master slave delay locked loops and uses thereof Various systems and methods for delaying a signal relative to another signal are disclosed. As one example, a delay lock loop circuit is disclosed that includes at least two delay stages. Each of the aforementioned delay stages include a plurality of selectable delay elements. Such selectable delay elements may be, but are not limited to, a plurality of single input buffers, and a plurality of multiple input logic gates. Further, a first of the delay stages is selectably driven by one of a first signal and a reference signal, and the stage provides a first stage output. A second of the delay stages is selectably driven by one of a second signal and the first stage output, and the stage provides a second stage output. The circuit further includes a mode signal that has at least two states. One of the two states causes the first signal to drive the first delay stage and the second signal to drive the second delay stage, and the other state causes the reference signal to drive the first delay stage and the first stage output to drive the second delay stage. In some cases, the first state is referred to as a slave state and the second state is referred to as a master state. In addition, the circuit includes a feedback loop.
US07932751B2	Frequency mode selection discriminator and low pass filter A circuit is described that detects high and low frequencies and additional clock frequencies and outputs a signal that indicates a high, a low frequency or an additional mode. When in the low frequency low frequency mode signals are regenerated free of any high frequency signals from appearing on the filtered low frequency clock line. The rising and falling edges of the input clock are low pass filtered separately and then combined to generate a low frequency clock or the additional input clock and that retains the input clock pulse width and duty cycle.
US07932748B1	2×VDD-tolerant logic circuits and a related 2×VDD-tolerant I/O buffer with PVT compensation A 2×VDD-tolerant input/output (I/O) buffer circuit with process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) compensation suitable for CMOS technology is disclosed. A 2×VDD-tolerant I/O buffer with a PVT compensation circuit is implemented with novel 2×VDD-tolerant logic gates. Output slew rate variations can be kept within smaller ranges to match maximum and minimum timing specifications. A 2×VDD tolerant logic circuit for implementing the I/O buffer is also disclosed.
US07932747B2	Circuit arrangement and method for shifting a voltage level A circuit arrangement for shifting a voltage level comprises a data-current converter (2) that is connected to a first connection (K1) and that has an input for feeding a digital input data signal (DIN), a first output for providing a current (I), and also a second output for providing a reference current (I1), and a current-data converter (3) that is connected to a second connection (K2) and that has a first input for feeding the current (I), a second input for feeding the reference current (I1), and also an output for providing a digital output data signal (DOUT). Here, a voltage level of the digital output data signal (DOUT) is different from a voltage level of the digital input data signal (DIN). In addition, a method for shifting a voltage level is provided.
US07932746B1	One phase logic Circuits comprising asynchronous linear pipelines and one-phase pipelines, and methods of forming asynchronous linear pipeline circuits and converting them to one-phase pipeline circuits are provided. Additional circuits, systems and methods are disclosed.
US07932743B1	Sequentially configurable programmable integrated circuit A programmable integrated circuit performs an initial partial configuration of the programmable integrated circuit in response to receiving an activation signal. In this way, the programmable integrated circuit enables an initial functionality of the programmable integrated circuit. The programmable integrated circuit then performs a subsequent partial configuration of the programmable integrated circuit for enabling additional functionality of the programmable integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the programmable integrated circuit receives an input signal indicating a stimulus in an environment of the programmable integrated circuit and determines based on the input signal whether to perform the subsequent partial configuration of the programmable integrated circuit or generate a power down signal for powering down the programmable integrated circuit without performing the subsequent partial configuration. In some embodiments, the programmable integrated circuit performs a sequence of partial subsequent configurations for enabling a sequence of additional functionalities of the programmable integrated circuit.
US07932742B2	Configurable IC with interconnect circuits that have select lines driven by user signals Some embodiments of the invention provide a configurable integrated circuit (“IC”). The IC includes a first set of circuits and a second set of circuits interspersed among the first set of circuits. Each set of circuits includes at least ten volatile configurable circuits. Several circuits in at least one of the sets are user multiplexers. Each particular user multiplexer has input and output terminals and has a set of select terminals for receiving a set of user-design signals that directs the particular multiplexer to connect a set of the input terminals to a set of the output terminals. The user-design signals are signals generated internally by the IC.
US07932736B2	Integrated circuit with improved test capability via reduced pin count An integrated circuit that supports testing of multiple pads via a subset of these pads includes at least two sections. Each section has multiple pads and multiple test access circuits coupled to these pads. For each section, one pad is designated as a primary pad and the remaining pads are designated as secondary pads. For each section, the test access circuits couple the secondary pads to the primary pad such that all of the pads in the section can be tested by probing just the primary pad. Each test access circuit may be implemented with a simple switch. A controller generates a set of control signals for the test access circuits in all sections. These control signals enable and disable the test access circuits such that all of the sections can be tested in parallel, and the pads in each section can be tested in a sequential order.
US07932735B2	Probeless DC testing of CMOS I/O circuits A method and implementation is described by which I/O input and output circuitry of a CMOS chip are measured without the need to probe the chip. Output driver transistors are used to provide marginal voltages to test input circuits, and the output driver transistors are segmented into portions where a first portion is used to provide a representative “on” current, which is coupled to a test bus that is further connected to a current comparator circuit contained within the chip. Both leakage and “on” current of the driver transistors is measured using segmented driver transistors. The output of the current comparator circuit is connected to a test scan register or to a test output from which test results are obtained digitally. The testing techniques are also applicable for other semiconductor devices.
US07932732B2	Preventing a false lock in a phase lock loop The present invention determines the resonant frequency of a sensor by adjusting the phase and frequency of an energizing signal until the frequency of the energizing signal matches the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system energizes the sensor with a low duty cycle, gated burst of RF energy having a predetermined frequency or set of frequencies and a predetermined amplitude. The energizing signal is coupled to the sensor via magnetic coupling and induces a current in the sensor which oscillates at the resonant frequency of the sensor. The system receives the ring down response of the sensor via magnetic coupling and determines the resonant frequency of the sensor, which is used to calculate the measured physical parameter. The system uses a pair of phase locked loops to adjust the phase and the frequency of the energizing signal.
US07932725B2	Hacking detector circuit for semiconductor integrated circuit and detecting method thereof Disclosed is a semiconductor integrated circuit which includes a pre-charge capacitor connected to a check node pre-charged. A sense capacitor is configured to discharge the check node. A detector is configured to detect whether the sense capacitor is exposed, based upon a voltage of the check node after a predetermined length of time has elapsed.
US07932715B2	Inductive detector with variable width loops on first and second surfaces of substrate An inductive detector operable to measure relative displacement along a measurement path of a first body including an electrical intermediate device and a second body including at least three windings. At least one winding is a transmit winding and at least one other is a receive winding. The windings are arranged such that relative displacement of the two bodies causes a change in inductive coupling between at least one transmit winding and at least one receive winding. At least two windings are formed by a convoluted conductor with a first portion extending along the measurement path on a first surface of the substrate and a second portion returning back along the measurement path on an opposite second surface of the substrate. The first and second portions are connected via a connection extending between the first and second surfaces. Each convoluted conductor forms a series of loops defined between the portions on the first and second surfaces, the width of each loop varying along the measurement path and adjacent loops having opposite electromagnetic polarity. At least two windings are spaced in an axis normal to the measurement path.
US07932714B2	Method to communicate with multivalved sensor on loop power A method and apparatus for detecting at least two process variables in a loop powered circuit. The method includes the steps of (a) powering the loop, detecting a first process variable value during a first time interval, (b) detecting a second process variable value during a second time interval after the expiration of the first time interval, where the detected process variable values are represented by the magnitude of a current passing through the loop circuit.
US07932711B2	Pop noise suppression technique A voltage supply circuit and a circuit device can reduce the noise in the output of the circuit when the power to the circuit is turned on and off and can shorten the time required to start or stop the operation of the circuit. When the supply of power to signal processing part 10 is started or stopped, reference voltage Vref supplied to signal processing part 10 is varied continuously to reduce the high-frequency noise in the output of signal processing part 10. Also, when the setpoint value of the waveform of reference voltage Vref is generated by digital signal processing in voltage setting part 30, the desired waveform can be generated without being limited by the values of the circuit elements or the circuit configuration. The output noise of signal processing part 10 can be reduced, and the time that reference time Vref varies can be shortened.
US07932710B2	Step-up circuit and step-up circuit device A step-up circuit comprises a rectifier element 11 provided on a current path from a terminal VCC applied with a voltage source voltage VCC to a terminal VP connected to one electrode of a capacitor C1 such that a direction from the terminal VCC toward the terminal VP is a forward direction, a rectifier element 12 provided on a portion of the current path which is between the rectifier element 11 and the terminal VP such that a direction from the rectifier element 11 toward the terminal VP is a forward direction, a terminal BC1 which is connected to one electrode of a capacitor C2 and is applied with an oscillating voltage, a terminal BC2 which is connected to a portion of the current path which is between the rectifier element 11 and the rectifier element 12 and is connected to the other electrode of the capacitor C2, and a switching element 14 provided on a portion of the current path which is between a connection point, where the terminal BC2 is connected to the current path, and the terminal VCC, and the switching element 14 is configured to be turned ON and OFF according to the voltage at the terminal VP with respect to the voltage at the terminal BC2.
US07932708B2	Power converter A power converter is provided. The power converter comprises an output pin having an address setting function, for flexibly setting a system management bus (SMBus) slave address. As such, the present invention is adapted for saving the amount of the strapping pins employed in the power converter, and thus saving the IC packaging cost.
US07932707B2	Voltage regulator with improved transient response Provided is a voltage regulator having satisfactory transient response characteristics. Because a PMOS (25) and an NMOS (24) pass drain currents (charge and discharge currents with respect to gate of PMOS (26)) based on the square of voltage (ΔIR) according to change (ΔI) in drain currents of NMOSs (16 and 17), a maximum value (Imax) of the charge and discharge currents becomes larger, transition time (t) of gate voltage of the PMOS (26) becomes shorter, and the transient response characteristics of the voltage regulator become better.
US07932699B2	Method of controlling battery charge level of hybrid electric vehicle A method of controlling a battery charge level of a hybrid electric vehicle includes: monitoring a quantity of current accumulated for a predetermined time based on a battery charge/discharge current value; calculating a regenerative charge derating constant; calculating a correction coefficient based on the quantity of current accumulated and a battery state of charge; multiplying the regenerative charge derating constant by the correction coefficient to calculate a final regenerative charge derating constant; and multiplying the final regenerative charge derating constant by a charge power to calculate a final charge power, and selectively restricting the battery charge level based on the final charge power.
US07932695B2	Power tool, battery, charger and method of operating the same A power tool battery, battery charger, and a method of operating the same. The battery and the charger can be lockingly engageable with each other. The battery can be electrically coupled to a charging circuit of the charger for charging the battery. One of the battery and the charger can include a protrusion and the other of the battery and charger can include a recess for receiving the protrusion. The method can include inserting the battery into the charger along an insertion axis and charging the battery. The method can further include rotating the battery about the insertion axis to secure the battery with the charger while continuing to charge the battery.
US07932694B2	Battery charger operable for selective one of a plurality of power supplies A battery charger is configured to use selective one of two or more power supplies including a commercial AC power supply and a DC power supply. An AC cable is fixedly secured to the body of the battery charger and a DC cable is detachably connected to the body of the battery charger. A single transformer is employed that has a first primary winding to which the AC power supply is connected a first switching element, a second primary winding to which the DC power supply is connected via a second switching element, and a secondary winding to which a battery pack to be charged is coupled.
US07932693B2	System and method of controlling power to a non-motor load A motor drive for conditioning power to be delivered to a non-motor load includes a voltage feedback circuit that monitors a DC bus voltage and, based on changes in the DC bus voltage, adjusts a power conditioning scheme such that near steady-state load conditions are maintained in response to a transient load condition. The voltage feedback circuit has a voltage sensor that provides voltage feedback to a controller that determines what changes in power conditioning are needed in response to a transient load condition that manifests itself in a change in DC bus voltage.
US07932690B2	Wall saver A system and associated method for preventing damage to an adjacent wall surface of an electrically operated bed that utilizes a normally closed/momentarily open switch assembly attached to the bed frame at a location such that when the bed fame is maneuvered toward an adjacent wall surface, a head of the switch contacts the wall surface before any other part of the bed frame or a proximity sensor switch is activated when the switch head is in the prescribed range from the wall surface. The push button switch is in electrical communication with the bed frame operational circuitry. When the switch activated from its depression from thw all surface contact or its proximity to the wall surface, the electrical circuitry in the system circuitry is interrupted thereby stopping the operation of the bed frame from being maneuvered and preventing damage to the wall surface.
US07932687B2	Actuator system An actuator system, preferably for patient lifters, includes at least one actuator driven by an electric motor, a control unit having a power limiting circuit, and at least one handset having a plurality of keys. The actuator system is arranged such that the threshold value of the maximum permissible power in the power limiting circuit may be changed, and that this change may be performed via a key on the handset. Thus, it is possible to subsequently adjust the cutout limit safely and easily via a key on a handset, so that the cutout limit may be adapted to the actual application into which the actuator system is to be incorporated. For reasons of safety, it is preferred to use a separate handset for changing the threshold value.
US07932685B2	Control apparatus for power conversion apparatus and power conversion system The control apparatus for a power conversion apparatus having chopper circuits and a capacitor, each of which includes a switching circuit and a coil, the switching circuit being on/off-controlled in accordance with specific timings determined in accordance with a current flowing through the coil to create required voltage in the capacitor, includes a function of evenly dividing an interval between adjacent specific timings of one of the chopper circuits to produce divided timings to be allocated to the other chopper circuits, and a function of setting, for each of the other chopper circuits, an on-time period of the switching circuit such that, when the interval varies as a result of which the specific timing of each of the other chopper circuits deviates from a corresponding one of the divided timings, an interval between adjacent specific timings of each of the other chopper circuits is varied to reduce the deviation.
US07932683B2	Balancing transformers for multi-lamp operation A ring balancer comprising a plurality of balancing transformers facilitates current sharing in a multi-lamp backlight system. The balancing transformers have respective primary windings separately coupled in series with designated lamps and have respective secondary windings coupled together in a closed loop. The secondary windings conduct a common current and the respective primary windings conduct proportional currents to balance currents among the lamps. The ring balancer facilitates automatic lamp striking and the lamps can be advantageously driven by a common voltage source.
US07932680B2	Discharge lamp control device and projector A discharge lamp control device includes: a discharge lamp driver section which drives a lamp; and a discharge lamp drive control section which performs constant current control so that a discharge lamp current that flows between electrodes of the lamp becomes constant when a discharge lamp voltage applied between the electrodes of the lamp is lower than a first voltage after the lamp has been lighted. The discharge lamp drive control section performs constant power control so that an amount of power supplied to the lamp becomes constant when the lamp voltage is equal to or higher than the first voltage and is equal to or lower than a predetermined voltage which is higher than the first voltage after the discharge lamp has been lighted; and the discharge lamp drive control section reduces the amount of power supplied to the lamp according to an increase in the discharge lamp voltage when the discharge lamp voltage is higher than the predetermined voltage after the lamp has been lighted.
US07932657B2	Rotor for rotating electrical machine A rotor body for an electric motor is comprised of connecting outer peripheral portions of first and second flange members made of electrically conductive material to the opposite ends of a plurality of connection members made of electrically conductive material of weak magnetic material arranged at predetermined distances therebetween in the circumferential direction with bolts and by supporting induction magnetic poles made of soft magnetic material between the connection members which are adjacent in the circumferential direction. Coupling portions of the first and second flange members and the connection member are electrically insulated by insulation coating so that an eddy current flowing in a closed circuit comprised of the first flange member, the connection member, the second flange member and the other connection member can be reduced and heat dissipation and energy loss accompanied by the eddy current can be minimized at the time of an operation.
US07932656B2	Magnetic bearing device A magnetic bearing device includes a main shaft (13), a flange shaped thrust plate (13a) coaxially mounted on the main shaft so as to extend perpendicular to the main shaft and made of a ferromagnetic material, a rolling bearing unit for supporting a radial load and a magnetic bearing unit for supporting one or both of an axial load and a bearing preload, an electromagnet (17) fitted to a spindle housing (14) so as to confront the thrust plate, without contact, a sensor (18) for detecting an axial force acting on the main shaft, and a controller (19) for controlling the electromagnet in response to an output from the sensor. In this magnetic bearing device, the stiffness of a composite spring formed by the rolling bearing unit and a support system for the rolling bearing unit is so chosen as to be higher than the negative stiffness of the electromagnet.
US07932649B2	Signal interconnecting part for electrical rotating machine A dissipator for electronic components, the electronic components being intended for the functioning of a rotary electrical machine, the machine comprising a rear bearing, the dissipator comprising a top face and a bottom face including fins. The present invention applies to any type of polyphase rotary electrical machine, synchronous or asynchronous, such as alternators or alternator starters, and also whether it is a case of electrical machines for motor vehicles and driven for example by belt, with cooling by air, liquid or any other solution that can be envisaged.
US07932647B2	Electromagnetic reciprocating fluid apparatus An electromagnetic reciprocating fluid apparatus includes a magnetic circuit device in which magnetic pole members project inward from an annular magnetic circuit member so as to oppose each other. The magnetic pole members and the annular magnetic circuit member have a uniform thickness. First and second additional annular magnetic circuit members are set on both sides of the annular magnetic circuit member to constitute a part of the magnetic circuit device, thereby minimizing the increase in magnetic reluctance due to magnetic flux concentration at the joints between the magnetic pole members and the annular magnetic circuit member.
US07932643B2	Lighting control system A lighting control system comprises a plurality of toggle switches, a plurality of pushbuttons, a plurality of timer circuits, a plurality of relays, and a plurality of photocells to control a first plurality of lights, a second plurality of lights, a third plurality of lights and a fourth plurality of lights. The toggle switches and pushbuttons either control the lights directly or activate the timers to control the lights. The relays may be energized to switch on the lights. The photocells may be used to control the lights that are located in an outside setting.
US07932642B2	Method and system for reading a transponder A transponder, a method for powering the transponder, and a system relating to the method. The transponder includes at least two electrical coils, a dipole antenna, and a chip electrically connected to the dipole antenna and the electrical coils, wherein the electrical coils surround the dipole antenna and the chip. The transponder is surrounded with a wiring loop. An alternating current is generated in the wiring loop. The alternating current generates a magnetic field at the electrical coils. The electrical coils receive energy from the magnetic field and transfer the received energy to the chip for powering the transponder. The dipole antenna is configured to transmit an output signal to a reader and to receive an input signal from the reader.
US07932637B2	Control of small distributed energy resources A method includes operating a microsource in a grid mode in which the microsource is connected to a utility grid. The microsource is located in a microgrid and is configured to deliver a power P1 at a frequency ω1. During operation in the grid mode ω1 is a first frequency and P1 is a first power. The first frequency is an operating frequency of the utility grid. The microsource is transferred from the grid mode to an island mode, causing a frequency change such that ω1 changes to a second frequency and a power change such that P1 changes to a second power. The frequency change occurs at a first rate with respect to the power change while ω1 is less than a slope switch frequency. The frequency change occurs at a second rate with respect to the power change while ω1 is greater than the slope switch frequency.
US07932636B2	Automatic start-up circuit and uninterruptible power supply apparatus having such automatic start-up circuit An automatic start-up circuit for use in an uninterruptible power supply apparatus is provided. The uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes an energy storage unit and a switching circuit. The automatic start-up circuit includes an operating status detecting circuit and a secondary switch driving circuit. The operating status detecting circuit is connected to an energy storage unit connecting node for detecting an operating status of the energy storage unit through the energy storage unit connecting node, and generating an start-up control signal according to the operating status of the energy storage unit. The secondary switch driving circuit is connected to the operating status detecting circuit, a control terminal of the switching circuit and a common terminal for determining whether the switching circuit is automatically driven to be conducted to start up the uninterruptible power supply apparatus according to the start-up control signal.
US07932632B2	Switching power supply with overvoltage protection and overvoltage protection method thereof A switching power supply with overvoltage protection includes a soft start circuit, a rectifying circuit, a filter capacitor, a main supply, an auxiliary supply and a monitoring circuit. When the input voltage is higher than the predetermined protection voltage, a first electric control switch is turned off, and the main power circuit of the switching power supply is shut off. At the moment, the actuation and release of the second electric control switch is controlled so as to control the input power supply to intermittently charge the power supply module such that the output voltage downstream of the rectifying circuit inside the power supply is controlled in a safe range. For instance, the second electric control is turned on when the output voltage is lower than a certain value, and is turned off when the output voltage is higher than a certain value. Thus, it is ensured that the bus line voltage inside the power supply is controlled within a safe range, to ensure the safety of the devices inside the power supply; and at the same time to ensure the safety of the inner devices of the switching power supply, such that the auxiliary power supply and the control circuit can work normally.
US07932630B2	Packaging and details of a wireless power device A wireless power system includes a power source, power receiver, and components thereof. A current sensor senses the amount of current through the antenna. That amount of current is then used to adjust characteristics of the transmitting or receiving.
US07932629B2	Method for controlling a generation of an alternating current in a vehicle In a method for controlling a generation of an alternating current in a vehicle equipped with a battery and an inverter, the inverter is electrically connectable to the battery in order to generate an alternating current from a direct current of the battery for electrical devices that are electrically connectable to the inverter, and the battery is recharged when a charging state of the battery is equal to or less than a threshold value that is sufficient to generate an alternating current required for the electrical devices.
US07932627B2	Electric steering lock, in particular for a motor vehicle An electric steering lock for a drive authorization system in a motor vehicle, including a movable locking element which, according to a first position, can be brought into locking engagement with a latched-in position on the steering shaft in the steering wheel column and, according to a second position, can be brought out of locking engagement with said position. The steering lock also has a drive for moving the locking element between the two positions, and electronics for controlling the drive. The system may have an associated second device in the form of an electronic key, an identification (ID) transmitter, a chip card or the like, with the result that, when the second device is authorized, the drive can be controlled into the respective position by the electronics. The electronics generate those signals which are used to trigger functions which can otherwise be effected by an electric ignition lock.
US07932620B2	Windmill utilizing a fluid driven pump A windmill apparatus includes tower, a tower-mounted hydraulic pump driven by windmill blades, and hydraulic lines connected to a ground storage tank and to a number of separate generator units. Each generator unit includes a hydraulic pump and an electrical generator. In operation, upon startup, as the wind propels the propeller-driven pump the hydraulic fluid circulates freely until a pre-set pressure is achieved, upon which a diverter valve diverts all the fluid pressure to the first generator unit. When the first generator unit is powered sufficiently to achieve a stable output voltage, a subsequent one of the remaining generator units is powered up until its output voltage is stabilized, with this process continuing as long as there is a surplus of hydraulic power available to power up additional units to take full advantage of all of the available wind power.
US07932613B2	Interconnect structure for a semiconductor device A semiconductor device having a device substrate is provided. The semiconductor device includes an electrically-conductive pad formed overlying the device substrate, and an electrically-conductive platform formed overlying the electrically-conductive pad and enclosing a cavity. The electrically-conductive platform has a perimeter portion extending away from the electrically-conductive pad and a capping portion atop the perimeter portion. The semiconductor device also includes a cushioning material disposed in the cavity.
US07932610B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit having improved power supply wiring In a semiconductor integrated circuit including a plurality of cells, a supplementary power-supply wire is disposed between a lattice-shaped upper power-supply wire and a lower cell power-supply wire for cases in which power is supplied from the upper power-supply wire to the lower cell power-supply wire. The supplementary power-supply wire and the lower cell power-supply wire are connected by two vias. The supplementary power-supply wire and the upper power-supply wire are connected by a single via. Current from the supplementary power-supply wire is divided by the two vias and then supplied to the lower cell power-supply wire. Therefore, when power is supplied from the upper power-supply wire to the lower cell power-supply wire, current concentration at the connection points of the lower cell power-supply wire to the vias is decreased, thereby reducing wire breaks caused by EM (electro migration).
US07932609B2	Semiconductor device having groove-shaped via-hole The semiconductor device has insulating films 40, 42 formed over a substrate 10; an interconnection 58 buried in at least a surface side of the insulating films 40, 42; insulating films 60, 62 formed on the insulating film 42 and including a hole-shaped via-hole 60 and a groove-shaped via-hole 66a having a pattern bent at a right angle; and buried conductors 70, 72a buried in the hole-shaped via-hole 60 and the groove-shaped via-hole 66a. A groove-shaped via-hole 66a is formed to have a width which is smaller than a width of the hole-shaped via-hole 66. Defective filling of the buried conductor and the cracking of the inter-layer insulating film can be prevented. Steps on the conductor plug can be reduced. Accordingly, defective contact with the upper interconnection layer and the problems taking place in forming films can be prevented.
US07932606B2	Semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed thereover as a mask, and interconnect trenches are formed by terminating etching at the surface of a stopper film formed in the interlayer insulating film. The stopper film is made of an SiCN film having a low optical reflectance, thereby causing it to serve as an antireflective film when the photoresist film is exposed.
US07932601B2	Enhanced copper posts for wafer level chip scale packaging An enhanced wafer level chip scale packaging (WLCSP) copper electrode post is described having one or more pins that protrude from the top of the electrode post. When the solder ball is soldered onto the post, the pins are encapsulated within the solder material. The pins not only add shear strength to the soldered joint between the solder ball and the electrode post but also create a more reliable electrical connection due to the increased surface area between the electrode post/pin combination and the solder ball. Moreover, creating an irregularly shaped solder joint retards the propagation of cracks that may form in the intermetal compounds (IMC) layer formed at the solder joint.
US07932599B2	Semiconductor component of semiconductor chip size with flip-chip-like external contacts A semiconductor component and a method for its production in semiconductor chip size, can have a semiconductor chip, which has external contacts of the semiconductor component that are arranged in the manner of a flip-chip on its active upper side. The semiconductor chip can be encapsulated by a plastic compound at least on its rear side and its side edges. The outer contacts, which can be arranged on external contact connecting areas, can project from the active upper side.
US07932597B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A BGA substrate which has a back surface to which a heat radiating plate is attached and an opening for accommodating a relay wiring substrate therein, which is provided in the center of its surface, is used. The relay wiring substrate to which an ASIC chip and a memory chip are flip-chip connected, is bonded to the heat radiating plate in the opening with a thermal conductive bonding material. Further, each of the back surfaces of the ASIC chip and the memory chip is connected to a metal cap for sealing the opening through a thermal conductive material interposed therebetween.
US07932596B2	Thermally enhanced electronic flip-chip packaging with external-connector-side die and method A method and apparatus for making a package having improved heat conduction characteristics and high frequency response. A relatively thick package substrate, such as copper, has a wiring layer bonded to one face, leaving the opposite face exposed, for example, to be a surface for connection to a heat sink. One or more chips are bonded to the wiring layer, and an array of connectors, such as solder balls are provided around the periphery of the chip(s) for connection to a printed circuit board. In some embodiments, the printed circuit board has a hole that the chip(s) extend into to allow smaller external-connection solder balls. In some embodiments, a second heat sink is connected to the back of the chip through the PCB hole.
US07932595B1	Electronic component package comprising fan-out traces A method of forming an electronic component package includes coupling a first surface of an electronic component to a first surface of a first dielectric strip, the electronic component comprising bond pads on the first surface; forming first via apertures through the first dielectric strip to expose the bond pads; and filling the first via apertures with an electrically conductive material to form first vias electrically coupled to the bond pads. The bond pads are directly connected to the corresponding first vias without the use of a solder and without the need to form a solder wetting layer on the bond pads.
US07932587B2	Singulated semiconductor package A semiconductor device includes a singulated semiconductor package having a leadframe, a chip electrically coupled to the leadframe, encapsulating material covering the chip and a portion of the leadframe, and a material layer disposed over opposing ends of the leadframe. The leadframe includes a first face and an opposing second face, the first and second faces extending between opposing ends of the leadframe, where the second face configured to electrically couple with a circuit board. The chip is electrically coupled to the first face. The encapsulating material covers the chip and the first face of the leadframe. The material layer is configured to improve solderability of the singulated semiconductor package to the circuit board.
US07932583B2	Reduced free-charge carrier lifetime device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device comprises a body of a first conductivity type having a source region and a channel, the body being in contact with a top contact layer. The device also comprises a gate arranged adjacent the channel and a drift zone of a second conductivity type arranged between the body and a bottom contact layer. An integrated diode is formed partially by a first zone of the first conductivity type within the body and being in contact with the top contact layer and a second zone of the second conductivity type being in contact with the bottom contact layer. A reduced charge carrier concentration region is formed in the drift zone having a continuously increasing charge carrier lifetime in the vertical direction so that the charge carrier lifetime is lowest near the body and highest near the bottom contact layer.
US07932582B2	Compact dual direction BJT clamps In a dual direction BJT clamp, multiple emitter and base fingers are alternatingly connected to ground and pad and share a common sub-collector.
US07932575B2	Method of fabricating back-illuminated imaging sensors using a bump bonding technique A method for fabricating a back-illuminated semiconductor imaging device on a semiconductor-on-insulator substrate, and resulting imaging device is disclosed. The method for manufacturing the imaging device includes the steps of providing a substrate comprising an insulator layer, and an epitaxial layer substantially overlying the insulator layer; fabricating at least one imaging component at least partially overlying and extending into the epitaxial layer; forming a plurality of bond pads substantially overlying the epitaxial layer; fabricating a dielectric layer substantially overlying the epitaxial layer and the at least one imaging component; providing a handle wafer; forming a plurality of conductive trenches in the handle wafer; forming a plurality of conductive bumps on a first surface of the handle wafer substantially underlying the conductive trenches; and bonding the plurality of conductive bumps to the plurality of bond pads.
US07932573B2	Magnetic memory element and magnetic memory device A magnetic memory element having a layer structure containing a fixing layer (pinned layer: PL) having a magnetization direction fixed unidirectionally, a nonmagnetic dielectric layer (TN1) in contact with the fixing layer (PL), and a memory layer (free layer: FL) having a first surface in contact with the nonmagnetic dielectric layer (TN1) and a second surface on the opposite to the first surface, the magnetization direction of the memory layer (FL) having a reversible magnetization direction in response to the current through the layer structure. The entire surface of the first surface of the memory layer (FL) is covered with the nonmagnetic dielectric layer (TN1) and in the joint surface of the nonmagnetic dielectric layer (TN1) and the fixing layer (PL), the first surface of the nonmagnetic dielectric layer (TN1) is exposed in a manner of surrounding the joint surface.
US07932567B2	Semiconductor device Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: first and second transistors, each of the first and second transistors being formed with a plurality of fin transistors, and the first and second transistors being connected in parallel to electrically share a source, wherein the plurality of fin transistors each include a fin activation layer, the fin activation layer protruding from a semiconductor substrate, a source layer serving as the source being formed on one end, and a drain layer on the other end of the fin activation layer so as to form a channel region, the fin activation layers are arranged adjacent to each other in parallel, and the drain layers are disposed so that the currents flow through the plurality of fin transistors in opposite directions between the first and second transistors.
US07932566B2	Structure and system of mixing poly pitch cell design under default poly pitch design rules An integrated circuit including type-1 cells and a type-2 cell is presented. The type-1 cells have poly lines with a default poly pitch. The type-2 cell has poly lines with a non-default poly pitch. A first boundary region has at least one isolation area that lies between the type-1 cells and the type-2 cell in the X-direction. The first boundary region includes at least one merged dummy poly line, wherein the at least one merged dummy poly line has a first portion that complies with the default poly pitch of the type-1 cells and a second portion that complies with the non-default poly pitch of the type-2 cell.
US07932560B2	Method of fabricating a semiconductor on insulator device having a frontside substrate contact A method of forming a substrate contact in a semiconductor device, comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor base substrate (2) having a buried oxide (BOX) layer (4) and a thin active semiconductor layer (103) on the BOX layer (4), forming a trench (104) in the active semiconductor layer (103) and the Box layer (4) to the semiconductor base substrate (2) below, and then depositing another active semiconductor (epitoxial) layer (6) over the remaining active semiconductor layer (103) and in the trench (104) to create the substrate contact. The trench (104) is etched at a location on the wafer corresponding to a scribe lane (106).
US07932552B2	Multiple source-single drain field effect semiconductor device and circuit Disclosed are embodiments of a variable-delay field effect transistor (FET) having multiple source regions that can be individually and selectively biased to provide an electrical connection to a single drain region. Delay is a function of which of the multiple source regions is/are selectively biased as well as a function of gate resistance and capacitance. Such a variable-delay FET can be incorporated into a phase adjusting circuit, which uses gate propagation delays to selectively phase adjust an input signal. The phase adjusting circuit can be tuned by incorporating non-salicided resistances and additional capacitance at various positions on the gate structure. The phase adjusting circuit can further be modified into a phase adjusting mixer circuit that enables a phase adjusted signal to be combined with an additional signal.
US07932550B2	Method of forming high aspect ratio structures An etching process includes providing a dielectric first film on a substrate and a sacrificial second film on the dielectric first film. A conductive structure such as a container capacitor is formed in a recess in the first and second films. The conductive structure is exposed as to its external surface by an etch process that resists destructive collapse of the conductive structure.
US07932543B2	Wire structure and semiconductor device comprising the wire structure Provided are a wire structure and a semiconductor device having the wire structure. The wire structure includes a first wire that has a first region having a width of several to tens of nanometers and a second region having a width wider than that of the first region.
US07932541B2	High performance collector-up bipolar transistor Disclosed are embodiments of a hetero-junction bipolar transistor (HBT) structure and method of forming the structure that provides substantially lower collector-to-base parasitic capacitance and collector resistance, while also lowering or maintaining base-to-emitter capacitance, emitter resistance and base resistance in order to achieve frequency capabilities in the THz range. The HBT is a collector-up HBT in which a dielectric layer and optional sidewall spacers separate the raised extrinsic base and the collector so as to reduce collector-to-base capacitance. A lower portion of the collector is single crystalline semiconductor so as to reduce collector resistance. The raised extrinsic base and the intrinsic base are stacked single crystalline epitaxial layers, where link-up is automatic and self-aligned, so as to reduce base resistance. The emitter is a heavily doped region below the top surface of a single crystalline semiconductor substrate so as to reduce emitter resistance.
US07932533B2	Pixel structure A pixel structure driven by a scan line and a data line arranged on a substrate is provided. The pixel structure includes a control unit, an OEL unit and a semi-transparent reflector structure. The control unit driven by the scan line and the data line is arranged on the substrate. The OEL unit is arranged on the substrate and includes a transparent electrode, a light-emitting layer and a metal electrode. The transparent electrode is electrically connected with the control unit. The light-emitting layer is disposed on the transparent electrode. The metal electrode is disposed on the light-emitting layer. The semi-transparent reflector structure is sandwiched between the substrate and the OEL unit, and includes at least a plurality of first and second dielectric layers. The first and second dielectric layers are alternately stacked, and the refractive index of the first dielectric layers is different from that of the second dielectric layers.
US07932530B2	Display substrate and method of manufacturing the same A display substrate includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, and a semiconductor layer that are sequentially formed on a substrate. Also, the display substrate includes a color filter layer formed on the substrate and exposing a portion of the semiconductor layer, and source and drain electrodes that each overlap with the semiconductor layer and the color filter layer. The gate electrode, the gate insulating layer, and the semiconductor layer have the same shape as each other, and the gate electrode is insulated from the gate insulating layer and the semiconductor layer by the color filter layer.
US07932529B2	Light-emitting diode device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device comprises a light-emitting diode chip disposed in a cavity of a semiconductor substrate. At least two isolated outer wiring layers are disposed on the bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate and are electrically connected to the light-emitting diode chip, serving as input terminals. A lens module is adhered to the top surface of the semiconductor substrate to cap the cavity, in which the lens module comprises a molded lens and a transparent conductive layer coated with a fluorescent material under the molded lens. A method for fabricating the semiconductor devices is also disclosed.
US07932527B2	Light-emitting device and illuminator A light-emitting device, having high light extraction efficiency, capable of obtaining diffused light is obtained. This light-emitting device comprises a light-emitting diode, a portion, formed on a plane substantially parallel to a light-emitting surface of the light-emitting diode, having a dielectric constant periodically modulated with respect to the in-plane direction of the plane substantially parallel to the light-emitting surface and a member provided on the side of the light-emitting surface of the light-emitting diode for diffusing light emitted from the light-emitting diode.
US07932526B2	LED semiconductor body and use of an LED semiconductor body An LED semiconductor body comprising a first radiation-generating active layer and a second radiation-generating active layer, the first active layer and the second active layer being arranged one above another in the vertical direction.
US07932525B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a light-emitting semiconductor element arranged on a lead frame; a transparent resin mold covering the light-emitting semiconductor element and the lead frame except a terminal portion of the lead frame; and a reflective surface formed on a bent portion of part of the lead frame. The terminal portion of the lead frame has a terminal structure, which can serve as a combination of a top-view type and a side-view type.
US07932524B2	Transparent LED display and method for manufacture thereof Described herein is a transparent device for display of information superimposed on a background, said device comprising a plurality of LED sources, addressable individually or in groups through a series of conductive paths deposited on a transparent underlayer and connected to a control electronics, in which: i) said LED sources are integrated in the form of dice, i.e., of elements obtained by dividing up a semiconductor wafer and without package; and ii) at least one of said conductive paths is with interrupted stretches and replaced by stretches of metal wire, bonded to said paths through a wire-bonding operation.
US07932523B2	LED lamp for light source of lighting device An LED lamp can be used as a light source of a lighting device. The LED lamp can be combined with a reflecting mirror formed as a paraboloid of revolution, to obtain desired light distribution characteristics, as with a conventional light source. The emission surface of the LED lamp for the light source of the lighting device can be rectangular, and the ratio between a short side and a long side thereof is set in a range of 1:2 to 1:6. Therefore, it is possible to form a light distribution pattern similar to that of a filament, which is conventionally used as an emission source. It is also possible to use almost all light emitted from the LED lamp as illumination light.
US07932522B2	Thin film transistor array panel and method for manufacturing the same A thin film transistor panel includes a substrate, a gate line extending in a first direction on the substrate, a data line disposed on the substrate, the data line crossing the gate line with an insulation layer therebetween and extending in a second direction, a thin film transistor including a control terminal connected to the gate line, an input terminal connected to the data line, and an output terminal, a color filter disposed on the thin film transistor, the color filter having an opening corresponding to the output terminal of the thin film transistor, a light blocking member disposed in the opening of the color filter, the light blocking member exposing a first region of a first end portion of the output terminal of the thin film transistor and having an output terminal light blocking portion enclosing the circumference of the first region, and a pixel electrode disposed on the light blocking member and the color filter, the pixel electrode contacting the first region of the output terminal.
US07932521B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof An object is to provide a semiconductor device of which a manufacturing process is not complicated and by which cost can be suppressed, by forming a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor film typified by zinc oxide, and a manufacturing method thereof. For the semiconductor device, a gate electrode is formed over a substrate; a gate insulating film is formed covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film is formed over the gate insulating film; and a first conductive film and a second conductive film are formed over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film has at least a crystallized region in a channel region.
US07932518B2	Method of forming thin film patterning substrate including formation of banks Display devices such as EL elements or LED elements, are formed from thin film elements having banks of prescribed height and a thin film layer formed by an ink jet method in areas to be coated that are partitioned by those banks. The banks may be formed of an organic material on a bank formation surface configured of an inorganic material, plasma treatment is performed under conditions that the induction gas is fluorine-based and that fluorine is present excessively, and the areas enclosed by the banks subjected to surface treatment are filled with the liquid thin film material to form the thin film layer or layers.
US07932517B2	Semiconductor device comprising circuit substrate with inspection connection pads and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor device includes a first circuit substrate having a plurality of lower wiring lines and a plurality of upper wiring lines on the lower surface side and upper surface side thereof, respectively. A second circuit substrate is provided on a lower side of the first circuit substrate, the second circuit substrate having an opening which exposes part of the first circuit substrate, the second circuit substrate also having, on the lower surface side thereof, a plurality of external-connection connection pads and a plurality of test connection pads connected to the lower wiring lines. A first semiconductor construct is disposed on the lower side of the first circuit substrate within the opening of the second circuit substrate, the first semiconductor construct having a plurality of external connection electrodes connected to the lower wiring lines. A third circuit substrate and/or an electronic component is provided on an upper side of the first circuit substrate and connected to the upper wiring lines.
US07932514B2	Microwave readout for flux-biased qubits A method for determining whether a quantum system comprising a superconducting qubit is occupying a first basis state or a second basis state once a measurement is performed is provided. The method, comprising: applying a signal having a frequency through a transmission line coupled to the superconducting qubit characterized by two distinct, separate, and stable states of differing resonance frequencies each corresponding to the occupation of the first or second basis state prior to measurement; and measuring at least one of an output power or phase at an output port of the transmission line, wherein the measured output power or phase is indicative of whether the superconducting qubit is occupying the first basis state or the second basis state.
US07932513B2	Magnetic random access memory, and write method and manufacturing method of the same A magnetic random access memory includes a bit line running in a first direction, a first word line running in a second direction different from the first direction, and a memory element having a magnetoresistive effect element including a fixed layer having a fixed magnetization direction, a recording layer having a reversible magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer formed between the fixed layer and the recording layer, the magnetization directions in the fixed layer and the recording layer being perpendicular to a film surface, and a heater layer in contact with the magnetoresistive effect element, the memory element being connected to the bit line, and formed to oppose a side surface of the first word line such that the memory element is insulated from the first word line.
US07932511B2	Large-area nanoenabled macroelectronic substrates and uses therefor A method and apparatus for an electronic substrate having a plurality of semiconductor devices is described. A thin film of nanowires is formed on a substrate. The thin film of nanowires is formed to have a sufficient density of nanowires to achieve an operational current level. A plurality of semiconductor regions are defined in the thin film of nanowires. Contacts are formed at the semiconductor device regions to thereby provide electrical connectivity to the plurality of semiconductor devices. Furthermore, various materials for fabricating nanowires, thin films including p-doped nanowires and n-doped nanowires, nanowire heterostructures, light emitting nanowire heterostructures, flow masks for positioning nanowires on substrates, nanowire spraying techniques for depositing nanowires, techniques for reducing or eliminating phonon scattering of electrons in nanowires, and techniques for reducing surface states in nanowires are described.
US07932507B2	Current constricting phase change memory element structure A layer of nanoparticles having a dimension on the order of 10 nm is employed to form a current constricting layer or as a hardmask for forming a current constricting layer from an underlying insulator layer. The nanoparticles are preferably self-aligning and/or self-planarizing on the underlying surface. The current constricting layer may be formed within a bottom conductive plate, within a phase change material layer, within a top conductive plate, or within a tapered liner between a tapered via sidewall and a via plug contains either a phase change material or a top conductive material. The current density of the local structure around the current constricting layer is higher than the surrounding area, thus allowing local temperature to rise higher than surrounding material. The total current required to program the phase change memory device, and consequently the size of a programming transistor, is reduced due to the current constricting layer.
US07932506B2	Fully self-aligned pore-type memory cell having diode access device Memory devices are described along with methods for manufacturing. A memory device as described herein includes a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell in the plurality of memory cells comprises a diode comprising doped semiconductor material and a dielectric spacer on the diode and defining an opening, the dielectric spacer having sides self-aligned with sides of the diode. Each memory cell further comprises a memory element on the dielectric spacer and including a portion within the opening contacting a top surface of the diode.
US07932499B2	Radiation detector and method for producing the same Disclosed is a multi-channel array radiation detector that can provide high-definition and high-resolution CT photo-images. The radiation detector has semiconductor photo-detecting elements arranged lengthwise and breadth-wise in a lattice manner and scintillator elements arranged on them one-to-one. The scintillator elements have thin metal light-reflecting material layers formed on side surfaces of the scintillator elements, and a radiation shielding material layer composed of resin blended with heavy metal element particles is filled in between adjacent metal light-reflecting material layers.
US07932497B2	Pixelated detectors with depth of interaction sensitivity A radiation detector (10, 10′) includes scintillator pixels (30) that each have a radiation-receiving end, a light-output end, and reflective sides extending therebetween. The reflective sides have a reflection characteristic (40, 40′, 41, 44) varying between the radiation-receiving end and the light-output end such that a lateral spread of light emanating from the light-output ends of the scintillator pixels responsive to a scintillation event generated in one of the scintillator pixels depends upon a depth of the scintillation event in the scintillator pixel. A plurality of light detectors (46) optically communicate with the light-output ends of the scintillator pixels to receive light produced by scintillation events.
US07932496B2	Infrared detector, infrared detecting apparatus, and method of manufacturing infrared detector An infrared detector comprises: a reflection portion transmitting far- and middle-infrared rays and reflecting near-infrared and visible rays; a photo-current generating portion having a quantum well structure in which electrons are excited by the far- and middle-infrared rays having passed through the reflection portion so as to generate photo-current; a light emitting portion having a quantum well structure into which electrons of the photo-current generated by the photo-current generating portion are injected and the electrons thus injected thereinto are recombined with holes, thus emitting near-infrared and visible rays; and a photo-detecting portion detecting the near-infrared and visible rays emitted from the light emitting portion, and detecting the near-infrared and visible rays emitted from the light emitting portion and reflected by the reflection portion. The reflection portion, the photo-current generating portion, and the light emitting portion are made of group III-V compound semiconductors layered on a semiconductor substrate.
US07932494B2	Method for characterizing vibrational performance of charged particle beam microscope system and application thereof A method of characterizing the vibrational performance of a charged particle beam microscope system having at least one encoder is disclosed. The encoder is part of a control system for controlling the speed of a stage whereupon a sample is secured for imaging. A plurality of images each corresponding to a specific encoder working frequency are analyzed to generate imaged pattern vibration amplitude information over an imaging time period. The generated imaged pattern vibration amplitude information is then transformed to generate an imaged pattern vibration amplitude information over a range of encoder working frequencies. Information of system vibrational performance is then derived from the encoder working frequency-based vibration amplitude information. As a result, the vibrational performance of the system is characterized to describe the system vibrational behavior in terms of imaged pattern vibration amplitudes at varying working frequencies of the encoder.
US07932493B2	Method and system for observing a specimen using a scanning electron microscope It is intended to reduce the auto focusing time and to increase the stability in a case that a defect on a specimen that has been detected by an inspection apparatus is observed by using a scanning electron microscope. One or more regions to be used for auto focusing are set in an imaging region or its neighborhood on the basis of semiconductor design information. A target focusing position in the imaging region is determined by performing auto focusing using the thus-set regions. The determined target focusing position is used for low-magnification imaging and high-magnification imaging. An auto focusing mode that is suitable for each imaging region is selected on the basis of the semiconductor design information.
US07932491B2	Quantitative measurement of isotope ratios by time-of-flight mass spectrometry A mass spectrometer includes a pulsed ion source that generates an ion beam comprising a plurality of ions. A first timed ion selector passes a first group of ions. A first ion mirror generates a reflected ion beam comprising the first group of ions that at least partially compensates for an initial kinetic energy distribution of the first group of ions. A second timed ion selector passes a second group of ions. A second ion mirror generates a reflected ion beam comprising the second group of ions that at least partially compensates for an initial kinetic energy distribution of the second group of ions. A timed ion deflector deflects the second group of ions to a detector assembly comprising at least two ion detectors which detects the deflected ion beam.
US07932489B2	Detection apparatus An ion mobility spectrometer has a pair of electrodes (13A) and (13B) midway along the drift chamber (7). A high field is applied between the electrodes (13A) and (13B) sufficient to modify (e.g. fragment) ions in the region of the electrodes such that they move at a different rate towards the collector plate (8) . This is used to modify the time of flight of selected ions or ion clusters and enable identification of ambiguous peaks on the IMS spectrum.
US07932488B2	Concentrating mass spectrometer ion guide, spectrometer and method An ion guide includes multiple stages. An electric field within each stage guides ions along a guide axis. Within each stage, amplitude and frequency, and resolving potential of the electric field may be independently varied. The geometry of the rods maintains a similarly shaped field from stage to stage, allowing efficient guidance of the ions along the axis. In particular, each rod segment of the ith of stage has a cross sectional radius ri, and a central axis located a distance Ri+ri from the guide axis. The ratio ri/Ri and is substantially constant along the guide axis, thereby preserving the shape of the field.
US07932487B2	Mass spectrometer with looped ion path A mass spectrometer includes at least one ion selector, at least one collision cell, and an ion path switching device arranged to define a looped ion path around which ions derived from a sample may be sent multiple times (without reversal of ion travel) in order to effect a desired number of isolation/fragmentation cycles for MSn analysis. When the desired number of isolation/fragmentation cycles have been completed, the ion path switching device directs the ions to a detector or a separate mass analyzer for acquisition of a mass spectrum.
US07932486B2	Mass spectrometer system During the structural analysis of a protein or peptide by tandem mass spectroscopy, a peptide ion derived from a protein that has already been measured and that is expressed in great quantities is avoided as a tandem mass spectroscopy target. A peptide derived from a minute amount of protein, which has heretofore been difficult to analyze, can be automatically determined as a tandem mass spectroscopy target within the real time of measurement. Data concerning a protein that has already been measured and a peptide derived from the protein is automatically stored in an internal database. The stored data is collated with measured data with high accuracy to determine an isotope peak. In this way, the process of selecting a peptide peak that has not been measured as the target for the next tandem analysis can be performed within the real time of measurement and a redundant measurement of peptides derived from the same protein can be avoided. The information contained in the MSn spectrum is effectively utilized in each step of the MSn involving a multi-stage dissociation and mass spectroscopy (MSn), so that the flows for the determination of the next analysis content and the selection of the parent ion for the MSn+1 analysis, for example, can be optimized within the real time of measurement and with high efficiency and accuracy. Thus, a target of concern to the user can be subjected to tandem mass spectroscopy without wasteful measurement.
US07932485B2	Method and apparatus for the dynamic generation and transmission of geometrical data An object geometry measurement apparatus (10, 20) for the dynamic generation and transmission of geometrical data of objects (14) moved on a conveying device (12) is set forth, wherein the apparatus has a first optoelectronic sensor (10) which is made for the detection of the object geometry in a section of the object (14) with reference to intervals and/or of the remission behavior, as well as a first control (20) which can calculate geometrical data from the object geometry of each section and can output them via a first interface. In this respect, the first control (20) is made to adapt the information density of the output geometrical data to a measure for changes of the object geometry from section to section.
US07932484B2	Laser transmitter having gimbal support and method of preventing the gimbal support from contacting the transmitter housing A laser transmitter has a transmitter housing and a laser source in the housing. A gimbal support arrangement supports the laser source in the housing and includes a gimbal motor arrangement for moving the gimbal support arrangement and said laser source in said housing. A gimbal motor drive circuit actuates the gimbal motor arrangement to cause the gimbal support arrangement to move in said housing. A plurality of optical proximity sensors sense the orientation of said gimbal support arrangement to the interior of said housing. By this arrangement, damage to the transmitter is prevented.
US07932483B2	Household appliance with an electric control system and an accessory part The invention relates to a household appliance with an electric control system (20), which is connected to an accessory part (12) for the household appliance in a signal-transmitting fashion, wherein the accessory part (12) can be moved back and forth between an active position and a resting position on the household appliance and, in the switched-on state of the household appliance, exchanges signals for controlling the household appliance with the electric control system (20), at least in the active position.In order to specify a household appliance in which the accessory part, in its resting position, is stored in the household appliance in such a way that the user can access the household appliance without obstruction and, at the same time, a high degree of security against malfunction is guaranteed, the signal exchange between the transmission or transmission/reception device (17) of the accessory part (12) and the electric control system (20) occurs wirelessly and the accessory part (12), in its resting position, is mounted in a storage element (6) of the household appliance at least partly consisting of an electrically conductive material, said storage element electrically shielding the transmission or transmission/reception device (17) of the accessory part (12) from the electric control system (20) so that signal exchange is prevented.
US07932481B2	Operating device, electrical appliance with such an operating device, arrangement of a glass ceramic hob or an oven with such an operating device and method for operating such an operating device An operating device and an electrical appliance provided with said operating device is disclosed. The electrical appliance comprises light barriers mounted on a frame that rests on a worktop. The light barriers can detect whether a finger is placed on one or more of the control panels for operation or controlling of said operating device or said electrical appliance. The control panels are arranged along one line in front of the light barriers. The control panels are provided at the top thereof with corresponding identifications, for example in the form of symbols. By moving the control panels away from the actual housing of the electrical appliance it is possible to provide larger heated surfaces for the cooking places.
US07932480B2	Multiple heater control system with expandable modular functionality A multiple heater control system includes cables, connectors, and junction boxes for user-friendly daisy chain connections of heater controllers and heaters in various configurations or combinations of individually controlled heater series and/or master and slave heater series. The heater controllers include process control of AC power to the heaters and upper-limit safety shutoff that is substantially independent from the process control. The heater controllers also have variable levels of control, adjustment, display, and communications functionality in a base module that is expandable to various levels with expansion modules that are attachable to and detachable from the base module. Connector, cable, and junction configurations, adapters, and latch features enhance user friendliness.
US07932478B2	Laser processing machine A laser processing machine that includes a chuck table adapted to hold a workpiece thereon and laser beam irradiation unit for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held on the chuck table. The laser beam irradiation unit includes: a laser beam oscillation section for emitting a pulse laser beam; a defection section for deflecting the pulse laser beam emitted from the laser beam oscillation section; and a concentrator having an ellipsoidal focusing spot forming section for focusing the pulse laser beam deflected by the deflection unit and forming a focusing spot into an ellipse.
US07932471B2	Capacitor for incorporation in wiring board, wiring board, method of manufacturing wiring board, and ceramic chip for embedment A capacitor comprising: a capacitor body including a plurality of laminated dielectric layers, a plurality of inner electrode layers which are respectively disposed between mutually adjacent ones of the dielectric layers, a first main surface located in a laminated direction of the dielectric layers, and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface; a first outer electrode formed on the first main surface of the capacitor body and electrically connected to the inner electrode layers; a second outer electrode formed on the second main surface of the capacitor body and electrically connected to the inner electrode layers; a first dummy electrode formed on the first main surface of the capacitor body; and a second dummy electrode formed on the second main surface of the capacitor body.
US07932469B1	Metallic wire tracer element including woven protective tube and methods of making same A detectable tracer element for use in underground detection applications includes a metallic wire, a non-fibrous insulating jacket integral with the wire, and a flexible, cut-resistant, non-electrically shielding woven protective tube surrounding the wire and jacket combination. The woven protective tube includes a plurality of non-metallic fibers woven around the wire and jacket combination such that the combination is disposed within the interior of the protective tube. In one configuration of the invention, the woven protective tube defines a substantially oval or circular tube weave. The substantially oval or circular tube weave is woven, such that, the tube weave is pulled or stitched into a flattened configuration for use in underground applications.
US07932467B2	Touch panel that uses transparent conductor A transparent conductor includes a film-shaped or plate-shaped support and a transparent conductive layer that is disposed on the support and has a surface formed as a rough surface. The surface of the transparent conductive layer is formed so that a maximum peak height that shows a surface roughness of the surface is in a range of 0.35 μm to 0.43 μm, inclusive.
US07932462B2	Arrangement comprising a solar cell and an integrated bypass diode The present invention relates to an arrangement having at least one solar cell, which is formed by a first sequence of differently doped layers (1, 2, 11, 12) on a substrate (6, 16), and at least one bypass diode, which is connected to the solar cell, particularly in a monolithic, series-connected solar module. The arrangement is characterized in that the bypass diode is formed by a second sequence of layers (4, 5, 13, 14), which is arranged between the substrate (6, 16) and the first layer sequence (1, 2, 11, 12).With the proposed arrangement monolithic, series-connected solar modules can be formed at a very low loss of active receiving surface, the solar cells of which are protected by bypass diodes.
US07932460B2	Thermoelectric heterostructure assemblies element Improved thermoelectric assemblies are disclosed, wherein layers of heterostructure thermoelectric materials or thin layers of thermoelectric material form thermoelectric elements. The layers are bound together with agents that improve structural strengths, allow electrical current to pass in a preferred direction, and minimize or reduce adverse affects, such a shear stresses, that might occur to the thermoelectric properties and materials of the assembly by their inclusion.
US07932457B2	Accelerated aging process for acoustic stringed instruments A method of artificially aging a musical instrument is provided by placing the instrument in an enclosure, providing at least one electromechanical transducer proximate to the instrument and providing an electrical signal to the transducer. The transducer is a three-way speaker in a preferred embodiment. The method has particular utility wherein the instrument is a wooden, stringed instrument.
US07932454B2	System and method for musical instruction The present disclosure relates to music instruction devices and methods. A system is provided which allows a user to more intuitively understand music theory and performance. The system also streamlines composition and arrangement in multi-instrument environments. The user is able to select from a variety of available music visualizations and instrument views, allowing comparison therebetween. The system may comprise a step-by-step instruction method, free-play performance abilities, and recording and playback features. Certain embodiments incorporate statistical analysis of student progress, remote access for teacher consultation, and video games for enhancing student interest.
US07932453B2	Tool for setting an instrument sound post A tool for setting an instrument sound post preferably includes a bent tube, one or more string or polymer lines, a cradle end that grasps the sound post, and an internal locking mechanism to hold the sound post against the tool. In one embodiment, a single line is used and a closed loop at the cradle end of the sound post setting tool holds the sound post in place. In this embodiment, a double-chamfer threaded tube construction is preferably used to facilitate line threading. In another embodiment, the cradle end includes a loop and a ball to grasp the sound post. In yet another embodiment, the cradle end includes two balls to grasp the sound post. The tool provides an improved way to install a sound post inside a stringed instrument.
US07932448B1	Keyway neck joint for a stringed instrument A method of improving the mechanical connection between a stringed instrument's neck and body by incorporating an interlocking jigsaw shaped mortise and tenon joint. The mortise is machined into the neck heel and the tenon is machined into the neck pocket of the instrument's body. The neck and body are press-fit together and secured with threaded fasteners.
US07932447B1	Maize variety PHW2Z A novel maize variety designated PHW2Z and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHW2Z with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHW2Z through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHW2Z or a trait conversion of PHW2Z with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW2Z, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHW2Z and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07932445B2	Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH445545 According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH445545. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH445545, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH445545 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH445545.
US07932444B2	Tomato line PSQ23-2258 The invention provides seed and plants of tomato hybrid PS02326502 and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid PS02326502 and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US07932438B2	Synthesis of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids by recombinant cells The present invention relates to methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, especially eicosapentaenoic acid, docosapentaenoic acid and docosahexaenoic acid, in recombinant cells such as yeast or plant cells. Also provided are recombinant cells or plants which produce long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a group of new enzymes which possess desaturase or elongase activity that can be used in methods of synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids.
US07932435B2	Method of screening transgenic plants for anthelmintic activity The present invention provides a method of screening transgenic plants containing a DNA construct encoding a polypeptide that when expressed in the plant results in the production of fatty acid compounds for anthelmintic activity by contacting the plants with a plurality of nematodes.
US07932433B2	Plant cyclopropane fatty acid synthase genes, proteins, and uses thereof Cyclopropane fatty acid synthase genes and polypeptides are described. Plants are transformed with such genes to produce such polypeptides.
US07932431B2	Genetically modified non-human mammals and cells A genetically modified non-human mammal or cell characterised in that it does not comprise a nucleic acid sequence which itself encodes any endogenous immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region locus polypeptide.
US07932427B2	Process for the preparation of propylene and industrial plant thereof The present invention provides a process for the preparation of propylene from a hydrocarbon feed containing one or more C5 and/or C6 cycloalkanes, wherein the hydrocarbon feed containing one or more C5 and/or C6 cycloalkanes is contacted under cracking conditions with a one-dimensional zeolite having 10-membered ring channels and a silica to alumina ratio in the range from 1 to 500 wherein at least 50% w/w of the total amount of zeolite used is zeolite in the hydrogen form.
US07932424B2	Method for catalytically cracking waste plastics and apparatus for catalytically cracking waste plastics To provide a method for catalytically cracking waste plastics wherein the efficiency in decomposition is high; even polyethylene composed of linear chain molecules difficult in decomposition is decomposable at a low temperature and decomposed residue is hardly produced; the process is simple since dechlorination can be achieved at the same time with catalytically cracking waste plastics in one reaction vessel; and oil fractions can be recovered at 50% or more on a net yield basis. The method for catalytically cracking waste plastics of the present invention has a constitution in which waste plastics are loaded as a raw material into a granular FCC catalyst heated to a temperature range from 350° C. to 500° C. inside a reaction vessel, thereby decomposing and gasifying the waste plastics in contact with the FCC catalyst.
US07932419B2	Transition metal-containing catalysts and processes for their preparation and use as oxidation and dehydrogenation catalysts This invention relates to the field of heterogeneous catalysis, and more particularly to catalysts including carbon supports having formed thereon compositions which comprise a transition metal in combination with nitrogen and/or carbon. The invention further relates to the fields of catalytic oxidation and dehydrogenation reactions, including the preparation of secondary amines by the catalytic oxidation of tertiary amines and the preparation of carboxylic acids by the catalytic dehydrogenation of alcohols.
US07932416B2	Ortho-substituted pentafluorosulfanylbenzenes, process for their preparation and their use as valuable synthetic intermediates Pentafluorosulfanyl-benzenes according to Formula (I): a process for their preparation and their use as valuable synthetic intermediates for preparing, for example, medicaments, diagnostic aids, liquid crystals, polymers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, nematicides, parasiticides, insecticides, acaricides and arthropodicides.
US07932414B2	Silane and silicic acid polycondensates with radicals containing branched-chain urethane, acid amide and/or carboxylic acid ester groups The invention relates to silane of formula (Ia), wherein the radicals and indices have the following meaning: R is an alkylene, arylene or alkylenearylene group that can be interrupted by one or more oxygen or sulfur atoms or carboxyl or amino groups or can carry said atoms/groups on their ends opposite the silicon atom; R1 is a Z′-substituted alkylene, arylene or alkylenearylene group, which can be interrupted by one or more oxygen or sulfur atoms or carboxyl or amino groups or can carry said atoms/groups on one of their ends; R′ is an alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkylaryl or arylalkyl group; B and B′ can be identical or different, both radicals can have the meaning of a straight-chained or branched organic group with at least one C═C double bond and at least 2 carbon atoms; B′ can mean instead thereof but also —R2aSi(OR3)4-a or —R2aR′bSi(OR3)4-a-b, wherein R2 is an alkylene group and R′ has the meaning defined above; X represents a group that can enter into a hydrolytic while forming Si—O—Si bridges; Z′ means —NH—C(O)O—, —NH—C(O)— or —CO(O)—, wherein the first two radicals are bonded to radical B′ by means of the NH group, whereas the carboxylate group can point in both directions except for a minor exception; a represents 1 or 2, and b is 0 or 1. The invention also relates to silicic acid poly (partial) condensates which can be produced by hydrolysis and condensation of said silane, and to the polymer materials with or without filling materials produced therefrom. The invention further relates to a method for the production of the inventive silane.
US07932400B2	Process for preparing imidazolidin-2,4-dione compound and method for acquiring solid state 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone compound An object of the present invention is to provide an industrially suitable process for preparing an imidazolidin-2,4-dione compound which is safe, simple and easy to prepare the imidazolidin-2,4-dione compound with high yield, which is a useful compound, for example, as a material for decomposing a harmful halogenated aromatic hydrocarbon compound such as dioxin, etc., an electroless silver plating solution for electronic parts, or a diazo copying material, etc. This object can be solved by a process for preparing an imidazolidin-2,4-dione compound which comprises subjecting a 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone compound, (1) to dehydration reaction in the presence of an acid catalyst(s); or (2) to reaction at 100 to 300° C. Or, it can be solved by a process for preparing an imidazolidin-2,4-dione compound which comprises reacting a mixed solution of a urea compound, glyoxal, and a base at 20 to 300° C.Also, an object of the present invention is to provide a method for acquiring a 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone from an aqueous solution containing a 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone by a simple and easy method. This object can be solved by a process for acquiring a solid state 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone compound which comprises mixing an organic solvent with an aqueous solution containing a 4,5-dihydroxy-2-imidazolidinone compound, and subjecting the mixture to azeotropic distillation.
US07932395B2	Substituted 1H-dihydropyrazoles, their preparation and use This invention provides compounds of Formula I, methods for their preparation and use for preparing compounds of Formula II wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, R6, X and n are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also discloses preparation of compounds of Formula III wherein R1, R2, R7, R8, R9 and n are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also pertains to certain compounds of Formula 4 and 6 used to prepare compounds of Formula I. wherein R1, R2, R5, X and n are as defined in the disclosure.
US07932394B2	Aryloxy-substituted benzimidazole derivatives A glucokinase activator is provided; and a treatment and/or a preventive for diabetes, or a treatment and/or a preventive for diabetes such as retinopathy, nephropathy, neurosis, ischemic cardiopathy, arteriosclerosis, and further a treatment and/or a preventive for obesity are provided.The invention relates to a compound of a formula (I): [wherein R1 and R2 represent a hydrogen, etc.; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, etc.; R4 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, etc.; Q represents a carbon atom, a nitrogen atom or a sulfur atom (the sulfur atom may be mono- or di-substituted with an oxo group); R5 and R6 each represent a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, etc.; X1, X2, X3 and X4 each independently represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom; Z represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a nitrogen atom; Ar represents an aryl or heteroaryl group optionally mono to tri-substituted with a group selected from the substituent group β; ring A represents a 5- or 6-membered nitrogen-containing heteroaromatic group; m indicates an integer of from 1 to 6; n indicates an integer of from 0 to 3; p indicates an integer of from 0 to 2 (provided that at least two of X1 to X4 are carbon atoms); q indicates 0 or 1] or its pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, which has an effect of glucokinase activation and is useful as a treatment for diabetes.
US07932391B2	Method for the preparation of clopidogrel and its analogues of methyl-tetrahydrothieno[3,2-C]pyridine acetate The present invention disclosed a preparation method of Clopidogrel (X=2−Cl) and its analogues of methyl tetrahydrothienopyridine acetate (I) by using halogen phenyl acetonitrile (VIII) as starting material and tetrahydrothienopyridine acetonitrile (IV), tetrahydrothienopyridine acetate (V) as key intermediates, and further using kinetic resolution to prepare the optical active Clopidogrel and compounds of methyl tetrahydrothenopridine acetate of formula (XII). The Clopidogrel of present invention is a novel high effective and safety drug for inhibition of platelet aggregation. This invention applied systematic technique of racemization of unwanted optical active enantiomer, recover recycle and reuse of resolution agent etc., with greater economic advantages and suitable for commercial scale industrial production. Wherein: X represents atoms of hydrogen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine, M represents an alkali metal ion.
US07932390B2	Substituted thieno[3,2-C]pyridine carboxylic acid derivatives There are provided compounds of the formula wherein R1, R2, R3, X, ring A and ring B are as described. The compounds exhibit anticancer properties.
US07932384B2	Reverse-turn mimetics and method relating thereto Conformationally constrained compounds that mimic the secondary structure of reverse-turn regions of biologically active peptides and proteins are disclosed. Such reverse-turn mimetic structures have utility over a wide range of fields, including use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. Libraries containing the reverse-turn mimetic structures of this invention are also disclosed as well as methods for screening the same to identify biologically active members. The invention also relates to the use of such compounds for inhibiting or treating disorders modulated by Wnt-signaling pathway, such as cancer, especially colorectal cancer, restenosis associated with angioplasty, polycystic kidney disease, aberrant angiogenesis disease, rheumatoid arthritis disease, tuberous sclerosis complex, Alzheimer's disease, excess hair growth or loss, or ulcerative colitis.
US07932382B2	Conformationally constrained Smac mimetics and the uses thereof The invention relates to conformationally constrained mimetics of Smac which function as inhibitors of Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins. The invention also relates to the use of these mimetics for inducing apoptotic cell death and for sensitizing cells to inducers of apoptosis.
US07932381B2	Process for producing carbapenem derivative and intermediate crystal therefor An object of the present invention is to provide a carbapenem synthetic intermediate which is advantageous in an industrial process. There are provided a process for producing Compound (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, or a solvate, or a crystal thereof, comprising reacting Compound (III) and Compound (IV) in the presence of the secondary amine, and a benzyl alcoholated crystal of Compound (I). There are further provided a method of deprotecting Compound (I) with a Pd catalyst, and a crystal of Compound (IV).
US07932376B2	Pyrimidine-based non-nucleotide composition and method for inhibiting platelet aggregation This invention is directed to a method of preventing or treating diseases or conditions associated with platelet aggregation. The method is also directed to a method of treating thrombosis or related disorders. The method comprises administering to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective amount of a non-nucleotide pyrimidine-based compound, preferably a P2Y12 receptor antagonist compound, wherein said amount is effective to inhibit platelet aggregation. The compounds useful for this invention include compounds of general Formulae I and Ia-Ic, or tautomers, salts, hydrates, and solvates thereof. The present invention also provides novel compounds of Formulae I and Ia-Ic.
US07932375B2	Kits for detecting rank nucleic acids Isolated receptors, DNAs encoding such receptors, and pharmaceutical compositions made therefrom, are disclosed. The isolated receptors can be used to regulate an immune response. The receptors are also useful in screening for inhibitors thereof.
US07932374B2	Compositions and methods for the modification of gene expression Novel isolated vascular tissue-specific plant polynucleotide promoter sequences are provided, together with genetic constructs comprising such polynucleotides. Methods for using such constructs in modulating the transcription of DNA sequences of interest are also disclosed, together with transgenic plants comprising such constructs.
US07932373B1	Proteins expressed by mycobacterium tuberculosis and not by BCG and their use as diagnostic reagents and vaccines The invention provides polypeptides encoded by open reading frames present in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis but absent from the genome of BCG and diagnostic and prophylactic methodologies using these polypeptides.
US07932372B2	Antibodies to MAdCAM The present invention relates to antibodies including human antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof that specifically bind to MAdCAM, preferably human MAdCAM and that function to inhibit MAdCAM. The invention also relates to human anti-MAdCAM antibodies and antigen-binding portions thereof. The invention also relates to antibodies that are chimeric, bispecific, derivatized, single chain antibodies or portions of fusion proteins. The invention also relates to isolated heavy and light chain immunoglobulins derived from human anti-MAdCAM antibodies and nucleic acid molecules encoding such immunoglobulins. The present invention also relates to methods of making human anti-MAdCAM antibodies, compositions comprising these antibodies and methods of using the antibodies and compositions for diagnosis and treatment. The invention also provides gene therapy methods using nucleic acid molecules encoding the heavy and/or light immunoglobulin molecules that comprise the human anti-MAdCAM antibodies. The invention also relates to transgenic animals or plants comprising nucleic acid molecules of the invention.
US07932371B2	Tick octopamine receptor nucleic acid molecules The present invention relates to tick octopamine receptor nucleic acid molecules; to tick octopamine receptor proteins encoded by such nucleic acid molecules; to antibodies raised against such proteins; and to compounds that inhibit the activity of such proteins. The present invention also includes methods to obtain such proteins, nucleic acid molecules, antibodies, and inhibitory compounds. The present invention also includes inhibitory compounds, particularly those that specifically inhibit tick octopamine receptor activity, as well as the use of such compounds to treat animals.
US07932370B2	Sequence-determined DNA fragments encoding cyclopropyl isomerase proteins The present invention provides DNA molecules that constitute fragments of the genome of a plant, and polypeptides encoded thereby. The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3′ termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
US07932369B2	Diagnostic test for vitamin B12 An isolated nucleotide sequence or fragment thereof encoding the porcine intrinsic factor, wherein the porcine intrinsic factor comprises an amino acid sequence having at least 85% amino acid sequence identity to an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 3, SEQ ID NO: 6, and SEQ ID NO: 9. The invention also encompasses an isolated nucleic acid sequence or fragment thereof comprising, or complementary to, a nucleotide sequence having at least 85% nucleotide sequence identity to a nucleotide sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 4, and SEQ ID NO: 7. The porcine intrinsic factor can be use is an assay to determine the quantity of vitamin B12 in a biological sample.
US07932366B2	Synthesis of azo bonded immunoregulatory compounds Methods are disclosed for preparing compounds of Formula I: where R1, R3, and R4 are independently hydrogen or C1 to C4 alkyl, and R2 is: where R5 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and C1 to C4 alkyl, or where R6, R7 and R8 are independently hydrogen or C1 to C4 alkyl; or the esters or pharmacologically acceptable salts thereof. The methods can involve converting a suitably functionalized aniline compound to a diazonium salt (which aniline compound can be first formed by reduction of a nitrobenzene) and coupling the diazonium salt with a suitably functionalized benzene compound. The suitably functionalized aniline compound either includes a primary alcohol or aldehyde group, which is then oxidized to a carboxylic acid group, or includes a nitrile or amide group, which is hydrolyzed to a carboxylic acid group. The methods can also involve the direct coupling (via reduction of nitro groups to form an azo linkage) of suitably functionalized nitrobenzenes. The compounds and or their metabolites can be used to treat or prevent various diseases, particularly inflammatory conditions of the GI tract.
US07932365B2	Preparation and composition of inter-alpha inhibitor proteins from human plasma for therapeutic use The invention relates to Inter-alpha inhibitor proteins (IαIp). The invention further relates to processes for purification of IαIp compositions and their use for treatment of human diseases such as sepsis and septic shock, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer and infectious diseases.
US07932364B2	Compositions and methods for the preparation of human growth hormone glycosylation mutants The present invention relates to mutants of human growth hormone, which contain newly introduced N-linked or O-linked glycosylation site(s), such that these recombinantly produced polypeptides have glycosylation patterns distinctly different from that of the naturally occurring human growth hormone. The polynucleotide coding sequences for the mutants, expression cassettes comprising the coding sequences, cells expressing the mutants, and methods for producing the mutants are also disclosed. Further disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the mutants and method for using the mutants.
US07932361B2	Antibodies to HT5GJ57 The present invention relates to novel human secreted proteins and isolated nucleic acids containing the coding regions of the genes encoding such proteins. Also provided are vectors, host cells, antibodies, and recombinant methods for producing human secreted proteins. The invention further relates to diagnostic and therapeutic methods useful for diagnosing and treating diseases, disorders, and/or conditions related to these novel human secreted proteins.
US07932357B2	FDF-03 S1 antigen-antibody complex Nucleic acids encoding various monocyte-derived proteins and related compositions, including purified proteins and specific antibodies are described. Methods of using such composition are also provided.
US07932351B2	Activin receptor-like kinase-1 proteins having serine-threonine kinase domains A new receptor family has been identified, of activin-like kinases. Novel proteins have activin/TGF-beta-type I receptor functionality, and have consequential diagnostic/therapeutic utility. They may have a serine/threonine kinase domain, a DFKSRN or DLKSKN sequence in subdomain VIB and/or a GTKRYM sequence in subdomain VIII.
US07932348B2	Fluorine-containing polymerizable monomer and polymer compound using same Polymers made by polymerization or cyclization condensation of a fluorine-containing polymerizable monomer represented by the formula [1] wherein “a” represents an integer from 1 to 4. The monomer contains a plurality of polymerizable amines in the molecule and at the same time one or more hexafluoroisopropyl group(s). With this structure it can be used as an effective polymerizable monomer, which can exhibit water repellency, oil repellency, low water absorptive property, heat resistance, weather resistance, corrosion resistance, transparency, photosensitivity, low refractive index property, low dielectric property, etc., and it can be used for advanced polymer material fields.
US07932346B2	Synthetic rubber with narrow molecular weight distribution, a process for its preparation and a method of use A novel process is used to prepare synthetic rubbers (B) which feature very narrow molecular weight distribution and a correspondingly low value for the polydispersity index. The preparation process encompasses the treatment of a synthetic rubber with ultrasound, where the resultant synthetic rubber (B) has a lower weight-average molecular weight (Mw) than the synthetic rubber (A) used. The resultant synthetic rubbers (B) have excellent suitability for processing via extruder processes or injection-molding processes.
US07932345B2	Aluminum containing polyester polymers having low acetaldehyde generation rates A polyester polymer composition containing polyester polymers such as polymers having repeating ethylene terephthalate units, aluminum atoms in an amount of at least 3 ppm based on the weight of the polymer, the polyester polymers having an It.V. of at least 0.72 dL/g obtained through a melt phase polymerization and a residual acetaldehyde level of 10 ppm or less. Also provided are polyester polymer compositions containing polyester polymers and: (i) aluminum atoms (ii) alkaline earth metal atoms or alkali metal atoms or alkali compound residues, and (iii) a catalyst deactivator such as a phosphorus compound. The phosphorus compound is added to the polyester melt either late in the polycondensation or upon remelting a solid polyester polymer. The polyester polymer exhibits good L* brightness, clarity, and low levels of acetaldehyde generated upon melting.
US07932343B2	Biomaterial The present invention provides a triblock copolymer and a viscoelastic biostable foam comprising the same.
US07932341B2	Polypropylene polymer film and adhesive film using the same An object of the present invention is to provide a polypropylene polymer film superior in convenience in handling that does not generate troubles such as wrinkling, elongation or breakage during processing at a high temperature of 80° C. to 120° C., independently of the conveying method used in the drying step, and an adhesive film having the polypropylene polymer film as its carrier. Provided are a polypropylene polymer film, characterized by having a tensile modulus of 300 MPa to 1,000 MPa under an atmosphere at 23° C. and 60 MPa to 120 MPa under an atmosphere at 120° C. and an adhesive film containing it as the carrier.
US07932338B2	Brominated polymers, and fire retardant articles comprising them The present invention provides a polymer, an aqueous suspension of a polymer, methods for obtaining them, and fire-retardant products comprising a polymer and antimony oxide. The polymer of the invention is made of (i) at least one non-brominated monomer and (ii) at least one brominated monomer having the structure A-B-C, wherein A is a phenyl, substituted with 3-5 bromine atoms, B is a C1 to C4 alkyl, optionally substituted with 1 to 8 bromine atoms, and C is an acrylic or methacrylic group. An example of a suitable brominated monomer is penta bromo methyl acrylate. Preferable polymers have at least 20% w/w bromine. Preferable aqueous suspensions have at least 40% solid content. Fire-retardant products according to the invention comprise a polymer made of at least one bromine-containing monomer and at least one non-brominated monomer. Preferable fire-retardant products include polymers according to the invention.
US07932321B2	Fabrication method of a basic polymer electrolyte film of blended polyvinyl alcohol and quaternary amine The present invention discloses a fabrication method of a basic polymer electrolyte film of blended polyvinyl alcohol and quaternary amine, wherein hydrophilic polyvinyl alcohol and quaternary amine are separately dissolved in a polar organic solvent, and then, the solutions are blended to obtain a glutinous polymeric solution; the glutinous polymeric solution is baked to form a film, and then, the film is soaked in an alkali hydroxide solution to obtain a basic electrolyte-containing solid-state polymer electrolyte film. The basic polymer electrolyte film of the present invention has the characteristics of superior chemical stability, high mechanical strength and high ionic conductivity. When the present invention applies to a zinc-air battery, the utilization rate of zinc is promoted. The basic polymer electrolyte film of the present invention can be widely used in various energy storage systems, such as alkaline battery systems, alkaline fuel cells and capacitors.
US07932318B2	Conductive roller composition of chloroprene rubber, epichlorohydrin-ethylene oxide copolymer and thiourea A polymer composition for a conductive roller composed of a rubber component whose main component is an epichlorohydrin rubber containing ethylene oxide at not less than 55 mol % nor more than 95 mol %. Thioureas are added to 100 g of the rubber component as a crosslinking agent at a rate not less than 0.014 mol nor more than 0.080 mol. In a compression set test of a vulcanized rubber described in JIS K6262, a compression set measured at 70° C. for 22-24 hours is less than 15%; and in a volume resistivity value test described in JIS K6911, a volume resistivity value measured at an applied voltage of 1000V is less than 107.5[Ω·cm].
US07932317B1	Aqueous coating material and modular system for producing same An aqueous coating material preparable by mixing with one another (A1) at least one substantially water-free base color comprising (a11) at least one optionally water-soluble or -dispersible binder, (a12) at least one color and/or effect pigment, and (a13) at least one optionally water-miscible organic solvent; (A2) at least one aqueous base color comprising (a21) at least one water-soluble or -dispersible binder, (a22) at least one color pigment, and (a23) water; and (B) at least one aqueous pigment-free mixing varnish comprising (b1) at least one water-soluble or -dispersible binder and (b2) water; and also, if desired, comprising (C) an aqueous medium comprising (c1) a rheology control additive; and also a modular system for preparing aqueous coating materials, comprising (I) at least one substantially water-free color and/or effect module, comprising at least one base color (A1), (II) at least one aqueous color module comprising at least one base color (A2), and (III) at least one aqueous, pigment-free mixing varnish module comprising at least one aqueous, pigment-free mixing varnish (B), and if desired (IV) at least one rheology module.
US07932316B2	Processable rubber composition A composition that includes functionalized polymers and one or more types of particulate filler exhibits both an increased gum Mooney viscosity and a decreased compound Mooney viscosity relative to a comparable composition that includes only one such functionalized polymer. The functionalized polymers include first and second types of functionalities which exhibit a non-covalent interaction that has a bond energy of from about 0.1 to about 20 kJ/mol.
US07932315B2	Inner part of hard disk drive A hard disk drive inner part formed of a resin which exhibits well-balanced low outgassing properties, ultrasonic cleaning resistance, low ionic contamination properties, low particulate contamination properties, repeated removability, heat resistance, specific gravity, and water-absorbing properties. The hard disk drive inner part includes a resin composition which includes a polyphenylene ether resin (A).
US07932311B2	Synthesis of particles in dendritic structures The invention relates to a method of preparing a particle-based composition, comprising: (i) bringing into contact a mixture comprising a dendritic structure and a metal compound precursor in a fluid, under temperature and pressure conditions such that the mixture is not soluble in the fluid; and (ii) chemically converting the metal compound precursor.
US07932310B2	Flame retardant polysulfone blends Blends of polysulfones, polyethersulfones and polyphenylene ether sulfones with resorcinol based polyesters, or resorcinol based polyester carbonate polymers, and silicone copolymers have improved flame resistance. Peak heat release energy is reduced and the time to reach peak heat release is increased.
US07932309B2	Ether derivatives of raw cotton linters for water-borne coatings A water-borne coating composition containing an ether derivative of raw cotton linters (RCL), a latex polymer, and water in which the ether derivative RCL provides improved rheological properties when compared to analogous cellulose ether compounds produced from more refined cellulose sources while not substantially degrading the coating composition's aesthetic qualities.
US07932308B2	Modifiers for gypsum slurries and method of using them An improved gypsum slurry that includes water, calcium sulfate hemihydrate, a polycarboxylate dispersant and a modifier. The modifier is chemically configured to improve the efficacy of the polycarboxylate dispersant. Preferred modifiers include cement, lime, slaked lime, soda ash, carbonates, silicates and phosphates.
US07932296B2	Catalytic partial oxidation reforming for syngas processing and products made therefrom Systems and methods for producing syngas are provided. A first hydrocarbon can be partially oxidized in the presence of an oxidant and one or more first catalysts at conditions sufficient to partially combust a portion of the first hydrocarbon to provide carbon dioxide, non-combusted first hydrocarbon, and heat. The non-combusted first hydrocarbon can be reformed in the presence of the heat generated in the partial oxidation step and the one or more first catalysts to provide a first syngas. Heat can be indirectly exchanged from the first syngas to a second hydrocarbon to reform at least a portion of the second hydrocarbon in the presence of steam and one or more second catalysts to provide a second syngas. A syngas, which can include the at least a portion of the first syngas, at least a portion of the second syngas, or a mixture thereof can be converted to provide one or more Fischer-Tropsch products, methanol, derivatives thereof, or combinations thereof.
US07932291B2	Use of L-carnitine and its alkanoyl derivatives as osmotic agents in solutions for medical use The use of L-carnitine and its alkanoyl derivatives, optionally in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, as osmotic agents in the preparation of solutions for medical use, particularly for peritoneal dialysis, is described.
US07932290B2	Method for the treatment of metabolic disorders Agents useful for the treatment of various metabolic disorders, such as insulin resistance syndrome, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, fatty liver disease, cachexia, obesity, atherosclerosis and arteriosclerosis are disclosed. wherein n is 1 or 2; m is 0, 1, 2, 4, or 5; q is 0 or 1; t is 0 or 1; R2 is alkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R3 is hydrogen, halo, alkyl having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms, or alkoxy having from 1 to 3 carbon atoms; A is phenyl, unsubstituted or substituted by 1 or 2 groups selected from: halo, alkyl having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, perfluoromethyl, alkoxy having 1 or 2 carbon atoms, and perfluoromethoxy; or cycloalkyl having from 3 to 6 ring carbon atoms wherein the cycloalkyl is unsubstituted or one or two ring carbons are independently mono-substituted by methyl or ethyl; or a 5 or 6 membered heteroaromatic ring having 1 or 2 ring heteroatoms selected from N, S and O and the heteroaromatic ring is covalently bound to the remainder of the compound of formula I by a ring carbon; and R1 is hydrogen or alkyl having 1 or 2 carbon atoms. Alternatively, when R1 is hydrogen, the biologically active agent can be a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound of Formula I.
US07932289B2	Remedy for diabetes The present invention relates to a therapeutic agent for diabetes with sulfonylurea secondary failure, which contains a GPR40 agonist. According to the present invention, a therapeutic agent for diabetes with sulfonylurea secondary failure that affords a superior insulin secretion effect and a superior hypoglycemic effect even in diabetic patients for whom a sulfonylurea compound or a fast-acting insulin secretagogue fails to provide an insulin secretion effect and therefore, fails to provide a sufficient hypoglycemic effect can be provided.
US07932286B2	Method for treating colonic viscerosensitivity and spasticity There is provided a method of reducing pain associated with colonic viscerosensitivity and spasticity induced during a colonic examination chosen from colonic endoscopy, barium/air contrast colonic radiography and virtual colonoscopy of a non-sedated patient.
US07932285B2	Compounds from Antrodia camphorata Compounds isolated from the fruiting body of A. camphorata in a solid culture or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which exhibit immunostimulatory or anti-inflammatory effects. Also disclosed are methods of stimulating immune responses and/or treating an inflammatory disorder with these compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US07932283B2	Fungicide N-cyclopropyl-sulfonylamide derivatives The present invention relates to N-cyclopropyl-sulfonylamide derivatives of formula (I) wherein the substituents are cyclic groups, 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:
US07932282B2	Imidazolidine carboxamide derivatives as P2X7 modulators The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: The compounds or salts modulate P2X7 receptor function and are capable of antagonizing the effects of ATP at the P2X7 receptor (P2X7 receptor antagonists). The invention also provides the use of such compounds or salts, or pharmaceutical compositions thereof, in the treatment or prevention of disorders/diseases mediated by the P2X7 receptor, for example pain, inflammation or a neurodegenerative disease, in particular pain such as inflammatory pain, neuropathic pain or visceral pain.
US07932280B2	Triazole derivatives as inhibitors of 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1 Triazole derivatives of structural formula I are selective inhibitors of the 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase-1. The compounds are useful for the treatment of diabetes, such as noninsulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM), hyperglycemia, obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome, and other symptoms associated with NIDDM.
US07932277B2	Peptide inhibitors of hepatitis C virus replication The embodiments provide compounds of the general Formula I, as well as compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a subject compound. The embodiments provide compounds of the general Formula II, as well as compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising a subject compound. The embodiments further provide treatment methods, including methods of treating a hepatitis C virus infection and methods of treating liver fibrosis, the methods generally involving administering to an individual in need thereof an effective amount of a subject compound or composition.
US07932274B2	3-indazolyl-4-pyridylisothiazoles The present invention provides 3-indazoyl-4-pyridylisothiazoles or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of using the same, as well as processes for preparing the same, and intermediates thereof.
US07932271B2	Heterocyclic methyl sulfone derivative Provided is a compound capable of inhibiting production or secretion of β amyloid protein.A compound represented by the following formula (1): (wherein, R1 represents a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R2 represents a cyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R3 represents a cyclic hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent or a heterocyclic group which may have a substituent, R4 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-6 alkyl group, and X represents —S—, —SO— or —SO2—); an N-oxide or S-oxide thereof; a salt thereof; or a solvate thereof; and a medicament containing any of them.
US07932269B2	Sulfonamides as orexin antagonists The present invention is concerned with novel sulfonamides of formula wherein R1, R2, R3 and n are as described in the description and claims. The compounds are orexin receptor antagonists, useful in the treatment of disorders, in which orexin pathways are involved.
US07932268B2	Methods for treating disorders or diseases associated with hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia while minimizing side effects The present invention provides methods and compositions for treating hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an MTP inhibitor to inhibit hyperlipidemia and/or hypercholesterolemia in said subject, wherein said administration comprises an escalating series of doses of the MTP inhibitor. In some embodiments the method comprises administering at least three step-wise, increasing dosages of the MTP inhibitor to the subject. In some embodiments, the method further comprises the administration of one or more other lipid modifying compounds.
US07932264B2	Sinomenine derivatives and preparation and uses thereof The present invention relates to the preparation and pharmacological use of sinomenine derivatives of formula I. The approach disclosed herein is the modification of D ring by-substituting for R. Additional substitutions in the other rings are also provided herein. Several of the sinomenine derivatives have significantly greater anti-inflammation activity when compared with the parent compound.
US07932258B2	Use of a partially neutralized, anionic (meth) acrylate copolymer as a coating for the production of a medicament pharmaceutical form releasing active substance at reduced pH values The invention relates to the use of a partially neutralized, anionic (meth)acrylate copolymer comprising radically polymerized units of 25 to 95 percent by weight of C1 to C4 alkyl esters of acrylic or methacrylic acid and 5 to 75 percent by weight of (meth)acrylate monomers with an anionic group, at least 4 percent of which are neutralized by means of a base, for producing a medicament that is provided with an active substance-containing core and is coated with the partially neutralized, anionic (meth)acrylate copolymer. The medicament releases at least 30 percent of the active substance contained therein in 30 minutes at a pH at which the active substance is sufficiently soluble and stable and at which the corresponding medicament that is coated with the non-neutralized anionic (meth)acrylate polymer releases less than 10 percent of the active substance contained therein.
US07932257B2	Substituted pyrazolo[4,3-d]pyrimidines as aurora kinase inhibitors The present invention provides compounds having the formula: wherein A-B together represent one of the following structures: wherein one of is a double bond, as valency permits; and R2, R4, X1A, X2A, X1B, X2B, L1, L2, Y and Z are as defined in classes and subclasses herein, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, as described generally and in subclasses herein, which compounds are useful as inhibitors of protein kinase (e.g., Aurora), and thus are useful, for example, for the treatment of Aurora mediated diseases.
US07932255B2	2-aminocarbonyl substituted piperazine or diaza-cyclic compounds as apoptosis protein inhibitors (lap) modulators The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates or pharmaceutically acceptable formulations thereof. These compounds may be used to modulate cellular proliferation and to prevent and/or treat proliferative diseases.
US07932253B2	Immunomodulating oxopyrrazolocinnolines as CD80 inhibitors N-(1-Aza-bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-3-yl)-4-(6,9-difluoro-3-oxo-1,3-dihydro-pyrazolo[4,3-c]cinnolin-2-yl)-benzamide is a CD80 antagonist, useful in the treatment of diseases which benefit from immuno-inhibition.
US07932252B2	Aryl sulfonamides The present invention relates to compounds that modulate various chemokine receptors. These compounds are useful for treating inflammatory and immune diseases.
US07932250B2	Thienopyrazole derivative having PDE7 inhibitory activity To provide thienopyrazole derivatives inhibiting PDE 7 selectively, and therefore, enhance cellular cAMP level. Consequently, the compound is useful for treating various kinds of disease such as allergic diseases, inflammatory diseases or immunologic diseases. The compound is thienopyrazole compound represented by the following formula (I): [wherein, especially, R1 is a cyclohexyl, a cycloheptyl group or a tetrahydropyranyl group; R2 is methyl; R3 is a hydrogen atom; and R4 is a group: —CONR5R6 (in which any one of R5 and R6 is a hydrogen atom)].
US07932244B2	Bile acid derivatives as FXR ligands for the prevention or treatment of FXR-mediated diseases or conditions The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): wherein R is hydrogen or alpha-hydroxy, the hydroxyl group in position 7 is in the alpha or beta position; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or amino acid conjugates thereof.
US07932240B2	Phosphadiazine HCV polymerase inhibitors IV Provided herein are phosphadiazine polymerase inhibitor, for example, of any of Formulas IV, IV′, I″, II″, or IVa, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and processes of preparation thereof. Also provided are methods of their use for the treatment of an HCV infection in a host in need thereof.
US07932239B2	Methods of and compositions for reducing neuronal cell death Methods and compositions involving a class of boron-protected phenylphosphine agents having increased cell permeability and having improved chemical stability for treating or for preventing neuronal cell death-related diseases or conditions in a human or a non-human animal.
US07932233B2	Fungal phytotoxin fusicoccin for the treatment and diagnosis of coagulation-correlated pathologies The present invention concerns the use of tricyclic terpenes chosen from the group consisting of fusicoccin, ophyobolins or cotylenins for the therapy and diagnosis of coagulation-correlated pathologies such as Bernard-Soulier syndrome (BSS), von Willebrand disease (vWD), Glanzmann's thrombasthenia or thrombocytopenia.
US07932229B2	Compositions and methods for the control of mammary cell number The present invention provides new methods and uses of peptides in effecting a reduction in mammary cell number. The discovery that these peptides reduce mammary cell number further enables the use of these peptides in the treatment of cancer where the peptides can be used to reduce cell number and accordingly reduce or prevent tumour development. The inventor has further shown that the peptides have specific utility in the treatment of breast cancer.
US07932226B2	NFκB transcriptional activity inhibitory agent and anti-inflammatory agent and a steroid action enhancing agent It is intended to surely and effectively inhibit the transcriptional activity of NFκB and to obtain a more effective anti-inflammatory effect. Further, it is intended to obtain an equivalent effect even if the amount used of a steroid agent is reduced.An agent is characterized by containing MTI-II, especially a nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, or a peptide of SEQ ID NO: 2. This MTI-II peptide is preferably a peptide containing at least an acidic amino acid domain (SEQ ID NO: 3). Further, a steroid agent such as triamcinolone acetonide is used concomitantly with MTI-II, especially the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or the peptide of SEQ ID NO: 2.
US07932225B2	Glue composition for lung volume reduction The present invention relates to methods and compositions for sealing localized regions of damaged lung tissue to reduce overall lung volume. The glue compositions provide a glue featuring an adhering moiety coupled to one or more other moieties including, for example, a cross-linkable moiety and/or one other adhering moiety. The methods and compositions of the invention find use, for example, in treating pulmonary conditions, such as emphysema.
US07932222B2	Triggered response compositions This invention provides a triggered response composition in the form of a barrier material and a delivery device that includes one or more polyelectrolytes in contact with an aqueous system that is stable and insoluble in an aqueous system and that exhibits one or more chemical/physical responses in the aqueous system, wherein the chemical/physical response of the composition is triggered upon one or more changes in ionic strength of the aqueous system.
US07932218B2	Lubricant composition Certain NH sterically hindered amine compounds of the formula where R is a straight or branched alkyl group of from 7 to 17 carbon atoms and where n is from 6 to 18 are suitable for use as stabilizers in lubricant compositions. The sterically hindered amines are non-aggressive towards fluoroelastomer O-rings or seals.
US07932216B2	Non-phosphorus-based gellants for hydrocarbon fluids A substantially liquid gellant formed as one or more reaction products of a metal carboxylate or metal carboxylate amine salt, one or more organic acids, an ester which drives the reaction so that the reaction products are asymmetrical in structure, and a rheology modifier which preferentially interacts between the reaction products for prevent solidifying of the gellant reaction products until such time as the gellant is mixed with the fracturing fluid containing an activator after which the reaction products preferentially interact with the activator to gel the fracturing fluid. The resulting gellant is capable of gelling a hydrocarbon base fluid in less than about 30 seconds.
US07932213B2	Small molecule printing The present invention provides compositions and methods to facilitate the identification of compounds that are capable of interacting with a biological macromolecule of interest. A composition is provided that comprises an array of chemical compounds attached to a solid support, wherein the density of the array of compounds is at least 1000 spots per cm2. The inventive arrays are generated by: providing a solid support functionalized with a selected chemical moiety capable of interacting with a chemical compound to form an attachment and delivering compounds to the solid support having a density of at least 1000 spots per cm2. The present invention also provides methods for utilizing these arrays to identify small molecule partners for biological macromolecules of interest.
US07932211B2	4-(4-trifluoromethyl-3-thiobenzoyl)pyrazoles and their use as herbicides What is described are 4-(4-trifluoromethyl-3-thiobenzoyl)pyrazoles of the general formula (I) and their use as herbicides. In this formula (I), R1, R2, R3 and R4 are radicals such as hydrogen and organic radicals, such as alkyl. Y is hydrogen or a protective group, such as tosyl.
US07932210B2	Image-forming method using thermal transfer system An image-forming method, containing the steps of: superposing a heat-sensitive transfer sheet on a heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet so that the following at least one receptor layer of the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet can be contacted with the following thermal transfer layer of the heat-sensitive transfer sheet; and providing thermal energy in accordance with image signals, thereby to form a thermal transfer image; in which the heat-sensitive transfer image-receiving sheet comprises, on a support, at least one receptor layer containing a polymer latex, and at least one heat insulation layer containing hollow polymer particles but free of any resins having poor resistance to an organic solvent except for the hollow polymer particles, and the heat-sensitive transfer sheet comprises, on a support, a thermal transfer layer containing at least any one of a compound represented by formula (Y), a compound represented by formula (M) and a compound represented by formula (C): in which, in formulas (Y), (M) and (C), X, Y and Z each independently represents ═C(D13)- or a nitrogen atom, and D1 to D23 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, such as an alkyl group.
US07932209B2	Solid matter A, liquid matter B produced by using the A, liquid heating matter produced by using the B and method for producing the heating matter Disclosed are a liquid heating element and a method for production thereof, and more particularly a solid ingredient A, a liquid ingredient B produced from the solid ingredient A, a liquid heating element produced from the liquid ingredient B and a method for producing the liquid heating element. The solid ingredient is produced by heating activated carbon, kaolin, copper sulfide and phosphoric acid (H3PO4) to a temperature ranging from 1,000 to 1,200° C. The liquid ingredient H is produced by mixing the solid ingredient A with silicon powder and distilled water and heating the mixture. The liquid heating element is produced by mixing the liquid ingredient B with ethylene glycol, leaving the mixture and then filtering the mixture. Since the liquid heating element is very stable and generates heat with minimum power consumption, it can be applied to various heat management systems.
US07932207B2	Method for preparing transition metal complexes, transition metal complexes prepared using the method, catalyst composition containing the complexes The present invention provides a novel transition metal complex where a monocyclopentadienyl ligand to which an amido group is introduced is coordinated, a method for synthesizing the complex, and olefin polymerization using the same. The method for preparing a transition metal complex according to the present invention comprises a step of blocking a by-reaction of a nitrogen atom using a compound containing a protecting group, and thus it is possible to prepare a transition metal complex in a simpler manner in a high yield. Further, the transition metal complex according to the present invention has a pentagon ring structure having an amido group connected by a phenylene bridge in which a stable bond is formed in the vicinity of a metal site, and thus, sterically monomers can easily approach the transition metal complex.
US07932205B2	Process for the preparation of multimetallic catalysts that can be used in reactions for transformation of hydrocarbons The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a catalyst comprising: a) The preparation of a colloidal oxide suspension of a first metal M1 that consists in the neutralization of a basic solution by an acidic mineral solution that contains the precursor of the metal M1, b) Bringing into contact the precursor of the promoter M2, either directly in its crystallized form or after dissolution in aqueous phase, with the colloidal suspension that is obtained in stage a), c) Bringing into contact the colloidal suspension that is obtained in stage b) with the substrate, d) Drying at a temperature of between 30° C. and 200° C., under a flow of air. The invention also relates to a process for the treatment of an olefinic fraction that uses the catalyst prepared [by] said preparation process.
US07932198B2	Grey glass composition A grey glass composition employing in its colorant portion at least iron (Fe2O3/FeO), cobalt and selenium is provided. The glass allows high visible transmission, and good IR absorption, while at the same time achieving desired grey color. In certain example embodiments, the colorant portion includes, or may consist essentially of: total iron (expressed as Fe2O3)0.20 to 0.40% selenium2-20 ppm cobalt oxide0.0025 to 0.0060% titanium oxide 0 to 1.0% glass redox:<=0.30.
US07932197B2	Optical glass, precision press-molding preform, process for production thereof, optical element and process for the production thereof Provided is an optical glass having high-refractivity low-dispersion properties, having a low glass transition temperature and having the property of being softened at a low temperature so that a preform therefrom is precision press-moldable, and the optical glass comprises, as essential components, B2O3, La2O3, Gd2O3 and ZnO and has a refractive index (nd) of over 1.86, an Abbe's number (νd) of less than 35 and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 630° C. or lower.
US07932195B2	Use of pre-coated mat for preparing gypsum board A gypsum board which comprises a set gypsum core sandwiched between and faced with fibrous mats, wherein a free surface of one of said mats is pre-coated with a combination of a mineral pigment, optionally an inorganic adhesive binder and an organic binder, preferably a hydrophobic, UV resistant polymer latex adhesive binder applied to said surface as an aqueous coating composition, said aqueous coating composition upon drying and setting providing a pre-coated mat satisfying certain morphology requirements.
US07932194B2	Fabric for protective garments The present invention relates to a heat, flame, and electric arc resistant fabric (1) for use as single or outer layer of protective garments. The fabric (1) of the invention comprises at least two separate single plies which are assembled together at predefined positions so as to build pockets (4). The fabric (1) of the invention is made of materials independently chosen from the group consisting of aramid fibers and filaments, polybenzimidazol fibers and filaments, polyamidimid fibers and filaments, poly(paraphephenylene benzobisaxazole) fibers and filaments, phenol-formaldehyde fibers and filaments, melamine fibers and filaments, natural fibers and filaments, synthetic fibers and filaments, artificial fibers and filaments, glass fibers and filaments, carbon fibers and filaments, metal fibers and filaments, and composites thereof. Due to its peculiar structure, the fabric (1) according to the present invention can have a specific weight which is considerably lower than that of known fabrics having comparable mechanical and thermal properties.
US07932190B2	Flow control of photo-polymerizable resin This invention provides methods and systems, e.g., to control the flow of photo-polymerizable resins. In the method, e.g., flow of a photo-polymerizable resin is restricted from illuminated resin exclusion regions on a substrate surface by precisely situated flow barriers. A system to control photo-polymerizable resin flow includes, e.g., a light source, a mask and a substrate.
US07932186B2	Methods for fabricating an electronic device A method for fabricating an electronic device is provided. The method for fabricating the electrical device comprises providing a substrate. A patterned first self-assembled monolayer (SAM) and an adjacent patterned second SAM are formed on the substrate, wherein the patterned first SAM has a higher affinity then that of the patterned second SAM. A conductive, semiconductor or insulating material is dissolved or suspended in a solvent to form a solution. The solution is coated on the substrate. The solvent in the solution is removed to selectively form a patterned conductive, semiconductor or insulating layer on the patterned first SAM.
US07932182B2	Creating novel structures using deep trenching of oriented silicon substrates A potassium hydroxide (KOH) etch process can produce deep high aspect ratio trenches in (110) oriented silicon substrates. The trenches, however, are perpendicular to the (111) direction of the silicon substrate's crystal lattice. The trenches are used to produce thermally isolating areas and through the wafer electrical connections. These structures can be produced in a cost effective manner because of the nearly ideal capabilities of the KOH etch process when it is applied to appropriate materials at appropriate orientations.
US07932181B2	Edge gas injection for critical dimension uniformity improvement A method of etching a semiconductor substrate with improved critical dimension uniformity comprises supporting a semiconductor substrate on a substrate support in an inductively coupled plasma etch chamber; supplying a first etch gas to a central region over the semiconductor substrate; supplying a second gas comprising at least one silicon containing gas to a peripheral region over the semiconductor substrate surrounding the central region, wherein a concentration of silicon in the second gas is greater than a concentration of silicon in the first etch gas; generating plasma from the first etch gas and second gas; and plasma etching an exposed surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07932180B2	Manufacturing a semiconductor device via etching a semiconductor chip to a first layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor chip including contact elements on a first face and a first layer between the first face and a second face opposite the first face. Placing the semiconductor chip on a carrier with the contact elements facing the carrier and etching the semiconductor chip until the first layer is reached.
US07932173B2	Method of fabricating integrated circuitry The invention includes methods of fabricating integrated circuitry. In one implementation, at least two different elevation conductive metal lines are formed relative to a substrate. Then, interconnecting vias are formed in a common masking step between, a) respective of the at least two different elevation conductive metal lines, and b) respective conductive nodes. Interconnecting conductive metal is provided within the interconnecting vias. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US07932172B2	Semiconductor chip and process for forming the same A semiconductor chip comprises a first MOS device, a second MOS device, a first metallization structure connected to said first MOS device, a second metallization structure connected to said second MOS device, a passivation layer over said first and second MOS devices and over said first and second metallization structures, and a third metallization structure connecting said first and second metallization structures.
US07932171B2	Dual metal stud bumping for flip chip applications A method for forming a stud bumped semiconductor die is disclosed. The method includes forming a ball at the tip of a coated wire passing through a hole in a capillary, where the coated wire has a core and an oxidation-resistant coating. The formed ball is pressed to the conductive region on the semiconductor die. The coated wire is cut, thereby leaving a conductive stud bump on the conductive region, where the conductive stud bump includes an inner conductive portion and an outer oxidation-resistant layer.
US07932170B1	Flip chip bump structure and fabrication method A method includes forming a patterned buildup layer on a first surface of a dielectric layer, the patterned buildup layer including a patterned buildup layer opening exposing a trace coupled to the dielectric layer. A conductor layer is flash plated on the patterned buildup layer and within the patterned buildup layer opening. The patterned buildup layer opening is filled with a blanket conductive filler layer. The blanket conductive filler layer and the conductor layer are planarized to form a flip chip bump.

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