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| US08036341B2 |
Stationary x-ray target and methods for manufacturing same
Stationary x-ray target assemblies manufactured using a metal deposition process to form one or more metal layers of the target. In particular, the metal deposition process is used to form an x-ray target metal layer and/or a stress buffer zone on an x-ray target substrate. The stress buffer zone improves material properties of the metals and/or the bonding between the x-ray target metal layer and the substrate. Improved bonding between the x-ray target metal layer and the substrate also improves the heat dissipation properties of the stationary x-ray target assembly. |
| US08036340B2 |
X-ray apparatus
An X-ray apparatus includes a converter into which there is integrated a control logic circuit configured to regulate the supply voltage of a high-voltage power supply source of the X-ray apparatus. To this end, the intelligent voltage-voltage, converter is placed between the power battery and the capacitor bank. This intelligent converter is capable of determining the optimum voltage to be delivered to the generator for the radiology examination to be undertaken in regulating the current of the power battery at the necessary level of current. |
| US08036339B2 |
Dental colorimetry apparatus
A dental colorimetry apparatus that allows the color balance of an entire row of teeth to be checked is provided. The invention provides a dental colorimetry apparatus 2 including a multiband-image storing section 21 storing images of teeth in association with information about the positions of the teeth in row of teeth; a contour-line extracting section 25 for extracting contour lines of the teeth from the images of the teeth; a rectangle-setting section 27 for setting rectangles in the images of the teeth so as to include the contour lines extracted by the contour-line extracting section 25 and so as to circumscribe at least both sides of the teeth; and an image-generating section 29 for generating a row-of-teeth image by arranging the images of the teeth based on the information about the positions of the teeth in the row of teeth so that the rectangles adjoin each other. |
| US08036335B2 |
Thermal load reducing system for nuclear reactor vessel
In a reactor vessel thermal load reducing system near the surface level of a coolant, the present invention is characterized in that a heat conductive member is installed not contacting the reactor vessel wall in an area above and below the coolant liquid surface, and the heat conducting member is attached to a guard vessel, the heat conducting member being made of material of good heat conductivity. |
| US08036333B2 |
Clock and data recovery circuit and method of recovering clocks and data
A clock and data recovery circuit that does not use a reference clock and a method of recovering cocks and data, in which the clock and data recovery circuit includes a clock generation unit, a mirror delay unit, a preamble phase detection unit, and a sampling unit. The clock generation unit generates a clock signal such that a phase of the clock signal is locked to a phase of a data signal inputted to the clock generation unit. The mirror delay unit outputs a plurality of delayed preamble signals based on the preamble signal during a preamble period. The preamble phase detection unit provides the charge pump with a preamble phase detection signal having information on a phase difference between the preamble signal and the clock signal during the preamble period. The sampling unit extracts data from the data signal by sampling the data signal with the clock signal. |
| US08036331B2 |
Offset frequency estimation method and apparatus
An offset frequency estimation method includes receiving an input signal comprised of complex samples, detecting phases of the complex samples, estimating a temporary offset frequency and an initial phase from the detected phases of the complex samples using a linear regression analysis method, and estimating a final offset frequency by skipping error samples detected using the temporary offset frequency and the initial phase. |
| US08036327B2 |
Adaptive channel measurement reporting
The present invention relates to a method, arrangements, and a message format for achieving an improved and adaptive reporting of measurements for a communication channel between a transmitter and a receiver unit. The invention achieves a message format for providing detailed channel information to a transmitter unit but requiring a minimized amount of transmission capacity. The receiver unit delivers preferably incremental updatings of the filter function, represented in the time- or frequency domain, of the entire channel between transmitter and receiver. For this purpose the channel representing function is divided into a number of sub-functions, a function of which corresponding to the true channel filter function, and whereof the various sub-functions contain channel information of a ranked degree of significance. |
| US08036325B2 |
Wireless communication method and apparatus for performing knowledge-based and blind interference cancellation
A method and apparatus for cancelling interference in received signals are disclosed. A receiver includes a knowledge-based interference cancellation unit, a blind interference cancellation unit and a trade-off management unit. The knowledge-based interference cancellation unit cancels interference in the received signals based on pre-known knowledge and the blind interference cancellation unit cancels interference in the received signals without the pre-known knowledge. The trade-off management unit determines a trade-off between knowledge-based interference cancellation and blind interference cancellation, whereby at least one of the knowledge-based interference cancellation and the blind interference cancellation is selectively preformed based on the trade-off. The interference cancellation may be performed by implementing at least one of a successive interference cancellation (SIC), a principal component analysis (PCA) and an independent component analysis (ICA). The knowledge-based and the blind interference cancellation may be performed in parallel, in series or in any combination. |
| US08036323B2 |
Method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using frame process
Aspects of a method and system for decoding single antenna interference cancellation (SAIC) and redundancy processing adaptation using frame process are provided. A receiver may decode video, voice, and/or speech bit sequences based on a first decoding algorithm that may utilize data redundancy and that may impose physical constraints. The receiver may also decode a bit sequence based on a second decoding algorithm that utilizes SAIC. The first and second decoding algorithms may be adapted to perform in parallel and a decoded received bit sequence may be selected based on a redundancy verification parameter. The first and second decoding algorithms may also be adapted to be performed sequentially where the subsequent decoding operation may be conditioned to the initial decoding operation. Moreover, either the first or the second decoding algorithm may be selected for decoding the received bit sequence. The selection may be based on noise and/or interference measurements. |
| US08036318B2 |
Clock and data recovery circuit
The phase detector compares the phases of a synchronous clock signal and serial data and outputs a phase error signal corresponding to a comparison result. The second integrator performs integration of the phase error signal to obtain a phase correction control signal for tracking phase shift of the serial data. The first integrator performs integration of the phase error signal in each smoothing period with a predetermined length to obtain a smoothed error signal. The pattern generator generates a pattern for changing the phase of the synchronous clock signal at a frequency corresponding to the smoothed error signal in each pattern generation period with a predetermined length and outputs the pattern as a frequency correction control signal. The first integrator receives the frequency correction control signal which is fed back and changes the length of the smoothing period according to the direction of a change in the frequency of generating the frequency correction control signal. |
| US08036317B2 |
Phase/gain imbalance estimation or compensation
Apparatus and methods for estimation and compensation of phase imbalance and gain imbalance are provided. A receiver for estimation or compensation of phase imbalance or gain imbalance utilizing a QPSK modulation and a modulation scheme based on a complex scrambling code includes means for estimating the phase imbalance or gain imbalance prior to symbol synchronization. Thus, the phase imbalance and gain imbalance will not introduce losses in subsequent phases of signal processing. |
| US08036316B2 |
Method and system for independent I and Q loop amplitude control for quadrature generators
Certain aspects of a method and system for independent in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) loop amplitude control for quadrature generators may include determining an amplitude voltage associated with an in-phase (I) component and a quadrature (Q) component of a generated signal. A DC reference voltage associated with the I component and the Q component may be determined. The determined amplitude voltage may be compared with the determined reference voltage to generate a control signal. The amplitude mismatch between the I component and the Q component may be compensated by controlling a biasing current of one or more programmable buffers associated with one or both of the I component and the Q component, based on the generated control signal. |
| US08036313B2 |
Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in broadband wireless access communication system
Provided are an apparatus and method for interference cancellation in a BWA communication system. In a receiving apparatus for the interference cancellation, a preamble correlation measurer measures a preamble correlation coefficient from a preamble of a signal received signal. A data rearranger determines a block size to divide the received signal from the preamble correlation coefficient, divides the signal according to the determined block size, and rearranges the divided signals in a Space-Time coding (STC) mode. An estimate weight calculator cross-correlates the output signals of the data rearranger, rearranges the cross-correlated signals, auto-correlates the rearranged signals, and calculates an estimate weight to perform an interpolation operation. An estimate signal decoding/combining unit detects desired signals from signals estimated by the estimate weight calculator and combines the detected signals. |
| US08036311B2 |
Apparatus and method for GPS-based digital compensation of radio frequencies
An apparatus and method for controlling the communication frequencies of a software controlled radio by using GPS to calibrate one or more local oscillators and compensating within the digital radio processing for the local oscillator inaccuracies. The apparatus and method receives and transmits radio frequency signals and includes an oscillator; a frequency monitor adapted to measure the frequency of the oscillator; a numerically controlled oscillator; and a computer adapted to receive the frequency measurement of the oscillator from the frequency monitor, to calculate an error associated with the oscillator, and to calculate a numerically controlled oscillator setting based on the calculation of the error associated with the oscillator; the numerically controlled oscillator adapted to receive the numerically controlled oscillator setting from the computer. |
| US08036306B2 |
Systems and methods of RF power transmission, modulation and amplification, including embodiments for compensating for waveform distortion
Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency, and/or amplitude characteristics of the desired time-varying complex envelope signal. In another embodiment, a time-varying complex envelope signal is decomposed into a plurality of constant envelope constituent signals. The constituent signals are amplified equally or substantially equally, and then summed to construct an amplified version of the original time-varying envelope signal. Embodiments also perform frequency up-conversion. |
| US08036300B2 |
Dual loop clock recovery circuit
A clock recovery circuit for digital data transmission includes a delay lock loop having a first loop which generates a phase difference signal which is indicative of a quantized phase difference between a data signal and a clock signal; and a second loop which generates a phase difference signal which is a smooth, continuous function of the phase difference between the data signal and the clock signal, such as a phase difference signal which is proportional to the phase difference. The delay lock loop may include two phase shifters in series, and one or both of these may include a phase interpolator. |
| US08036299B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus, antenna calibration method, and computer program
Reversibility in the directivity in the event of transmission/reception through a multi-antenna system is well suitably compensated for by executing self-calibration. A branch is set to a reference branch, and a forward loopback transfer function and a backward loopback transfer function are acquired, whereby per-branch calibration factors are calculated. Subsequently, an other branch is set to a reference branch, and calibration factors are calculated in a similar manner. Then, the calibration factor for the reference branch is corrected in accordance with the secondly obtained calibration factor so that a calibration condition is satisfied. |
| US08036287B2 |
Multi-carrier spread spectrum device using cyclic shift orthogonal keying, transmitter, receiver, and communication system thereof
A multi-carrier spread spectrum device using cyclic shift orthogonal keying includes: a modulation unit for receiving a first part of data bits and transforming the first part of data bits to a modulation symbol di by modulation; a cyclic-shift unit for receiving a base code c(0) and a second part of data bits, and performing a cyclic-shift to the base code c(0) in accordance with the second part of data bits to generate a CSOK symbol c(mi); and a multiplier for multiplying the modulation symbol di by the CSOK symbol c(mi) to generate a spread spectrum signal ci. |
| US08036286B2 |
Signal generation using phase-shift based pre-coding
A phase-shift based pre-coding scheme used in a transmitting side and a receiving side that has less complexity than those of a space-time coding scheme, that can support various spatial multiplexing rates while maintaining the advantages of the phase-shift diversity scheme, that has less channel sensitivity than that of the pre-coding scheme, and that only requires a low capacity codebook is provided. |
| US08036282B2 |
Multi-tiered quantization of channel state information in multiple antenna systems
A multi-tiered CSI vector quantizer (VQ) is provided for time-correlated channels. The VQ operates by quantizing channel state information by reference to both the current channel state information and a prior channel state quantization. A system is also provided that uses multi-tiered CSI quantizers. Enhanced signaling between the transmitter and receivers is provided in order to facilitate the use of multi-tiered CSI quantizers. |
| US08036279B2 |
Image decoding apparatus
An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a second coding scheme in accordance with header information in a first coding scheme, and a decoder for decoding image coded data in the first coding scheme in response to the header information on the second coding scheme, which is set. |
| US08036278B2 |
Image decoding apparatus
An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a second coding scheme in accordance with header information in a first coding scheme, and a decoder for decoding image coded data in the first coding scheme in response to the header information on the second coding scheme, which is set. |
| US08036277B2 |
Image decoding apparatus, image coding apparatus, image communications system and coding bit stream converting appartus
An image decoding apparatus is capable of decoding coded bit streams with different coding schemes. The image decoding apparatus includes a coding scheme decision section for deciding a coding scheme from coding scheme identification information multiplexed into a coded bit stream, a setting unit for setting header information on a second coding scheme in accordance with header information in a first coding scheme, and a decoder for decoding image coded data in the first coding scheme in response to the header information on the second coding scheme, which is set. |
| US08036276B2 |
Water ring scanning apparatus and method, and apparatus and method for encoding/decoding video sequences using the same
A water ring scanning apparatus and method, and an apparatus and method for encoding/decoding video sequences using the same are disclosed. A water ring scanning apparatus includes: a preferential scan unit for scanning information on a water ring origin point (water_ring(0)) in an image frame, which is a most significant bit of the image frame to be preferentially scanned; a scan location decision unit for deciding a location of i_th generated water ring (water_ring(i)), which is a rectangular-shape ring surrounding the water ring origin point; and a scan unit for scanning information on the location of the i_th generated water ring. |
| US08036275B2 |
Water ring scanning method
A water ring scanning method is disclosed for use in processing an initial data set, such as a video image frame, by writing a portion of data from the initial data set into a data string with a scanner. The initial data set is organized with at least one initial origin enveloped by a plurality of nested initial environs successively surrounding each other in the initial data set. The writing step starts by writing of the portion of the data from the initial data set into the data string at the RC grouping corresponding to the initial origin (initial water ring (0)) and by sequentially progressing the writing outwardly from the family of RC groupings corresponding to the nearest nested initial environ (initial water ring (1)) towards the family of RC groupings corresponding to a furthest nested initial environ (initial water ring (n)). |
| US08036272B2 |
Moving picture encoding method and decoding method
A moving picture decoding method, which generates a predicted image using information on motion vectors and information on reference images, the moving picture decoding method having multiple prediction modes including a mode without motion vector decoding, including: a step of selecting a frame(s) to be referenced to in the prediction of each prediction direction in the prediction mode from among multiple candidate reference frames; and a step of selecting motion vector information used in the prediction mode, wherein at the step of selecting motion vector information when (all) candidate blocks adjacent to a current block are located outside of the screen, a zero vector is selected; and moving picture decoding is performed by generating the predicted image using the information on the selected reference frame and the information on the selected motion vectors in the prediction mode. |
| US08036269B2 |
Method for accessing memory in apparatus for processing moving pictures
A method and apparatus for accessing a memory for processing moving pictures, which loads data from a frame buffer of an external memory, and uses a motion prediction technique. The method includes the steps of: loading, from the frame buffer, pixels of a relevant block of 8×8 size and extra pixel data necessary for an inter prediction while performing the inter prediction of a block of an 8×8 size following division of a macroblock, storing the pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the extra pixel data in an internal cache memory. The stored pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the stored extra pixel data are used; and then the stored pixels of the relevant block size of 8×8 and the stored extra pixel data stored in the cache memory are re-used during an inter prediction of the relevant block size of 8×8 and sub-blocks. |
| US08036266B2 |
Encoding/decoding system, encoding system, and decoding system
Each of a plurality of encoders calculates a first time by adding an encoding delay time commonly determined between the encoders to a value of an STC counter, and transmits a system stream generated by including the calculated first time to a decoder associated with the encoder in one-to-one correspondence, of a plurality of decoders constituting a decoding system. Each of the decoders calculates a second time by adding the first time to an estimated maximum value commonly determined between the decoders by adding a decoding delay time to a value of stream fluctuation of an output time occurring between the encoders, and outputs the divided image data decoded from the system stream to a synthesizer that synthesizes the image data at the calculated second time. |
| US08036265B1 |
System and method for communicating media signals
A system for encoding a video signal includes an input module to receive a media signal to be communicated to a destination device, the media signal being divided into a plurality of segments each comprising one or more temporally adjacent frames. The system also includes an a encoding module configured, for each of the plurality of segments, to test a plurality of different CODECs on a segment by encoding the segment using a plurality of CODECs to produce a respective plurality of encoded segments, the selection module being further configured to select the encoded segment having the highest image quality while satisfying at least one additional constraint. The system further includes an output module configured, for each of the plurality of segments, to deliver the selected segment to the destination device and report to the destination device which CODEC was used to encode the selected segment. |
| US08036264B2 |
Memory management in video decoding systems
A method for memory management in video decoding systems that avoids some of the costs and disadvantages with video decoding systems in the prior art. Some embodiments of the present invention are especially well-suited for use with the H.264 video decoding standard. The illustrative embodiment is a memory management technique that controls which data is in the fastest memory available to a processor performing video decoding. In particular, the technique seeks to ensure that the data the processor will need is in the primary memory and expunges data that the processor will not need. The technique is based upon an analysis of predictive video decoding standards, such as H.264. By employing this technique, the illustrative embodiment ensures the expedient decoding of video frames. |
| US08036263B2 |
Selecting key frames from video frames
This disclosure describes identifying key frames from a sequence of video frames. A first set of information generated by operating on uncompressed data is accessed. A second set of information generated by compressing the data is also accessed. The first and second sets of information are used to identify key frames from the video frames. |
| US08036260B2 |
System and method for equalizing an incoming signal
An equalizer is provided, including: a feedback combiner to combine an input signal and a feedback signal to produce a first signal; a delay line to delay the first signal to produce a second signal; a feed-forward combiner to combine the second signal and a feed-forward signal to produce an output signal; an interim decision circuit to extract a sign bit from the first signal; N feedback scaling elements to generate N scaled feedback signals; M feed-forward scaling elements to generate M scaled feed forward signals; a feedback circuit to pass the N scaled feedback signals through feedback delay elements and feedback summing elements to generate the feedback signal in response to the sign bit; and a feed forward circuit to pass the M scaled feed forward signals through feed-forward delay elements and feed-forward summing elements to generate the feed-forward signal in response to the sign bit. |
| US08036259B2 |
Interactive wireless communication device
A first communication apparatus sequentially generates a pulse sequence having pulse signals arranged based on the UWB communication system, performs a framing process to form a frame having at least a preamble and a data portion on the generated pulse sequence and inserts a preamble segment including a sequence of steady pulse signals in the data portion at a predetermined time interval, and transmits it as a radio wave. A second communication apparatus receives a pulse sequence as a radio wave transmitted from the first communication apparatus, and detects at least the preamble segment from the frame contained in the received pulse sequence through a detection window structured to have a predetermined time length, whereby a transmission timing for the pulse sequence to the first communication apparatus 2 controlled according to a state of detection of the preamble segment. |
| US08036255B1 |
Waveform design hopping system and method
A method of transmitting a spread spectrum signal in a single communication session between a transmitter and a receiver, stores a series of N unique waveform designs and a hopping sequence in a transmitter memory. A signal is transmitted to a receiver according to the hopping sequence using the plurality of N unique waveform designs. Preferably, each waveform design is characterized by a unique composite spreading code that is formed by at least some of a plurality of constituent code segments. Alternatively or additionally, the waveform designs may differ by any one or more of code length, symbol or chip timing or phase, frame or burst structure, chip offset, modulation, error control coding, encryption scheme, or scrambling code. A transmitter and receiver are also disclosed, as is the concept of appending chips between symbols to expand the universe of unique spreading codes without incurring an increase in processing gain. |
| US08036254B2 |
Semiconductor laser driving circuit, and optical disc device and integrated circuit provided with semiconductor laser driving circuit
The output voltage of a cathode drive-type semiconductor laser driving circuit is set to a minimum, power consumption by a driving circuit portion is suppressed, and the heat that is generated by the optical head or the optical disc device is reduced. In addition to a conventional configuration, the semiconductor laser driving circuit of the invention measures the cathode voltage (Vout) of a semiconductor laser (1) and controls the anode voltage (Vld) such that the cathode voltage (Vout) becomes a predetermined level, and by doing so sets the output voltage of the semiconductor laser driving circuit to a predetermined level in order to curtail power consumption by the driving circuit and minimize the rise in temperature of the optical head or the optical disc device. |
| US08036251B2 |
Packet transmission device and control method thereof
In a packet transmission device and control method thereof which can improve the transmission rate of a packet without adding a high speed user data-conversion card, when packet data is inputted through a single arbitrary channel among a plurality of channels, from among a predetermined number of low speed user data-conversion cards provided common to the plurality of channels, the low speed user data-conversion cards by a number corresponding to a ratio between an output transmission rate of the low speed user data-conversion card and an input transmission rate of the packet data are extracted. The packet data is sequentially and cyclically distributed to the low speed user data-conversion cards extracted. Predetermined length user data outputted from the low speed user data-conversion cards are converted into a frame of HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) system and multiplexed into a single channel HS-DSCH (High Speed Downlink Shared Channel) to be outputted. |
| US08036249B2 |
System and method of data verification
A data verification method and system is provided. The data verification method includes the steps of transmitting data from a sender to a receiver over a signaling channel, transmitting a first set of bits to the receiver over a voice channel, wherein the first set of bits is generated using the data in the sender, and verifying the data through comparison between the first set of bits and a second set of bits that is generated based on the data in the receiver. The first and the second sets of bits may be a group of bits that are selected from a hash value using a selection mask in the sender and the receiver respectively, wherein the section mask has the same length as the hash value and the hash value is calculated based on the data, and the selection mask may be pre-defined between the sender and the receiver. |
| US08036243B2 |
Single chip protocol converter
A single chip protocol converter integrated circuit (IC) capable of receiving packets generating according to a first protocol type and processing said packets to implement protocol conversion and generating converted packets of a second protocol type for output thereof, the process of protocol conversion being performed entirely within the single integrated circuit chip. The single chip protocol converter can be further implemented as a macro core in a system-on-chip (SoC) implementation, wherein the process of protocol conversion is contained within a SoC protocol conversion macro core without requiring the processing resources of a host system. Packet conversion may additionally entail converting packets generated according to a first protocol version level and processing the said packets to implement protocol conversion for generating converted packets according to a second protocol version level, but within the same protocol family type. The single chip protocol converter integrated circuit and SoC protocol conversion macro implementation include multiprocessing capability including processor devices that are configurable to adapt and modify the operating functionality of the chip. |
| US08036240B2 |
Software defined cognitive radio
A computing device with a software defined radio. The software defined radio has an architecture with separate components to provide control functions and data processing functions. The control components configure the data processing components so that the software defined radio provides desired operating characteristics. Components in the data plane may derive information indicating operating conditions, which can be provided to one or more of the control components. In response, the control components can modify components in the data plane to adjust to operating conditions. |
| US08036238B2 |
Information processing system and access method
A plurality of logical units are set in an information processing device and a storage device and connected by logical paths. The information processing device monitors the path state. When a state change of a path has occurred, the information processing device searches for a normal path connected to the logical unit and decides a logical unit to be an object of the read request. The information processing device issues a data read request to the logical unit decided. Moreover, when a failure has occurred in the path, the information processing device performs an access to the logical unit by utilizing a path other than the path where the failure has occurred and another path sharing a part of the path where the failure has occurred. |
| US08036237B2 |
System and method for transparent virtual routing
A transparent routing device disposed within an access network configured in accordance with one or more lower-layer protocols is disclosed herein. The device includes a set of subscriber-side ports. Each of the subscriber-side ports is associated with a plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces disposed to effectively terminate a corresponding plurality of subscriber-side connections with subscriber host devices served by the access network. The device further includes at least one network-side port through which communication occurs with an external network in accordance with a higher-layer protocol. A routing table is configured to establish a correspondence between network addresses of the subscriber host devices and the plurality of virtual subscriber-side interfaces. During operation of the device, packets received through the at least one network-side port are forwarded to corresponding ones of the virtual subscriber-side interfaces based upon network addresses of the packets. |
| US08036234B2 |
Method for forwarding signalling data in an interworking unit and in a control unit and corresponding devices
The embodiments relates to, among other things, a network interface unit (IM-MGW) in which signaling data is separated from useful data by the values of received data. The signaling data is tunneled to a control unit (MGCF). Two different data transmission networks (CS, IMS) can thus be simply combined, in particular, for video telephony. |
| US08036228B2 |
QOS aware expansion mechanism
In a data communication system comprising a plurality of peripherals having respective interfaces, the interfaces having device drivers and being coupled to a common bus for communication with a management system, the interfaces having different real time requirements; an ATM SAR and scheduler employs a predefined PHY level interface with different levels of service, the PHY interface being used as a QOS (Quality of Service) aware common master-slave bus for the peripherals which act as slave devices, whereby respective device driver requirements can be simplified or eliminated. A predefined PHY level interface is the ATM Forum UTOPIA, each peripheral being addressed as a separate UTOPIA slave port. The invention discloses how a system required to support interfaces with differing real time requirements may be supported through the use of a common bus. |
| US08036215B2 |
Refreshing a session initiation protocol (SIP) session
In one embodiment, a session is refreshed using a message that is simplified for refresh purposes. The refresh message that is used is a message used for another purpose in a protocol (e.g., SIP). For example, a reINVITE message may be used as a refresh message. If the reINVITE message is used for its intended purpose, the reINVITE message may be used to change the characteristics of a session. This reINVITE message includes an SDP and full header such that the parameters can be properly changed. However, the reINVITE message may be used to refresh a session. This may be referred to as a simple refresh message. But, the simple refresh message does not include an SDP or any other message body. The simple refresh message includes only a reduced header. This reduces time spent building and parsing the simple refresh message. |
| US08036213B1 |
System and method for enhancing network stability by selectively controlling adjacency formation
A system and method for facilitating connecting a switch to a network to improve network performance. In an illustrative embodiment, the system includes a first module for determining when the switch is initially connected to a network and providing a signal in response thereto. A second module selectively forms adjacencies with peers of the switch in response to the signal and based on one or more predetermined parameters. In a more specific embodiment, the switch is a router or Layer-3 (L3) switch. The one or more predetermined parameters include a load factor, values pertaining to capabilities of a processor included in the router, bandwidth capabilities of the interface and/or the router, internal router queue counts, and so on. The router employs a routing protocol such as Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). The second module throttles and adjacency-formation rate based on the predetermined parameters. |
| US08036210B2 |
Method for providing on-line charging and device and system thereof
The present invention discloses a method for providing an online-charging to solve a problem that a related charging can not be processed correctly for a service involving simultaneously a CS domain and an IMS. The method includes: not invoking an online charging for the user in the CS domain when the user, who subscribes for the service involving simultaneously the CS domain and the IMS and the online charging service, originates or terminates a call in the CS domain; and performing the credit control in the CS domain and/or the IMS for the user in the IMS when the call of the user is processed through the IMS. The present invention also discloses a device and a system for an online credit control. |
| US08036208B2 |
Telephone network interface bridge between data telephony networks and dedicated connection telephony networks
A computerized telephony bridge unit has a Data Network Telephony (DNT) Port and a Connection Oriented/Switched Telephony (COST) trunk port, each associated with circuitry for receiving a placing calls in the data format required by connected networks. The bridge unit further comprises conversion circuitry for converting data dynamically between network protocols compatible with each connected network. Control routines executable on the computerized bridge unit are adapted to receive a first call from one of the COST and DNT networks, to place a call associated with the received call on the network other than the network on which the call is received, and to dynamically convert data between a call connected at one port and a call connected at the other port. The data network can be the Internet, and the COST network can be any publicly or privately switched dedicated-connection-oriented telephone network. Association between calls between two otherwise incompatible networks can be by a locally-stored lookup table, by negotiation with a caller, or by retrieval of data from incoming calls. Methods for practicing the invention are taught in the disclosure. |
| US08036207B2 |
Adaptive routing
Methods and devices are shown for improving an existing route between a first node and a second node in a first ad-hoc network that includes a plurality of nodes, the method and devices selecting based on a predetermined performance criterion or criteria one of a plurality of candidate routes between the first node and the second node, wherein each candidate route includes at least one inter-node link that is not included within the first ad-hoc network and at least one candidate route including multiple inter-node links; initializing, via the existing route, the use of the inter-node links of the selected candidate route; and switching from using the existing route to using the candidate route. |
| US08036204B2 |
Mobile terminal, control apparatus, home agent and packet communications method
In a packet communications system, a control apparatus implements routing control of a received packet directed for the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes a plurality of network interface cards; a communication manager configured to select at least one network interface card among from the plurality of network interface cards, in accordance with information regarding the network interface card; and an upper layer manager configured to receive the packet transmitted from the control apparatus, with using a selected network interface card. |
| US08036203B2 |
Method and apparatus for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple radio nodes
A method, apparatus and computer program product for coordinating adjacent channel transmissions on multiple-radio nodes is presented. A Maximum Channel Occupancy Duration (MCOD) limit for a length of an overall transmit period is defined. A set of timers (NNAV) for each neighbor node is maintained, each of said NNAV including a first timer (CTSNNAV) for the channel which, if set, indicates the maximum duration of a transmission to said neighbor node and a second timer (RTSNNAV) for a channel which, if set, prevents the neighbor node from authorizing a transmission the channel. |
| US08036201B2 |
Voice channel control of wireless packet data communications
A data session with a wireless device ordinarily cannot be initiated from the network side because the wireless device has no predetermined IP or other network address. Methods are disclosed for instead causing the wireless unit to initiate a data session with a target destination, thereby obviating the IP addressing problem. A voice call is first initiated by a requester application to a remote wireless unit. The requester transmits a request message to the remote wireless unit via the wireless voice channel using in-band techniques; preferably including a payload in the polling message that identifies the target destination. In response, the remote wireless unit initiates a packet data session with the target destination. |
| US08036193B2 |
Advance notification of transmit opportunities on a shared-communications channel
A technique is disclosed that enables both an IEEE 802.11 transceiver and a Bluetooth transceiver to be employed in a single wireless telecommunication station (e.g., a device supporting a wireless telephone, personal digital assistant, etc.) without interfering on each other. In particular, the illustrative embodiment enables standard “off-the-shelf” IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth transceivers to work in a coordinated fashion in a single telecommunications terminal. In the illustrative embodiment, an IEEE 802.11 transceiver that uses a shared-communications channel notifies a Bluetooth transceiver that a transmit opportunity exists and that the Bluetooth transceiver has permission to use the shared-communications channel. The technique disclosed is also applicable to communications protocols other than IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth. |
| US08036192B2 |
Autonomous and heterogeneous network discovery and reuse
In some embodiments, a method is disclosed involving a mobile device discovery and use of target wireless networks which are at least partly within a coverage area of another wireless network which provides location information which includes: acquiring data from a plurality of said target wireless networks; acquiring location information from said another wireless network; mapping said data from said plurality of said target wireless networks with said location information; and selecting one of said plurality of target wireless networks based on said mapped data. |
| US08036181B2 |
Method and apparatus for reducing multi-user processing in wireless communication systems
A method and apparatus is disclosed for reducing multi-user processing at the receiver in wireless communication systems. Detected codes are grouped according to channel impulse response and a parent code is identified for each group of detected codes. A matrix A is constructed and joint detection is performed using the identified parent codes. Data symbols of the detected codes are obtained from the data symbols of the identified parent codes. |
| US08036180B2 |
Random access channel preamble
One out of sixteen preamble signatures is selected. A code is produced based on the selected preamble signature. The produced code is phase rotated to produce a processed preamble signature signal. The processed preamble signature signal is used in processing the CDMA RACH signal and the CDMA RACH signal is used to access a CDMA system. |
| US08036173B2 |
System and method for managing wireless base station handoff information
The present invention is directed to a system and method which base stations send informational messages to neighbor base stations when conditions change, so that the neighbor base stations can update its database to keep itself current on the parameters (including availability, traffic load, modulation scheme, etc.) to use in effecting efficient base station to base station handoffs. In one embodiment, the receiving base station marks the time of the received message from a neighbor base station and if a new updated message is not received within a time window then the receiving base station assumes that there is a problem with that neighbor. |
| US08036168B2 |
Method and apparatus for link adaptation by stochastically selecting a transmit parameter
A method and apparatus for link adaptation is provided. A node stores a set of transmit parameters and corresponding selection probabilities for each of the transmit parameters. The node stochastically selects a particular transmit parameter based on the selection probabilities, and then transmits a packet according to the particular selected transmit parameter. From received transmission feedback information, the node derives performance statistics, and uses the performance statistics to specify an estimated performance function for the particular transmit parameter. The node updates a selection probability computation function (SPCF), and uses the SPCF to generate updated selection probabilities corresponding to each transmit parameter in the set of available transmit parameters. |
| US08036163B2 |
Wireless communication control system and method thereof
A wireless communications control system includes: a data server; a base station; and a plurality of wireless terminals, each exchanging data communications with the data server by establishing wireless communications with the base station. Each wireless terminal includes a control section for generating property information representing own property and a wireless communications section for transmitting that property information to the base station. The property information includes at least one of information indicating operating status of the wireless terminal, information identifying the wireless terminal itself, and information identifying the user of the wireless terminal. The data server includes a communications section for receiving the property information from the respective wireless terminals by way of the base station and a control section for choosing, by reference to the property information received, one of the wireless terminals to exchange the data communications with. The control section of the data server exchanges the data communications with the wireless terminal chosen. |
| US08036161B2 |
Wireless switch with virtual wireless switch modules
A wireless switch device is provided that includes a first wired Ethernet interface and a second wired Ethernet interface, and a plurality of virtual wireless switch modules (VWSMs) implemented within the wireless switch device. The VWSMs include a first VWSM that is coupled to a first access port via the first wired Ethernet interface that is allocated to the first VWSM, and a second VWSM that is coupled to a second access port via the second wired Ethernet interface that is allocated to the second VWSM. The first VWSM can be control and manage the first access port, and the second VWSM can control and manage the second access port. |
| US08036154B2 |
Device and method for saving power in digital broadcasting receiver
A device and a method are provided for saving electric power consumed in a digital broadcasting receiver. The device and method includes acquiring information regarding a transmission order of all service channels, calculating a delay relationship between an arbitrarily played service channel and a service channel for switching, and enabling a broadcast receiving unit when the service channel for switching is received. |
| US08036152B2 |
Integrated power management of a client device via system time slot assignment
In a wireless network, time slots may be configured in a manner such that the network directs portable wireless client devices to listen and respond within specific time slots. Because the time slots can be predicted or are known, one of the client devices may be configured to set a timer, enter a sleep mode, and then later awaken when a specific, time-slotted data interaction is required of the client device. Accordingly, battery power that would otherwise be consumed if the client device were active outside of the time slot may be saved. |
| US08036150B2 |
Method and a device for improved status reports
The invention discloses a method (700) for a cellular system (100), in which traffic can be exchanged between first (110, 120) and second (110, 120) transceivers. The traffic is sent in data units, each of which is given an identifier, and which data units may be divided into segments. A receiving transceiver (110, 120) may send status information in data frames or data units (200, 300) about properly received, partially received, or non-received data units to a sending transceiver, i.e. the transceiver from which the data was sent. In the case (705) of partially or non-received data units, the status information includes (710) information about whether the data unit or units were non-received or partially received, and in the case of one or more partially received data units, which (715) parts of those data units that were not received. |
| US08036148B2 |
High-frequency circuit, high-frequency device and communications apparatus
A high-frequency circuit for wireless communications selectively using a first frequency band and a second frequency band lower than the first frequency band, comprising an antenna terminal; first and second transmission terminals to which transmitting signals in the first and second frequency bands are input; first and second receiving terminals from which received signals in the first and second frequency bands are output; a diplexer circuit for branching a first-frequency-band-signal path and a second-frequency-band-signal path; a switch circuit for switching a path for a transmitting signal and a path for a received signal; a low-noise amplifier circuit disposed between the switch circuit and the second receiving terminal for amplifying a received signal in the second frequency band; and first and second filter circuits disposed between the antenna terminal and the low-noise amplifier circuit in this order from the antenna terminal, both filter circuits passing a received signal in the second frequency band but blocking a frequency band lower than the second frequency band, and the band blocked by the first filter circuit being lower than the band blocked by the second filter circuit. |
| US08036147B2 |
Method for transmitting LCAS protocol via an optical communication line
A technique for exchanging LCAS control information between a first network element and a second network element interconnected by a bi-directional optical communication line, while conveying substantially unidirectional data traffic in the form of a virtual concatenated group (VCG) binary stream transmitted in a first direction via the bi-directional optical communication line, the technique comprising: —in the first direction, transmitting the LCAS control information via the bi-directional optical communication line in the VCG binary stream, by placing the information in one or more overhead bytes conventionally specified for the VCG binary stream, —in a second (opposite) direction, transmitting the LCAS control information in an existing binary stream non-related to the above-mentioned unidirectional data traffic; the existing binary stream should pass via a communication trail connecting the first network element and the second network element but not obligatory coinciding with the above-mentioned line; the discussed information should be placed in one or more overhead bytes of the existing binary stream. |
| US08036144B2 |
Gateway selection method for wireless mesh network
A gateway selection method for a wireless mesh network is provided for selecting an optimal gateway includes building a spanning routing tree to a given network. Reference factors of routers are calculated regarding the network to total network capacity in association with the spanning routing tree. A router is selected which has the greatest reference factor as being an optimal gateway of the network. |
| US08036140B2 |
Application programming interface for inviting participants in a serverless peer to peer network
Methods and computer readable mediums are described that facilitate inviting user entities on a network. The method may include initiating a first application for sending an invitation by a first user entity on a first endpoint, selecting a second user entity to receive the invitation, and selecting an activity. The method may also include sending from the first endpoint to the second user entity the invitation to participate in the activity if the first endpoint determines the activity is supported by a computing application on the first endpoint. |
| US08036138B2 |
System and method for optimized initial configuration distribution for cyclic sleeping devices
Various embodiments include a method and system for optimizing the initial configuration of cyclic sleeping devices on a wireless network. The devices, or nodes, may need additional configuration by a configuration device after being placed on the network. Some nodes may sleep and not report in to the configuration device causing the configuration device to reach out to these non-reporting nodes. The configuration device may have limited resources with which to transmit the configuration to the nodes, and so the network can be efficiently configured if the configuration device reaches out to non-reporting nodes when it does not expect to use its transmission resources to configure a reporting node. This can be accomplished by maintaining a list of nodes yet to be configured, using the node configuration and reporting times to determine periods in which the configuration device's transmission resources will be idle, contacting non-reporting nodes during those periods. |
| US08036134B2 |
Disabled state and state signaling for link aggregation
A device enables a disabled timer state for a link aggregation group (LAG) link if a disabled timer condition is determined for the LAG link, and enables a disabled state for the LAG link if a disabled condition is determined for the LAG link in the disabled timer state. |
| US08036133B2 |
Efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks
Various example embodiments are disclosed relating to efficient techniques for error detection and authentication in wireless networks. For example, according to an example embodiment, an apparatus adapted for wireless communication in a wireless network may include a processor. The processor may be configured to transmit a message including a field to provide both authentication and error detection for the message. The field may include an authenticated checksum sequence. |
| US08036132B1 |
Systems, devices, and methods for determining network failures
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method, which can comprise automatically generating a trouble ticket responsive to a determined failure of one or more elements of a management Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC). The management PVC can be established between a signaling device and a device communicatively coupled to a backbone network. |
| US08036131B2 |
Method for transmitting channel quality information based on differential scheme
A method for transmitting channel quality information based on a differential scheme is disclosed. When channel quality information of a predetermined number of sub-bands selected by a receiver in a frequency selective channel is transmitted, total average channel information is transmitted. Channel information of the selected sub-bands is transmitted as sub-band differential information associated with average channel information. In this case, the sub-band differential information may be denoted by a specific value contained in a differential-value range including only positive (+) values. If at least two channel quality information is transmitted by a MIMO system, channel quality information of one channel is transmitted, then channel quality information of the other channel is transmitted as spatial differential information. In this case, the spatial differential information is denoted by a specific value contained in a differential-value range asymmetrical on the basis of “0”. |
| US08036118B2 |
Inducing symmetry via multi topology routing
In one embodiment, a technique for selecting a topology, in a multi-topology routing network, based on a source-destination pair of a packet is provided. The packet may be routed on a preferred path of the selected topology. By selecting the same topology for the source-destination pair even if the source and destination addresses are swapped, upstream and downstream traffic may be routed in a symmetrical manner. For some embodiments, a topology may be selected using a hash value that is generated using an algorithm that is commutative with respect to the source and destination addresses. |
| US08036113B2 |
Packet sampling using rate-limiting mechanisms
Apparatus having related methods and computer programs comprises an input circuit and one or more output circuits; a forwarding engine to transfer packets to the output circuits; and a rate limiting circuit to selectively pass packets from the input circuit to the forwarding engine, the rate limiting circuit comprising a counter to keep a count, an increment circuit to increment the count when the input circuit receives a packet, a decrement circuit to decrement the count by a decrement amount, an action circuit to perform action(s) based on the count and count threshold(s), and a configuration register to store a sampling flag, wherein when the sampling flag is set, the decrement amount is set to zero and the actions include sending a packet to a predetermined destination, and setting the count to zero, when the count exceeds a count threshold. |
| US08036109B2 |
Network communication handling
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with set transparent network communication are described. In one embodiment, in response to receiving a listen signal from a listen requestor, where the listen signal contains a handle identifying a set of interfaces from which the listen requestor is configured to receive incoming network communications: a set of listening endpoints are opened, where a member of the set of listening endpoints is associated with a member of the set of interfaces. The handle is modified to produce a modified handle that identifies the set of listening endpoints. The modified handle facilitates set transparent communication between the listen requester and a member of the set of listening endpoints. The modified handle is provided to the listen requester. |
| US08036106B1 |
Distributed control packet transmission
Packet switch operating methods and packet switches, using first processing circuitry of the packet switch, configure different second processing circuitry of the packet switch to periodically transmit control packets to a destination device via a port of the packet switch and, subsequent to the configuring and using the second processing circuitry, transmit the control packets to the destination device via the port during moments in time when the first processing circuitry is non-operational. Other packet switch operating methods and packet switches, using first processing circuitry of the packet switch, specify a configuration for a control packet processing procedure implemented by different second processing circuitry of the packet switch, communicate the configuration to the second processing circuitry, and using the second processing circuitry, transmit control packets according to the control packet processing procedure, the control packet processing procedure being configured according to the configuration. |
| US08036105B2 |
Monitoring a problem condition in a communications system
A solution for monitoring a problem condition in a communications system is provided. A communications protocol implementation monitors the communications system for the problem condition. The communications protocol implementation can initiate a response based on the problem condition being present. In this manner, the communications protocol implementation provides an effective monitor for detecting and/or recovering from a problem condition in the communications system. |
| US08036100B2 |
Digital signal demultiplexing apparatus and digital signal multiplexing apparatus
A digital signal demultiplexing apparatus that can demultiplex and a digital signal multiplexing apparatus that can multiplex signals of channels having arbitrary frequency intervals and bandwidths are provided. The digital signal demultiplexing apparatus performs discrete Fourier transform on an input signal, output samples existing within frequency bands of each channel from samples of the frequency domain, add samples such that the number of samples of each channel become a power of two, and performs, on the samples of each channel, discrete inverse Fourier transform of a length the same as the number of the samples. The digital signal multiplexing apparatus performs discrete Fourier transform of a length the same as the number of samples of an input signal for a predetermined period, outputs samples existing within frequency bands of each channel from samples of the frequency domain of each channel, and arrange the samples according to frequency assignment of each channel to perform discrete inverse Fourier transform. |
| US08036098B2 |
Wireless network and method for adaptive opportunistic clustering for interference alignment in wireless networks
Embodiments of a central scheduler and method for adaptive clustering are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a cluster of transmitter-receiver pairs is selected based on minimum singular values calculated from direct channel information and the selected pairs are instructed to perform an interference alignment technique. |
| US08036094B2 |
Objective lens and optical data storage apparatus comprising the objective lens
An objective lens is described, which is switchable between a far-field mode and a near-field mode. The objective lens comprises a lens, an optical element having a variable refractive index and a solid immersion lens, which are disposed on a common optical axis, wherein the optical element is arranged at a convex side of the solid immersion lens and has a top and a bottom surface arranged adjacent to each other in a direction of the optical axis, the bottom surface having a concave shape that is adapted to the shape of the convex side of the solid immersion lens and the top surface having a curvature that is lower than a curvature of the convex side of the solid immersion lens, and wherein a difference between a refractive index of the optical element and the solid immersion lens is small in the far-field mode so that the solid immersion lens and the optical element act substantially as a single optical element in the far-field mode, whereas the difference is large in the near-field mode so that the optical effect of the solid immersion lens is significant in the near-field mode. |
| US08036092B2 |
Optical head device for detecting an error signal and an optical information recording/reproducing device
To provide an optical head device, which can detect an excellent focus error signal for a dual layer optical recording medium, and optical information recording/reproducing device. Reflected light from a dual layer optical recording medium is diffracted by a diffractive optical element divided into four regions, and is received by a photodetector. Optical spots are equivalent to negative first order diffracted light from the four regions of the diffractive optical element, and are received by four dual-divided light receiving sections, respectively, to be used for detection a focus error signal by a Foucault's method. The four dual-divided light receiving sections are provided with positive component light receiving sections for outputting the received light as a positive component of the focus error signal and negative component light receiving sections for outputting the received light as a negative component of the focus error signal, respectively. When a signal layer of the optical recording medium is far from an objective lens by a defocusing quantity equivalent to an interval between the first layer and the second layer from a just focus position, a diffraction direction of a diffracted light generated from the reflected light from the signal layer is set so as that the diffracted light spreads to the positive component light receiving section and the negative component light receiving section, and a plurality of the positive component light receiving sections and a plurality of negative component light receiving sections are arranged. |
| US08036091B2 |
Optical pick-up and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus
An optical pick-up which permits the relative position of a diffracting optical element and a photodetector to be adjusted by feedback control with signals which are generated when more than one kind of diffracted light differing in order is received, the diffracted light occurring as the reflected light from the optical disc is divided and diffracted by the diffracting optical element having multiple regions. The photodetector which detects the light beam passing through the central region of the diffracting optical element and generates RF signals is juxtaposed with sub-photodetectors, so that they receive reflected stray light from out-of-focus layers and perform computation to calculate the reflected stray light component which the RF signal detector receives, thereby detecting only the component of signals of the reflected light from a target layer. |
| US08036083B2 |
Optical disk device
This optical disk device includes an examination means which examines a first physical characteristic of an optical disk, and a servo means which starts servo control based upon that first physical characteristic. This optical disk device includes a read means which incorporates the examination means, and which reads type information from the optical disk under that servo control based upon the first physical characteristic. This optical disk device includes a control means which decides whether or not a second physical characteristic of the optical disk, which is determined as a standard for the type of type information read, and the first physical characteristic, agree with one another. And, if the control means has decided that these two physical characteristics do not agree with one another, it commands the read means to read replay data from the optical disk, under that servo control based upon the first physical characteristic. |
| US08036080B2 |
Method and apparatus of discriminating different types of optical discs
A method for discriminating different types of optical discs includes the steps of focusing a beam spot generated by a laser source on an optical disc, and rotating the optical disc; generating a radio frequency signal and a corresponding first signal of the radio frequency signal; comparing a peak-to-peak value of the corresponding first signal with a predetermined value; determining the optical disc as a high density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is smaller than the predetermined value; and, determining the optical disc as a low density optical disc when the peak-to-peak value of the first signal is greater than the predetermined value. |
| US08036079B2 |
Recording medium, recording apparatus, reproduction apparatus, recording method and reproduction method
The present invention allows the usability of a write-once recording medium to be enhanced. The write-once recording medium is provided with an ordinary recording/reproduction area, an alternate area, a first alternate-address management information area (DMA) and a second alternate-address management information area (TDMA). In addition, written/unwritten state indication information (a space bitmap) is also recorded. The second alternate-address management information area is an area allowing alternate-address management information recorded therein to be renewed by adding alternate-address management information thereto. In addition, the written/unwritten state indication information indicates whether or not data has been recorded in each data unit (cluster) on the recording medium. Thus, it is possible to correctly execute management of defects and properly implement renewal of data in the write-once recording medium. |
| US08036077B2 |
Method and recording apparatus for recording information on a multi-layer disc
A method and apparatus for recording information on a multi-layer record carrier includes recording control information in a control information zone before recording user information after a layer jump. This ensures that all user information can be read and recorded reliably, while the storage capacity of the record carrier for storing user information is not reduced. |
| US08036076B2 |
Method of reducing storage power consumption by use of prefetch and computer system using the same
Provided is a computer system including: a computer running as a DB server; a storage system including a plurality of disk drives for storing data; and a management module, in which: at least one of the plurality of disk drives stores data of a DB schema written by the computer; the management module specifies the DB schema to be accessed based on a received query, transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to copy at least a portion of the data of the specified DB schema from the disk drive to a memory, and transmits, to the storage system, an instruction to control an rpm of the disk drive that stores the data of the specified DB schema; and the storage system controls the rpm of the disk drive based on the instruction. Accordingly, power consumption of the storage system can be reduced even if installed disks increase in number. |
| US08036075B2 |
Disk drive and information processing system having the same
A disk drive and an information processing system optimizes the number of rotations of a disk. Data read from a disk and previously-read cache data are temporarily stored in buffer memory. When a total amount of cache data achieved during a given period of time T1 or an average amount of the same is equal to or less than a threshold value X1, a system controller controls the number of rotations in an increasing manner, thereby optimizing the number of rotations. When a total amount of cache data achieved during a given period of time T2 (T1 |
| US08036071B2 |
Wobble information recording method, information recording medium, and recording and reproduction method and apparatus thereof
An optical disk and a method for identifying the optical disk making it possible to identify a recording system of the optical disk easily in a short time by a recording and reproduction apparatus when a groove-recording system and a land-recording system are both employed in one kind of optical disk, such as, for example, a BD-R. Specifically, a polarity upon reproducing wobble information is made to be the same in both an optical disk of groove-recording system and the optical disk of a land-recording system. The recording system of the optical disk that shows the same wobble polarity irrespective of the recording system can be easily detected by finding a tracking polarity that can recognize the wobble information by changing the tracking polarity, whereby the start-up time of the recording and reproduction apparatus can be shortened. |
| US08036069B1 |
Plasmon shield to shape and reduce optical spot
A TAMR head is disclosed with a triangular shaped plasmon antenna covered on two sides with a plasmon layer that generates an edge plasmon mode along a vertex of the two plasmon sides formed opposite a main pole layer. A plasmon shield (PS) is formed along the ABS and opposite the vertex to confine an electric field from the edge plasmon mode within a small radius of the edge plasmon tip thereby reducing the optical spot size on the magnetic medium and enhancing writability. An end of a waveguide used to direct input electromagnetic radiation to the plasmon antenna adjoins a PS side opposite the ABS. In one embodiment, a magnetic shield may be formed along the ABS and adjoins the PS so that a first PS section terminates at the ABS and faces the vertex while a second PS section is formed between the magnetic shield and waveguide end. |
| US08036067B2 |
Alarm clock
An alarm clock includes a processor and a plurality of stored audio message files in data communication with the processor. The processor is in data communication with an audio source, a speaker, a display, a user input, and a clock. The alarm clock includes a case containing these components. The processor includes programming to actuate the display to visually present time data from the clock, actuate the speaker to audibly present a first audio message file at a first alarm time, actuate the speaker to audibly present audio from the audio source after the speaker audibly presents the first audio message file, and actuate the speaker to audibly present a second audio message file at a second alarm time, actuate the speaker to audibly present audio from the audio source after the speaker audibly presents the second audio message file. |
| US08036059B2 |
Semiconductor memory circuit, circuit arrangement and method for reading out data
A circuit arrangement for reading out data time delayed from a semiconductor memory comprises a common data input at which read data, which are read out of a semiconductor memory, are present and a data buffer FIFO for buffering the read data. The buffer FIFI comprises a plurality of FIFO modules each comprising a plurality of individual FIFO cells. Each FIFO module can be addressed via respective allocated first input and output pointers and each FIFO cell can be addressed via respective allocated second input and output pointers. The circuit arrangement further comprises a controllable read latency generator generating the first and second output pointers for driving the FIFO modules and FIFO cells with a read latency predetermined with reference to the first and second input pointers, respectively, and a common data output at which the read data are present time-delayed in dependence on the predetermined read latency. |
| US08036058B2 |
Symmetrically operating single-ended input buffer devices and methods
Embodiments are described including those pertaining to an input buffer having first and second complementary input terminals. One such input buffer has a symmetrical response to a single input signal applied to the first input terminal by mimicking the transition of a signal applied to the second input terminal in the opposite direction. The aforementioned input buffer includes two amplifier circuits structured to be complementary with respect to each other. Each of the amplifier circuits includes a first transistor having a first input node that receives an input signal transitioning across a range of high and low voltage levels, and a second transistor having a second input node that receives a reference signal. The first input node is coupled to the second transistor through a capacitor that charges and discharges the drain of the second transistor responsive to the input signal transitioning to mimic the second input node transitioning in the direction opposite to the transition of the input signal, while the reference signal at the second input node is maintained at a constant voltage level. |
| US08036054B2 |
Semiconductor memory device with improved sensing margin
A semiconductor memory device includes a signal generating unit for generating first and second enable signals in response to a power-up signal, a first sub-word line signal driving unit for driving a first sub-word line signal in response to the first enable signal, a first voltage supplying unit for supplying a first voltage to a pair of bit lines in response to the first enable signal, a second sub-word line signal driving unit for driving a second sub-word line signal in response to the second enable signal, and a second voltage supplying unit for supplying a second voltage to a pair of bit lines in response to the second enable signal. |
| US08036050B2 |
Circuit for transmitting and receiving data and control method thereof
A data receiving circuit includes a delay unit for outputting a delayed control signal by delaying a control signal based on a CAS latency, an output driver for time-dividing parallel data based on the control signal and the delayed control signal to generate divided parallel data, and for writing and transmitting the divided parallel data, and a latch for receiving the parallel data from the output driver and sorting, by combining or dividing, the received parallel data in response to the control signal and the delayed control signal. |
| US08036047B2 |
Circuit and method for generating pumping voltage in semiconductor memory apparatus and semiconductor memory apparatus using the same
A circuit for generating a pumping voltage in a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a control signal generation block configured to generate a first control signal obtained by level-shifting a voltage level of a test signal to a first driving voltage level, a voltage application section configured to supply an external voltage to a first node in response to a first transmission signal, a first charge pump configured to raise a voltage level of the first node by a first predetermined level in response to an oscillator signal, and a first pumping voltage output section configured to select at least one of a first connection unit and a second connection unit in response to the first control signal, and to interconnect the first node with a second node using the selected connection unit when a second transmission signal is enabled, wherein a first pumping voltage is output through the second node. |
| US08036046B2 |
Data output circuit and method
A data output circuit includes a strobe signal controlling block configured to generate a first delayed strobe signal by delaying a first strobe signal by a certain delay amount, an input/output sense amplifying block configured to amplify first parallel data signals to generate second parallel data signals having the same number of bits as that of the first parallel data signals in response to the first strobe signal and the first delayed strobe signal, a storing block configured to latch the second parallel data signals in response to a second strobe signal and a second delayed strobe signal, and a parallel-to-serial converting block configured to sequentially output the second parallel data signals latched in the storing block, wherein the first strobe signal is used to generate a data signal that is outputted first among the second parallel data signals. |
| US08036038B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of blocks each including a memory cell unit, and a selection transistor which selects the memory cell unit, and a row decoder including a first block selector and a second block selector each of which includes a plurality of transfer transistors which are formed to correspond to the plurality of blocks and arranged adjacent to each other in a word-line direction wherein the diffusion layers are formed to oppose each other in the first block selector and the second block selector, and a width between the diffusion layers of the first block selector and the second block selector adjacent to each other in the word-line direction is made larger than a width between the diffusion layers in each of the first block selector and the second block selector adjacent to each other in the word-line direction. |
| US08036037B2 |
Method of programming flash memory device
A method of programming data in a flash memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a memory cell array which in turn includes at least one block, and the block in turn includes a plurality of pages. A program command to program a plurality of pages in the block is received. The plurality of pages is programmed in a predefined order. An address corresponding to a page that was programmed last amongst the plurality of pages is stored. |
| US08036036B2 |
Semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes at least two adjacent memory cell blocks, each of the memory cell blocks having a plurality of memory cell units, each of memory cell units having a plurality of electrically reprogrammable and erasable memory cells connected in series, a plurality of cell gates for selecting the plurality of memory cells within the two adjacent memory cell blocks, each of the plurality of cell gates being formed with roughly rectangular closed loops or roughly U shaped open loops, each of the loops being connected to a corresponding cell of the memory cells in a corresponding memory cell unit of the plurality of memory cell units within one of the two adjacent memory cell blocks and being connected to a corresponding memory cell of the memory cells in a corresponding memory cell unit of the plurality of memory cell units within the other memory cell block of the two adjacent memory cell blocks and a plurality of pairs of first and second selection gates for selecting the memory cell block, the plurality of cell gates being located between one pair of the first and second selection gates within a corresponding block of the memory cell block. |
| US08036026B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for operating the same
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of memory cells configured to store data having a polarity corresponding to a direction of current flowing through a source line and a bit line; and a precharge driving unit configured to precharge the bit line to a voltage corresponding to the data in response to a precharging signal before the data are stored in the memory cells. |
| US08036022B2 |
Structure and method of using asymmetric junction engineered SRAM pass gates, and design structure
A design structure, structure and method of using and/or manufacturing structures having asymmetric junction engineered SRAM pass gates is provided. The structure includes an SRAM cell having asymmetric junction-engineered SRAM pass gates with a high leakage junction and a low leakage junction. The asymmetric junction-engineered SRAM pass gates are connected between an internal node and a bit-line node. The high leakage junction is from a body to the internal node and the low leakage junction is from the body to the bit-line node. |
| US08036021B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells arranged at intersections of bit line pairs and word lines. Each memory cell includes a first transistor having one main electrode connected to a first bit line, a second transistor having one main electrode connected to a second bit line, a first node electrode for data-storage connected to the other main electrode of the first transistor, a second node electrode for data-storage connected to the other main electrode of the second transistor, and a shield electrode formed surrounding the first and second node electrodes. The first and second transistors have respective gates both connected to an identical word line, and the first and second bit lines are connected to an identical sense amp. The first and second node electrodes, the first and second bit lines, the word line and the shield electrode are isolated from each other using insulating films. |
| US08036019B2 |
Resistive memory
The present disclosure includes resistive memory devices and systems having resistive memory cells, as well as methods for operating the resistive memory cells. One memory device embodiment includes at least one resistive memory element, a programming circuit, and a sensing circuit. For example, the programming circuit can include a switch configured to select one of N programming currents for programming the at least one resistive memory element, where each of the N programming currents has a unique combination of current direction and magnitude, with N corresponding to the number of resistance states of the at least one memory element. In one or more embodiments, the sensing circuit can be arranged for sensing of the N resistance states. |
| US08036016B2 |
Maintenance process to enhance memory endurance
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to enhancing an operational lifespan of non-volatile memory. |
| US08036013B2 |
Using higher current to read a triggered phase change memory
A phase change memory cell may be read by driving a current through the cell higher than its threshold current. A voltage derived from the selected column may be utilized to read a selected bit of a phase change memory. The read window or margin may be improved in some embodiments. A refresh cycle may be included at periodic intervals. |
| US08036011B2 |
Memory module for improving signal integrity and computer system having the same
A memory module includes a plurality of buses and a plurality of memory chips arranged close to each other along each of the plurality of buses. An N-th memory chip, where N is an integer, of the plurality of memory chips is connected to any one of the plurality of buses, and each of the other memory chips of the plurality of memory chips, except for the N-th memory chip, is connected to the other one of the plurality of buses. |
| US08036010B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of memory cell arrays stacked on the semiconductor substrate, each memory cell array including a plurality of first lines paralleled with each other, a plurality of second lines paralleled with each other and formed crossing the first lines, and a plurality of memory cells arranged at intersections of the first lines and the second lines, each memory cell having one end connected to the first line and the other end connected to the second line; a first control circuit provided on the semiconductor substrate immediately beneath the memory cell arrays and having one end connected to the first line to select and drive the first line; and a second control circuit provided on the semiconductor substrate immediately beneath the memory cell arrays and having one end connected to the second line to select and drive the second line. |
| US08036007B2 |
Bus connection for connecting a field device to a field bus
A bus connection for connecting a field device to a field bus whereby the bus connection has a circuit for sending and receiving databus signals and for generating at least one regulated operating voltage, and the regulated operating voltage is generated from a bus voltage supplying the field bus, characterized in that a controllable resistor is provided for generating an additional operating voltage; circuitry means are provided, controlling the controllable resistor as a function of the bus voltage such that the input voltage of the circuit is regulated at its minimum required power supply voltage; and the sum of the regulated operating voltage and the additional operating voltage is supplied to the field device as the power supply voltage. |
| US08036004B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply with total isolation
An uninterruptible power supply includes an isolation transformer having dual primary windings. The secondary winding generates an output voltage based on the magnetic field generated in one of the dual primary windings. A first primary winding is coupled to an inverter circuit that receives an alternating current input voltage and applies a clean and filter alternating current to the first primary winding. A second primary winding is coupled to a bypass circuit that applies a bypass voltage when the inverter circuit is in a failure state. The power supply also includes a compensation circuit to maintain the output voltage at a desired level. |
| US08036002B2 |
Wide supply range flyback converter
A wide supply range flyback converter consists of a Schmitt trigger driving a switching device such as MOSFET. The circuit employs a feed forward voltage controlled current source and two other voltage controlled current sources, one of which is responsible for minimizing on time and the other for increasing off time in order to achieve high efficiency, low standby power, and improved overload conditions. |
| US08036000B2 |
Resonant converter system and controlling method thereof having relatively better efficiency
The configurations of a resonant converter system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The proposed resonant converter system includes a resonant converter and a hybrid control apparatus coupled to the resonant converter for generating a driving signal to adjust a phase angle and a frequency of the resonant converter such that the resonant converter would reach a relatively lower voltage gain and have a relatively lower loss during an abnormal operation. |
| US08035997B2 |
Control arrangement and circuit arrangement for converting a DC voltage into a rectified voltage
Circuitry includes an acquiring circuit to acquire period and phase information of an oscillation. The acquiring circuit includes a first input electrically coupled to a first connection and a second input electrically coupled to a second connection. The first connection and the second connection are for electrically coupling to an oscillating circuit. A control circuit includes a first input electrically coupled to an output of the acquiring circuit. The control circuit includes a second input electrically coupled to a third connection for supply of a voltage that is based on the rectified voltage. A switch includes a controlled segment for electrically coupling a fourth connection to a reference potential connection, and a control connection that is electrically coupled to an output of the control circuit to excite an oscillation in the oscillating circuit via a DC voltage. |
| US08035995B2 |
ACDC converter
This invention relates to an ACDC converter (1) comprising a converter input (3) and a converter output (5), a pre-regulation stage (7) and a DC transformer stage (9) comprising a transformer input stage (11) and a transformer output stage (13). The transformer input stage comprises a double ended converter and there is further provided a controller (17) for providing a control signal to the double ended converter. The controller (17) operates the ACDC converter using burst mode control and by sending control signals comprising pulse sets that are designed to provide substantially zero net magnetising current in the double ended converter. The pre-regulation stage preferably comprises a buck converter which in turn also provides power factor correction to the input of the ACDC converter. |
| US08035994B2 |
High frequency storing case and high frequency module
A cavity configured by electrically connecting an earth conductor formed on a multilayer dielectric substrate and on which a plurality of high frequency circuits are mounted, and a shield cover member. A waveguide aperture is formed on the earth conductor on which the high frequency circuits are mounted and is electrically coupled to the cavity, and an end-short-circuited dielectric waveguide formed in a direction of layer lamination of the multilayer dielectric substrate is connected to the waveguide aperture, and has a length approximately ¼ of an effective wavelength in the substrate of a signal wave. Spatial isolation between the high frequency circuits is ensured by an inexpensive and simple configuration using the single cavity. |
| US08035979B2 |
Printed wiring board with built-in semiconductor element, and process for producing the same
A printed wiring board includes a built-in semiconductor element. A protective film is formed on a semiconductor element-mounted surface of a base substrate to which the built-in semiconductor element is connected to protect the semiconductor element-mounted surface excepting a mounting pad. Upper and side surfaces of the built-in semiconductor element are covered with a first insulating film formed by filling a sealing material. The first insulating film is covered with a second insulating film formed of an insulating resin melted from an insulating layer that is provided in side and upper portions of the built-in semiconductor element. |
| US08035973B2 |
Cage having a heat sink device secured thereto in a floating arrangement that ensures that continuous contact is maintained between the heat sink device and a parallel optical communications device secured to the cage
A floating heat sink device is provided that attaches to a cage in a floating configuration that enables the heat sink device to move, or “float”, as the parallel optical communications device secured to the cage moves relative to the cage. Because the heat sink device floats with movement of the parallel optical communications device, at least one surface of the parallel optical communications device maintains continuous contact with at least one surface of the heat sink device at all times. Ensuring that these surfaces are maintained in continuous contact at all times ensures that heat produced by the parallel optical communications device will be transferred into and absorbed by the floating heat sink device. |
| US08035968B2 |
Display apparatus
A display unit is disclosed. A display apparatus includes a panel unit displaying images, a circuit unit provided a rear surface of the panel unit, a chamber surrounding the circuit unit, the chamber forming a predetermined space and at least one ventilation fan ventilating air inside the chamber along a circulation path passing beyond the circuit unit. According to a display apparatus according to the present invention, parts which are mounted in the display apparatus may be protected from external moisture or dust. Furthermore, heat radiation may be performed efficiently in the display apparatus according to the present invention even if environments of heat exchanging with an outside may not be formed enough in a structure of the display apparatus. |
| US08035966B2 |
Electronics package for synthetic jet ejectors
A thermal management system (101), comprising (a) a synthetic jet actuator (103), and (b) a processor (107) in communication with the synthetic jet actuator, the processor being adapted to receive programming instructions, and being further adapted to modify the operation of the synthetic jet actuator in response to the programming instructions. |
| US08035965B2 |
Network cabinet with thermal airflow management system
A network cabinet comprising an electronic component a duct positioned therein. The electronic component has at least one exhaust vent and the duct defines first and second openings. The first opening aligns with the exhaust vent such that the duct receives exhaust therefrom and the duct extends from the first opening toward a side of the network cabinet such that the second opening faces the side of the cabinet to direct the exhaust thereto. |
| US08035963B2 |
Multiple-fold portable electronic device
A multiple-fold portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device in one embodiment includes a first, second and third planar sections. The first and second planar sections are connected by a first joint and foldable in relation to each other. The second and third planar sections are connected by a second joint and foldable in relation to each other. Each planar section can include an input device or an output device or both. |
| US08035962B2 |
Computer hot-plug structure
A computer hot-plug structure allows a hard disk to be connected to a computer in a hot-plug fashion. The computer has a casing and a plurality of side panels surrounding various sides of the casing. Each side panel has a thread-hole and a hood covering the thread-hole. The hood has a top portion and two flanks at two ends of the top portion to form a housing space for plugging and unplugging of the hard disk. The housing space has one end formed an insertion slot to receive the hard disk and a hot-plug connector at another end. The hot-plug connector has a first connection port connected to the hard disk and a second connection port electrically connected to the computer through a transmission line passing through the thread-hole. Thus the hard disk is held on the outer side of the computer to save the interior space of the computer. |
| US08035957B2 |
Monitor apparatus having links to move a monitor main body with respect to a base
A monitor apparatus includes a monitor main body displayed with an image, a base to support the monitor main body, a lower link having an end coupled to a base hinge to tilt with respect to the base, an upper link having an end coupled to a monitor hinge to tilt with respect to the monitor main body, and a middle link having a first side tiltably coupled to a first middle hinge with respect to the lower link and a second side tiltably coupled to a second middle hinge with respect to the upper link to control the upper link and the lower link to be folded in parallel. The monitor apparatus provides a various angle change of the monitor main body, and a packing volume of the monitor apparatus is reduced. |
| US08035956B2 |
Bulkhead mount equipment shelf rack tray
A Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) support system incorporates a unitary tray having a rear boss and an integral Air Cooling System (ACS) plenum and an ACS conduit through the rear boss communicating with the plenum. A tray support and alignment element provides a flange with tray attachment studs extending from a front surface, wall attachment studs extending from a rear surface, and an ACS aperture. The wall attachment studs are received in spaced holes in a mounting structure and the tray attachment studs are received in bores in the rear boss of the tray. Insertion of the tray attachment studs aligns the ACS conduit in the rear boss and the ACS aperture in the flange. A backing plate engages the wall attachment studs to secure the tray support and alignment element to the mounting structure. The backing plate includes an ACS spud aligned with the ACS aperture. |
| US08035953B2 |
Solid electrolytic capacitor
A solid electrolytic capacitor including an anode body, a dielectric layer arranged on the anode body, a conductive polymer layer arranged on the dielectric layer, and a cathode layer including a carbon layer arranged on the conductive polymer layer and a silver layer arranged on the carbon layer. The conductive polymer layer includes ridges and valleys formed in a surface that faces toward the cathode layer. The silver layer includes a first silver layer, which is arranged on the carbon layer, covers the ridges and valleys, and mainly contains spherical silver particles, and a second silver layer, which is arranged on the first silver layer and mainly contains silver flakes. |
| US08035952B2 |
Conductive composition and production method thereof, antistatic coating material, antistatic coating, antistatic film, optical filter, and optical information recording medium, and capacitors and production method thereof
A conductive composition comprises a π conjugated conductive polymer, a polyanion, and a hydroxy group-containing aromatic compound containing two or more hydroxy groups. An antistatic coating material comprises the conductive composition and a solvent. An antistatic coating is produced by applying the antistatic coating material. A capacitor comprises an anode composed of a porous valve metal body; a dielectric layer formed by oxidizing a surface of the anode; and a cathode formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the cathode has a solid electrolyte layer comprising the conductive composition. |
| US08035948B2 |
Static eliminator and electric discharge module
This static eliminator is used for eliminating static electricity from an object by ionizing the air to be blown to a charged object, and has a case 12 body provided with an air blow duct 15 for blowing out an ionized air, and an electric discharge module 27 being mounted detachably on the case body 12. The electric discharge module 27 has an electric discharge needle substrate 31 having a plurality of electric discharge needles 38 arranged straightly, and a surface panel 32 detachably mounted on the case body, and the electric discharge module 27 is mounted on the case body 12 by mean of a mounting screw member 36 in the portion of the surface panel 12. By dismounting the electric discharge module 27 from the case body 12, the electric discharge needles can be replaced. |
| US08035934B2 |
Shift switching device and shift switching method
A shift-by-wire shift switching device and shift switching method that switch a shift range of an automatic transmission using an electric motor. The shift switching device includes a controller that determines whether a fault has occurred in a current supply line of each phase of the electric motor on a phase-by-phase basis, executes an open-loop control of the electric motor using only the phases in which it has been determined that a fault has not occurred, and determines whether a fault has occurred in the current supply line by detecting an activation state of the electric motor when the open-loop control of the electric motor is executed. Therefore, it is possible to determine whether a fault in the motor is a short-circuit fault or a break fault, without addition of a part such as a short-circuit detection sensor. |
| US08035932B2 |
Lorentz magnetoresistive sensor with integrated signal amplification
A Lorentz magnetoresistive sensor having integrated signal amplification. The sensor is constructed upon a substrate such as a semiconductor material, and an amplification circuit such as transistor is constructed directly into the substrate on which the magnetoresistive device is constructed. This integrated signal amplification greatly enhances sensor performance by eliminating a great deal of signal noise that would otherwise be added to the read signal. |
| US08035930B2 |
Perpendicular magnetic recording write head with a side shield
A side shield structure for a PMR write head is disclosed that narrows write width and minimizes adjacent track and far track erasure. The side shield structure on each side of the write pole has two sections. One section along the ABS and adjacent to the pole tip has a height (SSH1) defined by SSH1≦[(0.6×neck height)+0.08] microns. There is a non-magnetic gap layer between the first section and a second section that is formed adjacent to the flared sides of the main pole layer and serves to suction leakage flux from the flared portion and prevent unwanted flux from reaching the first side shield sections. A fabrication method is provided that includes electroplating the first side shield sections, depositing the non-magnetic gap layer, and then electroplating the second side shield sections. Subsequently, a main pole layer and a trailing shield are formed. |
| US08035927B2 |
EMR magnetic sensor having its active quantum well layer extending beyond an over-lying semiconductor layer end with tab and lead structure for improved electrical contact
An extraordinary magnetoresistive sensor (EMR sensor) having a lead structure that is self aligned with a magnetic shunt structure. To form an EMR sensor according to an embodiment of the invention, a plurality of layers are deposited to form quantum well structure such as a two dimensional electron gas structure (2DEG). A first mask structure is deposited having two openings, and a material removal process is performed to remove portions of the sensor material from areas exposed by the openings. The distance between the two openings in the first mask defines a distance between a set of leads and the shunt structure. A non-magnetic metal is then deposited. A second mask structure is then formed to define shape of the leads. |
| US08035920B2 |
Perpendicular magnetic recording head having coil portions above a main pole and provided with different cross-sectional shapes and method of manufacturing the same
A perpendicular magnetic recording head and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The perpendicular magnetic recording head that includes a main pole, a return yoke, and coils that surround upper and lower parts of the main pole in a solenoid shape so that the main pole generates a magnetic field for recording information onto a recording medium, wherein a portion of the coils that pass above the main pole comprises a plurality of first coils and at least one second coil having a cross-sectional shape different from that of the first coils, and the second coil is formed across upper regions of two first coils adjacent to each other among the first coils. |
| US08035919B2 |
Multi-channel thin-film magnetic head, magnetic tape drive apparatus with the multi-channel thin-film magnetic head and manufacturing method of multi-channel thin-film magnetic head
A multi-channel thin-film magnetic head includes a substrate, a plurality of thin-film magnetic head elements formed on the substrate, a closure fixed onto the plurality of thin-film magnetic head elements, a protection film laminated on a whole area of a TBS of the plurality of thin-film magnetic head elements and the closure, and many micro-grooves formed in a surface of the protection film. |
| US08035918B2 |
Spindle motor hub, disk pack, and hard disk drive having the same
A spindle motor includes a spindle motor hub that supports one or more disks, and has a contact area reduction portion that minimizes the area of contact between the hub and a disk when the disk is mounted to the hub. The spindle motor hub includes a hub body having a cylindrical sidewall that includes a contact section around which the disk extends and a non-contact section. The non-contact section is constituted by the contact area reduction portion. An outer diameter of the cylindrical hub body at the contact section is greater than an outer diameter of the cylindrical hub body at the contact area reduction portion of the non-contact section. |
| US08035917B2 |
Disk device having hub with engaging groove
A disk device is presented that includes a drive motor which has a rotatable hub fitted with a recording medium and rotates the recording medium, and a disk-shaped clamper attached to the hub to hold the recording medium. The clamper has a center aperture formed on a central axis of rotation of the drive motor and at least one positioning hole eccentric to the central axis of rotation. The clamper is fixed to the hub by a fixing screw driven into the hub through the center aperture. The hub has a support surface opposed to the clamper and an annular engaging groove formed in the support surface to be coaxial with the central axis of rotation and opposed to the positioning hole, the engaging groove being configured to be engaged with a fixing pin which is passed through the positioning hole. |
| US08035916B2 |
Hard disc drive counter-vibration system
One implementation of the present invention may take the form of a system for a hard disc drive counter-vibration device that may absorb rotational vibration or gyration of the hard disc drive module. This mounting device may incorporate at least one soft, plastic sphere and a pair of concave dished surfaces, configured to face each other and maintain the sphere between them. The sphere of the counter-vibration assembly may support the hard disc drive (HDD) while the weight of the HDD may align the dishes with each other and over the sphere. In this manner, the sphere may act as a spring and allow the HDD to vibrate or gyrate without transmitting the mechanical movement to the rest of the HDD assembly or electronic device. |
| US08035913B2 |
Parking ramp for hard disk drive
An HDD parking ramp is disclosed and includes a guide portion having an inclined surface adapted to receive a lift tab associated with an actuator mounting a read/write head during an unloading/parking operation, and a parking surface adapted to accommodate the lift tab at the completion of the unloading/parking operation, an installation support portion fixed in the HDD and adapted to support the guide portion, and a vertically adjustable driving device provided between the guide portion and the installation support portion and adapted to position the guide portion at a first vertical height relative to the installation support and a second vertical height greater than the first vertical height. |
| US08035912B2 |
System and method for controlling traveling of tape
A system and method for controlling the traveling of a tape is provided. The system and method include passing data in a buffer to a channel input/output unit for writing the data to a tape. A determining unit determines if second data is to be written to the tape without performing a backhitch after first data is written to the tape. The determination unit also determines a state of the system before writing the first data to the tape and compares an amount of second data written to the tape prior to writing first data to the tape with an amount of second data expected to be written to the tape to an area up to a position on the tape where writing the first data commenced, for determining if the second data is to be written to the tape without performing a backhitch. A speed adjusting unit adjusts the speed of the tape to prevent a backhitch due to the buffer running out of data when the determination unit determines that the second data is to be written to the tape without performing a backhitch. |
| US08035902B2 |
Optical unit for probe and optical unit producing method
A probe apparatus in combination with an endoscope includes a confocal laser probe for in-vivo imaging. The probe is insertable through a forceps channel of an endoscope, and has an optical unit. There is a lens barrel. Plural lens optics are mounted in the lens barrel. The plural lens optics include first lens optics disposed on an object side, and opposed to an object within a body. An optically inactive surface is formed with the first lens optics, and has at least one portion protruding from a barrel end surface of the lens barrel on the object side. Preferably, a height difference of protruding the optically inactive surface from the barrel end surface is 10-500 microns. The portion of the optically inactive surface protruding from the barrel end surface is coated with adhesive agent, for adhesion of the first lens optics thereto. |
| US08035898B2 |
Imaging optics designed by the simultaneous multiple surface method
One embodiment of a method of calculating an optical surface comprises calculating a meridional optical line of the surface. A ray is selected that passes a known point defining an end of a part of the optical line already calculated. The optical line is extrapolated from the known point to meet the ray using a polynomial with at least one degree of freedom. The polynomial is adjusted as necessary so that the selected ray is deflected at the extrapolated optical line to a desired target point. The polynomial is added to the optical line up to the point where the selected ray is deflected. The point where the selected ray is deflected is used as the known point in a repetition of those steps. |
| US08035897B2 |
Monolithic lenticular card
In one embodiment of the present invention, a process for making a lenticular card includes the steps of: (a) providing a transparent sheet having a first planar side and a second side having a lenticulated region; and (b) forming a printed image on the first planar side. The printed image is formed from a plurality of inks including a first set of ink layers and a second ink layer that is disposed on the first set of ink layers and is located a greater distance from the first planar side. The first set of ink layers are formed from a first family of inks, while the second ink layer is formed from a second family of inks that has a different cure process compared to the first family of inks. The outer ink layer is a solvent-based continuous white topcoat, while the first set of ink layers that underlie the second ink layer is defined by a plurality of UV curable inks. |
| US08035896B2 |
Dispersive element, diffraction grating, color display device, demultiplexer, and diffraction grating manufacture
In a transmission grating as a dispersive element, diffraction efficiency is enhanced and manufacturing costs are considerably reduced. A dispersive element includes resin members for forming a diffraction grating, being composed of a plurality of diffraction grating members having a cross-sectional shape respectively surrounded by two straight lines such as a triangular shape, and metal members as light-shielding members each being formed on corresponding one of the diffraction grating members at one side of the diffraction grating member along any of the straight line and the curved line of the cross-sectional shape of the diffraction grating member formed by the resin member. The metal members are configured to reduce zero-order transmitted light with respect to incident light, and to enhance diffraction efficiency of first-order transmitted light. |
| US08035894B2 |
Transparent screen, projection display device, and image display method
A Fresnel lens screen 20 is comprised of a light entering surface partial total reflection type Fresnel lens 24, a first light diffusing part 26 disposed behind the Fresnel lens, and a first base 25. An image display element 30 disposed behind the Fresnel lens screen 20 has a lens element 31, a second base 32, and a third base 35. Second light diffusing parts 33 are disposed behind the second base 32. Each of the second light diffusing parts 33 includes two types of particulates having different particle sizes which are distributed therein. |
| US08035891B2 |
Photonic bandgap fiber
A photonic bandgap fiber includes a core and a cladding that surrounds the core. In this photonic bandgap fiber, high refractive index portions which have a refractive index higher than that of a medium of the cladding are provided in the cladding so as to form a triangular lattice structure with a lattice constant Λ, and the refractive index of the core is higher than the refractive index of the medium of the cladding and lower than the refractive index of the high refractive index portion. The coupling length between the core and the high refractive index portion that is closest to the core is longer than the coupling length between adjacent high refractive index portions, or a periodic structure formed by the high refractive index portions is not provided around the entirely of the area along the circumference of the core. |
| US08035890B2 |
Phase stabilization device for stimulated brillouin scattering phase conjugate mirrors and light amplification apparatus using the same
The object of this invention is to provide a phase stabilization device for stimulated brillouin scattering-phase conjugate mirrors and a light amplification apparatus using the phase stabilization device. A light amplification apparatus of the present invention includes a polarizer (70) for polarizing light beams reflected from a plurality of stimulated brillouin scattering-phase conjugate mirrors and causing the light beams to interfere with each other. A detector (80) acquires an interfering beam resulting from interference of the polarizer (70), and outputs the interfering beam. A phase controller (90) controls phase using the interfering beam acquired by the detector. Therefore, the apparatus of the present invention can stably lock the phase for a long period of time, and can be used in various industries and for scientific research in cases where a high repetition rate and high power are required. |
| US08035888B2 |
Frequency shifter in an optical path containing a pulsed laser source
The present invention relates to a frequency shifter in an optical path containing a pulsed laser source, and it is characterized in that it comprises at least one frequency shifter (12, 13) containing an optical propagation medium, the optical path length of which is modified according to the desired frequency shift during at least one pulse among n consecutive pulses from the laser, where n≧1. |
| US08035881B2 |
Multi-zone mirrors
A multi-zone reflector having an opaque zone and a transflective zone. The reflector includes a supporting base, a lower reflecting layer disposed adjacent the supporting base, and an upper reflecting layer extending over the opacifying layer and the transflective zone of the reflector. The lower reflecting layer substantially completely covers the transflective zone, and the opacifying layer is disposed substantially outside the transflective zone adjacent to the lower reflecting layer. Over at least a portion of the transflective zone, the upper and lower reflecting layers have a common surface. |
| US08035880B2 |
Display device based on electrowetting effect
In a reflective a display device based on layer break up or layer displacement having at least two different states, in which one of the fluids (5) e.g. oil in a first state adjoins at least a first support plate (3) and in the second state the other fluid (6) at least partly adjoins the first support plate, in which picture elements are separated by areas (13) having a hydrophilic surface dyes (or sometimes pigments) are added to the oil (usually hydrocarbon but also possibly silicone or fluorocarbon), to provide sufficient optical intensity. |
| US08035875B2 |
Object detector
An object detector has a light projecting unit that projects light, a light scanning actuator that scans the light, and a light receiving unit. The light scanning actuator includes plate springs, each having a thin-plate shape and one end in a longitudinal direction thereof being fixed; a movable part attached to the other ends in the longitudinal directions of the plate springs; and an electromagnetic driving unit having a magnet that generates a magnetic flux, a yoke that forms a closed magnetic circuit with the magnet and has a part being stacked on the magnet, and a coil held by the movable part and positioned in a gap between the magnet and the yoke such that an aperture plane is substantially orthogonal to a stacking direction of the magnet and the yoke, the electromagnetic driving unit configured to drive the movable part by an electromagnetic force applied to the coil. |
| US08035866B2 |
Image reading device, copy apparatus, and image reading method
An image reading device of the present invention includes a reading means for reading a manuscript along a main-scanning direction as well as reading image information of the manuscript which relatively moves along a sub-scanning direction and a determination means for determining whether there is a specific image in the image information or not. The determination means makes determination by giving precedence to the center portion over end portions in the main-scanning direction in a reading range by the reading means. |
| US08035865B2 |
Original size detecting apparatus, original size detecting method, and program for original size detection
An original size detecting apparatus is capable of carrying out accurate original size detection without erroneous detection of the size of an original due to the influence of external scattered light. A CCD reads reflected light of light irradiated from a light source onto an original placed on an original platen glass. Optical sensors detect two open states of the original presser plate, and a scanner controller performs predetermined control corresponding to each of the open states of the original presser plate detected by the optical sensors, to determine the size of the original based on the result of the reading by the CCD. |
| US08035863B2 |
Multipass image scans for increased measurement resolution during calibration routines
Systems and methods are described that facilitate calibrating a print engine using calibration data sets generated at at least two different L* levels to provide additional calibration measurement resolution toward the darker end of the grayscale spectrum. For instance a first, light grey (e.g., 70-90L*) calibration strip is scanned at a first resolution (e.g., 70-90L*) to generate a first calibration data set, and a second darker grey (e.g., 30-50L*) calibration strip is scanned at high resolution (e.g., 100L*) to generate a second calibration data set. The first calibration data set is used to calibrate the print engine for high L* values (e.g., 50-100) and the second calibration data set is used to calibrate the print engine for low L* values (e.g., 0-50). Alternatively, a single calibration strip having a known L* value can be scanned once at the known L* value and again at a higher L* value (e.g., 100L*) to generate two calibration data sets, which are used to improve calibration resolution in the darker part of the spectrum. |
| US08035862B2 |
Fast method for fax encoded data conversion
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a fax decoding/re-encoding system for transferring fax images between a sending fax machine and a receiving fax machine includes a decoder responsive to an encoded fax image defined by rows of scan lines. The decoder decodes the scan lines of the encoded fax image and generates run-length representation of the encoded fax image. A scanline manipulation device is responsive to the run-length representation for manipulating the same and generating a manipulated fax image without generating a bitmap of the encoded fax image. The fax decoding/re-encoding system further including a re-encoder responsive to the manipulated fax image and adaptive to generate a re-encoded fax image that is substantially the same as the encoded fax image, wherein the fax decoding/re-encoding system avoids the need for a bitmap for generating a re-encoded fax image thereby substantially reducing re-encoding time. |
| US08035861B2 |
Method and system for obtaining parameter for simulation in invisible code printing support system
An image of a sample print printed to obtain parameters is picked up by using “a parameter obtaining device” that meets the standards of an instrument for the invention of “the electronic scrap system.” Then, the picked-up image is captured by a DTP system, and color data of a needed position are imported to a parameter DB. Thereby, parameters for simulation to be used in an invisible code printing support system can be easily inputted. Use of this method eliminates the necessity of figuring out parameters through experiments and the like, and of inputting these parameters as numerical values. In addition, since this method uses a physical medium and inks to be actually used, as they are, their optical characteristics, an influence of a blue component of invisible light emitted from an ultraviolet LED, and the like can be inputted all together as a picked-up image. Accordingly, it becomes possible to input parameters capable of accurately reproducing actual printed conditions, and thereby to produce printed materials providing high reading accuracy. |
| US08035860B2 |
Method for processing FM-AM mixed halftone images on a multi-bit depth imaging apparatus
Disclosed is a method for processing FM-AM mixed halftone images on a multi-bit depth imaging apparatus, which relates to a method for producing halftone dots in the field of image hard copying. In the prior art, since it is hard to avoid the impact of the error diffusion for the output apparatus to control the mixed dots with multi-bit imaging depth based on the error diffusion, the output of the mixed dots with multi-bit imaging depth cannot satisfy requirements of the apparatus. According to the method of the present invention, the dynamic algorithm for controlling the multi-bit mixed dots is used for screening based on the existing mixed screening process using dual-feedback error diffusion. Furthermore, multi-bit halftone images with high quality and rich gradations can be output by the multi-bit depth imaging apparatus. The method of the present invention can solve the phenomenon of sawtooth in the margins of the mixed dots output by the conventional single-bit apparatus and obtain the FM-AM mixed dots with the effect of high resolution and continuous gradations, which are output under low resolution. |
| US08035856B2 |
Image forming apparatus using a density pattern
An image forming apparatus for forming a tone image using a density pattern method has a ROM for storing a density pattern corresponding to each of a number of tones and an ideal density value of each density pattern, and a sensor for detecting the optical density of an image that has been formed by an image forming unit that forms the image by an electrophotographic method. An image is formed by the image forming unit based upon the density pattern corresponding to each tone, and the density pattern corresponding to each tone is modified based upon optical density, which has been obtained by detecting the density of the image by the sensor, and the ideal density value of each density pattern. |
| US08035854B2 |
Print data generating apparatus and computer usable medium therefor
A print data generating apparatus to generate print data which is used for printing in a printing apparatus based on image data by using a white colorant and at least one non-white colorant is provided. The print data generating apparatus comprises an image data inputting system, whereby white image data indicating white density levels of an image to be printed is inputted, a colorant data generating system, which generates white colorant data wherein color information of each of a plurality of pixels configuring the white image data is converted into the white colorant level, and a print data generating system, which generates white print data to be used for printing with the white colorant in the printing apparatus based on the white colorant data. |
| US08035852B2 |
Frame data producing apparatus, method and plotting apparatus
A micro-mirror unit of data from a plot point formation element unit data to a plot unit of frame data. A micro-mirror unit of data to be sequentially supplied to a plurality of micro-mirrors is produced from an image data corresponding to an image to be formed in a plot screen by use of DMDs each having the plurality of micro-mirrors. An intermediate data is then produced by extracting data change points of the produced micro-mirror unit of data. The data is inverted for each of the data change points in the produced intermediate data, thereby performing the transportation from the micro-mirror unit of data to the DMD unit of frame data. |
| US08035841B2 |
Print control apparatus and method, and print system
In this invention, a combined job obtained by combining a plurality of jobs is authenticated as a single job. According to the arrangement of this invention, when print jobs are to be spooled, these jobs are transferred from a dispatcher to a spooler where the jobs are combined. Upon reception of a print instruction, the print job is read out from a spool file, transferred from a despooler to a graphic engine again, and transferred from the dispatcher to a printer driver. At this time, the printer driver issues an authentication request in printing to a job accounting client. Thus, only one authentication request suffices for one combined job. |
| US08035840B2 |
Image forming apparatus with user authentication
An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion. |
| US08035837B2 |
Communications system with a network for transmitting image data to at least one illustrating device and communications system with a network for controlling and/or monitoring a printing machine having a number of sections
A communications system, with a network, is usable to transmit at least image data to at least one illuminating device. The illustrating device illustrates a printed image location in a printing machine. A network is provided for the control and/or monitoring of the printing machine. A network for the communication of data to be processed in a pre-printing stage is also provided in that pre-printing stage, which prepares that image data. These two networks are connected to the same signal line or transmission link or are each constructed identically, with respect to their data transmission properties. The communications system, with the network, can control or monitor a printing machine having a number of sections, with at least two of these sections having a section controlling device. These section controlling devices are connected to the network, and control or monitor their respective sections. The network has the same data transmission properties in each of these sections. |
| US08035836B2 |
Fast job halt in a high speed press
In a printing system and method, job data is distributed in segments to a plurality of downstream processors. The segments are processed in respective downstream processors to provide printable frames, which are stored in respective print queues that each supply one of a plurality of printheads. Printing is initiated. Prior to completion of the printing, a job halt request is received. Disable commands are transmitted to the downstream processors responsive to the job halt request. Acknowledgements of respective disable commands are sent from the downstream processors. The downstream processors are grouped following the sending of respective acknowledgements. The print queues are emptied using the grouped, multi-tasking downstream processors. |
| US08035832B2 |
Recording system and controlling method therefor
A printing system in which a DSC and a PD printer are directly connected to each other via a general interface, image data is transmitted from the DSC to the PD printer, and the data is printed, wherein the number of offset bytes and a data amount of the image data are designated from a print controller to a storage controller to specify partial image data, the storage controller reads the partial image data from the storage device of the DSC based on the specification, the partial image data is supplied to a print controller of the PD printer, and printing is performed. |
| US08035828B2 |
Apparatus, method, and program product using same window for designating print settings for entire print job and specific pages
An information processing apparatus which creates print data includes a common setting unit which accepts change of a print setting to the entire print data via a print setting window for making a print setting, and stores the print setting, a display control unit which, when change of a print setting is designated, displays a page designation window for designating page information to which the change of the print setting accepted via the print setting window is applied, and a specific page setting unit which generates exceptional page setting information based on a combination of the page information designated via the page designation window and the print setting accepted via the print setting window. The print setting window accepts, within the same window, change of a print setting to the entire print data and change of a print setting to specific page information. |
| US08035817B2 |
Method for estimating reflectance
A reflectance of a color shifted painting color is also measured conveniently.A first reflectance R(αa) of a first reflected light Va inside an incident plane A is measured, and a first locus l of termini of first bisection vectors Ha(|Ha|=|R(αa)|), which displaces two-dimensionally inside the incident plane A, is determined. A second reflectance R(αb) of a second reflected light Vb outside the incident plane A is measured, and a second locus m of termini of second bisection vectors Hb (|Hb|=|R(αb)|), which displaces three-dimensionally outside the incident plane A, is measured. A locus n (x, y, zi) of a terminus of a bisection vector Hi on a plane z=z that is parallel to a plane under measurement is approximately modeled with a numerical equation showing an ellipse from the first locus l and the second locus m, thereby determining an approximation model equation, and an overall locus n′ (x, y, z) of the overall termini of bisection vectors H′ of reflected lights V′ other than the first reflected light Va and the second reflected light Vb is approximately determined. |
| US08035815B2 |
Optical detection method and optical detection apparatus for a fine particle
Disclosed herein is an optical detection method and optical detection apparatus, the apparatus including: a light irradiation section configured to irradiate a laser beam upon one of fine particles which are successively fed in a flow path; and a light detection section configured to detect fluorescent light and/or scattered light generated from any of the fine particles upon which the laser beam is irradiated; the method including the steps of: irradiating a laser beam upon one of fine particles which are successively fed in a flow path; and detecting fluorescent light and/or scattered light generated from the fine particle; wherein the laser beam being formed as a pulse laser beam whose pulse intensity is modulated such that one laser beam or two or more laser beams having different wavelengths are irradiated by a plural number of times upon one fine particle with the intensity varied. |
| US08035812B2 |
System and method for measuring display quality with a hyperspectral imager
A system and method for measuring display quality by using a hyperspectral imager are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a hyperspectral imager configured to determine an intensity of light for a plurality of locations in a first area on a display for a plurality of spectral channels, and a processor configured to determine a measure of display quality based on the determined intensities. |
| US08035807B2 |
Engraved gemstone viewer
The present invention is an engraved gemstone viewer for viewing a smooth surface of a gemstone that has been micro or nano etched, engraved or embossed with an inscription such as an identification number. The gemstone is mounted on a piece of jewelry or can remain unmounted when received by the viewer. A source of light directs a light beam toward a magnifying lens coated with a reflection enhancing coating. The lens reflects the light beam along a path incident to the surface of the gemstone containing the inscription. The smooth gemstone surface specularly reflects the light beam along a path back toward the magnifying lens, which produces a viewable light image that reveals the inscription. The inscription is shown as a combination of darkened or lightened areas, lines and characters given the reduction or absence of light reflected, or highlighted by the reflection of light. |
| US08035805B2 |
Driving apparatus and exposure apparatus, and device fabrication method
A guide includes a brittle material layer and a magnetically attracting magnetic body, e.g., a metal layer. A recess and a projection are formed on the metal layer. The brittle material layer is made of, e.g., a sprayed ceramic material and covers the recess formed on the magnetically attracting metal layer. A movable body moves as it levitates above the surface of the brittle material layer. |
| US08035803B2 |
Subsystem of an illumination system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus
In general, in one aspect, the disclosure features an illumination system for a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus configured so that during operation the illumination system illuminates a reticle plane of the microlithographic projection exposure apparatus with light of a desired polarization distribution. The illumination system includes a first polarization-influencing optical element and a second polarization-influencing optical element. During operation the first polarization-influencing optical element converts a first polarization distribution produced by a light source unit into a second polarization distribution which is different from the first polarization distribution. The second polarization-influencing optical element converts the second polarization distribution into a third polarization distribution corresponding to the desired polarization distribution, the second polarization-influencing optical element causing an effective rotation of the preferred polarization direction through 90° over its optically effective surface. |
| US08035799B2 |
Exposure apparatus, exposure method, and device producing method
An exposure apparatus is provided with a measuring unit which measures at least one of property and components of a liquid in a state that a liquid immersion area is formed on an object different from a substrate P to be exposed. There is provided an exposure apparatus which can accurately perform exposure process and measurement process through the liquid by judging the state of the liquid in advance and by performing a procedure as appropriate. |
| US08035798B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and device manufacturing method
A lithographic apparatus is provided that has a sensor at substrate level, the sensor including a radiation receiver, a transmissive plate supporting the radiation receiver, and a radiation detector, wherein the sensor is arranged to avoid loss of radiation between the radiation receiver and a final element of the radiation detector. |
| US08035795B2 |
Apparatus and method for maintaining immersion fluid in the gap under the protection lens during wafer exchange in an immersion lithography machine
An apparatus and method maintain immersion fluid in the gap adjacent to the projection lens during the exchange of a work piece in a lithography machine. The apparatus and method include an optical assembly that projects an image onto a work piece and a stage assembly including a work piece table that supports the work piece adjacent to the optical assembly. An environmental system is provided to supply and remove an immersion fluid from the gap between the optical assembly and the work piece on the stage assembly. After exposure of the work piece is complete, an exchange system removes the work piece and replaces it with a second work piece. An immersion fluid containment system maintains the immersion liquid in the gap during removal of the first work piece and replacement with the second work piece. |
| US08035794B2 |
Double-layer liquid crystal lens
A double-layer liquid crystal lens comprises a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate, a third transparent substrate, a first liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and the second transparent substrates, and a second liquid crystal layer interposed between the second and the third transparent substrates. The upper side of the first transparent substrate is provided with a transparent ITO electrode and an alignment film disposed on the transparent electrode. Each of the upper and the lower sides of the second transparent substrate is provided with a alignment film. The upper side of the third transparent substrate is provided with an apertured electrode while the lower side thereof is provided with an alignment film. The first and the third transparent substrates are made of glass while the second transparent substrate is made of plastic material. The total thickness of the double-layer liquid crystal lens is further reduced by forming the second transparent substrate with a thinner plastic transparent substrate. |
| US08035793B2 |
Method of fabricating a liquid crystal display comprising apparatus for dispensing sealant material
Provided is an apparatus for dispensing sealant material including: a disposable syringe in which sealant material is filled; a nozzle member installed at a bottom portion of the syringe, for dispensing the sealant material over a substrate; and a gas supply unit for supplying gas into the syringe to apply pressure to the sealant material in a syringe main body, and dispensing the sealant material. |
| US08035792B2 |
Liquid crystal display device having spacers with different coefficients of elasticity per unit area gradually decreasing along the length of the display panel
One embodiment, among others, of an LCD panel includes an array substrate, a CF substrate facing the array substrate and offset by a cell gap from the array substrate, a plurality of spacers positioned on the array substrate or the CF substrate for maintaining the cell gap and supporting the array substrate and the CF substrate, and liquid crystal molecules sealed between the array substrate and the CF substrate. The spacers have different coefficients of elasticity per unit area. Other embodiments are included. |
| US08035788B2 |
Liquid crystal display device having image-displaying and viewing angle-adjusting sub pixels with first and second field distortion means respectively
A liquid crystal display device includes: first and second substrates facing and spaced apart from each other, each of the first and second substrates having an image-displaying sub pixel and a viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel; a thin film transistor corresponding to each of the image-displaying sub pixel and the viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel; a liquid crystal display layer between the first and second substrates, the liquid crystal layer having a negative dielectric constant anisotropy; a first field distortion means in the image-displaying sub pixel; and a second field distortion means in the viewing angle-adjusting sub pixel. |
| US08035786B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display includes a pair of transparent substrates opposed to each other with liquid crystal therebetween, and one of the substrates has a plurality of drain signal lines, gate signal lines, and pixel regions defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. The pixel regions include a TFT element, a first electrode formed of a transparent electrode, a second electrode formed of a transparent electrode. The second electrode is disposed between the first electrode and the one of the substrates, the second electrode is overlapped with the first electrode in the pixel region, is overlapped with the gate signal line, and is connected with the second electrode of an adjacent pixel region. A metal line is arranged for a plurality of the pixel regions, is overlapped with the second electrode, and is connected to the second electrode electrically. |
| US08035783B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and electronic apparatus
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal layer interposed between first and second substrates, a first electrode, and a second electrode having a plurality of linear portions. A reflective display portion and a transmissive display portion are included in one pixel. The thickness of the liquid crystal layer in the reflective display portion is smaller than that of the liquid crystal layer in the transmissive display portion. First and second polarizers having transmission axes approximately perpendicular to each other are provided on outer sides of the first and second substrates. The transmission axis of one of the first and second polarizers is set approximately in parallel to a liquid crystal orientation direction. The plurality of linear portions of the second electrode have predetermined electrode widths and a predetermined electrode distance therebetween. |
| US08035777B2 |
Optical filter
The present invention provides an optical filter comprising a crystalline polymer having a spherulite structure, particularly an optical filter comprising porous particles formed of a crystalline polymer in which single particles per se have a spherulite structure. This optical filter can convert linear polarized light to nonpolarized light close to natural light with high efficiency. |
| US08035775B2 |
Polarization control system and display device
A polarization control system which includes an E-type polarizer and therefore can provide excellent dark state at a wide azimuth and viewing angle. Further, the polarization control system includes a viewing angle control element for controlling a traveling direction of light which has passed through the E-type polarizer and therefore can provide excellent bright state at a wide azimuth and viewing angle. Further a display device is disclosed including such a polarization control system. The polarization control system is a polarization control system including a plurality of polarizers, wherein the polarization control system includes an E-type polarizer and a viewing angle control element, and the viewing angle control element controls a traveling direction of light which has passed through the E-type polarizer. |
| US08035770B2 |
Electronic device and liquid crystal display thereof having a frame with one elastic positioning element
A liquid crystal display includes a panel, a frame, a bottom cover, and a top cover. The panel has at least one protrusion. The frame has at least one elastic positioning element abutting against the protrusion. The bottom cover accommodates the frame and the panel. The top cover covers the bottom cover. |
| US08035766B2 |
Method of forming array substrate for LCD
An array substrate device having a color filter-on thin film transistor (COT) structure for a liquid crystal display device includes a gate line formed on a substrate along a transverse direction, the gate line including a gate pad at one end thereof, a first insulating layer formed on the substrate to cover the gate line, the first insulating layer exposing a first portion of the gate pad, a data line formed over the first insulating layer along a longitudinal direction on the substrate, the data line defining a pixel region with the gate line and including a data pad at one end thereof, a thin film transistor formed at a crossing region of the gate and data lines, the thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a black matrix overlapping the thin film transistor, the gate line, and the data line except a second portion of the drain electrode, a second insulating layer formed over an entire surface of the substrate to cover the black matrix, the second insulating layer exposing the first portion of the gate pad, a third portion of the data pad, and the pixel region, a first pixel electrode within the pixel region and contacting the second exposed portion of the drain electrode, a color filter on the first pixel electrode within the pixel region, and a second pixel electrode on the color filter and contacting the first pixel electrode. |
| US08035763B2 |
Electrically-driven liquid crystal lens and stereoscopic display device using the same, and method for manufacturing thereof
An electrically-driven liquid crystal lens, which can achieve not only a gentle parabolic lens plane when being realized via alignment of liquid crystals based on a changed electrode configuration, but also a reduced cell gap of a liquid crystal layer and a stable profile even in a large-area display device, and a stereoscopic display device using the same are disclosed. |
| US08035761B2 |
Shading device for welding helmet
Disclosed is a shading device for a welding helmet in which a circuit portion (the second frame) having a high error rate and the remaining portion can be separated from each other and only the circuit portion separated from the device can be repaired or changed, thereby the maintenance and repair are harmoniously. The shading device for a welding helmet comprising a first frame comprises a first body having a LCD module with contacting portions formed at both sides of a LCD window and a first joint portion formed at one end portion of the first body, a second frame comprising a second body 32 having a power supplying portion and a second joint portion attachable and deattachable to the first joint portion of the first frame at one end portion thereof, a pair of electrodes having one side thereof electrically contacted with the contacting portions respectively, and an electrically conductive means for electrically connecting the power supplying portion with the corresponded electrodes. |
| US08035759B2 |
Polarization conversion device, polarized illumination optical device, and liquid crystal projector
Polarizing split layers 26 and reflection layers 27 are provided on bonding surfaces between prism rods 24a and 24b. Polarization conversion devices 25 are bonded to an emission surface from which linearly polarized light being reflected by the polarizing split layers 26 and reflected by the reflection layer 27 are emitted. The polarization conversion devices 25 are formed by bonding plural prism rods 30 with side surfaces being inclined by 45° with respect to an incidence surface. Retardation films formed of dielectric multilayers are provided between the bonding surfaces to give a phase difference of a ½wavelength to transmitted light. The retardation films and bonding borderlines 31 are inclined by 45° within a plane perpendicular to an optical axis of linearly polarized light so that an optical axis of the retardation film has an angle of 45° with respect to a polarization direction of the linearly polarized light. |
| US08035757B2 |
Anti-slip mounting alignment system
The system of the invention involves an anti-slip alignment plate used with a mounting bracket for mounting a device, such as a flat video screen having video mounting holes. The anti-slip plate is aligned with protrusions, or other means, with a plurality engagement members on the bracket which receives the protrusions. Once the plate and bracket have mated in a particular position, a fastener can secure the plate, bracket and device together. The result is that the fastener need not be torqued so tightly because slippage is prevented by the engagement points on the anti-slip plate. Furthermore, the number of position available for the anti-slip plate to secure the device is often substantially greater than would be achieve if the bracket merely had series of adjacent mounting holes. |
| US08035753B2 |
Apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal and a data structure thereof
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal including generating display control information for a plurality of broadcast objects to be displayed on a receiving terminal, and transmitting the broadcasting signal including both the plurality of broadcast objects and the display control information to the receiving terminal. Further, the display control information includes instructions on how the receiving terminal is to display the plurality of images. |
| US08035752B2 |
Event production kit
According to various embodiments, an event production kit is provided that includes storage cases for storing production equipment, such as cameras, monitors, and microphones, and an electronic production equipment case for storing an audio mixer, a video switcher, and computers for encoding and distributing the production. In addition, in one embodiment, the electronic production equipment case includes a vertical panel that includes a plurality of ports that are pre-wired to the audio mixer, video switcher, and the computers for coupling the production equipment together. The storage cases and the pre-wired panel facilitate transporting the kit to the event location and reduce the amount of time and resources required for setting up the equipment prior to the event, according to various embodiments. In addition, the selection of the type of equipment included in the kit, according to one embodiment, provides for a high quality, lower cost production than is currently available. |
| US08035749B2 |
Gamma-correction circuit for graphic signals
The present invention provides a gamma-correction circuit, which is capable to decrease the noise in graphic signal or make the noise not clearly sensible while carrying out gamma-correction on the graphic signals. In the circuit, a high-pass filter is used to decrease the noise in a graphic signal, a gamma-correction section is used for carrying out gamma-correction on the noise suppressed graphic signal, meanwhile a threshold handling section is used for threshold treatment on the high frequency component of the graphic signal to decrease noise, and then the output of the threshold handling section is combined with the gamma-corrected graphic signal through an adder. |
| US08035747B2 |
Image digital processing based on edit status
In a method for producing output from an image record, the type of input unit supplying the image record is determined. The image record is classified into one of a predetermined plurality of different edit statuses. The classifying utilizes as input the determined type of input unit. The edit statuses are inclusive of unedited status and very-edited status. The image record is digitally enhanced. During the enhancing material alteration of the image record is constrained. The enhancing is more constrained when the edit status is very-edited and less when the edit status is other than very-edited. The image record is rendered to match a predetermined output unit. The resulting image record is output in viewable form. |
| US08035744B2 |
Television receiver and method of receiving television broadcasting
A television receiver includes: an audio processor configured to extract a demonstrative pronoun from an input voice; an image processor configured to cut out an object from an input image; and a comparison-translation module configured to associate the demonstrative pronoun with the object based on a positional relationship indicated by the demonstrative pronoun. |
| US08035742B2 |
Digital broadcast receiver and method for processing caption thereof
A digital cable broadcast receiver and a method for automatically processing caption data of various standards and types, is disclosed. The digital broadcast receiver includes: a demultiplexer for dividing a received broadcast stream into video data, audio data, supplementary information; a controller for determining whether caption data included in the video data is digital caption data or analog caption data on the basis of caption information included in the supplementary information, and outputting a control signal according to a result of the determining; a digital caption decoder for extracting and decoding digital caption data from the video data according to the control signal; and an analog caption decoder for extracting and decoding analog caption data from the video data according to the control signal. |
| US08035741B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting vertical blanking interval signals
An apparatus for detecting vertical blanking interval (VBI) signals and an associated detecting method are disclosed. The apparatus can reduce the probability of false alarm by dynamically adjusting the range of a detection window within the VBI interval, thereby enhancing the detection accuracy. The apparatus includes a detection unit and a window-adjusting unit. The detection unit detects whether a television signal contains a clock run-in signal within the detection window to generate a detection signal. The window-adjusting unit dynamically adjusts the range of the detection window according to the detection signal. |
| US08035740B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method
An image processing apparatus for deinterlacing and vertical scaling a plurality of initial scan lines includes a control unit, a deinterlacer, a vertical scaler and a buffer. The control unit controls the deinterlacer and the vertical scaler to store parts of the processed scan lines thereof into the buffer according to a scaling ratio factor and a vertical scaling algorithm. |
| US08035738B2 |
Apparatus and method of controlling black stretch
An apparatus for controlling black stretch includes a black stretching unit, an offset adjusting unit and an output unit. The black stretching unit performs black stretch processing on a video signal less than or equal to the maximum value of a black stretch control range in response to a slope of black stretch. The slope of black stretch corresponds to a region between a minimum value and a maximum value of the black stretch control range. The offset adjusting unit adjusts an offset of the black-stretched video signal. The output unit outputs an output video signal corresponding to the offset-adjusted video signal when the offset-adjusted video signal has a positive value in a region less than or equal to the minimum value, and outputs the output video signal corresponding to 0 when the offset-adjusted video signal has a negative value in the region less than or equal to the minimum value. |
| US08035736B2 |
Grip device and image photographing apparatus having the same
A grip device and an image photographing apparatus are provided in which a user can photograph an object at any intended angle by freely changing a position of his or her hand while holding the image photographing apparatus. The image photographing apparatus includes a main body including a lens unit to photograph an object, and a button unit to input a plurality of manipulation signals, and a grip device rotatably mounted on one side of the main body. The grip device includes a rotation unit including a grip unit and a connection unit to connect the rotation unit to the main body so that the rotation unit is rotatable about the main body. |
| US08035733B2 |
Lens barrel rotation detection apparatus and lens barrel rotation type image pickup apparatus
A lens barrel rotation detection apparatus for detecting a rotational state of a lens barrel to which a lens for image pickup is attached and which is rotated in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction by driving force of a driving section, includes: a single rotatable member rotatable together with rotation of the lens barrel; and three rotation detection section for detecting a rotational state of the rotatable member. The rotatable member has a fixed pattern formed thereon so as to be detected by said rotation detection section and a rotation limit section indicative of limit positions of a range of rotation of the lens barrel. The rotation detection section is disposed for detection of presence or absence of rotation of the rotatable member and the limit positions of the range of rotation. |
| US08035731B2 |
Camera with monitor
A monitor with a large screen is provided at the back of the camera. In the recording mode, a preview image or a captured image is displayed in a part of the monitor where there is little possibility of being covered by the hand of the operator. In the reproducing mode, a reproduced image is displayed on substantially the entire screen of the monitor. A touch panel is provided over the monitor, and operation buttons such as a zoom operation button and an exposure correcting button are displayed on a part of the monitor where no image is displayed in the recording mode. Therefore, the part of the monitor can also be used as a camera operational part. |
| US08035729B2 |
Imaging apparatus and program thereof
In a digital camera 1, in an automatic shooting stand-by state, when judged at Step S26 that an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied (N at Step S26), whether or not to issue an AE re-processing command is judged. In other words, whether or not the current shooting condition is similar to a condition where an automatic shooting condition is satisfied is judged. When judged to issue the AE re-processing command, exposure tracking in an aperture-priority mode is performed (S28), and shooting exposure conditions excluding the aperture value for still-image shooting in the aperture-priority mode are determined. Then, the storage is updated (Step 29), and the process returns to Step S26. When judged at Step S26 that an automatic shooting condition has been satisfied (Y at Step S26), record processing for still-image shooting is performed with the updated shooting exposure conditions without changing the aperture value (Step S30). |
| US08035728B2 |
Method and apparatus providing rule-based auto exposure technique preserving scene dynamic range
A method and apparatus for applying exposure compensation to an image. Exposure correction limits inclusion of, but does not ignore, image highlights and lowlights. |
| US08035721B2 |
Imaging apparatus
An imaging apparatus has an image sensor that captures the optical image of an object formed by an imaging optical system and converts the optical image into the electrical still image signal, a signal processor for dividing a representation of the image signal into a plurality of areas, and for determining a color characteristic for each area of the plurality of areas, the color characteristic consisting of a hue and/or chroma saturation, a selector for selecting at least one area of the plurality of area for which its respective color characteristic substantially corresponds to a preset color characteristic, and a focus controller for determining focus parameters of the imaging apparatus for the selected area and generating a focus control signal for adjusting the image optical system based on the focus parameters. |
| US08035714B2 |
Solid-state imaging device, method of manufacturing the same, and camera
Disclosed is a solid-state imaging device includes for each pixel a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge accumulating portion, and a potential barrier provided between the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge accumulating portion, in a thickness direction of a substrate. When light is received, a first charge derived from one of electron-hole pairs generated by photoelectric conversion is accumulated in the photoelectric conversion unit as signal charge, and the potential barrier is modulated by a second charge derived from the other of the electron-hole pairs so that the first charge that has accumulated in the charge accumulating portion is supplied to the photoelectric conversion unit. |
| US08035713B2 |
Driving circuit, driving method, solid imaging device, and electronic apparatus
When a middle voltage within a withstanding voltage of a transistor from a first voltage VL as a low voltage of a source voltage and a second voltage VH as a high voltage of the source voltage is represented by VM and a third voltage within the withstanding voltage of a transistor from the second voltage VH or the first voltage VL is represented by VS or VD, a driving circuit includes: a first transistor whose source electrode is connected to a node of the middle voltage VM; a second transistor whose source electrode is connected to the drain electrode of the first transistor and whose drain electrode is connected to an output terminal; and a controller applying a signal having an amplitude of a difference between the voltages VL and VH to the gate electrode of the first transistor and applying a signal having an amplitude of a difference between the voltages VS and VH or between the voltages VL and VD to the gate electrode of the second transistor. |
| US08035711B2 |
Sub-pixel array optical sensor
Improving the dynamic range of captured images is disclosed by using sub-pixel arrays to capture light at different exposures and generate color pixel outputs for an image in a single frame. Each sub-pixel array can include multiple sub-pixels. The sub-pixels that make up a sub-pixel array can include red (R) sub-pixels, green (G) sub-pixels, blue (B) sub-pixels, and in some embodiments, clear sub-pixels. Those sub-pixel arrays having clear sub-pixels effectively have a higher exposure level and can capture low-light scenes (for dark areas) better than those sub-pixel arrays without clear sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel array can produce a color pixel output that is a combination of the outputs of the sub-pixels in the sub-pixel array. Each sub-pixel in a sub-pixel array can have the same exposure time, or in some embodiments, individual sub-pixels within a sub-pixel array can have different exposure times to improve the overall dynamic range even more. |
| US08035708B2 |
Solid-state imaging device with an organic photoelectric conversion film and imaging apparatus
There is provided a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of pixels that are provided on a semiconductor substrate, and that include a plurality of photoelectric-conversion units and metal oxide semiconductor transistors that selectively read signals from the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units, an organic-photoelectric-conversion film disposed on the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units, and an organic-color-filter layer disposed on the plurality of photoelectric-conversion units. Only a signal corresponding to a first color is extracted through the organic-photoelectric-conversion film. Signals corresponding to a plurality of colors not including the first color are extracted by absorption spectroscopy using the organic-color-filter layer. |
| US08035705B2 |
Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program product
An image processing system including: a CCD which outputs an image signal; an edge extraction unit which extracts an edge signal from the image signal; a false edge estimation unit which estimates an edge signal that arises due to noise components based upon the image signal; an edge correction unit which corrects the edge signal by performing coring processing based upon the edge signal that arises due to noise components; and an edge enhancement unit which performs enhancement processing on the image signal based upon the edge signal thus corrected. |
| US08035704B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing a digital image having defective pixels
A method and apparatus for image processing which performs pixel defect correction and color demosaicing on pixel image data while held in a line buffer. |
| US08035703B2 |
Device and method for measuring noise characteristics
A noise characteristics measurement device that facilitates the measurement of noise characteristics in an imaging sensor. The noise characteristics measurement device has a classification circuit including a plurality of pixel value regions obtained by dividing a numerical range that can be taken by pixel values of the imaging sensor in accordance with the level of a pixel value. The classification circuit classifies pixel values of the imaging sensor into the plurality of pixel value regions. A calculation circuit calculates a value representing a dispersion degree of the pixel values classified into each pixel value region. |
| US08035696B2 |
Solid-state imaging apparatus and imaging apparatus
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes comparing means for comparing a pixel signal obtained by a pixel section and a reference signal the value of which varies in a stepwise manner, analog-digital converting means for outputting, as a digital value, the amount of time when the pixel signal and the reference signal change levels by the comparing means, reset signal generating means for generating a reset signal that triggers a reset operation to be input to the comparing means in order to adjust the reference in the analog-digital converting means, and waveform processing means provided between the reset signal generating means and the comparing means for increasing the degree of dullness of a waveform of the reset signal. |
| US08035692B2 |
Image taking apparatus which forms an image of a subject on an imaging device to create image data representative of the subject
There is provided an image taking apparatus capable of preferably correcting both the camera shake and the subject shake in the still picture photography. The image taking apparatus has a system control section that determines whether a subject is a still subject or a dynamic subject. When the system control section determines that the subject is the still subject, the system control section instructs a timing generation section to cause an imaging section to generate a series of images, so that an image piling up section performs piling up of images in accordance with a computed result with a movement vector computing section. Thus, the camera shake is corrected. When the system control section determines that the subject is the dynamic subject, the system control section instructs the timing generation section to perform a single photography at a predetermined shutter time free from the subject shake. |
| US08035691B2 |
Method and apparatus for compensating for movement of a video surveillance camera
A method of compensating for the movement of a video surveillance camera comprising the steps of moving an interlaced camera, capturing a first video field of a frame at a first point in time, capturing a second video field of a frame at a second point in time, determining the speed at which the camera is moving, and shifting the relationship between the first and second video fields based on the period of time between the first point in time and the second point in time and the speed at which the camera is moving. |
| US08035690B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating motion due to hand trembling and image pickup device using the same
A motion estimation apparatus and method for estimating a global motion vector of an image due to hand trembling by using zoom information and focus information are provided. The motion estimation method includes: dividing a photographed image into a plurality of image blocks; determining a weight value for a motion vector of each of a plurality of image blocks based on focus information and zoom magnification information; predicting a motion vector for each image block; and estimating a global motion by applying the weight value determined for the motion vector for each image block to the predicted motion vector. |
| US08035688B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for jointly calibrating color digital cameras and monitors
A computer program product and method for calibrating and characterizing a color display perform calibrating and characterizing steps. A light source is operated in order to emit light from one or more light emitters on the light source. A color capture device, e.g., a digital camera, is calibrated and characterized based on the emitted light. Then, color images are displayed on the color display and captured on the color capture device. The color display is calibrated and characterized based on the captured color images. Computer program instructions are recorded on the computer readable medium, and are executable by a processor, for performing the calibrating and characterizing steps. A method for generating a controlled light source includes displaying light source selections to a user and receiving a user light source selection. Selected light emitters produce a light output matching the user light source selection. |
| US08035686B2 |
STB/DVR video surveillance
There are provided a method, a system and machine-readable medium for managing surveillance video at a broadcast video terminal device. The method comprises detecting a security event associated with at least one surveillance video camera communicatively coupled to the broadcast video terminal device and requesting insertion of a surveillance entry associated with storage of a surveillance video of each of the at least one surveillance video camera into an electronic program guide that includes at least one broadcast entry. There is also provided a method, system and machine-readable medium for managing surveillance video entries and a method, system and machine-readable medium for playing a surveillance video. |
| US08035684B2 |
Image-signal generating apparatus
An image-signal generating apparatus comprises a solid-state image pickup device-equivalent load circuit unit including a load approximately equivalent to a solid-state image pickup device such as a charge coupled device, etc. The image-signal generating apparatus further comprises an image-signal generating circuit for generating an image signal corresponding to an output signal output from the solid-state image pickup device through the solid-state image pickup device-equivalent load circuit unit, which is a load to which a driving signal for driving the solid-state image pickup device is applied. |
| US08035681B2 |
Panoramic imaging device
A panoramic imaging device comprises: a photodetector array; a lens array having, on one plane, a center lens for receiving light in a front range of 36° to form a central unit image on the photodetector array, and left and right side lenses for receiving lights in left and right ranges each of 72° in capture angle of 180°; and four prisms in two pairs placed facing the side lenses. The two pairs of left and right prisms (more inclined and less inclined pairs) collect lights in divided two pairs of left and right ranges each of 36° in the 72° range (pairs closer to, and farther from, the front range), respectively, to form four side unit images on the photodetector array which are combined with the central unit image to reproduce a panoramic image without using wide-angle lenses or complex image correction process. |
| US08035680B2 |
Panoramic viewing system especially in combat vehicles
Digital data acquired from individual cameras and images converted to digitized images are projected onto virtual 3D screens, which can be generated by a computer. This can be realized by way of 3D-accelerated hardware. The images are not, however, projected in 3D. The virtual 3D scenario with the current camera images is projected and presented to the users in 2D. This process makes it possible to use simple cameras (2n) with single lenses. There is no need to use cameras with zoom technology. |
| US08035679B2 |
Method for creating a videoconferencing displayed image
The present disclosure provides methods and systems of multipoint videoconferencing wherein layout description information is used to create videoconferencing displayed images of a composite video of one or more video images and one or more accessory elements. The layout description information is responsive to events in the videoconferencing session. Synchronization between the images of the composite video and the one or more accessory elements is done by using synchronization information that reflects the event. |
| US08035675B2 |
Aligning beams over successive reflections by facets of rotating polygonal mirror
First delay mechanisms to delay a beam-detect signal by different lengths of time in synchronization with a first clock signal. The beam-detect signal is generated responsive to one or more beams being output towards a rotating polygonal mirror having facets and directed towards a sensor. One or more second delay mechanisms each correspond to one of the beams to delay a second clock signal, resulting in a beam-clock signal to align the beam over successive reflections by the facets. A mechanism determines a delay by which each second delay mechanism is to delay the second clock signal, based on the beam-detect signal as differently delayed by the first delay mechanisms. |
| US08035673B2 |
System and method for film watermarking
A system and method for watermarking a film includes a light source array including one or more light sources having light directed toward a film to be watermarked. A control mechanism is configured to synchronize a position of the film with the light sources such that the light sources are activated to record a watermark on the film to identify an aspect of the film, wherein the watermark includes a plurality of spots aligned transversely to a direction of film motion during printing of the film. |
| US08035669B2 |
Image forming apparatus and shutter control method
According to an aspect of the invention, a control method for an exposure shutter of an image forming apparatus includes, opening the shutter only to a slit glass for monochrome when monochrome printing is performed, and opening the shutter to slit glasses for monochrome and color when color printing is performed. |
| US08035668B2 |
Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method
An exposure apparatus which forms a pattern on an object. The apparatus includes an exposure head structure in which a plurality of elemental exposure units are arrayed, each elemental exposure unit including (i) at least one light source for emitting exposure light and (ii) an optical element which forms an image of the at least one light source on the object, for exposing the object. Positions of the images of the at least one light source in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the object include plural positions different from each other. A sensor detects a position of the surface of the object and produces a detection result. A controller receives the detection result and controls the exposure head structure such that a pattern is formed on the object by the exposure is selected to expose the object based on the detection result by the sensor. |
| US08035667B2 |
Image forming method, image forming apparatus and toner image pattern
An image forming method exposes image bearing members by simultaneously reflecting light beams from light sources, corresponding to different colors, by different reflection surfaces of a polygon mirror which has reflection surfaces and is rotated in one direction, transforms electrostatic latent images formed on each of the image bearing members into toner images for correction, transfers the toner images on each of the image bearing members in an overlapping manner onto a transfer body that is transported in a transport direction, and calibrates overlapping positions of the toner images based on an optical detection of the toner images on the transfer body. The toner images are arranged at positions on the transfer body such that the toner images of different colors have no overlap therebetween even if the toner images shift in a direction perpendicular to the transport direction due to a color registration error. |
| US08035666B2 |
Dynamic backlight adaptation for black bars with subtitles
Embodiments of a system that includes one or more integrated circuits are described. During operation, the system receives a video image, that when displayed, includes a picture portion, a non-picture portion, and a subtitle which is superimposed on at least a subset of the non-picture portion, where the non-picture portion has an initial brightness value. Then, the system scales the brightness of pixels corresponding to a remainder of the non-picture portion of the video image to have a new brightness value that is greater than the initial brightness value to reduce user-perceived changes in the video image associated with backlighting of a display that displays the video image, where the remainder of the non-picture portion excludes the subset of the non-picture portion. |
| US08035663B2 |
Image display device
With the use of pixel control parts for controlling display elements in response to display data using a display-use voltage source and display control parts for supplying the display data to the pixel control parts, the display data is displayed on a display part. Further, the display data is corrected by detecting states of the display elements. A voltage of the display-use voltage source is preliminarily set to a fixed higher voltage, and a gray scale of the display data is elevated in response to a degradation state of the display element. Accordingly, it is possible to perform a display while maintaining the maximum brightness even when the display element is degraded. Further, the contrast can be maintained by correcting the gray scales of the display data by performing only the digital calculation. |
| US08035662B2 |
Integrated circuit device and electronic instrument
An integrated circuit device includes a scan driver block, a high-speed interface circuit block, and a scan driver pad arrangement region in which pads electrically connecting scan output lines of the scan driver block and scan lines are disposed. The high-speed interface circuit block includes a physical layer circuit that receives data using differential signals, and a link controller that performs a link layer process. The scan output lines of the scan driver block are provided from the scan driver block to the scan driver pad arrangement region to pass over the link controller while avoiding the physical layer circuit. A common voltage line connecting first and second common voltage pads is provided from the first common voltage pad to the second common voltage pad along a first direction, the common voltage line being provided in a second direction with respect to the physical layer circuit along the first direction in an arrangement region of the physical layer circuit. |
| US08035661B2 |
Driving apparatus of display device for gray range extension, display device including the same, and method of driving display device for gray range extension
The driving apparatus of a display device calculates a slope using a minimum gray, a maximum gray, a gray average of frame data in a current frame, and a gray average of frame data in a previous frame, and corrects and outputs the input frame data according to the slope, using frame data of one frame. As a result, a gray range of the input image signal can be extended, thereby improving visibility. Further, in a case of a motion picture, even when a difference of a gray range of images of adjacent frames is large, an original image is not distorted due to extension of a gray range. Also, even when noise is included in the input image signal, a gray range can be extended after removing the noise. |
| US08035657B2 |
Camera and method for creating annotated images
The invention relates to a method of annotation of images captured by a digital camera equipped with a previewing means, comprising: the supply with the camera of an operating mode enabling a user to select one image (12) to be annotated, and to capture at least one additional previewed image; the automatic extraction (20) of an annotation (A) from the additional image; and the creation (22) of a new image by combining the annotation (A) and the image to be annotated (12), while respecting, in the new image, a location and enlargement ratio of the annotation virtually identical to those of the annotation in the additional image. |
| US08035652B2 |
Color signal generating circuit, method and color signal synthesizing circuit
OSD data YD includes a color designating signal As and a color changing signal Ex. When a color register number is designated by the color designating signal As, a color storage unit 41 outputs an appropriate color signal. A Y signal is branched from the outputted color signal and subjected to a modulating process by the color changing signal Ex. The Y changing signal obtained by the modulating process is merged with a Cb signal and a Cr signal so as to form new color signal. The OSD data YD with changed color is subjected to a synthesizing process with image data XD according to the predetermined mixture ratio. |
| US08035649B2 |
Method and system for renewing screen
There is provided a screen update method and system including: a first step of identifying image resource data associated with a first image update event from a predetermined basic recording space in case that the first image update event occurs; a second step of loading the identified image resource data in a buffer space including a plurality of buffers, in which the image resource data are loaded in rotation on the buffer by a frame, respectively; a third step of sequentially determining the image resource data loaded on the buffer for each the buffer, rendering the determined image resource data, and generating a first image at a first frame rate; a fourth step of generating a second image associated with a second image update event at a second frame rate in case that the second image update event occurs; a fifth step of compositing the first image with the second image to generate an entire image; and a sixth step of displaying the entire image on a predetermined display means. |
| US08035646B2 |
Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding techniques
Systems and methods for downloading algorithmic elements to a coprocessor and corresponding processing and communication techniques are provided. For an improved graphics pipeline, the invention provides a class of co-processing device, such as a graphics processor unit (GPU), providing improved capabilities for an abstract or virtual machine for performing graphics calculations and rendering. The invention allows for runtime-predicated flow control of programs downloaded to coprocessors, enables coprocessors to include indexable arrays of on-chip storage elements that are readable and writable during execution of programs, provides native support for textures and texture maps and corresponding operations in a vertex shader, provides frequency division of vertex streams input to a vertex shader with optional support for a stream modulo value, provides a register storage element on a pixel shader and associated interfaces for storage associated with representing the “face” of a pixel, provides vertex shaders and pixel shaders with more on-chip register storage and the ability to receive larger programs than any existing vertex or pixel shaders and provides 32 bit float number support in both vertex and pixel shaders. |
| US08035637B2 |
Three-dimensional scan recovery
A scanning system that acquires three-dimensional images as an incremental series of fitted three-dimensional data sets is improved by testing for successful incremental fits in real time and providing a variety of visual user cues and process modifications depending upon the relationship of newly acquired data to previously acquired data. The system may be used to aid in error-free completion of three-dimensional scans. The methods and systems described herein may also usefully be employed to scan complex surfaces including occluded or obstructed surfaces by maintaining a continuous three-dimensional scan across separated subsections of the surface. In one useful dentistry application, a full three-dimensional surface scan may be obtained for two dental arches in occlusion. |
| US08035632B2 |
Digital image picture frame with self-adaptive control of brightness level
The picture frame comprises: a decorative frame (18), support or hanging means (22, 24), a display screen (12), a driver circuit (46, 48) for driving the screen, and a processor (32). It further includes wireless interface means (34), in particular of the Bluetooth type, for interfacing with a remote appliance such as a mobile telephone in order to receive therefrom digital image data blocks, each corresponding to an image for storing in a memory (40) and for displaying on the display screen. In the event of a change in the state of a change of a screen orientation sensor (50), the processor applies pivot processing to the image data so as to restore the initial orientation of the displayed image. The picture frame also includes self-adaptive means for controlling its brightness level and suitable for detecting and storing successive changes of state in a sensor and for extrapolating from said changes an automatic control relationship for controlling the brightness level of the screen. |
| US08035631B2 |
Codec control
A method and system for a software driver of a graphics controller to work with a display codec. The software driver may be configured to work with different display codecs at different periods of time while using a default configuration. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US08035628B2 |
Portable multimedia playback apparatus
A portable multimedia playback apparatus is provided. The portable multimedia playback apparatus comprises a first video processing unit, a second video processing unit, a third video processing unit, a multiplexer, and a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The first video processing unit generates a digital video signal. The second video processing unit processes the digital video signal to generate a TV compatible signal. The third video processing unit processes the digital video signal to generate a flat panel compatible signal. The multiplexer selects one of the TV compatible signal and the flat panel compatible signal. The DAC outputs an analog video signal after converting the selected signal. |
| US08035626B2 |
Current driving circuit and display device using the current driving circuit
A current drive circuit which can improve a rate for signal writing and a driving rate of an element even when a signal current is small, and a display device using the current drive circuit are provided. The current drive circuit for supplying a signal current to a node of a driven circuit through a signal line includes a precharge function for supplying a precharge voltage to the node through the signal line and the precharge function includes a supply function for supplying the precharge voltage to the node and the signal line prior to supplying the signal current. |
| US08035623B2 |
User interface with proximity sensing
An electronic circuit including a microchip for use as an intelligent user interface also comprises touch sensor technology that differentiates between proximity and physical contact events to activate and control various loads including light bulbs, products with radio frequency circuitry or electric motors. An input to the microchip is connected to a switch or sensing structure that does not form a serial link between the power source and the load. The electronic circuit controls various functions in response to user actions including automatic delayed shut-off functions, find-in-the-dark indicator and power source level/product state indications. The microchip allows the user to select specific functions based on the time duration of activation signals, the time duration between activation signals and the number of activation signals at the input. The microchip is further configured to interpret and react to the signals received from a user in a way that enhances ease of use of the product and to use the indicators to provide information to the user that is influenced by the signals received as well as the state of the product. |
| US08035620B2 |
Moving objects presented by a touch input display device
The invention concerns a method, touch input display device and computer program product for moving at least one object presented by the touch input display device. In the touch input display device it is detected that a touching member (46) is at least in close proximity of a first object (38) at a first location provided by the touch input display device, a distancing factor of the first object caused by the detection of the touching member is determined and the first object is moved in a direction and a distance selected according to the distancing factor for presenting the object at a second location. The invention allows the rearranging of objects provided by the device such that they better suit a user. |
| US08035618B2 |
Handheld electronic device and associated method providing disambiguation of an ambiguous object during editing and selectively providing prediction of future characters
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software and prediction software. During editing of an object, the object can be ambiguous, and the system provides one or more disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous object. In some circumstances, the system can additionally provide one or more completions, i.e., predictions of future characters. However, in other circumstances the outputting of completions of an ambiguous object can be suppressed in order to avoid distracting the user and to provide more meaningful results to the user. |
| US08035617B2 |
Portable computer device
A portable computer device has data acceptance logic (24,40) that determines whether input data items have time and location information. If not, data items are stored together with time and location information taken from clock (30) and location determining circuitry (28), here a Global Positioning Service (GPS) system. A screen (6) is arranged to display data items in a time mode or a space mode. In the time mode, those data items with time information in a time interval are displayed on a time line. In a space mode, data items with time information in a display area are displayed, for example on a map of the display area. The display can be toggled between the time and space modes. |
| US08035615B2 |
User input device with ring-shaped scroll wheel
A user input device including a ring-shaped scroll wheel for use with a computing device is provided. The user input device includes a housing and a scroll wheel assembly coupled to the housing. The scroll wheel assembly includes a scroll wheel having a ring-shaped body and a scroll wheel support structure. The body of the scroll wheel may include a surface including an outer circumferential surface and an inner circumferential surface that bounds a hollow interior. The scroll wheel may be configured to extend through an opening of the housing. The scroll wheel support structure may include a frame and a plurality of supports mounted to the frame and contacting the surface of the scroll wheel. The plurality of supports may be configured to rotatably secure the scroll wheel to the scroll wheel support structure. |
| US08035614B2 |
Interactive video window
An interactive video window display system. A projector projects a visual image. A screen displays the visual image, wherein the projector projects the visual image onto a back side of the screen for presentation to a user on a front side of the screen, and wherein the screen is adjacent to a window. An illuminator illuminates an object on a front side of the window. A camera detects interaction of an illuminated object with the visual image, wherein the screen is at least partially transparent to light detectable by the camera, allowing the camera to detect the illuminated object through the screen. A computer system directs the projector to change the visual image in response to the interaction. The projector, the camera, the illuminator, and the computer system are located on the same side of the window. |
| US08035611B2 |
Electrophoretic display device and driving method for same
An electrophoretic display device is provided which is capable of preventing an afterimage and an image burn-in. Frames to make electrophoretic elements making up pictures of an active-matrix and a microcapsule-type electrophoretic display device be driven are divided into a plurality of white frames and black frames. The number of white frames to be used for writing on the electrophoretic elements by using a scanning driver and a data driver on one picture or between pictures is made to be equal to the number of black frames to be used for the writing and writing frames for particles having slow mobility responsive to variation in an electric field is provided last in the formation of the picture. |
| US08035608B2 |
Inverter circuit of driving a lamp and backlight module using the same
An inverter circuit for driving a lamp and a backlight module using the same are provided. The inverter circuit includes a signal generation module, a switching unit, a first capacitor, a transformer and a first detecting module. The signal generation module generates a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal, wherein the duty cycle of the PWM signal is controlled by a feedback signal and a sensed signal. The switching unit has a control terminal receiving the PWM signal, and has a first current terminal and a second current terminal respectively coupled to a first terminal and a second terminal of the first capacitor. The transformer generates an AC driving signal to the lamp according to a signal variation of the primary winding coupled the first current terminal of the first transistor. The first detecting module generates the sensed signal according to the flowing current of the switching unit. |
| US08035602B2 |
Liquid crystal panel driving device
A switching-controlling section turns ON one of a transfer gate for high voltages or a transfer gate for low voltages and subsequently turns ON the other one of the transfer gates according to the outputs from the data latches only when the outputs from data latches are different from each other. Source lines are sequentially connected to a capacitor element for high voltages or a capacitor element for low voltages. For those source lines in which applied voltages change in a previous period and a subsequent period, an electric charge is stored and supplied effectively and power consumption is reduced, whereas for those source lines in which the applied voltages do not change, retained voltages do not vary so power is not consumed when subsequent voltages are applied. Power consumption in a liquid crystal panel driving device is reduced, and the time required for storing and supplying an electric charge is shortened. The circuit scale is also reduced. |
| US08035600B2 |
Image contrast correction system and method thereof
An image contrast correct system and method thereof is provided. Exploiting Fuzzy theorem to analysis the image, which the LCD is going to display, identify the correction strength to several levels and real time correct the image contrast according to the Fuzzy rule and the Fuzzy decision theorem. On the other hand, all image analysis, correction decision, and the contrast correction will be completed during one frame period. Utilizing this FCC method (Fuzzy Contrast Correction) can avoid the over-correction or the under-correction situation, can improve or enhance the image contrast properly. |
| US08035598B2 |
Method for improving image sticking of liquid crystal displays
Improving image sticking of a liquid crystal display (LCD) including a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel, includes driving the first subpixels of the pixels with a first optimized common voltage, driving the second subpixels of the pixels with a second optimized common voltage, and driving the LCD with a panel voltage. The panel voltage is between the first and the second optimized common voltages. |
| US08035595B2 |
Liquid crystal panel, driving method for liquid crystal panel, and program
Herein disclosed a liquid crystal panel, including: a plurality of liquid crystal cells each serving as a pixel and disposed in a matrix of N horizontal lines and M vertical lines, each of N and M being an integral value equal to or greater than 1; a switching element provided for each of said pixels and configured to provide a driving voltage to the pixel; the M switching elements which are included in one vertical line having a common source line; and a vertical activation section configured to render gate lines of α ones of the M switching elements included in one vertical line active simultaneously, α being an integral value equal to or greater than 1 but equal to or smaller than M. |
| US08035594B2 |
Liquid crystal display and driving method thereof
Disclosed is an LCD and driving method thereof. The present invention comprises a data gray signal modifier for receiving gray signals from a data gray signal source, and outputting modification gray signals by consideration of gray signals of present and previous frames; a data driver for changing the modification gray signals into corresponding data voltages and outputting image signals; a gate driver for sequentially supplying scanning signals; and an LCD panel comprising a plurality of gate lines for transmitting the scanning signals; a plurality of data lines, being insulated from the gate lines and crossing them, for transmitting the image signals; and a plurality of pixels, formed by an area surrounded by the gate lines and data lines and arranged as a matrix pattern, having switching elements connected to the gate lines and data lines. |
| US08035593B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel having a plurality of video lines, and a drain driver receiving n-bit display data, and connected to the plurality of video lines. The drain driver includes a gray-scale voltage generating circuit which generates M (M<2n) pieces of gray-scale voltages, a decoder circuit which selects two gray-scale voltages from the M pieces of gray-scale voltages based on upper-order bits of the n-bit display data, an operational amplifier which includes k (k≧3) pieces of non-inverting input terminals and one inverting input terminal connected to an output terminal of the operational amplifier, and a switching circuit which selects the two gray-scale voltages of the decoder circuit, and applies the two gray-scale voltages to the k pieces of non-inverting input terminals of the operational amplifier based on lower-order m (n>m≧2) bits of the n-bit display data. |
| US08035592B2 |
Display device apparatus, apparatus and method for driving the same
An apparatus for driving a display device includes a timing controller and a data driver. The timing controller encodes first gray scale data of a present frame, decodes encoded second gray scale data of a previous frame, compares the first gray scale data with the second gray scale data, and generates compensated gray scale data based on a result of comparing the first gray scale data with the second gray scale data. The data driver generates data signal based on the compensated gray scale data to provide the data lines with the data signal. The gray scale data are encoded so that the toggle number between adjacent data pins into which the gray scale data are output may be reduce. The encoded gray scale data are stored in a memory. Thus, the power consumption is reduced, and the EMI may be reduced. |
| US08035590B2 |
Color liquid crystal display device assembly
A color liquid crystal display device assembly includes a color liquid crystal display device in which pixels each including at least a first subpixel, a second subpixel, and a third subpixel are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and a planar light source device which has light sources emitting first primary light corresponding to a first primary color of the light three primary colors and illuminating the color liquid crystal display device, and the liquid crystal display device has (A) second primary light emitting regions which emit second primary light when excited by the first primary light passing through the second subpixel, (B) third primary light emitting regions which emit third primary light when excited by the first primary light passing through the third subpixel, and (C) diffusion regions which diffuse the first primary light emitted from the light sources and passing through each first subpixel. |
| US08035587B2 |
Method apparatus for driving liquid crystal device and apparatus for driving liquid crystal device
A method for driving a liquid crystal device to record an image on the liquid crystal device is provided. The liquid crystal device has: a pair of electrodes; and a liquid crystal layer of cholestric liquid crystal sandwiched between the pair of electrodes. The method includes: applying a voltage V1 higher than a threshold value of a phase change to the homeotropic phase to make the liquid crystal layer to be in a homeotoropic phase; applying selectively two voltages V2H and V2L higher than the voltage V1 to each portion of the liquid crystal layer; and applying a voltage V3 under a condition of such a magnification and application time that a portion to which the voltage V2H has been applied changes to a planar phase and a portion to which the voltage V2L has been applied changes to a focal conic phase. |
| US08035581B2 |
Scan driver, organic light emitting display using the same, and method of driving the organic light emitting display
Embodiments of a scan driver capable of freely adjusting the width of emission control signals are disclosed. One embodiment of the scan driver comprises a shift register configured to sequentially shift a start pulse in response to a clock signal to generate sampling pulses, a NOR gate coupled to each emission control line and configured to generate emission control signals in response to at least two sampling pulses, and a NAND gate coupled to each scan line to generate scan signals in response to at least two sampling pulses. At least one of the two sampling pulses input to the NAND gate is input via an inverter. The width of the start pulse is thus controllable to freely adjust the width of the emission control signals. Accordingly, the brightness of an organic light emitting display employing the scan driver can be freely adjusted. |
| US08035577B2 |
Wrap display system having a flexible display
A wrap display system employs a stick (40, 50), and a flexible unit display (20, 120) having an integration of a flexible display (21) and a display cover (22, 122) that are structurally configured to be wrapped around the stick (40, 50). A holdout mechanism (30) can integrated with the flexible display (21) and the display cover (22, 122) to fix the flexible display (21) in a readable position with respect to the stick (40, 50) in response to the flexible display (21) being unwrapped from the stick (40, 50). |
| US08035575B2 |
Driving support method and driving support apparatus
A driving support method and apparatus for displaying, on a medial side of a pillar of the vehicle, an image of an area which is hidden as a blind spot in a rear-view mirror mounted on or in a vehicle, when looking in the mirror from the driver's position and which is created by the pillar. The apparatus detects a head position of a driver, detects the angle of the rear-view mirror, calculates the area which is hidden as the blind spot on the basis of the detected driver's head position and the detected angle of the rear-view mirror, and projects an image of the area corresponding to the blind spot onto the pillar, the projected image being formed from image data which is obtained from a blind spot camera mounted on the vehicle. |
| US08035574B2 |
System, method and apparatus for supporting and concealing radio antennas
A multi-trunk antenna structure that includes a main trunk and a plurality of upper trunks is provided. The upper trunks extend upwardly at a desired angle from the main trunk and provide a desired girth of the structure near the top. A plurality of antennas are attached to desired upper trunks at a desired height above ground level. The antennas can be adjusted to a desire azimuth. The antenna structure can include branches so that it resembles a Eucalyptus tree, an Oak tree, or other type of tree. The trunks of the structure can provide raceways for antenna cabling. |
| US08035566B2 |
Multi-band antenna
A multi-band antenna has a grounding plate with a first end and a second end defined at a longer side thereof. The longer side has an upward first connecting portion adjacent to the first end and a vertical second connecting portion. A feeding portion extends downwards from a lower edge of the second connecting portion. A first antenna radiator extends towards a same direction with respect to the second connecting portion along the grounding plate from an upper side of the second connecting portion. A second antenna radiator includes a first radiating portion, a second radiating portion and a third radiating portion. A third antenna radiator extends parallel to the first radiating portion from a side of the feeding portion. A coupling component includes a first section, a second section and a third section extending opposite to the first section from an end of the second section. |
| US08035562B2 |
Digital beam-forming apparatus and technique for a multi-beam global positioning system (GPS) receiver
An advanced multiple-beam GPS receiving system is achieved that is capable of simultaneously tracking multiple GPS satellites independently, detecting multiple interference signals individually, and suppressing directional gain in the antenna pattern of each beam in the interference directions. The GPS receiving system can be used for both planar and non-planar receiving arrays, including arrays that are conformally applied to the surface of a platform such as an aircraft. The GPS receiver combines spatial filtering and acquisition code correlation for enhanced rejection of interfering sources. Enhanced gain in the direction of GPS satellites and the ability to shape the beam patterns to suppress gain in the direction of interfering sources make the GPS receiving system largely insensitive to interfering and jamming signals that plague conventional GPS receivers. |
| US08035556B2 |
Apparatus for transmitting pseudollite signal based on single clock and positioning system using the same
An apparatus for transmitting a pseudolite signal so that a navigation signal is transmitted includes: at least four pseudolite configured to generate and output pseudolite codes for navigation; antennas configured to transmit signals outputted by the pseudolite corresponding to the antennas, respectively; and a single synchronization clock unit configured to provide each of the pseudolites with a synchronization clock. |
| US08035552B2 |
Distance dependant error mitigation in real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning
A method for mitigating atmospheric errors in code and carrier phase measurements based on signals received from a plurality of satellites in a global navigation satellite system is disclosed. A residual tropospheric delay and a plurality of residual ionospheric delays are modeled as states in a Kalman filter. The state update functions of the Kalman filter include at least one baseline distance dependant factor, wherein the baseline distance is the distance between a reference receiver and a mobile receiver. A plurality of ambiguity values are modeled as states in the Kalman filter. The state update function of the Kalman filter for the ambiguity states includes a dynamic noise factor. An estimated position of mobile receiver is updated in accordance with the residual tropospheric delay, the plurality of residual ionospheric delays and/or the plurality of ambiguity values. |
| US08035551B1 |
Noise correlation radar devices and methods for detecting targets with noise correlation radar
A pulsed compression noise correlation radar uses noise modulation and pulse compression technology to scramble recognizable transmit signal characteristics and reduce transmit energy. The pulsed noise correlation radar advantageously uses pulse compression technology, a pulsed linear frequency modulated noise correlation mixer, and a new and innovative noise fused waveform to automatically correlate the pulsed linear frequency modulated (LFM) noise waveform with the received signal. The pulsed noise correlation radar apparatus and system now make it possible to effectively reduce transmitting power, preserve high band widths through oversampling in the receiver, and achieve multi-channel array frequency diversity. A secure pulsed compression noise correlation radar system and methods for undetected target detection with pulsed noise correlation radar and a pulsed LFM fused noise waveform are also provided. |
| US08035550B2 |
Unbalanced non-linear radar
A transmitter system can have a higher power transmitter and a lower power that are configured to transmit a pair of unbalanced radio frequency beams to a target so as to produce a difference frequency in the target. The difference frequency can disrupt operation of a device, such as a weapon. The difference frequency can provide a radar return. The use of a higher power transmitter and a lower power transmitter reduces costs, size, and weight as compared to the use of two higher power transmitters. |
| US08035549B1 |
Drop track time selection using systems approach
A method for calculating a drop track time for a radar system includes receiving characteristics of the radar system as an input, determining in a computer process the characteristics of a target being tracked by the radar system, calculating in a computer process a target track drop time for the target based on the characteristics of the radar system and the target, determining in a computer process whether a value associated with the target being tracked has been updated within the target track drop time, and discontinuing the tracking of the target if a value associated with the target being tracked is not updated within the target track drop time. |
| US08035546B2 |
Method for detecting at least one moving object
A method for the detection of at least one moving object in a pre-determined detection zone by way of a speed sensor. The method includes the following steps: determining a detection zone within an illumination region of the speed sensor; detecting a speed signal, particularly a Doppler signal, at least with the entry of a moving object into the illumination region; estimating an entry of the moving object into the detection zone on the basis of a speed of the object, and of a distance between a boundary of the illumination region and the detection zone. |
| US08035536B2 |
Digitally controlled three-phase PFC rectifier
A robust decoder generates an output state from input signals related to the line-voltage signals of a three-phase power system, using a segment identification method based on zero-crossings derived from line-voltage difference signals. The robust decoder includes a basic decoder that provides a current output state based on the input signals, a state table that provides a presumed previous state based on the current output state of the basic decoder, a binary feed back loop including a state element for storing a previous output state, and a selector for providing the output state based on the stored previous output state and the presumed previous state. The robust decoder may be implemented as hardware or software in a digital power converter. Such a digital power converter may include boost inductors each receiving an input line voltage signal from the three-phase power system to provide phase voltage signals, switches receiving the phase voltage signals to provide an intermediate voltage signal, the plurality of switches each being control by a driving signal, an output circuit coupled to the intermediate voltage signal to provide a rectified output voltage signal for digital power converter, and a digital control circuit receiving the input line voltages and the output voltage signal, the digital control circuit generating the driving signals to control the switches. The switches may be configured according to a state machine. |
| US08035535B2 |
Apparatus and method providing transformation for human touch force measurements
An apparatus includes a force sensor configured to be activated by a user and a control unit connected to an output of the force sensor. The control unit is configurable to operate in response to receipt of an m-bit value representing a measurement from the force sensor to transform the m-bit value to an n-bit transformed value, where n |
| US08035534B2 |
Method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device based on linguistic source and associated apparatus
A method for automatically preferring a diacritical version of a linguistic element on a handheld electronic device by utilizing a linguistic source. |
| US08035528B2 |
Fast detection of contact status with AC wetting voltage using ratiometric approach
Fast detection of contact status with an AC wetting voltage using a ratiometric approach is described herein. In one embodiment, a voltage source wets the contact with a wetting voltage. A contact voltage monitor receives voltage obtained from the contact and converts the voltage to a first frequency output. A wetting voltage monitor receives wetting voltage provided from the voltage source to the contact and converts the sensed wetting voltage to a second frequency output. A processor generates a ratio between the first frequency output and the second frequency output and determines the status of the contact and the field wires associated with the contact in accordance with the generated ratio. |
| US08035527B2 |
Fire detection
A fire detection system for monitoring a volume containing fluid, typically air, for the presence of smoke particles is disclosed. A conduit for receiving the fluid, and any smoke particles therein, and directing the fluid to a smoke detector has a plurality of inlets formed therein. A respective temperature sensor is associated with each of the inlets which generate a signal indicative of a change in temperature in the region of the inlet. In the embodiments, the temperature sensor comprises one or more fiber Bragg gratings. The fiber Bragg gratings preferably have different grating periods. The reflected light from each fiber Bragg grating is returned back down the fiber optic cable and redirected via a 2×1 coupler to a wavelength detection system and a personal computer. The combination of wavelength detection system and personal computer allow analysis of the reflected light patterns, as well as providing a user interface which enables detection of the occurrence of a spatial and/or a temperature variation. The location of the said variation along the fiber optic cable is advantageously detectable. The system described is highly sensitive to smoke, but can advantageously also provide an indication of the location of the smoke source, because any variation in temperature at any one of the smoke inlets is also detected, the location of the sensor being known. |
| US08035520B1 |
Discreet intelligence system
A pioneering information system providing improved acquisition, communication, and management of mobile element-related information, preferably through embedded manufacturing. Information modules, utilizing communications elements and information operations elements, are positioned proximate to the mobile element. The communications elements utilize discreet sensors and receivers, as well as discreet transmitters for transmitting the mobile element-related information. The information operations elements utilize discreet processors and data storage elements to process and manage the mobile element-related information. Carriers may be used to more effectively position the information modules proximate to the mobile elements. |
| US08035518B2 |
Set screw tag housing
An electronic tag housing secures an electronic tag to an elongate article. The housing includes a cover and a base positioned over the cover for supporting the tag therebetween. The cover and base define a passageway therebetween for insertable receipt of the elongate article. A pressure plate is movably secured to the cover. The pressure plate is movable into engagement with the elongate article to clamp the article therein. |
| US08035517B2 |
Systems and methods for managing information relating to medical fluids and containers therefor
The present invention relates to management of information relating to medical fluids, containers therefor, and medical fluid administration devices for administering such medical fluids to patients. Data tags (e.g., RFID tags) are generally associated with containers of the invention and may be electromagnetically read from and/or written to using an electromagnetic device, for example, that may be associated with a medical fluid administration device of the invention. |
| US08035511B2 |
Methods for providing services and information based upon data collected via wireless network sensors
A method for processing data collected via a wireless network sensor includes providing information in a variety of ways based upon the processed data. The network sensor has a plurality of sensors for detecting events occurring proximate the sensors in a monitored space, a processor for receiving and processing data from the sensors, and a wireless transmitter for wirelessly transmitting data. The received data is processed to determine pedestrian traffic patterns in the monitored space, which can be used to design a layout and placement of goods for sale in the monitored space. The information for the pedestrian traffic patterns can also be provided in exchange for a fee to customers requesting it. |
| US08035510B2 |
Asset recovery device installation and alert system
In one embodiment, a method is provided for selectively providing an alert to a user of a tracked asset in an asset recovery system. The method includes activating a tracking device on the tracked asset to generate a report, evaluating the report and a condition based on a home location assigned to the tracking device for generating an alert, creating the alert based on the evaluation of the condition and the report, and sending the alert to the user. |
| US08035509B2 |
Stimulating a mote network for cues to mote location and layout
A mote sensor may include and/or involve logic to respond to an external signal by providing one or more return signals indicative of at least one location of the mote sensor. |
| US08035507B2 |
Method and apparatus for stimulating power line carrier injection with reactive oscillation
Stimulating power line carrier injection with reactive oscillation comprises exciting a tank circuit to oscillate at the carrier frequency by sinking pulses of current between one node of a capacitor in the tank circuit and the other node of the capacitor. A power transformer is connected to a distribution system to inject a power line carrier onto the power line. An excitation circuit sinks short pulses of current between one node of a capacitor and the other node of the capacitor that is connected in a tank circuit arrangement with an inductor and the secondary winding of the power transformer. The tank circuit oscillates at the frequency of the excitation pulses if the resonant frequency of the tank circuit is close to the frequency of excitation. The oscillating current is coupled onto the power line system through the power transformer. The phase of the power line carrier signal is shifted by shifting the phase of the excitation pulses. |
| US08035505B2 |
Monitor control system
In a monitor control system, an HMI (11 in FIG. 1) includes event list display means (16) for displaying an event list screen of list form, in which event names and alarm levels are contained as to faults and the like alarm events occurring in an object to-be-monitored (13), and storage means (17) for storing therein an alarm level table in which the alarm levels are set so as to correspond to time zones. When the alarm event occurs in the object to-be-monitored (13), the event list display means (16) determines the alarm level corresponding to the time zone in which an alarm event occurrence time is contained, on the basis of the alarm level table, so as to display the alarm level on the event list screen. Since the alarm level is changed depending upon the occurrence time, all alarm events can be recorded with unnecessary alarm events suppressed. |
| US08035502B2 |
Tire module with piezoelectric converter
A tire module for sensing deflection of a tire and a method of sensing deflection of the tire. The tire module includes a piezoelectric converter that is configured for installation on an inside surface of the tire. The piezoelectric converter includes at least one elastically deformable region that is formed from piezoelectric material. A deflection limiting means is configured to delimit deflection of the elastically deformable region. |
| US08035501B2 |
Tire monitoring system and method
A tire monitoring system in or for a vehicle for determining tire-specific parameters has a distributed bus architecture. At least one intelligent receiving device is configured to receive transmit signals of a wheel electronic system. The receiving device has a signal processing device that carries out an evaluation of the received transmit signals and/or an evaluation of received signals of another subscriber of the bus architecture. The invention also relates to methods for operating the intelligent receiving devices of a distributed bus architecture of the novel tire monitoring or tire pressure system. |
| US08035496B2 |
Method and computer program for identification of inattentiveness by the driver of a vehicle
A method and a computer program for identifying when the driver of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, is not paying attention. In order to make it possible to make a more reliable statement on the presence of any inattentiveness by the driver, the method observes a steering action following a steering quiescent phase, in addition to detecting the steering quiescent phase. The extent of the steering quiescent phase and of the steering action found are logically linked to one another, and the result of this logical operation is then used as a measure for the severity of the inattentiveness of the driver. |
| US08035493B2 |
Head-up display device for vehicle
A head-up display device includes a light source, a display unit for producing display virtual images including an alarm display image, a mirror for reflecting the light to show the alarm display image in a field of front view of a driver, at least one on-vehicle device that the driver operates, a visual-line shift detecting means and a display position shifting means. The mirror reflects the light representing the alarm display image so that a driver can see the alarm display image in a display area that is set on one of a front windshield and a combiner in front of the driver and in a field of front vision of the driver. The visual-line shift detecting means detects a visual line shift of the driver from a usual forward visual range of the driver toward the on-vehicle device that the driver operates. The display position shifting means shifts positions of the display area to a position between the usual forward visual range and a portion/part, of the on-vehicle device at operation, which the driver watches during the operation when the visual-line shift detecting means detects the visual line shift from the usual forward visual range toward the on-vehicle device. |
| US08035491B2 |
Systems and methods for communicating messages in wireless networks
The present invention generally pertains to systems and methods for communicating messages in wireless networks. In one exemplary embodiment, a wireless sensor network has a first node and a second node. The second node is configured to wirelessly transmit a message through a channel of the wireless sensor network to the first node. The second node is further configured to determine whether to retransmit the message through the channel of the wireless sensor network to the first node based on an amount of energy detected for the channel by the second node immediately after transmission of the message by the second node. |
| US08035490B2 |
Communication and filtering of events among peer controllers in the same spatial region of a sensor network
In a wireless tag identification and processing architecture and infrastructure, a method and system that eliminates redundant reporting and processing of the same event observed by different reader/sensors. Reader/sensors and their respective connected controllers are configured as peers when they observe or cover the same spatial region. When an event is observed within the spatial region, the first controller to receive the event data reports the electronic tag data and event data to the next higher processing domain and to its peer controllers. Then when the same electronic tag data or other event data indicating that a subsequent event is actually the same event as observed earlier is received by another peer controller, the another peer controller does not report nor process the electronic tag data and other event data to the next higher processing domain or to its peer controllers. |
| US08035484B2 |
Semiconductor device and IC label, IC tag, and IC card provided with the semiconductor device
A charge accumulation circuit having a structure in which a capacitor is divided into a plurality of pieces and the divided capacitors are connected in parallel through switches is provided. The charge accumulation circuit controls the switch provided between the capacitors and thus can dynamically vary electrostatic capacitance of the charge accumulation circuit which applies a voltage to a constant voltage circuit. |
| US08035482B2 |
System for updating a content bearing medium
The invention is directed to content bearing mediums having a capacity to receive additional content and systems and methods for updating and presenting content recorded on a content bearing medium, e.g., video cassette tape, CD or DVD, digital memory, game cartridges. In one aspect of the invention, a content bearing medium is provided. The content bearing medium has a content bearing signal stored thereon and a communication circuit. The communication circuit is adapted to exchange wireless signals with a remote programming device and to store an additional content bearing signal in a memory based upon the signals exchanged. The communication circuit is further adapted to transmit the additional content signals upon request by a player of the content bearing medium so that the player can receive the additional content signals and present an output that is based, at least in part, upon the stored signals. |
| US08035479B2 |
Mesh network door lock
Systems and methods are disclosed for sending a code from a mesh network key and wirelessly communicating the code with one or more mesh network appliances over a mesh network such as ZigBee; receiving the code over the mesh network by a mesh network lock controller; and providing access to the secured area upon authenticating the code. |
| US08035478B2 |
Easy-to retrofit, electronically controlled door lock system
Disclosed is an easy-to-retrofit, electronically controlled door lock system designed to change or expand functions of a door lock without having to replace the door lock as a whole. The door lock system includes a door lock 100 for locking and unlocking a door in response to an input signal from a key means, the door lock having predetermined inherent functions, and a function expanding device 200 having additional functions other than the predetermined inherent functions of the door lock, the function expanding device being replaceably attached to the door lock. |
| US08035475B2 |
Quick connect fittings
A resistor assembly and method of assembling a resistor to a coupling, comprises providing a resistor having a first end and a second end, the resistor being tubular in shape and providing a coupling housing having an open end for receiving the first end of the resistor, the coupling housing including a sealing member, a retainer, and a support washer. The retainer is interposed between the support washer and sealing member. The first end of the resistor is inserted into the open end of the coupling housing. The tube is rotated within the coupling housing so that the resistor is in sealing engagement with the sealing member and retained by retaining member. |
| US08035470B2 |
Protection of permanent magnets in a DC-inductor
A DC inductor comprising a core structure (11) comprising one or more magnetic gaps (12), a coil (14) inserted on the core structure (11), at least one permanent magnet (15) positioned in the core structure, the magnetization of the permanent magnet (15) opposing the magnetization producible by the coil (14). The core structure is adapted to form a main flux path and an auxiliary flux path, where the main flux path is adapted to carry the main magnetic flux producible by the coil, wherein the auxiliary flux path comprises a magnetic gap and is adapted to lead magnetic flux past the at least one permanent magnet (15). |
| US08035469B2 |
Stationary induction apparatus fixing structure and fixing member
The present invention provides a fixing structure and a fixing member for a stationary induction apparatus, which can easily and inexpensively be assembled with a small number of constituent elements, and which are capable of reliable fixation. A fixing portion 4 which fixes the core 2 of a reactor to a case 1 is provided. The fixing portion 4 has a slide block 40 in contact with the core 2; a fixing bolt 42 which fixes the slide block 40 with respect to the case 1; and a slide base 41 provided between the slide block 40 and the case 1, and fixed to the case 1 together with the slide block 40. The slide block 40 and the slide base 41 have inclined faces 40d, 41b in mutual contact, and the slide block 40 has a first impelling portion 40a which impels the core 2 in a vertical direction and a second impelling portion 40b which impels the core 2 in a horizontal direction, according to fastening by the fixing bolt 42. |
| US08035468B2 |
Magnet system extrusion coating for a relay
A relay has a magnet system with a core partially enclosed by a coil. A yoke has a first yoke leg attached to a first end of the core and a second yoke leg extending parallel to the core. The second yoke leg has an armature mounting portion formed on an upper side of the second yoke leg remote from the coil. A pole has a first pole leg connected to a second end of the core and a second pole leg extending parallel to the core. The second pole leg has an upper surface substantially aligned with the armature mounting portion. A fixed contact is arranged on a fixed contact carrier substantially aligned with the second pole leg. The arrangement of the magnet system ensures precise positional alignment during extrusion coating with a plastic material. |
| US08035464B1 |
Bonded wafer SAW filters and methods
Improved coupling coefficients and desirable filter characteristics are exhibited in a SAW filter including an electrode pattern deposited on a piezoelectric substrate bonded directly to an anti-reflective layer, wherein the anti-reflective layer is bonded to a carrier through an adhesive layer such that a preselected thickness of the anti-reflective layer is sufficient for enhancing an acoustic match between the piezoelectric substrate and the adhesive layer. |
| US08035460B2 |
Surface acoustic wave device, surface acoustic wave filter and antenna duplexer using the same, and electronic equipment using the same
A surface acoustic wave device includes a substrate including lithium niobate; a IDT being provided on an upper surface of the substrate and including a plurality of electrode fingers; and a protective film covering the IDT and having an uneven shape on an upper surface thereof. When a pitch width of one pitch of the IDT is p, a width of one of the electrode fingers is p1, a width between the electrode fingers is p2, and a thickness of the IDT is h, following relations are satisfied, p1+p2=p, and h/(2×p)≧4.5%. With this configuration, an appropriate reflection characteristic is realized, and the surface acoustic wave device having excellent temperature coefficient of frequency and electrical characteristic can be obtained. |
| US08035456B1 |
Multi-phase signal generator and voltage-controlled oscillator thereof
A VCO comprising a cross-coupled transistors module and a resonant module is provided. The resonant module comprises a first transistor, second transistor, a first inductor and varactor string and a second inductor and varactor string. The first source/drain terminal of the first transistor coupled to the second reference voltage, the second source/drain terminal of the first transistor coupled to the cross-coupled transistors module and the gate terminal coupled to a bias voltage. The first source/drain terminal of the second transistor coupled to the second reference voltage, the second source/drain terminal of the second transistor coupled to the cross-coupled transistors module and the gate terminal of the second transistor coupled to the bias voltage. The first and second inductor and varactor strings coupled between the gate of the first and second transistors and a tuning voltage in serial, separately. |
| US08035452B2 |
Structure for transforming an input voltage to obtain linearity between input and output functions and system and method thereof
A design structure is embodied in a machine readable medium for designing, manufacturing, or testing a design. The design structure includes a first structure for determining a non-linear characteristic of the input voltage to the output frequency response, the first design structure providing a tunneling-based current relationship with the input voltage. Also disclosed is a system and a method of implementing such structure. |
| US08035451B2 |
On-the-fly frequency switching while maintaining phase and frequency lock
A difference between a reference clock and feedback clock is detected to generate a difference signal that is filtered to generate a voltage controlled oscillator control signal and produce an oscillation signal having an oscillation frequency. A first frequency dividing circuit divides the oscillation signal by a selected one of a number of first frequency divisors to generate an output signal at a selected frequency. A second frequency dividing circuit divides the output signal by a selected one of a number of second frequency divisors to generate the feedback clock. The frequency divisors are selected by a frequency selection signal. The first frequency dividing circuit samples the frequency selection signal at the rate of the oscillation signal divided by a least common multiple of the plurality of first frequency divisors. The second frequency dividing circuit samples the sampled frequency selection signal at the rate of the feedback clock. |
| US08035450B2 |
Operational transconductance amplifier having two amplification stages
An operational amplifier having a first amplification stage with an input terminal to receive a signal to be amplified, and a first output terminal, and a second amplification stage having a first input terminal connected to the first output terminal, and an output terminal to provide the amplified signal. The first and second amplification stages define, between the input terminal and the output terminal, a signal transfer function having first and second poles. The amplifier further includes a decoupling stage having a further input terminal connected to the first stage input terminal, and a further output terminal connected to the second stage output terminal. The decoupling stage is so arranged as to introduce at least one zero in the operational amplifier transfer function. |
| US08035448B1 |
Differential amplifier that compensates for process variations
A fully differential amplifier includes an input stage and an output stage. The input stage has two differential pairs of n-type input transistors, and two differential pairs of p-type input transistors. The output stage has a first p-type output transistor and a second n-type output transistor, the first p-type output transistor having its source coupled to a first reference voltage node and having its drain coupled to a first output node for a first component of a differential output signal, and the second n-type output transistor having its drain coupled to the first output node and having its source coupled to a second reference voltage node. A p-type input transistor and an n-type input transistor influence operation of the first p-type output transistor such that current conducted by the p-type input transistor and current conducted by the n-type input transistor contribute to the output current conducted by the first p-type output transistor. Similarly, the output current conducted by the second n-type output transistor is influenced by one p-type input transistor and one n-type input transistor. |
| US08035447B2 |
Active circuits with load linearization
Active circuits with active loads linearized via distortion cancellation are described. In one design, an apparatus includes a first stage and a load stage. For an amplifier, the first stage amplifies an input signal and provides an output signal having a larger signal level. For a mixer, the first stage mixes an input signal with an LO signal and provides an output signal. The load stage provides an active load for the first stage and is linearized by canceling distortion generated by the active load. In one design, the load stage includes a first transistor that provides the active load and generates distortion due to its nonlinearity. The load stage further includes at least one transistor that generates a replica of the distortion from the first transistor. The distortion replica is used to cancel the distortion from the first transistor. The first stage may also be linearized with distortion cancellation. |
| US08035445B2 |
Frequency response compensation amplifier arrangements
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system comprising a summing device and first amplifier portion. The summing device is coupled to an output node. The first amplifier portion is coupled between an input node and the summing device. The first amplifier portion includes a first amplifier, a first filter, and first and second switches. The first amplifier is coupled between the input node and the summing device on a first path. The first filter is coupled between the input node and the first amplifier on a second path, the second path being in parallel to the first path. The first switch is coupled between the input node and the first amplifier along the first path. The second switch is coupled between the input node and the first filter along the second path. |
| US08035439B2 |
Multi-channel integrator
A multi-channel integrator is provided. The multi-channel integrator includes an integrator and a plurality of channels. Each of the channels includes an input selector and a unit-gain amplifier. The input selector has a common terminal, a first selecting terminal and a second selecting terminal. The input selector selectively electrically connects the common terminal to the first selecting terminal or to the second selecting terminal. The first selecting terminal of the input selector is coupled to an input terminal of the integrator. An input terminal of the unit-gain amplifier is coupled to the second selecting terminal of the input selector. |
| US08035437B2 |
Phase interpolator
A phase interpolator receiving a first signal having an oscillation frequency Fin and providing a second signal having said oscillation frequency and having a phase shift Δφ with respect to the first signal which depends on a third signal. The interpolator includes a variable phase-shifter receiving the first signal and providing the second signal, the phase-shifter circuit includes an oscillator having a variable natural frequency Fo controlled by a fourth signal; a phase comparator capable of receiving the first and second signals and of providing a fifth signal representative of said phase shift; and a unit capable of providing the fourth signal which depends on the third and fifth signals. |
| US08035432B2 |
DLL circuit and control method thereof
A DLL circuit includes a first phase comparing circuit that compares phases between an input clock signal and an output clock signal, a first delay circuit that delays the output clock signal, and a second phase comparing circuit that compares phases between the input clock signal and an output signal of the first delay circuit. A delay amount in the variable delay circuit is controlled based on a comparison result of the first phase comparing circuit and a comparison result of the second phase comparing circuit. |
| US08035420B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for operating the same
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of CML buffering units configured to buffer, in parallel, a plurality of serially applied data signals to CML levels in a sequence responding to multi-phase source clocks; and a CMOS amplification block configured to amplify a plurality of buffered data signals, sequentially outputted from the plurality of CML buffering units, to CMOS levels in response to the multi-phase source clocks, and output amplified data signals in parallel at the same timing. |
| US08035419B2 |
High-speed standard cells designed using a deep-submicron physical effect
A system comprises signal paths. There are first through n signal paths, n being a positive integer. A critical one of the first through n signal paths is based on being a respective one of the first through n signal paths having a slowest signal propagation and/or a path in which a signal propagates slower than a clock cycle. The critical one of the first through n signal paths comprises a first size of a standard cell including corresponding logic devices. The non-critical ones of the first through n signal paths comprise a second size of a standard cell including corresponding logic devices, the second size being smaller than the first size. |
| US08035418B2 |
Output driver
An output driver of a semiconductor device includes driving transistors and a body bias providing unit. The driving transistors are coupled in parallel and configured to drive an output terminal. The body bias providing unit is configured to supply the driving transistors with respective body biases of at least two levels. |
| US08035414B2 |
Asynchronous logic automata
A family of reconfigurable, charge-conserving asynchronous logic elements that interact with their nearest neighbors permits design and implementation of circuits that are asynchronous at the bit level, rather than at the level of functional blocks. These elements pass information by means of charge packets (tokens), rather than voltages. Each cell is self-timed, and cells that are configured as interconnect perform at propagation delay speeds, so no hardware non-local connections are needed. An asynchronous logic element comprises a set of edges for asynchronous communication with at least one neighboring cell, each edge having an input for receiving tokens from neighboring cells and an output for transferring an output charge packet to at least one neighboring cell, and circuitry configured to perform a logic operation utilizing received charge packets as inputs and to produce an output charge packet reflecting the result of the logic operation. |
| US08035408B1 |
Socket fixture for testing warped memory modules on a PC motherboard
A memory module test socket can accept modules with bent or warped printed-circuit boards (PCBs). A support plate is mounted above a Personal Computer (PC) motherboard by standoffs. An extender card fits through a slot in the support plate. The bottom edge of the extender card is plugged into a motherboard memory module socket on the motherboard. The top of the extender card has an extender socket that sits atop the support plate. End guides are mounted to the support plate and clamp down the extender socket. Funnel guides formed in the end guides have a funnel shape to guide ends of a memory module for better alignment when inserted into the extender socket. A pusher plate with a triangular guide or a perpendicular rod applies a perpendicular force on the middle of a warped memory module to align the middle to the extender socket during insertion. |
| US08035405B2 |
Semiconductor devices testing apparatus with temperature-adjusting design
A probing apparatus includes a housing, a device holder positioned in the housing and configured to receive a device under test, a temperature-controller positioned in the device holder, a platen positioned on the housing and configured to retain at least one probe, and a flow line positioned in the platen, wherein the flow line is configured to flow a fluid therein to adjust the temperature of the platen. |
| US08035402B2 |
Sensor
A sensor including a carrier, a plurality of conductive bumps, a capacitive sensing element connected to the carrier through the conductive bumps, and a cover is provided. The capacitive sensing element has a membrane, and a channel is formed among the capacitive sensing element, the conductive bumps, and the carrier. The cover is disposed on the carrier for covering the capacitive sensing element. A chamber is formed between the capacitive sensing element and the cover. The chamber and the channel are respectively located at two sides of the membrane. |
| US08035397B1 |
Utilizing computed battery resistance as a battery-life indicator in a mobile terminal
An over-voltage detection and correction system for a transmitter of a mobile terminal that accounts for battery droop during a transmit burst is provided. In general, prior to ramp-up for a first transmit burst, a voltage of the battery of the mobile terminal at a no-load condition is measured. After ramp-up for the transmit burst, the voltage of the battery is measured at full-load, and a current provided to a power amplifier of the transmitter at full-load is detected. Based on the measured voltage of the battery at no-load, the measured voltage of the battery at full-load, and the detected current provided to the power amplifier at full-load, a resistance of the battery is determined. The battery resistance is thereafter updated as desired and used as an indicator of remaining battery-life or power of the battery of the mobile terminal. |
| US08035396B2 |
Method and device for measuring internal impedance of stationary battery
Battery system is widely used in emergent power plant or communication network power plant and its effective management is important. When any one of batteries connected to each other in series is failed during operation of the battery system, since reliability of the system cannot be secured, a problem is arisen to stable operation of the communication network. In a method of separating inferior battery, the battery is operated in floating charge state without separation to generate square current containing charge current and easily generated to flow through the battery cell, voltage signal generated from terminal voltage of the battery by the measuring signal is processed such that only internal impedance voltage signal is separated from harmonics ripple voltage and noise voltage by a synchronized detection calculating algorithm to calculate the internal impedance or effective value thereof (resistance component). When the algorithm is applied after filtering only fundamental frequency and similar component by general filter, measuring precision can be improved and measuring time can be reduced. |
| US08035395B2 |
Battery life predicting device and battery life predicting method
A battery life predicting device and a battery life predicting method capable of accurately predict the lifetime of storage batteries are provided. The expected lifetime value selecting unit 7 selects, as an expected lifetime value, a lifetime value that corresponds to the load power applied by the storage battery during discharge and the ambient temperature of the location where the storage battery 3 is installed while referring to the lifetime data stored in the lifetime data storing unit 5, the first diminution in lifetime calculating unit 12a calculates the first diminution in lifetime based on a natural logarithm function that takes the time obtained by converting the number of discharge cycles of the storage battery 3 as a variable, the second diminution in lifetime calculating unit 12b calculates the second diminution in lifetime from the mean value of the storage battery temperatures during charging, discharging or an idle state, the ambient temperature and the time elapsed after the installation of the storage battery 3, and the remaining lifetime value calculating unit 12c calculates the remaining lifetime value by subtracting the first diminution in lifetime and the second diminution in lifetime from the expected lifetime value. |
| US08035394B2 |
Battery testing device and battery testing method
The present invention provides a battery testing device and a battery testing method which can appropriately verify the behavior of a battery when damage occurs. Appropriately verification of battery behavior in a case of battery damage has not been achieved since a completely crushed state of a battery almost never occurs during the sue of a portable device, such as a portable telephone, and a completely crushed state of a battery is not the worst condition when determining an abnormality induced by an internal short. Therefore a secondary battery set on a test stand is partially crushed using a pressing member, and the quality of the secondary battery is determined by measuring the temperature of the secondary battery, whereby battery behavior when the secondary battery is damaged can be appropriately verified. |
| US08035391B2 |
Methods of logging geological formations
A method of method of logging an invaded geological formation comprises the steps of: (i) operating plural receivers in order to receive signals generated by one or more transmitters and thereby create logs of overlapping lengths of a bore formed in the said geological formation, the respective said receivers logging distinct depths of penetration, as previously defined, of the geological formation measured with respect to the bore; (ii) recording the resultant values in a two-dimensional plot one of whose axes represents the respective depth of penetration of the said formation to which each said log corresponds; (iii) establishing whether the resulting plot appears to approach an asymptote; and if so (iv) determining the value of the asymptote. |
| US08035385B2 |
MRI system and RF coil with enhanced cooling in vicinty of included circuit elements
When an RF coil in a magnetic resonance imaging system includes a plurality of conductive members and circuit elements connected to the conductive members, at least part of each of the conductive members is formed to a thickness so as to dissipate heat generated from the circuit elements. Moreover, the magnetic resonance imaging system is configured to include a cooling unit that circulates cooling air over the surfaces of the circuit elements provided in the RF coil. |
| US08035382B2 |
Coil decoupling in magnetic resonance imaging
A radio frequency coil array (50) includes at least first (501) and second (502) receive coils. A flux pipe (52) includes electrically connected first (2521) and second (2522) loop coils. The first (2521) and second (2522) loop coils are coupled to the respective first and second receive coils. The flux pipe (52) reduces mutual inductance between the first (501) and second (502) receive coils. |
| US08035381B2 |
Optimized spectral-spatial pulse
A computer implemented method for designing a spectral-spatial pulse for exciting at least one passband and minimally exciting at least one stopband is provided. A uniform shaped spectral envelope is generated. For a plurality of kz≠0, kz dependent weights for a spectral envelope that approximate a kz=0 envelope and provides the at least one passband and the at least one stopband for each of the plurality of kz≠0 is generated. |
| US08035379B2 |
Coil energization apparatus and method of energizing a superconductive coil
A coil energizing apparatus has a superconducting energization power supply having an output port. The power supply is arranged to generate, when in use, a pulsed output current signal at the output port. |
| US08035372B2 |
Magnetostrictive elongation sensor
A magnetostrictive position or elongation sensor of the type in which an elongated magnetorestrictive waveguide is influenced by a magnetic field from a moving magnet has a Villary type transformer at one end and a hermetically sealed housing containing the signal processing circuitry on a plurality of circuit boards. The signal processor can switch the sensor into a programmable mode in which a diagnostic output is obtained recognizing the magnet, the presence of the sensor in the programming mode and voltage values. |
| US08035371B2 |
Measuring system for detecting a rotary-linear displacement and corresponding rotary-linear drive
The invention relates to more accurate rotative and linear positional measurement for a rotary-linear drive. A measuring system comprising a linear sensor (12) and a rotary sensor (20) is disclosed. A decoupling unit (11,14,17) decouples the rotary displacement from the linear displacement of a shaft (10). The decoupling unit (11,14,17) has either a first measuring section (11), which is coupled in a fixed manner to the shaft to be measured (10) and tapped by the linear sensor (12) and a second measuring section (17), which is exclusively non-rotatably coupled to the shaft to be measured (10) and is tapped by the rotary sensor (20), or a first measuring section, which is coupled in a fixed manner exclusively linearly to the shaft to be measured and is tapped by the linear sensor and a second measuring section, which is non-rotatably coupled to the shaft to be measured and is tapped by the rotary sensor. In each case, the linear displacement is decoupled from the rotary displacement for the measuring process, permitting high-resolution standard measuring sensors to be used. |
| US08035366B2 |
Driving circuit of load
A driving circuit of a load has an output semiconductor element connected in series in a power supply path from a power source to the load, to control a current of the load, a PWM signal generator for controlling ON/OFF of the output semiconductor element, a driver of the output semiconductor element according to the PWM signal, a detection resistor made of a semiconductor detecting a current of the load, a current output amplifier outputting a monitored current of detection resistor without being influenced by variation of ambient temperature, a resistor converting the monitored current into a monitored voltage, a current source outputting a constant current without being influenced by variation of ambient temperature, a resistor outputting a reference voltage according to the constant current, and an A/D converter converting the monitored voltage according to the reference voltage into a detected current value of the current of the load. |
| US08035365B2 |
DC converter which has switching control unit to select PWM signal or PFM signal
A DC (direct current) converter includes a PWM (pulse width modulation) pulse generation unit outputting a PWM pulse signal whose duty ratio is controlled in accordance with an output voltage, a PFM (pulse frequency modulation) pulse generation unit outputting a PFM pulse signal whose pulse output interval is controlled in accordance with an output voltage, a selection circuit selecting and outputting any one of the PWM pulse signal and the PFM pulse signal in response to a selection signal, a drive circuit unit driving a load and generating an output voltage on the basis of a signal outputted from the selection circuit, and a switching control unit outputting the selection signal. When the selection signal is in a second state, the switching control unit detects a fact that the number of pulses of the PFM pulse signal in a measurement period increases to or above a set value of the maximum number of pulses, and switches the selection signal to a first state. |
| US08035364B2 |
Step-down switching regulator with freewheeling diode
A freewheeling DC/DC step-down converter includes a high-side MOSFET, an inductor and an output capacitor connected between the input voltage and ground. A freewheeling clamp, which includes a freewheeling MOSFET and diode, is connected across the inductor. When the high-side MOSFET is turned off, a current circulates through the inductor and freewheeling clamp rather than to ground, improving the efficiency of the converter. The converter has softer diode recovery and less voltage overshoot and noise than conventional Buck converters and features unique benefits during light-load conditions. |
| US08035360B2 |
Soft start unit for a power converting device
A power converting device including a pulse width modulation circuit, a switch unit, a power output unit and a voltage start unit is provided. The pulse width modulation circuit increases a start voltage in a soft start mode and is operated under the start voltage to generate a pulse width modulation signal. The switch unit is for receiving an input voltage, and forming a charge path and a discharge path alternately according to the pulse width modulation signal. The power output unit converts the input voltage to a core voltage in accordance with the charge path and the discharge path. The voltage start unit is for detecting the start voltage, and for transmitting a control signal to interrupt the formation of the discharge path when the start voltage is smaller than the core voltage. |
| US08035359B2 |
Apparatus and method for recovery of wasted power from differential drivers
An apparatus and method for supplying power to circuits of an integrated circuit (IC) from the wasted power in low-swing high-speed differential line drivers used in the IC, is disclosed. In a high speed line driver the load resistors of the driver are connected to a power supply, either the local power supply or the receiver power supply. DC power for the driver is supplied through these resistors. A large portion of this power, supplied from the power supply is wasted in the DC set-up circuit of the differential line driver. It is proposed to use this wasted power to power selected circuits of an IC. The use of this wasted power from the drivers for powering the circuits reduces the overall power dissipation of the system. |
| US08035358B2 |
Binary voltage regulator
A voltage regulator is provided that includes a plurality of buck-boost transformers each having primary and secondary windings. The secondary windings of the transformers are electrically disposed in series between a source and a load. Each transformer is controlled by a plurality of control switches configured to control the voltage across the primary winding of a corresponding transformer. A controller monitors the output voltage and generates control signals for the switches. The transformers generate different voltage level changes in between the source and load and the voltages across the primary windings are capable of assuming opposite polarities to enable scaling of resolution and range. The voltage regulator efficiently regulates power with relatively few or no moving parts and also partially protects the power switching components by removing them from the path of the load current thereby producing a device that is smaller in size, costs less and is more reliable. |
| US08035356B2 |
Ultra-capacitor based uninterruptible power supply
A backup power supply includes at least one ultra capacitor to store energy. The backup power supply includes a multiphase boost converter to provide a relatively constant voltage level from the energy stored on the at least one ultra capacitor. A charging and discharging controller is used to monitor the status of a power supply and control the charging and discharging of the ultra capacitors. |
| US08035355B2 |
Charge-controlling semiconductor integrated circuit
Disclosed is a charge-controlling semiconductor integrated circuit including: a current-controlling MOS transistor; a current detection circuit including a 1/N size current-detecting MOS transistor; and a gate voltage control circuit, wherein the current detection circuit includes an operational amplifier circuit, a bias condition of the current-detecting MOS transistor becomes same as the current-controlling MOS transistor based on an operational amplifier circuit output, voltage drops in lines from drain electrode to a corresponding input point of the operational amplifier circuit become the same by a parasitic resistance, and when the output of the operational amplifier circuit is applied to a control terminal of the bias condition controlling transistor, the drain voltages become the same potential, and the line from the drain electrode of the current-detecting MOS transistor to the input point is formed to be redundantly arranged inside the chip so that a parasitic resistance becomes a predetermined value. |
| US08035354B2 |
Battery full-charge detection for charge-and-play circuits
The present invention relates to a battery charge circuit (100) in a charge-and-play mode capable to reliably determine the completion of a battery charging operation has been described. Such a determination takes into account the behavior of the battery charge circuit (100) with respect to the temperature, the activity of the circuitry (30) and the source current limitation. Thus, a distinction can be made between a decrease of the battery charge current ICHG below the end-of-charge current level caused by the full-charge state of the battery (20) and by the activation of temperature and current regulation circuits. Furthermore, the battery charge circuit (100) is also configured such that it can be warned both that the activity of the circuitry (30) is to be limited and, by a timer (800) measuring the time interval during which the battery charge current ICHG has been reduced to zero, that the battery (20) is being discharged. |
| US08035351B2 |
Information processing apparatus
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus powered by a battery and an external power supply, comprises a power supply circuit which comprises a temperature sensor and converts power obtained from the external power supply and supplies a first charge current to the battery, and a controller which supplies a current to the battery with a second charge current smaller than the first charge current if a temperature received from the temperature sensor has exceeded a threshold, and supplies the current to the battery with the first charge current if both the temperature received from the temperature sensor and a battery level have exceeded corresponding thresholds. |
| US08035348B2 |
Battery overheating protection circuit
A battery overheating protection circuit includes a thermal resistor samples the temperature of the battery and converts the temperature into a temperature voltage, a comparison circuit compares the temperature voltage with a reference voltage for judging whether the temperature of the battery is higher than the maximum reference temperatures temperature or not. If yes, the comparison circuit outputs a protection signal to drive a charging module to stop charging the battery in the charging process, and to cut off the conducting path to draw power from the battery in the discharging process. The present invention sets two different maximum reference temperatures during charging process and discharging process by a reference voltage module, which makes the maximum allowable discharging temperature is higher than the maximum allowable charging temperature. |
| US08035336B2 |
Charger slipcover and handheld device
A charger slipcover and a handheld device comprising the charger slipcover are disclosed. The charger slipcover is suitable for charging a handheld device. The charger slipcover comprises a cover including a first portion and a second portion, wherein a handheld device body of the handheld device is suitable to being disposed on an inner surface of the second portion; a solar cell panel disposed on an inner surface of the first portion of the cover; and two conductive wires electrically connected to the solar cell panel and the handheld device body. |
| US08035333B2 |
Fan motor speed control circuit, fan apparatus, and electronic apparatus
A fan motor speed control circuit includes: a driving circuit configured to drive a fan motor so as to run at a rotation speed corresponding to a drive signal; a comparison circuit configured to output a comparison signal for matching a rotation speed of the fan motor with a target rotation speed, based on a reference signal corresponding to the target rotation speed of the fan motor and a speed signal corresponding to the rotation speed of the fan motor; and a selection circuit configured to output to the driving circuit the drive signal corresponding to one signal out of the reference signal and the comparison signal, the one signal being a signal by which the fan motor is driven at a higher rotation speed. |
| US08035332B2 |
Motor apparatus and method
A method of operating a motor, the method comprising: operating a motor at a first speed; operating the motor in negative slip; imbalancing at least one phase of the motor to dissipate regeneration energy using windings of the motor; and wherein a next motor speed is decreased to a speed less than the first speed. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also presented. |
| US08035331B2 |
AC/DC converting circuit and motor controller using the same
An AC/DC converting circuit, has a full-bridge rectifier having two input terminals and two output terminals, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, an electronic switch having a control terminal, a trigger circuit having an input terminal and an output terminal, and a detecting circuit having an input terminal and an output terminal. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are serially connected between the output terminals of the full-bridge rectifier, the input terminals of the full-bridge rectifier are connected to an AC input, one end of the electronic switch is connected between the first capacitor and the second capacitor, the other end of the electronic switch is connected to one of the output terminals of the full-bridge rectifier, the input terminal and the output terminal of the detecting circuit are connected to the output terminals of the full-bridge rectifier, the output terminal of the detecting circuit is connected to an input terminal of the trigger circuit, and the output terminal of the trigger circuit is connected to the control terminal of the electronic switch. |
| US08035328B2 |
State memorizing device for movable member
A state memorizing device for a movable member, includes a lock state determining portion for determining whether or not the movable member, driven by a motor, is in a locked state, based on a motor current, an initial positional information memorizing portion for memorizing an initial positional information indicative of a current position of the movable member before the motor is started, a current positional information calculating portion for calculating a current positional information indicative of the current position of the movable member on the basis of the position indicated by the initial positional information and the motor current, and a current positional information correcting portion for determining the current position of the movable member based on the initial positional information in a case where the locked state of the movable member is detected and an electrification of the motor is stopped after the motor has just been started. |
| US08035327B2 |
Motor drive unit and optical apparatus
A motor drive unit includes a controller configured to drive a motor to a target position by using a first driving mode in which a state of energization of coils of the motor is switched in accordance with outputs from rotor position detectors and a second driving mode in which a state of energization of the coils is switched on the basis of a predetermined time interval. The controller turns on the energization of the coils during a predetermined time under an energization condition at a completion of driving to the target position when the rotor position detectors detect that the rotor position shifts from the target position after turning off the energization of the coils according to the completion of driving to the target position. |
| US08035326B2 |
Fan and controlling device thereof
A fan is electrically connected with an alternating current power source. The fan includes an impeller, a motor and a controlling device. The controlling device includes a commutating unit, a magnetic detecting unit, a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a third switching unit and a controlling unit. The alternating current power source is electrically connected with the first switching unit, the second switching unit and the commutating unit, respectively. The commutating unit is electrically connected with the magnetic detecting unit and the controlling unit, respectively. The controlling unit is electrically connected with the third switching unit and the first switching unit, respectively. The third switching unit is electrically connected with the second switching unit. The first switching unit and the second switching unit are electrically connected with the motor, respectively. A controlling device of the fan is also disclosed. |
| US08035325B2 |
Single-phase brushless motor
The single-phase brushless motor according to one aspect of the present invention includes a coil array having a plurality of magnetic coils 11-14; a magnet array having a plurality of permanent magnets 31-34; a magnetic sensor 40 for detecting relative position of the magnet array and the coil array; and a drive control circuit that, utilizing the output signal SSA of the magnetic sensor, generates application voltage for driving the coil array with a single-phase drive signal. The coil array includes a magnetic member 20. This magnetic member 20 is constituted such that, with the single-phase brushless motor at a stop, the centers of the permanent magnets 31-34 come to a stop at locations offsetted from the centers of the magnetic coils 11-14, due to attraction of the magnetic member 20 by the magnet array. |
| US08035318B2 |
Apparatus and method enabling fully dimmable operation of a compact fluorescent lamp
An electronic ballast circuit and related method for enabling full range dimming of a gas discharge load such as a compact fluorescent lamp. |
| US08035316B2 |
Current-limiting protection circuit of a remotely controlled ceiling fan-lamp
A current-limiting protection circuit of remotely controlled ceiling fan-lamp is disclosed. The current-limiting protection circuit includes a microcontroller unit for detecting rectangular wave signal reflective of the power used by a lamp load. The rectangular wave signal is compared with nominal value. In the case that the positive bandwidth of the rectangular wave signal is larger than the nominal value, it is indicated that the lamp load is in an overloaded state. Under such circumstance, the microcontroller unit controls a lamp load driving unit to change driving manner and lower the power used by the lamp load to a value within the nominal range. |
| US08035314B2 |
Method and device for LED channel managment in LED driver
Disclosed are example open channel detection techniques at a light emitting diode (LED) driver of an LED system. The LED driver does not enable its LED channels before normal operation so as to inhibit current flow through the LED channels during start-up. While the LED channels are disabled, the LED driver compares the voltages at the LED channel inputs with a predetermined voltage to determine whether an operational LED string of an associated LED panel is connected to the LED channel. In the event that an LED channel is determined to be an “open” channel, the LED driver further disables the LED channel for the following normal operational mode. Otherwise, if the LED channel is determined to be connected to an operational LED string, the LED driver enables the LED channel for the normal operational mode, during which the LED channel can be selectively activated for light output subject to display data for the LED panel. |
| US08035312B2 |
System for supplying current to a load
A system for supplying current to a load is disclosed. One embodiment provides a switching converter for providing a load current to the load. The switching regulator includes a switching circuit. A current control unit generates a modulated current control signal representing a desired load current. The switching circuit is driven dependent on the modulated current control signal. A logic circuit receives a pulse-width-modulated control signal representing a desired dimming ratio and is configured to generate a gate signal for driving the switching circuit dependent on the current control signal during a duty cycle of the pulse-width-modulated control signal. The logic circuit is configured to activate the switching converter, independent on the state of the current control signal, at the beginning of the duty cycle of the pulse-width-modulated control signal. |
| US08035311B2 |
Light-emitting semiconductor device driver and method
An electronic device includes circuitry for driving a light-emitting diode (LED) or other light-emitting semiconductor device. The circuitry includes a first switch (NM5) coupled with the light-emitting semiconductor device (LED) for switching a current (ILED) through the light-emitting semiconductor device (LED); a sensing means (RSENS) for sensing a magnitude of the current (ILED) and outputting a respective sensing signal (SEN); an error amplifier (AMP2) for receiving the sensing signal (SEN) and a target value (ISET) for the current (ILED) for providing a first control voltage (VG1) based on the deviation of the actually sensed current magnitude and the current target value (ISET); a lowpass filter coupled to the error amplifier (AMP2) for filtering the first control voltage (VG1) and providing a second control voltage (VG2); a voltage follower (NM3) coupled to the lowpass filter and the first switch for receiving the second control voltage (VG2) and providing a third control voltage (VG3) for controlling the first switch's (NM5) switching activity; and a second switch (PM1, NM4) for switching a supply current (IDS3) of the voltage follower (NM3) for switching the voltage follower (NM3) on and off. |
| US08035310B2 |
Circuit for driving light source
A light source driving circuit including a driving module, a plurality of first switches, a detecting unit, and a control unit is provided. The plurality of first switches is respectively coupled to corresponding light sources and these light sources are driven by the driving module. The detecting unit is coupled to the driving module to detect a working parameter of each light source and transmit the working parameter to the control unit. When the detecting unit detects some of these light sources are broken down, the control unit sequentially turns on the first switches to find out the failed light source. Moreover, the first switch coupled to the failed light source is remained on, and the driving signal is regulated according to the number of the failed light source, such that the brightness of the panel does not decrease. |
| US08035309B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes an electronic driver and a planar light emitting element. The driver is connected with a source and the light emitting element, where the light emitting element has an internal capacitance and is connected to the driver in such a way that the internal capacitance serves as a passive output filter of the driver. |
| US08035308B2 |
Software controlled electronic dimming ballast
A software controlled electronic dimming ballast for preheating, striking, and varying the dimming level of a lamp. In one embodiment, the ballast includes an EMI filter circuit, an AC/DC converter circuit, a PFC circuit, an inverter circuit, and a software controlled microcontroller circuit. The microcontroller circuit includes a microcontroller and software for generating inverter control signals that cause the inverter circuit to preheat, strike, and varying the dimming level of the lamp. The inverter control signals are generated based on dimming control and lamp dimming level feedback signals. The ballast also includes a lamp dimming level feedback signal conditioning circuit for generating the lamp dimming level feedback signals. Alternative embodiments of the ballast are also described. |
| US08035307B2 |
AC to DC LED illumination devices, systems and methods
Illumination devices (10), systems and methods that convert an alternating current (AC) supply (14) to a direct current (DC) for powering a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) are disclosed. An illumination device (10) comprises a full wave rectifier (12) for converting the AC supply into a direct current (DC). A current limiting diode (CLD) module (16), comprising at least two CLDs coupled in parallel, is coupled in series to an output of the full wave rectifier and a light emitting diode (LED) module (18) comprising a plurality of LEDs is coupled in series between an output of the CLD module (16) and the full wave rectifier (12). |
| US08035306B2 |
Device for setting luminosity of light-emitting diodes
The invention concerns a circuit for setting all types of LED'S (7), mounted in series of five, their particular arrangements in series of five, powered by a direct voltage higher than 14 volts, using an LM 317 T regulator (1) and a potentiometer of 4.7 kOhms (8) providing them with a variable luminance. Complementary setting resistors (R1, R2, R3), are arranged in series or in parallel, on the trigger or at the regulator output, so as to obtain a setting stroke starting form the outset of the illumination that is around 7.5 volts, up to its maximum performance around 12.5 volts. The invention is designed to replace all the applications where fixed LED'S are used. |
| US08035303B1 |
Electrode configurations for gas discharge device
Electrode configurations for a gas discharge device such as a plasma display panel (PDP) having one or more substrates and a multiplicity of pixels or sub-pixels defined by a hollow plasma-shell filled with an ionizable gas. In one embodiment, there is used a plasma-dome having a dome and an opposing flat side. One or more addressing electrodes are in electrical contact with each plasma-dome, at least one electrode being in contact with a side of the plasma-dome that is flat. The gas discharge device may include inorganic and/or organic luminescent substances that are excited by a gas discharge within each plasma-dome or by photons emitted from another luminescent substance. The luminescent substance is located on an exterior and/or interior surface of the plasma-dome and/or incorporated into the shell of the plasma-dome. The shell may be made of one or more luminescent substances. |
| US08035298B2 |
Organic light emitting display having electrostatic discharge protection
An organic light emitting display in which an electrostatic discharge circuit is formed on a non-pixel area of a substrate is disclosed. The electrostatic discharge circuit comprises a first electrode layer, a first insulating layer formed on the first electrode layer and a second electrode layer formed on the first insulating layer. The first electrode layer and the second electrode layer each comprise a protruding electrode formed to extend horizontally toward the other of the first and second electrode layers. According to the organic light emitting display, it is possible to prevent a pixel and a driver included in the organic light emitting display from being damaged by electrostatic discharge by dissipating the electrostatic discharge current through the protruding electrode. |
| US08035296B2 |
Organic light-emitting apparatus with resin layer extending from light-emitting section over wiring lines
An organic light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate, a plurality of organic light-emitting devices which are arranged above the substrate and which form a light-emitting section, a circuit section which is disposed around the light-emitting section and which controls the operation of the organic light-emitting devices, a plurality of wiring lines extending between the light-emitting section and the circuit section, and a resin layer which extends in the light-emitting section and which extends from the light-emitting section over the wiring lines. The resin layer has gaps extending between the wiring lines. |
| US08035294B2 |
Electron beam apparatus and image display apparatus therewith
In an electron beam apparatus including an electron emission element and an anode, the electron emission element includes a gate 5 and a cathode 6 having a projection portion. The gate 5 and the cathode 6 are located in a surface of an insulating member 3 including a recess 7. The projection portion of the cathode 6 has a height distribution, and an average value dav (m) of a shortest distance between the gate 5 and the projection portion of the cathode 6 and a difference h (m) between the average value dav and a shortest distance dmin (m) from the gate 5 to a maximum convex portion of the projection portion of the cathode 6 satisfy a relationship of h/dav<0.39. |
| US08035288B2 |
Material for preparing protective layer and plasma display panel comprising the protective layer
A plasma display panel (PDP) including a protective layer and a material for preparing the protective layer that can be easily fabricated and has little defects, includes a magnesium oxide (MgO) powder including a cathode rays emission spectrum having a first emission peak in a wavelength in the range of 300 to 450 nm, a second emission peak in a wavelength in the range of 650 to 750 nm, and an intensity ratio between 1:0.15 and 0.40 as an intensity ratio of the second emission peak with respect to the first emission peak. |
| US08035283B2 |
Resonant actuator
A piezoelectric ceramic base member is formed of a bar shaped bismuth layer compound, and has main electrodes on two end surfaces in an oscillation direction, with connection electrodes at side-surface central portions of the piezoelectric ceramic base member electrically connected to the main electrodes through extraction conductors interposed therebetween, respectively. The oscillation and polarization directions are set in the same direction, and the piezoelectric ceramic base member is driven at a resonant frequency or at a frequency in the vicinity thereof. The crystal c axis is preferably oriented in a direction orthogonal to the polarization direction. The resonant actuator is able to obtain a high oscillation speed as it has a large mechanical quality factor Qm, and the oscillation is not disturbed by mechanical factors. |
| US08035282B2 |
Piezoelectric vibrator and electrode structure of piezoelectric vibrator
Provided are a piezoelectric vibrator and an electrode structure of the piezoelectric vibrator. The piezoelectric vibrator includes a piezoelectric material vibrating according to an electric signal, first and second electrode structures formed on the upper surface and the undersurface of the piezoelectric material, and including first to fourth layers sequentially stacked thereon, respectively. The first and third layers are formed of an alloy including Cr. The second and fourth layers are formed of Ag or an alloy including Ag. |
| US08035280B2 |
MEMS vibrating structure using a single-crystal piezoelectric thin-film layer having domain inversions
The present invention relates to a micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) vibrating structure supported by a MEMS anchor system, and includes a single-crystal piezoelectric thin-film layer having domain inversions, which determine certain vibrational characteristics of the MEMS vibrating structure. The MEMS vibrating structure may have dominant lateral vibrations or dominant thickness vibrations. The single-crystal piezoelectric thin-film layer may include Lithium Tantalate or Lithium Niobate, and may provide MEMS vibrating structures with precise sizes and shapes, which may provide high accuracy and enable fabrication of multiple resonators having different resonant frequencies on a single substrate. |
| US08035270B2 |
Wheel motor
A wheel motor can include a stator adapted to be coupled to a vehicle. The stator can include a body portion and a core extending radially outward from the body portion. A rotor can be disposed about the stator and can have a portion positioned radially outboard of and around the stator core. The rotor can include a plurality of magnets aligned with the stator core, and can be adapted to be coupled to a rotatable vehicle component. At least one winding element can be disposed circumferentially around the stator core, and a controller can be positioned in a pocket integrally formed in the stator body portion. The controller can be coupled to the at least one winding element and can be arranged to selectively provide a current supply to the at least one winding element to generate a magnetic flux to rotate the rotor relative to the stator. |
| US08035266B2 |
Axial gap motor
An axial gap motor includes: a rotor; and a stator, wherein: the rotor includes a plurality of main permanent magnet parts and a plurality of auxiliary permanent magnet parts, the auxiliary permanent magnet parts being disposed near an end portion of each of the main permanent magnet parts and a magnetizing direction of each of the auxiliary permanent magnet parts corresponding to a direction perpendicular to the direction of the rotational axis; each of the stators includes a plurality of teeth arranged in a circumferential direction and protruding toward the rotor along the rotational axis, and a circumferential distance between a circumferential direction first end and a circumferential direction second end of each of the auxiliary permanent magnet parts on a surface opposite the stator is larger than a slot width of a slot defined between the teeth adjacent in the circumferential direction. |
| US08035265B2 |
Motor stator and molded motor
A motor stator is disclosed. Each of a first phase, second phase and third phase of three-phase winding has multiple toroidal coils and crossover wires connecting the coils. The crossover wire of the first phase runs inside the second phase coil and the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the second phase runs over the first phase coil with a guide by guide posts and runs inside the third phase coil. The crossover wire of the third phase runs over the first phase coil and the second phase coil with a guide by the guide posts. |
| US08035261B2 |
Method and device for cooling an electric machine
In a slowly-running electric machine, such as a bulb turbine generator, air circulation for cooling is supplied by externally driven fans. A cooling device is mounted on the pressure or the suction side of the fan and the rotor and the stator are mounted on the suction side of the fan. |
| US08035259B2 |
Electric motor starting device
An electric motor starting device for an electric motor that incorporates air, gas, liquid or electrically actuated engine starter to initiate rotation of an electric motor and its associated driven component. Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatus and method for starting an electric motor whether or not it is being used to drive any type of mechanical or electrical device, and are consistent with use as an alternative to or in conjunction with any electric motor starting method or technology. |
| US08035258B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing standoff capabilities of in-service power line insulators
An electrical power transmission system includes electrical insulators arranged to electrically isolate live power lines. Measurement devices are physically incorporated or integrated in the insulator structures. The measurement devices measure and report insulator properties during live wire conditions. |
| US08035251B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply
An uninterruptible power supply includes an input switching circuit, an AC-to-DC converting circuit, a bus capacitor, an energy storage unit, a charging circuit, a DC-to-DC converting circuit, and a system control circuit. The input switching circuit receives an input AC voltage. The AC-to-DC converting circuit is used for converting the input AC voltage into a bus voltage. The energy storage unit is used for storing electric energy. The charging circuit is used for charging the energy storage unit. The DC-to-DC converting circuit is used for converting the energy storage unit connecting node voltage into a regulated DC voltage. The system control circuit is used for controlling operations of the uninterruptible power supply. When the uninterruptible power supply is initiated, the AC-to-DC converting circuit is disabled and the bus capacitor is charged by the DC-to-DC converting circuit under control of the system control circuit. |
| US08035249B2 |
Distributed maximum power point tracking system, structure and process
Distributed maximum power point tracking systems, structures, and processes are provided for power generation structures, such as for but not limited to a solar panel arrays. In an exemplary solar panel string structure, distributed maximum power point tracking (DMPPT) modules are provided, such as integrated into or retrofitted for each solar panel. The DMPPT modules provide panel level control for startup, operation, monitoring, and shutdown, and further provide flexible design and operation for strings of multiple panels. The strings are typically linked in parallel to a combiner box, and then toward and enhanced inverter module, which is typically connected to a power grid. Enhanced inverters are controllable either locally or remotely, wherein system status is readily determined, and operation of one or more sections of the system are readily controlled. The system provides increased operation time, and increased power production and efficiency, over a wide range of operating conditions. |
| US08035246B2 |
Torque limiting coupling for wind turbine
A direct-drive power train of a wind power plant is protected from over-torque by a torque limiting device. The power train includes a turbine rotor including a hub and blades supported on the hub, and a generator including a stator and a generator rotor rotatably disposed within the stator. The generator rotor includes a generator rotor body, a rotor shaft, and the torque limiting device connects the generator rotor body to the rotor shaft. The torque limiting device is configured to support the generator rotor body within the stator and allow coaxial rotation of the rotor body relative to the stator. The hub and the generator rotor are connected by the rotor shaft, and the rotor shaft rotates at the same frequency as the hub. |
| US08035245B1 |
Windpower generator apparatus with auxiliary generators
An electrical energy apparatus has a shaft, a first arm extending radially outwardly from the shaft, a second arm extending radially outwardly from the shaft in spaced relationship to the first arm, a third arm extending radially outwardly from the shaft in spaced relationship to the first and second arms, a first set of vanes extending outwardly of the first arm, a second set of vanes extending outwardly of the second arm, a third set of vanes extending outwardly of the third arm, and a generator cooperative with the shaft for producing electrical energy relative to a rotation of the shaft. A magnetic inductor is connected to a vane so as to coordinate movement of the vanes during rotation. |
| US08035244B2 |
Impulse rotor generator
An impulse rotor generator is provided for generating power in response to a primary mud flow in a drill string. The generator comprises a power rotor, at least one stationary magnetic pickup, and a pickup coil mounted on the at least one stationary magnetic pickup. The power rotor is positioned at least in part in the primary mud flow and is rotatable in response to the primary mud flow, the power rotor having an axis of rotation that is transverse to said primary mud flow. The power rotor is provided with a plurality of magnets affixed thereto, the magnets being arranged so as to magnetically couple with the at least one stationary magnetic pickup. Upon rotation of the power rotor in response to the primary mud flow, a current is produced in the pickup coil mounted on the at least one stationary magnetic pickup. |
| US08035242B2 |
Wind turbine farm and method of controlling at least one wind turbine
A method of controlling a wind turbine that includes at least one rotor shaft and at least one blade operatively coupled to the rotor shaft includes measuring a first wind turbine operational condition that is representative of a blade deflection value and generating a first operational condition signal based on that first wind turbine operational condition. The wind turbine also includes a drive train including at least one rotor shaft and an electric generator. The method also includes measuring at least one second wind turbine operational condition and generating at least one second operational condition signal. The method further includes changing the blade deflection value by changing the second operational condition. |
| US08035240B2 |
Systems and methods for synchronous speed avoidance in doubly-fed induction generators
The disclosure details implementations of apparatuses, methods, and systems for facilitating efficient operational characteristics for wind turbine generators. The system includes features that facilitate protecting the power semiconductors used in the power converters of variable speed power generation systems from excessive junction temperatures. These features may be achieved by implementing a synchronous speed avoidance (SSA) controller implemented to facilitate a determined active control range as an electrical torque/power-generator rotor speed controller. The determined active control range may be centered around a generator synchronous speed. The upper and lower bounds of the active control range are determined based on operational junction temperature characteristics of power semiconductors used within a power converter, reliability characteristics of the power semiconductors and/or current ratings of the power semiconductors. |
| US08035236B2 |
Semiconductor device comprising high performance encapsulation resins
A semiconductor device comprising curable polyorganosiloxane composites is provided where the composites contain at least 0.1 wt % of the 4th and/or 13th group elements of the periodic table. The cured polyorganosiloxane composites may be catalyst-free, have increased stability, and can be used as encapsulation resin at a temperature far lower than 300° C., have excellent light transmission properties (colorless transparency) in a wavelength region of from ultraviolet light to visible light, light resistance, heat resistance, resistance to moist heat and UV resistance, and has excellent adhesiveness toward metal, ceramics, and plastic surfaces over a long period of time. |
| US08035235B2 |
Integrated circuit packaging system with package-on-package and method of manufacture thereof
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing an encapsulation system having a mold chase with a buffer layer attached thereto; forming a base integrated circuit package including: providing a base substrate, connecting an exposed interconnect to the base substrate, a portion of the exposed interconnect having the buffer layer attached thereon, mounting a base component over the base substrate, forming a base encapsulation over the base substrate and the exposed interconnect using the encapsulation system; and releasing the encapsulation system providing the portion of the exposed interconnect exposed from the base encapsulation, the exposed interconnect having characteristics of the buffer layer removed. |
| US08035233B2 |
Adjacent substantially flexible substrates having integrated circuits that are bonded together by non-polymeric layer
A Three-Dimensional Structure (3DS) Memory allows for physical separation of the memory circuits and the control logic circuit onto different layers such that each layer may be separately optimized. One control logic circuit suffices for several memory circuits, reducing cost Fabrication of 3DS memory involves thinning of the memory circuit to less than 50 μm in thickness and bonding the circuit to a circuit stack while still in wafer substrate form. Fine-grain high density inter-layer vertical bus connections are used. The 3DS memory manufacturing method enables several performance and physical size efficiencies, and is implemented with established semiconductor processing techniques. |
| US08035232B2 |
Semiconductor device including interconnects, vias connecting the interconnects and greater thickness of the liner film adjacent the vias
An interlayer insulating film is formed on the upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, and lower-level interconnects are formed in the interlayer insulating film. A liner insulating film is formed on the upper surfaces of the interlayer insulating film and lower-level interconnects. An interlayer insulating film is formed on the upper surface of the liner insulating film. Upper-level interconnects are formed in the interlayer insulating film. The lower-level interconnects and the upper-level interconnects are connected with each other through vias. Parts of the liner insulating film formed in via-adjacent regions have a greater thickness than a part thereof formed outside the via-adjacent regions. |
| US08035225B2 |
Semiconductor chip assembly and fabrication method therefor
A semiconductor chip dual-sided assembly which has a higher degree of reliability of connections between semiconductor chips and a circuit substrate is realized. This is achieved by the assembly including a plurality of upper side pads (2a) provided on a substrate upper surface (1a); a plurality of lower side pads (2b) provided on a substrate lower surface (1b) corresponding to the upper side pads (2a) across the substrate (1), respectively; a first semiconductor chip (4) having first bumps (8a) joined to the upper side pads (2a), respectively; and a second semiconductor chip (5) having second bumps (8b) joined to the lower side pads (2b), respectively. |
| US08035218B2 |
Microelectronic package and method of manufacturing same
A microelectronic package includes a first substrate (120) having a first surface area (125) and a second substrate (130) having a second surface area (135). The first substrate includes a first set of interconnects (126) having a first pitch (127) at a first surface (121) and a second set of interconnects (128) having a second pitch (129) at a second surface (222). The second substrate is coupled to the first substrate using the second set of interconnects and includes a third set of interconnects (236) having a third pitch (237) and internal electrically conductive layers (233, 234) connected to each other with a microvia (240). The first pitch is smaller than the second pitch, the second pitch is smaller than the third pitch, and the first surface area is smaller than the second surface area. |
| US08035217B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing same
A transparent board is positioned on a support board provided with a positioning mark, and a release material is provided. A semiconductor element is then positioned so that the electrode element faces upward, and the support board is then removed. An insulating resin is then formed on the release material so as to cover the semiconductor element; and a via, a wiring layer, an insulation layer, an external terminal, and a solder resist are then formed. The transparent board is then peeled from the semiconductor device through the use of the release material. A chip can thereby be mounted with high precision, there is no need to provide a positioning mark during mounting of the chip on the substrate in the manufacturing process, and the substrate can easily be removed. As a result, a semiconductor device having high density and a thin profile can be manufactured at low cost. |
| US08035216B2 |
Integrated circuit package and method of manufacturing same
Decoupling capacitors are frequently used in computer systems in order to control noise. In general, decoupling capacitors are placed as close as possible to the devices they protect in order to minimize the amount of line inductance and series resistance between the devices and the capacitors. An integrated circuit package includes a substrate (110, 210) having a first surface (111, 211) and an opposing second surface (112, 212), and a die platform (130, 230) adjacent to the first surface of the substrate. The substrate has a recess (120, 220) therein. The integrated circuit package further includes a capacitor (140, 240) in the recess of the substrate. The presence of a recess in the substrate provides an opportunity to reduce the separation distance between a die supported by the die platform and the decoupling capacitors. A further advantage of embodiments of the invention lies in its ability to maintain socket compatibility. |
| US08035215B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same
The invention is directed to prevent corrosion of a semiconductor device. In the semiconductor device manufacturing method of the invention, a semiconductor substrate is etched from its back surface in a position corresponding to a first wiring formed on the semiconductor substrate with a first insulation film therebetween, to form a first opening exposing the first insulation film. Next, the insulation film exposed in the first opening is etched to form a second opening exposing the first wiring, and then the semiconductor substrate is etched to increase a diameter of the first opening and form a first opening having the larger diameter. Then, a second insulation film is formed on the back surface of the semiconductor substrate including on the first wiring through the first and second openings, and then the second insulation film covering the first wiring is etched. |
| US08035213B2 |
Chip package structure and method of manufacturing the same
A chip package structure and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The chip package structure includes a package portion and a plurality of external conductors. The package portion includes a distribution layer, a chip, a plurality internal conductors and a sealant. The distribution layer has a first surface and a second surface, and the chip is disposed on the first surface. Each internal conductor has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is disposed on the first surface. The sealant is disposed on the first surface for covering the chip and partly encapsulating the internal conductors, so that the first terminal and the second terminal of each internal conductor are exposed from the sealant. The external conductors disposed on the second surface of the distribution layer of the package portion are electrically connected to the internal conductors. |
| US08035210B2 |
Integrated circuit package system with interposer
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit package system includes: providing a base substrate; coupling a base integrated circuit on the base substrate; forming a double side molded interposer unit over the base integrated circuit including: providing an interposer substrate having an interposer top and an interposer bottom, mounting a first integrated circuit to the interposer bottom and electrically connected thereto, mounting a second integrated circuit to the interposer top and electrically connected thereto, and molding a first chip cover on the first integrated circuit and a second chip cover on the second integrated circuit; and coupling an external component to the double side molded interposer unit. |
| US08035208B2 |
Integrated circuit package
Package for an integrated circuit (IC), includes a housing (3) of a first material having two major surfaces (4, 5). The major surfaces are substantially parallel to each other. Furthermore, a lead frame (6) is present for carrying the IC (2), the lead frame (6) including contact terminals (7) for electrical communication with the IC (2). The package (1) has a through-hole (8) in the two major surfaces (4, 5), allowing various special applications of the package (1). |
| US08035198B2 |
Through wafer via and method of making same
A through wafer via structure. The structure includes: a semiconductor substrate having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface; and an array of through wafer vias comprising at least one electrically conductive through wafer via and at least one electrically non-conductive through wafer via, each through wafer via of the array of through wafer vias extending from the top surface of the substrate to between greater than halfway to and all the way to the bottom surface of the substrate. Also methods for fabricating the though wafer via structure. |
| US08035190B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A device comprises a first sub-collector formed in an upper portion of a substrate and a lower portion of a first epitaxial layer and a second sub-collector formed in an upper portion of the first epitaxial layer and a lower portion of a second epitaxial layer. The device further comprises a reach-through structure connecting the first and second sub-collectors and an N-well formed in a portion of the second epitaxial layer and in contact with the second sub-collector and the reach-through structure. The device further comprises N+ diffusion regions in contact with the N-well, a P+ diffusion region in contact with the N-well, and shallow trench isolation structures between the N+ and P+ diffusion regions. |
| US08035188B2 |
Semiconductor device
Plural I/O cells (14) having electrode pads for wire bonding (13) are disposed with spaces (55) between them in the vicinity of a corner of an I/O region (11) of a semiconductor substrate (10), and power supply separation cells (16) not to be wire bonded, on which ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection circuits (4) having ESD protection transistors are amounted, are disposed between the respective I/O cells (14), whereby the chip size is reduced upon consideration of layout of the electrode pads. |
| US08035182B2 |
Sensor, solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A sensor is provided. The sensor includes semiconductor layer; a photodiode, an impurity-doped polycrystalline silicon layer; and a gate electrode. The photodiode is formed in the semiconductor layer. The impurity-doped polycrystalline silicon layer is formed above the semiconductor layer. The gate electrode applies a gate voltage to the polycrystalline silicon layer. A wiring layer is provided on a first surface of the semiconductor layer and light is incident on a second surface thereof. |
| US08035175B2 |
Field effect transistor for detecting ionic material and method of detecting ionic material using the same
A field effect transistor for detecting ionic material and a method of detecting ionic material using the field effect transistor. The field effect transistor for detecting ionic material includes a substrate formed of a semiconductor material, a source region and a drain region spaced apart from each other in the substrate and doped with an opposite conductivity type to that of the substrate, a channel region interposed between the source region and the drain region, an insulating layer disposed on the channel region and formed of an electrically insulating material, a first reference electrode disposed at an edge of the upper portion of the insulating layer and a second reference electrode disposed to be spaced apart from the insulating layer. |
| US08035171B2 |
CMOS image sensor
A pixel of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes for sensing light to thereby generate photoelectric charges in different regions; a plurality of transfer transistors for transferring photoelectric charges of corresponding photodiodes in response to a first control signal; a floating diffusion region for receiving photoelectric charges transferred by the plurality of transfer transistors; a rest transistor connected between a power supply voltage and the floating diffusion region for resetting the floating diffusion region by controlling a voltage loaded on the floating diffusion region in response to a second control signal; a drive transistor connected between the power supply voltage and the floating diffusion region to serve as a source follower buffer amplifier; and a select transistor connected between the drive transistor and a pixel output terminal for performing an addressing operation in response to a third control signal. |
| US08035167B2 |
Complementary bipolar semiconductor device
A complementary bipolar semiconductor device (CBi semiconductor device) comprising a substrate of a first conductivity type, active bipolar transistor regions in the substrate, in which the base, emitter and collector of vertical bipolar transistors are arranged, vertical epitaxial-base npn bipolar transistors in a first subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, vertical epitaxial-base pnp bipolar transistors in a second subset of the active bipolar transistor regions, collector contact regions which are respectively arranged adjoining an active bipolar transistor region, and shallow field insulation regions which respectively laterally delimit the active bipolar transistor regions and the collector contact regions, wherein arranged between the first or the second or both the first and also the second subset of active bipolar transistor regions on the one hand and the adjoining collector contact regions on the other hand is a respective shallow field insulation region of a first type with a first depthwise extent in the direction of the substrate interior and shallow field insulation regions of a second type of a second greater depthwise extent than the first depthwise extent of the active bipolar transistor regions delimit the active bipolar transistor regions and collector contact regions viewed in cross-section at their sides facing away from each other. |
| US08035163B2 |
Low-cost double-structure substrates and methods for their manufacture
In preferred embodiments, the invention provides substrates that include a support, a first insulating layer arranged on the support, a non-mono-crystalline semi-conducting layer arranged on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer arranged on the non-mono-crystalline semi-conducting layer; and top layer disposed on the second insulating layer. Additionally, a first gate electrode can be formed on the top layer and a second gate electrode can be formed in the non-mono-crystalline semi-conducting layer. The invention also provides methods for manufacture of such substrates. |
| US08035162B2 |
System and method for ESD protection
An integrated receiver with channel selection and image rejection substantially implemented on a single CMOS integrated circuit is described. A receiver front end provides programmable attenuation and a programmable gain low noise amplifier. Frequency conversion circuitry advantageously uses LC filters integrated onto the substrate in conjunction with image reject mixers to provide sufficient image frequency rejection. Filter tuning and inductor Q compensation over temperature are performed on chip. The filters utilize multi track spiral inductors. The filters are tuned using local oscillators to tune a substitute filter, and frequency scaling during filter component values to those of the filter being tuned. In conjunction with filtering, frequency planning provides additional image rejection. The advantageous choice of local oscillator signal generation methods on chip is by PLL out of band local oscillation and by direct synthesis for in band local oscillator. The VCOs in the PLLs are centered using a control circuit to center the tuning capacitance range. A differential crystal oscillator is advantageously used as a frequency reference. Differential signal transmission is advantageously used throughout the receiver. ESD protection is provided by a pad ring and ESD clamping structure that maintains signal integrity. Also provided are shunts at each pin to discharge ESD build up. The shunts utilize a gate boosting structure to provide sufficient small signal RF performance, and minimal parasitic loading. |
| US08035161B2 |
Semiconductor component
A semiconductor component resistant to the formation of a parasitic bipolar transistor and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor component using a reduced number of masking steps. A semiconductor material of N-type conductivity having a region of P-type conductivity is provided. A doped region of N-type conductivity is formed in the region of P-type conductivity. Trenches are formed in a semiconductor material and extend through the regions of N-type and P-type conductivities. A field oxide is formed from the semiconductor material such that portions of the trenches extend under the field oxide. The field oxide serves as an implant mask in the formation of source regions. Body contact regions are formed from the semiconductor material and an electrical conductor is formed in contact with the source and body regions. An electrical conductor is formed in contact with the backside of the semiconductor material. |
| US08035160B2 |
Recessed access device for a memory
Semiconductor memory devices having recessed access devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of forming the recessed access device includes forming a device recess in a substrate material that extends to a first depth in the substrate that includes a gate oxide layer in the recess. The device recess may be extended to a second depth that is greater that the first depth to form an extended portion of the device recess. A field oxide layer may be provided within an interior of the device recess that extends inwardly into the interior of the device recess and into the substrate. Active regions may be formed in the substrate that abut the field oxide layer, and a gate material may be deposited into the device recess. |
| US08035153B2 |
Self-aligned patterning method by using non-conformal film and etch for flash memory and other semiconductor applications
A method for fabricating a memory device with a self-aligned trap layer which is optimized for scaling is disclosed. In the present invention, a non-conformal film is deposited over the charge trapping layer to form a thick film on top of the core source/drain region and a pinch off and a void or a narrow channel at the top of the STI trench. An etch is performed on the non-conformal film to open pinch-off or widen the narrow channel in the non-conformal. The trapping layer is then completely or partially etched between the core cells. The non-conformal film is removed. And a top oxide is formed. The top oxide converts the remaining trap layer to oxide if the trapping layer is partially etched and thus isolate the trap layer. |
| US08035152B2 |
Semiconductor device having shared bit line structure
A semiconductor device, including a substrate having first and second active regions, the first and second active regions being disposed on opposite sides of an isolation structure, and a bit line electrically coupled to a contact plug that is on the isolation structure between the first active region and the second active region, and electrically coupled to an active bridge pattern directly contacting at least one of the first and second active regions, wherein the contact plug is electrically coupled to the first active region and the second active region, and a bottom surface of the active bridge pattern is below a top surface of the first and second active regions. |
| US08035148B2 |
Micromachined transducer integrated with a charge pump
An integrated circuit includes a micromachined transducer and a charge pump. More particularly, on one silicon substrate, a control circuit delivers high voltage from the charge pump to operate the transducer. An electronic apparatus, such as a cell phone or automatic test equipment may include such an integrated circuit. |
| US08035146B2 |
Nonvolatile ferroelectric memory device
A nonvolatile ferroelectric memory device includes a plurality of unit cell arrays, wherein each of the plurality of unit cell arrays includes: a bottom word line; a plurality of insulating layers formed on the bottom word line, respectively; a floating channel layer comprising a plurality of channel regions located on the plurality of insulating layers and a plurality of drain and source regions which are alternately electrically connected in series to the plurality of channel regions; a plurality of ferroelectric layers formed respectively on the plurality of channel regions of the floating channel layer; and a plurality of word lines formed on the plurality of ferroelectric layers, respectively. The unit cell array reads and writes a plurality of data by inducing different channel resistance to the plurality of channel regions depending on polarity states of the plurality of ferroelectric layers. |
| US08035142B2 |
Deuterated structures for image sensors and methods for forming the same
A pixel cell with a photo-conversion device and at least one structure includes a deuterated material adjacent the photo-conversion device. |
| US08035141B2 |
Bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element and integration to enhance drive current
A semiconductor structure including a bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element is disclosed. The bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element can be integrated into any CMOS process flow. The bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element includes an implant damaged free first layer of a first epitaxy semiconductor material having a lattice constant that is different from a lattice constant of a semiconductor substrate and imparts a tensile strain in a device channel of an nFET gate stack. Typically, and when the semiconductor is composed of silicon, the first layer of the bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element is composed of Si:C. The bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element further includes a second layer of a second epitaxy semiconductor material that has a lower resistance to dopant diffusion than the first epitaxy semiconductor material. Typically, and when the semiconductor is composed of silicon, the second layer of the bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element is composed of silicon. Only the second layer of the bi-layer nFET embedded stressor element includes the implanted source/drain regions. |
| US08035140B2 |
Method and layout of semiconductor device with reduced parasitics
An semiconductor device is disclosed. The device includes a semiconductor body, a layer of insulating material disposed over the semiconductor body, and a region of gate electrode material disposed over the layer of insulating material. Also included are a source region adjacent to gate region and a drain region adjacent to the gate region. A gate connection is disposed over the semiconductor body, wherein the gate connection includes a region of gate electrode material electrically coupling a contact region to the gate electrode. An insulating region is disposed on the semiconductor body beneath the gate connection. |
| US08035135B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
To facilitate counting of memory cells in failure analysis, without limiting the arrangement of memory cells or increasing the number of processes. A memory cell array region 3 in which memory cells 3a are formed in a repetitive pattern is formed on a semiconductor substrate 2. Power supply wirings 4a and ground wirings 4b in a predetermined layer formed on the memory cell array region 3 are vertically and horizontally arranged in the form of a gird to correspond to the arrangement of the memory cells 3a at least in the memory cell array region 3. |
| US08035133B2 |
Semiconductor device having two pairs of transistors of different types formed from shared linear-shaped conductive features with intervening transistors of common type on equal pitch
A semiconductor device includes a substrate portion having a plurality of diffusion regions defined in a non-symmetrical manner relative to a virtual line defined to bisect the substrate portion. A gate electrode level region is formed above the substrate portion to include a number of conductive features defined to extend in only a first parallel direction and fabricated from a respective originating rectangular-shaped layout feature. The gate electrode level region includes conductive features defined along at least four different virtual lines of extent in the first parallel direction. A width size of the conductive features within the gate electrode level region is measured perpendicular to the first parallel direction. Within a five wavelength photolithographic interaction radius within the gate electrode level region, the width size of the conductive features is less than 193 nanometers, which is the wavelength of light used in a photolithography process to fabricate the conductive features. |
| US08035129B2 |
Integrated circuitry
This invention includes methods of forming layers comprising epitaxial silicon, and field effect transistors. In one implementation, a method of forming a layer comprising epitaxial silicon comprises epitaxially growing a silicon-comprising layer from an exposed monocrystalline material. The epitaxially grown silicon comprises at least one of carbon, germanium, and oxygen present at a total concentration of no greater than 1 atomic percent. In one implementation, the layer comprises a silicon germanium alloy comprising at least 1 atomic percent germanium, and further comprises at least one of carbon and oxygen at a total concentration of no greater than 1 atomic percent. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated. |
| US08035126B2 |
One-transistor static random access memory with integrated vertical PNPN device
A one-transistor static random access memory (1T SRAM) device and circuit implementations are disclosed. The 1T SRAM device includes a planar field effect transistor (FET) on the surface of the cell and a vertical PNPN device integrated to one side of the FET. A base of the PNP of the PNPN device is electrically common to the emitter/collector of the FET and a base of the NPN of the PNPN device is electrically common to the channel region of the FET. The anode pin of the PNPN device may be used as a word line or a bit line. A method of forming the 1T SRAM device is also disclosed. |
| US08035124B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting device
A semiconductor light emitting device (A) includes a semiconductor light emitting element (2) including a light emitting layer (22), a lead (1) formed with a reflector (11) that surrounds the semiconductor light emitting element (2), a light transmitting resin (4) covering the semiconductor light emitting element (2). The reflector (11) of the lead (1) includes a recess (12) at the bottom surface. The semiconductor light emitting element (2) is mounted to a bottom surface of the recess (12), with the light emitting layer (22) positioned outside the recess (12). A highly heat conductive material (3) having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the light transmitting resin (4) is loaded between the semiconductor light emitting element (2) and the recess (12). |
| US08035117B2 |
Multi element, multi color solid state LED/laser
A light emitting diode (LED) grown on a substrate doped with one or more rare earth or transition elements. The dopant ions absorb some or all of the light from the LED's active layer, pumping the dopant ion electrons to a higher energy state. The electrons are naturally drawn to their equilibrium state and they emit light at a wavelength that depends on the type of dopant ion. The invention is particularly applicable to nitride based LEDs emitting UV light and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with chromium. The chromium ions absorb the UV light, exciting the electrons on ions to a higher energy state. When they return to their equilibrium state they emit red light and some of the red light will emit from the LED's surface. The LED can also have active layers that emit green, blue and UV light, such that the LED emits green, blue, red and UV light which combines to create white light. Alternatively, it can have one active layer and grown on a sapphire substrate doped with Cr, Ti, and Co such that the substrate absorbs the UV light and emits blue, green, and red light. The invention is also capable of providing a tunable LED over a variety of color shades. The invention is also applicable to solid state lasers having one or more active layers emitting UV light with the laser grown on a sapphire substrate doped with one or more rare earth of transition elements. |
| US08035114B2 |
Integration of a light emitting device and a photodetector with an isolation structure formed therebetween
An optical device includes: a surface-emitting type semiconductor laser section; at least one isolation section formed above the surface-emitting type semiconductor laser section; and a photodetector section formed above the isolation section, wherein the surface-emitting type semiconductor laser section includes a first mirror, an active layer formed above the first mirror and a second mirror formed above the active layer, the photodetector section includes a first contact layer, a photoabsorption layer formed above the first contact layer and a second contact layer formed above the photoabsorption layer, and the isolation section includes a first isolation layer of a conductivity type different from a conductivity type of the second mirror, and a second isolation layer formed above the first isolation layer and having a conductivity type different from the conductivity type of the first contact layer and the first isolation layer. |
| US08035107B2 |
Method for manufacturing display device
A first conductive film, a first insulating film, a semiconductor film, an impurity semiconductor film, a second conductive film, and a first resist mask are formed; first etching is performed to expose at least a surface of the first conductive film; second etching accompanied by side etching is performed on part of the first conductive film to form a gate electrode layer; a second resist mask is formed; third etching is performed to form a source and drain electrode layers, a source and drain regions, and a semiconductor layer; a second insulating film is formed; an opening portion is formed in the second insulating film to partially expose the source or drain electrode layer; a pixel electrode is selectively formed in the opening portion and over the second insulating film; and a supporting portion formed using the gate electrode layer is formed in a region overlapping with the opening portion. |
| US08035105B2 |
Solid state image pickup device and method of producing solid state image pickup device
Forming a back-illuminated type CMOS image sensor, includes process for formation of a registration mark on the wiring side of a silicon substrate during formation of an active region or a gate electrode. A silicide film using an active region may also be used for the registration mark. Thereafter, the registration mark is read from the back side by use of red light or near infrared rays, and registration of the stepper is accomplished. It is also possible to form a registration mark in a silicon oxide film on the back side (illuminated side) in registry with the registration mark on the wiring side, and to achieve the desired registration by use of the registration mark thus formed. |
| US08035102B2 |
Display substrate, method of manufacturing the same and display panel having the same
An improved display substrate is provided to reduce surface defects on insulating layers of organic thin film transistors. Related methods of manufacture are also provided. In one example, a display substrate includes a base, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a pixel defined by the data lines and the gate lines, an organic thin film transistor, and a pixel electrode. The data lines are on the base and are oriented in a first direction. The gate lines are oriented in a second direction that crosses the first direction. The organic thin film transistor includes a source electrode electrically connected to one of the data lines, a gate electrode electrically connected to one of the gate lines, and an organic semiconductor layer. The pixel electrode is disposed in the pixel and electrically connected to the organic thin film transistor. The pixel electrode comprises a transparent oxynitride. |
| US08035100B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate, display device having the same and method of manufacturing the display device
A thin film transistor substrate includes an insulating plate; a gate electrode disposed on the insulating plate; a semiconductor layer comprising a metal oxide, wherein the metal oxide has oxygen defects of less than or equal to 3%, and wherein the metal oxide comprises about 0.01 mole/cm3 to about 0.3 mole/cm3 of a 3d transition metal; a gate insulating layer disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer; and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the semiconductor layer. Also described is a display substrate. The metal oxide has oxygen defects of less than or equal to 3%, and is doped with about 0.01 mole/cm3 to about 0.3 mole/cm3 of 3d transition metal. The metal oxide comprises indium oxide or titanium oxide. The 3d transition metal includes at least one 3d transition metal selected from the group consisting of chromium, cobalt, nickel, iron, manganese, and mixtures thereof. |
| US08035096B2 |
Switching device, rewritable logic integrated circuit, and memory device
A switching device according to the present invention includes ion conductive layer 23 containing titanium oxide, first electrode 21 provided in contact with ion conductive layer 23, and second electrode 22 provided in contact with ion conductive layer 23 and which can supply metal ions to ion conductive layer 23. |
| US08035089B2 |
Scanning probe apparatus
In a scanning probe apparatus capable of always effectively canceling an inertial force to suppress vibration even in repetitive use while replacing a sample holding table or a probe, a stage for a sample or the probe includes a drive element for moving the sample holding table and movable portions movable in a direction in which an inertial force generated during movement of the sample holding table. The stage is configured so that the drive element, the movable portions, and the sample holding table or the probe are integrally detachably mountable to a main assembly of the scanning probe apparatus. |
| US08035087B2 |
Open-ended electromagnetic corrector assembly and method for deflecting, focusing, and controlling the uniformity of a traveling ion beam
The present invention is an electromagnetic controller assembly for use in ion implantation apparatus, and provides a structural construct and methodology which can be employed for three recognizably separate and distinct functions: (i) To adjust the trajectory of charged particles carried within any type of traveling ion beam which is targeted at a plane of implantation or a work surface for the placement of charged ions into a prepared workpiece (such as a silicon wafer or flat glass panel); (ii) concurrently, to alter and change the degree of parallelism of the ions in the traveling beam; and (iii) concurrently, to control the uniformity of the current density along the transverse direction of traveling ion beams, regardless of whether the beams are high-aspect, continuous ribbon ion beams or alternatively are scanned ribbon ion beams. |
| US08035084B2 |
Cassette type radiographic image solid-state detector
A cassette type radiographic image solid-sate detector that is an FPD compatible with a CR cassette, thin-shaped with s sufficient strength, capable of preventing a housing from being deformed by external stress to deal with an external shock, and capable of portable radiography. The cassette type radiographic image solid-state detector comprises a detector unit including a scintillator layer for converting incident radiation into light and a signal detecting section for receiving the light obtained by the conversion by the scintillator layer and converting the light to an electrical signal, a housing including a housing body formed of carbon fibers and a first cover member and a second cover member covering openings of the housing body and containing the detector unit. The thickness of the housing in the direction of incidence of the radiation conforms to JIS Z 4905. At least one of the cover members is structured to be insertable into the detector unit. |
| US08035079B2 |
Optical encoder
An optical encoder includes a scale, and a detecting head which is disposed facing the scale. The scale is provided with a grating which has a predetermined optical pattern with respect to a direction of relative movement, and the detecting head is provided with a light emitting section which irradiates predetermined light to the scale, and a light detecting section which detects a movement of a pattern of light distribution formed on a light receiving surface of a photodetector, by light reflected by the grating upon being irradiated to the scale from the light emitting section. A light transmitting member is disposed on a surface of the light emitting section and the photodetector of the detecting head, toward the scale, and a light propagation controlling pattern for controlling propagation of light is disposed on a surface of the light transmitting member, facing the scale. |
| US08035076B2 |
Physical quantity distribution detector, having a plurality of unit components with sensitivity to a physical quantity change of light
A physical information acquiring method of acquiring physical information for a predetermined purpose on the basis of change information that is acquired under predetermined detection conditions for a physical quantity using an portion for physical quantity distribution detection. The portion for physical quantity distribution detection includes a detector that detects change information corresponding to a change in a physical quantity made incident on the detector and has unit components that output unit signals based on the change information detected by the detector arranged in a predetermined order. In the physical information acquiring method, a carrier signal is converted into a signal related to a frequency on the basis of the change information detected by the detector. The physical information for a predetermined purpose is acquired using the signal related to a frequency. |
| US08035073B2 |
Switched capacitor input stage for imaging front-ends
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus and control method for an analog front end (AFE) amplifier for controlling DC restore operations. According to the exemplary method, a first input stage of the AFE is controlled to operate as a continuous time amplifier that has high input impedance and draws substantially no input leakage current for a first predetermined area of an imaging sensor image array. The first input stage is controlled to operate as a sample and hold amplifier with DC restore functionality for a second predetermined area of the imaging sensor image array. According to an embodiment, the AFE input stage operates as a continuous time amplifier when reading pixels from the sensor's active image array but operates as a sample and hold amplifier with DC restore when reading pixels from the image array that correspond to so-called ‘black-level’ pixels or pixels that otherwise fall outside the sensor's active image field. |
| US08035065B2 |
Cooking apparatus having a door with a built in control panel
A cooking apparatus is provided. The cooking apparatus includes a cooking cavity, an upper space formed above the cooking cavity, lateral side spaces formed to at opposite lateral sides of the cooking cavity, a rear space formed behind the cooking cavity, and a lower space formed below the cooking cavity. A fan provided in the rear space generates a cooling flow that cools components housed in the rear space. A cooling flow path extends from the rear space and into the upper space and lateral side spaces. Flow from the upper space enters the door to cool the door and is exhausted through a lower portion of the door. Flow from the lateral side spaces, which includes an exhaust flow from the cooking cavity, is guided to the lower space and exhausted. In this manner, the cooking apparatus can be completely cooled and cooking odors and heat appropriately exhausted by the cooling fan positioned in the rear space. |
| US08035059B2 |
Method for controlling and/or adjusting a welding process
The invention relates to a method for controlling and/or adjusting a welding process, using a melting welding wire (13) wherein after ignition of an electric arc, a welding process is carried out, the welding process being adjusted on the basis of several different welding parameters and being controlled or adjusted by a control device and/or welding current source. In order to determine the position of distance between the end of the welding wire (13) and the workpiece (16), which is to be processed, in a manner which is as accurate as possible, at least one mechanical adjustment process (41) is carried out during the welding process, enabling the position of said welding wire (13) being used as a sensor. |
| US08035058B2 |
Apparatus for repairing circuit pattern and method for manufacturing display apparatus using the same
A region surrounded by two gate wiring and two drain wiring includes pixels and when there is a defect of short-circuit in adjacent pixel electrodes, the short-circuited portion is removed by irradiating a laser via a mask having a transmission pattern, which corresponds to a pattern of the gate wiring, drain wiring and pixel electrodes in the short-circuited portion. The above short-circuited portion is identified and removed in comparison to a normal pattern, by use of information from an inspection apparatus, and the pattern defect formed on the substrate is automatically repaired. By applying the above method to a manufacturing process of display apparatus, in particular, to a resist pattern forming process, a display apparatus having a highly qualified display property may be achieved. |
| US08035056B2 |
Plasma generation apparatus
A plasma generation apparatus includes: a chamber having a chamber lid and defining an airtight reaction region; a susceptor in the chamber; a gas supply means supplying a process gas to the chamber; and a toroidal core vertically disposed with respect to the susceptor through the chamber lid, comprising: a toroidal ferromagnetic core combined with the chamber, the toroidal ferromagnetic core having a first portion outside the chamber and a second portion inside the chamber, the second portion having an opening portion; a radio frequency (RF) power supply connected to the chamber; an induction coil electrically connected to the RF power supply, the induction coil rolling the first portion; and a matching circuit matching an impedance between the RF power supply and the induction coil. |
| US08035053B2 |
Sorting installation and sorting method for letters and large letters
A sorting installation for letters of a first kind and letters of a second kind includes circulating stacking locations for receiving the letters of the first kind delivered in any desired sequence, and circulating end locations ordered by destination addresses. A first controller is operable to transfer a letter of the first kind from a circulating stacking location to an end location assigned to a destination address of the letter of the first kind. The installation includes further letter-stacking locations for letters of the second kind. A second controller is operable to transfer a letter of the second kind from a letter-stacking location to an end location assigned to a destination address of the letter of the second kind. |
| US08035051B2 |
Electronic device
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing in which an opening is made, a button fit inside the opening such as to be movable forward and backward, a printed wiring board housed inside the housing and provided with a switch which detects pushing operation of the button and a pair of supports. Each of the supports projects inside the housing such as to support both end portions of the printed wiring board and also serve as a stopper for the button. |
| US08035045B2 |
Inverter
The subject matter of the invention is an inverter (1), comprising a casing (8) as well as at least one casing cover (2), said casing cover (2) being mechanically engaged with a safety plug (10), said safety plug (10) being in electrical connection with at least the one load-current circuit located on the DC side, the inverter being switched off or disconnected at least from the DC-side load-current circuit after removal of the safety plug from the casing (8). |
| US08035044B2 |
Service switching device with double-break contacts
An electrical switching device comprises a contact point having two double-break contacts, a contact link having a width, a contact pressure spring exerting a pressure on the contact link, a striker pin configured to act on the contact link counter to the pressure of the contact pressure spring during a switch-off operation so as to move the contact link into an open position, and a thruster actuatable by a switching mechanism and configured to guide the striker pin, the thruster having two limbs projecting in the same direction towards a free end of the thruster so as to form a slot there between, wherein a distance between the two limbs tapers towards the free end such that the distance at the free end is smaller than the width of the contact link, so that the contact link is clamped between the two limbs during the switch-off operation. |
| US08035041B2 |
Combinational machine that performs a first combinational calculation among each of a plurality of base groups, discharges them into respective discharge chutes, and then performs a second combinational calculation among the discharged groups
A combination weigher of the present invention comprises a plurality of base groups into which a plurality of combination hoppers (4) which are circularly arranged are divided; a plurality of collecting chutes (6A to 6D) which are respectively disposed to respectively correspond to the base groups, a plurality of collecting hoppers (7A to 7D) respectively provided at the outlets of the collecting chutes; and a control means (21) wherein the control means (21) is configured to perform: a combination process to determine p discharge groups each including one or more base groups and perform combination calculation for each of the discharge groups to select combination hoppers forming optimal combination, a process to cause the combination hoppers forming optimal combinations in all discharge groups to discharge the objects to be weighed simultaneously; and a process to sequentially select the discharge groups and to cause the collecting hoppers corresponding to the base groups including the combination hoppers forming the optimal combinations in the discharge groups to discharge the objects to be weighed, according to the selected sequence. |
| US08035040B2 |
Electrical junction box provided with electric current sensor
An electric current sensor is disposed in an upper end part of a casing in an electrical junction box. A detecting bus bar penetrates a through-hole in the electric current sensor so that opposite ends of the detecting bus bar project from the through-hole. A bolt hole is provided in an input side portion on one end projecting from the through-hole. Bolt holes are provided in an output side portion on the other end projecting from the through-hole. A bolt hole is provided in an input side bus bar. The input side bus bar is disposed below the input side portion so that the bolt hole is communicated with the bolt hole. Bolt holes are provided in output side bus bars. The output side bus bars are disposed below the output side portion so that the bolt holes are communicated with the bolt holes. Bolts are inserted downward into the communicated bolt holes to secure the electric current sensor to the input and output side bus bars. The electric current sensor can be removed from the input and output side bus bars by releasing the bolts. |
| US08035038B2 |
Method for fabricating a printed circuit board having a coaxial via
A method of fabricating a printed circuit board having a coaxial via is disclosed. The method includes assembling a plurality of layers configured in a stack so that the plurality of layers has a top signal layer and a bottom signal layer; forming a hollow via through the plurality of layers to connect GND layers in the printed circuit board, forming or inserting into the hollow via a conductor coated with non-conductive material, covering the top layer and bottom layer with dielectric and patterned signal layers, covering the top layer and bottom layer with a masking agent, plating the top layer and bottom layer with a conductive material that connects signal traces within via, and removing the masking agent from the top layer and bottom layer. |
| US08035037B2 |
Core substrate and method of producing the same
The core substrate is capable of securely preventing short circuit between an electrically conductive core section and a plated through-hole section. The core substrate comprises: an electrically conductive core section having a pilot hole, through which a plated through-hole section is formed; electrically conductive layers coating the inner face of the pilot hole and a surface of the core section; a gas purging hole being formed in the conductive layer coating the surface of the core section; an insulating material filling a space between the inner face of the pilot hole and an outer circumferential face of the plated through-hole section; and cable layers being laminated on both side faces of the core section. |
| US08035035B2 |
Multi-layer wiring board and method of manufacturing the same
A multi-layer wiring board without a core substrate includes: a multi-layer laminated structure; first terminals provided on a front surface of the multi-layer laminated structure; second terminals provided on a rear surface of the multi-layer laminated structure; a solder resist which covers the rear surface and which has solder resist openings formed at positions corresponding to the second terminals; a reinforcing plate which is made of a non-metal material and which has reinforcing plate openings formed at positions corresponding to the second terminals; and an adhesive layer interposed between the solder resist and the reinforcing plate to fix the reinforcing plate to the solder resist and which includes adhesive layer openings formed at positions corresponding to the second terminals. A diameter of the solder resist openings and a diameter of the reinforcing plate openings are smaller than that of the adhesive layer openings. |
| US08035027B2 |
Solar module structures and assembly methods for pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cells
Solar module structures and methods for assembling solar module structures. The solar module structures comprise pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cells arranged in solar module structures. The pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cell comprises a pyramidal three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate with emitter junction regions and doped base regions. The three-dimensional thin-film solar cell further includes emitter metallization regions and base metallization regions. The three-dimensional thin-film solar cell substrate comprises a plurality of pyramid-shaped unit cells. The solar module structures may be used in solar glass applications, building facade applications, rooftop installation applications as well as for centralized solar electricity generation. |
| US08035021B2 |
Tone generation apparatus
With no interrupt to a CPU, waveform data stored in a NAND-type flash memory are read out on a page-by-page basis to supply a buffer of a waveform memory with waveform sample data. A series of waveform data are prestored in successive pages of the intermediate buffer capable of high-speed page access thereto. Page number of a page to be read out first is set, and that page is read into a buffer in advance. Before completion of readout of the first page, another page to be read out next is loaded into the buffer. After that, the page number is incremented by one each time readout of one page is completed, and the waveform sample data of the page number continue to be reproduced while being read into the buffer. |
| US08035010B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH457975
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH457975. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH457975, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH457975 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 CH457975. |
| US08035009B2 |
Plants and seeds of hybrid corn variety CH825595
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH825595. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH825595, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH825595 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 CH825595. |
| US08035003B1 |
Soybean cultivar S090251
A soybean cultivar designated S090251 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S090251, to the plants of soybean S090251, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S090251, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S090251 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety S090251, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S090251, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S090251 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US08035002B2 |
Soybean cultivar 7702022
A soybean cultivar designated 7702022 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 7702022, to the plants of soybean 7702022, to plant parts of soybean cultivar 7702022, and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar 7702022 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars, or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean variety 7702022, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 7702022, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar 7702022 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US08034999B2 |
Multibranching watermelon plant and method of producing
The present invention relates to a watermelon plant, seed, variety and hybrid. More specifically, the invention relates to a watermelon plant having an allele which results in a multibranching compact watermelon plant with small fruit. The invention also relates to crossing inbreds, varieties and hybrids containing the allele to produce novel types and varieties of watermelon plants. |
| US08034995B2 |
Polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and polynucleotides encoding same
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having feruloyl esterase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides. |
| US08034982B2 |
Isotopically tagged synons from 2 carbon precursors
The use of vinyl sulfides, sulfoxides and sulfones in synthetic chemistry for the production of a wide variety of materials is well known. For example, phenyl vinyl sulfides, sulfoxides and sulfones have been used for the synthesis of important heterocycles, in combinatorial chemistry and as Diels-Alder adducts. Although these compounds have been used extensively for a variety of applications, the isotopically labeled versions have not been reported. A simple route for the isotopically labeled production of these important building blocks has been developed. |
| US08034979B2 |
Alkoxylated alkylamines/alkyl ether amines with peaked distribution
The present invention generally relates to a process for preparing the alkoxylated alkylamines and/or alkyl ether amines. The process consists of three stages, and utilizes an alkali catalyst. The alkoxylated alkyl amines and alkoxylated alkyl ether amines prepared by the process possess the peaked distribution and contain less hazardous by-product. |
| US08034978B2 |
Process for the preparation of an amine
Process for preparing an amine by reacting an aldehyde and/or ketone with hydrogen and a nitrogen compound selected from the group consisting of primary and secondary amines in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst, wherein the reaction is carried out using a suspended catalyst as heterogeneous catalyst and is carried out in the semibatch mode in which the nitrogen compound as one reactant is placed in the reaction vessel and the aldehyde and/or the ketone as the other reactant is added during the course of the reaction and the aldehyde and/or the ketone is added in portions or continuously to the reaction mixture during the course of the reaction as a function of the achieved conversion of the nitrogen compound until a conversion of the nitrogen compound of at least 95% results, and all or part of the catalyst remains in the reaction vessel after the reaction batch and is reused for the next reaction batch. |
| US08034974B2 |
Beta-amino acids and methods intermediates for making same
Disclosed are β-amino acids that are unsubstituted in the β position; that are substituted in the β position with an aryl group; that are substituted in the α position with an aryl group; that bear two substituents in the α position; and/or that are substituted in the α and β positions with groups which, together with the carbon atoms at the α and β positions, form a ring. Also disclosed are methods for making the above-mentioned β-amino acids and other β-amino acids which involve providing an α,β-unsaturated imide; converting the α,β-unsaturated imide to a 2-substituted-isoxazolidin-5-one; and converting the 2-substituted-isoxazolidin-5-one to a β-amino acid. |
| US08034970B2 |
Method of making phthalic acid diesters
Methods and systems for the production of phthalic acid diesters are described herein. The methods and systems incorporate the novel use of a high shear device to promote dispersion and mixing of a phthalic acid derivative with alcohol. The high shear device may allow for lower reaction temperatures and pressures and may also reduce reaction time with existing catalysts. |
| US08034965B2 |
Norbornane skeleton structure-containing organosilicon compound and method of producing same
Disclosed are a radiation-polymerizable functional group-containing organosilicon compound, including (A) a norbornane skeleton structure, (B) a hydrolyzable silyl group bonded directly to the norbornane skeleton structure, and (C) a radiation-polymerizable functional group bonded to the norbornane skeleton structure, either directly or via a carbon atom, a hetero atom, or a combination thereof, and a method of producing the radiation-polymerizable functional group-containing organosilicon compound. Also disclosed are a haloalkyl group-containing organosilicon compound, including (D) a norbornane skeleton structure, (E) a hydrolyzable silyl group bonded directly to the norbornane skeleton structure, and (F) a haloalkyl group, which is bonded directly to the norbornane skeleton structure and either contains or does not contain a hetero atom, and a method of producing the haloalkyl group-containing organosilicon compound. These organosilicon compounds are useful as silane coupling agents having superior heat resistance stability. |
| US08034962B2 |
Acid anhydride ester and composition thereof, and heat-curable resin composition and cured product thereof
The present invention provides an acid anhydride ester obtained by esterifying cyclohexane-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid-1,2-anhydride and a composition of the ester, and a heat-curable resin composition and a cured product of the composition. _Provided is an epoxy resin composition using the acid anhydride ester as a curing agent for an epoxy resin, the epoxy resin composition having, for example, the following properties (1), (2), and (3): (1) the epoxy resin composition has a low viscosity at room temperature, so the components of the composition can be favorably blended with each other, (2) the acid anhydride ester has a low vapor pressure at curing temperature, so no evaporation loss occurs after curing, and the intended design of blend is capable, and (3) a cured product to be made from the composition is colorless and transparent, and changes its color to a small extent even when the product is irradiated with light or heated for a long time period. The composition is suitably used as, for example, an encapsulant for a photoelectric conversion element such as a blue LED or a white LED, a molded article, a coating, or an adhesive. |
| US08034961B2 |
Process for stereoselectively reducing 4-aryl-4-oxobutanoic acid derivatives
The present invention relates to a process for preparing stereoisomerically enriched 4-aryl-4-hydroxybutanoic acid derivatives by reducing 4-aryl-4-ketobutanoic acid derivatives in the presence of ruthenium-containing catalysts. |
| US08034960B2 |
Process for the synthesis C-2, C-3 substituted N-alkylated indoles useful as cPLA2 inhibitors
The present invention provides a compound of formula 1: wherein R1 is CF3, R2 is H′ R3 is H. |
| US08034957B2 |
Kinase inhibitors
The present invention relates to organic molecules capable of modulating tyrosine kinase signal transduction in order to regulate, modulate and/or inhibit abnormal cell proliferation. |
| US08034954B2 |
Calcium channel antagonists
The present invention provides novel calcium channel antagonists, and methods of treating disease sates using the novel antagonists. |
| US08034947B2 |
Pyridine oxide compound, and process for producing carboxylic acid derivative and optically active carboxylic acid derivative with the use of the same
The invention relates to a pyridine oxide compound represented by formula (I), an optically active compound thereof, a salt thereof and a hydrate thereof, and, in the presence of the compound as a catalyst, performing 1) a method for producing an ester compound or an amide compound from a carboxylic acid equivalent and an alcohol or an amine, 2) an asymmetric esterification reaction or 3) an asymmetric amidation reaction. In formula (I), each R1 may be the same as the other R1 or different and each R1 represents an alkyl group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom or a nitrogen atom; each R2 may be the same as the other R2 or different and each R2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, an oxygen atom or the like, and R3 and R4 may be the same or different and R3 and R4 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, a cyano group, a halogen atom, an oxygen atom or the like. |
| US08034944B2 |
Benzofluoranthene compound and organic light-emitting device using the compound
There are provided a novel benzofluoranthene compound and an organic light-emitting device which uses the benzofluoranthene compound, gives a blue emission hue with extremely good purity, and has an optical output with a high efficiency, a high luminance, and a long life. Specifically, there are provided a benzofluoranthene compound represented by the general formula shown below and an organic light-emitting device including a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode one of which is a transparent or translucent electrode material, and an organic compound layer disposed between the pair of electrodes and including a material for an organic light-emitting device containing the benzofluoranthene compound. In the general formula (1), one of X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, and X6 represents a substituted or unsubstituted fused heterocyclic group having four or less rings, and the others of X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, and X6 each represent a hydrogen atom. |
| US08034938B2 |
Substituted chiral fused [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c] ring compounds
Substituted fused [1,2]imidazo[4,5-c] ring compounds (e.g., imidazo[4,5-c]quinolines, 6,7,8,9-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-c]quinolines, imidazo[4,5-c]naphthyridines, and 6,7,8,9-tetrahydroimidazo[4,5-c]naphthyridines) with a —CH(—R1)— group in the fused ring at the 1-position of the imidazo ring, wherein R1 includes a functional group, for example, an amide, sulfonamide, urea, carbamate, ester, ketone, ether, a thio analog of the forgoing, sulfone, oxime, or hydroxylamine, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, intermediates, methods of making the compounds, and methods of use of these compounds as immunomodulators, for inducing cytokine biosynthesis in animals and in the treatment of diseases including viral and neoplastic diseases, are disclosed. |
| US08034936B2 |
Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds useful to treat substance dependency
Spirocyclic cyclohexane compounds useful in pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of substance dependency. |
| US08034935B2 |
Light-emitting material comprising orthometalated iridium complex, light-emitting device, high efficiency red light-emitting device, and novel iridium complex
A synthesis method of a compound represented by following formula (24), the method comprising reacting at least one of a ligand and a dissociation product thereof with an iridium compound at a room temperature or at an elevated temperatures in the presence or absence of a solvent or in the presence or absence of a base: |
| US08034931B2 |
Process for producing substituted aminoquinazolinone derivative, intermediate therefor, and pest control agent
A process for producing a substituted aminoquinazolinone derivative of formula (I), characterized by reducing a substituted iminoquinazolinone derivative of formula (II) with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst and either of a halogen compound and a sulfur compound; a substituted iminoquinazolinone derivative of formula (II′); and a pest control agent containing the derivative of formula (II′) or a salt thereof as an active ingredient and a method of using the same (in the formulae, R represents hydrogen, formyl, (C1-C6) alkyl, (C1-C6)alkoxy(C1-C3)alkyl, (C1-C6) alkylsulfonyl, optionally substituted phenylcarbonyl, etc.; R1 represents an optionally substituted, 5- or 6-membered heterocycle having one to three heteroatoms selected among oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen; R2 represents hydrogen or (C1-C3) alkyl; X and X′ may be the same or different and each represents (C1-C6) haloalkyl, (C1-C6) haloalkoxy, etc.; n is an integer of 0; and n′ is an integer of 1-4). |
| US08034930B2 |
Boron-dipyrrin compounds comprising thienyl groups, preparation method thereof and chemosensor comprising the same
Disclosed are (i) a boron-dipyrrin compound having thienyl groups, (ii) a preparation method thereof and (iii) a chemosensor comprising the boron-dipyrrin compound having thienyl groups. More particularly, the present invention provides a boron-dipyrrin compound having thienyl group, furyl (OC4H3) group or selyl (SeC4H3) group, which is represented by the following formula (1), a preparation method thereof and a chemosensor comprising the above boron-dipyrrin compound having thienyl groups, characterized in that the chemosensor exhibits variations in colors and fluorescent properties caused by reaction of the boron-dipyrrin compound with metal ions, including, but not limited to, Cu2+ and Hg2+: 3-(R)-4,4-di(R)-8-(R)-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene formula (1) wherein R is any one selected from 2-thienyl group and 3-thienyl group. |
| US08034929B2 |
Continuous method for producing highly methylolated melamine and etherified melamine formaldehyde resins
The invention relates to a process for preparing polymethylolated melamine and polymethylolated melamine compounds polyetherified with alkanol, wherein the methylolation reaction is carried out in a kneading reactor. |
| US08034923B1 |
Reagents for reversibly terminating primer extension
Processes are disclosed that use 3′-reversibly terminated nucleoside triphosphates to analyze DNA for purposes other than sequencing using cyclic reversible termination. These processes are based on the unexpected ability of terminal transferase to accept these triphosphates as substrates, the unexpected ability of polymerases to add reversibly and irreversibly terminated triphosphates in competition with each other, the development of cleavage conditions to remove the terminating group rapidly, in high yield, and without substantial damage to the terminated oligonucleotide product, and the ability of reversibly terminated primer extension products to capture groups. The presently preferred embodiments of the disclosed processes use a triphosphate having its 3′-OH group blocked as a 3′-ONH2 group, which can be removed in buffered NaNO2 and use variants of Taq DNA polymerase, including one that has a replacement (L616A). |
| US08034922B2 |
Compositions and methods for modulating activity of capped small RNAs
Compositions and methods for modulating transcription by RNA polymerases are described. |
| US08034919B2 |
Probe, probe set, probe carrier, and testing method
A probe, a set of probes, and a probe carrier on which the probe or the set of probes is immobilized, are provided for classification of fungus species. The probe or the set of probes is capable of collectively detecting fungus of the same species and distinguishingly detecting those fungus from fungus of other species. The probe is an oligonucleotide probe for detecting a pathogenic fungus DNA and includes at least one of base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 1 to 4 and mutated sequences thereof. |
| US08034918B2 |
Probe, probe set, probe carrier, and testing method
A probe, a set of probes, and a probe carrier on which the probe or the set of probes is immobilized, are provided for classification of fungus species. The probe or the set of probes is capable of collectively detecting fungus of the same species and distinguishingly detecting those fungus from fungus of other species. The probe is an oligonucleotide probe for detecting a pathogenic fungus DNA and includes at least one of base sequences of SEQ ID NOS. 1 to 2 and mutated sequences thereof. |
| US08034917B2 |
Primer-directed chromosome painting
An oligonucleotide composition is provided. The subject composition comprises: a mixture of at least 10 of sets of oligonucleotides, wherein each of the sets of oligonucleotides comprises at least 100 different oligonucleotides of the following formula: X1—V—X2, wherein: X1 and X2 provide binding sites for a pair of PCR primers and V is a variable region that has a variable nucleotide sequence that is complementary to one or more discrete regions of a mammalian genome; the nucleotide sequences of X1 and X2 are the same for each oligonucleotide of a set and different for oligonucleotides of different sets; and the variable regions of each set are complementary to different discrete regions of said mammalian genome. Methods of using the composition and kits containing the composition are also provided. |
| US08034914B2 |
Nucleic acid constructs, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using same for treating cancer
A nucleic acid construct that includes (i) a first nucleic acid sequence encoding TNF alpha; (ii) a second nucleic acid sequence encoding a Diphtheria toxin; and (iii) at least one additional nucleic acid sequence of a cancer specific promoter. The TNF alpha and Diphtheria toxin encoding sequences are under an expression control of the cancer specific promoter. Also provided are construct systems and methods and uses of same. |
| US08034910B2 |
SUMO fusion protein expression system for producing native proteins
A simple and efficient SUMO fusion protein expression system for producing native proteins. |
| US08034909B2 |
Oligonucleotide analogues
The present invention relates to novel bicyclic and tricyclic nucleoside and nucleotide analogues as well as to oligonucleotides comprising such elements. The nucleotide analogues, LNAs (Locked Nucleoside Analogues), are able to provide valuable improvements to oligonucleotides with respect to affinity and specificity towards complementary RNA and DNA oligomers. The novel type of LNA modified oligonucleotides, as well as the LNAs as such, are useful in a wide range of diagnostic applications as well as therapeutic applications. Among these can be mentioned antisense applications, PCR applications, strand displacement oligomers, as substrates for nucleic acid polymerases, as nucleotide based drugs, etc. The present invention also relates to such applications. |
| US08034903B2 |
Degraded TPO agonist antibody
The invention relates to a modified antibody which contains two or more H chain V regions and two or more L chain V regions of monoclonal antibody and can transduce a signal into cells by crosslinking TPO receptor to thereby exert TPO agonist action. The modified antibody can be used as a TPO signal transduction agonist and, therefore, useful as a remedy for various diseases such as platelet-reduction-related blood diseases, thrombopenia following chemotherapy for cancer or leukemia, etc. |
| US08034900B2 |
Water-soluble thioester and selenoester compounds and methods for making and using the same
Water-soluble thioester and selenoester compounds, their generators, as well as methods for making and using the same, are provided. The subject thioester and selenoester compounds are characterized by including an amino acid synthon having a C-terminal group bonded to a water-soluble polymer through a thioester or selenoester linkage. Solid phase resins and protocols for generating the subject compounds are also provided. The subject water soluble thioester and selenoester compounds and generators find use in a variety of different applications, including thioester or selenoester mediated chemical ligation reactions. |
| US08034895B2 |
Conjugated thiophenes having conducting properties and synthesis of same
The present invention relates to conjugated oligomers and polymers comprising aromatic thiophene cores. The conjugated materials are obtained by simple and efficient condensation of an aryl diamine and an aryl dialdehyde or a bifunctional aryl moiety comprising both an aldehyde and an amine. Condensation of the complementary moieties at temperatures ranging from ambient to refluxing temperatures in various solvents resulted in conjugated oligomers and polymers that can subsequently be cast into thin films. Oligomerization and polymerization can be done under mild conditions with removal of the resulting water bi-product responsible for shifting the equilibrium in favor of the conjugated products. The resulting conjugated compounds can be made conducting with dopants affording electrically conducting materials of either p-type or n-type conductors depending on the dopant selected. |
| US08034893B2 |
Resin resolution composition, polyimide resin, and semiconductor device
A resin solution composition comprising (A) a polyamic acid resin, (B) an alkoxysilyl-containing polyamic acid resin, and (C) an organic solvent cures into a product that has good substrate adhesion and heat resistance and is effective in forming a protective film on a semiconductor device prior to encapsulation with epoxy resin molding material (molding compound) in that it overcomes the chip cracking and thermal deterioration problems of semiconductor packages by thermal stress. |
| US08034889B2 |
Resin for optical-semiconductor-element encapsulation and optical semiconductor device obtained with the same
The present invention relates to a resin for optical-semiconductor-element encapsulation obtained by reacting a silicon compound with a boron compound or an aluminum compound, wherein the silicon compound is represented by the following formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aryl group, in which a plurality of R1's are the same or different and a plurality of R2's are the same or different; X represents a hydroxy group, an alkoxy group, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, or an aryl group; and n is 4 to 250, and an optical semiconductor device obtained with the resin. |
| US08034886B2 |
Process for manufacturing high to ultra high molecular weight polymers using novel bridged metallocene catalysts
The present invention relates to a process of manufacturing high, very high, and ultra high molecular weight polymers comprising predominantly ethylene monomers. Ethylene is reacted in the presence of a catalyst system to produce a polymer having a viscosimetrically-determined molecular weight of at least 0.7×106 g/mol. The catalyst system generally includes a bridged metallocene catalyst compound, optionally with a co-catalyst. The catalyst is characterized by a zirconium dichloride central functionality and a dimethyl silandiyl bridge between five-membered rings of indenyl groups. Both rings of the metallocene compound are substituted at the 2-position with respect to the dimethyl silandiyl bridge with a C1-C20 carbonaceous group. |
| US08034885B2 |
Free-radical polymerization process producing aqueous polymer dispersion with low residual monomer content utilizing oil and water soluble initiators
The present invention provides a novel one-step process for preparing an aqueous polymer dispersion by the free radical aqueous emulsion polymerization comprising mixing at least water, a dispersant, and an oil-soluble initiator; raising a temperature from the starting to the end reaction temperature while metering at least ethylenically unsaturated monomers and a water-soluble initiator into a reaction vessel, conducting polymerization of the monomers in the presence of the water-soluble initiator at a temperature up to the end reaction temperature, and when the temperature has reached the end reaction temperature, conducting polymerization by the oil-soluble initiator. The oil-soluble initiator is inactive at the starting reaction temperature and becomes more active as a temperature approaches the end reaction temperature at which the oil-soluble initiator is fully active. |
| US08034883B2 |
Powdered resin composition for slush molding and molded product
A powdered resin composition for slush molding comprising a thermoplastic polyurethane resin powder (B) as the main component and a fine particle powder (A) of a vinyl type copolymer comprising a copolymer of a monomer (a01) having one vinyl group such as methyl methacrylate and a monomer (a02) having two or more vinyl groups such as ethylene glycol dimethacrylate and having a cross-linked structure; or a fine particle powder (E) of a vinyl type copolymer comprising the (a01) and a monomer (a03) having one or more vinyl groups and one or more functional groups other than a vinyl group such as hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate and having a cross-linked structure. The fine particle powder is a powder flowability improver which does not cause die stains and the powdered resin composition for slush molding containing the fine powder do not cause staining of molds. |
| US08034875B2 |
Elastomer and vulcanizate compositions having desirable high temperature properties
Compositions including a thermoplastic elastomer or thermoplastic vulcanizate derived from a styrenic block copolymer having a reactive or crosslinkable hard block including aromatic vinyl repeat units and also preferably a crosslinkable soft block, and a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer or copolymer and preferably a compatibilizer such as the reaction product of a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and a functionalized polymer such as a maleic anhydride functionalized styrenic block copolymer that is compatible with the styrenic block copolymer having a reactive or crosslinkable hard block, and optionally a linking compound. The vulcanizates are prepared by crosslinking the styrenic block copolymer in the presence of the non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and a suitable crosslinking agent, and optionally the compatibilizer, preferably utilizing dynamic vulcanization. In a further embodiment, thermoplastic vulcanizate compositions are provided including the styrenic block copolymer, a polyolefin polymer or copolymer, a non-olefin thermoplastic polymer and the compatibilizer. |
| US08034869B2 |
Thickened compositions and method for thickening aqueous polymer compositions
Thickened aqueous compositions, and a method for controlling viscosity drift for thickened aqueous compositions comprising a pigment, a copolymer containing polymerized units of phosphate- or phosphonate-containing monomers, and an acid suppressible thickener. |
| US08034867B2 |
Hybrid clays for obtaining nanocomposites and a preparation process therefore
Hybrid clays for obtaining nanocomposites useful in the automotive, aviation, construction and packaging industry, among others. The hybrid clay comprises clays intercalated with the itaconic acid (ITA) monomer or its derivative monooctadecyl itaconate (MODIT), and a process for the preparation of these hybrid clays and the process to obtain polyolefin/clay nanocomposites. |
| US08034866B2 |
Polymer compositions, method of manufacture, and articles formed therefrom
A composition comprises, based on the total weight of the composition, from 10 to 80 wt. % of a polyester; from 10 to 80 wt. % of a polycarbonate; from 0 to 20 wt. % of an impact modifier; from 1 to less than 25 wt. % of a reinforcing filler; from 0.1 to less than 2.5 wt. % of a fibrillated fluoropolymer; from 0 to 5 wt. % of an additive selected from the group consisting of antioxidants, mold release agents, colorants, quenchers, stabilizers, and combinations thereof, wherein the composition has a heat deflection temperature of at least 110° C., measured in accordance with to ASTM D648 on 3.2 mm thick molded bars at 0.455 MPa. |
| US08034865B2 |
Self-lubricating surface coating composition
A bearing having a surface and a self-lubricating surface coating composition deposited on the surface, wherein the self-lubricating surface coating composition includes a curable acrylate composition having a metallic composition. The metallic composition having a metallic acrylate compound according to Formula I: |
| US08034863B2 |
Golf ball compositions
Golf balls consisting of a core and a cover are disclosed. The core is a solid, single-layer core formed from a rubber composition comprising a resorcinol. The core has a positive hardness gradient such that the difference between the core's surface hardness and the core's center hardness is 25 Shore C units or greater and/or the core has a diameter of from 1.51 inches to 1.59 inches. |
| US08034860B2 |
Organosol plastisol compositions
Both the viscosity of a plastisol comprising a dispersed polymer, a plasticizer for the polymers and at least one liquid diluent, and exudation of liquids from articles formed from the plastisol are minimized when the difference between 1) the weighted average of the Hildebrand solubility parameter values of all liquid ingredients, including plasticizer, in the plastisol and 2) the Hildebrand solubility parameter of the dispersed polymer is ±0.6 to ±1. The plastisols of the present invention are suitable for fabrication into films and molded objects, and as coating materials for a variety of metallic and non-metallic substrates. |
| US08034859B2 |
Rubber compositions containing an oil blend of a petroleum oil and a biobased oil and methods of making the same
According to at least one aspect of the present invention, a rubber composition is provided. In at least one embodiment, the rubber composition comprises a rubber, an oil blend of a petroleum oil and a bio-based oil, the bio-based oil being non-hydroxyl-functionalized, hydroxyl-functionalized, or combinations thereof; and a filler. In certain instances, the bio-based oil includes a soy oil. In certain other instances, the soy oil is hydroxyl-functionalized having a hydroxyl number of from 10 to 350 KOH/g, 40 to 150 KOH/g, or 25 to 200 KOH/g. According to at least another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising providing a rubber composition as described herein and molding the rubber composition to form the rubber article. |
| US08034856B2 |
Synthetic resin composition and automotive interior/exterior material
The invention provides a synthetic resin composition having better weather resistance than ever, and an automotive interior/exterior material using the same.The synthetic resin composition contains a hindered amine compound (A) having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1): in an amount of 0.01 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the synthetic resin; and a benzoate compound (B) represented by the following general formula (2): in an amount of 0.01 to 20 parts by mass with respect to the same, at a component mass ratio of (A)/(B) between 1/1 and 1/5. In the synthetic resin composition according to the present invention, the component mass ratio of the hindered amine compound (A) to the benzoate compound (B), namely {(A)/(B)}, is preferably between 1/2 and 1/4. |
| US08034855B2 |
Polyacetal resin composition
Polyacetal resin compositions, including a polyacetal copolymer, 0.2 to 2 parts by mass of a hindered amine material and 0.2 to 10 parts by mass of powdery aluminum, with respect to 100 parts by mass of a polyacetal copolymer, and 0.3 to 10 parts by mass of a fatty acid having a carbon number of 10 to 30, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the powdery aluminum. Methods of making the compositions, and end products including the resin compositions are also provided. |
| US08034854B2 |
Bitumen mixture and use thereof
A bitumen mixture for high-performance overlayment roofing membranes having an only minimally higher SBS rubber content, compared with simple roofing membranes, and a comparatively high filler content. The bitumen mixture provides high-quality overlayment roofing membranes having a distinctly reduced SBS rubber content, compared to prior art overlayment roofing membranes, coupled with a nonetheless high filler content. |
| US08034850B2 |
Self-setting absorbable composites and applications thereof
Self-setting, bioactive, absorbable composites are derived from inorganic phosphate microparticles and a cyanoacrylate matrix of a methoxypropyl cyanoacrylate at a weight to volume ratio of at least 20/80 of microparticles/matrix. The self-setting composites are capable of the controlled release of bone mineralizing ions, antimicrobials, and bone growth promoters. Such composites are useful as bone cements, fillers, and/or substitutes. |
| US08034849B2 |
Adhesive composition and adhesive sheet
A pressure-sensitive adhesive composition capable of giving a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet which simultaneously realizes satisfactory holding power, adhesion, and peel resistance in peeling from curved surfaces, while balancing these properties, and has satisfactory heat resistance. The composition comprises the following ingredients: (A) a maleimide crosslinking agent having two or more maleimide groups per molecule; (B) a monomer which, when caused to homopolymerize, gives a homopolymer having a glass transition temperature of −40° C. or lower; (C) a carboxylated monomer copolymerizable with the monomer of the ingredient (B); and (D) a photopolymerization initiator, the maleimide crosslinking agent of the ingredient (A) being contained in an amount of 0.01-2 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the sum of the monomers of the ingredients (B) and (C). |
| US08034847B2 |
Compositions containing expandable microspheres and an ionic compound, as well as methods of making and using the same
This invention relates to composition containing expandable microspheres and at least one ionic compound and having a zeta potential that is greater than or equal to zero mV at a pH of about 9.0 or less at an ionic strength of from 10−6 M to 0.1M., as well as methods of making and using the composition. |
| US08034846B2 |
Method for producing modified zirconium oxide-tin oxide composite sol
It is intended to provide a stable sol containing zirconium oxide-tin oxide composite colloids to be used for improving the performance such as abrasion resistance, transparency, adhesiveness, water resistance or weather resistance of a dried film obtained by applying a hard coating agent containing colloidal particles to the surface of plastic lens. A production method includes the steps of obtaining a sol containing colloidal particles (A1) in which the surface of particles in a sol containing hydrothermally-processed zirconium oxide-tin oxide composite colloids (A) is coated with amine-containing Sb2O5 colloidal particles; obtaining a sol containing colloids (A2) coated with amine-containing Sb2O5 colloidal particles by performing a hydrothermal treatment at a temperature of from 200 to 350° C.; and mixing the sol containing the colloidal particles (A2) and a sol containing tungsten oxide-tin oxide-silicon dioxide composite colloidal particles (B2) and aging the resulting aqueous medium at 20 to 100° C. |
| US08034845B2 |
Compositions and method for treating infection in cattle and swine
Novel formulations containing a fluorinated chloramphenicol or thiamphenicol derivative antibiotic such as florfenicol, and methods for using such formulations in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases of bovines and swine, including bovine respiratory disease. |
| US08034843B2 |
Compositions comprising cannabinoids for treatment of nausea, vomiting, emesis, motion sickness or like conditions
Cannabinoids, in particular CBD and CBDA and their acid derivatives are provided for use as an active pharmaceutical substance in the treatment of nausea, vomiting, emesis, motion sickness. In particular extracts of cannabis plants are presented which are rich in these substances and suitable for pharmaceutical use. |
| US08034841B2 |
Method for placental exfoliation using oxo-arachidonic acid or the like
A composition for placental exfoliation and a method for placental exfoliation. The composition for placental exfoliation contains an arachidonic acid derivative or the like, and the method for placental exfoliation comprises the step of administering an arachidonic acid derivative or the like to a mammal after the fetal delivery. |
| US08034838B2 |
Composition and method for the treatment of neurological disorders
The composition for treating neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease is provided. The composition includes a modified flavonoid compound having enhanced binding affinity to metabolic modulating enzymes. The composition is effective to down-regulate beta- and gamma-secretase and up-regulate alpha secretase, which results in a reduction in amyloid proteins. |
| US08034836B2 |
Amino acid compounds
An Amino Acid Compound is described. The Amino Acid Compound may comprise an Amino Acid and one of a Nitrate and a Nitrite. The Amino Acid may be one of Aspartic Acid, Cysteine, Glycine, Lysine, Methionine, Proline, Tyrosine, and Phenylalanine. |
| US08034835B2 |
1-[[2-amino-3-(substituted alkyl)-3H-benzimidazolyl[methyl]-3-substituted-1,3-dihydro-benzoimidazol-2-ones and structural analogs
Inhibitors of RSV replication of formula (I) which can be represented by formula (I) the salts and stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, wherein R is a radical of formula Q is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl optionally substituted with a heterocycle or Q is C1-6alkyl substituted with both a radical —OR4 and a heterocycle; Alk is C1-6alkanediyl; X is O or S; -a1=a2-a3=a4- is —N═CH—CH═CH—, —CH═N—CH═CH—, —CH═CH—N═CH— or —CH═CH—CH═N—; R1 is Ar or a heterocycle; R2 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, substituted C1-6alkyl, C3-7cycloalkyl; R3 is hydrogen, C1-6alkyl, cyano, aminocarbonyl, polyhaloC1-6alkyl, C2-6alkenyl or C2-6alkynyl; R4 is hydrogen or C1-6alkyl; Ar is phenyl or substituted phenyl; Het is a heterocycle; pharmaceutical compositions containing compounds (I) and processes for preparing compounds (I). |
| US08034833B2 |
Phosphorus binder for treatment of renal disease
The present invention relates to oral compositions which are useful for binding phosphorus in ingesta, and inhibiting absorption of phosphorus from the gastrointestinal tract of subjects. A method for binding phosphorus in ingesta and inhibiting its absorption from the gastrointestinal tract is also provided. The dietary supplements and pharmaceutical products and methods of the present invention are particularly useful in the treatment of hyperphosphatemia of chronic uremia and reducing serum phosphorus levels in patients requiring such therapy. |
| US08034832B2 |
Gyrase inhibitors and uses thereof
The present invention relates to compounds that inhibit bacterial gyrase and/or Topo IV and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising said compounds. These compounds, and compositions thereof, are useful in treating bacterial infection. Accordingly, the present invention also relates to methods for treating bacterial infections in mammals. |
| US08034827B2 |
Phenanthridine derivatives as bradykinin antagonists
The present invention relates to new phenanthridine derivatives of formula (I), wherein the variables are as defined in the specification, to processes for producing the same, to pharmacological compositions containing the same and to their use in therapy or prevention of painful and inflammatory processes. |