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US08356360B2	License management system and authentication method for the same In a license management system, a terminal apparatus and a server apparatus are connected via a network, and the server apparatus manages licenses of software in the terminal apparatus. In this license management system, when the server apparatus receives a request to re-authenticate a license that has previously be authenticated from the terminal apparatus, the server performs re-authentication of the license based on different pieces of terminal identification information and a plurality of pieces of device information that have been transmitted from the terminal apparatus, and a plurality of pieces of device information that have been stored due to authentication processing.
US08356355B2	DVD copy protection A record carrier for storing at least one stream of linked content cells thereon, which linking is performed based on navigation data. The record carrier includes modified navigation data and/or a stream arrangement of at least one stream of linked content cells, so that an access of the at least one stream of linked content cells on the record carrier under consideration of the navigation data is not disturbed, whereas a generally linear access of the at least one stream of linked content cells on the record carrier is disturbed.
US08356354B2	Silent-mode signature testing in anti-malware processing Method and computer program product for signature testing used in anti-malware processing. Silent signatures, after being tested, are not updated into a white list and are sent directly to users instead. If the silent signature coincides with malware signature, a user is not informed. A checksum (e.g., hash value) of a suspected file is sent to a server, where statistics are kept and analyzed. Based on collected false positive statistics of the silent-signature, the silent-signature is either valid or invalid. Use of the silent signatures provides for effective signature testing and reduces response time to new malware-related threats. The silent signature method is used for turning off a signature upon first false positive occurrence. Use of silent signatures allows improving heuristic algorithms for detection of unknown malware.
US08356351B2	Method and device for verification of code module in virtual machine A method for pre-verification of a code module when the code module is installed or updated in a virtual machine, comprising: loading codes in the installed or updated code module; performing code verification on the codes in the code module; if the code verification is passed, generating a certificate of the code module; and storing the code module passing the code verification and its certificate. The present invention also discloses a method for verification of a code module at runtime of the code module in a virtual machine, comprising loading codes in the code module; generating a certificate of the code module based on the loaded codes; if the generated certificate of the code module and a pre-stored certificate of the code module are identical, verifying the code module to be valid; otherwise performing a pre-verification on the code module.
US08356347B2	Migrating a virtual TPM instance and preserving uniqueness and completeness of the instance A migration scheme for virtualized Trusted Platform Modules is presented. The procedure is capable of securely migrating an instance of a virtual Trusted Platform Module from one physical platform to another. A virtual Trusted Platform Module instance's state is downloaded from a source virtual Trusted Platform Module and all its state information is encrypted using a hybrid of public and symmetric key cryptography. The encrypted state is transferred to the target physical platform, decrypted and the state of the virtual Trusted Platform Module instance is rebuilt.
US08356345B2	Constructing a secure internet transaction A method for constructing a secure Internet transaction, the method includes: receiving a user identification (userid) and user password on a client device for filling out a form generated by a secure web site; concatenating the user's Internet Protocol (IP) address with a separate password that is maintained on the secure web site that the user is authenticating to; encrypting the concatenated user IP and separate password to form an Internet Protocol password (IPPW); wherein the encrypting is carried out with asymmetric public-key cryptography using a public key; building a transaction consisting of the IPPW and userid; transmitting the transaction and form via a network towards the secure web site; wherein in response the secure website performs the following: decrypts the IPPW, and determines if the IP portion of the decrypted IPPW is equal to the user's IP address.
US08356344B2	Portable ice proxy and method thereof This invention is to provide a method applied to a network system comprising Internet and at least two private networks each having at least one NAT router and at least one network terminal device. Each network terminal device can link to Internet through an ICE proxy and the NAT router in the corresponding private network. The method allows an ICE proxy in a private network to hijack connection signals sent from a network terminal device, to write a plurality of candidate access points provided by an ICE protocol standard into a SDP packet containing the connection signals, and to transmit the SDP packet to a remote ICE proxy in another private network via Internet. As a result, the ICE proxies of two private networks can selectively use the candidate access points provided by the ICE protocol standard in order to pass through the respective NAT routers and firewalls thereof.
US08356343B1	Session continuity on reauthentication A method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for maintaining a network session between a network element and a network despite the need to reauthenticate the network element. A computer-implemented method is provided for authenticating a network element to a network. According to this method, an authentication request is transmitted to the network element. In response, the network element provides identifying information for a home agent that previously routed messages to the network element. The identifying information is then used to generate a mobility key. Later, when a network registration request message is received on behalf of the network element, the generated key is used to validate the request.
US08356340B2	Secure subscriber identity module service A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for a secure subscriber identity module service. Communication via a mobile network is activated in response to receiving a request to activate communication service for the system by a secure partition of the system. In response to receiving the request, a key is retrieved for a permit service from storage accessible only by the secure partition. The key is included in a permit requesting to activate the communication service, and the permit is sent to a service provider for the communication service. The service provider communicates with the permit service to obtain a digital signature for the permit. The secure partition receives a signed permit from the service provider, confirms that the signed permit contains the digital signature by the permit service, and activates the communication service for the system in response to confirming that the signed permit contains the digital signature.
US08356339B2	Device controller, system, and method for authenticated printing A device controller is connected with multiple terminals and with at least one input-output device via a network. The device controller has: a reception controller configured to perform first authentication according to data input from a first terminal and to cause the first terminal to obtain information on a specified series of processing based on a result of the first authentication; and an input-output controller configured to perform second authentication according to data input from a second terminal and to cause a specific input-output device selected out of the at least one input-output device to perform the specified series of processing, based on a result of the second authentication. The input-output controller allows the specific input-output device to perform the specified series of processing when the second terminal is selected in advance for the specific input-output device.
US08356327B2	Wireless video transmission system A transmission system suitable for video where a sender encodes video for transmission to a receiver at an adjustable date rate. The data rate may be adjusted using a delay constraint that constrains the expected delay of transmitted packets. The expected delay may be measured from a time that a transmitter encodes a packet to a time that a receiver decodes a packet.
US08356323B2	UPnP/DLNA compliant MR-DVR A method for operably connecting MR-DVR legacy systems with DLNA/UPnP compliant devices. An embodiment comprises an MR-DVR server translating DLNA/UPnP compliant protocols/data format to legacy protocols/data format used by MR-DVR legacy client devices.
US08356318B2	Terminal and method of controlling broadcasting therein A terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to receive broadcast guide information, and a control unit configured to determine whether or not broadcast information included in the received broadcast guide information corresponds to an actual broadcast operation for a corresponding broadcast program, and to update the broadcast guide information when the broadcast information included in the received broadcast guide information does not correspond to the actual broadcast operation for the corresponding broadcast program.
US08356317B2	Presence based technology A collaborative information system.
US08356313B2	Reduced thickness disc drive apparatus A disc drive apparatus includes: an apparatus body to which a disc is inserted and from which the disc is ejected; a disc recording and reproducing unit having a disc loading unit configured to load the disc inserted into the apparatus body, a disc rotation drive mechanism configured to rotate the disc loaded onto the disc loading unit, an optical pickup configured to record and/or reproduce a data signal with respect to the disc, and a pickup feeding mechanism configured to convey the optical pickup in a radial direction of the disc; a disc conveying mechanism configured to insert the disc into the apparatus body and eject the disc from the apparatus body; and a conveyance drive mechanism provided in the apparatus body and configured to drive the disc conveying mechanism; wherein the apparatus body includes a shoulder which is reduced in thickness in the vicinity of an insertion end of the disc.
US08356311B2	Detecting method for limit switch of optical disc drive by sampling voltage of limit switch predetermined times A method is disclosed to detect the voltage of a limit switch in an optical disc drive. The method includes following steps: loading an optical disc when the voltage of the limit switch is at a high level, completing the disc loading process when the voltage is changed to a low level, sampling the voltage of the limit switch predetermined times when the voltage is changed to the high level again, detecting the sampling voltages, completing the disc ejecting process when the sampling voltages are all at the high level, and determining a voltage bouncing to maintain the disc loaded status to avoid disc ejection misjudgment of the optical disc drive when the sampling voltages are not all at the high level.
US08356310B2	Executing business logic extensions on a client computing system A server platform exposes server-hosted application services to client applications. Calls to the server-hosted application services may be executed along with custom business logic extensions. A client platform is also provided that exposes client-hosted application services to a client application. The same business logic extensions that execute on the server platform can be utilized by the client platform. When a client application is online and connected to the server platform, the client application utilizes the server-hosted application services in the manner described above. When the client application is offline, the client application utilizes the client-hosted application services. The server platform synchronizes the business logic extensions to the client platform.
US08356309B1	Graphical display of management data obtained from an extensible management server An extensible management server (XMS) is disclosed that includes a management interface, a scripting engine, and a data store having management scripts and a management class library stored therein. The management interface provides functionality for receiving and responding to commands received from a management application. The management scripts include functionality for retrieving and setting management data on managed computers. The management scripts are configured to utilize classes contained in the management class library to perform the actual interaction with the managed server computers for retrieving or setting management data. The management scripts may also be configured to utilize a graphical display application programming interface for generating graphical display instructions for use by the management application in graphically displaying the management data.
US08356308B2	Blocking and bounding wrapper for thread-safe data collections A membership interface provides procedure headings to add and remove elements of a data collection, without specifying the organizational structure of the data collection. A membership implementation associated with the membership interface provides thread-safe operations to implement the interface procedures. A blocking-bounding wrapper on the membership implementation provides blocking and bounding support separately from the thread-safety mechanism.
US08356304B2	Method and system for job scheduling Logical processors/hardware contexts are assigned to different jobs/threads in a multithreaded/multicore environment. There are provided a number of different sorting algorithms, from which one is periodically selected on the basis of whether the present algorithm is giving satisfactory results or not. The period is preferably a super-context interval. The different sorting algorithms preferably include a software/OS priority. A second sorting algorithm may include sorting according to hardware performance measurements. The judgement of satisfactory performance is preferably based on the difference between a desired number of time quantum attributed per super-context switch interval to each job/thread and a real number of time quantum attributed per super-context switch interval to each job/thread.
US08356300B2	Multi-threaded processes for opening and saving documents Tools and techniques are described for multi-threaded processing for opening and saving documents. These tools may provide load processes for reading documents from storage devices, and for loading the documents into applications. These tools may spawn a load process thread for executing a given load process on a first processing unit, and an application thread may execute a given application on a second processing unit. A first pipeline may be created for executing the load process thread, with the first pipeline performing tasks associated with loading the document into the application. A second pipeline may be created for executing the application process thread, with the second pipeline performing tasks associated with operating on the documents. The tasks in the first pipeline are configured to pass tokens as input to the tasks in the second pipeline.
US08356296B1	Method and system for minimal disruption during software upgrade or reload of a network device A method and system for resetting a network device. Specifically, in one embodiment, a method is disclosed for upgrading and/or reloading software for a network device with minimal disruption. The method begins by separating operations associated with layer two of an International Standardization Organization Open Systems Interconnect (ISO/OSI) reference model from other layers in the ISO/OSI reference model in a network device. Then, the software operations in layer two of the network device are reset. The software operations are reset while maintaining continuity for a communication session between the network device and other network devices coupled together through a network. Thereafter, for minimal disruption, execution of the software operations is recovered at layer two before continuity of the communication session s terminated.
US08356288B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring runtime of persistence applications A monitoring method and apparatus monitors a runtime application to collect and display static and dynamic data concerning software entities and database operations in a runtime environment. In one embodiment, monitoring classes are used to collect monitoring data from at least one PersistenceUnit (PU) and at least one PersistenceContext (PC) associated with the PU of an application the uses an in implementation of a Java Persistence Application Programming Interface (JPA). A Java Management Extension (JMX) MBean communicates with the monitoring classes to expose monitoring data outside the runtime environment.
US08356287B2	Device, system and method of debugging computer programs Device, system, and method of debugging computer programs. For example, a method for debugging computer programs includes: locating a bug in a computer program based on a first score corresponding to a first instrumentation location of the computer program and a second score corresponding to a second instrumentation location of the computer program.
US08356286B2	Method and system for providing on-demand profiling infrastructure for profiling at virtual machines A system and method are provided to employ a profiling infrastructure to perform profiling. In one embodiment, a communication between a first virtual machine at a server and a second virtual machine at a client is established, wherein the communication is established via a profiling infrastructure. An application at the first virtual machine is profiled via the profiling infrastructure. Results of the profiling are communicated from the first virtual machine to the second virtual machine, wherein the results are communicated via the profiling infrastructure.
US08356279B2	Program-generating device and method, program for implementing the program-generating method, and storage medium A program generating device configured to be capable of reducing an operation burden on the user who has conventionally been required to extract portions to be changed from a script. A script acquiring section acquires script information for execution of a predetermined process. An attribute information-acquiring section acquires attribute information representing conditions for operation of a control target of the program generating device. A difference extracting section extracts difference. A script correcting section changes the script information based on difference between the attribute information and the script information.
US08356276B2	Flexible code generation There are methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for a flexible generation framework. The generation framework encapsulates a variety of different code generation technologies within a common interface. This allows various types of generator cores operating in various development environments to be integrated into the framework, and enables the generation of code using various generating technologies.
US08356274B2	System and methods to create a multi-tenancy software as a service application A method for providing multi-tenant services includes receiving a request from a user, establishing tenancy information for the user, wherein the tenancy information is selected which corresponds to a tenant of the user from among multiple tenants, customizing the request according to the tenancy information established for the user, forwarding the request to an application that is not multi-tenant aware, receiving results of the request from the application, customizing the results according to the tenancy information established for the user and corresponding to the tenant of the user, and returning customized results to the user.
US08356269B2	Dummy-metal-layout evaluating device and dummy-metal-layout evaluating method A dummy-mesh-information creating unit separates a group of dummy metal blocks that are arranged in a pattern regularly staggered with respect to a direction of a wire object into meshes so that each mesh has the same layout of dummy metal blocks. An overlap determining unit determines whether a dummy metal block within a dummy mesh overlaps with the wire object. A dummy-information calculating unit calculates dummy information after any dummy metal block that is determined to be overlapped with the wire object is removed. An information integrating unit integrates the dummy information with information about the wire object, thereby generating a dummy-fill circuit layout. An evaluating unit evaluates whether the dummy-fill circuit layout satisfies the design criteria.
US08356261B1	Determining the gradient and hessian of the image log slope for design rule optimization for accelerating source mask optimization (SMO) The Hessian (second derivative) of the image log slope (ILS) can be quickly and accurately calculated without the need to use approximate methods from the gradient of the ILS with respect to mask transmission and source intensity. The Hessian has been traditionally calculated using a finite-difference approach. Calculating the Hessian through a finite-difference approach is slow and is an approximate method. The gradient of the ILS improves the speed of calculation of the Hessian, and thus accelerated SMO operation is realized. The results of ILS evaluation can be used in design for manufacturing (DFM) to suggest changes in the design rules to improve imaging. For a fixed illumination, this information can help remove forbidden pitches and help select design rules for 1-D and 2-D patterns on a mask design layout.
US08356260B2	Method and apparatus for monitoring cross-sectional shape of a pattern formed on a semiconductor device A method is provided for estimating a cross-sectional shape or for monitoring manufacturing process parameters of a semiconductor device pattern to be measured. In this method, in order to enable SEM-based management of the cross-sectional shape or manufacturing process parameters of the pattern to be measured, the association between the cross-sectional shape or process parameters of the pattern and SEM image characteristic quantities effective for estimating the cross-sectional shape or process parameters of the pattern, is saved as learning data, and then the image characteristic quantities that have been calculated from a SEM image of the pattern are collated with the learning data to estimate the cross-sectional shape or to monitor process parameters of the pattern. Estimation with high accuracy and reliability is achievable by calculating all or part of three kinds of reliability (reliability of the image characteristic quantities, reliability of estimation engines, and reliability of estimating results) based on the distribution of the image characteristic quantities and judging from the calculated reliability whether additional learning of the learning data is necessary, or selecting and adjusting image characteristic quantities and estimation engine based on the reliability.
US08356257B2	Method and system for generating a control system user interface A method for providing navigation in a user interface for an industrial control system including a computer, a display device, a plurality of process graphics, and at least one user interface. A plurality of software objects are displayed for use in controlling and/or monitoring of real world objects controlled by the control system. One or more designated views are generated providing navigation between members of a group of context-related process graphics. Each process graphic with a designated view is a member of a predetermined group of process graphics, where each designated view includes one or more tabs directly linked to other members of the predetermined group in the industrial control system. A system and computer program for carrying out the method are described.
US08356254B2	System and method for interacting with a display A system and method of interacting with a display. The method comprises recognizing a disturbance in a display zone of a projected image and displaying a selected state in response to the recognized disturbance. The method further includes recognizing a gesture which interrupts a light source and is associated with an action to be taken on or associated with the displayed selected state. An action is executed in response to the recognized gesture. The system includes a server having a database containing data associated with at least one or more predefined gestures, and at least one of a hardware and software component for executing an action based on the at least one or more predefined gestures.
US08356252B2	System and method for providing a computer display form layout A system and method are disclosed that may provide a graphical user interface (GUI) within a web page on a display device forming part of a computer system, that may include defining attributes of user interface fields for use within the graphical user interface for display on the display device with program code; searching at least one image file for image data fields corresponding to one or more of the user interface fields; recording layout data of selected ones of the image data fields within the image file; and generating the GUI using information from the user interface field attributes and the recorded data.
US08356248B1	Generating context-based timelines Context-based timelines can be generated for an item in an electronic catalog by extracting contextual terms and item events corresponding to the item. The contextual terms can be used to retrieve historical data on historical events from a data repository. The historical data can be associated with at least some of the contextual terms. A context-based timeline can be generated that includes at least some of the historical events. The context-based timeline can be output for presentation to one or more users.
US08356246B2	Method and system for notifying a client on server disconnection in a manufacturing execution system A custom function is defined at engineering time for implementing actions to be executed in case of a disconnection event in which a client is unable to communicate with a server. At engineering time, code specifying the action to be implemented by the custom function is written into a function file that is stored on the web-server. Subsequently at run time, a browser running on a client requests a certain page to be displayed from the web-server. On occasion of a client-server disconnection; the communication component notifies a certain displayed page about the disconnection; and the custom function is executed with certain page being displayed.
US08356245B2	System and method of automatically mapping a given annotator to an aggregate of given annotators A document corpus is annotated by given annotators and aggregates of the given annotators to generate a corpus of pre-annotated documents with given annotations. The same document corpus is annotated by a subject annotator to have subject annotations. The subject annotations are decomposed into superpositions of the given annotations. The decomposed subject annotations are mapped to a most representative superposition of the given annotations. The subject annotator may be mapped to the aggregate of given annotators corresponding to the most representative compatible superposition, resulting in a meaningful new aggregate annotator.
US08356239B2	Selective cache way mirroring A data processing system has cache circuitry having a plurality of ways. Mirroring control logic indicates a mirrored way pair and a non-mirrored way of the plurality of ways. The mirrored way pair has first and second ways wherein the second way is configured to store cache data fields redundant to cache data fields of the first way. In one form, comparison logic, in response to an address hitting in the first way or the second way within the mirrored way pair, performs a bit comparison between cache data from the first way addressed by an index portion of the address with cache data from the second way addressed by the index portion of the address to provide a bit parity error signal. In another form, allocation logic uses a portion of the address and line locking information to determine whether a mirrored or non-mirrored way is selected for allocation.
US08356238B2	Trellis encoder for encoding dual transmission stream A trellis encoder for trellis encoding a dual transmission stream. A first multiplexer selectively outputs one of a predetermined first bit of the dual transmission stream and a value stored in a first memory according to an external control signal. A first adder adds the value output from the first multiplexer to the value stored in the first memory, outputs the added value, and stores the added value in the first memory. A second multiplexer selectively outputs one of a predetermined second bit of the dual transmission stream and a value stored in a second memory according to the external control signal. A second adder adds the value output from the second multiplexer to the value stored in the second memory and stores the added value in a third memory. Thus, an initialization is effectively performed before trellis encoding is performed.
US08356235B2	Recording and reproducing data to/from a recording medium having a user data area and an information area for storing information about the recording medium If a large minimum data unit for recorded data is used to record a small data amount of management information, the recording time is long, and furthermore when a WO (write once) is used as the recording medium, the number of recording operations is restricted. To solve the above problems, the present invention records data in a management area in units smaller than ordinary units for recorded data to suitably record information in a limited management area and thereby efficiently use the user data area. At that time, the present invention simplifies interleave processing usually applied to ordinary recorded data, and performs the simplified interleave processing on a data structure (for data of small size) of the present invention so as to ensure the signal processing compatibility between the ordinary data and data having the data structure according to the present invention.
US08356233B2	Pseudo-noise insertion on unacceptable input data sequence in optical networks The present disclosure provides systems and methods for inserting pseudo-noise in a data stream based on an unacceptable input data sequence in an optical network thereby preventing unnecessary loss of frame in SONET/SDH or Optical Transport Network (OTN) systems. The present disclosure includes a SONET/SDH or OTN framer, a transceiver, and a method for detecting an unacceptable data sequence or pattern and inserting a keep-alive or pseudo-noise sequence in the data sequence to maintaining framing on subsequent network elements, framers, transceivers, etc. For example, the present invention, upon receiving an unacceptable pattern of zeros or low ones density caused by a loss of signal condition or the like, may insert a pseudorandom noise pattern into the transmitted frame. This allows the downstream network element to continue a frame lock on the incoming signal, and thus keep the frame overhead and data communications channels from being lost.
US08356230B2	Apparatus to manage data stability and methods of storing and recovering data An apparatus to manage data stability, including a plurality of storage units and a control unit to determine when protected data is stored in a particular address row of at least one of the plurality of storage units, to select another storage unit of the plurality of storage units to store the protected data, and to store relevance data related to the protected data in the same address row of the selected storage unit. Methods of storing and recover data also included.
US08356229B2	Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel A method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high speed shared control channel (HS-SCCH) data are disclosed. For part 1 data encoding, a mask may be generated using a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) identity (ID) and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. For part 2 data encoding, cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits are generated based on part 1 data and part 2 data. The number of CRC bits is less than the WTRU ID. The CRC bits and/or the part 2 data are masked with a mask. The mask may be a WTRU ID or a punctured WTRU ID of length equal to the CRC bits. The mask may be generated using the WTRU ID and a generator matrix with a maximum minimum Hamming distance. The masking may be performed after encoding or rate matching.
US08356228B2	Apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication system An apparatus and method for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication system are provided. The apparatus includes a time slicing processor. When a frame border of the last section for determining a burst reception end time is not detected during a burst reception operation, the time slicing processor receives a burst enough to restore the whole MPE-FEC frame to the former state or receives an early burst reception end request for notifying that it is impossible to restore the whole MPE-FEC frame to the former state, and terminates the burst reception process.
US08356226B2	Method and apparatus for providing a data retransmission scheme An approach is provided for efficient retransmissions by allocating a transmission resource for transmitting data and allocating a retransmission resource for retransmitting the data according to a transmission scheme that specifies relationship between the transmitted data and the retransmitted data for providing communication over a radio network.
US08356223B1	Apparatus and method for testing and debugging an integrated circuit A system including a frame capture module, a serializer, and a deserializer. The frame capture module is configured to receive, from a device under test, data corresponding to test results, and package the data into first data frames. The serializer is configured serialize the first data frames to form serial messages that include serialized data. The serializer includes i) a first serial link configured to output the serial messages according to a first clock domain, and ii) a second serial link configured to output the serial messages according to a second clock domain. The deserializer is configured to deserialize the serial messages received on the first serial link and the second serial link to form second data frames.
US08356217B2	Storage circuit, integrated circuit, and scanning method A storage circuit, an integrated circuit and a scanning method are provided. The storage circuit includes a first storage element, and a second storage element connected to an output of the first storage element. The storage circuit includes a first setting circuit that is configured to set data of a first logic value to the first storage element when a clear signal is applied, and a second setting circuit that is configured to set data of a second logic value to the second storage element and transmit the second logic value data to a different storage circuit when a second clock signal is in an off state and the clear signal is applied.
US08356216B2	Error scanning in flash memory Various embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems to scan at least a portion of a memory device for potential errors when a condition for scanning is met. The condition may be dependent on one or more of a number of read operations, a number of write operations, time, and others. Other embodiments including additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed.
US08356211B2	Detecting browser failure Embodiments are configured to improve the stability of a Web browser by identifying plug-in modules that cause failures. Data in memory at the time of a failure is analyzed, and a failure signature is generated. The failure signature is compared to a database of known failure signatures so that the source of the failure may be identified. If a plug-in module to a Web browser is identified as the source of a failure, options are presented to the user who may update the plug-in module with code that does not produce a failure or disable the plug-in module altogether.
US08356209B2	Self-managed processing device A processing device may automatically provide protective services and may provide backup services for backing up and restoring user files, system files, configuration files, as well as other information. The processing device may be configured to check one or more performance conditions and perform an action to improve performance based on the one or more performance conditions. The processing device may monitor configuration and file changes and provide a user with a capability to persist or discard configuration changes and/or file changes made by an application during a session. The processing device may include a recovery button or switch, which when selected or pressed may cause the processing device to be restored to an operational state. The processing device may automatically detect instabilities and may automatically attempt to repair possible causes of the instabilities. The processing device may also include an additional chipset, which may perform backup and recovery services.
US08356208B2	Method of collecting information in system network To quickly establish an inferring result when a problem is detected in an operation management system equipped with a rule-based inference processing function, there is provided a method of collecting information for managing a computer system equipped with a plurality of devices. The computer system holds rule for associating a plurality of events with a conclusion output when all of the plurality of events have been detected. The method includes: executing, at a first interval, polling to obtain information indicating whether each of the plurality of events has been detected; judging whether the plurality of events have been detected; and executing, upon judgment that at least one of the plurality of events has been detected and none of the remaining events have been detected, before execution of next polling at the first interval, polling to obtain information indicating whether at least one of the undetected remaining events has been detected.
US08356202B2	System and method for reducing power consumption in a device using register files A device and method for reducing the power consumption of an electronic device using register file with bypass mechanism. The width of a pulse controlling the word write operation may be extended twice as long so that the extended portion substantially overlaps a following word read pulse. The extension of the pulse width of the read operation may enable lowering the Vcc Min value for the electronic device and thus may lower the power consumption of the device.
US08356201B2	Method, CAN bus driver and CAN bus system for the recovery of a clock frequency of a CAN bus A method, a CAN bus driver and a CAN bus system for the recovery of a clock frequency of a CAN bus, which couples a master device, that has a clock generator for providing the clock frequency, to at least one slave device. A phase-locked loop is used in the slave device, in this context, which utilizes a predetermined bit pattern, that is extracted from a frame sent by the master device via the bus system, as reference signal.
US08356199B2	Logical battery partitions configured by user interface A logical battery partitioning approach is disclosed. In one embodiment, a power management system in a portable computing device having a plurality of subsystems can include: (i) a battery coupled to a plurality of subsystems; (ii) a first battery variable provided to a first subsystem to indicate a characteristic of a first logical battery partition; and (iii) a second battery variable provided to a second subsystem to indicate a characteristic of a second logical battery partition. A battery variable can include an accessibility control, or a percent of battery power available, for example.
US08356193B2	Scaling energy use in a virtualized environment A method, system, and computer usable program product for scaling energy use in a virtualized data processing environment are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of PIOAs is configured such that each PIOAs in the set of PIOAs is a functional equivalent of another PIOAs in the set of PIOAs. A utilization of each PIOA in the set of PIOAs is measured. A number of PIOAs needed to service a workload is determined. A first subset of PIOAs from the set of PIOAs is powered down if the number of PIOAs needed to service the workload is smaller than a number of operational PIOAs. The I/O operations associated with the first subset of PIOAs are transferred to a second subset of PIOAs remaining operational in the set of PIOAs.
US08356192B2	Method and device for power management and control of Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture system An Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture system and a method for power management and control of the system are disclosed. The system includes a Front Board (FRB) and a Rear Transition Module (RTM)/Front Transition Module (FTM). The FRB includes a first power conversion/control module that supplies power to the FRB and RTM/FTM. The system further includes a control circuit that outputs control signal, and a second power conversion/control module that supplies power to the RTM/FTM according to the control signal.
US08356178B2	Method and apparatus for authenticated data storage A method includes: computing a first message authentication code for each of a plurality of sets of data blocks on a data storage medium, and authenticating the sets of data blocks by computing a second message authentication code for each of the sets of data blocks to be authenticated and comparing the first and second message authentication codes. An apparatus that performs the method is also provided.
US08356177B2	Key transport in authentication or cryptography A computer system for authenticating, encrypting, and transmitting a secret communication, where the encryption key is transmitted along with the encrypted message, is disclosed. In an embodiment, a first transmitting processor encrypts a plaintext message to a ciphertext message using a data key, encrypts the data key using a key encrypting key, and sends a communication comprising the encrypted data key and the ciphertext message. A second receiving processor receives the communication and then decrypts the encrypted data key using the key encrypting key and decrypts the ciphertext message using the data key to recover the plaintext message.
US08356172B2	Apparatus and method for monitoring certificate acquisition A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to transmit a request to a remote management server for status information associated with a x.509 certificate intended for the STB, wherein at least one of the STB and the remote management server operate in an interactive television (iTV) network, and receive the status information associated with the x.509 certificate from the remote management server, wherein events associated with the status information are received by the remote management server from at least one of the STB, a certificates proxy, an external certificate web service, and a certificate authority, and wherein the status information comprises at least a portion of the received events. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08356170B2	Management-apparatus card, measuring apparatus, health care system, and method for communicating vital sign data The management-apparatus card capable of being attached to a management apparatus receives, from the measuring apparatus, first unique information indicating the measuring apparatus, and identification information indentifying a user of the measuring apparatus; stores second unique information indicating the management-apparatus card; generates a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key, using the first unique information, the second unique information, and the identification information; stores the generated decryption key; receives encrypted vital sign data from the measuring apparatus; decrypts the received vital sign data using the stored decryption key; and obtains the decrypted vital sign data.
US08356166B2	Minimizing code duplication in an unbounded transactional memory system by using mode agnostic transactional read and write barriers Minimizing code duplication in an unbounded transactional memory system. A computing apparatus including one or more processors in which it is possible to use a set of common mode-agnostic TM barrier sequences that runs on legacy ISA and extended ISA processors, and that employs hardware filter indicators (when available) to filter redundant applications of TM barriers, and that enables a compiled binary representation of the subject code to run correctly in any of the currently implemented set of transactional memory execution modes, including running the code outside of a transaction, and that enables the same compiled binary to continue to work with future TM implementations which may introduce as yet unknown future TM execution modes.
US08356163B2	SIMD microprocessor and method for controlling variable sized image data processing A disclosed SIMD microprocessor includes plural processor elements each having n arithmetic circuits and n registers configured to temporarily store data pieces to be input to the arithmetic circuits, n being a natural number equal to or greater than 2, and; a control circuit configured to determine an arrangement order of the processor elements and an arrangement order of the arithmetic circuits in the processor elements and determine whether to use the n arithmetic circuits as a single arithmetic circuit or as n arithmetic circuits. Each processor element further includes n shifter pairs each including a PE shifter and a bit shifter; and n shift data selection circuits configured to select arbitrary data pieces from the data pieces in the shifter pairs, perform bit extension on the data pieces, and transfer the data pieces to the arithmetic circuits.
US08356161B2	Adaptive processor for performing an operation with simple and complex units each comprising configurably interconnected heterogeneous elements The present invention concerns a new category of integrated circuitry and a new methodology for adaptive or reconfigurable computing. The preferred IC embodiment includes a plurality of heterogeneous computational elements coupled to an interconnection network. The plurality of heterogeneous computational elements include corresponding computational elements having fixed and differing architectures, such as fixed architectures for different functions such as memory, addition, multiplication, complex multiplication, subtraction, configuration, reconfiguration, control, input, output, and field programmability. In response to configuration information, the interconnection network is operative in real-time to configure and reconfigure the plurality of heterogeneous computational elements for a plurality of different functional modes, including linear algorithmic operations, non-linear algorithmic operations, finite state machine operations, memory operations, and bit-level manipulations. The various fixed architectures are selected to comparatively minimize power consumption and increase performance of the adaptive computing integrated circuit, particularly suitable for mobile, hand-held or other battery-powered computing applications.
US08356158B2	Mini-translation lookaside buffer for use in memory translation One or more methods and systems of improving performance and reducing the size of a translation lookaside buffer are presented. In one embodiment, the method comprises using a bit obtained from a virtual page number to store even and odd page frame numbers into a single page frame number field of a miniature translation lookaside buffer (mini-TLB). In one embodiment, even and odd page frame number fields are consolidated into a single page frame number field. In one embodiment, the mini-TLB facilitates the use of a buffer or memory of reduced size. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, aspects of the invention may be found in a system and method that easily incorporates and adapts the use of existing control processor instruction sets or commands of a typical translation lookaside buffer.
US08356156B2	Method and system for using external storage to amortize CPU cycle utilization A method and system for using external storage to amortize CPU cycle utilization, wherein translated instructions are stored in a storage medium and subsequently accessed on a subsequent execution of a non-native application in order to amortize CPU cycles used in generating the translated instructions.
US08356154B2	Storage system, data relocation method thereof, and recording medium that records data relocation program There is a need to improve access speed for a file in a storage system that is provided with multiple storage units having different access speeds.The storage system (10) includes an access frequency acquiring part (14) that divides a past constant accessed data acquisition period into multiple unit periods, and obtains an access frequency for file stored in any of the multiple storage units (30 and 31), a similarity degree calculating part (16) that obtains, for each file, a similarity degree between the access frequency to the file for each unit period, and the access frequency to every other file for each unit period, a grouping process part (17) that groups one or more other files having a similarity degree equal to or higher than a predetermined value, in an identical group, and a file relocation part (18) that places a file belonging to the identical group into a storage unit (30) having a high access speed, when the file stored in the storage units (30 and 31) is accessed and there exists any other file within the identical group to which the file belongs.
US08356152B2	Initiative wear leveling for non-volatile memory A method and apparatus for initiative wear leveling for non-volatile memory. An embodiment of a method includes counting erase cycles for each of a set of multiple memory blocks of a non-volatile memory, the counting of erase cycles for each memory block including incrementing a first count for a physical block address of the memory block, and if the memory block is not a spare memory block, incrementing a second count for a logical block address of the memory block. The method also includes determining whether the non-volatile memory has uneven wear of memory blocks based at least in part on the counting of the erase cycles of the plurality of memory blocks.
US08356146B2	Memory register encoding apparatus and methods Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to encode register bits to generate encoded bits such that, for pairs of addresses, an encoded bit to be coupled to a first address in a memory device may be exchanged with an encoded bit to be coupled to a second address in the memory device. Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to invert encoded bits in logic circuits in the memory device if original bits were inverted. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08356145B2	Multi-stage multiplexing operation including combined selection and data alignment or data replication A multi-stage multiplexing operation that includes combined selection and data alignment or data replication is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method includes performing a first stage of a multi-stage multiplexing operation. During the first stage, a first data source is selected from a first plurality of data sources. At least one of a first data alignment operation and a first data replication operation is also performed on first data from the selected first data source during the first stage.
US08356142B1	Memory controller for non-sequentially prefetching data for a processor of a computer system A memory controller for non-sequentially prefetching data for a processor of a computer system. The memory controller performs a method including the step of storing a plurality of address pairs in a table data structure, wherein the address pairs include a first address and a second address. The first address and the second address are non-sequential as fetched by a processor of a computer system. The address pairs are prioritized in accordance with a frequency of use for each of the address pairs. A system memory of the computer system is accessed and a plurality of cache lines corresponding to the address pairs are stored in a prefetch cache. Upon a cache hit during a subsequent access by the processor, data is transferred from the cache lines stored in the prefetch cache to the processor.
US08356140B2	Methods and apparatus for controlling data between storage systems providing different storage functions A system comprises a plurality of storage systems, which provides different storage functions, and is controlled by a management server. The management server determines whether to change the control of the storage controller between the storage systems, or to mount the target volume as an external volume and keep the storage controller under control so that the storage function provided to the source volume is maintained even after the configuration change between the storage systems. After the determination, the management server instructs the storage system to perform according to the determination.
US08356138B1	Methods for implementing programmable memory controller for distributed DRAM system-in-package (SiP) A multi-port memory controller (MPMC) can be parameterized to selectively connect to different memory configurations. In particular, a programmable device that is combined with a DRAM in a die-stacked distributed memory in a single chip is provided with the programmable device forming the MPMC. The programmable device is parameterized to form a memory controller that can either aggregate or segment memory controller components to control different DRAM memory banks either together or separately. The aggregation or segmentation of the memory devices can be configured dynamically during operation of the programmable device.
US08356130B2	Mechanism for recording undeliverable user-level interrupts A method includes recording a user-level interrupt as undeliverable in a mailbox at least partially based on an interrupt domain identifier and an interrupt recipient identifier included in a user-level interrupt message associated with the user-level interrupt. The recording is at least partially based on an indication that the user-level interrupt is undeliverable to a recipient application thread executing on a processor core of a plurality of processor cores in a multi-core system.
US08356128B2	Method and system of reducing latencies associated with resource allocation by using multiple arbiters A digital processing system employing multiple arbiters, all designed to allocate a resource to a same entity in response to a same condition. In an embodiment, the entities needing the resource may send a request to all the arbiters, and the specific entity to which the resource is allocated, receives indication of the allocation from a closest one of the arbiters. As a result, the latency in receipt of indication of allocation may be reduced. The features are described in the context of a bus as a resource.
US08356123B2	Apparatus and method for storing context information on an electronic device An electronic device includes a storage slot for storing context information for a storage device. The electronic device is configured to apply settings related to the context information to the storage device upon detecting connection of the storage device to the electronic device. A method of operating the electronic device may include acquiring context information from the storage device, storing the context information within a storage slot of the electronic device, and applying settings to the storage device. The settings may be related to the context information and may be applied upon detecting a reconnection of the storage device to the electronic device.
US08356120B2	Mechanism for memory state restoration of virtual machine (VM)-controlled peripherals at a destination host machine during migration of the VM A mechanism for memory change tracking during migration of a virtual machine (VM) with VM-controlled assigned peripherals is disclosed. A method of the invention includes receiving a state of a VM-controlled peripheral device running on a destination host machine from an origin host machine, wherein the VM is executed by a hypervisor of the destination host machine, providing the received state of the peripheral device to at least one of the VM, a memory of the VM, or the peripheral device in order to cause the peripheral device to be restored to that state on the destination host machine, and interacting with the VM in order to cause the VM to start the peripheral device in the restored state.
US08356119B2	Performance by reducing transaction request ordering requirements A data processing apparatus is disclosed that is configured to communicate via an output port with a plurality of devices and to issue a stream of transaction requests to the output port, the stream of transaction requests comprising at least some device transaction requests destined for the plurality of devices. Device transactions are transactions that may affect each other and therefore should be completed in an order in which they are received at the output port in. The output port is configured to output the received transaction requests as a single serial stream of transaction requests. The data processing apparatus comprises: a destination device detector for monitoring the device transaction requests and for determining which of the plurality of devices each of the device transaction requests are destined for; the output port comprises ordering circuitry configured to treat the plurality of devices as at least two subsets of devices, at least one of the subsets comprising at least two devices; the ordering circuitry being configured to receive the stream of transaction requests and to classify each of the device transaction requests into one of the at least two subsets in response to determination of a destination device by said destination device detector, and to maintain said order that said device transaction requests within each subset are received in, such that device transaction requests within each subset are output by the output port and executed by their respective destination devices in the received order, while device transaction requests within different subsets may be output in an order that is different to the received order.
US08356117B2	Control of electronic devices based on capability descriptions Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer readable media for controlling one or more electronic devices are described. According to one described aspect, an embodiment of a method includes providing a plurality of schemes, each scheme defining features that are operable on an electronic device and which features each of the features in the scheme can use, and receiving data for identifying the type of the electronic device, and selecting, based on the type, one of the schemes, and controlling the electronic device based on the selected scheme.
US08356116B2	Relay server and relay communication system In a relay communication system in which remote LANs communicate with one another beyond a WAN, respective apparatuses confirm a virtual network environment of the relay communication system in real time. Relay servers relay mutual communication between client terminals. The relay server creates information shown below, and allows the whole of the relay communication system to share the information: a relay group information indicating virtual private IP addresses of the relay servers and a connection establishment state therebetween; and a relay server information indicating a virtual private IP address and connection establishment state of a client terminal capable of communicating with the relay server. The respective apparatuses in the relay communication system can share the information regarding the virtual private IP addresses and connection establishment states of all the apparatuses, and can flexibly execute communication in which the virtual private IP addresses are designated as destinations for communication.
US08356111B2	Method for buffer management for video swarms in a peer-to-peer network A buffer for buffing multimedia content to enable reliable streaming of multimedia content in a peer-to-peer network. The buffer comprises a first section being loaded with a first portion of the multimedia content during a first time interval, wherein the first portion of the multimedia content is retrieved from at least one resource node; and a second section being loaded with a second portion of the multimedia content during a second time interval, wherein the second portion of the multimedia content is retrieved from at least one reliable node during a second time interval, wherein the buffer continuously delivers the multimedia content including the first and second portions thereof to a consumer node.
US08356107B2	Method, apparatus and system for updating PCC rules A method, an apparatus, and a system for updating PCC rules are disclosed herein to ensure normal process of the user service in the process of updating the PCC rules. A method for updating PCC rules includes: obtaining a response made by a PCEF after the PCEF updates the PCC rules; and keeping consistency between PCC rules stored in the PCRF and the PCC rules currently executed in the PCEF according to the obtained response.
US08356099B2	Server resource allocation A method, programmed medium and system are disclosed which provide for end-to-end QoS for a set of processes that comprise a workload over nfs. A set of processes that comprise a workload such as the processes of a WPAR, or an entire LPAR are given a class designation and assigned priority/limits. The data are then passed to the server which allocates resources based on the sum total of all the current classes and their priorities and/or limits. This requires re-engineering the nfs client code to be workload-aware and the nfs server code to accommodate the resource allocation and prioritization needs of the nfs clients.
US08356090B2	Method for a facilitator to assist an entrepreneur in creating an internet business The present invention provides a method for an Entrepreneur to start an Internet business by creating an Entrepreneur's web site using tools provided at a Facilitator's web site. The method allows the Entrepreneur to access the Facilitator's web site, register a desired available domain name, trademark the domain name, design an Entrepreneur's web site accessible via the domain name, design a similar appearing store front web site to handle commercial transactions, copyright the Entrepreneur's web site, offer hosting services for the Entrepreneur's web site and submit the Entrepreneur's web site to one or more search engines. Tremendous synergies may be achieved and serious pitfalls avoided in creating the Internet business by receiving overall guidance and assistance from one web site, i.e. a Facilitator's web site, in performing these processes.
US08356087B1	Automatically configuring virtual private networks Disclosed are various embodiments for configuring virtual private networks (VPNs). A request is made, through a service call, for creation of a VPN through a client VPN gateway and a server VPN gateway. In response to the service call, a generic gateway configuration document is received. The generic gateway configuration document is applicable to the client VPN gateway. The generic gateway configuration document is translated to a device-specific gateway configuration document.
US08356086B2	Distributed non-negative matrix factorization Architecture that scales up the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) technique to a distributed NMF (denoted DNMF) to handle large matrices, for example, on a web scale that can include millions and billions of data points. To analyze web-scale data, DNMF is applied through parallelism on distributed computer clusters, for example, with thousands of machines. In order to maximize the parallelism and data locality, matrices are partitioned in the short dimension. The probabilistic DNMF can employ not only Gaussian and Poisson NMF techniques, but also exponential NMF for modeling web dyadic data (e.g., dwell time of a user on browsed web pages).
US08356085B2	Automated transformation of specifications for devices into executable modules A number of configuration elements are associated with a number of devices. Information about input configuration elements is accessed. An input configuration element is associated with one or more input rules. It is determined which of the configuration elements could be accessed by the input rules and any call chains emanating from the rules. Output rules are determined by using the accessed configuration elements, the input rules, and the way the input rule manipulates its accessed configuration elements. Each output rule may be derived from an input rule and corresponds to the same input configuration element associated with that input rule. An executable module is generated that is adapted to access at least a given one of the input configuration elements and to trigger one or more of the output rules corresponding to the given input configuration element. Read and write sets for rules are determined, and the triggered output rules ensure that restrictions associated with a configuration element are not violated.
US08356081B2	Automated domain name registration An automated system and method to permit users to find and register available domain names in numerous different ccTLDs. The system provides real-time searching of large numbers of ccTLDs for each user so that during a single web session, the user can simply select the available ccTLDs from the resultant list, and purchase the desired ccTLDs online. The system also formats the user's information in the appropriate manner for each selected ccTLD and performs the necessary electronic transactions to register the ccTLDs.
US08356078B2	Multi-homed data forwarding storage Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for multi-homed data forwarding storage. A method includes, in a computer system having multiple non-loopback network addresses, receiving a request to store data, directing the data to a memory location associated with a first non-loopback network address available to receive the data, continuously forwarding the data from the memory location associated with the first non-loopback network address to a memory location associated with another non-loopback network address in the computer system without storing on any physical storage device in the computer system. The continuously forwarding can include detecting a presence of the data in a memory location associated with a specific non-loopback network address, and forwarding the data to another memory location of another non-loopback network address in the computer without storing on any physical storage device.
US08356074B1	Inter point of presence split architecture A system and method for accelerating web page delivery is disclosed in one embodiment. Web content requests are made to an edge server of a first point of presence (POP) of a content delivery network (CDN). The web content has embedded resource links. The first POP can rewrite the embedded resource links to route requests for the embedded resource links to any POP in the CDN or even the origin server. In some embodiments, the first POP can decide if the first POP and/or another POP referenced in a rewritten embedded resource link should cache and/or accelerate the resource referenced in the embedded resource link.
US08356070B2	High level network layer system and method A technique for providing high level network layer functionality to an IM environment involves providing a high level platform through which IM clients can connect to IM networks. A platform according to the technique may include a low level network connect engine, an aggregated low level information database, and/or a high level function engine. A method according to the technique may include facilitating a high level login; checking user configurations; accomplishing one or more IM network logins in accordance with the user configurations; and providing high level services in association with at least one of the IM networks. Another method according to the technique may include logging into a high level platform; logging into a first IM network; logging into a second IM network; and accessing at the high level platform aggregated low level information associated with the first IM network and the second IM network.
US08356068B2	Multimedia training system and apparatus A method for providing interactive training, whereby a video display and a base station are coupled in communication with a computer. A plurality of wireless handheld remotes are configured for wirelessly communicating with the base station, and each of the remotes is operable by a respective trainee of a group of trainees. Each remote has a remote ID unique from all other remotes and is stored in non-volatile memory of the computer; and the base station includes a base station ID code unique from all other base stations, and the base station ID is stored in non-volatile memory of each remote. Each remote remains in an inactive state and is operable to be activated via a respective activate signal transmitted from the base station, and the base station is operable to transmit an activate signal to one or more of the remotes, the activate signal being effective for enabling the remote to transmit a signal, wherein the remote is deactivated upon completion of transmission of signal. Using unique IDs prevents interference from other wireless devices including remotes paired with other base stations. It also makes it unnecessary for one training system to operate on a different channel from another training system.
US08356067B2	Servicing device aggregates A constellation is determined in reference to a particular combination of devices and/or software, some or all of which may be coupled with a network. A constellation addresses aggregate capabilities provided by a combination of devices and/or software available on the network. The network may define multiple constellations. Services are written for constellations, and the services may be pulled from external sources for use on the network. A server on the network, such as a service host, may coordinate and manage obtaining services from the external sources, and removing or disabling services for constellations no longer valid.
US08356066B1	System and method for generating a fixed point approximation to nonlinear functions A system and method are provided for use in an electronic device configured to process data to perform a method of generating a fixed point approximation of a number x by first locating the most significant bit of a given number, then retrieving predetermined values from electronic data storage, where the first value is based on a first index value generated from the most significant bit and contains fixed-point representation located in a table in storage. Then, output values are generated from look-up tables that correspond to index values generated from a number of bits that immediately following the most significant bit. Finally, the final mathematic result is computed using fixed-point arithmetic logic to generate a fixed point approximation.
US08356056B2	Functional extensions for business objects A system may include generation of extension metadata defining a functional extension associated with a business object, and generation of a runtime metadata buffer comprising enhanced metadata, the enhanced metadata based on core metadata of the business object and the extension metadata. In some aspects, a service request associated with the business object is received, it is determined whether the service request is associated with the functional extension, an extension service associated with the functional extension is provided if it is determined that the service request is associated with the functional extension, and a core service associated with core data of the business object is provided if it is determined that the service request is not associated with the functional extension.
US08356054B2	Management of resources in a host system A computer implemented method for managing access to system resources includes receiving a request from a user for write-access to a resource in a host system, the host system including write-access permissions to the resource for one or more selected users. The method also includes accessing the resource in the host system, presenting the resource to the user to allow the user to make changes to the resource, determining whether the user has write-access permission to the resource, and determining whether the resource is a temporarily writable resource. The method further includes, responsive to the resource being temporarily writable and the user not having write-access permission, discarding changes to the resource made by the user and returning the resource without the changes to the host system.
US08356051B2	Integrated saved search results To provide an improved user experience for users of a web browser, embodiments of the invention save queries entered by a user via the web browser. The queries may be for execution on different network search services, such as search engines, social networks, message posting services, and the like. At various times in the future, the web browser then executes the saved search queries on their corresponding network search services, identifies search results that are new and highly relevant to the user, and provides the identified search results to the user.
US08356049B2	Landmark search apparatus, electronic apparatus and imaging apparatus having the same, and landmark search method A landmark search apparatus includes a position obtaining unit configured to obtain a current position of the object, a first storage unit configured to store landmark information including a name of a landmark and position information of the landmark related to the name, an retrieving unit configured to retrieve the landmark information from the first storage unit based on the obtained current position, a second storage unit configured to store the retrieved landmark information as retrieved landmark information, and a determining unit configured to determine whether the retrieved landmark information is valid, based on the current position of the object, and a distance between a position of the subject at the time of storing the retrieved landmark information in the second storage unit and the landmark indicated by the retrieved landmark information.
US08356044B2	System and method for providing default hierarchical training for social indexing A system and method for providing default hierarchical training for social indexing is provided. Articles of digital information for social indexing are maintained. A hierarchically-structured tree of topics is specified. Each topic includes a label that includes one or more words. Constraints inherent in the literal structure of the topic tree are identified. For each topic in the topic tree, a topic model that includes at least one term derived from the words in at least one of the labels is created. The topic models for the topic tree are evaluated against the constraints. Those of the topic models, which best satisfy the constraints are identified.
US08356040B2	Method and/or system for transforming between trees and arrays Embodiments of articles, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. In particular embodiments, the hierarchical information may be expressed as trees. Such hierarchical information expressed as a tree may be transformed to an array. Likewise, hierarchical information expressed in an array may be expanded as a tree.
US08356039B2	Providing multiple media items to a consumer via a simplified consumer interaction Methods and systems of providing media to a media consumer are disclosed herein. A media rating for at least one media item can be received from a consumer and stored on a consumer profile. Using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to import all available media having a consumer rating higher than a predetermined threshold to an online media library of the consumer. In another embodiment, using a consumer interaction, the media consumer can request to add to an online music library all media items associated with an artist, a genre, or other media item attribute.
US08356036B2	Knowledge discovery tool extraction and integration A method for integrating a data item into a knowledge model is provided. The method may include retrieving the data item from a data source, determining if the data item has been previously integrated into the knowledge model, and integrating the data element into the knowledge model if the data item has not been previously integrated.
US08356035B1	Association of terms with images using image similarity Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for associating terms with images. A plurality of images is received. One or more of the received images are associated with one or more terms. Degrees of similarity between a plurality of pairs of images in the plurality of images is determined. A respective weight with respect to a first image of the plurality of images is assign to one or more of the terms based at least on the degrees of similarity. One or more of the terms are selected based on the respective weights of the terms with respect to the first image, and the selected terms are associated with the respective image.
US08356032B2	Method, medium, and system retrieving a media file based on extracted partial keyword A method, medium, and system retrieving a media file associated with a partial keyword which is generated by using a named entity extracted from the media file, when a query is received from a user, with the media file being associated with the partial keyword being retrieved by identifying the partial keyword associated with the query through speech recognition. That is, a media file may be retrieved by extracting the named entity from the media file, performing a word segmentation for the extracted named entity, generating the partial keyword from the word-segmented named entity, and retrieving the corresponding media file by using the partial keyword.
US08356024B2	System and method to retrieve search results from a distributed database Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of retrieval of information from a distributed database, e.g., using distributed computation as a search engine.
US08356019B1	Method and apparatus for utilizing patterns in data to reduce file size A method for managing records in an object-oriented database is disclosed. Modified representations of data in fields of records is generated in response to patterns in the data. The modified representations of the data is compressed utilizing similarities in the modified representations of the data.
US08356017B2	Replication of deduplicated data Various embodiments for replicating deduplicated data using a processor device are provided. A block of the deduplicated data, created in a source repository, is assigned a global block identification (id) unique in a grid set inclusive of the source repository. The global block id is generated using at least one unique identification value of the block, a containing grid of the grid set, and the source repository. The global block id is transmitted from the source repository to a target repository. If the target repository determines the global block id is associated with an existing block of the deduplicated data located within the target repository, the block is not received by the target repository during a subsequent replication process.
US08356013B2	Systems and methods for a snapshot of data In one embodiment, a user or client device is connected to a distributed file system comprised of one or more physical nodes. The data on each of the physical nodes store metadata about files and directories within the file system. Some of the embodiments permit a user to take a snapshot of data stored on the file system. The snapshot may include a single file, a single directory, a plurality of files within a directory, a plurality of directories, a path on the file system that includes nested files and subdirectories, or more than one path on the file system that each includes nested files and directories. In an embodiment, a snapshot tracking data structure is maintained for efficient creation and deletion of the snapshot.
US08356011B2	Organizing presence information into collections of publications A method and system for managing presence information based on collections of publications is provided. The presence system creates collections of publications for a publisher. A publication includes a type and value. A publisher may define one collection of publications that is to be made available to certain subscribers and another collection of publications that is to be made available to other subscribers. The presence system may allow a publisher to update individual publications within a collection. Moreover, the presence system may identify subscribers of a collection at the time of subscription.
US08356005B2	Identifying events Events may be identified by storing information in response to activating an event stamp function. As a result of activating the event function, the information collected may immediately be compared to event information in a database. Alternatively, the information collected may later be compared to event information in a database. One or more candidates for the event of interest may be automatically or manually retrieved, and the user may decide whether a candidate event of the one or more candidates correspond to the event of interest. Alternatively, a purchase of an item related to the event may be automatically made in response to activating the event stamp.
US08356000B1	Method and apparatus for designing structures A method and apparatus for the automatic creation of novel designs, specifically electronic circuits, controllers, antennas, and mechanical systems to satisfy prespecified design goals, using search procedures, such as genetic programming, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and hill climbing is described. Further, the techniques include automatically creates designs which do not posses key characteristics of preexisting technology. The present invention uses a population of entities which may be evolved to generate structures that may potentially satisfy the design goals. The behavior of the structures is evaluated in view of the design goals, and the structures are compared to a preexisting structure. Those structures more closely meeting the design goals and not similar to the preexisting structure are favored further until a structure is generated that either meets the prespecified design goal or some other process completion criteria. In this manner, a novel structure may be obtained.
US08355995B2	System and method for building a green community Embodiments of the present invention relate a system and method for building a green community construction. The system and method may comprise preparing a site for green community construction, acquiring housing for the site, wherein the housing is acquired below assessed value, moving the housing to the site, and remodeling the housing at the site to form the green community.
US08355994B2	Sorting system for composite drugs A system for sorting composite waste is provided. In some embodiments, the composite waste comprises two or more drugs, or two or more components. Composite waste is sorted efficiently and effectively using information regarding the different components in said waste, thus enabling proper disposal.
US08355990B2	Sharing and monetization of content Embodiments of the invention provide a method, comprising hosting content on behalf of content owners who own the content; enabling content sharers to share the content through the creation of links to the content; generating revenue through the use of the content; and sharing said revenue with the content owners and the content sharers.
US08355987B2	Systems and methods to manage information Systems and methods are provided to facilitate online transactions via mobile communications. In one aspect, a system includes a data storage facility and an interchange coupled with the data storage facility that stores purchase receipts in association with phone numbers. The interchange includes a common format processor and a plurality of converters to interface with a plurality of different controllers of mobile communications. The converters are configured to communicate with the controllers in different formats and with the common format processor in a common format, to obtain a confirmation of a payment request that identifies a phone number, a merchant and a purchase from the merchant. After a confirmation is received, the interchange is to use funds associated with the phone number to pay the merchant for the purchase and to receive and store a receipt for the purchase from the merchant.
US08355985B1	Systems and methods for providing enhanced account management services for multiple banks This invention includes methods for delivering account management services to multiple financial institutions that provide for customer deposit accounts without transaction but than nevertheless offer interest and receive enhanced deposit insurance. The methods apply at least one customer transaction to that customer's deposit account, and then re-allocate customer-deposited funds among the plurality of financial institutions in order that, for each customer, the risk of loss is not substantially increased, and that, for each financial institution, the amount of customer-deposited funds is not substantially decreased. Preferably, risk of loss is reduced by increasing the fraction of each customer's deposited funds covered by FDIC deposit insurance, and interest and enhanced insurance are available by innovative management of customer transactions and accounts. This invention also includes computer systems for practicing the methods and program products for accordingly configuring such computer systems.
US08355982B2	Metrics systems and methods for token transactions Systems and methods for monitoring token access transactions are provided. In one embodiment, the invention provides receiving transaction records for a plurality of bank card transactions, wherein the transaction records include transaction information and infrastructure information; determining whether a reportable event has occurred based on the transaction information with the transaction records; and providing an alert representing the reportable event.
US08355980B2	Out of band credit control Systems and method for mediating risks associated with orders in an electronic trading system are provided. A front end component includes a plurality of trading engines that receive orders from traders. A back-end component includes a match system. The system includes a credit control module, which may be located at the back-end (e.g., clearinghouse), front end, a combination thereof, or other location that communicates with the plurality of trading engines. The credit control may monitor aggregate risk parameters for the trading engines and requests credits from trading engines.
US08355977B1	System, method, and computer readable medium for allocating dividends to a block of common stock shares A system and a method for allocating dividends to stock shares are provided. The method includes creating a sub-class of a first stock share class. The method further includes allocating a first percentage of a total dividend amount to a first plurality of stock shares in the first stock share class. The method further includes allocating a second percentage of the total dividend amount to the second plurality of stock shares in the sub-class of the first stock share class. The method further includes storing the first percentage of the total dividend and the second percentage of the total dividend in a memory device. The method further includes buying-back stock shares in the first stock share class or sub-class of the first stock share class.
US08355970B2	Intelligent trust management method and system Intelligent Trust Management provides a centralized security facility that gives system components a flexible mechanism for implementing security policies. System components such as applications create a request describing an action that needs to be checked against an appropriate security policy. The request is given to a trust system that determines which policy object applies to the request, and may pass request arguments to the policy. The policy objects include executable code that uses any arguments along with dynamically obtained variable information to make a decision. The decision is returned to the system component, which then operates accordingly. Policy objects may maintain state and interface with the user independent of the system component in order to obtain information to make their decisions. Policy objects may call other policy objects and/or mathematically combine the results of other policy objects to make a decision.
US08355969B2	Credit and/or debit card security A system and method of providing heightened debit and/or credit card security is presented. The debit and/or credit card may be void of any information printed on the card that may provide identification of the user, an account number associated with the card, an expiration date for the card, and the like. In some examples, a portion of this information may be provided, but not all pieces of information, in order to reduce the likelihood of unauthorized use, such as during an online transaction where a user must input information generally found on the face of or rear of the card itself.
US08355968B2	Method of identifying potential targets for a capital transaction A method of identifying potential targets (i.e., buyers, investors, sellers, or acquisition targets) for a financial transaction. The method enables a user to specify at least one investment criteria based on which to run a search to identify the prospective targets, and to select a universe within which to search for the prospective targets. The method also enables the user to specify a type of financial transaction. A scoring algorithm that is used to score the results of the search is selected based on the user's specification of the type of financial transaction.
US08355965B2	Battery exchange service system and charging method therefor, and portable device There is provided a service system that allows a user to charge and repeatedly use a secondary battery and exchanges a battery pack for a charged battery pack. There is provided a battery exchange service system in which a terminal is connected to a management server. The terminal includes an information obtaining unit that obtains battery information and user information; a charging and discharging unit that charges and discharges a battery pack; and a power information generation unit that generates information on an amount of electricity based on the charging and discharging by the charging and discharging unit. The management server includes a battery information database that stores battery information distributed in the battery exchange service system; a contractor information database that stores contractor information for the battery exchange service system; a battery information verification unit that verifies the battery information by the battery information stored in the battery information database; a user information verification unit that verifies the user information by the contractor information stored in the contractor information database; and a charge calculation unit that calculates a charge based on the information on the amount of electricity.
US08355962B2	Product storage and retrieval system A system for easily locating goods stored in a storage area including a computer coupled with a radio frequency transmitter or transceivers and goods placed in containers that are coupled to hangers that each has distinct electronic addresses. The hangers each have a hook that allows the hangers to be stored on rails coupled to racks in a storage area. The identifications of the goods and the electronic addresses for the corresponding hangers are associated with each other and stored on a computer database. When a user wants to pick up goods stored in the containers, the user inputs the identification for the goods and the computer will cause the radio frequency transmitter to emit a data packet that includes a search address and illumination data. The hangers each compare the search address to the electronic address and if there is a match, the hanger illuminates the light according to the illumination data. The system notifies the user of the color and flash pattern and the goods can then be easily found by locating the hanger having the corresponding illumination.
US08355961B1	Distribution center head-up display A system is provided for determining an item location in a distribution center. The system includes an audio device, a transparent display, and a mobile device in communication with the audio device and the transparent display. The mobile device receives a request to determine item location from the audio device, determines a location of the mobile device, and determines an item location. The mobile device also outputs item location information to the transparent display and outputs additional information to the transparent display in response to a change of the location of the mobile device.
US08355960B2	Electronic acknowledgement of receipt of inventory A method for tracking status of an inventory shipment sent to a recipient includes monitoring whether the recipient has transmitted an electronic acknowledgment of the status of the shipment; and automatically transmitting a message to the recipient requesting acknowledgment of receipt of inventory if the electronic acknowledgment is not transmitted by the recipient within a first predetermined amount of time.
US08355951B1	System and method for monetizing broadcast media based on the number of viewers A system comprising at least one processor, at least one sensor electronically connected to the at least one processor, at least one means for electronically connecting at least one broadcasting device to the system, wherein the at least one means for electronically connecting at least one broadcasting device is electronically connected to the at least one processor, and computer executable instructions readable by the at least one processor and operative to use the at least one sensor to determine how many persons or the identity of a person that is capable of perceiving a content broadcasted through at least one broadcasting device electronically connected to the system.
US08355943B2	Method and system for automatically generating forecasts A method and system for defining and generating forecasts. The forecast system receives a forecast definition from a user, generates a forecast in accordance with the forecast definition, stores a forecast snapshot of the generated forecast, and presents to users forecast information derived from the forecast snapshots. A forecast definition specifies the participants to be included in a forecast and when to generate the forecast. At the scheduled time, the forecast system automatically generates the forecast and stores the forecast snapshot.
US08355941B2	Optimal planning of building retrofit for a portfolio of buildings Generating an optimal planning of building retrofit for a portfolio of buildings may include providing a plurality of objective functions that may be selected for maximizing cost reduction, maximizing green house gas emission reduction, or maximizing energy reduction, or combinations thereof. The objective function may be solved based on information including at least a retrofit cost for retrofitting a building, payback period specifying the length of time needed to recover the retrofit cost, a budget available for retrofitting the building, expected price of energy, estimated energy savings from retrofitting and estimated green house gas emission from retrofitting. The planning of building retrofit may be generated based on the solutions of one or more of the objective functions, which may provide for an optimal plan of building retrofit.
US08355940B2	Capability and maturity-based SOA governance Methods, including service methods, articles of manufacture, systems, articles and programmable devices are provided for a service-oriented architecture governance model. Each of a plurality of governance dimension attributes of a service-oriented architecture are calibrated and mapped to each of a plurality of governance evolution element attributes. A maturity and capability assessment is performed for the service-oriented architecture as a function of the mapping, and a maturity-based and capability-based governance model is generated for the service-oriented architecture as a function of the maturity and capability assessment. In one aspect a programmable device is configured to perform at least one of the calibrating, the mapping, the performing the maturity and capability assessment and the generating the maturity-based and capability-based governance model.
US08355933B2	Method and apparatus for increasing liquid assets available to at least partially fund living expenses at an assisted living facility A liquid asset enhancement system includes computing apparatus operated on behalf of an underwriter and a purchase coordinator. The underwriter's apparatus receives an individual's personal, medical history, and life insurance policy information via a communication network. The underwriter's apparatus determines (i) a mortality rating based at least on the individual's medical history, (ii) a life expectancy from a mortality table based on the mortality rating and the individual's personal information, and (iii) a proposed sale value for the policy based at least on the life expectancy and the policy information. If the individual elects to sell the policy, the underwriter's apparatus communicates at least the policy information, the individual's medical history, and the proposed sale value to the purchase coordinator's apparatus via a communication network for sale completion and delivery of proceeds therefrom to a party bound to use the proceeds to pay the insured's assisted living expenses.
US08355927B2	Neuropsychiatric test reports Methods and reports for presenting genetic information that is patient-specific and relevant to treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, including treatment resistant psychiatric disorders, to aid in patient treatment in a phenotype, genotype or biomarker-specific manner. The methods and reports examine biomarkers for dysfunction of three axes relevant to treating neuropsychiatric disorders and provide interpretive comments to aid in treatment. Combining biomarker information from each of the three axes (the autonomic arousal axis, the emotional valence, attention, reward and executive brain function axis, and the long-term potentiation and long-term depression (LTP-LTD) function axis) provides an unexpectedly comprehensive and effective means for directing treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders, including particularly treatment resistant disorders (TRD).
US08355922B1	Systems and methods for prioritizing review of items A method for prioritizing review of items may include: 1) identifying a first group of items to be reviewed for relevance to a particular matter; 2) during a review of the first group of items, tracking a proportion of items from the first group that are indicated as being relevant; 3) determining a relevance trend for the first group of items that indicates a rate at which the proportion of items from the first group that are indicated as being relevant is changing as the review of the first group of items progresses; 4) using the relevance trend for the first group of items to prioritize the review of the first group of items. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed herein.
US08355915B2	Multimodal speech recognition system The disclosure describes an overall system/method for text-input using a multimodal interface with speech recognition. Specifically, pluralities of modes interact with the main speech mode to provide the speech-recognition system with partial knowledge of the text corresponding to the spoken utterance forming the input to the speech recognition system. The knowledge from other modes is used to dynamically change the ASR system's active vocabulary thereby significantly increasing recognition accuracy and significantly reducing processing requirements. Additionally, the speech recognition system is configured using three different system configurations (always listening, partially listening, and push-to-speak) and for each one of those three different user-interfaces are proposed (speak-and-type, type-and-speak, and speak-while-typing). Finally, the overall user-interface of the proposed system is designed such that it enhances existing standard text-input methods; thereby minimizing the behavior change for mobile users.
US08355914B2	Mobile terminal and method for correcting text thereof A method for selecting text created in a mobile terminal by word and correcting it or changing it to another word, and a mobile terminal implementing the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit to display one or more words of text, and to display tags for each of the one or more words; an input unit to select at least one of the tagged one or more words as selected one word; and a controller to display candidate words having a similar pronunciation to that of the word selected via the input unit, select one of the candidate words as selected one candidate word, and change the selected one word from the text to the selected one candidate word.
US08355910B2	Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation are disclosed. An example method to audio watermark a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining a watermarked noise signal comprising a watermark and a noise signal having energy substantially concentrated in an audible frequency band, the watermarked noise signal attenuated to be substantially inaudible without combining with a separate audio signal, associating the watermarked noise signal with a substantially silent content component of the media content presentation, the media content presentation comprising one or more media content components, and outputting the watermarked noise signal during presentation of the substantially silent content component.
US08355908B2	Audio signal processing device for noise reduction and audio enhancement, and method for the same In frequency signals obtained by converting input audio signals from time-domain signals to frequency-domain signals, a level control value setting unit 5 establishes a level control value for reducing the levels of spectrums at a noise-components level. A level control value smoothing unit 6 carries out a smoothing process of smoothing the level control value established by the level control value setting unit 5 temporally. A spectral adjustment unit 8 multiplies the level control value after the smoothing process by the frequency signals, performing a level control.
US08355907B2	Method and apparatus for phase matching frames in vocoders In one embodiment, the present invention comprises a vocoder having at least one input and at least one output, an encoder comprising a filter having at least one input operably connected to the input of the vocoder and at least one output, a decoder comprising a synthesizer having at least one input operably connected to the at least one output of the encoder, and at least one output operably connected to the at least one output of the vocoder, wherein the decoder comprises a memory and the decoder is adapted to execute instructions stored in the memory comprising phase matching and time-warping a speech frame.
US08355901B2	CPU emulation system, CPU emulation method, and recording medium having a CPU emulation program recorded thereon A CPU emulation system includes; a plurality of virtual CPUs each operating on a different physical CPU; an instruction sequence selecting section for selecting an instruction sequence to be optimized; a virtual CPU selecting section for selecting one of the plurality of virtual CPUs, which is to perform optimization processing of the selected instruction sequence, based on usage rates of the plurality of virtual CPUs; and an optimization level selecting section for determining an optimization level of the optimization processing that is to be executed by the selected one of the plurality of virtual CPUs, and giving a direction to perform the optimization processing to the selected one of the plurality of virtual CPUs.
US08355897B2	Generation of controls for a simulator mobile platform The present invention relates to a method for generating motion controls for a mobile platform of a vehicle simulator. The method uses, as input, accelerations calculated by a process for simulating the behavior of the vehicle. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: filtering the accelerations calculated accelerations by use of a filter constructed according to a mathematical model of human perception of a motion; calculating successive positions of the mobile platform as a function of the filtered acceleration controls; scaling the positions of the mobile platform as a function of physical limitations of the mobile platform, to produce scaled successive positions of the mobile platform; and calculating acceleration controls to be applied by the mobile platform, as a function of the scaled successive positions of the mobile platform, to produce calculated acceleration controls.
US08355893B2	Method and system for analysis and shape optimization of physical structures using a computerized algebraic dual representation implicit dimensional reduction A method and system for simulating and analyzing the behavior of a structural component of a computerized model in response to a simulated event to determine an optimized shape for the component is disclosed. The shape is optimized using an implicit dimensional reduction rather than an explicit geometric replacement by discarding data of a 3D discretization that has little or no bearing on the performance of the component to a simulated event. The reduced dataset is then collapsed onto a lower dimension projection that is applied over a force vector that is representative of the simulated event to determine the behavior of the component to the simulated event. Optimization tools may then be used to modify the physical attributes of the component and performance of the component once again simulated until an optimized component is determined.
US08355892B2	Remote diagnostics for electronic whiteboard A method and apparatus for diagnosing causes of a malfunction of an electronic whiteboard that includes a white-board surface, the method comprising the steps of linking a remote computer that includes a remote display to the electronic whiteboard from a remote location, interacting with the whiteboard surface to generate X and Y coordinates associated with surface activity, transmitting at least one of the X and Y coordinates associated with the surface activity to the remote computer, displaying at least a subset of the at least one of X and Y coordinates via the remote display and examining the at least a subset of the at least one of X and Y coordinates via the remote display to ascertain the cause of a board malfunction.
US08355890B2	System and method for predicting maximum cooler and rack capacities in a data center A system and method for evaluating equipment in a data center, the equipment including a plurality of equipment racks, and at least one cooling provider. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data regarding each of the plurality of equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, the data including a layout of the equipment racks and the at least one cooling provider, a power draw value for each of the equipment racks, and a maximum cooler capacity value for the at least one cooling provider; storing the received data; determining cooling performance of at least one of the plurality of equipment racks based on the layout; determining a cooling load for the at least one cooler and a difference between the cooling load and the maximum cooler capacity value; for each equipment rack, determining a maximum rack capacity based on the layout and the difference between the cooling load and the maximum cooler capacity value; and displaying an indication of the maximum rack capacity for each equipment rack.
US08355888B2	Pedestrian navigation system and method An on-foot pedestrian navigation module useful for pedestrian navigation when operated with at least a control unit and another on-foot pedestrian navigation module, comprising (a) at least a first sensor unit and a second sensor unit, wherein each sensor unit including an up/down sensor adapted for sensing an ‘up’ condition and a ‘down’ condition associated with relative displacement of the module with respect to a surface, and a signal transmitter/receiver adapted, in response to an activation signal coming from a module controller, for generating a propagating signal (b) a module controller for controlling the operation of the module in response to a control signal coming from the control unit and (c) a communication unit for enabling said module to communicate with said at least the control unit and other module, thereby facilitating collecting motion data at the control unit and integrating the motion data with motion data coming from the other module, the motion data being indicative of a condition of each up/down sensor and receipt of the propagating signal by at least two sensor units of said other module, and wherein the motion data is useful for determining a momentary position of the pedestrian's foot during motion.
US08355887B1	Proximity based gesturing devices, systems and methods A device may include a plurality of sensors substantially coplanar with one another in a sensor plane, each sensor generating a sense value that varies according to a physical distance between the sensor and an object without contacting the object; and control circuits that generates at least first position values, second position values and third position values in response to the sensor values, the first and second position values identifying a position in a space adjacent to the sensor plane.
US08355883B2	Measurement and apparatus for electrical measurement of electrical drive parameters for a MEMS based display Methods and devices to measure voltage margins of electromechanical devices are disclosed. The voltage margins are determined based on responses to test voltages which cause the devices to change states. State changes of the devices are detected by monitoring integrated current or charge used to drive the devices with the test voltages.
US08355881B2	Device and process for machine diagnostics by means of vibration measurement A device for machine diagnostics, with a vibration sensor (12) for detecting vibration signals on the machine (10), a unit (14) for conditioning the vibration signals, an A/D converter (16) for digitizing the conditioned vibration signals, a data processing unit (20) for splitting the digital signals into at least two frequency ranges, the data processing unit being made to scale the signal for each frequency range to an amplitude resolution which is less than the amplitude resolution of the A/D converter, and an evaluation unit (30) for further evaluation of the split signals.
US08355880B2	On-board method and system for monitoring onset of rapid oil oxidation and sludge formation in engine oils In one exemplary embodiment, the state of engine oil degradation is monitored and determined using the size of viscosity hysteresis during heating-cooling cycles. In another exemplary embodiment, the state of engine oil degradation is monitored and determined using the sign of viscosity hysteresis during heating-cooling cycles. In yet another exemplary embodiment, the state of engine oil degradation is monitored and determined using relative viscosity changes hysteresis during heating-cooling cycles.
US08355878B2	Method and system for identifying partial order patterns in sequences of data A method and system are disclosed for identifying partial order patterns of a set of motifs in a data sequence. The method comprises the steps of obtaining the data sequence, identifying a set of motifs in the data sequence, identifying a plurality of partial orders of the motifs in the data sequence, and using the identified partial orders to identify functions of the motifs. In the preferred embodiment of the invention, the step of identifying the plurality of partial orders of the motifs includes the step of converting the identified motifs to an (n×m) incidence matrix, I, of expressions. Also, in this preferred embodiment, the step of identifying the plurality of partial orders of the motifs includes the steps of computing a partial order description of each of the expressions, and computing a redescription of each of the partial order descriptions.
US08355877B2	System for predicting responsiveness to a pharmaceutical therapy for obesity Methods, systems, and computer program products using TRL V6 as a biomarker for the modulation of triglyceride and/or lipoprotein metabolism in a mammal induced by an investigational weight loss pharmaceutical agent. The biomarker may be used for predetermining if an individual patient will likely respond favorably to a given weight loss pharmaceutical agent and/or for testing a pharmaceutical agent's ability to modulate triglyceride and/or lipoprotein metabolism in a mammal.
US08355875B2	Food content detector A system may include utensil means for portioning a foodstuff into a first portion and a second portion, a means for detecting a first portion size for the first portion with the utensil means, a means for detecting a second portion size for the second portion with the utensil means, and a means for determining a cumulative amount of portioned foodstuff based upon the first portion size and the second portion size.
US08355862B2	Graphical user interface for presenting location information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting location information. A first geographic area in which a device is currently located is estimated using a first positioning system. A second geographic area in which the device is currently located is estimated using a second positioning system. A first map view including an indication of the first geographic area on the first map view is presented if the first geographic area is contained within the second geographic area. A second map view including an indication of the second geographic area is presented if the first geographic area is not contained within the second geographic area.
US08355859B2	Accessory drive for a stop/start vehicle An engine with vacuum and coolant pumps is disclosed. In one example, the vacuum and coolant pumps are mechanically coupled together and driven by a single motor. The approach may reduce system cost and complexity.
US08355858B2	Engine idle speed and turbocharger speed control Various methods are described for controlling engine operation for an engine having a turbocharger and direct injection. One example method includes performing a first and second injection during a cylinder cycle, the first injection generating a lean combustion and the second injection exiting the cylinder unburned into the exhaust upstream of a turbine of the turbocharger.
US08355857B2	Control apparatus of internal combustion engine for vehicle A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine of a vehicle sets the overlap amount of an intake valve and an exhaust valve small when the engine is idling and the vehicle is stopped. Also, the control apparatus sets the overlap amount large using normal control when the vehicle is traveling, even if the engine is idling.
US08355856B2	Engine torque reserve system diagnostic systems and methods An engine control system of a vehicle comprises a reserves module and a fault diagnostic module. The reserves module controls airflow into an engine based on a driver torque request, increases the airflow into the engine when a reserve torque request is received, and outputs a torque output command for the engine based on the driver torque request. The fault diagnostic module selectively diagnoses a fault in the reserves module when the torque output command is greater than a sum of the driver torque request, a predetermined torque, and a load applied to the engine.
US08355853B2	Control system for a hybrid vehicle A control system for a hybrid vehicle includes a control responsive to an indication of at least one of (a) a geographical location of the hybrid vehicle and (b) a programmed route of travel of the hybrid vehicle. The control, responsive to the indication, selects one of (a) electric-powered propulsion of the hybrid vehicle and (b) non-electric-powered propulsion of the hybrid vehicle.
US08355844B2	Vehicle motion control apparatus The vehicle motion control apparatus includes a control unit 37A and sensors 2, 3, 4, 30, 31, 32, 33, etc. The actual state quantity obtaining unit 52 calculates a vehicle body actual slip angle βz_act, etc. The reference dynamic-characteristic model calculating unit 54 calculates a reference vehicle body slip angle βz_d, etc. by using a dynamic characteristic model. The vehicle motion control apparatus also includes a first anti-spin target yaw moment FB unit 68 which calculates a first anti-spin•target yaw moment Mc1_asp based on the vehicle body actual slip angle βz_act and a second anti-spin target yaw moment FB unit 82 which calculates a second anti-spin•target yaw moment Mc2_asp based on a lateral acceleration Gs, a vehicle speed Vact and an actual yaw rate γact.
US08355840B2	Influencing device for influencing an active chassis system of a vehicle An influencing device for influencing an active chassis that includes a plurality of controllable spring or damper units of a vehicle is provided. The influencing device includes a roadway sensor that produces sensor data relating to a roadway located in front of the vehicle in a direction of travel, the sensor data being used to acquire a roadway profile. The influencing device also includes a pilot control unit that determines, as a function of the acquired roadway profile, a pilot control variable that is used to adapt the setting of the spring or damper units to the acquired roadway profile. An input signal for a vehicle body control system, which is used to control the position of the vehicle body, is calculated on the basis of the pilot control variable.
US08355839B2	Vehicle vision system with night vision function A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle equipped with the vision system. The camera has a forward field of view in the direction of forward travel of the equipped vehicle. The camera is operable to capture image data. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera. At least in part responsive to processing of captured image data by the image processor, the vision system is operable to provide a night vision function and at least one of (i) a headlamp control function for controlling a headlamp of the equipped vehicle, (ii) a lane departure warning function, (iii) an adaptive cruise control function, (iv) a sign recognition function, (v) a rain sensing function, (vi) an object detection function and (vii) a pedestrian detection function.
US08355838B2	Vehicular input device and method for controlling the same An indication unit indicates arranged selective areas on a display surface for accepting input. A move unit moves an instructed position on the display surface according to an operation quantity of an operation unit. A selected-state determination unit determines a selected-state area from the selective areas according to the instructed position. A width determination unit determines a width of the selected-state area in each of an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction of the display surface. A moving speed set unit sets a moving speed of the instructed position variably at least when the instructed position passes through the selected-state area such that: a velocity component in the x-axis direction becomes larger as the determined width in the x-axis direction becomes larger, and a velocity component in the y-axis direction becomes larger as the determined width in the y-axis direction becomes larger.
US08355832B2	Controlling power supply to vehicles through a series of electrical outlets A system for supplying electrical power to a plurality of vehicles from a central power supply through a plurality of electrical outlets includes an outlet control unit for each of the outlets and a vehicle control unit for each of the vehicles. The outlet microprocessor switches the supply of power to the outlet to communicate data to the vehicle. The vehicle microprocessor communicates data by switching a load across the power supply to provide interaction between the microprocessors to manage requirement and availability of power. The data includes whether the power plant of the vehicle is gasoline powered, diesel powered, hybrid or electric battery powered. The microprocessor of the vehicle control unit is arranged to control switches which supply power to selected loads in the vehicle and includes an interface which is arranged to connect to a Canbus communication system of the vehicle.
US08355828B2	Determining optimal settings for resource actuators A power model that relates the settings of resource actuators to power consumption levels of the resource actuators and a condition model that relates the settings of the resource actuators to an environmental condition at the location of the at least one entity and a power consumption level of the at least one entity are developed. A constraint optimization problem having an objective function and at least one constraint is formulated, where the objective function computes at least a proportional quantity of a total power consumption level of the resource actuators and the at least one constraint comprises a setpoint environmental condition at a location of the at least entity. A solution to the constraint optimization problem is determined, where the solution provides optimal values for the resource actuator settings.
US08355823B2	Method and system for controlling operation of a wind turbine Methods and systems for controlling operation of a wind turbine. The method may comprise determining an alarm level for at least one component of the wind turbine. In the case that an alarm level for at least one component exceeds a predefined level, the method comprises estimating an expected remaining lifetime for the component under the current operating conditions, and controlling operation of the wind turbine in order to adjust the expected remaining lifetime for the component to a desired expected remaining lifetime for said component. Thereby, the expected remaining lifetime for the component can be prolonged until the next scheduled service event. Downtime of the wind turbine is considerably reduced, and unscheduled service events are avoided to the greatest possible extent. Mean time between inspections (MTBI) is also extended.
US08355820B2	Oven testing fixture and method A testing apparatus is provided for opening and closing a door of an appliance being tested. The apparatus includes a framework; a first actuator attached to the framework, the first actuator having a retracted position and an extended position; a first attaching bar attached to the first actuator and to the door; and a controller for controlling the first actuator such that the first actuator causes the door to move to an open position when the actuator moves from a first one of the extended position and the retracted position to the other of the extended position and the retracted position, and the first actuator causes the door to move to a closed position when the actuator moves from the other of the extended position and the retracted position to the first one of the extended position and the retracted position.
US08355817B2	Robot system A robot system including a robot arm driven by a servo motor; and a robot controller controlling an operation of the robot arm. The robot system further comprises a first detection section detecting a rotation amount of the servo motor; a second detection section attached to a tip portion of the robot arm, and detecting a velocity or acceleration of the tip portion of the robot arm; a computation section computing the velocity or acceleration of the tip portion of the robot arm based on values detected by the first detection section, and computing a deviation between this computed velocity or acceleration and the velocity or acceleration detected by the second detection section; and an emergency stop section for bringing the servo motor to an emergency stop when a magnitude of the deviation computed by the computation section is greater than a reference value.
US08355814B2	Media processing apparatus and controlling method of the same A medium is transferred and loaded to a media tray provided with a media processing unit which is operable to perform information processing on the medium, by using a transfer arm of a media transfer mechanism. A distance from a surface of the medium loaded on the media tray to a reference position of the transfer arm is acquired. A difference between the acquired distance and a predetermined distance from a reference surface of the media tray to the reference position of the transfer arm is calculated. It is determined that a double transfer of the medium to the media tray occurs when the calculated difference is larger than a predetermined threshold value.
US08355812B2	Shaping machine system and computer program for controlling a shaping device A shaping machine system is presented. The shaping machine system includes a shaping device including at least one jig mount body for mounting a jig for supporting a workpiece, a shaping tool support body for supporting a shaping tool for shaping the workpiece, a first drive device for rotating the shaping tool, and a second drive device for driving at least one of the shaping tool support body, the jig mount body, or to change a posture of the shaping tool relative to the workpiece. The shaping machine system also includes a computer including an input unit for receiving a jig selection, a shaping tool selection, a shape data reading unit for reading shape data representing a shape of the workpiece after shaping, a shaping data producing unit for producing shaping data for controlling the first and the second drive devices.
US08355810B2	Method and system for estimating context offsets for run-to-run control in a semiconductor fabrication facility A method and system for estimating context offsets for run-to-run control in a semiconductor fabrication facility is described. In one embodiment, contexts associated with a process are identified. The process has one or more threads, and each thread involves one or more contexts. A set of input-output equations describing the process is defined. Each input-output equation corresponds to a thread and includes a thread offset expressed as a summation of individual context offsets. A state-space model is created that describes an evolution of the process using the set of input-output equations. The state-space model allows to estimate individual context offsets.
US08355809B2	System and method for designing a die to yield a desired coating uniformity Computer implemented method for making a die includes: selecting coating uniformity required to produce a particular coated product with the die and a value for one or more dimensions of the die; determining (using a mathematical model determined by regression analysis) total indicated run-out (TIR) of a die surface and dimensions of the die not having a user specified value; and machining die part or parts to the determined TIR and dimensions. A thermal treatment process for reducing the number of finishing (e.g., grinding) cycles needed to produce a desired die flatness is provided. A coating fluid rheological characteristic can be an input to the method.
US08355807B2	Method and apparatus for using aerial image sensitivity to model mask errors One embodiment of the present invention provides techniques and systems for modeling mask errors based on aerial image sensitivity. During operation, the system can receive an uncalibrated process model which includes a mask error modeling term which is based at least on an aerial image sensitivity to mask modifications which represent mask errors. Next, the system can fit the uncalibrated process model using measured CD data. Note that the mask error modeling term can also be dependent on the local pattern density. In some embodiments, the mask error modeling term can include an edge bias term and a corner rounding term. The edge bias term can be based on the sensitivity of the aerial image intensity to an edge bias, and the corner rounding term can be based on the sensitivity of the aerial image intensity to a corner rounding adjustment.
US08355805B2	Systems and methods for activation and deactivation of appliances Systems and methods are provided for an appliance system. The system includes an appliance, and a processor connected to the appliance such that the processor places the appliance in one of an enabled state and a disabled state. The processor is configured to track usage of the appliance and to place the appliance in a disabled state when the usage of the appliance exceeds a threshold amount. The system also includes a data receiving device configured to receive a code, wherein upon receipt of a valid code, the processor is configured to adjust the threshold amount to allow additional usage of the appliance.
US08355803B2	Perfused core dielectrically loaded dipole microwave antenna probe A microwave surgical ablation probe having an arrangement of coolant channels in fluid communication with a cooling chamber disposed within the distal end of the probe is disclosed. A hypotube having one or more longitudinal ribs extending radially inward from an inner surface thereof is coaxially disposed around a coaxial feedline. The longitudinal ribs of the hypotube engage an outer sheath of the feedline to define a fluid inflow channel to deliver coolant to the cooling chamber, and a fluid outflow channel to receive fluid from the cooling chamber. The cooling chamber may be formed from porous ceramic or porous metallic material that provides structural support to the probe while permitting coolant to circulate therethrough. The probe includes dielectric and choke members that are adapted to control the microwave radiation pattern (e.g., ablation shape), and which may provide improved coupling of the probe to tissue.
US08355802B2	Selective parylene coating for cardiac pacemaker electrodes A stimulation electrode is produced having a porous film layer and being partially coated with an insulating parylene (polyparaxylylene) film, whose insulating film has a dielectric breakdown voltage of greater than 100 V. Parylene is deposited on the entire surface of a porous film coating and then partially removed again by plasma. After the partial removal of the parylene, this porous film still has a capacitance of greater than 15 mF/cm2 in a physiological NaCl solution at a frequency of 0.1 Hz. For the stimulation electrode, the transition from the insulating film to the porous film is formed so that the film thickness of the parylene film decreases continuously. In this way, a stimulation electrode having a porous film layer and being partially coated with an insulating parylene film is provided, whose electrode on the non-insulating parylene film-coated surface has a capacitance of greater than 15 mF/cm2 in a physiological NaCl solution at a frequency of 0.1 Hz and whose insulating film advantageously has a dielectric breakdown voltage of greater than 100 V.
US08355800B2	Coating package for an implantable device The present invention is an implantable electronic device formed within a biocompatible hermetic package. Preferably the implantable electronic device is used for a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The package is formed from a thin film of hermetic biocompatible material to minimize the size of the implanted device.
US08355797B2	Systems and methods for delivering neural therapy correlated with patient status Therapy systems for treating a patient are disclosed. Representative therapy systems include an implantable pulse generator, a signal delivery device electrically coupled to the pulse generator, and a remote control in electrical communication with the implantable pulse generator. The pulse generator can have a computer-readable medium containing instructions for performing a process that comprises collecting the patient status and stimulation parameter; analyzing the collected patient status and stimulation parameter; and establishing a preference baseline containing a preferred stimulation parameter corresponding to a particular patient status.
US08355795B2	Visual prosthesis A visual prosthesis apparatus and a method for limiting power consumption in a visual prosthesis apparatus. The visual prosthesis apparatus comprises a camera for capturing a video image, a video processing unit associated with the camera, the video processing unit configured to convert the video image to stimulation patterns, and a retinal stimulation system configured to stop stimulating neural tissue in a subject's eye based on the stimulation patterns when an error is detected in a forward telemetry received from the video processing unit.
US08355794B2	Using a genetic algorithm in mixed mode device Apparatus and method for at least partially fitting a medical implant system to a recipient is described. The medical implant system is configured to provide electrical stimulation and at least one other mode of stimulation to the recipient. These apparatuses and methods comprise executing a genetic algorithm to select a set of parameter values for the medical implant system. This genetic algorithm may comprise generating successive generations of child populations and then providing a determined set of parameter values to the medical implant system for use in providing stimulation to the recipient.
US08355793B2	Optical neural stimulating device having a short stimulating assembly A cochlear implant is provided. The cochlear implant comprises a stimulator unit configured to generate electrical stimulation signals based on sound processor-encoded signals, and to generate one or more optical stimulation signals, and an implantable stimulating assembly. The implantable stimulating assembly is configured to be implanted into a basal region of a recipient's cochlea such that when the stimulating assembly is fully implanted, a distal end of the assembly extends to the basal turn of the cochlea. The stimulating assembly also comprises: an optical contact to deliver the one or more optical stimulation signals to the cochlea, and an electrical contact to deliver the electric stimulation signals to a basal region of the cochlea so as to cause perception by the recipient of one or more frequency components of the acoustic sound signal.
US08355787B2	High-resolution connector for a neurostimulation lead An implantable connector comprises an electrically insulative housing including an outer wall, an interior cavity surrounded by the outer wall, a port through which the lead body portion can be introduced into the interior cavity, and a pair of first apertures disposed through the outer wall on a first side of the housing. The connector further comprises an electrical spring clip contact mounted to the housing. The contact includes a common portion and a pair of legs extending from opposite ends of the common portion. The legs respectively extend through the first apertures into the interior cavity, such that the legs firmly engage the electrical terminal therebetween when the lead body portion is introduced into the interior cavity.
US08355786B2	Lead connector, lead adapter, and lead insertion apparatus A connector and adapter engage leads with each other or with an implantable medical device when a wedge is removed from the spring-loaded connector or adapter assembly, thereby permitting the connector or adapter to compress around the lead connector. The connector and adapter assembly may include a body with at least one lumen, at least one contact exposed within the at least one lumen of the body, at least one wire electrically connected to the at least one contact, at least one clamp ring capable of compressing around the body, and at least one wedge or similar tool capable of opening and closing the at least one clamp ring.
US08355780B2	Surgical access system and related methods A surgical access system including a tissue distraction assembly and a tissue refraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures before, during, and after the establishment of an operative corridor to a surgical target site.
US08355779B2	Stimulation method for the sphenopalatine ganglia, sphenopalatine nerve, or vidian nerve for treatment of medical conditions A method is provided for the suppression or prevention of pain, movement disorders, epilepsy, cerebrovascular diseases, autoimmune diseases, sleep disorders, autonomic disorders, urinary bladder disorders, abnormal metabolic states, disorders of the muscular system, and neuropsychiatric disorders in a patient. The method comprises positioning at least one electrode on or proximate to at least one of the patient's sphenopalatine ganglia (“SPG”), sphenopalatine nerves (“SPN”), or vidian nerves (“VN”), and activating the at least one electrode to apply an electrical signal to at least one of the SPG, SPN, or VN. In a further embodiment of the invention used to treat the same conditions, the electrode used is capable of dispensing a medication solution or analgesic which is applied via an electrode to at least one of the SPG, SPN, or VN. A method is also provided for surgically implanting an electrode on or proximate to at least one of the SPG, SPN, or VN of a patient.
US08355777B2	Apparatus and method for sensor deployment and fixation A delivery system for fixation of an implant assembly having an intracorporeal device at a deployment site using an anchoring structure. This invention provides an implant assembly having an anchor for fixation within a vessel. The anchoring structure adapted to be delivered via a catheter.
US08355776B2	Hemoglobin contrast in magneto-motive optical doppler tomography, optical coherence tomography, and ultrasound imaging methods and apparatus Provided herein are systems, methods, and compositions for the use of optical coherence tomography for detection of cells.
US08355774B2	System and method to evaluate electrode position and spacing A method and apparatus for tracking and illustrating the location of leads positioned within the volume is disclosed. For example, the lead electrodes can be positioned within a heart of a patient that can be tracked over time. The lead electrodes can be tracked with an electrode potential or bioimpedance tracking system to determine the position of the lead electrodes. A method and apparatus is disclosed to analyze the position information for analyzing the selected position of the lead electrodes.
US08355773B2	Recording localization device tool positional parameters A localization device display method and apparatus for recording positional parameters associated with a tool being navigated with the localization device. The localization device monitors the position of a tool and automatically records positional parameters associated with the tool when the positional parameters conform to an area of interest and the tool is stable.
US08355770B2	Conductive silicone material for human skin electrode A conductive silicone material for human skin electrode is disclosed. In one embodiment, the conductive silicone material comprises a mixture of silicone and carbon powder such that the mixture has a resistivity of 0.08 to 0.12 Ω·m and a Shore A hardness of 50 to 60. In an exemplary embodiment, the mixture comprises 60 to 80 weight percent silicone and 20 to 40 weight percent carbon powder. A sensor for detecting human biological signal using a conductive silicone electrode is also disclosed.
US08355762B2	Electronic device and flat display module Disclosed is electronic device including a case body including a front surface side portion of the case body and a rear surface side portion of the case body; a flat display module accommodated in the case body; a conductive layer formed on an internal wall of one of the front surface side portion of the case body and the rear surface side portion of the case body, the internal wall being around a contact portion of both portions of the case body; a circuit board having electrical components mounted thereon; and a ground means that electrically connects the conductive layer to a GND of the circuit board.
US08355759B2	Power management of radio transceiver elements A radio receiver includes a power control module for selectively powering down and powering up radio receiver elements in between known communication periods according to one aspect of the present invention. According to a second aspect of the invention, the radio receiver operates in a low power mode of operation and periodically “sniffs” to determine whether an access point has messages or communication signals to transmit to it.
US08355758B2	Determining whether a wireless communication node is stationary by evaluating changes in information about peer wireless communications nodes For supporting a switch between different service modes of some service, it is determined whether a wireless communication node is stationary by evaluating changes in information about peer wireless communication nodes detected by the wireless communication node. The result of the determination is then used as a decision criterion whether to switch the service to one of at least two modes.
US08355757B2	System and method providing low power operation in a multimode communication device A system and method providing low-power operation in a multimode communication device. Various aspects of the present invention may, for example, include at least one radio module that is adapted to communicate in a plurality of communication modes. The at least one radio module may also be adapted to operate in at least a first power-save mode. At least one module may, for example, be adapted to analyze at least one non-informational aspect of a signal (e.g., a received radio signal) to determine whether a first communication network corresponding to a first communication mode of the plurality of communication modes might be available. The at least one module may then, for example, be adapted to determine, based at least in part on the determined availability of the first communication network, whether to operate the at least one radio module in a respective mode other than the first power-save mode.
US08355753B2	Medication injection site and data collection system A medication injection site is provided that includes a medication port and an identification sensor. The medication injection site, when coupled to a medication container, can wirelessly transmit data characterizing the contents of the medication container to a remote data collection system. The housing of the medication injection site has a shape and size enabling it to be held by a first hand of a user while the user administers medication from the medication container via the medication port using his or her second hand. The housing can include a disposable sub-housing and a reusable sub-housing such that the reusable sub-housing is used by many patients. In some implementations, the medication injection site can be placed on an IV drip line. Related apparatus, systems, and kits are also disclosed.
US08355752B2	Using LO shifting to prevent a local transceiver from interfering with an FM radio A cellular telephone includes cellular telephone circuitry and an FM receiver. An FM signal being received is downconverted by a mixer. The downconverted signal is processed to generate an FM signal that is supplied to a digital IF filter. If a blocker emitted by the cellular telephone circuitry would interfere with receiving of the FM signal due to interaction of an LO harmonic with the blocker if a conventional LO frequency were used, then a different LO frequency is used. Subsequent processing of the downconverted FM signal (for example, by a digital complex conjugate selector and an IF rotator) results in the signal supplied to the digital IF filter having the same center frequency as the digital IF filter despite the use of the different LO frequency. In some embodiments, the LO is shifted by different amounts depending on cellular telephone mode and on the FM signal.
US08355745B2	Coefficient decision apparatus, radio communication system, coefficient decision method, and memory medium The present invention provides a radio communication system that can decide efficiently a filter coefficient used when averaging a transmission power value. The radio communication system of the present invention includes an acquisition unit (1) acquiring at least a transmission power value which each base station (105) measured, and a decision unit (2) specifying a congestion transmission power value, at which a congestion arises, among from the transmission power value acquired by the acquisition unit (1), selecting a filter coefficient according to the congestion transmission power value, and deciding the selected filter coefficient as a new filter coefficient, and decides whether the congestion arose, on the basis of an electric power mean value averaged with the new filter coefficient decided by the decision unit (2).
US08355743B2	Push-to-talk communication method and system In a Push-To-Talk (PTT) communication method, during a PTT conversation between multiple mobile terminals in a PTT chat-room, a first mobile terminal specifies a second mobile terminal as a target for a forced leave and makes a request to a PTT server for a forced leave of the second mobile terminal. The PTT server forces the second mobile terminal to leave the PTT chat-room. During a PTT chat-room conversation, a disruptive member can be forced to leave the PTT chat room and is not allowed to later re-join the PTT chat room. Thus, it is possible to more smoothly run a PTT chat room in a manner fitting for the purpose, enhancing user convenience.
US08355739B1	Method and apparatus for locating a WLAN station based on a propagation delay of a signal An RF transceiver of a first network device respectively receives first, second, and third coordinates of second, third, and fourth network devices. A control module determines first, second, and third delay periods respectively corresponding to transmissions between first and second, first and third, and first and fourth network devices. The control module determines first, second, and third distances between the first and second, first and third, and first and fourth network devices respectively based on the first, second, and third delay periods. The control module determines a location of the first network device based on the first, second, and third distances and the first, second, and third coordinates.
US08355735B2	Optimizing bandwidth usage in a cellular communication network Base station apparatus (1) is provided for improving bandwidth usage in a cellular communication network serving at least one mobile terminal. The network is capable of supporting at least a first radio access technology (i.e. GSM) and a second radio access technology (LTE) and uses a predefined bandwidth range. The apparatus comprises a base band unit (3) including a counting means for determining the number of mobile terminals within a cell of the first radio access technology supporting the second radio access technology and a measuring means for determining the level of traffic carried by the first radio access technology cell; and a bandwidth assignment means for dynamically assigning a first portion of the bandwidth range to the first radio access technology and a second portion of the bandwidth range to the second radio access technology on the basis of the number of supportive mobile terminals and the level of first radio access technology traffic.In this way, the bandwidth assigned to GSM and LTE can be configured to take account of changes in the traffic levels and device capabilities in either RAT.
US08355733B2	Radio communication system A radio communication system, preventing communication disconnection when a communication failure occurs in a base station, is provided. The radio communication system includes a common base station (BTS-C) communicable with each communication area of the plurality of BTS (FIG. 1A), in addition to a plurality of base stations (BTS) each located in each communication area. In place of a base station BTS which becomes a communication impossible state with a terminal in the communication area, the BTS-C communicates with the terminal MS in the communication area concerned.
US08355731B2	Intelligent interactive call handling An intelligent interactive call handling system is provided that typically includes a central office, a call-handling device, and an internet call routing system. The central office typically triggers a query responsive to receiving a call request. The call-handling device is coupled to the central office, receives the query, and triggers an internet call routing query. The internet call routing system, which is coupled to the call-handling device, typically receives the internet call routing query, determines presence of the called party with respect to at least one registered communication device, sends a prompt to the called party at said at least one registered communication device responsive to the presence determination, receives a reply from said at least one registered communication device, and routes the call responsive to the reply. Methods and other systems are also provided.
US08355730B2	Radio network controller, mobile communication system, and method for avoiding a reduction in a call connection completion ratio for use therein A radio network controller (1) to be connected to a mobile terminal via a radio base station comprises: holding means (UE check list 15 for each system) for, when each mobile terminal has failed to make a radio connection to a cell (s) selected by a cell selection algorithm that assigns a cell (s) under the radio base station to the mobile terminal, holding information of the cell (s) to which the mobile terminal has failed to make a radio connection, for a predetermined period; and execution means (cell selection processor 11) for excluding a cell (s) to which the mobile terminal has failed a radio connection once in the past, from adjacent cell candidates of said mobile terminal, based on the cell information held by the holding means, for a predetermined period, and to execute the cell selection algorithm.
US08355729B2	Method for changing route in wireless communication A method for changing a route in wireless communication involves: when there is subscriber equipment requesting a change of route in a cell, a base station negotiates downlink measurement contents with a relay station facilitating the route change in the cell; a network side informs the subscriber equipment requesting a change of route of the negotiated downlink measurement contents, and the subscriber equipment executes a downlink measurement according to the received measurement contents and reports the downlink measurement results to a radio access point; and the radio access point executes the route change for said subscriber equipment according to the received measurement results. The method can effectively improve the accuracy of the route change and alleviate the delay due to the route change.
US08355728B2	Method for operating service unavailable mode of femto base station The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system, and more particularly, to a method for efficiently operating a service unavailable mode of femto base station. The method for operating a service unavailable mode of femto base station in the broadband wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: determining whether the preset condition for the operation of a service unavailable mode is satisfied; and broadcasting service unavailable mode information for indicating the state of service unavailable mode of the femto base station in accordance with the result of determination on the preset condition.
US08355727B2	Proximity detection in a network Techniques for facilitating a hand-in using proximity-detection and dual-pilot operation detect a presence of a client device in proximity to the network-side device; and transmit a first signal over a first communication channel to the client device, the first signal enabling the client device to access information transmitted in a second signal from the network-side device.
US08355726B2	Device for facilitating overlay network operation in an underlay network environment A wireless communication server device facilitates overlay network communications in an underlay network environment. A database portion is configured to store information regarding overlay network devices within the underlay network environment. An overlay device management portion is configured to communicate with overlay devices and to provide operation information to the overlay devices. An underlay network communication portion is configured to communicate with at least one underlay network device at least to facilitate communications between a mobile station and a selected overlay device.
US08355724B2	Handover control method, cell reselection method and mobile station A handover control method comprises a step in which a mobile station measures radio qualities in a plurality of different frequency cells at predetermined measurement intervals and a step in which the mobile station, when determining that the radio quality in a specific frequency cell satisfies a report condition, starts up a timer for the specific frequency cell and, when the timer for the specific frequency cell has expired, transmits to a radio base station a measurement report including the radio quality in the specific frequency cell. The mobile station, even when a timer for a second frequency cell has expired, does not transmit to the radio base station a measurement report including the radio quality in the second frequency cell if a timer for a first frequency cell having a higher priority than the second frequency cell is running.
US08355716B2	Communication system, communication apparatus, communication method and computer program Disclosed herein is a communication system wherein, non-periodical communications of data are carried out between an information transmitting terminal and one or more information receiving terminals, the information transmitting terminal periodically broadcasts network control information to the information receiving terminals, each of the information receiving terminals receives the network control information from the information transmitting terminal at a rate determined in advance, each of the information receiving terminals receives the network control information from the information transmitting terminal in a fixed-length information acquisition period; and at least some specific ones of the information receiving terminals each arbitrarily shift the starting point of the information acquisition period of the specific information receiving terminal.
US08355712B2	Method for remotely controlling a mobile terminal The invention relates to a method for controlling remotely a mobile terminal (30). The method envisages providing a command (COM) to be sent from a remote server (2) to the mobile terminal (30), and a voice signal (V) to be transmitted from a remote server (20) to the mobile terminal (30). The voice signal (V) is encoded in a voice data packet flow (VOICE_FLOW) and the command (COM) in command data packets (COMk) so as to generate a packet data flow (DATA_FLOW) comprising the voice data packet flow (VOICE_FLOW) and the command data packets (COMk). This packet data flow (DATA_FLOW) is thus sent from the remote server (20) to the mobile terminal (30).
US08355711B2	Collaborative computing for mobile devices Embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for collaborative computing for mobile devices. The system includes methods for leveraging a mobile device and computing resources in a peer-to-peer network in a manner that does not require a central controlling entity, nor the transmission and/or downloading of computer-executable code (e.g., program applications) such that mobile device applications can defer the costly execution of said program applications to the collaborative computing resources in a peer-to-peer network where computing resources are cheaper and network bandwidth and connectivity is more reliable and less expensive in comparison to a mobile device.
US08355710B2	System and method of initiating user notification for a wireless device A System and Method of initiating user notification for a wireless device is provided for allowing a user to locate the wireless device when it has been accidentally misplaced. Notification settings of a wireless device indicate whether incoming communication triggers user notification. If the wireless device has been configured to not ring, then calling the wireless device will not help the user to locate the wireless device. A message (e.g. email, SMS) configured for prompting user notification notwithstanding the notification settings is sent to the wireless device. The message is routed through a wireless network and received by the wireless device. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, in response to the message, the wireless device executes a user notification notwithstanding the notification settings. In some implementations, the user notification includes audible ringing, which might help the user to locate the wireless device based on the audible ringing.
US08355704B2	Method and system for implementing interconversion between ring back tone and ringing tone A method and a system for implementing interconversion between a ring back tone and a ringing tone are disclosed. The method for converting the ring back tone into the ringing tone includes: configuring ring back tone information for a user according to a ring back tone configuration request; obtaining relevant data of corresponding ringtone information according to the ring back tone information configured, and sending the relevant data to a user terminal. The method for converting the ringing tone into the ring back tone includes: generating a ring back tone configuration request according to ringing tone configuration information, where a user terminal configures the ringing tone with the ringing tone configuration information; and configuring the ring back tone corresponding to the ringing tone to be a ring back tone information of the user terminal according to the ringing tone configuration information in the ring back tone configuration request.
US08355703B2	Intelligent text message-to-speech system and method for visual voice mail A visual voicemail system can convert visual voicemail message content to an alternate format based on the location of the recipient device, whether and how the recipient device is in motion, a priority of the message content, user preferences, or other criteria. Alternately, a recipient wireless device may also convert content to an alternate format based on the similar criteria. Content may be presented automatically to a user on recipient device based on such criteria. Content may be converted from audio to text, text to audio, or from any format to any other format. Location, motion data, user preferences, etc. may be obtained from a location based service system, a recipient wireless device, or any other source.
US08355702B2	System and method for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device The present invention provides systems and method for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device. The device receives a notification alerting a user of the device that information is available to be obtained and, in some embodiments, providing a short description of the information. After receiving the notification at the device, the user can then use the device to obtain or otherwise act on the information at a time and at a place convenient to the user.
US08355701B2	Display of secure messages on a mobile communication device A mobile communications device for the display of an incrementally received message includes a message viewer application for scanning the received portions of the message. On determination that the received portion of the message includes a first displayable portion of the message content, the system signals to a message server to halt the message server from forwarding further portions of the message content. The system provides a mechanism for the user of the mobile communications device to cause the mobile communications device to further signal the message server to recommence the forwarding of further portions of the secure message content to permit the verification of the e-mail based on the further portions of the secure message content.
US08355700B2	Method and mobile terminal for rapidly searching for messages received from or sent to same phone number Disclosed are a method and a mobile terminal for easily and rapidly searching for messages received from or sent to the same phone number of a currently displayed message. The method includes a first step of detecting whether a user inputs a key to select a previous or next message received from or sent to the same phone number of a currently displayed message; a second step of searching for the previous or next message received from or sent to the same phone number upon detecting the user's key input; and a third step of displaying the detected message on a display unit of the mobile terminal.
US08355699B1	Method of preventing data of mobile phone from being stolen A method of preventing data of a mobile phone from being stolen, particularly the method of preventing personal data stored in a mobile phone from being stolen by the means of sending short messages and inputting an instruction code is disclosed, and the method comprises: defining plurality of confidentiality levels of the mobile phone, and each confidentiality level defines a corresponding instruction code and is added to personal data stored in the mobile phone, and the mobile phone compares and determines whether the short message contains the instruction code when receiving the short message, and reads the confidentiality level corresponding to the instruction code, and updates all personal data of the of the confidentiality level to achieve the effect of preventing the data from being stolen.
US08355697B2	Apparatus and method for providing broadcast service in mobile communication system A user authentication process when a portable terminal receives multimedia broadcasting requiring authentication is provided. The broadcasting is provided by a mobile communication system including a portable terminal capable of a user authentication process if a message indicating that broadcasting requires the authentication process is received while using the broadcast service, the portable terminal provides the broadcast service if the authentication process is successful, and stops the broadcast service if the authentication process fails; and a multimedia broadcast server for transmitting to the portable terminal the message, which indicates that the broadcasting requires the authentication process, when the broadcasting requires the authentication process while the broadcast service is being provided to the portable terminal.
US08355691B2	Land mobile radio dispatch console An exemplary land mobile radio dispatch console and method are provided. In one embodiment, the console has the capability to process and handle Requests To Talk (RTT) and emergencies. In another embodiment, the console has the capability to provide a history. In another embodiment, the console provides the capability for operators to configure and save patches of predefined groups for later use. In another embodiment, the console includes a telephone interconnect interface component, and combinations of features mentioned above.
US08355689B2	Independent field device for automation purposes with intrinsic safety barrier The invention relates to an autarkic field device or an autarkic radio adapter (2) for a field device (1), of automation technology fed with limited energy via an energy supply unit (3) associated, or associable, with the field device (1) or the radio adapter (2), characterized in that, between the energy supply unit (3) and an internal voltage source (4), whose voltage exceeds, or at times can exceed, the voltage of the energy supply unit (3), a barrier (5a; 5b) of at least one diode group having at least two diodes (6) connected in parallel is arranged, which blocks flow of electrical current from the internal voltage source (4) to the energy supply unit (3) or to the connection terminals (7) of the field device (1) or of the radio adapter (2) for the energy supply unit (3).
US08355684B2	Channel determination apparatus and method of broadcast reveiver A channel determination apparatus and method for a broadcast receiver are provided. The method includes estimating, when the broadcast receiver operates in a sleep state over a preset time period, inter-modulation distortion interference of a plurality of channels by scanning the channels, and receiving, when the sleep state is transitioned to an active state, broadcast data on a channel having the least inter-modulation distortion interference. Accordingly, the inter-modulation distortion interference of individual channels is taken into account to select an optimum channel, thereby resulting in improvement of channel determination accuracy.
US08355683B2	Simplified high frequency tuner and tuning method A disclosed method tunes a signal from a channelized spectrum having a predetermined channel spacing. A signal of interest having a predetermined maximum bandwidth is mixed with a local oscillator signal, which has a frequency that is an integer multiple of the channel spacing or one-half of a channel spacing displaced from an integer multiple of the channel spacing. The local oscillator signal is selected to frequency translate the signal of interest to within a near-baseband passband whose lower edge is spaced from DC by at least about the maximum bandwidth of the signal of interest. Problems associated with 1/f noise, DC offsets, and self-mixing products are avoided or substantially diminished. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US08355680B2	Radio wave propagation analysis result display system A radio wave propagation analysis result display system calculates an analysis result of radio wave propagation inside a building by subtracting a transmission loss caused by an external wall of the building from an analysis result of radio wave propagation outside the building, and displays a map capable of expressing the height, on which the calculated radio wave propagation analysis result is displayed and superimposed on the building, on a display device.
US08355677B1	Selecting modulation and coding scheme in the presence of interference A wireless device comprises an interference sensing module, a modulation and coding schemes (MCS) selection module, and a transmit module. The interference sensing module selectively receives an interference signal over a channel. The interference signal is modulated using P MCSs, where P is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The MCS selection module selects an MCS based on the P MCSs. The transmit module transmits a transmit signal over the channel using the MCS.
US08355676B2	System and method for reducing radio frequency interference A system and method for determining the source of and/or reducing radio frequency interference in an RF communications system is disclosed. The system and method is configured to compare first transmission data and second transmission data for conflicts and provide notification of a conflict to a relevant entity. The first transmission data can include first frequency data, first destination data, and first time data for an RF transmission associated with the first RF device. The second transmission data can include second frequency data, second destination data, and second time data. The system and method analyzes the first transmission data and the second transmission data for any conflicts and can provide notification of any conflicts or potential conflicts to interested parties.
US08355672B2	Method for identification using bluetooth wireless key A Bluetooth host solves the aforementioned problems by evaluating a Bluetooth service provider server ID and by determining which of a plurality of access IDs map to the server ID and, correspondingly, providing a Bluetooth access ID that corresponds thereto. Accordingly, one Bluetooth host may readily gain access to any one of a plurality of different devices and different types of devices. Additionally, the Bluetooth host includes capacity to store and provide additional supporting information according to the type of device that is the Bluetooth service provider. Generally, the Bluetooth host stores a plurality of access or link IDs in relation to a plurality of master device IDs and, upon detecting a beacon, determines what access or link ID to provide and whether to provide additional stored information.
US08355667B2	Apparatus, method, and computer program product for obtaining broadcast content An apparatus is provided for obtaining broadcast content disseminated by a broadcaster with which a perceiver of content is in unilateral communication. The apparatus includes a communications unit configured to receive a message from the content perceiver, the message including time information associated with the content and source information for the content. A processing device in communication with said communications unit and at least one broadcaster database is configured to obtain the time and source information included in the message and to use the time and source information to obtain identification of the content from the broadcaster database. The processing device may be in communication with at least one content provider database and is further configured to cause the identified content to be distributed from the content provider database to the perceiver. Methods and computer program products are also provided.
US08355665B2	Process for computerized grading of formula-based multi-step problems via a web-interface The method of computerized grading of formula-based multi-step problems includes the steps of providing a memory for storing problems and data to enable and facilitate assessment of correctness of problems, storing at least one formula-based multi-step problem in the memory, a complete solution to the problem requiring calculation of at least one intermediate answer and a subsequent calculation using said intermediate answer to arrive at said complete solution, providing a computer program that can grade submitted answers to the steps of said problem, providing a user interface with selective access to the memory and the computer program, and providing a global computer network with which the user interface can be connected to the memory and grading program.
US08355660B2	Fixing device with a shielding member having an insulated circumferential part and image forming apparatus including same A fixing device is provided with a heating member, a pressing member, a coil, a fixed core, a movable core and a shielding member provided on the movable core and a position switching unit moving the shielding member between a shielding position where a ring part shields magnetism and a retracted position where the ring part does not shield magnetism. A first area requiring magnetic shielding and a second area not requiring magnetic shielding are selectively set in the heating member. The shielding member includes a first annular portion provided at a position corresponding to a boundary part between the first and second areas, and the first annular portion has a shape closed in a circumferential direction and is electrically insulated at a circumferential part when viewed in an axial direction of the movable core.
US08355656B2	Image-forming apparatus An image-forming apparatus includes: image-forming units arranged along a direction inclined at an acute angle relative to a horizontal direction, each of the image-forming units forming an image with developer; developer-containing units positioned above the image-forming units and arranged along the horizontal direction or along a direction inclined relative to the horizontal direction at an angle smaller than the acute angle; and developer conveyance paths that connect the image-forming units to respective developer-containing units, each developer conveyance path having a tubular passage that defines a space through which the developer contained in the developer-containing unit is conveyed to the image-forming unit, wherein the tubular passage of a developer conveyance path connected to an image-forming unit located at a position higher than that of another image-forming unit has a vertically extending portion shorter than that of the tubular passage of a developer conveyance path connected to the another image-forming unit.
US08355652B2	Development cartridge and image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a plurality of development cartridges each having a developer bearing member bearing a developer for developing an electrostatic image and a developer container accommodating the developer, a rotary configured to rotate and move the attached development cartridges toward a development position, an opening defined in an apparatus main body and allowing the development cartridge to pass through for attachment and detachment to and from the rotary, and an indicator provided on a second development cartridge arranged adjacent to a first development cartridge passing through the opening and detached from the rotary being stopped, wherein the indicator indicates an attachment method usable to attach the first development cartridge to the rotary, and wherein the indicator is located at such a position on the second development cartridge as to be visible from outside of the apparatus main body via the opening.
US08355651B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a power interrupting structure and a cover opening and closing structure. The image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a first cover and a second cover to open and close the apparatus body, a switch configured to be turned on/off according to an opening and closing operation of the first cover, and a safety device, operatively connected to the second cover, to selectively restrict the switch from being turned on by the first cover.
US08355650B2	Color electrophotographic image forming apparatus A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus, wherein a plurality of cartridges is detachably mountable to a main assembly of the apparatus, includes a cartridge supporting member movable between an inside position which is inside the main assembly and an outside position which is outside the main assembly, supporting the cartridges, wherein the cartridges are mounted to and dismounted from the cartridge supporting member placed in the outside position; an opening which is provided in the main assembly and through which the cartridge supporting member is passed when the cartridge supporting member moves between the inside position and the outside position; a receiving member for receiving developed images from photosensitive members provided on the cartridge supporting member in the state that cartridge supporting member is placed in the inside position, the receiving member is rotatable along below the photosensitive members; a transfer member for transferring the developed images transferred on the receiving member onto a recording material at a transfer position; a fixing member for fixing the developed images transferred onto the recording material on the recording material; and a feeding path for feeding the recording material to a removing position by way of the transfer position, the inside of the opening and the fixing member from a stacking portion for stacking the recording material, wherein the cartridge supporting member is movable between the inside position and the outside position intersecting the feeding path.
US08355647B2	Electronic device and image forming apparatus An electronic device includes: a display that displays at least a status of the device; a controller that is provided on a back surface of the display and controls a display on the display; a heat source; a shield that shields the controller from the heat source; and an opening that is connected to a space formed by the controller and the shield and allows air outside the device to flow in and out of the controller.
US08355643B2	Toner image height measurement apparatus and image forming apparatus having the same A toner image height measurement apparatus capable of accurately measuring heights of toner images of respective colors with a relatively simple construction and without being affected by toner colors. With motion of an image carrier, there occurs a change in reflection light amount detected by a photodiode of the height measurement apparatus in timing when laser light having been irradiated onto the image carrier starts to be irradiated onto or intercepted by a toner image and in timing when the laser light having been irradiated onto the toner image starts to be irradiated onto the image carrier. Based on a principle that these timings vary according to a toner image height, the height measurement apparatus detects the timing when the reflection light amount changes by a predetermined amount, thereby detecting the toner image height.
US08355641B2	Paper wrinkle sign monitoring device, paper wrinkle sign monitoring method, and computer readable medium A paper wrinkle sign monitoring device includes: at least one timing detecting unit that is set on a transport path of a printing medium, and that detects transport timing of the printing medium; and a sign output unit that detects a sign of paper wrinkle generation in the transporting time of the printing medium based on the transport timing of the printing medium detected by the timing detecting unit, and that outputs the sign.
US08355640B2	Document feeding device that performs an initial operation, image forming apparatus including the same, and method of controlling a document feeding device that performs an initial operation Provided is a document feeding device including: a document feeding portion for feeding a document; a document set detecting portion for detecting presence/absence of a set document; a determination portion for determining whether power supply to the device is started by turning-on of main power or by cancellation of a power saving mode; an initial operation portion for performing an initial operation of initializing the document feeding portion when the power supply to the document feeding device is started by the turning-on of the main power, and restricting execution of the initial operation when the power supply to the document feeding device is started by the cancellation of the power saving mode; and a display portion for displaying, when there is a set document at the start of the power supply, a request to reset the document.
US08355638B2	Receiver for optical transverse-mode-multiplexed signals A representative optical receiver of the invention receives an optical transverse-mode-multiplexed (TMM) signal through a multimode fiber that supports a plurality of transverse modes. The optical receiver has a plurality of optical detectors operatively coupled to a digital signal processor configured to process the TMM signal to determine its modal composition. Based on the determined modal composition, the optical receiver demodulates each of the independently modulated components of the TMM signal to recover the data encoded onto the TMM signal at the remote transmitter.
US08355636B2	PMD insensitive direct-detection optical OFDM systems using self-polarization diversity A self-polarization diversity technique to combat PMD in a direct-detection optical OFDM system. This technique does not require any dynamic polarization control, and can simultaneous compensate PMD in a WDM system with one device. Simulation results show that this technique virtually completely eliminates the PMD impairments in direct-detection optical OFDM systems.
US08355632B2	Transmission apparatus In a transmission apparatus, unlike in the conventional transmission apparatus, a protection switch is not arranged on the signal path, but a TSI having only the basic function performs the function of the protection switch as a substitute, a processing unit to perform the switching function at a low rate is artificially constructed on a TSI, the switch process of SONET protection type is artificially executed by the TSI, and a signal for controlling the TSI function is further controlled thereby to realize the protection switch function. The logic of switching at the main signal rate in addition to the conventional TSI function is deleted.
US08355629B2	Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing notification of a power failure Methods, systems, and computer-readable media provide for notifying an optical line termination (OLT) of a power failure. According to embodiments, a method for notifying an OLT of a power failure is provided. According to the method, a notification of a power failure at an optical network termination (ONT) is received. In response to receiving the notification, power is retrieved from a dedicated power storage unit dedicated to providing power for the transmission of a dying gasp alarm. The dying gasp alarm is transmitted to the OLT utilizing at least a portion of the power from the dedicated power storage unit. The dying gasp alarm notifies the OLT of the power failure.
US08355628B2	Compact camera module The invention provides a compact camera module. The compact camera module includes an image sensing device, a set of optical elements, and a zooming device. The set of optical elements connects to the image sensing device, and comprises a lens set. The zooming device connects to the set of optical elements for adjusting a distance between the lens set and the image sensing device. The zooming device directly electrically joins with the image sensing device.
US08355626B2	Lens-interchangeable camera performing focus control, lens barrel, and program A lens-interchangeable camera includes a focus detector performing focus detection and a controller performing a drive control of a lens based on a defocus amount. The controller finishes focusing operation without driving the lens when the defocus amount is out a range of a first in-focus determination width, and performs the focusing operation when the defocus amount is out a range of the first in-focus determination width. The controller finishes the focusing operation without performing the focus detection again after completing the drive when the defocus amount is out a range of a second in-focus determination width, and performs the focus detection again after completing the drive when the defocus amount is out a range of the second in-focus determination width. The second in-focus determination width is set to be greater than the first in-focus determination width and be greater than or equal to a drive limit value.
US08355625B2	System for and a method of heating water A system for heating water which includes a first container and a second container, an air-tight connection between upper ends of the first and second containers, each container including a respective water heating element, and a water outlet port and a water inlet port, a manifold which is operatively connected to the respective inlet and outlet ports of each container and which connects, in a controlled manner, the respective inlet port of each container to a pressurized source of cold water, and each container, at least in a respective upper volume thereof, and in the air-tight connection, containing a gas, and whereby cold water which is introduced into the first container via the manifold displaces gas via the air-tight connection from the first container into the second container thereby to expel warm water from the second container through the respective outlet port.
US08355623B2	Temperature limited heaters with high power factors Certain embodiments provide a heater. The heater includes a ferromagnetic member. The heater also includes an electrical conductor electrically coupled to the ferromagnetic member. The electrical conductor is configured to conduct a majority of time-varying electrical current passing through the heater at about 25° C. The heater is configured to provide a first heat output below the Curie temperature of the ferromagnetic member. The heater is configured to automatically provide a second heat output approximately at and above the Curie temperature of the ferromagnetic member. The second heat output is reduced compared to the first heat output.
US08355622B2	Reproducing apparatus, reproducing system, reproducing method, and recording medium thereof There are provided a reproducing apparatus, a reproducing system, a reproducing method, and a recording medium that prevent deterioration in a subjective appraisal value of an output frame. Therefore, in the case where when interpolation is impossible for a frame whose abnormality is confirmed among frames obtained by decoding image data, an already output frame is maintained until a normal frame can be output.
US08355601B2	Real-time geometry aware projection and fast re-calibration Aspects of the present invention include systems and methods for recalibrating projector-camera systems. In embodiments, systems and methods are able to recalibrate automatically the projector with arbitrary intrinsic and pose, as well as render for arbitrarily desired viewing point. In contrast to previous methods, the methods disclosed herein use the observing camera and the projector to form a stereo pair. Structured light is used to perform pixel-level fine reconstruction of the display surface. In embodiments, the geometric warping is implemented as a direct texture mapping problem. As a result, re-calibration of the projector movement is performed by simply computing the new projection matrix and setting it as a camera matrix. For re-calibrating the new view point, the texture mapping is modified according to the new camera matrix.
US08355600B1	Presenting wireless-telecommunications coverage areas Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for displaying an area of wireless-telecommunications coverage of a geographic region by a plurality of images is provided. In embodiments, an image representing an amount of wireless-telecommunications coverage for a geographic region is referenced. A plurality of image data points, including corners, are mapped to real-world geographic coordinates to create a registered image. A plurality of colors, each representing a different wireless-telecommunications coverage area, are identified. A second image is created that includes only pixels associated with selected colors and, thus, only represents the wireless-telecommunications coverage areas associated with the selected colors.
US08355598B2	Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and imaging apparatus A distortion of image data is corrected by performing a coordinate transformation of the image data by using { X = x + f ⁡ ( x - x 0 , y - y 0 ) Y = y + g ⁡ ( x - x 0 , y - y 0 ) where X and Y represent coordinates of a transformation source which is the image data after the correction of the distortion, x and y represent coordinates of a transformation destination which is the image data having the distortion, x0 and y0 are offset values in x direction and y direction, respectively, and f and g are correction functions.
US08355594B2	Information processing apparatus, line noise reduction processing method, and computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus performs first filter processing to combine pixels of an image along a predetermined direction. A line noise image is extracted by executing second filter processing for the processed image along a direction different from the predetermined direction. The extracted line noise image is subtracted from the image to acquire a line noise reduced image.
US08355593B2	Image restoring apparatus and method thereof Disclosed is an image restoring apparatus and a method thereof, which sets a restoration image area to establish a portion of a target image area to be restored as a restoration image area to be restored with priority according to a request for an image restoration; sets a search area to establish an area with a predetermined size including the restoration image area as a search area; detects a similar image area to search for the most similar image area to the restoration image area within the search area; and reconstructs the deteriorated image in a natural manner by copying the image of the detected similar image area and attaching the same to the restoration image area.
US08355590B2	Image data compression method, pattern model positioning method in image processing, image processing apparatus, image processing program, and computer readable recording medium There is provided a data compression method for increasing a reduction ratio, while keeping a sufficient characteristic amount, to seek speeding up of processing, the method being for compressing image data in pattern model positioning in image processing of searching out of an image to be searched and positioning a pattern model corresponding to a pre-registered image. The method includes the steps of: computing an edge strength image having edge strength information and an edge angle image having edge angle information with respect to each pixel constituting an image; transforming the edge angle image of each pixel into an edge angle bit image expressed by an edge angle bit indicating an angle with a pre-defined fixed width; and compressing the edge angle bit image to create an edge angle bit reduced image by taking a sum with respect to each edge angle bit.
US08355589B2	Method and apparatus for field picture coding and decoding A field picture coding/decoding apparatus and method is provided. The field picture coding method includes selecting a reference field with respect to an input image, generating a predictive image by deinterlacing with respect to the selected reference field, and performing predictive coding with respect to the input image using the predictive image.
US08355587B2	Image processing apparatus capable of writing compressed data into frame buffer and reading buffered data from frame buffer alternately and related image processing method thereof An image processing apparatus includes a processing circuit and a storage system. The processing circuit generates a first processing result and a second processing result by processing a first horizontal line group of a first frame and a second horizontal line group of a second frame preceding the first frame, respectively. The storage system includes: a frame buffer; a write circuit for storing the first processing result into the frame buffer; a read circuit for reading the second processing result from the frame buffer; and a timing controller for controlling the write circuit to start storing the first processing result at a first time point not prior to a specific time point when the processing circuit finishes receiving the first horizontal line group, and controlling the read circuit to start reading the second processing result at a second time point which is prior to the specific time point.
US08355584B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer program product An image processing apparatus generates code data by connecting a plurality of first compressed codes output from one or more threads. The image processing apparatus includes a compressing unit that compresses image data by using the threads corresponding to divided compression processes; an identification-information attaching unit that attaches identification information to the first compressed codes thereby generating second compressed codes; and a code-data generating unit that generates code data including the second compressed codes.
US08355578B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium Even when captions of a plurality of objects use an identical anchor expression, the present invention can associate an appropriately explanatory text in a body text as metadata with the objects.
US08355577B2	Image processing apparatus and method The operability of a user when reusing a vectorized illustration is improved. An image processing apparatus of the present invention comprises an illustration region specifying component configured to specify an illustration region within an input image, a color region extracting component configured to extract a color region from the specified illustration region, a contour line extracting component configured to extract a contour line from the extracted color region, a vector data generating component configured to generate vector data from image data of the illustration region, a kind discriminating component configured to discriminate a kind of the generated vector data, and a circumscribed rectangle coordinate deriving component configured to derive circumscribed rectangle coordinates in accordance with the kind discriminated by the kind discriminating component.
US08355575B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method This invention provides an image processing apparatus including a unit which generates index image data, a unit which obtains a position of thumbnail image data in the index image data, a unit which divides the index image data so as to prevent overlap of the thumbnail image data, a unit which calculates a histogram of a luminance value of image data corresponding to each partial area including the thumbnail image data, a unit which determines image correction characteristics of each piece of image data based on the histogram and performing image correction, and a unit which reconfiguring the index image data using the corrected image data to output the reconfigured index image data.
US08355573B2	Method for matching colors by using human observer color matching functions A method for matching colors includes providing a first source of a first color and a second source of a second color; measuring a set of spectral values for first color stimuli associated with the first color; calculating a first set of tristimulus values; defining a first set of human observer color matching functions; calculating a first set of corrected tristimulus values from the first set of spectral values using the first set of human observer color matching functions; measuring a second set of spectral values for second color stimuli associated with the second color; calculating a second set of tristimulus values; defining a second set of human observer color matching functions; calculating a second set of corrected tristimulus values from the second set of spectral values; determining a difference between the first and second set of corrected tristimulus values; and adjusting one of the sources to reduce the difference.
US08355570B2	Systems and methods for raster-to-block converter A raster to block converter and equivalently a block to raster converter can be implemented using enough memory to contain a single image band, that is a band of pixels of height equal to a single block but spanning the entire width of an image. The raster to block converter can operate at full rate so that as soon as a pixel is read out from the memory a new pixel can be stored in its place. The location of a pixel can be tracked using a mapping involving basic modular arithmetic. This raster to block converter is scalable so that it can work with any size image and block size.
US08355569B2	Object region extracting device Region dividing means (3) divides an inputted image by color or edge. Partial feature value providing means (4) extracts visual feature values of the divided region. Area sorting means (5, 6) sorts the feature values of the divided regions and part feature values (32) which are visual features of the parts into which an object is divided in order of area of the region. Part matching means (7) selects the part feature value (32) which the region of the largest area has, selects a visual feature value which the divided region of the largest area has out of the divided regions whose similarities are not calculated, calculates the similarity of the selected visual feature value, and extracts candidate regions. If the visual feature value of the joined region formed by combining the candidate regions is similar to the visual feature value of the whole object stored in storage means (2), the joined region is treated as a region similar to the object.
US08355564B2	Corresponding point searching method and three-dimensional position measuring method A plurality of images (I, J) of an object (M) when viewed from different viewpoints are taken in. One of the images is set as a standard image (I), and the other image is set as a reference image (J). One-dimensional pixel data strings with a predetermined width (W) are cut out from the standard image (I) and the reference image (J) along epipolar lines (EP1, EP2) calculated from a camera parameter (CPR) and the reference point (p). Calculating a phase-only correlation function from the cut one-dimensional pixel data strings will obtain a correlation peak position (Pa1). A positional shift amount (d) from the correlation peak position (Pa1) is obtained. A search is made for a corresponding point (q) corresponding to the reference point (p) based on this position shift amount (d).
US08355562B2	Pattern shape evaluation method A pattern shape evaluation method and semiconductor inspection system having a unit for extracting contour data of a pattern from an image obtained by photographing a semiconductor pattern, a unit for generating pattern direction data from design data of the semiconductor pattern, and a unit for detecting a defect of a pattern, through comparison between pattern direction data obtained from the contour data and pattern direction data generated from the design data corresponding to a pattern position of the contour data.
US08355558B2	Money handling system A money handling system includes: a sort pattern setting unit 107 configured to set a sort pattern showing one or more denominations of the banknotes to be sorted into the stacking units 103; a storage unit 109 configured to store the sort pattern set by the sort pattern setting unit 107, and to store a recognition result and a count result by the recognition unit 102 on the banknotes stacked in the stacking units 103; and a control unit 108 configured to control the transport unit 105 so as to transport the banknotes respectively to the stacking units 103 and the reject unit 104, based on the recognition result by the recognition unit 102 and the sort pattern stored in the storage unit 109.
US08355556B2	Method of synthetic image generation for magnetic resonance imaging A method, system and user interface for synthetic image generation for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is described. A plurality of MR imaging data sets is received, each data set being acquired at a different value for a MR acquisition parameter. A response value for a particular property of tissues is determined, based on a calculated fit of each pixel to a property response model. A synthetic image is generated for a selected value of the MR acquisition parameter, based on the determined response value. An option is provided to dynamically change the selected value of the MR acquisition parameter and the synthetic image is re-generated for the changed value. An option may be provided to dynamically change the value. Another option may be provided to calculate a reliability measure for the synthetic image.
US08355548B2	Load independent index of diastolic function Methods and related apparatus and systems for determining a load-independent index of diastolic function in the heart are described.
US08355543B2	Method and system for identifying a person based on their tongue A method for identifying a person based on their tongue is provided in which an image of a tongue of a person is compared to recorded details of tongues in a database. If a match is found, the person is identified.
US08355541B2	Texture sensing A device for modeling a texture is described. An example device may include a plurality of image sensors, a data storage, and a processor operatively associated with the data storage and adapted to execute computer implemented instructions to capture a set of images of a surface with one or more of the plurality of image sensors, analyze the set of captured images to determine one or more surface variables, and convert the analyzed set of captured images into a surface texture type based on the one or more surface variables. A method for modeling a surface texture using a hand-held device is also described.
US08355537B2	Image processing apparatus and control method thereof In an image included in a moving image, a specific area is registered as a reference area, and a specific hue range of the reference area is set as a first feature amount based on the distribution of hues of pixels in the reference area. When the occupation ratio of pixels having hues included in a second feature amount, obtained by expanding the hue range of the first feature amount in a surrounding area larger than the reference area, is smaller than a predetermined ratio, an area having a high degree of correlation is identified from an image using the second feature amount in the subsequent matching process. When the occupation ratio is equal to or larger than the predetermined ratio, an area having a high degree of correlation is identified from an image using the first feature amount in the subsequent matching process.
US08355533B2	Method for providing photographed image-related information to user, and mobile system therefor System for providing a mobile user, object related information related to an object visible thereto, the system including a camera directable toward the object, a local interest points and semi global geometry (LIPSGG) extraction processor, and a remote LIPSGG identifier, the camera acquiring an image of at least a portion of the object, the LIPSGG extraction processor being coupled with the camera, the LIPSGG extraction processor extracting an LIPSGG model of the object from the image, remote LIPSGG identifier being coupled with the LIPSGG extraction processor via a network, the remote LIPSGG identifier receiving the LIPSGG model from the LIPSGG extraction processor, via the network, the remote LIPSGG identifier identifying the object according to the LIPSGG model, the remote LIPSGG identifier retrieving the object related information, the remote LIPSGG identifier providing the object related information to the mobile user operating the camera.
US08355531B2	Position and orientation measurement method and position and orientation measurement apparatus Indices allocated or set on an object are detected from sensed images of frames, which are time-serially sensed by an image sensing device. In association with each index detected from the sensed image of the frame of interest, a detection condition from frames before the frame of interest is acquired. According to the acquired detection condition of the index, the reliability of this index is calculated. The position and orientation of the object or the image sensing device are calculated using at least information associated with the image coordinates of the detected indices and the reliabilities of the indices.
US08355530B2	Liveness detection method and apparatus of video image Object feature points are tracked in a video image, and detected feature points are affine-transformed. Then, it is determined whether the video image is a real object using characteristics of the affine-transformed feature points. Therefore, liveness detection resistant to spoofing can be performed without requiring user intervention and additional hardware.
US08355524B2	Magnetic circuit A magnetic circuit includes a cylindrical yoke member having an inner circumferential surface and a collar formed at one end thereof and turned back substantially at right angles, and a plurality of permanent magnet segments of a partially circular arc in cross section. Each of the permanent magnets has an outer surface attracted magnetically to the inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical yoke member, and one end face attracted magnetically to the collar of the cylindrical yoke member. The magnetic circuit is applied to an actuator or a speaker.
US08355513B2	Convertible filter Apparatus and method for implementing a convertible filter in differing ones of its delay and weighting elements are powered through different power conductors, thereby enabling the convertible filter to be dynamically configured to be operable as different types of digital filter through selective provision of power to differing ones of the power conductors.
US08355510B2	Reduced latency low frequency equalization system A frequency equalization system is provided that substantially equalizes the room frequency responses generated by at least one loudspeaker within a listening area so that the frequency responses in the listening area are substantially constant and flat within a desired frequency range with minimum signal latency. The frequency equalization system may use multiple microphones to measure the audio signals of one or more subwoofers to achieve an improved bass response that is flat across the relevant frequency range. The system employs an algorithm that is a closed-form, non-iterative, mathematical solution and features short computation time with reduced delays.
US08355509B2	Parametric joint-coding of audio sources The following coding scenario is addressed: A number of audio source signals need to be transmitted or stored for the purpose of mixing wave field synthesis, multi-channel surround, or stereo signals after decoding the source signals. The proposed technique offers significant coding gain when jointly coding the source signals, compared to separately coding them, even when no redundancy is present between the source signals. This is possible by considering statistical properties of the source signals, the properties of mixing techniques, and spatial hearing. The sum of the source signals is transmitted plus the statistical properties of the source signals which mostly determine the perceptually important spatial cues of the final mixed audio channels. Source signals are recovered at the receiver such that their statistical properties approximate the corresponding properties of the original source signals. Subjective evaluations indicate that high audio quality is achieved by the proposed scheme.
US08355507B1	Optical switching and delay systems and methods for optical encryption and/or optical decryption An optical switching and delay system for optical encryption and/or optical decryption may comprise a switch bank, a set of optical delay lines, a combiner, and a processor. The switch bank may be configured to receive an optical signal in a first arrangement and route the optical signal to the set of optical delay lines according to a switching arrangement key. The set of optical delay lines may be configured to provide delays to the optical signal. The combiner may be configured to receive the optical signal with delays from the set of optical delay lines and combine the optical signal into a second arrangement. The processor may be configured to receive the switching arrangement key and control the switch bank according to the switching arrangement key. The switching arrangement key may comprise a set of instructions for routing the optical signal.
US08355505B2	Picture taking apparatus and method of controlling same The camera includes a sensor for sensing the photographer's iris image and registering the image in advance. The iris image is recorded in the image of a subject by a digital MCU at a timing different from that at which the image of the subject is captured. The recording timing is that at which the camera power supply is turned off, that at which a recording medium is ejected from the camera or that at which the iris image to be recorded is changed to changed to the registered iris image of another photographer. The recording of the iris image is achieved by embedding it as a watermark or by appending it to metadata.
US08355503B2	Adding randomness internally to a wireless mobile communication device A mobile communication device is provided with an integral transducer used to refresh a random data pool without connection to an external source of new random data.
US08355498B2	Communication line interface A communication cable interface having a plurality of interface input jacks, each interface input jack capable of receiving an input connector of a service provider communication cable. The interface has an interface output jack for outputting a plurality of service provider signals onto another communication cable and into a distribution panel for distribution of signals to cabling that has been run throughout a residence. The signals are combined from the interface input jacks onto the interface output jack in a one-to-one relationship among terminals of the respective jacks.
US08355497B2	Provision of telecommunication services An apparatus (100) suitable for providing telecommunication and data services in a telecommunications network to a plurality of subscribers, comprising a first distribution matrix (104), a crossover matrix (108) and a second distribution matrix (106). Said crossover matrix (108) is adapted to be connected to a main cable (130) and to a distribution cable (120). The apparatus further comprises a DSLAM unit (112) and crossover switching elements in said crossover matrix (108) and distribution switching elements in said distribution matrices (104, 106) are controlled from a remote location. The apparatus is adapted to add data services to a subscriber line by switching the subscriber line from the crossover matrix (108) to the first distribution matrix (104) and then via splitter (110) to the second distribution matrix (106) and back to the crossover matrix (108), wherein the splitter (110) is adapted to receive data signal from the DSLAM unit (112).
US08355494B2	System and method for handling toll free number telephone calls A system and method for processing toll free telephone calls by a telecommunications service provider may include receiving, by the telecommunications service provider, a telephone call request for a telephone call being placed to a toll free telephone number from a telephone within a service area of the telecommunications service provider. The telecommunications service provider may determine that the toll free telephone number is one operated by the telecommunications service provider. The telephone call may be routed via a network of the telecommunications service provider to a telephone associated with the toll free telephone number to connect the telephone call.
US08355493B2	Next generation auto-dialer A communications system for placing a plurality of calls with a common message to a plurality of subscribers via a public switched telephone network is provided. The communications system includes an end office switch disposed in an end office and in communication with the public switched telephone network. The communications system further includes an auto-dialer disposed in the end office and interconnected with the end office switch for placing the plurality of calls to the plurality of subscribers via the end office switch.
US08355492B1	Systems and methods for remote call redirection detection and treatment Systems and methods in which call intelligence, such as may be deployed in communication with signaling systems utilized in controlling calls and telecommunication databases, is used to analyze information about a call in order to make a determination as to the likelihood or risk that call redirecting, such as call forwarding or remote call forwarding, will be invoked with respect to a call are shown. The call intelligence, upon a determination that an unacceptable risk that call redirecting will be invoked, preferably institutes appropriate call treatment or handling procedures, such as to block the call or to allow the call while invoking additional call treatment action.
US08355487B2	Multiple maximum durations defined for sessions over a communication network Communication networks and associated methods and systems are disclosed that provide dynamically-configurable maximum durations for sessions over a communication network. For a session, the communication network determines the traditional static maximum duration and the calculated maximum duration (for prepaid sessions). In addition to these maximum durations, the communication network also determines a dynamic maximum duration for the session based on duration criteria. The communication network then selects one of the maximum durations based on the duration criteria, and monitors the session based on the selected maximum duration. By defining the duration criteria in a particular manner, a new dynamically-configured maximum duration for sessions may be used instead of relying only on the static maximum duration and the calculated maximum duration (for prepaid sessions).
US08355485B2	System and method for reporting telecommunications utilization and forecasting A system and method for forecasting and reporting telecommunications usage by a telecommunications carrier. The method includes storing data indicative of telephone number usage of telephone numbers assigned to the telecommunications carrier in a first database. The first database may be queried to obtain a first set of data including telephone number information associated with the telecommunications carrier. A second database operating on a network may be queried to obtain a second set of data including telephone number information associated with the telecommunications carrier. Telephone number usage and forecast data may be generated from the first and second sets of data.
US08355484B2	Methods and apparatus for masking latency in text-to-speech systems A technique for masking latency in an automatic dialog system is provided. A communication is received from a user at the automatic dialog system. The communication is processed in the automatic dialog system to provide a response. At least one transitional message is provided to the user from the automatic dialog system while processing the communication. A response is provided to the user from the automatic dialog system in accordance with the received communication from the user.
US08355483B2	Stroke diagnostic and intervention tool for emergency dispatch A system and method to assist an emergency medical dispatcher in responding to emergency calls. A computer implemented emergency dispatch protocol includes interrogatories for a dispatcher to ask a caller to generate an appropriate response. A diagnostic tool is provided to diagnosis as to whether a patient has likely suffered a stroke. The diagnostic tool determines whether the patient has likely suffered a stroke based on caller-relayed information about the patient. The diagnostic tool can be launched automatically by the emergency dispatch protocol, or manually by a dispatcher. The diagnostic tool presents a user interface that provides, among other things, instructions, questions, and input fields.
US08355480B2	Methods and apparatus for synchronizing communication with a memory controller A memory controller receives data and phase-providing signals from a memory device. The phase-providing signal is not a clock signal, but is used by the memory controller to phase align a local data-sampling signal with the incoming data. The memory controller samples the data signal with the data-sampling signal. The memory controller can perform maintenance operations to update the phase relationship between the phase-providing and data-sampling signals.
US08355478B1	Circuit for aligning clock to parallel data Method and system for aligning a clock signal to parallel data are described. According to one embodiment, a clock shifting circuit shifts an incoming clock signal relative to an incoming data signal, and a data clocking circuit uses the shifted clock signal to reclock the incoming data signal. The clock shifting circuit may comprise a phase locked loop (PLL) coupled with multiple D flip flops (DFFs) connected in series. Divisional combinatorial logic may be disposed between DFFs in the series. Data clocking circuits may comprise one DFF to reclock each incoming data bit, a pair of DFFs to reclock each incoming data bit, or other circuits such as true-complement blocks to serve as local oscillators to mixers. Multiple shifted clock signals may be produced, such as those shifted 60, 90, 120, 180, 240, and 270 degrees relative to the incoming clock signal.
US08355476B2	Timestamping method and apparatus for precise network synchronization A timestamping apparatus for network synchronization includes a recovery unit and a timestamping unit. The recovery unit extracts a recovery clock operating at an operation frequency of a transmission terminal from a sync signal received from the transmission terminal. The timestamping unit measures a timestamp value of an arrival time of the sync signal by measuring a phase difference between the recovery clock and a local clock of a receiving terminal.
US08355475B2	Diversity technique for wireless communications A simple block coding arrangement is created with symbols transmitted over a plurality of transmit channels, in connection with coding that comprises only simple arithmetic operations, such as negation and conjugation. The diversity created by the transmitter utilizes space diversity and either time or frequency diversity. Space diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting over a plurality of antennas, time diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting at different times, and frequency diversity is effected by redundantly transmitting at different frequencies:
US08355474B2	Apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multiple-antenna communication system An apparatus and method for interference cancellation in multiple-antenna communication system is disclosed. Accordingly, a receiver of a multiple-antenna communication system cancels interference by selecting either a multiple-symbol processing scheme or a single-symbol processing scheme depending on a signal type, thereby improving performance of the communication system.
US08355473B2	Methods and systems with simplified doppler spread classification Certain embodiments of the present disclosure propose methods and systems for classifying the Doppler spread based on the output of the frequency-tracking loop (FTL) discriminator in WiMAX systems to improve the performance of the channel estimation. The Doppler spread may be classified as low, medium or high based on the statistics of the output of the discriminator in the fine-tracking mode.
US08355472B2	Frequency deviation error compensation in an MLSE receiver A method is described to compensate for deviation error in a H-CPM sync or data burst received by a MLSE receiver in a communication device. The deviation error is estimated and matched filter coefficients are adjusted using the estimated deviation error. Metrics are determined for the current state using the adjusted matched filter coefficients. The state having the minimum metric is determined to be the most likely current state. The most likely previous state is similarly determined. The burst is reconstructed backward from the last state to the initial state. The metric is the squared magnitude of the difference between the channel estimate multiplied by the matched filter coefficient associated with one of the possible states and the current state. Timing and frequency errors are compensated for before estimation and correction of the deviation error. Pilot or sync symbols are used in estimating the deviation error.
US08355466B2	Cancelling non-linear power amplifier induced distortion from a received signal by moving incorrectly estimated constellation points A method and system are provided for reducing power amplifier induced distortion. Power amplifier induced distortion is iteratively estimated and cancelled. When the difference between the current estimated power amplifier distortion and the previous estimated power amplifier distortion is less than a convergence threshold, particular M-QAM constellation points that are still in error are determined A M-QAM constellation point correction routine is provided that can move the incorrectly estimated M-QAM constellation points that are in error towards their expected quadrants by generating updated M-QAM constellation points. The remaining estimated non-linear power amplifier induced distortion in the received signal can then be estimated and canceled.
US08355457B2	Correction-calculation algorithm for estimation of the signal to noise ratio in high bit rate DMT modulation A method for correcting signals received on a channel. Signals are received along the channel and it is determined how many of the signals are outside a predetermined range relative to a plurality of predetermined constellation points (i.e., erasures). Then, the noise power is estimated the noise power based on the number erasures, and the noise power is used to correct the signals. Specifically, the estimated noise power can be used to correct the signals which have been determined to be outside the predetermined range and which have been determined to contain a large error component (i.e., based on distance from the closest constellation point). A look up table can be used to determine the correction to be applied, and a separate look up table can be used for each tone.
US08355451B2	Channel equalizer and method of processing broadcast signal in DTV receiving system A method of processing a digital broadcast signal includes Reed-Solomon (RS) encoding enhanced service data for each column of at least one RS frame payload and adding a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) checksum byte at a right end of each row of the at least one RS frame payload to build at least one RS frame and forming data groups including the enhanced service data in the built RS frame and a plurality of known data sequences. Forming the data groups includes mapping the RS encoded enhanced service data into each of the data groups and inserting a place holder for a non-systematic RS parity into each of the data groups. The method further includes deinterleaving data in each of the data groups including the enhanced service data and the place holder and multiplexing the enhanced service data in each of the formed data groups with main service data.
US08355448B2	Carriage of SEI messages in RTP payload format A system and method of modifying error resiliency features by conveying temporal level 0 picture indices, such as tl0_pic_idx, within an SEI message instead of optionally including them in the NAL unit header is provided. In addition, a mechanism is provided for enabling repetition of any SEI messages in Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets. Enabling such repetition of any SEI messages facilitates detection of lost temporal level 0 pictures on the basis of any received packet.
US08355447B2	Video encoder with ring buffering of run-level pairs and methods for use therewith A run-level coding module can be used in a video encoder that generates a processed video signal from a video input signal. The run-level coding module includes a run-level coder that generates a first plurality of run-level pairs from a first stream of quantized data. A first ring buffer buffers a first number of the first plurality of run-level pairs. The processed video signal is generated based on the buffered first number of run-level pairs.
US08355446B2	Temporal vector processing device and method for motion estimation A temporal vector processing device includes a motion vector estimation device for performing a motion estimation on a first pixel to generate a first motion vector. A motion vector compensation device performs a motion vector compensation on the first pixel based on the first motion vector to obtain a second pixel. A buffer temporarily stores motion vectors of the pixels of the image. A motion vector determination device determines whether a second motion vector is stored in the buffer at a corresponding storage location of the second pixel. In determining that the second motion vector is stored in the buffer at the corresponding storage location of the second pixel, the corresponding storage location of the second pixel in the buffer is updated based on a determination mechanism, and otherwise the first motion vector is directly stored in the buffer at the corresponding storage location of the second pixel.
US08355445B2	Method and apparatus for processing an image A method and apparatus for processing an image. The method and apparatus may each perform the operations of extracting motion information of an input signal calculating true motion information, which indicates whether an object of interest moves and an area where the object of interest moved, from the motion information, and deinterlacing the input signal by using the motion information with respect to an area that is determined to have true motion, such that the input signal is in a form before being compressed for transmission. The method and apparatus may further perform an operation of converting resolution of the deinterlaced input signal. In the converting of the resolution, the resolution may be converted by using the true motion information and the motion information.
US08355443B2	Recursive motion for motion detection deinterlacer A recursive motion detector, comprises: a first frame motion detector receiving a next field and a first previous field; a second frame motion detector receiving a current field and a second previous field; and a third frame motion detector receiving a next field and a third previous field; wherein motion is detected when the first, second and third frame motion detectors combine to produce a frame motion result.
US08355442B2	Method and system for automatically turning off motion compensation when motion vectors are inaccurate Certain aspects of a method and system for automatically turning off motion compensation when motion vectors are inaccurate may include determining quality of a plurality of generated motion vectors. The interpolation of a plurality of output pictures may be controlled based on the determined quality. A plurality of original input pictures may be interpolated when the determined quality of the plurality of generated motion vectors is below a threshold value. A plurality of motion compensated pictures may be interpolated when the determined quality of the plurality of generated motion vectors is above a threshold value. A reduced interpolation mode may be utilized if a generated cut-off value is less than an entry threshold value and/or above an exit threshold value.
US08355437B2	Video error resilience The invention provides a method that reduces degradation in the perceived quality of images in a video sequence due to data loss. This effect is achieved by effectively delaying the insertion of an INTRA coded frame after a periodic INTRA frame refresh, INTRA update request, or scene cut. Frames associated with INTRA frame requests are not themselves coded in INTRA format, but instead a frame occurring later in the video sequence is chosen for coding in INTRA format. Preferably, the actual INTRA frame is selected such that it lies approximately mid-way between periodic INTRA requests. Frames occurring prior to the actual INTRA coded frame are encoded using temporal prediction, in reverse order, starting from the actual INTRA frame, while those frames occurring after the INTRA coded frame are encoded using temporal prediction in the forward direction.
US08355436B2	Method and apparatus for control of rate-distortion tradeoff by mode selection in video encoders A Method And Apparatus For Control of Rate-Distortion Tradeoff by Mode Selection in Video Encoders is Disclosed. The system of the present invention first selects a distortion value D near a desired distortion value. Next, the system determines a quantizer value Q using the selected distortion value D. The system then calculates a Lagrange multiplier lambda using the quantizer value Q. Using the selected Lagrange multiplier lambda and quantizer value Q, the system begins encoding pixelblocks. If the system detects a potential buffer overflow, then the system will increase the Lagrange multiplier lambda. If the Lagrange multiplier lambda exceeds a maximum lambda threshold then the system will increase the quantizer value Q. If the system detects a potential buffer underflow, then the system will decrease the Lagrange multiplier lambda. If the Lagrange multiplier lambda falls below a minimum lambda threshold then the system will decrease the quantizer value Q.
US08355435B2	Transmission of packet data A method for transmitting encoded video data includes determining an available space for transmitting an encoded video data in a last remaining information block of a video packet. The method further includes if the available space is sufficient, based on a comparison of the an estimated size of the encoded video data with the available space, then transmitting the encoded video data using the last remaining information block of the video packet. The method further includes if the available space is insufficient, changing a coding scheme associated with the encoded video data to transform the encoded video data into reduced size video data and transmitting the reduced size video data using the last remaining information block of the video packet.
US08355434B2	Digital video line-by-line dynamic rate adaptation The present invention provides a method and apparatus for compressing video data for wireless transmission. The invention continually monitors the output of a video data encoder and maintains a running average for the data output rate over multiple lines of video data. The encoder compresses video data on a line-by-line basis. The invention also monitors the occupancy of the data buffer and as well as the performance of the wireless subsystem to determine real time available channel capacity. If the average data rate exceeds the available channel capacity, the invention increases data compression on subsequent lines of video data until the average data rate falls within the channel capacity. If the average data output rate is less than the channel capacity, the invention reduces data compression on subsequent lines of video data until the average data rate increases to match the channel capacity.
US08355430B1	Adaptive demodulation of a data communication An embodiment of the invention pertains to demodulating a data communication into a sequence of symbols. In this embodiment, a first filter generates a first convolution between a first plurality of coefficients and the data communication. The data communication is a distortion of a first sequence of symbols selected from a plurality of symbols in a constellation. A first error circuit maps the first convolution to a second sequence of symbols. An adaption circuit adjusts the first coefficients until a convergence at a last one of the symbols in the second sequence. A second filter generates a second convolution between a second plurality of coefficients and the data communication. The second coefficients are initialized to the first coefficients from the adaption circuit. A second error circuit maps the second convolution to a third sequence of symbols.
US08355429B2	Jitter reduction device and method In accordance with a representative embodiment, a method for reducing the effect of jitter in a sampled signal is described. The method comprises: obtaining a frequency-domain data set representing the sampled signal; obtaining an average sideband amplitude distribution generated by jitter around one or more principal frequencies of the signal; estimating the jitter phases for sidebands generated by jitter in the frequency-domain data set; subtracting a jitter contribution characterized by the average sideband amplitude distribution and the estimated jitter phases from the data record.
US08355423B2	VCSEL with non-circular mesa and current confinement aperture for higher order lateral mode emission A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) (100) has a substrate (104), on which are disposed first and second distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) (106, 112), each DBR comprising a stack of layers of alternating refractive index, an active layer (108) disposed between the DBRs, and an aperture layer (110) disposed either between the DBRs or within one of the DBRs. The aperture layer (110) has a border (116) having an internal boundary with a plurality of indented portions defining one or more apertures. Such a VCSEL is easily manufacturable and provides a narrow bandwidth output, as well as mitigating at least some of the problems of prior art VCSELs. Mesa (102) may be etched to be non-circular and subsequent selective oxidation of aperture layer (110) results in a non-circular current confinement aperture (114) promoting higher-order lateral modes (LP21).
US08355420B2	Light-emitting device and manufacturing method therof Provides is a semiconductor light-emitting device. The semiconductor light-emitting device includes a first conduction-type cladding layer, an active layer, and a second conduction-type cladding layer, on a substrate. Portions of the substrate and the first conduction-type cladding layer are removed. According to the light-emitting device having the above-construction, damage to a grown epitaxial layer is reduced, and a size of an active layer increases, so that a light-emission efficiency increases. Even when a size of a light-emitting device is small, a short-circuit occurring between electrodes can be prevented. Further, brightness and reliability of the light-emitting device are improved.
US08355411B2	Method and arrangement for handover in a radio access network An object of the present invention is to provide a mechanism for handling a handover in a more efficient way. The invention relates to a method in a mobility controller (180) in a radio access network for preparing a handover. The method comprises the following steps to be taken during data transmission between a mobile terminal (140) and a source base station (120), before the handover: Sending a request to a candidate base station (122), which request aims at measuring and reporting timing alignment to be used by the mobile terminal (140) when communicating with the destination base station (122) after the handover, if the candidate base station becomes the destination base station (122) after the handover; receiving a report from the destination base station (122) comprising said requested timing alignment; and when the destination base station (122) is selected among the at least one candidate base stations, sending a message to the mobile terminal (140) to use said timing alignment received from the destination base station (122) when communicating with the destination base station (122) after the handover.
US08355409B2	Powered device analysis and power control in a power-over-ethernet system A system and method of analyzing a powered device (PD) in a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) system are presented. The system includes an Ethernet interface having a physical layer (PRY) chip capable of providing a signal pulse in addition to physical layer 1 functions. The system further includes a pulse transformer, coupled to the PRY chip, capable of relaying the signal pulse provided by the PRY chip to the PD via the transmit line and a second PRY chip. The first PRY chip receives one or more return pulse signals from the PD, analyzes characteristics such as voltage and/or frequency of the return pulse signal(s), and determines attributes of the PD based on those characteristics. The attributes can include powered device validity and power classification. A method of supplying power to a PD is also presented.
US08355408B2	System with distributed analogue resources The present disclosure relates to a system comprising at least a first and a second essentially analogue portion and an essentially digital portion, the analogue portions forming a part of a unidirectional circular network. First communication means is provided between the digital portion and the first analogue portion. Second communication means is provided between the first and second analogue portions. The first and second communication means are configurable for establishing communication between the digital portion and the second analogue portion. The first and second communication means are arranged to determine if a packet communicated over the first or second communication means is of interest for any of the analogue portions.
US08355404B2	Method and system for an asymmetric PHY in extended range ethernet LANs Aspects of a method and system for an asymmetric physical (PHY) layer in extended reach Ethernet local area networks (LANs) are provided. Reducing the communication rate provided by an asymmetric Ethernet multi-rate PHY may extend the standard distance over twisted-pair cabling where customer premises equipment (CPE) may be located in the MTU. Downstream and upstream rates may be aggregated evenly or unevenly over each twisted-pair wire in the copper cabling. The asymmetric Ethernet multi-rate PHY may support signal-processing operations, such as echo cancellation and/or equalization, which may be applied to the reduced communication rate to enable range extension. The reduced communication rate may be achieved by reducing the symbol rate provided by the asymmetric Ethernet multi-rate PHY. Reducing the communication rate may also enable utilizing cabling with greater insertion loss than those used for a standard connection distance.
US08355400B2	System and method for transmitting information over a plurality of communication links A system and method for transmitting information over a plurality of communication links. In one embodiment, the invention includes a method for transmitting information over a plurality of physical communication links. The method includes bonding the plurality of physical communication links to generate a logical link comprising the plurality of physical communication links. Control means are provided for controlling the logical link. The information is transmitted over the plurality of physical communication links belonging to the logical link under the control of the control means.
US08355397B2	Mobile body-mounted communication apparatus and address management apparatus A mobile body-mounted communication device mounted in a mobile body such as a vehicle and making difficult the long-time tracking of the moving path of the mobile body. The mobile body-mounted communication device mounted in a mobile body and used for transmitting/receiving packet information is characterized by comprising a borrowing address acquiring section for acquiring lending addresses as borrowed addresses from an address management device managing lending addresses, a borrowing time information acquiring section for acquiring information representing predetermined times during which the borrowing addresses can be used from the address management device, and a transmitting section for transmitting packet information including information on a borrowing address out of the borrowing addresses and the mobile body during the predetermined borrowing times determined for the borrowing addresses.
US08355394B2	System and method for dynamic telephony resource allocation between premise and hosted facilities A population of networked Application Gateway Centers or voice centers provides telephony resources. The telephony application for a call number is typically created by a user in XML (Extended Markup Language) with predefined telephony XML tags and deployed on a website. A voice center provides facility for retrieving the associated XML application from its website and processing the call accordingly. The individual voice centers are either operated at a hosted facility or at a customer's premise. Provisioning Management Servers help to allocate telephony resources among the voice centers. This is accomplished by suitably updating a voice center directory. In this way, the original capacity at a premise, predetermined by the hardware installed, can be adjusted up or down. If the premise is under capacity, it can be supplemented by that from a hosted facility. If the premise has surplus capacity, it can be reallocated for use by others outside the premise.
US08355388B2	System and method for initial access to relays A user agent (UA) in a wireless communication system. The UA is configured to transmit a preamble on a random access channel (RACH) to an access node in order to attach to the access node. The UA transmits a message to the access node, wherein the message contains an identity of one or more relay nodes to which the UA can be transferred. The UA requests the access node to hand-over the UA to one relay node of the one or more relay nodes.
US08355385B2	Apparatus and method for managing resource to decrease inter-cell interference in a broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for resource management in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes allocating resources and transmit power to maximize Quality of Service (QoS) satisfaction of User Equipments (UEs) and a sum rate using long-term channel information of the UEs, determining a transmit power constraint per resource block using a power distribution of the resources and transmit power allocation results and control information of at least one neighboring BS, and allocating resource and transmit power to maximize the QoS satisfaction of the UEs and the sum rate using short-term channel information of the UEs under a condition of the transmit power constraint.
US08355381B2	Mobile terminal When handover is performed from a first network to a second network, a terminal transmits a reply request message to a home agent through the first network after new configuration of a tunnel for transmitting and receiving a packet through the second network. If the terminal receives a reply message corresponding to the reply request message through the first network, the terminal detects that the configuration of the tunnel for transmitting and receiving the packet through the first network can be deleted, and deletes the configuration of the tunnel.
US08355380B1	Mesh power conservation A method and apparatus for conserving power in a mesh point in which in response to the mesh point participating in mesh activity while in an awake mode, the mesh point continues in the awake mode for a first awake time period. In response to the first awake time period expiring without the mesh point participating in the mesh activity, the mesh point is operated in a low power mode for a first sleep time period. In response to the first sleep time period expiring, the mesh point is operated in the awake mode for a second awake time period to detect additional mesh activity. And in response to the second awake time period expiring without detecting the additional mesh activity, the mesh point is operated point in the low power mode for a second sleep time period.
US08355378B2	Hierarchical cell deployment A hierarchical cell structure that may be applicable to any wireless communications network utilizing cells. One or more characteristics associated with a mobile device configured to communicate with the base stations via a wireless communications protocol are determined while the mobile device is communicating with a base station. The one or more characteristics are utilized to determine a subsequent base station to be the target of a handoff procedure.
US08355376B2	Broadcast scheme for a multi-carrier wireless network A base station for use in an OFDM/OFDMA wireless network. The base station transmits system-specific broadcast control channel (BCCH) information in a first group of time-frequency slots and transmits cell-specific BCCH information in a second group of time-frequency slots. The time-frequency slots in the first group are orthogonal to the time-frequency slots in the second group. The base station transmits the system-specific BCCH information in the same time-frequency slots as a neighboring base station. The neighboring base station transmits cell-specific BCCH information in a third group of time-frequency slots that may or may not be orthogonal to the time-frequency slots in the second group.
US08355373B2	Methodology for base station assisted channel selection for interference handling in mobile networks A mechanism is disclosed where a Base Station provides assistance to a mobile device in the channel-switch process because a mobile device might have to perform frequent channel switches to overcome adverse channel conditions due to interference in the 900 MHz ISM band. The Base Station broadcasts channel-specific information that will be used by all mobile devices to accurately select prospective channels for future channel-switches, thereby cutting down the latency that is experienced during an actual switch.
US08355372B2	Transmission mode and rate selection for a wireless communication system To select a transmission mode to use for a data transmission via a MIMO channel from station A to station B, station A obtains channel information used for spatial processing and determines the age of this information. Station A selects one of multiple transmission modes based on the age of the channel information and possibly other information (e.g., the fading characteristic of the MIMO channel). To select rate(s) to use for the data transmission, station A obtains channel state information (CSI) indicative of the received signal quality for the MIMO channel, e.g., received SNRs or “initial” rates. Station A determines the age of the CSI and selects one or more “final” rates based on the CSI, the age of the CSI, the selected transmission mode, and possibly other information. Station A processes data in accordance with the selected transmission mode and final rate(s) and transmits the processed data to station B.
US08355371B2	Wireless communication device and wireless communication system A wireless communication device of the present invention receives a signal on a channel that another wireless communication device allocates to the wireless communication device from a plurality of channels. The wireless communication device includes: an update channel selector that selects a plurality of request channels that are candidates to be allocated to the wireless communication device from the channels, calculates a difference between a group of the request channels and a group of predetermined channels, and generates difference information indicative of the difference; and a multiplexer that multiplexes the difference information to a signal to be transmitted to the other wireless communication device.
US08355368B2	Method and system for automatic selection of detour paths in a wireless mesh network Method of detour path determination for data packets re-routing in a mesh network comprising a plurality of N nodes, arranged according to a network topology, each node has a K-hops neighborhood knowledge of the network topology, with 1≦K
US08355367B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving a reference signal in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving reference signals in Long Term Evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) systems includes determining whether a dedicated reference signal is detected in a current subframe; estimating, if a dedicated reference signal is detected in the current subframe, a data channel using the dedicated reference signal to receive data; and estimating, if no dedicated reference signal is detected in the current subframe, a data channel using a common reference signal detected in the current subframe to receive data. The transmission scheme uses a DeModulation Reference Signal (DM-RS) for channel response estimation. To secure backward compatibility of the LTE-A system, a Common Reference Signal is transmitted in normal subframes.
US08355365B2	Hybrid fiber twisted pair local loop network service architecture A new architecture capable of utilizing the existing twisted pair interface between customer premises equipment and an associated serving local switching office is used to provide a vast array of new services to customers. Using an intelligent services director (ISD) at the customer services equipment as an interface for the equipment to an existing twisted cable pair and a facilities management platform (FMP) at the serving local switching office as an interface to various networks and service opportunities, new services such as simultaneous, multiple calls (voice analog or digital), facsimile, Internet traffic and other data can be transmitted and received over the twisted cable pair by using digital subscriber loop transmission schemes. The new services include but are not limited to videophone, utility meter reading and monitoring, broadcasting and multicasting. The architecture provides for fault-tolerant, transparent interaction of components and services and supports a variety of standards for each level of the open systems interconnection layers and layers of TCP/IP. The FMP connects electronically or optically to the public switched telephone network, Internet backbone, a private Intranet as well as other possible network connections.
US08355364B1	Systems and methods for using topology to determine whether to grant an access request from an access terminal The present invention provides a method and system for determining whether to accept an access request from an AT. In an embodiment of the invention, a base station receives an access request from an AT that is located within a sector served by the base station. In response to receiving the access request, the base station obtains the physical location of the AT within the sector. The base station then determines whether to accept the access request based on the physical location of the AT within the sector.
US08355363B2	Intelligent association of nodes with PAN coordinator According to one implementation of the present invention, a business logic application may function as a package tracking application to manage access to wireless access points in different WLANs along the route. A sensor node is initialized and configured with one or more connection parameter sets allowing it to associate with a given wireless network implemented by one or more access points. Before the sensor node disassociates with the wireless access point, the wireless access point transmits a new connection parameter set to the sensor node. This new connection parameter set may include a network ID for another wireless network. In one implementation, the sensor node re-initializes itself using the new connection parameter set information. This process may continue until the sensor node arrives at its final destination.
US08355359B2	Secondary payload interface A secondary payload interface for payload communications using a primary payload communications channel is provided. The secondary payload interface may include a plurality of input/output couplers which may connect the primary payload communications channel to a secondary payload. The plurality of input/output couplers may establish an isolated secondary payload communications channel within the primary payload communications channel. The secondary payload interface may be designed such that control and telemetry interactions with the operators of the communications satellite are limited.
US08355357B2	Apparatus and method for admission control for service flow in broadband wireless access communication system using multi-hop relay scheme An apparatus and method for an admission control for a service flow in a broadband wireless access communication system using a multi-hop relay scheme is provided. In a method for operating a relay station in a broadband wireless communication system using a multi-hope relay scheme, a request message requesting an admission control decision for a service flow is received from an upper node. It is determined whether a requested QoS parameter set included in the request message is supportable. If the requested QoS parameter set is supportable, the request message is forwarded to a subordinate relay station corresponding to a next hop in a data transmission path. If the requested QoS parameter set is unsupportable, a response message indicating the unsupportability of the requested QoS parameter set is transmitted to a base station.
US08355355B2	Method and apparatus for multicast group management It provides a method for multicast group management. The apparatus determines a request for joining a multicast service derived during establishment of a connection for carrying multicast service between a first device and a second device, and it sends a message indicative of joining said multicast service based on the request for joining if the multicast service is not available in said network device. As a consequence, it reduces the messages exchanged in unreliable wireless connection so as to reduce the probability of service interruption.
US08355354B2	Local and wide-area transmissions in a wireless broadcast network To broadcast different types of transmission having different tiers of coverage in a wireless broadcast network, each base station processes data for a wide-area transmission in accordance with a first mode (or coding and modulation scheme) to generate data symbols for the wide-area transmission and processes data for a local transmission in accordance with a second mode to generate data symbols for the local transmission. The first and second modes are selected based on the desired coverage for wide-area and local transmissions, respectively. The base station also generates pilots and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions. The data, pilots, and overhead information for local and wide-area transmissions are multiplexed onto their transmission spans, which may be different sets of frequency subbands, different time segments, or different groups of subbands in different time segments. More than two different types of transmission may also be multiplexed and broadcast.
US08355352B2	Access point agitation A technique for controlling the amount of power consumed by access points (APs) of a wireless network involves implementing power-saving APs (PSAPs). It would be desirable for the PSAPs to be in sleep mode during periods of low activity, and at full power during periods of high activity. To that end, a PSAP agitation (PSAPA) engine can be implemented to agitate PSAPs in response to increases in wireless activity, and put PSAPs to sleep in response to decreases in wireless activity.
US08355351B2	Method, apparatus and system for forming time division duplex multi-input multi-output downlink beams A method, an apparatus, and a system for forming Time Division Duplex (TDD) Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) downlink beams are disclosed herein. The method includes: generating a transmitting beam of a first data stream according to a Maximum Rate Transmission (MRT) criterion; and generating transmitting beams of other data streams except the first data stream, wherein the transmitting beams of other data streams are confined in a null space of the transmitting beam of the first data stream. Through the embodiments of the present invention, the Base Station obtains precise Partial Channel State Information by using only reciprocity without requiring feedback information, and thus the calculation is simplified and the rate of data streams is improved.
US08355337B2	Network based service profile management with user preference, adaptive policy, network neutrality, and user privacy Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a network device implements a service profile for assisting control of a communications device use of a service on a network, in which the service profile includes service policy settings for the communications device; monitors use of the service by the communications device based on the service profile; and modifies a service policy setting to achieve a service usage goal.
US08355332B2	Ethernet service testing and verification A method of testing a service connection within a container in an Ethernet network comprises coupling a test device to a port on a node in a path that includes the container, switching traffic of the service connection to the port, measuring selected parameters of the switched traffic in the test device, and using the measured parameters to evaluate the performance of the service connection. In one implementation, the switching uses service and container identifications, and switching the traffic to the test device is based on the service and container identifications. The test device may be capable of inserting traffic within the service connection, and the container may be a tunnel.
US08355331B2	Method for transmitting PDCP status report A method of transmitting PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) status reports, is performed by a mobile terminal by receiving, from an upper layer, a request for PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) re-establishment; detecting whether there are any out-of-sequence PDCP SDUs (service data units) stored; and if there is at least one out-of-sequence PDCP SDU stored, allocating a bitmap field of length in bits equal to the number of PDCP SNs from and not including the first out-of-sequence PDCP SDU up to and including a last out-of-sequence PDCP SDU.
US08355329B2	Packet relay device The packet relay device includes a clock generation portion adapted to generate a clock signal of prescribed frequency as a standard for operation of the packet relay device; a timer portion adapted to count up a timer value over a first number of clock cycles on the basis of the clock signal; a relay control portion adapted relay received packets while limiting to a prescribed amount of packets the amount of packets forwardable per a predetermined increment of the timer value; and a power control portion adapted to reduce the frequency of the clock signal to 1/n in order to reduce power consumption by the packet relay device. If the frequency of the clock signal has been reduced to 1/n by the power control portion, the timer portion counts up the timer value over a number of clock cycles equivalent to 1/n the aforementioned number of clock cycles.
US08355326B2	CPU connection circuit, data processing apparatus, arithmetic processing device, portable communication terminal using these modules and data transfer method There are provided a CPU connection circuit and a method wherein the CPU connection circuit is a circuit to be employed by two CPUs by alternately conducting a changeover between two buffers disposed therebetween to prevent an event that data processing cannot be fully executed by the CPU on the receiving side. There is included a memory controller 303 which monitors whether or not an amount of data stored by a CCPU 1 in either one of buffers 301 and 302 reaches a predetermined threshold value; when the amount of data stored by the CCPU 1 in the buffer 301, 302 reaches the threshold value, the memory controller 303 requests an ACPU 2 to acquire the data stored in the buffer and changes the storage destination of data from the CCPU to the other one of the buffers; the threshold value is a value more than a unit quantity of data which the CCPU 1 sends to the buffer 301, 302.
US08355322B2	Data communication systems, radio base stations, and data communication methods A radio base station transmits a communication channel establishment rejection signal that contains information that denotes that a delay transmission that transmits the data later is to be executed to the mobile station and registers an identifier of the mobile station to a list if the communication channel establishment request signal contains the information that denotes that the data is not instantaneous data and the radio resource does not have free space equal to or greater than the threshold, and transmits a call signal that contains information that denotes that execution of the delay transmission is to be started to a mobile station whose identifier has been registered to the list if the radio resource has free space equal to or greater than the threshold.
US08355321B2	System and method for avoiding stall using timer for high-speed downlink packet access system At least one timer is used to prevent a stall condition. If a timer is not active, the timer is started for a data block that is correctly received. The data block has a sequence number higher than a sequence number of another data block that was first expected to be received. When the timer is stopped or expires, all correctly received data blocks among data blocks up to and including a data block having a sequence number that is immediately before the sequence number of the data block for which the timer was started is delivered to a higher layer. Further, all correctly received data blocks up to a first missing data block, including the data block for which the timer was started, is delivered to the higher layer.
US08355320B1	Systems and methods for providing presence information Systems and methods for communicating presence information are provided. A communication station establishes a persistent connection with a proxy server and a temporary connection with a presence server. The temporary connection is established independent of the proxy server. The communication station provides and obtains presence information directly from the presence server over the temporary connection. After providing or obtaining information, the communication station terminates the temporary connection, while still maintaining the persistent connection with the proxy server.
US08355319B2	Multicast dual join for ring network topologies A network node includes a primary incoming interface, a secondary incoming interface and a data flow control unit. The primary incoming interface is operable to receive traffic associated with a particular source and multicast group. The secondary incoming interface is operable to serve as a backup interface if the primary incoming interface or a transmission path coupled to the primary incoming interface is inoperative. The data flow control unit is operable to determine whether the network node is part of a ring topology and if so, forward traffic received on the primary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to both a host which joined the multicast group and the secondary incoming interface and forward traffic received on the secondary incoming interface associated with the source and multicast group to the primary incoming interface.
US08355316B1	End-to-end network monitoring A system, comprising a computer having a processor and a memory and an application stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, identifies a plurality of routers traversed by data packets sent from a source customer edge router to a destination customer edge router, determines a performance of each of the identified routers with reference to their transport of the data packets sent from the source customer edge router sent to the destination customer edge router, identifies a configuration of the source customer edge router, determines a performance of the source customer edge router, identifies a configuration of the destination customer edge router, determines a performance of the destination customer edge router, analyzes the performance of each of the identified routers, the performance of the source customer edge router, the performance of the destination customer edge router, the configuration of the source customer edge router, and the configuration of the destination customer edge router, and based on the analysis, one of diagnoses a source of a communication problem associated with data packets sent from the source customer edge router to the destination customer edge router and recommends a change in the configuration of at least one of the source customer edge router and the destination customer edge router.
US08355312B2	Information recording medium, method and apparatus for recording and reproducing information An information recording medium includes a lead-in area and a data area for storing contents information. The lead-in area includes a first lead-in information area and a second lead-in information area. The first lead-in information area corresponds to a first playback mode. The second lead-in information area corresponds to a second playback mode different from the first playback mode. The first lead-in information area has a first depth and is designed for storing lead-in information related to the contents information stored in the data area. The second lead-in information area includes pre-pits having a second depth greater than the first depth. The pre-pits represent predetermined information, such as information of copyright protection, related to the contents information stored in the data area.
US08355309B2	Optical pickup device An optical pickup device includes a first optical system and a second optical system. The first optical system and the second optical system each include a mirror member that reflects light from a light source to change a direction of propagation of the light to a direction substantially perpendicular to the information storage surface of an optical disc. The first optical system and the second optical system are arranged such that a direction in which light from a first light source enters a first mirror member is substantially perpendicular to a direction in which light from a second light source enters a second mirror member.
US08355304B2	Optical information recording medium, reproducing device for optical information recording medium, control method and control program for the reproducing device, and medium with the control program recorded therein A super-resolution medium (1) has a medium identification information for specifying a type of medium recorded in a medium information area (3) by use of pre-pits having a length not shorter than a length of a resolution limit of an optical system in a reproducing device (10).
US08355302B1	Offset loop for wobble Aspects of the disclosure can provide a method for generating an offset correction signal with a reduced circuit footprint. The method can include converting samples of a wobble signal into digital values having a reduced number of bits, integrating the digital values having the reduced number of bits over a specified time interval to determine an error signal, and generating an offset correction signal based on the determined error signal.
US08355301B2	Disc transportation mechanism and disk processing device A disc transportation mechanism for a disc processing device holds and transports discs by gripping the center hole of the disc. The disc transportation mechanism has a hole position detector and a position adjustment mechanism. The hole position detector detects the position of the center hole in a disc discharged to a disc transfer position from a label printer. The position adjustment mechanism can change the position of the gripping mechanism on the arm. After moving the arm to the disc transfer position, the transportation mechanism control unit controls the arm moving mechanism and/or position adjustment mechanism based on the detected position of the center hole to move the gripping mechanism to a picking position where it can grip the disc. The gripping mechanism can therefore correctly grip the disc even when the disc is not correctly discharged to the disc transfer position, and label damage can therefore be prevented.
US08355300B2	Thermally-assisted recording (TAR) patterned-media disk drive with optical detection of write synchronization and servo fields A thermally-assisted recording (TAR) bit-patterned-media (BPM) magnetic recording disk drive uses optical detection of synchronization fields for write synchronization and optical detection of servo sectors for read/write head positioning. The synchronization fields and servo sectors extend generally radially across the data tracks and are patterned into discrete nondata blocks separated by gaps in the along-the-track direction. A near-field transducer (NFT) directs laser radiation to the disk and generates a power absorption profile on the disk that has a characteristic along-the-track spot size less than the along-the-track length of the gaps between the nondata blocks in the synchronization fields and servo sectors. A sensor provides an output signal in response to radiation from the nondata blocks and gaps in the synchronization fields and servo sectors as the disk rotates to control the timing of the magnetic write field applied to the data islands and to control the positioning of the read/write head on the data tracks.
US08355297B2	Watch assembly having a plurality of time-coordinated belts A watch for providing a digital time display comprises a movement mechanism disposed in a case that includes a number of continuous belts. The belts each have a numerical indicia consistent with hours, minutes and optionally second. The belts mounted over opposed drums, and the drums are rotated through gear engagement motors to move the belts. The arrangement of belts and drums are mounted on a frame separate from the case. The motors are operated to move the belts to cause the numerical indicia of the combined belts to register with one or more windows visible through a transparent cover to provide a time display. The belts may be oriented to overlap one another. The watch includes a microcontroller for controlling the operation of the motors, an optical sensor to determining the position of the belts, and a wirelessly rechargeable battery pack for powering the motors.
US08355292B2	Volatile memory elements with soft error upset immunity Memory elements are provided that exhibit immunity to soft error upset events when subjected to high-energy atomic particle strikes. The memory elements may each have ten transistors. To overcome difficulties in writing data into the memory elements, signal strengths for one or more of the signals provided to the array may be adjusted. There may be two positive power supply voltages that are used in powering each memory element. One of the power supply voltages may be temporarily lowered relative to the other power supply voltage to enhance write margin during data loading operations. Other signal strengths that may be adjusted in this way include other power supply signals, data signal levels, address and clear signal magnitudes, and ground signal strengths. Adjustable power supply circuitry and data read-write control circuitry may be used in making these signal strength adjustments.
US08355289B2	Memory device, semiconductor memory device and control method thereof A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array, first and second bit lines, first and second amplifiers, and a sense amplifier control circuit. An amplifying element in the first sense amplifier amplifiers the signal of the first bit line and converts it into an output current. The second bit line is selectively connected to the first bit line via the first sense amplifier. A signal voltage decision unit in the second sense amplifier determines the signal level of the second bit line being supplied with the output current. The sense amplifier control circuit controls connection between the amplifying element and the unit in accordance with a determination timing, which switches the above connection from a connected state to a disconnected state at a first timing in a normal operation and switches in the same manner at a delayed second timing in a refresh operation.
US08355287B2	Method and apparatus for operation of a NAND-like dual charge retaining transistor NOR flash memory device A method and apparatus for operation for the NAND-like dual charge retaining transistor NOR flash memory cells begins by erasing, verifying over-erasing the threshold voltage level of the erased charge retaining transistors to an erased threshold voltage level. Then method progresses by programming one of two charge retaining transistors of the NAND-like dual charge retaining transistor NOR flash memory cells to a first programmed threshold voltage level, and programming the other of the two charge retaining transistors of the NAND-like dual charge retaining transistor NOR flash memory cells to the first programmed threshold voltage level or to a second programmed threshold voltage level. Combinations of the erased threshold voltage level and the first and second programmed threshold voltage levels determine an internal data state of the NAND-like dual charge retaining transistor NOR flash memory cells which are then decoded to ascertain the external data logical state.
US08355285B2	Method and system for adaptively finding reference voltages for reading data from a MLC flash memory A method and system for adaptively finding reference voltages for reading data from a multi-level cell (MLC) flash memory is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a first total number of cells of the flash memory above a first threshold voltage in a shifted threshold voltage distribution is provided. Search to find a second threshold voltage such that a second total number of the cells above the second threshold voltage is approximate to the first total number. An initial reference voltage or voltages of the initial threshold voltage distribution are shifted with an amount approximate to a voltage difference between the second threshold voltage and the first threshold voltage, thereby resulting in a new reference voltage or voltages for reading the data from the MLC flash memory.
US08355284B2	Analog interface for a flash memory die A flash disk controller includes an input operable to receive analog signals from a flash memory die. The flash memory die includes multiple flash memory cells. The analog signals represent data values stored in the flash memory cells. An analog-to-digital conversion module is coupled to the input to convert received analog signals into digital data. A control module selects memory cells from which the input receives analog signals.
US08355283B2	Sensing of memory cells in NAND flash An analog voltage NAND architecture non-volatile memory data read/verify process and circuits is described that senses analog voltages in non-volatile cells utilizing source follower voltage sensing. In a source follower sensing or read operation the programmed threshold voltage of a cell in a NAND string of a NAND architecture Flash memory array is read by applying an elevated voltage to the source line, an elevated pass voltage (Vpass) is placed on the gates of the unselected cells of the string to place them in a pass through mode of operation, and a read gate voltage (Vg) is applied to the gate of the selected cell. The selected memory cell operates as a source follower to set a voltage on the coupled bit line at the read gate voltage minus the threshold voltage of the cell (Vg−Vt), allowing the voltage of the cell to be directly sensed or sampled.
US08355282B2	Logic-based multiple time programming memory cell A non-volatile memory system includes one or more non-volatile memory cells. Each non-volatile memory cell provides a floating gate, a coupling device, a first floating gate transistor, and a second floating gate transistor. The coupling device is located in a first conductivity region. The first floating gate transistor is located in a second conductivity region, and supplies read current sensed during a read operation. The second floating gate transistor is located in a third conductivity region. Such non-volatile memory cell further provides two transistors for injecting negative charge into the floating gate during a programming operation, and removing negative charge from the second floating gate transistor during an erase operation. The floating gate is shared by the first floating gate transistor, the coupling device, and the second floating gate transistor, and extends over active regions of the first floating gate transistor, the coupling device and the second floating gate transistor.
US08355281B2	Flash memory having multi-level architecture Subject matter disclosed herein relates to a multi-level flash memory and a process flow to form same.
US08355280B2	Data storage system having multi-bit memory device and operating method thereof A data storage device includes a non-volatile memory device which includes a memory cell array; and a memory controller which includes a buffer memory and which controls the non-volatile memory device. The operating method of the data storage device includes storing data in the buffer memory according to an external request, and determining whether the data stored in the buffer memory is data accompanying a buffer program operation of the memory cell array. When the data stored in the buffer memory is data accompanying the buffer program operation, the method further includes determining whether a main program operation on the memory cell array is required, and when a main program operation on the memory cell array is required, determining a program pattern of the main program operation on the memory cell array. The method further includes issuing a set of commands for the main program operation on the memory cell array to the multi-bit memory device based on the determined program pattern.
US08355277B2	Biasing circuit and technique for SRAM data retention A SRAM system includes: a SRAM cell array coupled between high and low supply nodes, a difference therebetween defining a data retention voltage (VDR) for a low power data retention mode; a main power switch coupling one of high and low supply nodes to a main power supply and disconnecting the one high and low supply nodes from the main power supply during the low power data retention mode; a monitor cell including a SRAM cell preloaded with a data bit and configured for data destruction responsive to a reduction in VDR before data destruction occurs in the SRAM cell array; and a clamping power switch responsive to data destruction in the monitor cell to couple the one of the high and low supply nodes to the main power supply.
US08355276B2	Controlling voltage levels applied to access devices when accessing storage cells in a memory A semiconductor memory storage device is disclosed. This memory device has a plurality of storage cells for storing data; a plurality of access devices for allowing access to the corresponding plurality of storage cells, the plurality of access devices being arranged in at least two groups, each of the at least two groups being controlled by an access control line; access control circuitry for controlling a voltage level supplied to a selected one of at least two of the access control lines during access to the storage cell, the access control circuitry comprising a capacitor and switching circuitry; and control circuitry responsive to a data access request to access a selected storage cell to: connect a selected one of the access control lines to a voltage level to allow access via one of the access devices to the selected storage cell; and to control the switching circuitry of the access control circuitry to connect the capacitor of the access control circuitry to the selected access control line and thereby change the voltage level supplied to the selected access control line.
US08355269B1	Pushed-rule bit cells with new functionality A memory bit cell suitable for use in semiconductor integrated circuits that utilizes pushed design rules and layout geometries optimized by a semiconductor foundry for standard memory bit cells and edge-cell structures that provides a different functionality from that provided by the foundry standard bit cell. This different functionality is achieved by interconnecting the elements of one or a plurality of standard foundry bit cells and edge cells to implement a different circuit with different operation from the original bit cells and edge cells. The positioning and interconnection of the standard bit cells and edge cells are implemented in a manner so as to maintain the same periodic geometric proximity effects to the maximum degree possible. A preferred embodiment of this invention is to interconnect two standard foundry six-transistor SRAM bit cells and two edge cells to create a Ternary Content Addressable Memory bit cell with mask and compare functionality in addition to bit storage functionality.
US08355267B2	Method of detection for output short circuit of a flyback power supply Disclosed are methods of detection for output short circuit of a flyback power supply, which detect the current sense signal provided by a current sense resistor serially connected to a power switch of the flyback power supply, and thus quickly identify whether or not the flyback power supply suffers output short circuit.
US08355266B2	Apparatus and method for sensing of isolated output A controller for use in a power converter includes a control circuit to be coupled to a current controller coupled to an energy transfer element. A first, second or third current is enabled in the current controller in response to the control circuit. The first current is substantially zero, the second current is greater than the third current, and the third current is greater than the first current. The third current only partially discharges a capacitance coupled to a terminal coupled between the energy transfer element and the current controller. A first feedback circuit coupled to the control circuit generates a first feedback signal after a full discharge pulse of current through the current controller. A second feedback circuit coupled to the control circuit generates a second feedback signal after a partial discharge pulse of current through the current controller.
US08355265B2	DC-to-DC power conversion Systems and methods for managing interaction between inverter-based DC and other power systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a 3-phase isolation transformer is fluxed to create a 3-phase rotating field from the output of a source inverter. An inductive filter turns that output into three sine waves. A secondary inverter regenerates the system, sometimes after the isolation transformer is fluxed, and by advancing or retarding the secondary inverter's phase, current (and, thus, the DC voltage and power direction) is controlled. In another embodiment, an inverter is supplied by a DC source. The inverter is controlled to match its output voltage, current, and phase to a live AC grid, then the two are connected. The inverter frequency is then driven to advance the phase of the inverter in relation to the grid. Alternatively, the inverter voltage is then driven at a level greater than that of the grid.
US08355260B2	Portable terminal A portable terminal includes a main body unit having an opening at a side thereof, a port cover rotatably formed on the side of the main body unit to open or close the opening, and a port assembly formed within the main body unit configured to be projected out of the opening when the port cover opens the opening.
US08355258B2	Support method and apparatus for printed circuit board An orthogonal array is formed by performing electromagnetic field analysis only once and determining a range by using the mount position and type of a capacitor and the number of capacitors as parameters to perform circuit analysis a small number of times. An estimation equation is formed by using as an index a result of the absolute value of the calculated power source impedance, and a capacitor is disposed to reduce noises by using the estimation equation.
US08355251B2	Remote exhaust for rack systems Embodiments of remote exhaust for dissipating heat in computers or other electronic devices are disclosed. An exemplary method may include coupling branch lines to each of a plurality of fan-less chassis in the rack system. The method may also include coupling the branch lines to at least one main line. The method may also include connecting the main line to at least one exhaust pump to remove heat generated in each of the plurality of fan-less chassis to a physically remote environment.
US08355248B2	Apparatus and system for improved thermal radiation for a mobile computing device and case Embodiments of an apparatus and system are described for a thermally radiating mobile computing device and case. An apparatus may comprise, for example, a thermally radiating case for a mobile computing device having a first portion arranged to receive the mobile computing device, a thermally conductive coupling arranged to removably couple the case to one or more internal heat generating components of the mobile computing device, and a second portion thermally coupled to the first portion and the thermally conductive coupling, the second portion comprising one or more thermally conductive materials arranged to radiate thermal energy away from the one or more heat generating components. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08355245B2	Display device A display device includes a display part, a base part including a neck part projecting from a surface thereof to support the display part, a connecting bracket having a first end formed to be insertable into the neck part, and a guide bracket disposed in the display part to guide a second end of the connecting bracket to be connectable with the display part. Accordingly, the display device can have a slim external appearance and a base part with a simple structure.
US08355241B2	Laminated electronic component A laminated electronic component includes a component body including a plurality of laminated functional layers, a plurality of internal conductors provided inside the component body, and an external terminal electrode that is electrically connected to an internal conductor via an exposed portion of the internal conductor and that is defined by a direct plating film. An average grain diameter of metal grains defining the plating film is about 0.1 μm or less.
US08355238B2	Ion generator and heat dissipation device using the same An ion generator to generate ion flow to ventilate heat comprises an emitter, a receiver and a power supply. The emitter comprises a needle electrode having one needle shaped tip configured as a discharging portion. The receiver comprises a plurality of flow channels for airflow and at least one receiving portion. The at least one receiving portion comprises a line edge arranged around a concave spherical surface, and the discharging portion is at a substantial center of the concave spherical surface. The power supply provides a voltage potential difference between the discharging portion of the emitter and the receiving portions of the receiver.
US08355237B2	Ion generator A maintenance operation of an ion generator can be easily performed. A device main body has an inner case and an outer case, and the inner case having a support block and an air supply pipe is inserted into the outer case. An opposite electrode is detachably mounted in the support block from a front side of the device main body, and a discharge needle unit is detachably mounted from a reversed direction thereto. The discharge needle unit has a holder, in which the discharge electrode is provided, and a sleeve, which forms an ion generating space between the opposite electrode and the sleeve, is detachably mounted in the holder. Air supplied from an outside is supplied to the ion generating space via a flow path in the air supply pipe.
US08355235B2	Driving apparatus and control method for electric actuator A plurality of reference signals output from a controller which computes an operation amount of an electric actuator is subjected to the logical operation, and the power supply to a drive circuit for the electric actuator is shut off based on an output by the logical operation.
US08355230B2	Extended instantaneous protection Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise an apparatus comprising: a current transformer adapted to provide a signal correlated to an amperage of an alternating current of a first phase of an electric circuit, the alternating current flowing through a circuit breaker; and a microprocessor adapted to receive the signal from said current transformer, and to cause the circuit breaker to trip responsive to the signal exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US08355228B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit having protection circuit capable of protecting against ESD and EOS A semiconductor integrated circuit has an internal circuit having an input terminal connected to a connection terminal, a protection circuit that discharges an over-voltage supplied to the connection terminal to a power line. The protection circuit includes a first discharge circuit connected to the connection terminal, a second discharge circuit connected to the connection terminal and discharges the over-voltage to the power line, and an over-voltage detect circuit that detects a discharge current flowing through the second discharge circuit and generates an over-voltage detect signal when the discharge current is detected. The first discharge circuit is disabled to discharge the over-voltage when the over-voltage detect signal is supplied.
US08355227B2	Electrostatic discharge circuitry with damping resistor An apparatus formed on a substrate includes a pad, electrostatic discharge circuitry, and a metal damping resistor connected between the pad and the electrostatic discharge circuitry.
US08355220B2	Upstream spoiler with integrated crash stop Approaches for a single part that comprises an upstream spoiler and a crash stop for use within a hard-disk drive (HDD). The integrated upstream spoiler and crash stop has one or more wings which diverts and reduces the flow of air, resulting from the rotation of the magnetic-recording disks within the HDD, from a magnetic-recording head of the HDD. The integrated upstream spoiler and crash stop has a structure that also prevents the actuator from moving beyond a particular location. After the integrated upstream spoiler and crash stop has been affixed within the HDD, the one or more wings may be rotated between the one or more magnetic-recording disks into a desired position.
US08355218B2	Optical element position adjusting mechanism and optical element position adjusting method, exposure apparatus using same, and device manufacturing method The optical element position adjusting mechanism includes a holding member for holding an outer periphery of an optical element, a fixing portion for pivotally fixing the holding member to adjust the position of the optical element, a clamping portion capable of fixing or releasing the holding member against the fixing portion, a driving section for driving the holding member fixed to the fixing portion by the clamping portion in a pivot direction, and a flexure that is interposed between the clamping portion and the holding member and elastically deforms to guide the holding member driven by the driving section in the pivot direction about the clamping portion. The holding member positioned by the pivot is released from the fixing portion by the clamping portion to restore the flexure to the state prior to being elastically deformed, whereby it is again fixed to the fixing portion by the clamping portion.
US08355216B2	Image pickup module and image forming lens for the same An image forming lens includes a lens element having a flange part that is integral with the lens element. When assembled with an image pickup element to form an image pickup module, an outside perimeter portion of the lens element having a flange part, at a region nearest an image pickup element, is inclined so that outer diameters thereof increase when successively measured at positions nearer to the image pickup element. A frame of the image forming lens according to the invention has an inclined portion on the object side with an outer diameter that becomes smaller when successively measured nearer the object side. Satisfying one or more conditions insures accuracy in assembly and that there will be sufficient room near the object side outside the inclined portion to mount a light source, such as an LED, without having to increase the maximum outer diameter of the image pickup module.
US08355213B2	Photographing lens system This invention provides a photographing lens system comprising, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens with negative refractive power, both its two surfaces being aspheric; a third lens having a concave image-side surface, both its two surfaces being aspheric and at least one of them having at least one inflection point; and an aperture stop disposed between an imaged object and the first lens; wherein there are only three lenses with refractive power; the focal length of the photographing lens system is f, the focal length of the first lens and the second lens is f1 and f2, respectively, the radius of curvature of the object-side surface of the first lens is R1, the Abbe number of the first lens and second lens is V1 and V2, respectively, and they satisfy the relations: 1.28
US08355212B2	Lens unit and image sensing apparatus incorporated with the same In a lens unit 1, and an image sensing apparatus 15 incorporated with the lens unit 1 of the invention, a fixed cylinder 2 is formed with an oblong hole 21 extending in an optical axis direction in a lateral surface of the fixed cylinder 2. A driving force from a driving member such as a motor 12 is transmitted to a gear portion formed on an outer periphery of a cam cylinder 3 by a major axis gear 10 received in the oblong hole 21. Thereby, the cam cylinder 3 is rotated, and a lens holding frame is driven in the optical axis direction for a zoom operation. A pressing member 13 for pressing the major axis gear 10 in the optical axis direction during the zoom operation is provided at an end surface of the major axis gear 10.
US08355211B2	Optical lens systems Optical lens attachments and cameras are disclosed. The attachment comprises a coupling mechanism for mating engagement with at least one of a camera and an optical lens. A barrel is coupled at one end to the coupling mechanism. A negative lens unit is coupled to the other end of elongated barrel. A diopter lens is disposed between the barrel and the coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism, the diopter lens, and the barrel are aligned with an optical axis. Also disclosed is a double swivel optical system, comprising a negative lens unit, a mirror oriented at an angle to the optical axis of the negative lens unit, a roof prism for rotating incident light rays by 90 degrees and inverting an image, a rotation mechanism permitting rotation of the negative lens unit about a vertical axis, an image rotator comprising a prism that can invert an image, the prism disposed within the image rotator, and another rotation mechanism permitting rotation of the roof prism about an optical axis of the image rotator.
US08355208B1	Quick adjustment mechanism for head or helmet mounted displays A quick adjustment assembly for a head or helmet mounted display. The quick adjustment assembly includes an adjustment plate assembly securely attachable to the head of a user via a helmet or head gear. An eye relief assembly is mountable on the adjustment plate assembly. The eye relief assembly includes a main frame for supporting at least one image source assembly (ISA). A pair of opposing pressure plate assemblies are supported by the main frame. Each pressure plate assembly includes an eye relief adjustment release element engageable by the user; and at least one pressure plate friction pad assembly operatively engageable with the adjustment plate assembly. The pressure plate friction pad assembly provides selectable positioning of the eye relief assembly along a plane of movement relative to the adjustment plate assembly allowing three-degrees of freedom movement along the plane of movement. The eye relief assembly preferably includes an interpupillary (IPD) adjustment assembly securely mounted thereon.
US08355201B2	Catadioptric projection objective A catadioptric projection objective for imaging a pattern provided in an object plane of the projection objective onto an image plane of the projection objective has a first, refractive objective part for imaging the pattern provided in the object plane into a first intermediate image; a second objective part including at least one concave mirror for imaging the first intermediate imaging into a second intermediate image; and a third, refractive objective part for imaging the second intermediate imaging onto the image plane; wherein the projection objective has a maximum lens diameter Dmax, a maximum image field height Y′, and an image side numerical aperture NA; wherein COMP1=Dmax/(Y′·NA2) and wherein the condition COMP1<10 holds.
US08355197B2	Electromagnetic wave oscillating devices An oscillating device includes an oscillating substrate of a non-linear optical crystal and having an incident face where a pump wave and an idler wave are made incident; a first waveguide provided in the oscillating substrate and between the incident face and an interacting part of the pump wave and idler waves; and a second waveguide provided in the oscillating substrate and between the incident face and the interacting part. The first waveguide guides the pump wave and the second waveguide guides the idler wave.
US08355193B2	Electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus An electrophoretic display device, which includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electrophoretic element disposed between the first substrate and second substrate, includes a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the first substrate and arranged in a row direction and in a column direction, and a counter electrode provided on the second substrate. In conjunction with the pixel electrodes, the counter electrode applies a voltage to the electrophoretic element. The counter electrode includes an opening portion extending in at least one of the row direction and the column direction at a location opposite an area between the pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other.
US08355192B2	Optical scanning apparatus The optical scanning apparatus including a light source unit having plurality laser light sources for emitting laser light and one lens in which the laser light emitted from the plurality laser light sources is transmitted, a deflect device that deflects and scans the laser light on an image bearing member, an optical member that images the laser light on the image bearing member, a housing that internally includes the deflect device and the optical member, the housing forms an opening portion that passes through the laser light emitted from the plurality of the laser light sources, and an elastic member that blocks a gap between the lens and the opening portion, the elastic member being pinched between the lens and the housing. It achieves sealing of the flow-in path and sealing of the gap between the light source unit and the housing with a simple configuration.
US08355191B2	Actuator, optical scanner and image forming apparatus An actuator includes a mass section; a support section; a coupling section for coupling the mass section rotatably to the support section so as to support the mass section with cantilever structure; and a pair of driving sources including a piezoelectric element for rotating the mass section, wherein the pair of driving sources are provided separately from each other with respect to a central axis of rotation of the mass section, each of the driving sources is provided slidably with respect to the coupling section or the support section, and the actuator is structured such that it causes the pair of piezoelectric elements to expand and contract in phases opposite to each other, so as to rotate at least a part of the coupling section while torsionally deforming the mass section.
US08355178B2	Apparatus including a determination unit, and method and program including a determination step An object of the present invention is to reduce influences of showthrough where a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is visualized after printing. In order to attain the above object, the apparatus of the present invention is provided with determination means for determining whether a setting for printing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image in which a character portion is rendered to a minor dot portion on both sides of a sheet is made and control means for controlling so that a warning screen is displayed where the determination means determines that the above setting has been made.
US08355176B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method for halftoning screen processing Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a screen processor for determining each pixel value of a screen processing application unit region composed of a plurality of pixels to which a threshold matrix is applied, in an inputted image; and for carrying out a screen processing by applying one threshold matrix among a plurality of threshold matrices in which applied positions of the threshold values are different from each other, to the plurality of pixels in the screen processing application unit region based on each determined pixel value.
US08355175B2	Image forming apparatus capable of reproducing fine line of high quality In an image forming apparatus, a line width detection unit detects a line width from attribute data inputted from an attribute data input unit, an edge detection unit detects an edge from image data inputted from an image data input unit, and an AND calculation unit calculates an AND of results of these detections. A coefficient storage unit stores a coefficient set for each line width. A line width correction coefficient multiplication unit acquires a correction coefficient corresponding to the detected line width with regard to an edge and the detected pixel and performs a multiplication to thereby correct the line width.
US08355171B2	Alignment compensation by printer driver A method of compensating for misalignment of a print engine of an image forming apparatus, which includes: (a) forwarding a request from a host computer having a printer driver to an image forming apparatus for reference data of a printable area of the print engine; (b) sending the reference data of the printable area of the print engine to the printer driver; (c) comparing the reference data of the printable area of the print engine to an ideal reference data of the printable area of a print job; and (d) if the reference data of the printable area of the print engine is different than the ideal reference data of the printable area of the print job, generating a new reference data of the printable area of the printable area to adjust for the difference in printable area between the ideal reference data of the printable area of the print job and the reference data of the printable area of the print engine.
US08355168B2	Processing apparatus, image reading processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium, all of which carry out automatic color selection (ACS) regardless of color setting of output image data In an image processing apparatus, a color/monochrome determination section determines whether color image data is image data indicative of a color document or image data indicative of a monochrome document, regardless of which color setting is selected to output image data, and a control section stores a determination result and the color image data in a storage device so that they are correlated with each other. Upon receiving a change instruction to change the color setting, the control section generates output image data, following a color setting that is changed according to the change instruction, on the basis of the determination result and the color image data each stored in the storage device. As a result, even if the color setting is desired to be changed, it is possible to carry out output processing without reading the document from an image reading apparatus again.
US08355166B2	Image-printing device with image correction of an original image using characteristics of a sample image An image-printing device includes a reading unit, a sample characteristic amount extracting unit, an original characteristic amount extracting unit, an image converting unit, and a printing unit. The reading unit reads a sample image and an original image. The sample image has a sample characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the sample image. The original image has an original characteristic amount indicating a characteristic of the original image. The sample characteristic amount extracting unit extracts the sample characteristic amount from the sample image. The original characteristic amount extracting unit extracts the original characteristic amount from the original image. The image converting unit converts the original image based on both the sample characteristic amount and the original characteristic amount. The printing unit prints the converted original image.
US08355165B2	Image processing apparatus and control method for restoring color image data An apparatus is capable of processing luminance data and color-difference data of color image data. The apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate digital watermark image data based on the color-difference data of the color image data, and an output unit configured to output the luminance data and the digital watermark image data generated by the generation unit. Color image data can be generated based on the digital watermark image data and the luminance data output from the output unit.
US08355163B2	Apparatus and method for performing gradation adjustment of a display image A printing control device included in an image processing device for displaying an observed image on a display screen, the printing control device including: a printing instruction detecting unit for detecting whether or not there is a printing instruction to print the observed image; and a gradation correction information output control unit for outputting information on gradation correction made temporarily for observation of the observed image to one of a printing device and an external storage medium together with original image data of the observed image when a printing instruction is detected.
US08355160B2	Detection of roller eccentricity in a scanner A method and apparatus for detecting roller eccentricity in a CIS scanner is disclosed. An image of a target is captured using the CIS scanner. The image of the target is analyzed for periodic horizontal banding. The period of the periodic horizontal banding is compared with the circumference of a pressure roller in the CIS scanner. When the period matches with the circumference of the pressure roller, an error is set.
US08355157B1	Method and apparatus for storing demonstration page information in an imaging device Imaging devices incorporating semi-volatile NAND flash memory are described herein. According to various embodiments, demonstration page information may be stored in the semi-volatile NAND flash memory, which may be reused and incorporated back into the memory pool after the demonstration page information is no longer needed. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08355151B2	Image processing apparatus and method for controlling provisional reservation A print-request controlling unit requests a print-reservation executing unit to execute provisional reservation of a print job and requests a server communicatable over a network to print a document if the result of the provisional reservation in response to the request received from the print-reservation executing unit indicates that the print job has been provisionally reserved. The print-reservation executing unit receives the request to execute the provisional reservation from the print-request controlling unit, provisionally reserves the print job in response to the received request to execute the provisional reservation, and notifies the print-request controlling unit of the result of the provisional reservation indicating that the print job has been provisionally reserved when the print job is provisionally reserved.
US08355150B2	Information processing apparatus, program product, and recording medium capable of appropriately executing an output process even when uninterpretable information is included in output setting information A disclosed information processing apparatus, which is connected to an output device, detects, from output setting information, an uninterpretable setting that is uninterpretable by the information processing apparatus, according to the output setting information used when performing output and function information relevant to a function executable by the output device; displays a page for selecting an option of an interpretable setting that is interpretable by the information processing apparatus, which interpretable setting corresponds to the detected uninterpretable setting; and makes a correction for changing the uninterpretable setting to be the interpretable setting that is interpretable by the information processing apparatus according to the option selected in the displayed page.
US08355148B2	Image processing apparatus, method and storage medium providing customized interface displays In a system with a plurality of image processing apparatuses connected communicably, customization of various kinds of information displayed on each image processing apparatus is facilitated. In order to achieve this object, an information processing method of the invention is an information processing method in a copying machine (102) communicably connected to a GUI generation device (104). The method includes a display step of displaying a screen registered in advance in image processing, a step (step S601) of requesting, of the GUI generation device (104), information about the display contents of the screen in a predetermined state, a step (step S602) of receiving the information about the display contents of the screen from the GUI generation device (104), and a step of generating a screen by using the received information about the display contents of the screen. In the display step, the screen generated in the generation step is displayed in the predetermined state.
US08355147B2	Systems and methods for obtaining scan data by linking images Systems and methods for obtaining and linking scanned images are disclosed. An exemplary system includes an imaging device. The imaging device includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions are stored in the memory. The instructions are executable to implement a method. A first scanned image of a multi-page document is obtained. The first scanned image is stored in the memory and is sent to a destination device. A second scanned image of the multi-page document is obtained. The second scanned image is stored in the memory of the imaging device such that the first scanned image is not needed. The second scanned image is sent to the destination device. The second scanned image is linked to the first scanned image in a logical multi-page scanned image wherein the first scanned image and the second scanned image are not in the same electronic file.
US08355145B2	Image forming apparatus and control method for the same The image forming apparatus includes, even when an abnormality of operation occurs in any of a plurality of modules to which an assigned operation in a plurality of operations for an image formation is assigned and which autonomously executes the assigned operation, each of the modules can autonomously perform a particular operation for eliminating an abnormality of operation at a module in which an abnormality occurs. When detecting the module in which the abnormality of operation occurs based on operation abnormality generation condition information in each of the modules stored in the shared data module, the plurality of modules provided in the image forming apparatus each perform an operation (a particular operation) for eliminating the abnormality of operation in accordance with the module in which the abnormality of operation occurs and the contents of the abnormality of operation. Of the plurality of modules, a module which finally performs the particular operation notifies the occurrence of abnormality of operation to a controller module.
US08355144B2	Apparatus and method of changing printer driver, and printing system and method using the same An apparatus and method of changing a printer driver, and a printing system and method using the same. The apparatus includes a buffer to store a print command, a driver storing unit to store a plurality of printer drivers corresponding to a designated printer, a driver selecting unit to select a printer driver corresponding to printer identification information from the driver storing unit when the printer identification information is input, and a command processing unit generate data that is used for printing by processing the print command stored in the buffer using the selected printer driver and generating an error signal if an error occurs during processing the print command. The printing system includes a host to select the printer driver corresponding to the designated printer from the plurality of printer drivers for the designated printer and to generate the data for printing if identification information of the printer or a request for a change of the selected printer driver is received, the printer selecting a printer emulator corresponding to the printer driver selected by the host from a plurality of printer emulators, and processing and printing the data generated by the host.
US08355141B2	Device for the investigation of textured surfaces A method for optical investigation of textured surfaces involves the steps of irradiation of radiation onto the surface to be investigated; reception of an image from at least part of the radiation irradiated onto the surface and reflected by the surface; location-resolved evaluation of the image recorded and determination of at least one value K which is characteristic of this image. A parameter G which is characteristic of the surface is determined while using the characteristic value K and while using at least one further property E known beforehand or determined of the surface.
US08355140B2	Systems configured to generate output corresponding to defects on a specimen Systems configured to generate output corresponding to defects on a specimen and systems configured to generate phase information about defects on a specimen are provided. One system includes an optical subsystem that is configured to create interference between a test beam and a reference beam. The test beam and the reference beam are reflected from the specimen. The system also includes a detector that is configured to generate output representative of the interference between the test and reference beams. The interference increases contrast between the output corresponding to the defects and output corresponding to non-defective portions of the specimen.
US08355137B2	System and method for chirped pulse interferometry The device is based on a cross-correlator which measures the signal between a pair of oppositely chirped laser pulses. Two laser pulses, one with a positive chirp and one with a negative chirp, are mixed on a beamsplitter. The two resulting beams pass through a reference or a sample arm and are subsequently mixed on a non-linear crystal. The signal from the interferometer is the sum frequency generation produced in that crystal. The reference arm contains a moveable delay which is used to change the relative timing of the two beams in the interferometer. The sum frequency generation in the narrow band of frequencies is the signal from the device and is measured as a function of the delay. Alternatively, a pure dispersive phase shift could be used in place of the two laser pulses.
US08355136B2	Sub-micron surface plasmon resonance sensor systems Wearable or implantable devices combining microfluidic control of sample and reagent flow and micro-cavity surface plasmon resonance sensors functionalized with surface treatments or coatings capable of specifically binding to target analytes, ligands, or molecules in a bodily fluid are provided. The devices can be used to determine the presence and concentration of target analytes in the bodily fluids and thereby help diagnose, monitor or detect changes in disease conditions.
US08355131B2	Device and method for acquiring image data from a turbid medium A device and method of acquiring image data from a turbid medium using a diffuse optical tomography device including irradiating the turbid medium at a plurality of first spatial positions, collecting light emanating from the turbid medium at a plurality of second spatial positions, splitting the light collected from each second spatial position into at least two optical channels, measuring the intensity of the split light in each optical channel of the at least two optical channels using photo detectors, and reconstructing an image of the turbid medium from the measured intensities.
US08355130B2	Method for evaluating white color shielding degree, method for manufacturing white ink, support apparatus for manufacturing white ink, and method for manufacturing white color printed material A method for obtaining and evaluating a white color shielding degree of a white color printed material includes the steps of: measuring an L* value of the white color printed material; obtaining an integrated value of transmittance of the white color printed material in a visible light region; and obtaining the white color shielding degree from the L* value and the integrated value.
US08355127B2	GRIN lens array light projector and method One aspect is a light source assembly in a drop detection arrangement. The light source assembly includes a light source and a gradient-index lens array to at least partially collimate light from the light source and to project a collimated light beam into the drop detection arrangement in a direction transverse to a drop direction of droplets in the drop detection arrangement. The light source assembly produces the light beam such that it has a beam width in a direction transverse to the drop direction that is larger than a beam height in the drop direction.
US08355122B2	Non-contacting aligning method for planes in three-dimensional environment A non-contacting aligning method for planes in a three-dimensional environment is disclosed. The method includes: projecting a light beam in a predetermined incident angle onto a transparent first object and an opaque second object that are facing each other; and calculating a distance between the first and second objects basing on the tangent trigonometric function of the incident angle of the light beam.
US08355120B2	Doppler asymmetric spatial heterodyne spectroscopy light detection and ranging receiver Obtaining global tropospheric vertical wind profiles by directly detecting atmospheric winds using space borne, airborne and/or ground station platforms is accomplished by a DASH interferometer in the back-end of a Doppler wind LIDAR. In the front-end of the Doppler wind LIDAR, a laser illuminates an atmosphere and a telescope collects backscattered laser light return signals from the laser illuminated atmosphere. The DASH interferometer processes return signals from the atmosphere, forming an interferogram and determines from the interferogram a Doppler shift of the return signals, which is equivalent to determining the line of sight wind speed of the Doppler wind LIDAR observation, by measuring the frequency shift caused by winds. From this determination, global and/or non-global atmospheric wind profile data are transmitted over a communications network in either real-time and/or non-real-time, to facilitate weather forecasting, weather modeling, weather avoidance navigation, atmospheric research, hurricane warnings, operations systems selections and deployment of operational assets.
US08355119B2	Method for optical measurement of velocities according to the spatial frequency filtering method and sensor for optical measurement of velocities The invention relates to a method for measuring a relative velocity between an object surface (O) and a sensor (1) having at least one light-sensitive element (2) according to the spatial frequency filtering method, wherein the light-sensitive element (2) is read out at time intervals, and wherein the spatial frequency filter is designed as at least one masking grating having a variable grating constant. The method according to the invention is characterized in that the relative velocity is firstly measured with a first grating constant k1 having a large period length and/or over a short observation time period t1 (rough measurement) and then the measurement of the relative velocity is repeated for an exact determination using a second grating constant k2 having a small period length and/or over a long observation time period t2 (fine measurement). The invention further relates to a sensor for velocity measurement.
US08355117B2	Method and arrangement for measuring the distance to an object Arrangement (10) for measuring the distance to an object, comprising: a photonic source for illuminating said object using a continuous modulated photonic wave, a solid-state image sensor, comprising an array of avalanche photodiodes and a plurality of circuits for processing signals output by said avalanche photodiodes to yield data depending on the photonic wave reflected by said object onto said photodiodes. The circuit may comprise a multiplexer at the pixel level arranged so as to accumulate the signal output by the avalanche photodiode during different sub-periods in different storage devices.
US08355114B2	Exposure apparatus and device manufacturing method When a liquid immersion area (liquid) formed on a wafer stage is moved onto another wafer stage, a fine movement stage position measuring system measures positional information of the wafer stage, interferometers of a coarse movement stage position measuring system measure positional information of the another wafer stage, and different interferometers measure positional information of the wafer stage. Based on these measurement results, the wafer stage and the another wafer stage are made to be in proximity to each other and are driven while the scrum state is maintained, and thereby the liquid immersion area (liquid) formed on the wafer stage can be moved onto the another wafer stage.
US08355108B2	Liquid-crystal display device and method of manufacturing same A liquid-crystal display device includes a first substrate; a second substrate formed so as to oppose the first substrate; a liquid-crystal layer with a predetermined thickness, the liquid-crystal layer being formed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a planarization film for planarizing the surface of the liquid-crystal layer, the planarization film being formed on the surface of at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the surface facing the liquid-crystal layer; and projecting parts that are integrally formed with the planarization film.
US08355107B2	Display panel with photo-curable sealant and manufacture method thereof A display panel and a manufacture method thereof are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a sealant. The first substrate has a top surface which includes a signal transmission module parallel to an edge of the top surface. The sealant is disposed on the top surface and parallel to the signal transmission module, which is disposed between the top surface and sealant. The sealant is made of a photo-curable material and includes an inner isolation wall, which is exposed via the signal transmission module. The second substrate is disposed on the sealant and includes an inner surface. A light-shielding structure is disposed on the inner surface and close to an edge of the inner surface. The sealant at least partially overlaps the light-shielding structure.
US08355104B2	Liquid crystal display device An MVA mode liquid crystal display device is configured such that a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric constant anisotropy is held between a first substrate and a second substrate. The liquid crystal display device includes a structural body which controls an alignment direction of the liquid crystal molecules in a manner to form a multi-domain in each of pixels. The structural body includes a first structural body which is disposed in a manner to overlap a light-blocking wiring line, and a second structural body which is disposed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the first structural body and is formed to be narrower than the first structural body.
US08355096B2	Illumination device and liquid crystal display device including the same An illumination device that can reduce variations in brightness is provided. This illumination device (10) includes a light source module (5) and a chassis (1) provided with an accommodation space (10a). A light guide plate placement portion (1a) and a light source placement portion (1b) are provided in the accommodation space (10a). The light source placement portion (1b) has a placement surface (1c), the placement surface (1c) is formed such that the placement surface (1c) is raised with respect to the light source placement portion (1b) and the light source module (5) is placed on the placement surface (1c).
US08355095B2	Backlight unit To provide a backlight unit for use in a liquid crystal display device and so on, which is capable of overcoming a problem of interference due to expansion and contraction of a light guide plate and an optical sheet and preventing a strange noise by clicking, a backlight unit includes a support plate, a light guide plate that is disposed in the front side of the support plate and emits light, which is introduced from a light source through the end side of the light guide plate, through the front side of the light guide plate, an optical sheet that is disposed in the front side of the light guide plate, and a liquid crystal panel maintenance member that is disposed in the front side of the optical sheet, wherein the light guide plate and the liquid crystal panel maintenance member hold and fix the optical sheet at one point.
US08355092B2	Optical member, illuminating device using the same, display device, and television receiving device An optical member comprises a diffusion layer (13) diffusing emitted light from light sources (12), a first light collection layer (15), in which first projecting portions (15a) extending in a Y-direction are arranged at intervals (T1), refracting and collecting incident light from the diffusion layer (13), a first reflection layer (14) having first reflective portions (14a) facing boundaries between the adjacent first projecting portions (15a) and reflecting emitted light from the diffusion layer (13), a second light collection layer (17), in which second projecting portions (17a) extending in an X-direction are arranged at intervals (T2), refracting and collecting incident light from the first light collection layer (15), and a second reflection layer (16) having second reflective portions (16a) facing boundaries between the adjacent second projecting portions (17a) and reflecting emitted light from the first light collection layer (15).
US08355091B2	Array substrate and method for repairing broken line of liquid crystal display An array substrate of a LCD and a method for repairing a broken line thereof are provided. The array substrate comprises pixel regions defined by the gate lines and the data lines, and each of the pixel regions comprises a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. At least two overlapping strips are formed between two adjacent pixel regions, one end of the overlapping strip overlap the pixel electrode within one the pixel regions, the other end thereof overlaps the pixel electrode within the other pixel regions, and the central portion thereof overlaps the gate line and/or the data line. The repairing method comprises connecting two parts of the broken gate line and/or data line on both sides of the breaking point again through the overlapping strip and the pixel electrode, and disabling the TFT corresponding to the pixel electrode by laser cutting.
US08355090B2	Liquid crystal display having reduced kickback effect A liquid crystal display (LCD), according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, includes a first pixel formed between the first and second gate lines, the first and the second data lines, a first subpixel configured to have applied thereto a first data voltage and a second subpixel configured to have applied thereto a second data voltage lower than the first data voltage, a second pixel formed between the second and third gate lines, the first and second data lines, and having a third subpixel configured to have applied thereto a third data voltage and a fourth subpixel configured to have applied thereto a fourth data voltage lower than the third data voltage. The first subpixel and the third subpixel are connected to a first thin film transistor and a third thin film transistor respectively, the first thin film transistor and the third thin film transistor have source electrodes connected to the first data line and the second data line respectively, and each of the source electrodes has an open portion surrounding a portion of a drain electrode, and wherein an open direction of the source electrode of the first thin film transistor is opposite to an open direction of the source electrode of the third thin film transistor.
US08355089B2	Liquid crystal display device and fabrication method thereof A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display device including forming an active pattern on a substrate, the active pattern including lateral surface partially having a non-planar shape, forming a gate electrode on the active pattern, the gate electrode crossing the lateral surfaces of the active pattern, forming a source electrode and a drain electrode electrically connected to predetermined regions of the active pattern, and forming a pixel electrode electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US08355085B2	Television remote control update upon event A television includes a remote control, at least two inputs and at least one device, each device connected to one of the inputs. Upon a system event such as changing from one input to another input, the television signals the remote control to change operation of at least one function key.
US08355077B2	Adaptive windowing in motion detector for deinterlacer According to aspects of embodiments, a method of determining an aperture window in a video deinterlacer includes: computing a first mean absolute difference (MAD) value for a pixel based on a 1×5 window; computing a second MAD value for the pixel using a 3×5 window; and selectively blending the first and second MAD values to form a resultant motion value.
US08355076B2	Digital camera A digital camera of the present invention has: an optical housing having a bending optical system for reflecting photographic object light entering along a first optical axis to a second optical axis direction perpendicular to the first optical axis to form an image on an image pickup device; a camera main body having a containing portion for containing the optical housing slidably only in the second optical axis direction and having support portions for supporting the optical housing provided on each of both sides surfaces of the containing portion across the second optical axis of the bending optical system; and a shock absorbing unit provided between an inner surface of the containing portion of the camera main body in which the support portions are not provided and an outer surface of the optical housing facing thereto.
US08355074B2	Exposing pixel groups in producing digital images An imaging system and method for producing a digital image from pixel signals captured by a pixel array is disclosed. First pixel signals, generated during a first exposure period, are read out from a first group of pixels of the pixel array. The first group of pixels is reset after reading out the first pixel signals. Second pixel signals from the first group of pixel are read out after resetting the first group of pixels. The second pixel signals are generated during a second exposure period. Third pixel signals from a second group of pixels of the pixel array are read out. The third pixel signals are generated during a third exposure period that overlaps at least a portion of the first and second exposure periods. The first, second, and third pixel signals are used to produce the digital image.
US08355072B2	Solid-state image capture device, manufacturing method therefor, and electronic apparatus A solid-state image capture device includes: at least one photoelectric converter provided at an image capture surface of a substrate to receive incident light at a light-receiving surface of the photoelectric converter and photoelectrically convert the incident light to thereby generate signal charge; at least one on-chip lens provided at the image capture surface of the substrate and above the light-receiving surface of the photoelectric converter to focus the incident light onto the light-receiving surface; and an antireflection layer provided on an upper surface of the on-chip lens at the image capture surface of the substrate. The antireflection layer contains a binder resin having a lower refractive index than the on-chip lens and low-refractive-index particles having a lower refractive index than the binder resin.
US08355070B2	Development processing device, development processing method, and storage medium of computer program for development process for developing undeveloped image data There is provided a development processing device that develops undeveloped image data. The development processing device includes a change screen displaying unit displays a first number line corresponding to a first initial parameter, a second number line corresponding to a second initial parameter, a reference line that intersects the first number line in a position corresponding to the first initial parameter and intersects the second number line in a position corresponding to the second initial parameter, a first marker that represents a position corresponding to the first user parameter on the first number line, and a second marker that represents a position corresponding to the second user parameter on the second number line on the parameter changing screen, and the development processing unit performs the development process based on at least the first user parameter and the second user parameter.
US08355069B2	Solid-state image pickup device A solid-state image pickup device includes pixels diagonally arranged, each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a plurality of transistors and wiring extending in the vertical and horizontal directions which is diagonally arranged around the photoelectric conversion unit in each of the pixels so that at least one portion of the wiring is arranged along at least one side of the photoelectric conversion unit.
US08355068B2	Solid-state image sensing device, analog-digital conversion method of solid-state image sensing device, and electronic apparatus A solid-state image sensing device includes: a pixel array unit including pixels arranged in a matrix and a vertical signal line wired with respect to each pixel column; an analog-digital conversion circuit provided with respect to each pixel column and having a comparator using an analog signal as a comparison target input and a counter measuring a time from start to completion of the comparison of the comparator; a reference signal generating unit that generates reference signals with ramp waveforms; a first switch that, in a thinning readout mode, shorts the vertical signal line belonging to one pixel column of a specific group of pixel columns and the vertical signal line belonging to another group of pixel columns from which no signals are readout; and a second switch that, in the thinning readout mode, provides the reference signals to the comparator belonging to the one pixel column and the comparator belonging to the another group, respectively.
US08355066B2	Solid-state imaging apparatus having decoders for resetting switches A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a pixel region including a plurality of pixels, each including a photoelectric conversion element, arranged in matrix, and a reset switch for discharging electric charge of the photoelectric conversion element; and a first scanning circuit for supplying a reset control signal for controlling an operation of the reset switch, the pixel region and the first scanning circuit being formed on a semiconductor substrate, in which the pixel region includes a first pixel region and a second pixel region, and the first scanning circuit includes a first decoder for controlling the operation of the reset switch arranged in the first pixel region, and a second decoder for controlling the operation of the reset switch arranged in the second pixel region.
US08355065B2	Semiconductor device and method of driving the same To provide a semiconductor device and a driving method of the same that is capable of enlarging a signal amplitude value as well as increasing a range in which a linear input/output relationship operates while preventing a signal writing-in time from becoming long. The semiconductor device having an amplifying transistor and a biasing transistor and the driving method thereof, wherein an electric discharging transistor is provided and pre-discharge is performed.
US08355063B2	Camera noise reduction for machine vision systems A method for reducing noise in an image from an image capture device includes filter the image using both an offset fixed pattern noise filter and a gain fixed pattern noise filter. Thereafter, the image is filtered using a remnant fixed pattern noise filter to reduce remnant fixed pattern noise.
US08355061B2	Image record apparatus and image record method for calculating and setting a pre-record volume An object of the invention is to provide an image record apparatus and an image record method that can improve the use efficiency of a record medium for recording a video image from a camera. A NW control section (141) acquires the image quality and the resolution set in a camera (10) performing pre-record and calculates the maximum image size that can be transmitted by the camera (10), and a file system (142) calculates the number of images from the preset pre-record rate and pre-record time and reserves an area corresponding to the maximum image size of one pre-record image calculated by the NW control section (141) in an HDD (146). The NW control section (141) records a pre-record image transmitted from the camera (10) in the area reserved by the file system (142). When it records as many pre-record images as the number of pre-record images, it returns to the beginning of the area reserved by the file system (142) and continues recording a pre-record image is continued. When an alarm occurs while a pre-record image is recorded, the NW control section 141 determines that the pre-record image at the point in time is pre-record data.
US08355060B2	Image data management apparatus and method, image data search apparatus and method, and recording medium An apparatus capable of managing image data includes a display unit configured to display image data whose predetermined date is known among image data stored in a storage unit, and a setting unit configured to set a date to another image data using the image data displayed on the display unit.
US08355057B2	Joint scalar embedded graphics coding for color images An improved scalar embedded graphics coding (EGC) for wireless HD compression is described herein. The image frame to be encoded is divided into blocks, which are further divided into color groups. These groups are encoded one bit plane at a time. The improved scalar EGC method and system uses shared grouping data among color components, but bit planes of each color are separately encoded. Further, during encoding a second-level grouping is able to occur on the splitting signaling of the groups. The system and method described herein retain the simplicity of scalar EGC and attain an efficiency comparable to vector EGC.
US08355053B2	Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor Effects due to user operation are reduced in scene discrimination. In an image pickup apparatus, when performing scene discrimination based on information that includes detected movement of a subject and vibration of the image pickup apparatus, and an picked up image, the degree to which one of the movement of the subject and the vibration of the image pickup apparatus while an operating instruction is being received from a user contributes to scene discrimination is restricted.
US08355051B2	Anti-vibration actuator, and lens unit and camera equipped with same To provide an anti-vibration actuator capable of obtaining a large drive force while avoiding an increase in size. An anti-vibration actuator (10) for moving an image-stabilizing lens (16) within a plane perpendicular to the optical axis thereof, including a fixed portion (12); a movable portion (14) to which the image-stabilizing lens is attached; a movable portion support means (18) for supporting the movable portion to permit translational and rotational movement within a plane parallel to the fixed portion; and first drive means (20a, 22a), second drive means (20b, 22b), and third drive means (20c, 22c) respectively disposed around the image-stabilizing lens for driving the movable portion relative to the fixed portion; whereby the drive force which can be generated by the third drive means differs from the drive forces which can be generated by the first and second drive means.
US08355050B2	Image replay system, digital camera, and image replay device An image replay system includes a digital camera and an image replay device. The image replay device includes an image recording unit that acquires image information from the digital camera and records it upon a recording medium, a replay unit that replays the image information recorded upon the recording medium, and a transmission unit that transmits to the digital camera usage condition data related to the usage conditions of the image replay device. The digital camera includes a data acquisition unit that acquires the usage condition data from the image replay device, and a control unit that controls the digital camera on the basis of the usage condition data that has been acquired by the data acquisition unit.
US08355044B2	Reticle defect inspection apparatus and reticle defect inspection method The present invention provides a reticle defect inspection method and a reticle defect inspection apparatus capable of calibrating the offset and gain of a sensor amplifier using a product reticle even though black and white regions each sufficiently wider than a TDI sensor imaging area do not exist in the product reticle. An output of each pixel of the TDI sensor is amplified by the sensor amplifier. A bottom value of the amplified amount-of-light signal of each pixel is stored by bottom value storing means of offset/gain calibrating means, and a peak value thereof is stored by peak value storing means. The offset of each pixel is calculated by offset calculating means based on the bottom value of each pixel. The gain of each pixel is calculated by gain calculating means based on the offset of each pixel and the peak value of each pixel. The calculated offset and gain of each pixel are stored in a register and thereby the offset and gain of the sensor amplifier are calibrated.
US08355042B2	Controller in a camera for creating a panoramic image Methods and apparatus to create and display panoramic images on a mobile device are disclosed. Such a mobile device can be a mobile phone. Apparatus is provided to control the position of a lens in relation to a reference lens. Methods and apparatus are provided to generate multiple images that are combined into a panoramic image. A panoramic image may be a static image. It may also be a video image. A controller provides correct camera settings for different conditions. An image processor creates a panoramic image from the correct settings provided by the controller. A panoramic camera is applied in a computer gaming system.
US08355037B2	Optical element used in optical scanning apparatus and optical scanning apparatus using same An optical element used in an optical scanning apparatus includes a diffracting surface composed of a diffraction grating. The diffracting surface includes a diffraction grating having a sectional shape linearly formed. If diffraction power in a main scanning direction on the diffracting surface received by an axial light flux is φDO and refractive power in the main scanning direction on a refracting surface on which the diffraction grating is formed received by the axial light flux is φref, the optical element satisfies the following conditions: 0<φDO<1.8×10−3(1/mm), and 0.5\|φDO\|<\|φref\|<1.5\|φDO\|, where the diffraction power φDO and the refractive power φref have opposite signs.
US08355031B2	Portable electronic devices with adjustable display orientation A portable electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a device body having at least one accessory interface and at least one display device positioned on a surface of the device body. The electronic device also includes a display driver device communicatively coupled to the display device and configured for receiving data for presentation on the display device and generating signals for causing the data to be presented on the display device. In the electronic device, the display driver device selects one orientation from a plurality of pre-defined orientations for the data on the display device based at least on a current orientation of the device body and a status of the accessory interface.
US08355030B2	Display methods for high dynamic range images and user interfaces for the same Display methods and interfaces for high dynamic range images. High dynamic range images and corresponding histograms are displayed on a display device. The histogram panel displays low dynamic range and high dynamic range data of the images simultaneously. The low dynamic range and high dynamic range data is brightness level of the image pixels.
US08355029B1	Systems for and methods of processing signals in a graphics format According to one aspect, the invention provides an apparatus for converting data encoded in a graphics signal to at least one output signal. The apparatus includes an input, a plurality of outputs, signal processing circuitry and a controller. The input is adapted to receive the graphics signal where the graphics signal includes a plurality of frames generated at least in part from original data. The signal processing circuitry is adapted to locate, in the graphics signal, data corresponding to the original data, convert the data corresponding to the original data to output data and communicate the output data to the plurality of outputs. The controller is adapted to monitor a capacity of the signal processing circuitry and generate a signal that results in at least one disposable frame being added to the plurality of frames. The signal processing circuitry is adapted to discard the at least one disposable frame.
US08355028B2	Scheme for varying packing and linking in graphics systems A wireless device which performs a first-level compiler packing process and a second-level hardware packing process on varyings. The compiler packing process packs two or more shader variables (varyings or attributes) whose sum of components equals M into a shared M-dimensional (MD) vector register. The hardware packing consecutively packs M components of the shader variables (varyings or attributes) and any remaining variables into a vertex cache or other storage medium.
US08355027B2	System and method for presenting visual information at plural display devices A dual transceiver architecture provides source and sink device capabilities for communicating visual information between information handling systems and displays. A detector determines whether a cable connected to a port provides visual information or receives digital information. If visual information is received at a port, the visual information is provided to an adjacent port through a dual transceiver architecture so that the visual information is available to forward to another display, information handling system or other device. A common connector configuration simplifies the connection of multiple displays or devices, such as in a daisy chain configuration.
US08355023B2	Drawing generation device, method and program for electric cable housing components To make possible using three-dimensional data of electric cable housing components to automatically generate and output a drawing that is simple and useful as two-dimensional data for clearly representing the relationship between upper and lower components. Determination controller 121 of two-dimensional data generation unit 120 converts three-dimensional data of electric cable housing components, which is read by the data reading part 122, into a line segment for each component by diagram generation part 123, and converts a contact part between components or a part where components partially overlap with each other, into an intersection point, to generate a diagram composed of the line segment and intersection point. Determination controller 121, by coplanarization part 125, shifts line segments of a plurality of components that overlap vertically on the diagram onto a single plane, and slides the line segments at a predetermined interval to represent the vertical overlap on the plane. Determination controller 121 outputs the generated two-dimensional data of the electric cable housing components from interface unit 110 in the form of file by file output part 127, and stores the data in the form of file in storage unit 130.
US08355022B2	Method and apparatus for aggregating light sources per-vertex in computer graphics A method for use in computer graphics includes establishing a surface that is represented by at least one polygon that includes a plurality of vertices, establishing one or more light sources that are configured to illuminate the surface, and computing an aggregate light source position for each vertex of the polygon, wherein the computation for each vertex includes averaging directions from the vertex to the one or more light sources. A storage medium stores a computer program, and an apparatus includes a display and a processor based system.
US08355021B2	Fused volume rendering A rendering system having a customizable database of compositing rule tables that define how the input volumes are to be combined based on the their type, i.e. anatomical, functional, etc. The system also allows for the customization of the transfer function types associated with each type of input volume. Enabling this customization is a modularization of the rendering system such that the image formation process is shielded form the actual input volume configuration. This includes the building of a database of shaders that embody the compositing rules defined in a selected table matching the input volume configuration. This shader database in conjunction with a spatially subdivided/bricked representation of the input volumes allows the system to manage the overall complexity of the image formation process by locally selecting the cheapest/least complex shader. Thus allowing for more complex compositing rules with minimal impact on the rendering performance.
US08355016B2	Display device, electronic device, and driving method An electronic device is described. The device includes a substrate for a luminescence panel that includes data lines and pixels in which a luminescence element can be formed. Each pixel includes a driving transistor that converts a signal voltage from a data line into a signal current, and a first switch between the data line and the gate of the driving transistor. The device includes a first circuit to flow a test current from the data line through the driving transistor, a second circuit to generate a voltage on the data line corresponding to a gate voltage on the driving transistor generated by the test current, and a voltage detector to detect the voltage in the data line.
US08355014B2	Ambient light detection device An ambient light detection device for use with a liquid crystal display having an array of liquid crystal cells, each liquid cell having at least one transistor for selectively connecting that liquid crystal cell to a signal line and each transistor having a gate connected to a gate line and having a gate supply line selectively connectable to the gate line for turning off the gates. The device includes a current measuring circuit configured to measure the current flowing in the gate supply line as a result of gate leakage current in the gates to which the gate supply line is connected and a controller connected to the measuring circuit and configured to calculate, from the measured current, the level of ambient light reaching the gates.
US08355013B2	Integrated photonics module and devices using integrated photonics modules An integrated photonics module may include a selective fold mirror configured to pass at least a portion of emitted light toward the MEMS scanner and reflect scanned light through to a field of view. The selective fold mirror may use beam polarization to select beam passing and reflection. The integrated photonics module may include a beam rotator such as a quarter-wave plate to convert the polarization of the emitted light to a different polarization adapted for passage through the fold mirror. The integrated photonics module may include one or more light detectors.
US08355012B2	Scanning method for determining a touch position of a touch input apparatus A scanning method for determining the touch position of a touch input apparatus is disclosed. First of all, a first exposure process on light sensors of the touch input apparatus by light emitting device of the touch input apparatus is performed. Then the light sensors are scanned. A light sensor generating a signal with a maximum value is located. A region of partial scan of the light sensors is determined according to the position of the light sensor generating the signal with the maximum value. A second exposure process is performed on the light sensors. Then the light sensors within the region of partial scan are scanned. A light sensor generating a signal with a maximum value within the region of partial scan is located and a next region of partial scan is determined. The maximum value of the signal is calculated and the maximum value of the signal is compared to a predetermined value to determine whether the maximum value is higher than the predetermined value.
US08355011B2	Resistive touch screen Disclosed herein is a resistive touch screen, including: a transparent film 100 that has a first transparent electrode 110 and is bent when the transparent film 100 is pressed; a dot spacer 200 that is formed on one surface of the first transparent electrode 110 and is configured to include a plurality of projection members 210; a transparent substrate 300 that has a second transparent electrode 310; and an adhesive layer 400 that adheres the edge of the transparent film 100 to the edge of the transparent substrate 300, wherein the side surfaces of the plurality of projection members 210 are closely adhered to each other but when the transparent film 100 is bent, the side surfaces of the plurality of projection members 210 are spaced from each other.
US08355010B2	Load cell touch control device A load cell touch control device includes a touch panel, a plurality of load cells and a control unit. The touch panel receives a stress applied thereon. The load cells are implemented in the touch panel to detect respective components of the stress received by the touch panel. The control unit is connected to the load cells in order to receive magnitudes of the respective components to thereby calculate a magnitude, position and motion trace of the stress on the touch panel based on the respective components detected by the load cells in the touch panel.
US08355006B2	Liquid crystal display A liquid crystal display is disclosed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel including a pixel array and touch sensors, a transparent conductive layer on one substrate of the liquid crystal display panel transmitting display light, a polarizing plate on the transparent conductive layer, a driving voltage supply circuit, and a signal transmitting unit electrically connecting the transparent conductive layer to the driving voltage supply circuit. A portion of the transparent conductive layer is connected to a ground level voltage source. The driving voltage supply circuit generates a driving voltage required to perform light sensing operations of the touch sensors during a touch period based on changes in an amount of surface charge of the transparent conductive layer depending on whether or not the polarizing plate is touched.
US08355001B1	Computer having interlocking components A computer has a display, keyboard and two main component parts. The components each have an L-shape and are linked together to enable sliding movement in substantially one plane in a first direction. The linkage also enables movement orthogonally with respect to the first direction in another plane, such that the components transition from a closed position of the computer in which the components interfit together to form a first right rectangular prism and in which the display is exposed, to an open position having a second right rectangular prism shape in which the keyboard is exposed adjacent to and in the same plane as the display.
US08354999B2	Button assembly and computer mouse having the same A computer mouse includes a housing and a button assembly. The button assembly includes a button, a circuit board, a first conductive sheet, and a second conductive sheet. The button is exposed out of the housing. The circuit board is received in the housing, and includes a first contact and a second contact. The first conductive sheet has a first magnet fixed thereon, and is electrically connected to the first contact of the circuit board. The second conductive sheet is electrically connected to the second contact of the circuit board. The second conductive sheet is fixed to the button and contactable with the first conductive sheet when the button is pressed. The second magnet and the first magnet form a repulsive force therebetween.
US08354998B2	Information input panel using light emitted diode matrix with time-division multiplexing The present invention relates to an information input panel using the light emitted diode (LED) matrix. The panel includes the LED matrix and a control circuit. The LED matrix includes N×M LEDs. The control circuit includes N first terminals and M second terminals, wherein the ith first terminal thereof is coupled to first terminals of the LEDs in the ith row and the jth second terminal thereof is coupled to second terminals of the LEDs in the jth column. In the kth detecting period, the control circuit detects the reverse photoelectric currents of each LED from the second terminals through the kth first terminal to determine whether LED in the kth row is lighted up or not, wherein “M”, “N”, “i”, “j”, “k” are nature numbers and 0
US08354997B2	Touchless user interface for a mobile device A sensory device (200) for providing a touchless user interface to a mobile device (100) is provided. The sensory device can include at least one appendage (210) having at least one sensor (220) that senses a finger (232) within a touchless sensing space (101), and a connector (230) for communicating sensory signals received by the at least one sensor to the mobile device. The sensory device can attach external to the mobile device. A controller (240) can trace a movement of the finger, recognize a pattern from the movement, and send the pattern to the mobile device. The controller can recognize finger gestures and send control commands associated with the finger gestures to the mobile device. A user can perform touchless acquire and select actions on or above a display or removable face plate to interact with the mobile device.
US08354996B2	Electronic reading apparatus and input method thereof An electronic reading apparatus comprises an input unit receiving input operations, a detect unit detecting and capturing images reflected by the input unit and a processing unit configured to receive the images to generate interruption signals; determine whether the number of the interruption signals reaches a pre-determined value in a pre-determined time; calculate a movement direction and a distance of the object on the input unit if the number of the interruption signals reaches the pre-determined value in the pre-determined time; determine a cursor displacement on the display unit and display a movement track of the cursor on a display unit. An input method for previewing files is also provided.
US08354987B2	Constant current circuit and flat display device The present invention is applied to, for example, a liquid crystal display in which a driving circuit is integrally formed on an insulating substrate, and after a sampling capacitor C3 is charged with a reference current I1 and a gate-source voltage Vgs of a transistor Q14 due to the reference current I1 is set in the sampling capacitor C3, the transistor Q14 is driven to function as a constant current circuit, by the voltage Vgs of the sampling capacitor C3.
US08354985B2	Driving apparatus, liquid crystal display having the same and driving method thereof A driving apparatus resets driving circuits provided therein after an internal supply voltage reaches a sufficient voltage level. The driving apparatus includes a reset signal generator that resets the driving circuits when the internal supply voltage exceeds the external supply voltage in a rising period of the internal supply voltage. Accordingly, the driving circuits may be prevented from being reset before the internal supply voltage reaches the sufficient voltage level, thereby preventing an abnormal operation of the driving circuits.
US08354984B2	Organic light emitting display and driving method thereof An organic light emitting display and a driving method thereof, in which an image is displayed with uniform brightness. The organic light emitting display includes: a scan driver for supplying a plurality of first scan signals at substantially a same time to a plurality of scan lines in a first period of one frame and for supplying a plurality of second scan signals in sequence to the scan lines in a second period of the one frame; a data driver for supplying a predetermined voltage to a plurality of data lines in the first period and for supplying a plurality of data signals to the data lines in the second period; and a pixel portion comprising a plurality of pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines, wherein, when the one frame is an odd-numbered frame, the scan driver supplies the second scan signals in a first scanning sequence and wherein, when the one frame is an even-numbered frame, the scan driver supplies the second scan signals in a second scanning sequence differing from the first scanning sequence. With this configuration, a threshold voltage difference between the pixels is stably compensated. Further, in one embodiment, the first scanning sequence is inversely related to the second scanning sequence, so that the emission times of all pixels are equalized on average.
US08354983B2	Display and compensation circuit therefor A display includes a scan line, a data line, a pixel circuit, a compensation circuit, a voltage controller, and a data line driver. The data line forms a junction with the scan line. The pixel circuit is disposed at the junction of the scan line and the data line. When the scan line and the data line are driven, the pixel circuit generates a driving current. The compensation circuit generates a comparing signal and a positioning signal based on the driving current. The voltage controller generates a reference voltage that corresponds to the positioning signal with reference to the comparing signal. The data line driver corrects an image signal based on the reference voltage, and drives the data line with the corrected image signal. A compensation circuit for the display is also disclosed.
US08354981B2	Active matrix type display apparatus and driving method thereof In an active matrix type display apparatus, during a first selection period, a second main conductive terminal of a drive transistor and a display element are isolated, and at the same time, a control terminal of the drive transistor and the second main conductive terminal and a signal line are connected, and the signal line is supplied with a first current capable of conducting the drive transistor. The first current does not correspond to a signal current corresponding to a current injected to the display element. During a second selection period, a connection of the second main conductive terminal of the drive transistor and the signal line is broken, and the signal line is supplied with a second current. The second current corresponds to a signal current corresponding to the current injected to the display element. During a non-selection period, the second main conductive terminal of the drive transistor and the display element are connected, and the drive current of the drive transistor corresponding to voltage between both terminals of a capacitive element is supplied to the display element.
US08354980B2	Organic light emitting display An organic light emitting display is capable of reducing or preventing IR drop in a cathode electrode. An organic light emitting display includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate has a plurality of pixels located thereon, each of the pixels comprising an organic light emitting diode, wherein a cathode electrode of the organic light emitting diode including a transparent material is located on substantially an entire area of the pixels. The second substrate has a mesh type auxiliary electrode located thereon at a side facing the pixels, the mesh-type auxiliary electrode corresponding to non-emission regions between the pixels and electrically connected to the cathode electrode.
US08354978B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus, that includes current driving type luminescent elements, has a driving system that takes the conduction types of TFTs to control the emission of the luminescent elements into consideration. In order to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality simultaneously, the arrangement is provided such that if the second TFT which performs the “on-off” function of the current for the luminescent element is of an N channel type, the potential of the common power supply line (“com”) is lowered below the potential of the opposite electrode (“op”) of the luminescent element to obtain a higher gate voltage (“Vgcur”). In this case, if the first TFT connected to the gate of the second TFT is of a P channel type, when using the potential of the potential-holding electrode (“st”) at the “on” state as a reference, potentials of the scanning signal (“Sgate”) at the lower potential and the common power supply line (“com”) are rendered of the same polarities with respect to this potential of the potential-holding electrode (“st”). Therefore, the potential of the image signal (“data”) to turn “on” can be shifted within the range of the driving voltage in the display apparatus in the direction to reduce resistances at the “on” states of the first TFT and the second TFT to reduce driving voltage and improve display quality.
US08354974B2	Antenna coupler and antenna assembly having the same An antenna coupler, which connects an antenna that is drawn in/out on a portable electronic device and has a hollow pipe type lower end, includes a bushing fixed to an interior of a case of the portable electronic device, a rotary support portion sliding in the bushing to be drawn into the interior of the case when the antenna is drawn in and having an upper end portion that is drawn out to outside of the case, a coupling member having an upper end that is inserted into and coupled to an interior of a lower end of the antenna, and a rotary member having an upper side that is screw-engaged with the coupled member and a lower side rotatably coupling to the upper end portion of the rotary support portion.
US08354971B2	Antenna device An antenna device having a magnetic core to be surface-mounted on a circuit substrate includes a pair of coil portions spaced apart from each other at a predetermined interval. The coil portions are connected by a connecting conductor. An end of the magnetic core includes a curved or bent portion curved toward the circuit substrate. This structure defines an RFID antenna device having an improved receiving sensitivity that can be surface-mounted without increasing the thickness of a casing of a mobile electronic device.
US08354970B2	Dielectric antenna Described and shown is a dielectric antenna (1) having a dielectric feeding section (2), a first transition section (3) comprising a dielectric rod, a dielectric emitting section (5) and, a further, second transition section (4) forming a dielectric horn, wherein the feeding section (2) can be struck with electromagnetic radiation (6), electromagnetic radiation (6) can be guided with the first transition section (3) and the second transition section (4) and the electromagnetic radiation can be emitted from the emitting section (5) as airborne waves.The object of the present invention is to provide a dielectric antenna, which is adaptable as low-loss as possible to different mounting situations, which additionally is as low-reflection as possible and, at the same time is highly bundling.The object of the above-mentioned dielectric antenna is met in that the emitting section (5) is designed as dielectric tube connecting to the second transition section (4).
US08354968B1	Boxed feed for improved high frequency (HF) shunt antenna performance The present invention is directed to a High Frequency (HF) shunt antenna which promotes improved performance over currently available antenna solutions. The HF shunt antenna may include a shunt plate structure which includes multiple shunt plates configured in a parallel orientation relative to each other and provides an expansive surface area which may promote reduced inductance and lower equivalent parallel resistance of the HF shunt antenna, thereby allowing the HF shunt antenna to be spec-compliant and tunable by a HF coupler, without increasing the footprint of the HF shunt antenna and without reducing radiation efficiency of the antenna.
US08354966B2	Peripheral telecommunications device having movable cover with integrated antenna A computer peripheral telecommunications device having an electronic interface for connection to a computer and being configured for adding wireless telecommunication functionality to the computer, the device comprising a movable cover portion for covering the electronic interface while not in use and an antenna integrated in the movable cover portion.
US08354958B2	Alignment system An apparatus for determining alignment of a first subsystem relative to a second subsystem. The apparatus includes a first antenna system for simultaneously transmitting a delta pattern radiation beam at a first frequency and a sum pattern radiation beam at a second frequency. The apparatus also includes a second antenna system for receiving the delta pattern radiation beam at the first frequency and the sum pattern radiation beam at the second frequency. The apparatus also includes a processor to process the received delta pattern radiation beam and sum pattern radiation beam to determine if a predetermined alignment criterion between the first antenna system and the second antenna system is satisfied.
US08354955B2	Observation signal processing apparatus An observation signal processing apparatus transmits a pulse signal as a search signal, generates an observation value based on a reflected signal against a target and a delay modulation pulse signal, and performs coherent integration on the observation value to output an integration value. The apparatus includes a section for determining a coherent integration count, a section for transmitting pulse signals equivalent to the coherent integration count, a section for calculating a phase correction amount based on an estimated relative speed, and a section for performing phase-weighted coherent integration on observation values for the number of times equivalent to the coherent integration count based on the phase correction amount.
US08354948B2	Track fan remote control system A system using a remote control to provide independent control of power to one or more track fans and track lights, as well as control of speed of rotation of each fan, and brightness of each light across one or more tracks of various types. The remote control also allows groups of track fans and/or track lights to be controlled together, and allows the controlled track fans and track lights to be attached to different tracks.
US08354947B2	Signal processing apparatus with sigma-delta modulating block collaborating with notch filtering block and related signal processing method thereof One signal processing apparatus includes a sigma-delta modulating block and a notch filtering block. The sigma-delta modulating block is arranged to perform a sigma-delta modulation upon a signal input and accordingly generate a signal output. The notch filtering block is arranged to perform a notch filtering operation upon the signal output for generating a filtered signal output. Another signal processing apparatus includes a sigma-delta modulating block and a notch filtering block. The sigma-delta modulating block is arranged to perform a sigma-delta modulation upon a signal input and accordingly generate a signal output. The notch filtering block is enabled for performing a notch filtering operation upon the signal output when the signal processing apparatus operates in a first operational mode, and the notch filtering block is disabled when the signal processing apparatus operates in a second operational mode.
US08354946B2	Digital signal coding method and apparatus, digital signal decoding apparatus, digital signal arithmetic coding method and digital signal arithmetic decoding method A digital decoding apparatus and method for receiving and decoding a compression-coded digital signal in predetermined transmission units is disclosed. The decoding apparatus includes initialization unit for initializing an arithmetic coding process based on information of initializing a table of probability of occurrence which is multiplexed on a header of data for the predetermined transmission units and information of initializing a register value which shows the arithmetic decoding process, a context model determination unit for determining a context model to be used for each type of decoded data among a plurality of context models, a binarization unit for generating a binarization rule defined based on the type of decoded data, a probability of occurrence generation unit for providing a probability of occurrence corresponding to the context model determined by the binarization rule, and an arithmetic decoding unit for arithmetic decoding based on the generated probability of occurrence and the initialized register value.
US08354940B2	Automated remote water quality monitoring system with wireless communication capabilities and the method thereof An automated remote water quality monitoring system with wireless communication capability and the method thereof is provided. A water quality monitoring system is provided, including: a plurality of monitoring apparatuses, each of which has a radio communication module transmitting at least one environmental parameter; a server receiving the at least one environmental parameter via a base station; and a gateway being one selected from a group consisting of the plurality of monitoring apparatuses, being geographically the closest one to the base station, receiving the at least one environmental parameter and transmitting the at least one environmental parameter to the base station.
US08354932B2	Method and device for driver assistance A method and a device for driver assistance in which the warning threshold at which the driver is warned for example of a departure from the lane is adaptively adjusted as a function of the driver's state and/or the driving situation.
US08354928B2	Intruder detection system An intruder detection system comprises an illumination means for illuminating a field of view with a modulated optical signal, modulated by a modulation signal; an optical receiver for receiving a delayed reflected signal; a cross correlator for calculating a cross correlation function between the modulation signal and the received delayed reflected signal; and means for detecting changes in the cross correlation function, a change being used to provide intruder detection. This system uses optical sensing and cross correlation calculation to enable an intruder detection signal to be obtained. This can enable a solid state, low cost, and reliable sensor to be provided for detecting intruders.
US08354922B2	Vehicle comprising at least one assembled entity and use of a measurement system A vehicle comprising at least one mounted assembly, comprising a wheel and a tire, and an element consisting partially of polymer compounds, said mounted assembly comprising at least one wireless system for measuring a physical parameter of the tire by surface acoustic wave technology or volume acoustic wave technology, at least one area of said element being at a constant distance from the mounted assembly during use of the vehicle. An interrogation antenna is associated with said area of said element.
US08354920B2	Vehicle overhead clearance detection system and method of operation An overhead clearance detection system and method of operation are provided. The system includes a sensor for measuring a distance to an object. A vertical height for the object is determined and compared to a user defined clearance height. If the object's vertical height is less than the user defined clearance height, an alarm is sounded. In one embodiment, the system is removably mountable to a vehicle windshield.
US08354916B2	Radio interrogator system and radio communication method therefor There is provided a radio interrogator system which reduces the interference with a radio transponder and avoids the decrease in throughput of the entire system in a case in which a plurality of radio interrogators are disposed at positions brought relatively close to each other and are simultaneously placed into operation.The plurality of radio interrogators are classified into two groups and each of the radio interrogators has an operation mode setting unit capable of exclusively setting, for each of the classified groups, a transmission mode for transmitting a radio transmission signal to a radio transponder or a reception mode for receiving a radio response signal transmitted from the radio transponder as a response to a radio transmission signal from the radio interrogator.
US08354907B2	Superconducting coil assembly and magnetic field generating equipment Superconducting coil assemblies (100) in which a plurality of coil units (110) composed of superconducting material are arranged coaxial to the same direction, and including magnetic field adjusting members (121) composed of ferrite, powder metallurgical core, or permendur powder, which have higher magnetic permeability than said superconducting material and are provided in the vicinities of said coil units.
US08354905B2	Noise decreasing type electromagnetic switch A noise decreasing type electromagnetic switch includes a buffer disposed between an end of a stationary core and an end of a movable core facing the end of the stationary core so as to allow the movable core 150 to be elastically supported with respect to the stationary core. Accordingly, when the movable core contacts the stationary core, the buffer can be pressed and transformed to decrease impact and noise. Also, when the final operation is completed, the stationary core and the movable core are closely adhered, a performance of an actuator can be maintained.
US08354902B2	Structure of spring and actuator using the spring A structure of a spring has a supporting member, an actuating member that is rotatably supported to the supporting member by a first supporting axis at a portion near a center, and a plurality of interlocking members that are each provided on both sides of the first supporting axis, that are rotatably supported to the supporting member by a second supporting axis, and that are rotatably coupled to the actuating member. Each point of action of the interlocking members is defined at a portion that is closer to the first supporting axis than to the coupled portion of the second supporting axis and the actuating member.
US08354898B2	Harmonic suppression resonator, harmonic propagation blocking filter, and radar apparatus A harmonic suppression resonator comprises a plurality of waveguide resonators that resonate in TE mode, in which harmonic suppression resonator, adjoining resonators are coupled via a plurality of coupling windows. Four coupling windows 33bc1, 33bc2, 33bc3 and 33bc4 are provided between a resonant region 51b and a resonant region adjoining the resonant region 51b. These coupling windows allow fundamental wave modes of the adjoining resonators to be coupled mainly by magnetically coupling. The coupling windows 33bc3 and 33bc4 allow second harmonic modes of the adjoining resonators to be electrically coupled, and the coupling windows 33bc1 and 33bc2 allow the second harmonic modes of the adjoining resonators to be magnetically coupled. By causing the amount of the electrically coupling and the amount of the magnetically coupling to be substantially equal, the coupling of the second harmonic modes is negated, whereby propagation of the second harmonic is blocked.
US08354897B2	Elastic wave filter and communication device An elastic wave filter includes at least a piezoelectric substrate and a longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic wave filter unit provided on the piezoelectric substrate. The longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic wave filter unit includes first to fifth IDTs and first and second reflectors arranged on either side of the first to fifth IDTs. The third IDT includes first and second divided comb-shaped electrodes. The second and fourth IDTs are connected to an unbalanced signal terminal, the first IDT and the first divided comb-shaped electrode of the third IDT are connected to a first balanced signal terminal, and the fifth IDT and the second divided comb-shaped electrode of the third IDT are connected to a second balanced signal terminal. The first and fifth IDTs each have a constant electrode finger pitch, and the electrode finger pitch of the first IDT is less than that of the fifth IDT.
US08354893B2	Impedance-matching transformers for RF driven CO2 gas discharge lasers In a CO2 gas discharge laser energized by a radio frequency (RF) power source a transformer having selectively variable output impedance is used to match output impedance of the power source to the impedance of discharge electrodes of the laser. A similar transformer can be used to impose a selective variable phase-shift on the RF power from the source. The variable impedance transformer can also be used for impedance matching between amplifier stages in the power source.
US08354892B2	Marchand balun device for forming parallel and vertical capacitance Provided is a marchand balun device. The marchand balun device includes: a first line connected between a balanced terminal and a ground terminal; a second line disposed horizontally parallel to the first line and forming a parallel capacitance jointly with the first line; and a coupled line disposed vertically parallel to the first and second lines and forming a vertical capacitance jointly with one of the first and second lines.

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